The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 18, 1904, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1904 | { London 1 aits for “Behefil.” Specia ndence of The Oail HEADQUARTERS OF 5 HENRIETTA STRE GARDEN, LONDONX, June 20.—Heath| Cottage Hospital is lucky In having! W. §. Glibert for a friend. For it is' doubtful If any one in London with Jess persopal influence than the author |’ of “Pinafore” could have induced prac- trically every British dramatist of re: preminence to appear at a benefit per- | formance, as Mr. Gilbert has done in bebalf of the Bushey institution. Mean- | while, playgeers here are waiting im- petiently for the coming special mati- nee at the Garrick, in which the great lights of the dramatic profession are| to take part | As Americans may possibly have | heard, the chief attraction at this mat- | will be a parody on “Hamilet,” by Mr. Gilbert and ral!vdi rantz and Guilderstern.” There- Gilbert himself, Henry Arthur Captain Robert Marshall, a “His Excellency the Governor”: | 1 r and Mrs. Ryley, who wrote “Mice and Men,” as well as Sir Fran- | Burnand, the editor of “Punch,”| siready have promised to appear, and | st present it is almost certain that J.| M. Barrie and George Bernard Shaw | will, on this occasion, also don sock | end buskin. Perhaps Mr. Pinero felt that his dignity would not allow him| to join even so distinguished a “cast.” Anyhow, it is a pity that he will not be seen, for as a former actor he prob- ably wouid have given a better account of himself than any of his confreres, with the possible exception of Mrs Ryley, who, of course, was once a player, too. In Mr. Gilbert’s travesty she will be the Ophelia, Lady Colin Campbell the Queen, while Gilbert him- self will uniertake the part of Den- mark's King. If one remembers rightly this is the first time that the somewhat testy co-author of the Savoy operas| bas undertaken anything as altruistic as the arrangement of a benefit, but perhaps Mr. Gilbert is feeling good over xhe success of his new comedy at-the Garrick, “A Fairy'’s Dilemma” having | passed its fiftieth performance. This piece also will be played at the Gar- rick matinee, which takes place on July 18. It will be surprising if it does not prove one of the most popular ben- efits ever given in London. Incident-| ally, it will be a capital advertisement for the Garrick, which has had a good many such recently, thanks to the in-| genuity of Arthur Bourchier. There{ was the small episode in connection | with the Times' critic, Mr. Walkley; | not to mention the piguant mystery | as to the new Gilbert play, and lastly, | the agreeable little incident of the cur- | tain raiser which the Poet Laureate sent in anonymously. | A week or so ago it was hinted in' these letters that there was quite a good chance that Edward Terry would | pay the United States a visit soon, with “The House of Burnside.” It has now | been definitely arranged that this ac-| tor-manager will leave for America in the jast week of the present year for | a tour which opens at the Princess| Theater, New York, on January $ under | the management of the Shuberts. Captain Basil Hood, whose luck in the United States never has been good has been rather unfortunate at home | latterly, too, for his last musical play at the Savoy was only a half-way suc- cess, and his comedy, “Love in a Cot- tage.” a complete failure. However, the captain is going to try it again with a new musical play which he calls “The Golden Girl.” For this. Rowever, his former partner, Edward German, will not furnish the score, which will be composed instead by Himish MacCunu. It is rather doubtful if any city has ®0 many theatrical “deadheads” as Londpn—where first performances are a!most alwavs invitation affairs—and ®0 it is appropriate enough that from London comes the first proposition to make such guests show their appre- written “Roser Mr Jones the cis il | orable members to their Parliamen- a vouthfu! Conservative, {did not arrive, as we have seen, 5 WORLD - | | worthy of a place in tife evening bill. | fo probably London will continue an | Eldorado for American “variety peo- Larking” in Commnions. One afternoon the devotion of hon- tary duties was somewhat slack, amll only a handful of semi-somnolent leg- islators dotted the green benches. For some reason the Liberals were trying to obtain a “count out,” while their | pbliticals opponents endeavored to; | “keep a Houswe.” As everybody knows, | if the Sp the fact that there are not forty mem- ker's attention l= called to | !bers present, the House may be! counted out. Things being thus, in| the lobby Mr. Labouchere ran across “What's going on?” asked the new- comer, Only 2 count. TI'll pair with you f you llke,” airily responded “‘Labby.” The novice accepted, and, the small number of members