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The morning call., 1890-11-21
Thomas Pos. Elsc,inn.

George II. Thomas Post, g. A. R., will
hold its annual meeting on the first T uesday
in December, for the purpose of electing
officers for the ensuing year, when the So
called Australian ballot system will be
used. Polls will open at A P. NJ. and con-
tinue omen to "a p NJ
The morning call., 1890-11-21

In the record Of real estate published In
all the papers yesterday was the announce
ment that John I. Carey had disposed of a
certain piece of property to William Kreling.
The transfer was from Margaret, and not
John T., Carey to Kreling.
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Bishon HeId IN Answer.

Thomas A. Bishop. the deck-hand of the
Walla Walla who was captured by Inspector
Shepston while in the act of smuggling ashore
four 5-tael boxes of prepared opium from
the steamship Wednesday morning, was ex-
mined yesterday before Commissioner
Sawyer and held to answer before the Grand
Jurv in 005O hail
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Statesmen Shake,

The Republican members-elect OF the San
Francisco delegation to the next Legislature
held meeting last evening In the Nucleus
Building. The object of the meeting was to
enable the statesmen to become better ac-
quainted.
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One Year Old.

The painters and decorators have COM
pleted nearly all arrangements for their first
annual ball, to be held in Odd Fellows Hall
on December 9th next. The mem bership of
their union was increased by five limitations
last night,
The morning call., 1890-11-21

Carpenters and Joiners' Union, No. TOT.
increased its membership by three initia-
tions last night. The union is in prosper
GUS condition and all its members are en-
ntoyaH
The morning call., 1890-11-21

Money saved is money made. Remember Saliva
ton OIL the great pain cure. only 25 cents.
Why use all the herbs, stews, etc.?-Dr. Bulls
Cough Syrup cures coughs and colds.
The morning call., 1890-11-21

An English tourist in this country created
surprise, as well as amusement, when he
asked, upon paying his fare: Are any
refreshments included i'm these tickets ?"
The morning call., 1890-11-21
GOOD NEWS FOR THE BLIND

SIGHT RESTORED TO THOSE PRONOUNCED
BLIND FOR YEARS.
DIR. LA CHANGES New System of
Treatment for the removal of Cataract. In
fiammation, Defective Vision and all Dis
eases of the Eye trithout Operation or Pain,
treatment is simple and safe in its nature,
beneficial in its effects. The patient is SUBJ
mitted to no pain; surgical operation of
every kind and its attendant danger is to-
tally avoided. DR. LA GRANGE may be
consulted daily from Ii till 8 at
6O6 Van Ness Avenue,
Near Ellis Street, San Francisco, Cal.
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Cheeseman's Specific Mixture.

with this remedy persons can cure themselves
without exposure, change OF Diet change
in application to business. The medicine cUntaius
nothing that Is OF the least injury to the constitu-
tiOn. Ask your druggist for IT, Price 81 bottle
je2O ly FrTu
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A Pet RhiuocerOs.

