The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 30, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1904 | | * THE CALL, COVEN 18 NDON, April o whom it has dismiss GARDEN, 14 ertainly is coming > to yet do she nce {f New York™ has been seen in the suited to her. 1 *“The n which the was starred in New r London succes it fell sides of the water. In her next piece at the Miss May had a really creditable le Baroness with part in “Three | a rather colorless School Girl” she deal of ability her performanc: and | -Leslie Stuart 350 nights. When, ce of Wales' man- hat they contem- nto” the “School , the Belasco play. called “The Darling that Miss May 3 of Lena wce of Yo San, the fri s were not » result. But Miss ds a surprise by fur- | of the erstwhile would justify the strong adjectives Iness, but for | ations of the true now that “The followed with a | Miss May has of the doll—an the bestowal wardes upon good deal of faith And Edwardes His the would contr May gave nishing Mre. Da use of some which its oc comic School revival ¢ s to be 2 Poupee yart in generally knows. possibilities. . e | now seems o likely that the Aus- which Sir Henry Irv- will be the means of ing is bringing about a professional reunion between the actor and his most fam- " ous leading woman, Elien Terry. Both parties are supposedly “willin’,” for | whereas the Knight's experiment with Dante” was not wholly happy in its results, his former comrade is not be- licved to huve coined money as a sep- arate star. Sir Henry is known to be anxious to tour in Australia, a project | he has had in mind for rs, and | wants Mise Terry to go along, but the thing cannot come off for a year at least. This because Irving has ar- ranged for a long provincial tour in Becket” with Mrs. Cecil Raleigh, the American tress, as his leading woman, w Miss Terry also is bocked for eral months to come. It is for rather an odd reason that Leopold Wenzel, who for fifteen years bas conducted the ballets at the Em- pire, is leaving that famous London place of amusement. Wenzel, who is perhaps best known as the author of the two French songs “Veux-tu” and “Petit Bleu,” is quitting the Empire because his orchestra has been forbid- den to “salute” him. The conductor al- ways has been popular with the mem- bers of the orchestra, who for several years have been in the habit of paying him the compliment of rapping on their music stands at his taking up his baton. Not long ago the Empire man- agement ordered the players to discon- tinue the practice—why has not been | off. | thirteen range States have discovered | interes | tom — s deaths, and hopes to live to die a good many more—if a bull may be permit- ted. The classification table of the| layer's wholesale decease is as fol lows: Committed suieide 314 times, | died of heart disease 192 times, poisoned 166 times, stabbed 61 times, died in bed 5 times, killed by lightning 51 times, executed 33 times and drowned 22 times. On the other hand, Barnay has | been married on the stage 1171 times, | which the ingenious player calculates | leaves him cighty-two wives who are) not widows. | | Struggling for the Range. With feverish activity the range-| hungry stockmen are now using every honest method, and in many cases dis- honest methods, to make their fonlhnld; for the warning bas been ut-| tered and its meaning cannot be mis- | secure, | taken. With 1.000.000 immigrants com- | ing to the United States each rear, with 50,000 Americans seeking new: farming Jands in €Canada in the past! twelve months and with the rising| price of bread and meat, the attention | of the people cannot be diverted longer | from the threat of a day in the near, future when the United States can no | longer be called the country of free homes. i From far away in the Eastern States, where there is no free grass, but where lives a majority of the people, the real | owners of this property, now comes an | inquiry as to why and wherefore of all these bloody wars among a few for | what belongs to all: and, furthermore, | by what right Individuals are building | up great baronial landholdings out of | the public domain and under laws pre- sumably enacted to encourage the peo- pling of the country. The range men are bold, well estab- lished in their position and confident of | their ability to resist encroachments by newcomers or among themselves. Neither do they fear the local authori- | | ties, for they control town, city n,ndi | even State governments as absolutely | as they control the coming and going | of their employes from the home| ranches. In the past they have felt no | danger of possible interference from | Washington, for they have been prac- tically represented by twenty-six| United States Senators and many mem- | bers of the lower house. Of late, how- | ever, their political weight has