Omaha daily bee., 1888-11-04
THE VINES OF CALIFORNIA.
The Glowing Prospects of Her
, "a. Great Industry. -" "a.
FRlsco's SPLENDID BREAKFASTS
Some Choice Railroad JuRglery-Do.
ings OF the Southern Pacific-Its
Many Branches-lts Blanket
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San Francisco Letter.

console yourselves by having gorgeous
breakfasts of pork teuderloins and buck
wheat cakes. The time has been when
/ liked such fare as well as any one,
but long residence in California has
given me higher notions of food. A
San Francisco breakfast at the present
time is a thing to rejoice over, and 1T is
no small delight to remember that the
richest men Of the east cannot fare as
we'll as we. In the first place VIZ begin
with prawns and bread and butter, and
with a glass of Riesling white wine.
Then we have broiled young salmon, or
as we call them, chicken salmon, and
they have to be eaten to be appreciated.
/ have remarked that eastern people OF
means when they COM here and keep
house always buy the largest salmon
they can get. don't see the reason for
this, for the large fish are very cloying
and the meat is difficult to digest, be-
u of the fat. After the
fish We have mutton outlets, or
something of that sort, for, to tell the
truth, between the microscopists who
are finding anthrax microbes in all the
beef, and the newspaper revelations OF
the Chinese meat shops, most mems
stomachs are rather turned from beef
and pork. With the meat we take zin-
fandel, which is our claret. After the
outlets we have white muscat grapes,
whose delicious flavor cannot be de-
scribed by words. To tell the truth. l
have sometimes made my entire break
fast on them and bread with plentiful
libations of some white wine like
Golden Chasselas, or Riesling, or Lee
francs white wine from San Jose. The
end of the breakfast is a cup of fine tea
in the Japanese style, without milk or
sugar. After a man has concealed
these dishes below his vest, he may feel
that he has not lived in vain.
THE END OF THE CLOCK GAME.
1t may be remembered by the readers
of THE BEE that the clock game was
playing were arrested. 1t was ar
ranged that they should all be released
upon putting up bail, and that n of
the prOprietors OF the game should be
tried for violation of the ordinance, as n
test case. This was done, and he was
found guilty and fined 800. The cases
against the players were n~Ol-proSsed,
and then the fun began. Almost all of
the noble 300 Spartans who had been
arrested had given fictitious names, and
had forgotten them. When they came
to get their bail money they applied to
the clerk under their true names, and
| the official, OF course, was compelled to
refuse them. He said: II
have not the slightest doubt
| that what you say is true.
but l cannot possibly act upon it. Can't
you remember the name you gave?"
| Some of the victims sat down and tried
back successfully in the recesses of their
memories; others walked up and down
in some sequestered street ear Russian
! hill and fished and fished in the lake of
| their ~recollections without getting a
bite; others made affidavit that they
had been arrested and had given bail
under fictitious names and had forgot
ten them, and having duly sworn to
teese facts before a notary, presented
the paper in triumph and got back their
five double eagles. 1t was days and days
before the money returned to its legiti-
mate ownersa and there are still seven
teen balls that nave not been called for.
EXISTS.
The recent discovery of Il Chinese
leper in Newark, N. j., must, l should
imagine, compel eastern men to share
our convictions with regard to the Chi
nese. American physicians are awak-
ening to the terrible truth that leprosy
is not a fiction born Of mad antipathies
and race p~ratudices, but a reality, a fear
full reality. A New York physician, be-
longing to Bellevue hospital, heard Of a
cas- in Mott street, which is the Chi
nese headquarters in New York, and he
e~ndeavored to see the nan 30 that he
might study the symptoms. He learned
through an interpreter to the Tombs the
number of the house, but he could. not
penetrate to the room where the suf-
ferer was kept concealed, for two high
binders stood on the stairs each with
an ugly broad knife in his hand and
threatened to chop off his head. The
Chinese do not believe that leprOsy is
contagious, and | learned from a Chinese
doctor, who was a manOf some science
that it was considered to be q kind of
scrofula, only very terrible. But the
belief in the middle ages was that it
was contagious and there are whispers
in San Francisco of some young Ameri-
cans who became victims through hit.
the pipe and making the acquaintance
certain part of Dupont street. There
have been mysterious disappearance
which never could be accounted for, and
the idea prevails that those whit
were convinced of their leprosy went of
and committed suicide in lonely places
There are along the coast range thou
sands of places where the %chapparal is
80 thick that if a man forced his way tt
a certain distance from the trail anC
blew his brains out his body would no
ven be found by the birds hat prey
upon the dead. .'
WE WILL CONQUER THE EARTH.
California is making gigantic strides
in the culture Of the grape, both fol-
wine making and for ~raisins. Arpat
Harazthy, the president OF the associa
tion OF Grape Growers, made a state
ment ~recenely at a meeting of repre-
sentative viticulturists which ought I,
be copied In every American paper
He said that there was at present al
area of $50 900 acres of vines In cultiva
ton, and that the vineyard products il
. table grapes, ~raisins, wines and brand
les would, in less than three years
give an annual total OF SIC, 000, 600. II,
claimed that there would be 10000 ton
Of table grapes, 1900, 900 boxes Of rails
ms, $4,000, O00 gallons Of wine. an,
1900, 600 gallons OF brandy. .Thes
, are not the figures OF to-day, bu
they are based upon the land unde
vine culture to-day. In three year
: time there can be no doubt that Their
will be more land devoted I O Crap
growing, particularly in the south
4 where a specially is made of ~raisins
II mi - A.