The most unique pct-rivaling even
the famous elephant Jumbo, which was
the delight of all the children in Eng.
land and the United States-is that pos.
scssed by some Sipghalese children. 1t
is nothing more or less than an immense
rhinoceros, with great plates of tough,
thick hide like some armored ship. He
is lust such fierce fellow as has often
killed scores of daring hunters who have
penetrated the juugles. The big fellow,
however, is as gentle as Mary's little
lamb. Through some mysterious kind.
ness bis rough nature was subdued and
he permits the greatest familiarities.
Little dark-skinned children play tag
over his big back or squirt swcetened
juice into his capacious mouth without
causing anything but a gran1 to issue
irom his Notwithstanding mouth
New York Journal.
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lndcntcd with fJords, or bays, ana us
area is II, 900 square miles, OF about the
size of your State of Pennsylvania.
"The natural scenery.of Iceland is the
grandest and most appalling to be found
in the world. In the interior are vast
valleys, deep abyses formed of extinct
craters, plains of brimstone, ,honeycombed
rock and immense fields of lava which
have filled the beds Of lakes and trans
formed fertile dales into stony deserts.
These tracts arc thousands of square
miles in extent, utterly destitute of life,
and the fearful silencc-of these barrens
is only broken by the Kissing of hundreds
OF thousands of hot springs and the con-
slant subterranean thunder of smoking
volcanoes. The whole surface of Iceland
bears the traces of fearful volcanic erup-
tions, and the most appalling of calamities
from its fiery monsters are liable to be
reported to us at any time.
"Hecla, which stands isolated in the
centre of the island, and visible from the
sea on clear days, is 500 feet in hight,
with circumference of twenty-five
miles. 1t is we'll known to you as one
the three great volcanoes of Europe, the
others being IEtna and Vesuvius. But
Hecla is by no means the most furious
On our island, although IT has crupted
thirteen times in the past century. Other
spasmodic volcanoes are the destructive
Skaptar. .jokul, Oraefa, Krabla, Katlugia
and the Hofs. Each of these latter named
mounts have been the centres Of terrible
eruptions. They are known to us as
slumbering volcanoes, and for tina treason
arc all the more dangerous, rs men are
tempted into fanciful security around
their basis, and the character of their
frowning neighbor is only proclaimed by
a sudden outburst of floods of hot water,
ice, stones and mud which sweeps mau
and his property to destruction.
Tho lava field of Brideamark. twenty
miles long, fifteen miles wide and four
hundred feet high, occupies what was
once fertile aud thickly inhabited
plain.
about 1853 occurred the worst erup-
tion IN the modern history of Iceland.
For years wide tissure on the side of
Skaptar had emitted flames and smoke,
but there was no realization of the pent-
up fury which was contained. The win
ter had been mild cnc-a sure iudica-
ton of an approaching eruption-but the
people who inhabited the fatal dales and
plains around did not heed the warning.
In one day, without any premonition,
Skaptar seemed to splitand from it issued
stream Of lava which flowed eighty
miles to the sea, filling lakes aud rivers
and sweeping everything before it. twas
mile wide when it was confined to the
dale of Skaptar, and 500 feet deep, but
when the plains were reached it would
spread out in vast seus. This stream was
three years in the process of cooling. At
the same time the voEano emitted such
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ICELAND, =
THE NORTHERN REPUBLIC
GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED.
Geysers, Destructive Volcanoes. Mud
Lakes and Barrens of the Islands
domestic and Commercial
Products of thp Land.

