The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 17, 1904, Page 13

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. : BRERP e STt | $50.000 Cont | —_— ecent theft of six cannon from t W ch has ° made xister of that establish- ds of doners who why ever heard ery that is open he year round with- O boxing T by road and parts of the metropolis to " h2 robbers ¥ 1 1 to inspect 1 ant Colonel Boileau, who has e ation, was proud of su eclinses in & to be seen S the ar aeseted p attributed to th ard and is sa cen- tly e fa- id to the Chateau t is £10,000 ($50,000) by the , olwich and the cus- f the rotunda says he believes Government w give s to gain possession of it th lonaparte’'s wh ner had eld befc goose meal cooked nd exhibi but the the bout twen was thus London Express. which impresses on many There ts in cata- rotunda. nd the butld- that were easily able to carry off Telltale Laugh ‘ z : most hur v t spect ns of Hamlet are the 4 1 u fe i and t is wha wh go: heir up from . i -as if they ere too stingy to out in one nest g The French-” as not yet carried his investiga- enough to tell us what kind tha r b strongly su t such a laugh would be an in a character so complex i t one would be terribly we ! whe hesi- of atal t you laugh sometimes in epect dica- n its sur- hat they expected - il Big Little Men - A wireless telegraph writer, or zero- graph, as alled for the sake of brevity, vented by an Fng- lishman The zerograph, in appearance, resemble iter, but it Is of s ion, with a keyboarg figured with the signs of the letters numerals, which can be printed or telegraphed to any number of instruments. Each instrument, the inventor explains, is at once a receiver and and ansmitter, enabling operators to corverse with ore ~nr her In writ- ing. and thus obviating misunderstand- ings, which are apt to oceur in tele- phon mmunications. So far mes sages have been sent only for a short distance, but it is intended to experi- ment over wider spaces, and it is hoped that messages can be sent to dis- tance that ether waves will carry. The mach iy for imme- s no mechan- p in d as th uires to be wound diate use, a ism which re order to obtain synchronism, t rator has both hands free for ma lation. The apparatus consists of a type- writer which, by depressing key, sends two impulses. ch re- quires only two im nd the different letters are d by means of the rval between these im- puises. less purposes these y switch connection thus making the ether waves. s connected ion ¢ well as an earth v the apparatus into a rece strument it is only cessary to move a switch which is placed bencath the ewriter makes all the con- tions to receiving apparatus, hich consiets of a coherer and a very sensitive —Invention Age 5 - o New Sea Signals | + most formidable problems navigation by which mar- confronted ulty of ng the di m which and signals come, the apr the location of dent to a large dition of the atmos- s could run from light- One of the of coas iners are determin fog-bells ent air sound be de- phere ship to lightsk they do by sight in fair improvement wou' d an a revolution in coastwis A new svst ub, naling, which seems to soiv lem n an interestin T The apparatus we: is described in Harper's Weekly may briefly ribed follows: Bach of the four steamers of the line on which the system is be tried are ipped with microphone transmitters of mew and pec r construction which take up from the sea water the vibrations imparted by belis suspended by chains from the respective light- chips, and the impulses forwarded to telephone receivers in-the pilot houses record with aceuracy the direction of the location of the bells and an approx- imation of the distance. be d as WONDERFU L SHRINE ANY miraculous cures beer of the 11,000 virgins w form one of the remarkable shrines, St. Ursula, story goes the wvast in at that of The h uti red by the Huns. rd, in the twelfth century, workmen digging near Cologne number oung women were slaught- Long years after- have attributed to the bones hich world’'s the Co- the of some dis- =N —5. covered the great number of bones. It was a grewsome find, that seemed inexhaustible, but finally all of the ghastly remnants were collected. The arrangement in the church, as shown by the photograph, is both ar- tistic and impressive, possessing a dig- nity and solemnity which are deep- ened as the story, dim with the mist of years, is recalled. Not only the church perpetuates the memory of St. Ursula and the virgins—they have been shrined in poetry and painting, Ay 2 S AN i3 Measurements taken by the surgeons of the Japanese army show Japanese smaliness of stature is due to an almost dwarfed condition of the Jegs. This Is probably due to the fact that from early childhood a really un- natural wav of sitting is constantly practiced. The aduilt Japanese is ac- customed to sit with his legs bent un- der him. As soon as the child is old enough to be set upon the floor his lega are bent under him in imitation of the om of his eiders. This in time dwarfs the growth of the limb. This actual deformity is less