The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-06-26
July Magazines.
SCribner'S.


opens with a pocm-Kearney at Seven Pines
which is followed by u protusely illustrated
paper on san Francisco. The article take;
us all over the city and shows us whateyer i:
worth seeing. One ofthe most notable insti
tutlons of the Gate City is its restaurants, Of
which 1t has larger number IN proportion to
population than any other city il the world
They number between two and three hun
dred, and II IS safe to say that at least 10000
people take board at them. They are OF all
grades and pICcs-trom the Poodle Dog,
Martins, and the Maison Dorec, where a
meal costs from $3.50 to S20-down to the
Miners Restaurant, where it costs only forty
cents. Between these extremes are a large
number Of French, German, and Italian res.
taurants, where one may get royal breakfast
tor half dollar, n lunch for twenty-five cents,
anu dinner, including claret, for seventy five
cents, 4 Ia carte. A tendcrloin steak, and
there is no better beef in the world than here }
potatoes, bread and butter, and q cup of coffee
will cost fifty cents a lamb chop, potatoes,
bread and butter, and coffee twenty-five cents {;
salmon, bread and butter, and coffee twenty
five cents; an omelet or eggs boiled, fried or
scrambled, with coffee, and bread and butter,
thirty five cents. A grade lower down, BIZ:
in places clearly and entirely respectable,
one gets three dishes for twenty-five cents,
and may find quite decent meal for twenty
to thirty cents.
The cttmate Of the city is another very pc
culiar institution, which the native never
ceases to laud as the chiefest of blessings
while strangers are apt to objurgate it as the
most eXeCrablc on earth
At San Francisco we cry for blankets while
you at the East are swcltering in the dog. day
meats; we throw open our doors and windows
while you are covering beneath the sharp
stngs of winter Not that all days in sum
mer are cold, and all days IN winter warm;
bat the general rule is, that June, July and
August are detestable, and the rest of the
year uncquaed for loveliness of weather.
There are.no! only days but weeks, when the
skies are indescribably glorious. The Nile
Valley is not SO sweetly balmy, Southern
Italy not so rich in mellow splendor. The
golden sunshine permeates every PORE quick.
ems every pulse oflife. The<r has an indie
Enable sottncss and sweetness tonic quail
~ that braces the nerves to a joyous tension,
making the very sense of existence a delight
The contrast OF temperature between summer
and winter is less apparent than real. The
remarkable equabillty of the climate will APP
pear from the following: In June, 1874, the
highest thermometer was 81 deg, the lowest
50 deg; in January of the same year, the
highest was 80 deg, the lowest "a deg. In
December the range was between 60 and
% dogs; in August it was between IS and
60 dcgs
But perhaps the most curious of all the
institutions Of San Francisco, and that pre-
senting the most rcpulsive and contradictory
features is the Chinese quarter.
1t Is system of alleys and passages, laby.
rinthian III their sinuOsitics, into which the
sun never enters; where it is dark and dis
NAL even at MONDAY. A stranger attempt
ing to explore them, would be speedily and
hOpelessy lost Many of them seem mere
Sits in the TANKS of the streets-dirtyri vulets
flowing into the great stream OF life. Often
they have no cXit-termnating in a foul
court, "A dead wall, a gambling or opium den.
They literally swarm with life; Tor this hui
man hive is never at rest. Every dent and
angle-cvery nook and Granny in the wall
every foot of surface on the ground is ami
mate. The ultimate problem OF Monaghan
existence seems to be, how to ret the greatest
number of human beings into the least posi-
bic space They herd together like cattle in
their workshops, cating-housGs and places of
social resort. a lodging house represents an
almost solid mass OF hSman anatomy. The
authorities, some time since, found ii neces-
sary, for sanitary reasons, to pass an Ordin,
ance, prescribing five hundred cubic feet OF
air equal to a space eight feet square, to each
person in Chinese tenements; but such con-
tempt have these creatures for oxygen, that
they constantly cvade or ignore 1t. You
might suppose these sums would be breed
ING places Of pcSti.cnCc, but such docs not
seem 10 be the tact. No epedmic has VIC
lently ranged in the Chinese quarter When,
some years ago, the smallpox was carrying
OFT the Caucasian at the rate of nearly one
hundred . week, the Monaghan passed UNI
harmed. This remarkable exemption is due
partly TO the fact that all Cinnamon are inocu
lated in childhood, and that they pay more
strict regard 10 certain essential sanitary
laws Their bath Is part of their religion;
| So Is The toothbrush, both of which are Gaily
USED under all circumstances.
Cot Warnings article, "Fannic's Vacation"
is bright and racy, and profusely illustrated
Mr. y. i. johnson gives some more interest
ing lCco!lcctions of Charles Sumner; and
Mr., j. i. Drury with strong prediction in
is favor, is compelled to reject Darvinism.
nc III gus mat II utterly ldllN 10 account
for the incipicnt stages OF useful structures,
Many organs can only be useful when fully
developed. In their incipient stages they
mus; have been not only useless, but posi-
| lively disadvantageous, and hence could not
| have been developed through survival of the
| fittrst;
| That it does not harmonic with the co.
existence of closely similar structures of
! diverse origin;
! That there are grounds for thinking that
specific differences may be developed sud.
: denly instead of gradually;
/ That the opinion that species have definite,
though very different limits to their variable.
/ ", i still tenab.c;
! Taat certain fossil transitional forms are
absent which might have been expected To be
! present;
That some facts of geographical dis,ribu-
tion supplement other difficulties;
That the objection drawn from the physio-
logical difference betweea species" aud
races" still exists uurefuted: