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The morning call., 1891-12-25
HE WAS ACCOMMODATED.
A Young Commercial Traveller who Was
Anxious to Play.

Young Comm rcial Traveller who Was
Anxious to Play.
young man wearing a red tie and carry
Ing light overcoat on his arm sauntered
over TO group of men who were watching
game in al Atlantic hotel billiard-room the
other night, and addressing stout, pleasant
faced blonde gentleman asked him if he
would play. Charley Parker, the party ad-
dressed, said he did not care to play, but
one OF his friends might, and turning to one
Of them remarked: Jake, you obige him."
A llthe-bullt man got up leiSu rely. and,
picking out cue, inquired what it should
be, three or four ball game.
"Oh, three balls" answered the drummer
The latter played a very fair game, while
his opponent did not get along we'll. He
seemed little awkward and did not make
more than two or three at run. The tray-
cling man soon had long string of buttons
ana patronlzlngly offered to discount his
opponent in the next game. At that time
the score stood 90 TO s, aud it looked as
though the small, quiet player was stuck.
On the next inning Jake" raised his cue
deity and brought it down with quick
stroke, making raZzle-daZZle masse. His
cue-ball curved around the red, caromed on
the white, drew back to the third aud
counted The drummer looked surprised.
His opponent was already making masse
as startling as the first At this the drum
mer t"itched neryOusly at the glove fingers
in his coat-pocket. Jake" quickly made
third brilliant masse shot.
without word the stranger walked over
the rack and put up his cue.
BY this time the table was surrounded
Dy spectators, and they yelled.
who are your" the stranger asked.
MY name is Schaefer-Jake Schaefer,"
was the reply.
ploh on the young man seeking a game
Chicago News.
The morning call., 1891-12-25
SPORTING NOTES.
Jackson Going to Kansas-Coursing at
Ocean View.

Jackson Going to kansas-COursing at
Ocean View.
1t looks now as if the Olympic Club will
not have a boxing exhibition for some time.
1t was the intention of the club to give n
istc entertainment in January, but the
athletes have intimated that unless prizes
OF some value, such as gold Watches chains,
etc. will be given, they will not participate
in any exhibition. The club has refused to
acquiesce to the boxers requests and there
the matter rests.
Peter jackson, the colored heavyweight
champion of Australia, who is matched to
fight Frank Savin In June, gave his friends
grand farewell toast at his place of bust
ness on Turk street last evening. jackson
Will take his departure from this city next
week and will give his first entertainment
al Kansas City.
The friends Of Professor Jim Corhett have
become Disguised with the latter's way of
doing business in the East Several Olympic
Club men were heard to remark last night
that it would give them much pleasure to
learn Of Mitchell putting the pretty boy out
in punch.
The betting on the Cardiff and McAulife
fight has begun. Several wagers have been
laid at two 10 one, with Cardiff on the short
end. 1t is reasonable TO suppose that the
bets Will remain at the above figures until
the day of the contest.
The athletic members of the Olympic Club
interested In football will meet in thelgym-
nsslum of the club on Sunday morning for
the purpose Of forming football club. AS
several attempts to form q club met with de-
feat last season, it IS thought that similar
result Will follow this year.
The amateur wrestling tournament which
will begin on January 18th promises to be a
very interesting athletic event. Professor
MelhllDg states that tile contests will sur
in ha f.l-f Ham
thing that has been witnessed in this city in
amateur VT sting.
Mccain, the pugiist, who is matched to
fight hemmick next month, Wen; into train
Ing yesterday at Barney Farey's. He has
number OF friends in his city who Will
back him heavily against his clever oppo-
ueut
The officers of the Alameda Tennis Club
are: President, A. Waterman; Vice Prcsi-
dent, II. NJ. LtndSberger; Secretary
urrr. 5. NJ. Has EFT; Drectors-E. \.
Younger and G. F. Newell. The club is now
one II the most prosperous organizations in
the county.
The Pacific Athletic Club has made no ar
rangements for a match in January, and
the members are becoming anxious. PrOha-
bly, the cold weather is against the Pacifics.
he drawing Tor coursing meeting on
Sunday at Ocean View was held last even
ing, and resulted as follows:
P. kerrigan's Fanny VS.. William Murphy's
Last Spike.
Ed Canavan's Blanco vs.. William Perry's Coo
ma>sle.
- William Creamer's Lookout vs.. j. Hunters
ChicOpce.
E. Canavau's Ben o'or VS.. William Creamer's
Blue JACKET
j MVttts Fairy Queen vs. F. Byrne's My Min
ME.
I. Walton's Fly vs.. j. Hunters Maybe.
j. ONelrs Mayhower VS.. IL. Vaughdns Dash
George A. WatSon's Earl Of Wiclow VS.. j
Cranston's Ceverness.
Michael Halpn will be Judge; John
Grace Jr., slipper; A. Merrell, flag steward,
and MllIiam Halnln Gin steM n I'd
The morning call., 1891-12-25
"a LA BELLE AFRICAINE.v

How Nurse In n Russian Family Received
the YouAs Masters American WHO.
Shortly after my marriage" said Count
Eugene de Mitkiewicz to a circle of listeners
the other evening, " | went with nv wife IN
visit my home in Russia. Now. Won must
know that in certain parts of Russia the
lower classes know as little about this coun
try as they do about the moon. Particular v
was this so Mt the time of which | sneak.
Our family had at that time nnrse in
their employ who came from somewhere
east OF Moscow. She had been told that far
away America was peopled with coiored
folks, and naturally. when she heard In at
the young master was returning home with
an American wife, she concluded that 7 had
married cOlored woman.
This nurse. among her other ACCOMPLISH
ments, spoke French fuently. She was an
imaginative creature and something of n
poetess. She felt that 1t would be incnm-
bent on her to do something toward vel
coming my wife to our home. Aceordinclv
she wrote poem In her honor.
This poem, tastefully decorated with
black ribbons, was handed to me nnon nv
arrival. And what do you think was tho
title OF the poemP Simply this:
"a la Belle Africaine.'
That was staggerer, you NAV bs spra
MUTUAL explanations, however. foIioyed
and the nurse during our stav was aver 81
my wife's side ready to paw her homaaa -
New York Herald.
The morning call., 1891-12-25
THE GAME FAILED.
The Would-Be victimizer Compelled t.
Hand Over the Coin.

The Would-Be Victimizer Compelled to
Hand Over the Coin.
shabbily dressed man sat in the renot-
est corner Of Madison-street restaurant
eating meal which made the walters eyes
bulge. 1t was place where 90 cents W ould
buy an all-r0und dinner, and a moderate
lunch could be secured for 80 cents, but that
fellow had ordered IS worth and complained
of being hungry when it was gone. At last,
however, he picked up his check and made
his way to the cashiers desk, which was in
an adjoining room. Instead OF putting down
the red check for So, he pulled blue one for
20 cents out of his pocket and panked down
two dimes on it.
THAT doesn't CO." said the cashier. Red
checks to-day, blue ones yesterday and green
Tomorrow"
"Do you accuse me of irving to beat
you?"
Certainly not. 1 have no doubt the
waiter gave you the wrong sort of check
I'll call him and have the mistake cor
rected."
Hold onl It's all right 1 thought 1
could do it, but l see | can't Here you
are, 81"
Where did you get that blue check?"
Il had cup of cUffee and sand wch
here yesterday; asked for check twice,
and put one OF them in my pocket. Cute,
wasn't it?"
Very" dryly said the restaurant man;
but do you know what the penalty for that
sort of thing ?"
"Oh, twas only joke, you know"
pleaded the customer.
That's so? Wen see if jury can ap-
preciate it," answered the cashier, stepping
to the telephone.
Please don't do that" whined the fell
low, thoroughly frightened. "Pll never do
it again."
Il don't care whether you do or not. Put
down $50 and I'll let you go"
Il havn't got that much. Pm poor ian,
and"
"HOw mnsh have you got?"
.'Only 81"
Then give me that and skip out"
The wOuld-be victimizer did SO, and hur-
riedly left the place.-Chcago Herald.
The morning call., 1891-12-25
WITHOUT WIRES.
The Wonderful Electrical Possibilities Of The
Future Discussed.