presont being thus reduced by two, the House was duly counied out. It was only when: he came to reflect that you cannot »air for a count that the young Con- servative realized how very neatly he had been done by the artful La- bouchere, . The most audacious hoax ever per- petrated on the House was the inven. tion of a couple of irresponsible jour- | nalists. A more than usually jmpor- tant dye-election was pending, and it | was known that the result would be a close thing, though, as is usual in such cases, both sides were confident of vic- | tor: Mr. Balfour, then Chief Secre- tary for Ireland, was speaking when a telegram was handed to the chief | Liberal Whip. “We've won!” he cried, waving the pink slip over his head, while his| arty roared their exultation again | and again. Suddenly through the doors | darted Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, his ! glasses gleaming with excitement. He, too, flourished a telegram; he, too, beamed triumph all around; and from | the Conservative hosts there rose | another and a louder shout. | The lately fejoicing Opposition looked puzzled and anxious, for their own candidate had in reality been defeated. The reckless jesters aforesaid had ar- ranged for a confederate to dispatch a begus result to be wired to the Chief Whip of the beaten party so soon as the counting of the votes had advanced far enough to give the result. The official telegram giving the real result il after the anxious Liberals had been imposed upon. Only once have strangers been dis- covered on the sacred fioor of the Cham- ber itself. The hair of honorable gen- tlemen stood on end one afternoon when some one pointed out two very respectable looking members of the | public calmly listening to the debate from one of the benches below the gangway. They turned out to be two country | people up for a holiday in London, | who had planned to waich a debate from the Strangers’ Gallery. While they were waiting in the lobby for their member to obtain passes for the =allery, some joker among the loungers there had directed them to “go straight on"” into the CRamber itself. .In their rural simplicity this they did, but to this day it remains a mystery how they | managed to evade the vigilance of the | doorkeepers. We have seen how even the wary | Whip may fall a victim to the wiles of the practical joker; but when that astute and resourceful person takes a | hand in a game his efforts are general- | Iy successful. A clever strategem of the chief Oppesition Whip led to the | defeat of the Disraeli administration. A big division was expected, and the Government Whips had organized a| special service of messengers for the purpose of summoning their wandering | flock from dinner, club, party or) theater, according as their tastes or | social engagements led them, so that | every available vote might be recorded. At that time the nimble bicycle was not in general use, and the messengers | ‘were generally sent in cabs. i When the hour of the division drew ; nigh, not a solitary cab wes seen in | the neighborhood. The Opposition | Whips had chartered them all, and | got them safely out of the way, o that Palace Yard was bereft®of every single vehicle.—London Answers. Porwers of Microscopes. All who use the microscope are aware | that the limit of its magnifying powers is soon reached. Beyond a certain point the image becomes indistinct, large but not clear, and the imperfections of the instrument are magnified as well as the object. Professor Dolbear has observed that “the powers of the microscope t ciation of the hospitality granted them. Robert Arthur, whe controls quite a large number of suburban play-houses, means hereafter to make every deadhead pay a tax of four cents on his ticket—the proceeds to go to a theatrical charity—and London managers are awaiting curiously the result of his acheme. Every now and then some society woman or other perpetrates a play— Lady Troubridge was one of the last— which usally is given at a special mat- inee and then heard of no more. ,Most people expected that such would be the fate of the Hon. Mrs. Lyttleton's But not only did the Colonia! Secretary’s wife's first have not been doubled within the last fifty years, though more time and in- genuity have been given to the prob- lem of improving it than will ever be| given in the same interval again.” It/ is dangerous, however, to ,prophesy. One of the exhibits at the Royal So- ciety's- conversazione seemed to mark a very distinet advance. Mr. J. W.