1t is an interesting fact that Detroit in
cludes in its population an illustrious
representative of the sturdy race of Morse
men who people the faroff Island of Ice
land. His name is Ludwig Won Dolcke,
who is not only the hardy and stalwart
man who would be expected to come
from such bleak and rugged country,
but an unusual accomplished linguist, a
close student of affairs md events around
him, "a physician of estabI Iished reputation,
a rare entertainer and oman of faultless
manners.
"Therc is no county," said DR.. Won
Dolcke to a representative of the Free
Press, $50 little understood and so gen.
orally misunderstood as the Republic of
Iceland. 1t is far from the regular beaten
paths of civilization, ED being situated,
according to popular opinion, within the
region of eternal snow and ice, has been,
until within comparatively short time,
unattractive to all bat the most venture
some of travellers. it is a large island
geographically belonging to the western
hemisphere, situated $50 miles north and
west IF Norway, 500 miles north of
Scotland and 100 miles east of Green
land, 1t is OF volcanic origin, is irregu-
lar in shape, the coast being frequently
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under President Cleveland, was q good
one. BY the way, it is not generally
understood that the 1slcndcktunga or
'Noresmaal is the oldest of any language
in all Europe. 1t is owing, perhaps, to
to the fact that it has had less friction
with other tongues that it is so remark
ably we'll preserved. The people value
knowledge and seek after it.
sTherc are but two divisions Of people
thcrc-!hc Normans, or FREEDMEN, and
the Bolesmen or Doender. The Fried
men are all members of tie nobility, II
vou will call it so, and members of this
class believe that they have no equals on
tho earth except Americans. Anyone OF
this class is placed within reach of the
highest honors of government, and they
believe that no people who do not enjoy
tho same possibilities arc their equals.
The Friedluen dc no manual labor, and
either own land or else belong to one OF
Jna gcntlcr professions, such as ministers,
PHYSICIANS and musicians. A very few
merchants and no tradesmen belong to
the upper caste.
But Bodesmea are in no sense slaves.
They are paid according to law, and if
they work land they give their respec.
tive master or mistress one-tenth ef their
laAor. They are strictly free and enjoy
freedom of religion, freedom of speech
and absolute personal liberty. By per.
sonal liberty, however, we do not include
the right to move from one place to an
other without permission, because if they
become Impoverished away from home
they would become a burden upon a
strange community. A child, until it is
seventeen years of age, cannot leave
home. There is an absolute equality
among all members of the Friedman and
the same may be said of the Boendcr.
The latter are very humble to their supe-
riors, and are profuse in humility when
they salute masters or mistresses.
"There is but one city in Iceland
which is worthy of the name. That, rs
you we'll know, is Reykjavick or Reikia-
vik. You must not laugh when T tell
you that it contains but 10000 inhabit-
ants. Remember that it has very long
name. All other collections of houses
and inhabitants are known as byers or
havns, such as Friederikhavn, Christians
havn, Sundsvalleshavn. The familiar
Icelandic appellat;on for villages is
kjodstaadt, or place of merchants.
"The domestic animals of Iceland are
the reindeer, the most useful of our servile
animals. 1t was introduced in Iceland
about 800 years ago and is used for all
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kinds of work. 1t is of an affectionate
nature aud easily trained to the rein and
can be gnidcd By words; few scrub
cattle; some pigs; curious long haired
dimunitive staturcl ponies who seem to
live and thrive with nothing to cat, and
many sheep. Mutton is the staff Of life
in Iceland, an its wool, which is very
abundant ho at times controlled the
European VT oil market.
"The commercial products of Iceland
are fish, wool, mutton, moss, creosote,
pumicestone, sulphur, salt, down horses
aud wild birds eggs. The domestic pro-
ducts are rye, barley, oats, buckwheat.
potatoes, turnips, cabbage, kalc, beets,
various other varieties of garden truck,
apples, plums.a and berries, the latter in
enormous quantities, particularly whortlc-
berries and % eAnberries, cherries, straw
berries and sloes. Pears are very few and
small, and We rarely, see a peach, lemon
or orange, and those which are impor$d
to us are considered great luxurles.
Grapes, though not native to the island,
are grown, but never ripen, and are pre-
served in the green shape.
"One peculiar feature about Iceland is
that such a thing as native wood fuel is
unknown. But We are not entirely with
out wood for fuel and for building pur,
poses. Our wood supply was to me,
when was boy, a matter OF much
wondermcnt, and since, have reached
mans estate l am still puzzled about it.
1t comes to US as driftwood, but where
it first enters the great and ever-flowing
ocean stream, which is discharged below
Iceland, shall never know. The guam
tity of driftwood upon the southern
shore of Iceland is so extensive that
patrols are constantly kept along the
shore to recover it. Some of the timbers
are in shape of tree-trunks broken off by
the winds, some sawed of by the hands
of men, some hewed into beams, some,
which by its shape, once formed por-
ton of the hull of vessel, all floating
up up to furnish a people with wood,
who would otherwise be obliged to de-
pend upon turf and brown coal for fuel.
This is curious fact and ono / do not
remember OF ever reading about in the
numerous descriptions of Iceland.
lone of the most extensive industries
of our people, and certainly the most
historical, is that of the catching and pre-
serving of fish. Of these we have many
varieties, the more important of which
caught in salt water ore the clip.fsk,
roed-spactter, fuuder, torsk, herring and
tunger, while our short, furious and icy
cold rivers abound with laxsan, salmon.
eels, calp, pikrellcn and many other un-
important varieties. There are many
ways of catching fish, some of the meth.
ods being peculiar to Iceland. We. use
nets, hooks, spears aud harpoons andalso
huge baskets, woven Of water. willows,
of fat and round structure which fish
swim into, but by the pecr'iar mesh, are
caught by sharpened sticks and held cap
tive. One of our methods for catching
fish will sound very improbable to you.
In fact, if you discredit many of the fish
stories related by your townsmen here, I
do not know how you will characterize
this story. An ordinary boat, about
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Sold His Whisker to q COvetOus Friend.