fallen Some of the Senators from the that a majority of the votes in their| respective commonwealths are cast by | others than those concerned with range | , and have veered to the side of the homebuilders and the stockmen | of small holdings. The inertia and in- | difference of the Eastern member of | Congress is departing. He has heard from his constituency in Massachusetts, | New York or wherever else he may hail | | trom that the people are ready to take! | up the matter of administering the free | grass to the advantage of all His | newly discovered interest gmay at bot- politically selfish, but his advo- is going to be disinterested, and | cac | while his theories may sound academic | to the horsemen of the plains, they are | founded upon a public policy under | which this country long ago put an end | to crown grants to court favorites, and | which in varying manifestations is now demanding toll to the public treasury | from the beneficiaries of all natural | ronopolies.—Success. Adding Insult to Injury. | f | An American dealer, who was in ad- dition the actual inventor of the| article he handled, succeeded in build- | ing up a trade in Japan. After he had advertised his commodity extensively a citizen of Japan registered the trade- | mark in Tokio. A few days later pa- | pers were served upon the American | in a suit for damages for infringement | upon a trade-mark controlled by a | Japanese. | “There is some mistake,” said the | American. “I have infringed no man’s | right. These are my goods. I in-| vented the article and I designed the | trademark myself and coined the | that invention of the article, ereation of the trademark and ownership of the | goods were minor details. The Jap- | anese complainant, who owned no‘ goods, who had invenged nothing, and | had designed no trademark or mark, | | finally made to understand“ had been sufficiently alert to register | the trademark and was therefore en- | titled to the business. There was | nothing for the inventor to do but to revealed—whereupon Wenzel threat- ened to resign, not expecting, hobwever, to be taken at his word. His resigna- tion has been accepted, however, and he will leave the music hall on April 28. A German audience which had gath- ered to see a comedy had a tragedy en- acted before it the other night, when Emil Hasda, a favorite comedian, who at the time was playing the comic part in Fulda's “The Twin Sisters” suddenly committed suicide on the stage. The thing happened at Nimptsch, “The Twin Sisters” company being on tour from Berlin. All along they had played to bumper houses, and from the first the comedian, Hasda, had been most applauded of all the players. It is said that Hasda's reason for self- destruction was the fact that one of the actresses in the company had re- fused to marry him. His part in the comedy W @ broadly humorous one, and all through the first act he kept the house in fits of laughter. So en- thuslastic was the audience, in fact, that after the act the curtain had to be raised several times. Five times as it rose the comedian bowed his ac- knowledgments in the ordinary way, but when it ascended for the sixth time Hasda suddenly drew a revolver from his pocket and blew out his brains in full view of the whole theater. He pitched forward In front of the foot- lights, the blood flowing ‘from his wound. The curtain was rung down tmmediately, however, and the perform- ance brought to an end. ) Laudovic Barnay, the German actor of villains, is not dead, but when his time comes he should know how to pass away effectively, for, according to a record kept by the mimic “bad man,” he bas died no Jess than 1059 stage L, retire from the field, which he prompt- | ly did, leaving his invention and the field his advertising and enterprise had | opened to the commercial brigand | who had a working knowledge of Asiatic lJaw.—From “If Japan Should ‘Win,” by Harold Bolce, in the May Booklovers Magazine. Dust Whether the bacilli that cause tuberculosis in the human being are the same as those which cause it in other warm-blooded animals, and even fish, or whether they merely change their appearance with their environment, is a question for the bac- teriological expert. That we may be- { come infected from other animals has not the vital interest that the un- doubted fact has that we can, and do, become infected by the germs that other men carry about, and that the home, the place where we take refuge from the ills of life, is precisely where this dread disease attacks us. Inside the four walls of our houses is where these deadly germs are implanted, are nurtured and bring forth their har- vest. It is at home we must begin to defend ourselves. It is the part of wisdom to do away with dust-catching draperies and carpets. Have the rugs shaken and beaten out of doors. If you must have carpets, sweep them with wet tea leaves sprinkled on them. ‘Wipe the furniture with a moist cloth, not flirt the dust about with a bunch of feathers on a stick. Dust is dan- gerous. Remember that. Better to have some critic write “Sloven” in the dust upon the mantelpiece than ¢cloud the air with it and poison your whole family.