| Gordon showed a high-power micro- scope, which had in the view fleld of the ordinarv instrument a rotating glass screen, and this, viewed through a second microscope, gave a further magnification of 100 diameters. The ground-glass screen, by expanding the transmitted light wave, causes it com- drama score so prodigiously on its two weeks suburban tour, that it was brought to Mr. Frohman's Vaudeville Theater in the Sirand, but there it is h a hit that though all pletely to fill the aperture of the sec- ond microscope, so that the usual im- perfections of excessive magnification disappear. A diatom was w} 10,000 diameters, and its structure was Engineering remarks that with the same magnification the eve of a house fiy would seem to cover an area of 312 square feet. If such powers can be applied there is a new world, or at any rate a much larger one, for the botanist and biologist.—London Telegraph. First soaked creditor—I umder- stand the cashier stole S0 much money firm that the thing had to be the hands of a receiver. Sec- soaked creditor—Yes, and 1 they've found eit that the is as bad as thief."—Balti- i i i i § | little effect of the weather conditions. | in London on the 14th. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Jgnnn.mrmm..........mmmmmmm)m McNAUGHT, Manager Publication OMMCe ..........ceseseesestes <orererorisiuiiicooosrssessose szieassecoes <KDIRd and Market Streets, 5. P. = - MONDAY . JULY 18, 1904 MORE VARIETY IN TRADE. HE business situation was more interesting last T week than for some time, as conditions were more diversified. The rapid changes in the crop outlook and the great packers’ strike in the West unsettled con- ditions which had apparently become settled for some time to come and the week was another illustration of | the fact that we never know what is going to happen. As to the crop outlook, it may be said that heavy rains, by overflowing fields, delaying harvests and causing wheat to sprout in the shock have reduced previous es- timates of the size of the crop. ‘The Government report of the condition of the crop July 1 indicated a yield of 010,000,000 bushels, but all the recent damage has hap- pened since then, hence this estimate no longer stands. Snow, the statistician, estimates the loss throughcut the country at from 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 bushels, while Jones of the Commercial West estimates the crop at not to exceed 382,000,000 bushels. The presidents of several of the great railroad systems which depend upon the wheat and cora crops for a large share of their annual business say that the loss to the transportation companies through the reduction of the grain output will be serious. These sntemenéu may af- fcct the quotations for the Western railroads in Wall street later on, but thus far the shares have shown but Again, those sec- tions where the damage has been more acute will prob- ably not send in very bright commercial® reports during the rest of the year, so the conditions in the West are considerably unsettled. During the past day or two, however, the weather has been better and there is a dis- position to believe that perhaps the damage has been overestimated. As for the corn and totton crops, they are in good condition and conditions based on them are reported highly encouraging. The wool industry continues very active, with a continued eager demand for fleece and a further advance in prices of 3 per cent at the wool sales The feature of the week, however, was the great strike at the Western provision centers. The direct results were the immediate advancement in prices for meats throughout the West and East and the throwing of thousands of men out of employment. Cured meats, however, actually declined on the Chicago Board of Trade, the packers reporting large stocks of hog pro- ducts. The San Francisco provision operators, who are closely posted as to affairs at the Western packing points, say that if the strike does not continue too long it will be very beneficial to the great packers by enabling them to clear off these accumulated stocks, a large por- tion of which are medium and lower grade goods. A week or so of idleness at the great packing plants will therefore not be apt to worry the packers. The strike is interfering with the deliveries of hides to the tanners and those who are short of supplies are anxious over the situation, which may result in a shortage in leather and an advance in the price of hides. Conditions in the other industries are irregular. Fall River mills are unsettled by proposed wage readjust- ments and there is more or less idleness among the iron and steel plants, with the belief that 'pig iron warrants will be smaller than for any recent month. Building operations are now not sufficiently lively to increase the call for structural material, and the demand for lumber, as well as for iron and steel, is much less than for sev- eral years past. Exports of manufactured goods, how- ever, are reported larger than in any previous year. In fact, foreign trade totals for the fiscal year are next to the largest ever