There is leather-dealer, in small
city iu New York, who is noted for the
length and luxuriance of his side-whis-
kers, says the Brockton Shoe. At one
time, all acquaintance said: "Lesher-
good, 1 would give 500 for your whis-
kers." Within an hour, the acquaintance
was approached by a man whom he
failed to recognize, but who called him
by name and thrust into his hand pack
age neatly tied in white paper. Some
thing familiar in the strangers voice
reused his curiosity, but he was told to
open the package. He did so, and found
mass of brown, criukly hair, and with
it bill which read as follows "--
to Austin Lethergood, DR.. To
one pair whiskers, as per agreement,
$50" One look at the smooth-faced
stranger was enough. 1t was the leather
mau. The acquaintance pulled out his
wallet and handed him q "XX."
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spout sixteen feet in diameter more than
$50 feet in the air.

spout sixteen feet in diameter more than
$50 feet in the air.
"Strangc as you may regard 1t Ice
land actually has summer. 1t COM
mences in June, though the days grow
longer from the early part of May.
"From the 1st, I'd or Sd of June to the
10th, 18th or 18th of July we have sum-
mer indeed, and the sun shines day and
night. Then in the winter, which lasts
from October to April, from the early
part of December to within ten days of
New Years we are never visited by the
sun, and if it was not for the 'nord
hyset' (aurora borealis), which by some
strange dispeDsation of Providence con-
stanLly illuminates the northern sky, we
would he in perpetual darkness. We
have gentle rains in summer and heavy
falls of snow in winter. The snowfall is
rarely less than nine to eleven foot; leVei-
ing all small hQusean-.a-r-nuerlng sieiSn'
ing BY your snow vehicles in Detroit
perilous undertaking. Our sleighs arc
made very low with broad runners, and
the box is canoe-sbaped to form runner
if the crust is broken through. Our
wheeled vehicles are also made low, with
a similar box, so that in the spring or fall
the wheels permit of transportation over
bare ground, and the box forms runner
for snow drifts.
"The temperturc of Iceland varies
greatly with different seasons, owing en-
tirely to certain conditions. In summer
we may say that the average temperature
is sixty=seven degrees, and the extreme
ninety degrees, while zero would, per-
hsps, be mild estimate for winter. The
cold is often so intense that the mercury
in the thermometers congeals. have
seen by spirit thermometer registry
Of 127 degrees below zero, which is rath-
er chilly even for Iceland
"No great dependence can be placed
upon Iceland's summers. The Gulf
Stream lends its balming influence to the
action of the sun, but it may also be the
very cause of many of our cold summers.
Iccbergs float down west of Iceland in
summer and striking the west branch of
the Gulf Stream, and also the prevailing
southwest winds, are brought back to
our southerly shore and left stranded
there to keep us company, frequently
during the entire summer. They are
very unwecome visitors and have caused
us many famines on account OF their
chilling influence upon our crops.
"How our people have advanced IN
the face of such fearful elemental foes as
those which constantly confront us is a
marvel to me. Do not think me ex-
travagant in my assertion that the Ice
landic people are distinguished for their
intelligence, and there is scarcely person
upon our isle who cannot rad and write
the language. Iceland now lays claim to
5000 population, this marking
steady decrease during the past eighty
years, caused by psstileuce (small-pox),
famine, the fiery upheavas Of nature and
an emigration which is constantly upon
the increase. In my opinion, if you will
allow me to say so now, these disturbing
elements in my native country will even
tually depopulate it. The proposition to
transplant Icelanders in Alaska, formed
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Bismarck's Drinking Capacity.