—Eugene Wood in Everybody's ‘Magazine for May. . Danger. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL “ e+ e..eo.. Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manage: .Third and Market Streets, S. F. SATURDAY...... 9 i i ool S e Ve e o5 4B e s AP AL 305 1004 “HAVE A CHERRY?” gacal MERICA is the land of the mixed drink. The A sturdy, beef-eating Briton never goes further in that line than his half-and-half, or a shandy-gaff. Otherwise “he "and his Continental neighbors take it straight. But here we mix. Our cocktails are infinite in variety and the barkeeper asks us, “Have a cherry?” 1f we assent, we get a Bigarreau or a Maraschino, red fleshed and sweet, giving a sort of nutty farewell to the mixed drink. American cherry growers are often criti- cized for not producing such cherries, compelling us to pay a duty of 1 cent a pound and 35 per cent ad valorem, every time we take an appetizer. . American Consuls abroad make stated reports on the commerce and productions of the countries to which they are accredited, for the benefit of their countrymen at home. Unfortunately these reports are not generally circulated, and the often valuable information they con- tain does not reach the most interested parties. In the issuc of these consular reports for April 6 is a- report of our Consul to Bordeaux, Judge Tourgee, on the.cock- iail cherries. He says the opinion prevails in the United States that these are a special kind of cherry. This is a natural conclusion from the uniform dark red color of the pulp. This color is artificial. The cherries are picked when dead ripe and soft. They are smoked in sulphur fumes until they are toughened by the sulphurous gas and bleached to a pale yellow. They are then packed in a solution of salt and sulphur and shipped to the manufacturer. In this pickle they keep indefinitely and may be manipulated at leisure. When needed they are washed, and dyed red with aniline, soaked in alcohol and syrup, and are ready for the American market. These cherries are not used in Europe at all and are not found there in market. They all come to the United States and our cocktail drinkers get with every glass a quantity of aniline and sulphur. The revelation is revolting and disenchanting. Amer- icans always supposed they were getting a red cherry, simply preserved in aromatic syrup. But instead they are getting a fruit that first had taken from it every natural characteristic, was pickled in brine like a cucum- ber and then dyed and sweetened to taste. Judge Tourgee has disenchanted our cocktail, but has lifted a burden of blame from the American cherry grower. If his statement is generally circulated, the genial bar- keeper will get “no” for an answer when he offers the dyed but seductive cherry. Bordeaux seems to be the center of this cherry pickling industry, and Americans who wvalue their health will see that industry decline without regret and will return to the primitive innocence of the cocktail, when it consisted of schnapps and bitters. Judge Tourgee, in the same report, tells some things of interest to the American prune grower.- Last year the French prune crop failed, and he says this would have taken the control. of the prune trade away from France but for the foresight of the prune merchants of Bordeaux, who secured a large stock of California prunes, manipulated and repacked them and sold them as French, by that means sustaining the supremacy of French prunes. He traced these California prunes into Bordeaux, through the repacking process and export back to the United States, where, as French fruit, they sold at a price that left a good profit after crossing the ocean twice and paying a duty of 2 cents a pound for the privi- lege of returning to their native land. The fine Irench prunes we buy in San Francisco were grown in the orchards of Santa Clara County. They have been re- fined by foreign travel and come back to us with its gifts and graces, for which we pay a round price. Yet in pulp and substance and flavor they have gained noth- ing by the journey. They have simply gained in super- ficial appearance. These added charms are external only and they are Santa Clara prunes and nothing more, but the story of their travels is full of suggestion for our prune raisers. We have to compete with France, not in the quality of the fruit, for these facts prove that our quality is good. To the palate the fruits are the same. The difference is presented to the eye alone. What is needed is that our