reported, and the figures for the port of New York show gains of $530,286 in exports and $1,006,- 724 in imports, as compared with the corresponding week a year ago. ® *Railway earnings for the first week in July were 6 per cent below those for the same week in 1903 and ‘the gross earnings for the fiscal year just closed will prob- ably show an increase over any previous year, but wages and the cost of material have undergone such changes during the year that it is not possible now to determine the net result oi the country’s rail traffic. The distributive markets continue quiet, as usual %t this time of the year. Collections are reported rather slow than otherwise. The best commercial reports are now coming from the South, where the situation is dominated by the cotton crog, which, as already stated, is very promising. The country’s bank clearings for the week were only 1.7 per cent below those for the cor- responding week last year and the aggregate clearings again ran up over the $2,000,000,000 mark. They have not done this for some time, and the sign is a good one. The failures for the week were 223, agaimst 223 last year. The buoyant tone in Wall street, noted during the past several weeks, was apparent during the whole week. With conditions as unsettled as they were over the change in the wheat crop outlook, the provision strike, the decision in the Northern Securities case and the re- cent large liquidation the market shows surprising vigor and firmness and the sentiment was bullish all over the street, with everybody predicting a better market sooner or later. There is not a vestige of pessimism left in Wall street. Everybody wants the market to go up and almost everybody expects that it will. There is a large leaven of caution still observable, however, and it continues to dominate the situation. A burned child fears the fire. A curious financial mare’s-nest has just been uncov- ered by the New York Evening Post. It has discovered that a number of large trust companies in New York are carrying enormous sums of idle money, on which they are paying about 2 per cent interest, standing on their books as “cash on hand and in banks.” It has been known for a year that the amount of money idle in New York is vast and the location of this idle money is now known. The Post says that six important companies holding $136,030,000 deposits have $47,085,000 “in cash and in banks.” Ordinarily these companies would have scarcely $13,000,000 so apportioned, for on the present basis the business shows a heavy loss. Another company, which withdrew from the ciearing-house recently because of its unwillingness to carry a 10 per cent reserve, shows that market conditions have forced it to keep 20 per cent of its deposits idle in bank, besides a large cash balance in vault. Of two evils it is probably better to have too much money than not enough, especially from a mercantile point of view, but when money accumulates in this wholesale fashion it is about time to look about and as- certain the cause of the accumulation and see if some way cannot be devised to get it into general circulation, where it will not be a temptation to everybody handling it. Large blocks of idle money lead to reckless stock and other speculation, to vast and indiscriminate flota- tions of new enterprises and all sorts of undesirable t'p?np. It is like a healthy, strapping boy hanging about the house doing nothing. He is apt to get into mi‘chid and had better be put to work. ? 5 l . BEWARE OF CHICKENS. OWN in Georgia a gentleman after living a quiet D tnnoted life has rccensly achieved something of distinction by dying on the ninetieth anniversary of the day of his birth. His venerable age and the co- incidence of the dates of his birth and his death led to some investigation into his mode of life, and it was then learned that from the time of his infancy he had never been sick, nor had he ever in all those years taken a single dose of what his biographer calls “doctor’s med- icine.”* To have maintained himself hale and hearty through so long a period, in a society so disturbed as has been that of Georgia during the vicissitudes of the civil war and the reconstruction period, is certainly an achieve- ment worth noting; and the means by which he achieved it deserve attention from all who wish to avoid doc- tor's medicine, live to be ninety and die on the anniver- sary of their birth. It is therefore gratifying that the Atlanta Constitution has sought out the peculiarities of the veteran’s way of living and has published them for the benefit of a world of men, among whom there is too much medicine and too little length of life. From the investigation we learn that the long-lived citizen was familiarly known as “Uncle Jack,” and it is a natural inference that he started life with a