common among the peasants than ' among scholars, mérchants and others of sedentary habits. High Leaping Russian Dogs + , , , i SO/VG CVER A BARRIER TWELVE FEET HIGH RHAPS the most vigorous and dogs in the world are wolfhounds. Built something like a greyhound, but with more muscular limbs and shaggy coats, they are capable of feats of agility truly astonishing. In Barnum & Boiley's show there are six of these hounds which have been trained to leap over and through barriers of great height. Two have acquired such proficisncy that one leaps through a square hole scarcely large enough to permit the passage of his body. This hole is cut through the barrier, about twelve feet from the bottom. E e - Giants of Fat B —_—— e Mrs. Chauncev L. Morlan, who was fat woman in the world, died recently. She was 6 feet 1 inch tall and when she died weighed 454 pounds. This was really light weight for her, for she had weighed as much as 582 pounds. Mrs.]Morlan leaves a husband, who is something of a keavy- weight himself. He tips the scales at 748 pounds. Together they were the fattest married couple in the world. Mrs. Morlan was 31 years old and she had been exhibiting hersélf for nine- teen years. She was born in 8t. Louis and was a normal child until she was 7. When Mrs. Morlan was 12 years old she began her career as “Anna Bell, the fat wonder.” Eleven years ago Anna Bell met her husband, who was the “Indiana fat boy.” After their marriage they made a home for them- selves at Indianapolis and continued to be freaks together. the tallest B < -+ l Russian Facts — Two and a half times as large as tho United States and Alaska. Thirty thoufand miles of coast iue, half of it ice-bound. Thirty-six thousand miles. of rail- road, two-thirds of it owned by the Government. The United States has fifty-three times as many miles of telegraph and sends fifteen times as much mail The United States has twenty-three times as many factories. One-twentieth as much coal produced and one-sixth as much iron as in the United States. Total exports $350,000,000. Next to the United States as a grain producing country. Population in 1903, 141,000,000 Russians 66 per cent, Poles 7 per cent, Finns § per cent, Turco Tartars 9 per cent and Jews 3 per cent. Average laborer gets one-fourth as much wages as in the United States. Only ninety daily papers. that the - — . Peary’s Plans - Civil Engineer R. E. Peary, who has accepted the place of president of the Eighth International Geographie Com- gress, which will meet in Washington next September, may not be here to perform the duties of that office. He has not given up the idea that he may get away on his trip to the north pole in July. He expects every day to learn something definite. Whether he gces himself or not, he will arrange.to send a ship on a preliminary wrip to pre- pare’for his voyage in the summer of 1905. He is having some difficulty in obtaining .a vessel which he regards as entirely satisfactory for his pur- he finds one which irements of the hard voyage tc which it will be subjected oposes to have a ghip constructed. idvantage of the preliminary trip is in getting information to the na- tives that Peary is coming and the cdllection by them of walrus meat for 1s for the use of the travelers. Shculd Peary remain at home this year he will accompuny the seographers in their trip to N=% York, Niagara, Chicago and St. Louls. and perhaps across the continent, a fea- ture which is now upder consideration by the managers of the congress. and unl Train SicKness | Roadlegs tc be acquired as much as sealegs, and in the various forms of locomotion, from the jolting omnibus to the quick szupping tubs and air-braked trains, frequent oppor- tunities e for estimating the vari- ous amounts of agility, clutching of stay straps and compensating bodily movements 1 by the cognoscenti in the particular class of vehicle .of which they are for the time endeavor- ing to form an integral part. That all forms of traveling are tiring is evi- dent from the common tendency to sleep in lway carriages. The aries of the traveling public are curic yme cannot ride except facing the enginé or the horses, others cannot tra all by railway, some have faint feelings when going at a high speed, others are made actually sick and we have known the utmost confusion caused to some unfortunates by the seats onposite the direction in whigh the train is moving being occu- pied, tho curiously enough the same feeling is not set up when the passenger can have a seat placed par- allel with the direction of progress, There is reason to believe that the ac- tion upon the eve muscles of the rap- idly changin rallax and the quick passage of o®jects fhat ‘are met and Jeft have much to do with the pro- duction of tired feelings and of head- aches caused by long journeys, and great relief i§ often experienced by simply closing the eyes or by refrain- ing from looking out of the windows, and if reading is to be indulged in, the daylight should be chosen and a large and clear type of print selected. —From the Lancet. I Funny “Ads” | “Annual