growers and packers study the Bordeaux method of manipulating and packing. There is no sorcery about it. It has in it the French instinct of appealing to the eye. We can do it as well, if we try. When we do it successfully, France will no longer be able to take our excellent but ill-appearing prunes, teach them French airs and manners andsuse them to crowd us out of our cwn market. Judge Tourgee also reports that California’ navel oranges hold the market in Bordeaux, selling at 4 cents zapiece, in perfect condition and of the best quality. This | als0 is a revelation. He is unable to tell how they get there. But they are there and find a market after pay- ing the French tariff. Our horticulturists and cocktail drinkers will find much food and drink for reflection in Judge Tourgee’s report. One thing is sure: our prune growers should either send students to study French methods or should bring French packers her Representative Williams, acknowledged leader of the national Democracy in Congress, is angling coyly, it is said, for the Vice Presidential nomination of his party. It is strange to what misdirection able men will permit themselves to be led. As leader of a minority in Con- gress Mr. Williams’ fame is assured. As a Vice Presi- dential aspirant he invites a suspicion of his political sanity. “ ” A THE SESSION ENDS. FTER many stormy scenes and much useful legis- lation and the useful defeat of much more, Con- gress ‘ended the session in -good feeling and of the comntry. Partisan differences are, after all, sec- ondary to the impwise of fellow citizenship, which holds neighbor to neighbor. 50 The session just closed will be memorable in history for the ratification of the canal treaty and the legis- lation which begins that great work. We see but dimly now the large consequences that are to flow from this action, but it will grow in perspective until it takes rank among the greatest achicvements of the American Con- gress. - 5 San Francisco has not fared as well :as the city de- served. The immigrant station wa$ lost and so were several other things of importance to us. But the re- quirements of this city at the hands of Congress depend upon the Representatives it send to the House. It picked the men to go and they were there, and that is all. We sowed and when we go forth to reap the crop is poor. As the people have only themselves to blame, they can. reflect upon the’ matter, while thewing the gritty and | innutritions cud of disappointment. 1f reports be true former Secretary of the Navy Long is to become the president of a trade school. Mr. Long is to be congratulated upon entering a field in which his- abilities will be given to the arts of peace and not of war. Tt is more difficult to build than to destroy, and the ex-Secretary will find in his new field greater de- mand upon his distinguished talents than he did in the old. L exclusive article for the Sunday Call Magazine, telling of the Catholic plan for the public schools and why religious training should go hand in hand with secular education. His Reverence gave his views at length and in such forceful manner that they not only attracted widespread attention, but created lively com- ment and criticism. Archbishop Montgomery has found many to answer him, and three of these answers from leading California divines of widely differing denomina- tions will be published in the Sunday Call to-morrow. They are the Right Rev. William Ford Nichols, D. D., Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of California; Right Rev. John W. Hamilton, Bishop of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, and Rev. G. A. Bernthal of the Lutheran Church of St. Paulus. Each of these divines differs from the opinion of Bishop Montgomery to a very radical degree, and what they have written forms one of the most timely and important symposiums that has appeared for many a long day in the public press. In this connection, too, Dr. J. W. Ward of the Board of Health has written an article on the “Necessity for Rigid School Inspection,” which will be a revelation of the new methods in vogue and that are urgently being recommended to preserve the health of the children and detect and prevent the spread of diseases of all sorts. It willjappear exclusively in the Sunday Call to-morrow. Among other notable names as contributors to the excellence of this same edition is George Wharton James, the famous explorer and lecturer, who has dis- covered and developed a new animal and bird painter, a.strange character of the desert, who, out of a life of isolation and silence, has become a perfect genius at his art, This article is illustrated with many pictures drawn especially for the Sunday Call by Professor James' protege. As a subject fot his keen wit Jerome K. Jerome, the great British humorist, has written an article %On the Chinaman,” which presents the wily heathen as he has rarely if ever been shown before. As the second of his new series of thrilling full page railroad stories Frank H. Spearman offers “The Second 2 style and will take rank with “Cyclone Clarke,” Nerve of Foley,” “The Kid Engineer” and the “‘Million Dollar Freight Train,” all of exceptional excellence. Then there is a “Fable for the Foolish,” entitled “Put Not Your Trust in Maxims,” which, besides being very clever, presents a moral with novel force. Eliza Orne White is one of the best known and most popular writers in America. It is only necessary to state, therefore, that she has contributed to the Sunday Call to-morrow a-story entitled “Miss Deborah’'s Garden Toads” to make that unique story at once widely sought after. Albert Sonnichsen presents “The Corporal's Secret Service Gang,” which is a stofy even more mysterious and startling than the name sounds, since the “Corporal” is not a human being at all, nor is he an animal of any sort that is usually found in an army. Therein lies the thrilling interest of this tale. But perhaps most interest of all will be found in the announcement that in the Sunday Call to-morrow the last installment of “The Queen of Quelparte,” by Archer Butler Hulbert, will appear, clearing up all the mystery surrounding the funeral of the queen without a corpse, as well as giving a final word about Russia's intrigue in Korea, out of which this war with Japan has grown, and completing in four installments a $1 50 novel for 20 cents, an offer that cannot be equaled by any other journai in America. Add to all this that the art work is of unusual excel- lence, especially the full page photograph of the “Multi- ple Color Calendar Girl for May,” and the full page painting of Mrs. Edward Sydney Rothchild, one of the late society paintings, and it will be seen that the Sunday Call to-morrow will be exceptionally attractive. THE SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE. AST Sunday Archbishop Montgomery wrote an After five years of the law’s delays the murderer of Sheriff Farley of Monterey has been sent back to the trial court to have sentence of death pronounced upon him for the third time. When tribunals punish wanton murder in this way need we explain popular distrust of the orderly administration of justice? It is one of the fancies of fate that this criminal did not die a natural amiability. The speeches of the last few days were for | death. campaign wse. During their delivery' tumult was made and the unsophisticated looker-on would have concluded that the scene indicated irreconcilable personal differ- ences and a bloody temper. But it was not so. The ; ———e The United States has made overtures to France to incorporate in our extradition treaty the offense of bribery. The time was in American municipalities when only conflict that left marks was that provoked by | the bribery of officials was considered to be an expen- Bourke Cockran. We believe it is the general feeling | sive luxury not likely to affect public health, but now that he got the worst of it and suffered a loss of pres- it seems to have become a necessity in civic administra- tige which will be hard for him to repair. Except for | tion. Any measure making its punishment more sure this, nothing occurred to mar or heat the personal re- lations of the members. The Speaker had been duly heckled, as 41l Speakers are, and had been growled at is a benefit. . | Bulgaria and Turkey, it is announced, are ready again aid grumbled about, but at the end it was the minority | to fly at one another’s throats and settle in shot and leacder who introduced the resolution commending his justice and fairness, and expressing for him the friend- ship of the whole House. A f ' These friendly incidents at the close of Congress shell the differences that appear to agitate them. Let us hope that the announcement is not premature. Both antagonists have exhausted the patience of an indul- gent public, which wants to see a fight or the removal ‘of the ¥ s from the world’s stage of action, Pgcatyiie This story is written in this clever author's best ! ‘The | | left ear. PO A TALK OF A Bargain. Way back in the fifties, when George i T. Knox, the well-knewn notary, was a much younger man than he is now, | he landed in $an Francisco and finding himself a stranger on the border ‘of the great El Dorado, sought employ- fent and found it in the form of a job to dig a sewer in one of the streets. His pay was $16 a day. Shortly after he started shoveling he overheard an animated polyglot conversation be- tween two men and the same was em- phasized by. pantomime for the reason that' the one was French and under- stood not a word of Engilsh, and the other was an American who knew not a word of French. Mr. Knox, who has always