disposi- tion so genial and sympathetic that everybody felt some- thing of kinship for him. That of course helped him to live comfortably, but it was not enough to assure him ninety years of life, for a good many such genial fel- lows die young. It was further learned that he never used either tobacco or coffee, but that “he would take a drink of liquor whenever it suited his purpose.” Those habits also were doubtless of good service to him, but still they do not account for his feat of living nine dec- ades and then dying on the anniversary of his birth- day. We are told that before the war he was a Whig, but ever since the war e was a Democrat. He was once a County Clerk, then a County Treasurer, and then a Jus- tice of the Peace, his various terms of office covering a period of more than forty years. That-is a good record as records go in rural districts, but the mere enjoyment of the spoils of office for forty years and over is not enotigh to sustain a man in healthy life for ninety years. There is still something to be sought for as a complete explanation of his good fortune, and it is to be found in the statement of his biographer: “He never ate a chicken in his life.” Just how a man of hearty appetite could live in Geor- gia for ninety years without ever eating a chicken is a difficult thing to understand, but the story comes to us on the authority of a contemporary that had always been found reliable when not discussing politics. We give the theory therefore for what it is worth: “If you would live long beware of chickens.” Citizens of Memphis, weary of flagrant gambling and its attendant troop of crimes, have found relief in union and in emphatic terms have demanded the resignation of the Chief of Police, the Mayor and the Sheriff for palpable inability to perform their manifest duty. When one reflects upon this highly encouraging situation the thought is irresistible that some people in San Francisco ' have reason to be deeply thankful that they are not in Mempbhis. THE VALLEJO NAVAL CLUBHOUSE. HE dedication of the beautiful new naval club- house at Vallejo on Saturday afternoon was an event in which the whole State should take pride. In pursuance of philanthropic work none is more praise- worthy or to be commended than that which throws around seafaring men every protection possible from the crimpers and/land sharks that look upon them as their especial prey. After long confinement aboard ship it is natural that a man should feel exhilarated at breathing the land air again and should look for new faces when he gets ashore. That those new faces frequently mask an enemy to lure him (o his undoing is unfortunate but nev- ertheless often true. The remedy seems to be in the es- tablishment of places that will be more interesting than those pitfails which ordinarily await him. There is more than the general element of philan- thropv in the establishment of the Vallejo clubhouse. The “man behind the gun” is still a most necessary fac- tor in the political economy of a country and anything which makes for his betterment is’a valuable asset. The Vallejo clubhouse is the culmination of lohg and cease- less effort on the part of many worthy people and it is but right that their success should not go without due credit- being accorded them. While Rear Admiral” and Mrs. McCalla have of course been foremost in the work by presenting the site and managing the finances and construction of the building, they have been nobly as- sisted by the Yadies’ auxiliary societies of Napa, Vallejo and Oakland, and by others. The naval clubhouse, built at the expenditure of so | Two heads ban more sum von, yu see, much effort and of $62,000 in money, contains every mod- ern equipment and comfort for a first-class club and will stand as a monument to the energy, philanthropy and goodness ‘of those who made its erection possible. The discovery has been made that a firm enjoying municipal patronage has been sending unfit supplies to the City and County Hospital. Let the investigators continue their inquiry with vigor and they will find, doubtless, that their discovery is neither new nor strange, A city that is too poor to clothe its naked or to feed its hungry is not very difficult to impose upon by any that care to try. The searchers have probably stumbled upon a very ordinary practice. T e The Vice President of Salvador, who has honored us with a visit, says that the country of which he is so distinguished a representative is strong, rich and | peaceful. While our Central American friends are in | possession of such a happy trinity of national virtues we may expect to lose practically everything that has made news of them diverting. A Central American re- | fellow-well-met public men public without a rebellion is an anomaly. —_— The sunny dispositioned correspondents in the East are again singing that song which with iteration and reiteration has become a weariness and a pain to the world’s ear. “The greatest battle of the war is impend- ing” is the burden of the tiresome refrain and still no day comes to fulfill the promise of yesterday. churia, for a while at least, has been a zone of peace if not of prosperity. 