sale ‘now going on. Don't go elsewhere to be cheated—come .in here.” “A lady wishes to she is going abroad frame.” . “Wanted, experienced nurse for bot- tled baby.” “Furnished apartment suitable gentlemen with folding doors.” “Wanted, a room for two gentlemen about 30 feet long and 20 feet broad.” “Lost a collie dog by a man on Sat- urday answering to Jim with a brass collar around his neck and a muazazle. “Wanted by a respectable girl, her passage to New York, willing to take care of children and a good saflor.” “Respectable widow wants washing for Tuesday.” “For sale—a pianoforte, the prop- erty of a musician with carved legs.” “Mr. Brown, furrier, begs to an- nounce that he will make up gowns, capes, ete., for ladies out of their own skin."” “A boy wanted who can open oysters with a reference.” “Bualidog for sale; will eat anything; very foud of children.” “Wanted an organist and a boy to blow the same.” “IWanted, a boy to be partly outside ana partly behind the counter.”—Lyre. _— s ’ Price of Life * - 7 N % “The life of a rich man is worth more than the life of a poor man, and the physician has a right to charge the millionaire more for his services than he does the laborer,” is the opinion re- cently handed down by a Philadelphia Judge, who went on to say: “The physician is unlike the mer- chant who has goods of different qual- ity to sell at various prices. He must give his. best servicés ip every case. But it does not follow that the service is worth the same in every case. “‘Human life has a pecuniary value of varlable quantity, greater in the millionaire than in the laborer. Thus the practitioner of common sense makes out his bill to sult the pecu- niary circumstances of his patients.— New York Press. ' sell her piano, as in a strong iron for A Toast e 8 Here's to the hostess who has worried all day, T And trembled lest everything go the wrong way. May the grace of contentment possess her at once; May her guests—and her servants—all do the right “stunts.” —Francis Wilson in Good Housekeeping. / -— - Bird Music & Henry Oldys of the Biological Survey, ‘Washington, delivered a lecture on “Birds" recently, which opened with a statement of the newness of the field in which the lecturér investigated and of the two conclusions indicated by Mr. Oldys’ studies, viz.: That the birds are undergoing 3 musfcal evolution that - parallels that ‘of human beings and that the latter is not a fortuitous growth, but has a definite ideal stand- ard toward which it must progress. A brief sketch was given of the evolution of music from the earliest days among all nations. Modern savage mpusic was considered with examples taken from Papuans, Bushmen, Zun{ Indians, Win< nehago Indians and others, .shHowing their music is governed by many of thg principles that underlie modern Aryan music—rhythm, scale, melodious- ness, harmony and formal cohstruction. TExamples were given of bird music, illustrated by a large chart, as well as by the use of the plano and voice, in which are found fidelity to the human scale, rhythm, melodiousness and other principles and forms that constitute the basis, of modern human music. There was shown evidence of esthetic appreciation in other ways on the part of birds, as manifested by the construc- tion of nests and by dances. It was stated that it is difficult to regard these resemblances as due to coincidence.— Pittsburg Gazette. Tramp Rights i The Iowa Supreme Court has decided that a tramp has rights which a train- man must respect, afirming a decision from Pottawattamie County in which Joseph Johrson secured judgment for injuries sustained by reason of forcible ejection from a moving train. The low=. er court held that a tramp has no rights, and that the trainman was jus- tified in throwing him from the train, ro matter what the rasults might be. A new trfal was granted, and a favor- able decision rendered. Amazon of Macedonia 4 L FEIC ) BALKAN ERUNHILDE HILE the war is in progress in the Far East Macedonia is adding to the disquiet of Europe. The Macedonians are determined to eventually throw off the Turkish yoke, and so fervid is this spirit that even the women have taken up arms and stood the rigors of cam- yaigning in the open. The picture given herewith is that of a patriotic woman armed for the conflict. She is a formidable Amazon,.but a comely one as well, something of a Balkan Brunhilde, with little poetry in her, perhaps, and plenty of fight. = — Wern-OutRubber [ ————— Wornout rubber, like wornout sil- ver, is something that does not exist in these days. Ever since the advent of bicycles and motor cars, both of which drew heavily on the world’s rubber supply, and ever since the hun- dred and one uses to which rubber is put in connection with electricity, the material has become ,more and more scarce and valuable, so that even the old rubber shoe and the wornout rub- ber boot may throw out their chests in pride at being worth really some- thing. Nothing containing rubber is discarded nowadays. The old rubber coat over which tie spring tires of a motor car may run on a country road to-day may some day find a nesting place in the soft tresses of a woman's hair, after having been transformed into a handsome comb. Even vulcanized rubber, which, ow- ing to the sulphuric process to which it was subjected, was formerly value- less, Is now subJected to a process which rejuvenates it and makes it fit to be worked up again for the purposes of the manufacturer. Immeénse quan- tities of this product, which formerly was assigned to a rubbish heap, are new treated and admixed with a cer- tain percentage of new gum, enough to cheapen the price of most rubber goods turned out by the manufacturer to- day. Old rubber, however, can be used by itself without any addition of fresh gum, the process of treatment L3 . being a simple one.