been known for his Ches- terfieldian politenéss, rested on his long handled shovel and, excusing him- self for what nowadays would be termed “butting in,” he told the Amer- ican what the Frenchman was trying to have him understand. The Amer- ican looked at the sewer digger, say- ing sharply, “What do you know about 5 “I know all about it,” replied the shovel wielder,” because I am a French scholar.” The = American thanked him and added: “If you are a French scholar what are you digging in that sewer for?” “Sixteen dollars a day,” suavely re- plied Mr. Knox. “If you'll come out of that hole,” said the American, wno was a prom- inent lawyer, “I'll give you twice that amount a day to do some translation for me, and it will be a long job.” Mr. Knox quit digging and in a short time found himself treading the path that led to prominence among the early citizens. Casus Belli. Justice of the Peace Lawson is very particular what sort of a hat he wears, and when he purchases one he does not allow price to stand in his way. He bought a very fine hat the other day and for three or four days went about the City Hall wearing a satisfied smile. Then c¢ne day he appeared with his old Derby pulled down over his eyes. Not a trace of a smile did his face wear. “What's up, Judge?” asked a news- paper man, whe knew that when the Judge's face was smileless something had happened. What the Judge said is not material to this story, but an hour or so later, when he had thawed a bit, he ex- plained: “You know that swell Derby I had the other day,” be said to the same re- perter who had questioned him. “Well, some one else has it now.” “How's that, Judge?” ““Well, T had about three days’ wear out of the hat., I jarried a young couple in my chambers and when the bride and groom left my hat went with them. The groom's old dicer re- mained behind. A mistake, of course. Oh! yes, a mistake. It would not have mattered so much if Mr. Benedict had left anything else, but all he left was ‘Thank you.” I think I'll go and ask Cupid Danforth if he stood him off “for the license.” The Trilobite. A cunning little trilobite Lived in the old Silurian time— A hardy protozoic mite, Conceived of argillaceous slime. His was the privilege to view The ramphorhynchus in its flight; The dinosaur, likewise, he knew, This cunning little trilobite. Before earth’s crust was fairly cool From igneous fluidity He swam the BBIQOZOIL pool And on old Potsdam sported free. He watched the rhynchosaurus feed And took great pleasure in the sight. He'd opportunities indeed, This cunning little trilobite. He scuttled from the pterichthys; The bathygnathus looked upon. He heard the pterdoactyl hiss The bounding labyrinthqdon. The durydorus serridens ‘When fairly spoiling for a fight -Would chase him to his native fens, This cunning little trilobite. He's barely with the present linked— A crusted petrifaction now, He long ago became extinct— A good thing, too, as you'll allow. He cannot pose at lengih to show This present age has nothing right, Like other fossils that we know, This cunning little trilobite. —Leslie’s Monthly. Left-Eared Folk. An announcement is made which, if true, is an interesting illustration of the minor differentiation of the char- acteristics due to environmental condi- tions, so to speak. We are told that the telephone is giving us a race of left-eared people—that is, of people who hear better with the left than with the right ear. The American Telephone Journal says on this subject: Nine out of every ten who use a tel- ephone hold the receiver to that ear, and many find it impossible to hear over a telephone through their right ear. The fact that the majority of men and women are right-handed and that the constructors of the first tele- phones took due notice of this is re- sponsible for this new condition of left- eared people. Watch a telephone for half a day, and it will be seen that al- most every person that uses that in- strument will place the receiver to the Or, even if the instrument is resting on a table, the left ear will be the one used. When the new instru- ments were constructed the receivers were allowed to remain on the left side, as the users had become accustomed to this. All this has created a race of left-eared people, for, having become accustomed to using the receiver at the left ear, it was found that the hearing in that ear was better and more sensi- tive. Every telephone girl in the ex- changes has the receiver on her left ear, and the man. who uses his right ear is unusual. Hindu Fanaticism. India teems with feats of mystic fanaticism. One man will lie upon his back, place a plece of soil upon his lower lip, plant in it a mustard seed, and not rise from his position until the seed has become a plant size. An- other will malke his couch upon spik: a third walks with his