1] i o s T . T TALK OF THE TOWN TIMEAS - Quecr Things in the Mail. “Queer things come through the malls,” said Postoffice Superintendent Hull McClaughry. “Only a short time lago the clerks in the registry depart- | ment were obliged to get outside the building In order to air themselves. The odor was fleree, in fact terrific. Two of the boldest clerks plugged their nos- trils with cotton and made a search among the registered packages for the feuntain of perpetual stench. Well, { what do you think they found? It was a large package, rather heavy and soft and yielding. No; it waan'_t_uml{ur- ger cheese. That would be attar of roses compared with the real thing. It was a package from Arizona ad- dressed to Shanghai, China, and con- tained, two skunks! “No, they weren't alive, and hadn't been put into the package when they were allve. They had been Kkilled and | dressed and dried for an hour or so under the Arizona sun and then for- warded by a Chinese fatalist to a su- perstiticous friend in China. They be- came mellow on the road. Of course, we couldn’t throw the mephitic var- mints into the street. Under the rules we were obliged to send a written re- port to Washington and await instruc- tions. That consumed twelve days, and you may imagine the condition ef | the office until orders came to bury or| cremate the offensive package.” “Not bad, like the skunks, but odd.” sald A. M. Cox, superintendent of cily | | delivery, “was a package that I saw | going through the registered mail ad- dressed to Campbell Hot Springs. They | were three loaves of Italian bread, each three feet long, and the address was written in ink on each loaf. I remem- ber at another time a package of dried mushrooms from Italy that smelt very bad. I have seen also spag- hetti, macaroni and other provisions sert by registered post. “In Germany, where they have a parcels post system, anything that can get inside of the door of the mail car may be sent by mail, such as a cow or a goat. I heard of a man there who used to send twenty miles every day for his beefsteaks and get them by registered parcels post.” She Was Clever, He Young. She entered a California street car, which was crowded, and she was evi- dently bound out Pacific avenue way. The lady was a tactician. Living on the mountains overlooking the Presidio she had probably absorbed something of the military cleverness of the offi- cial quarters of the army post. She found a spare strap and hung on, her supple body swaying gently to the sidewise swing of the car. She looked at the occupants of the seats, but every man was deep in the columns of his morning paper. Noting a young man, a very young man, in front of her, she let her beautiful eyes rest on him. He blushed but kept his own gaze on the paper he was trying to read. Presently her handkerchief, a dainty creation of linen and lace, fluttered to the floor. Miss Tactician did not see it drop.I but the young man, the very young| man, did. Chivalry would not permit | him to read longer, and besides her smart appearance was working on his nerves. He arose and stooped for the handkerchief. Here was her opportunity, and she embraced it. While his back was turn- ed she slipped smoothly into his seat. “Thank you,” she murmured, as she tcok the handkerchief: “you are very kind.” He immediately jumped off the car, though it was blocks short of his desti- nation, for he had seen indications of smile on the faces of the observing passengers. pREDI RS The Norsk Nightirgale. At Vaterloo dar ban a scrap Gude many years ago: Napolyun he ban brave old chap And boss of whole French show. And Maester Vellington he say “Ay skol mak gude defense And mak dis Bonypart and Ney To look lak saxty cents.” Dey start to fight on Sunday morn And preacher say to Naj “Now, yust so sure sum yu&nn born Yu're going to fall in trap! Ef yu got any vork to du Yust chuse some oder day. But Nap say, “To the voods Mak dis har bugle play!™ Vhen Maester Vellington vake op He see a gude big hill Vith planty soldier men on top— Ay bet he get gude chill “Yerusalem!" he tal his men. “Dese French ban purty t'ick! Ay tenk by qvarter after tem Dey skol feel gude and sick!