Last night at the third annual dinner Of
the Institute of Electrical Engineers. Pro-
fessor William Crookes, in proposing the
toast of the evening, Electricity in Rela-
tion to Science said :hat they had happily
outgrown the preposterOus notion that re-
search in any department of science was
mere waste of time. Tie facts Of electro
lyslS were by no means either completely
detected or cO-ordinate1. They pointed to
the great probability that electricity was
atomic, that an electrical atom was as
definite quantity as chemical atom.
1t has been computed that In a single cubic
foot of the ether which filled all space there
were locked up 10000 foot tons of energy
which had hitherto escaped notice. To un-
lock this boundleSs store and subdue il to
the service of man was task which awaited
the electrician of the future. The latest
researches gave well founded hopes that this
vast storehouse of power was not hopelessly
inaccessible.
Up to the present time they had been ac-
ouainted with only very narrow range of
ethereal vibrations, but the researches Of
Lodge in England and Hertz in Germany
gave an almost Infinite range of ethereal
vibrations of electrical rays from wave
lengths of thousands of miles down to
lew feet. Here was unfolded a new ana
astonishing universe-one which is hard to
conceive should be powerless to transmit
and impart intelligence.
Professor Nikola Tesla had lighted room
by producing in it such a condition that an
Illuminating appliance might be placed any
where and lighted without being electrically
connected with anything. He suspended
two sheets of metal, each connected with
one of the terminals of the coil.
If an exhausted tube was carried any,
where between these sheets, and placed any
where, 1t remained always luminous. The
extent to which this method of illumination
might be practically available experiment
alone could decide. From Tesla's researches
it appeared that true fame could now be
produced without chemical aid. The slower
vibrations TO which he (the speaker had re-
ferred revealed the bewildering possibility
of telegraphy without wires, posts, cables or
any of our present costly appliances. It
was vain to attempt to picture the marves
OF the future. Progress, as Dean Swift OBJ
served, might be too much for endurance.
derS therenf-Pau Mall C .zntta
The morning call., 1891-12-25
oBITU AIRY.
Hon. FRANK HEREFORD.

Ex-Uuited States Senator Frank Here
ford died in Monroe County, w. Va, of
pneumonia, yesterday. He was born In
Fauquler County, Va, July 4, 1925. He re-
ceived a liberal education, graduating in
1916, when lie took course of law, and was
admitted to practice. Shortly after enter
ing upon the duties of his profession he re-
moved to Sacramento, Cal, when he was
elected District Attorney of Sacramento
County, serving from 1855 till 1857. Return
ing east be settled in West Virginia and
was Presidential electOr on the Democratic
ticket for the State at large in 1868. He was
elected to Congress and twice reelected.
serving as member of the House of Rep
resentatives in the Forty second, Forty
third and Forty-fourth Congresses, from
March 4. 1871, till December 4, 1876, when
he took his seat in the United States Sem
ate, having been elected to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Allen Taylor Cap
erton. He was elected by the Legislature
to I'LL the remainder of the term which ex-
plred in 1881.
The morning call., 1891-12-25
LOVE LOST IN SMOKE.
She Was a yassar Graduate and Fond Of
Botany.

She Was Vassar Graduate and Fond of
Botany.
"She was nice girl" remarked J. Clar-
ence hyde yesterday, but she was too
blooming botanical"
Her superiority of knowledge on this
point led to our parting, and Pm going home
shortly to bale up her pictures and letters
with the intention of returning the same.
1t came about in this wise: Gwendolina
i call her that simply to disguise her
identity-started In about three months ago
TO experiment in Horticulture. She had an
idea OF grating night-bloomtng radish on
chrysanthemum stalk, or something of
that kind, and she turned the bay window
Of the second floor front into an infant con-
seryatory. The slight affection which she
formerly professed to entertain for me grad
ualy shifted to the measly collection of
stumps and sprigs which filed this apart
ment, and when we were together her side of
the conversation was generally composed of
remarks OF botanical nature. One after
noon called and found her in tears. As l
had been purposely paying attention 10 her
younger sister in the hope of bringing
Gwendolina to terms by rousing her jeal-
ousy, l fOndly imagined that she was weep
Ing at my neglect
"Gwend9lina," l said, tenderly, taking
hol manu. hudt ID tub lTUuDItI ell HE
all"
Clarence" she sobbed, "the musca for
entails destroying my solenta rudensis."
The situation was a very distressing one.
And the plant can't be saved" she con-
tinued, unless the musce are killed by
tobacco smoke"
am not smoker; 1 detest it. Up to
That awful day pipestem, cigarette or
cigar end had never touched my lips, but as
the sacrifice limited at might remove the
coolness between US, l determined to
make it,
"Gwendolina," said, provide the where
with aud will smoke the naughty musce
into an early grave"
We examined the plant and found it COW
cred with minute parasites; then she
brought me her fathers nice. strong. old
briarwood pipe. paper bag was pulled
over the soenta rudensis, hole punched in
IL, and for the next half hour | puffed cy-
clones Of smoke through this orifice
My sufferings were too awful for mere
words, and at each mouthful of that ter
rible vapor l felt that the next would
stretch me PROSTATE corpse at G Sendo-
lina's feet
Finally we removed the bag and found
that the parasites had gone up the fiume.
rose, pale and trembling, expecting an out
burst OF fervid thanks.
az didn't know you could be so useful"
sbe murmured. Do come around to-mor-
row and smoke the geraniums."
She is still waiting. This is the first time
have been out OF my room since.-Newark
Journal.
The morning call., 1891-12-25
IN THE CLAWS OF A LION.
Professor" Willis Thrilling Expert
rnca Hnrry Minnr,. Thn.taH