bocts filled with similar delights; yet another keeps his THE TOWN I ——F hands clinched until the nails grow through his palms and out at the back of his hands; while others distort their legs and arms into atrophy. The extent to which Hindu fanaticism will go, or native belief extend, was shown by a case reported in the Civil and Military Gazette of Lahore a year or so ago. The natives of Trevandrum were found to .be worshiping as a god come among men a man who had taken up his residence under a tree on the bank of a river. For the first week or sc he ate a plantain and drank some milk twice or thrice a week. Then he gradually enlarged the intervals, till after three or four months he took no food at all, but passed his time hud- dled before a fire, seeing no one, hear- ing no one. Exposed to cold and wet, to heat and dust, he sat thus without food for three years, “wrapt in divine contemplation.” At the end of the three years he died, never having spoken to or heeded a soul from the time he first appeared until the spirit passed froo® his body.—St. James Gazette. Primitive Numeration. In a paper read before the Philologe ical Society, of the University of Mich= igan, Professor George Hempl com- mented upon the forerunners of our present system of numeration. Some two years ago, in seeking the origin of the Runic letters (the first letters used by the Germanic races), Professor Hempl discovered the primitive Ger- manic numerical notation. This threw new light upon the early Germanic numerical system, as well as upon the primitive Indo-European numerical system, and upon the development of the Greek alphabet, and the Greek nu- merical notation. The primitive Indo-European numer= ical system was a mixture of the deci- mal and the sexagesimal. The first large number was the “shock,” that is 60, and the next large number was the “hund.” or “hundred,” that is 120. Between 60 and 120 there were no num- bers like our 70, etc., 70 being “a shock and 10,” and 80 being “‘a shock and 20.” The introduction of our presént num- bers between 60 and 120 arose out ©of the introduction of the decimal hund or hundred, that is 100, in distinction from which the old hundrel (120) was called the duodecimal hundred or he ‘“great hundred,” which is sti!l used in Iceland and parts of England. g Britain’s New Ships. According to particulars published in the Glasgow Herald, of the thirty- seven vessels of the British navy which have been subjected to speed tests dur- ing the past year twenty-eight attained speeds in excess of twenty-one knots, and of these twelve were cruisers, the remainder being torpedo-beoat destroy- ers and torpedo-boats and evem ar« mored ships of about twenty-threq knots. Answers to Queries. RAZZLE DAZZLE—H. L., City. In razzle dazzle aces are high. A player is not required to call in that game. If A plays five sixes and B plays five aces, B wins. MELTING POINT—Subscriber, Oak« land, Cal. Silver does not require as much heat to melt it as does gold. Gold melts at 2192 Fahrenheit and sil- ver at 1832 degrees. THE AUTHORS—D. V., City. “The Children of the Abbey” was written by Regina M. Roche, “Dred” by Harriett Beecher Stowe and “The Crisis,” a pe= riodical, by Tom Paine, “The Crisis,"™ a political pamphlet, by Edward Bul« wer Lytton, and “The Crisis,” a popular novel, by Winston Churchill, that has been dramatized. WAR OF 1812—H. 8., City. The war of 1812 was the result of the action of the British Government in maintaining the right of search and imy it, taking men claimed to be British sub- jects from American vessels and fore- ing them into the British navy or im- prisoning them for refusing to serve and firing vpon American men-of-war and compelling them to give up seamen in their crews. For a more detailed ac- count, go to the Free Public Library, reference room, where you will find full details of that war. COMMON CARRIER — Subscriber, Bridgeport, Cal. Generally a common carrier is one who undertakes for hire to convey the person or goods of such as desire to employ him, from one point tc another, and who does this as a business. The law compels him to take the goods or person of ail who may apply and to make due transport of them. It gives him a lien on the goods of the shipper or the baggage cf the passenger, for his compensation, but at the same time holds him Hable for all loss or injury, though occurring without any fault of his. In the difs ferent States there are special laws affecting common carriers. . ——— s e Townsend's California Glace fruits and choice candies. in a rtistic boxes. A nice present for Eastern 715 Market street. above Call building. ———— " Shhess. Bouses and pubii. men by the iness ses. Bress Clipping Bureaw (Allenca), 236 Cate ifornia street. Telephone Main 1042. * ¥ —_———— < The receipts of the Cuban Governe Sienses were 3 : q