™ Den Yen'ral Blucher com along And loading op his gun; And dis mak t'engs look purty strong For Maester Vellington. vith yu! And Vellington he say “Yust keep yure Yerman gang with me And ve skol vinning day!” Den all his English soldiers scrap Vith guns so big sum trees; And Yermans fight vith lager tap De: And old Napolyun hide his face And yumping back to mines! Napolyun he feel purty bum And after vile he say. So vat could Frenchmen du? Dis har ban all the history vich Ay know 'bout Vaterloo. —Milwaukee Sentinel. Fished One Day Too Many. It was in the good old days of the “Sandy” Austin was the Tax Collector. “Sdndy” was one of those genial good. the open palm ready to grip that o honest, and dishonest, as might be, every voter who came his way. The Collector”; popularity, and AE B 'F i — p R — clal bond and draw his salary, the of- fice taking care of itself. But like the pitcher to the well, “Sandy” went one day too often. His indifference to the interest of the dear people caught hold of the voting popu- lation on this one occasion, and when “Sandy” returned he found that an- other man had been elected in his stead. To say the least of it, he was clear mad, up to both his eyes. The open palm was shut to all callers and so bad Gid he feel that he took to his bed. Later daylight shone into some crooked transactions confiected with the man- agement of the people’s money. “Sandy” never again threw a bait | to the mest sportive trout, and In addi- tion he left a warning to other candi- dates not to go fishing on election day. ‘4 Gallant Toastmaster. Major Thomas Ridgly was a surgeon atiached to General Grant's staff. It was after the surrender of Vicksburg. The Union forces had entered the city and much merry-making and enter- taining were going on. One night a dinner was in progress at which many Northern officers and a large number of Southern ladies were present. Many toasts had been proposed and drunk, all of them practically in hongr of the successes of the Union army, and the men responsible for them. Finally, cne of the Southern ladies, a great beauty, and noted for her intense partisan feeling for the South, arose and said: “Gentlemen, may I propose a toast? ‘With ratural gallantry, and a little trepidation. the ranking officer said, “Certainly.” “Well, ghen, gentlemen, I give you “The Soufthern Confederacy.” ™ It was an cmbarrassing situation. But with harily a moment’s hesitation one of the Northern officers relieved the tension. “Down with it, gentlemen,” he cried; and the glasses were drained without embarrassment and without disloyaity. —Liprincott’s Magazine. Lot Records of Mortality. The Bulletin of Chicago’s Health De- partment for the week ended’ June 11 says: Both New York and Chicago are breaking all records of lew mortality this season. At the close of office hours on June 11 a total of 1222 deaths from all causes had been reported in New York Clw—furnishing an annual rate of 16.6 per 1000 of its estimated mid- year population, 3,838,024 For the same period a total of 420 was reported in Chicago—an annual rate of 11.4 per 1000 of the 1932315 estimated as its mid-year population by the United States Census Bureau. The lowest pre- vious rate for Chicago was 12.1. In this city pulmonary tuberculosis is now the principal cause of death, the 63 report- ed being exactly 15 per cemt, or more than a sixth of the total, while pneu- monia has fallen to second place, with only 12.3 per cent, or an eighth the total deaths. In New York the diseass still holds the lead—142 deaths from pneumonia and 121 from pulmonary tu- berculosis.—American Medicine. Answers to Queries. SEA VOYAGE — Inexperience, Oak- land, Cal. If you want to go on a sea voyage and “dom’'t mind roughing it,” go along the city front in San Fran- cisco, discover some vessel that is to sail in the direction in which you want to go and make arrangements with the skipper. MURPHY CAMP HANGMAN—J. B. R., Conejo, Fresno, Cal. This corre- spondent wants to know the name of the one who acted as hangman at Mur- phys Camp, Calaveras County, in 1852 or 1853. The name does not appear in the published accounts of the vigilance committees of the State. PYGMIES—Reader, City. A history of “dwarfs or pygmies discovered by Du Chaillu in Africa between the years 1855-65 is to be found im his “Equatorial Africa” and the “Country of the Dwarfs.” These people meas- ure in height sabout 33 inches. The tallest discovered measured 52 inches. SIXTY-SIX—Player, City. law of the game of sixty-six says: “After the game is closed no more cards can be drawn from the talon and if the player who turned the trump down fails to make sixty-six, his opponent scores two points,” not three as B claims. MANGE—A. B. F, City. Mange in animals is & disease similar to the itch in the human being. resulting from the attack of minute mites, or acari, which burrow into the skim, especially if it be dirty or scruffy, cause much irrita- of which objects are effected by wash- daily with sulphur or mild mercurial ointment, or with a solution containiag four grains either of corrosive su