—London Answers. LS | Singer Auc‘tiohedT —_— For the paltry sum of $32 a prima donna once famous was recently sold at auction in London. True, the singer died centuries ago, and it was only her mummy that the purchaser obtained. A faint hieroglyphic inscription on the mummy shéwed that the singer had held a leading position in the Temple of Antmon, where in old days the mas- terpieces of Egyptian music were per- formed. - e 'UNIQ [T e E NEW CRAFT — - o ( PAwh { HE umbrella sail, Which is an En- glish invention, is attracting at- tention of yachtsmen in all parts of ‘the world. With this type of sail a small boat, which could not safely carry to exceed 200 square feet of can- vas with an ordinary rig, can carry 360 square feet without danger. In fact, the risk of being capsized is, therefore, practically removed, while the increas&d speed of the boat is near- ly in proportion te the increase in her canvas. - The orginal boat put in ser- vice this year at Cowes, England, is only 17 feet on the water-line, but car- rigs an umbrella sail which measures ¢30 feet horizontally and 16 feet up and down. The sail also serves as an im- mense awning. The American Ship- builder says the chief feature of the cy- clone sail, which is practically a large umbrella, is that the wind pressure on it has no effect whatever to incline the boat. Roughly speaking, the pull of the sail is at right angles to its mean urface—that is to say, in the direction of the mast. i In other words, it may be described as a kite held by a rigid string. If the ast were stepped quite on the lee gide o < Don’t Stoop S L R N, v, “a o5 23 £ 7 Sy ST P UMBRELLA BIAT. !~ _— SESE of the boat, it is evident that the sall would lift the lee side and so list the boat to windward; and if the mast were stepped on the weather side, lifting the weather side of the boat, it would necessarily list the boat to leeward. It follows, then, that there is some cer- tain point—which happens to be slight- ly on the lee side of the center line— at which, if the mast is stepped, there will be no tendency for the wind (o careen the boat at all. When actually sailing in the boat the only way In which one is aware of a puff of wind is by noticing that the boat travels fagter and experienc¢ing a slight sen- sation similar to that coming from thc acceleration -of the engines in a steamer. For sailing with the wind in different directions to the boat, the whole mast and sail are rotated by meads of a turntable, to which the mast i attached and the mast is ele- vated and lowered by means of two tackles. There is also a balance weight which helps to elevate the mast and balance its dead weight. The Thornyerofts, the great English beat builders, are experimenting in the expectation that the umbrella sail carf be adapted to row boats, canoces and other small craft. 4 P | | Reindeer Suits L 4 o Ao . -3 Dr. Madison J. Taylor, giving general advice to the aged in the Popular Science Monthly, says in effect that old people do not stoop beeause they are old, but they get old because they stoop. The stiffening of the tissues, which is the sign and accompaniment of age, is warded off by exercise. Self-indulgence in eating and in drinking and in lazy ways is the sure road to senility. “I have often been surprised and gratl- fled,” writes the doctor, “to find that regulated movements of the meck and upper truncal muscles, employed for the purpose of accomplishing something else, resulted in a conspicuous im- provement in hearing, in vision, in cere- bration and, as a consequence, in bet- terment in cerebral circulation, also in sleep.’ “Persons who habitually maintain an erect position in standing or sitting are stronger than those who slouch. A per- son who s¢toops and allows the shoulders to sag down and forward and the ribs to fall back towafd the spine shortens the ante-posterior diameter of the thorax anywhere from two to five inches. * * * The lungs, heart, great vessels and other important structures in the thorax cannot live, move and have their proper being under such cir- cumstances.” ‘Wherefore, the proper thing for per- sons who are not so Joung as once they were 18 to brace up, dress young and feel young. “Sitting “hunched up” over a fire won't do it. P — Overworked Czar i 5 e The question is often asked why the Czar is unable to exert more real per- sonal influence in the government of the country where he is supposed-to be absolute autocrat. A curious hint of the limitations impoged on him is given by a writer in a late number of the Fortnightly Review: ““The amusements of the Czar are few. He is fond of photography, some- times indulges in a mood for the mak- ing ¢f melancholy verse, and he is an adept with the cycle. When at Gatchina he is in the habit of cycling by himself for a portion of every day, but at Peterhof the work brought down from St. Petersburg and the constant inter- views with Ministers and officials con- sume the whole of his time, and a light in his Majesty’s writing room may be seen far into the night as he labors with the mountains of papers that are dispatched to him by cunning Minis- ters, who are resolved to surround the young Czar with a parapet of detail in order to prevent his mastery of the larger questions affecting Russian pol- jcy. The Czar is a kindly, saddened, overworked and uwnhappy man. His desire to do his duty compels him to engage in an unceasing struggle with details which are never overtaken. In this struggle he is helped by one of ihe best and noblest of women, whose virtues are derived through her mother, from Queen Victoria.” e g e B S i R Bachelorisms I _— s It's queer how many women act well till they g0 on the stage. It takes all the money a man has to put on the appearances of having more. A woman blames a school teacher if hé doesn’t discipline her boy and hates him if he does. N Shrimp salad and chafing dish mush- rooms will provision an engagement, but it takes roast beef and mashed po- tatoes to satisfy married life. Men are idiots enough to think if they were married to a widow she ‘would say as nice things about her live husband as she does about her dead one. From their herds of reindeer the Lap- landers in Northern Europe take the woolly hair and make from it blankets, which are remarkable for their excel- lent qualities of resisting moisture and cold. Of these blankets the United States Consul at Frankfort, Germany, has this to say: “A close examination of the hair of the reindeer furnishes an explanation of its peculiar value. The hair does not have a hollow space inside for its whole lerigth, but is divided, or par- titioned off, into exceedingly numerous cells, lilke watertight compartments. These are filled with condensed air, and their walls are so elastic and at the same time of such strong resist- ance that they are not broken up, either during the process of manufac- ture. or by swelling when wet. The cells expand in water, and thus it hap- pens that a man clad in garments made of reindeer wool does not sink when in water, because he is buoyed up by means of the air contained in the hundreds of thousands of hair cells. In the markets and stores of Norway, Sweden and Russia garments and blankets of reindeer wool are to be had at lower prices than other fab- rics. In Vienna there is a factory which manufactures garments of rein- deer wool,.especially bathing costumes. For persons unable to swim the pos- session of such garments is of great value. It is possible that they may be utilized in learning how to swim. Re- cently successful trials have been made in Paris in this line. In England at- tention has been directed to this pe- cullar property of reindeer wool, and it is proposed to take up its manu- facture and possibly improve it."— From Fiber and Fabric. Microbes Hill Rats el Ao R RS =y i Consul General John K. Gowdy, in a report from Paris to the State Depart- ment, describes a new method of exter- minating rats and mice. The process was devised by the Pas- teur Institute, and use is made of mi- crobes. Scientists recently experiment- ed on a tract of nearly 3000 acres, badly infested with vermin. Four tons of bread and nine tons of oats were used as bait. These had been treated with a solution in which the microbes were cultivated, and were placed near the holes made by the rodents. The scientists estimated that they killed fully 95 per cent of the rats and mice living in the tract treated., A fleld of two and a half acres was chosen, and 12,484 ratholes were counted. These were closed, and two days later it was found that 1304 had been opened. The bait was used, and eight days later only thirty-seven holes had been opened. Fifteen or twenty rats were frequently found dead in one hole. The Chamber of Deputies has been asked to pass a law requiring farmers to co- operate to exterminate rats with mi- crobes. The Government will furnish the solution. The cost of the cultures is 3 cents an acre. l Stamps by Ton B E— . Though stamps are not usually sold by weight, a ton from the Island of Cyprus was recently bought by a Lon- don firm dealing in this commodity. For-a time British stamps with an ap- propriate surcharge were in use there, but owing to change in the currency from pence to piasters these became obsolete. The firm of Stanley Gibbons offered $4000 for those left over. There ‘were six or seven million stamps in the lot, and they weighed a ton. 3