Bismark's promotion to the grade OF
Honorary Colonel of the Seventh Regi-
ment of Cuirassiers gave currency to a
story far too interesting to be over
looked.
Following the custom in vogue IN the
German army, as soon. as he was pro-
NOTED he went to inspect his regiment,
and the officers invited him to the ira
ditional ''dinner of welcome,n q meal
which usually wound up with an enor-
nous consumption of liquor.
The officers of the regiment, every one
of them giants, all promised themselves
q rare bit of fun at the figure their new
Colonel would cut on receiving the. huge
tankard filed with champagne, which had
to Be drained to the last drop to the
health of the regiment. They said among
themselves that Bismarck, diplomatist
and ID military man, would never be
able to accomplish the fear. "And we, I"
they added, twill show him how to do
it."
But they reckoDed without their host.
When the cloth WAS removed the SER
wants brought the glasses, several bottles
of champagne, and the said tanksrd,
WHICH they filled to the brim and placed
with some ceremony in front of the illus
trious guest.
Put on his guard by some roguish
glances which he saw directed toward
him, Bismarck began to see that he
would have to maintain the reputation
which he gained as student. Rising,
then, at a given moment, he proposed a
warm toast to the welfare of the regi-
ment, and-presto !-hc emptied the
taukard at single draught, although it
contained almost as much as two bottles
of champagne. He then resumed his
seat and began conversing in the quietest
possible manner, as if nothing out of the
ordinary way had happened. But his
hosts could not take their eyes off him
now, for he had grown considerably in
their estimation. What was their aston
ishment, a few minutes later, when, in
the calmest voice, he requested that his
little Jug might be reflled. The excite
ment increased to delirium!-Ms'0 YORK.
Tribune.
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twenty feet long, is provided on one side
with wide board which stands at about
quarter angle from the edge of the boat
into and some distance beneath the
water, reaching the entire length of the
boat. This board is made very smooth,
polished, and is sometimes painted white.
In the night the boat is rowed slowly in
such direction that the northern light
shines and glistens upon the board. Fish
jump for the board and shoot over its
edge into the boat, sometimes filling it to
its utmost capacity in one night. This
fishing apparatus is called by us a frucjn
baad.
"The familiar saying may be true that
Lucifer requested permission to try his
hands at creation, and that from the
fragments left by the antagonism of fire
and water, the unused and useless rem
nants of the volcano and earthquake he
made Iceland, but I will guarantee that
be is very much disappointed over the
civil condition of the people. There is
not lawyer in the whole land and no
need of them. Every one there is his
own law-maker and law-giver. The
general code of law and liberty is so
simple that it can be readily compre-
hended and understood by less cultivated
people than the Iceandcrs are.
"Theft is almost unknown upon the
island, but in case We have thief coun-
Gil is held by some chosen men, either
the folketing or landting. personally
know of but two instances of this kind.
One man-an inborn Misunderstanding a
very severe winter, while sick and dis
ablcd by broken arm from work, had
stolen four sheep. He was tried, as YOU
term it, by n jury of thirteen mcn,
and it was found that he acted to
save his poor family from starva-
ton. 1t was decided that he acted from
necessity, and he was furnished with
food, fuel and medicine as punishment.
The other case was that of stranger, a
shoemaker by trade, who had ample
means of subsistence, but had stolen
seventeen or eighteen sheep. He was
tried and found guilty OF enriching him
self with the property of Others aud WAS
sentenced to pay for the sheep-to pay
200 crowns into a fund for charitable
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VOL.sXLIX.
THE BOOK OF LIFE.

Our lii IS q book-a different pag,
is turned each day;
The mysteries the next coacaals
None dare to say.
The binding of Life's book is Hopa
With Faith enwove;
The golden rim about its leaves
Is human love.
And each event, each deei of ours,
Itself prints there
In blurred type, Sin; while virtue stamps
In letters clear.
Each noble act performed is mariel
in blue and gold;
But all unjust or wicked deais
Black lines enfold.
A bright, illuminated scroll
Adorns each page
Foreach temptation We withstand
From youth TO age.
Our daysits numbered folios are,
And Death its clasp.
The power to MAZE this volume fair
Is in our grasp.
So live that when al. work is dono
And laid aside,
Our children's eyes may look upon
The Beck with pride,
Then, void Of shame or haunting fear,
1t may be read,
When, happy, we may rest among
The honored dead.
Ice C. E0I'0y. in Ladies Home Journal
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clouds Of dut and ashes that it spread to
the Azores md even to Scotland, where
the snow vas blackened in one night.
There werc1200 lives lost and hundreds
of thousan's of ponies, cattle and sheep
killed in It's eruption.
"Towall the centre of the island are
cncounterd hot springs, boiling mud
lakes audsulphurous jets of steam, which
indicate lainiy the molten condition of
the eartl underneath. In this district
are the treat geyscr and the marvellous
Strake geyser, noted as among the
wonderof the world. Like their COM
panions in the Rocky Mountains, they
are spanodic in their action. When in
process of eruption the Great geyser
throwsa column of hot water from