professor" Willis Thrilling Experi-
-nce At Harry Miners Thester.
Colonel Daniel Boone, who is said to be a
descendant of the great trapper, has five
lions that fire off pistols, jump over sticks
and do great many other undignified
things at his order AT each performance
their most thrilling act is refraining
from biting off the face of a lady
who puts her head In their mouths. These
lions have been appearing at Harry Miners
f ghth-avenue Theater. When not wanted
they were put in cage behind the wings,
in little place shut eff from the stage and
reached by door. People who didn't care
about being eaten were told not TO open lhe
door
There was benefit at the theater on Sun
day night. aad a lot of people who didn't
know anything about the lions went to take
part 10 it. Among them were Tom Balm
ford, the English ventriOquist, and PRO
lessor" WILLIS, the aeronaut. Soon after the
show started there was a large crowd of
freaks" and performers in the green
room. They were thrown into panic by a
roar from the ca5e.
Il guess one of my lions is chewing ND
Somebody exclaimed Boone, and he
made dash for the cage, followed by the
crowd In the green-room. They bolted d.
rectly across the stage, terrifying the audi
0"SV anu ueHoIdIlZluR tHe acL tnen In
progress.
They found professor" Willis in the
claws of the biggest lion of the lot, who had
torn and chewed up his beaver overcoat
and thick a-jacket. He was trying to
get the man up against the bars, but his
hold was not very good
Call off your monkey" howled Willis,
who hadn't heard about the lions, but
thought it was an ape of some thought
amusing itself at his expense.
They grabbed the man and tore him away.
All the lion got was some pieces of cloth and
the best part of a pair of tr0wsers. Willis
neck and lip had been dug open and were
bleeding. but he didn't feel the pain much.
He was satisfied to be alive
Dr. John 5. Candee dressed the eronaut's
flesh wounds and tailor will patch up the
other damages Every one considered his
escape remarkable Afterward, when Col
onel Boone fed his lions, he gave nothing to
the offender, tn discipline him for his con-
duct.-N. Y. Herald
The morning call., 1891-12-25
BRIGHT BILLIE BUBBLES
He Staked Himself for the Happy
Christmastide.

II Billie Bubbles lives and keeps his
health he will some day become legislator
or mayhaps a great faro-dealeI. because he
is so uncommonly bright. His first attempt
at Independence was a bleak and dismal
failure. but it shows that Billie Bubbles has
the right kind of stuff in him. That is one
reason why he failed.
Christmas time arrived and found Billie
broke. He had no salary whatever with
which to purchase popcorn-balls for himself
or his grown-up sister, and his heart was
heavy within him. In this dire extremity
Billie Bubbles evolved scheme land pro-
ceeded to work it for all 1t was worth.
The scheme In part consisted of gunny
sack and bit of cord with which the sack
was attached to Billie's person.
Then lie mapped out a route for himself.
First he started from Washington treet,
taking the sunny side Of kearny to Market,
thence along the nortnerly side of Market
street to the west meridian line of Taylor,
thence back again to the place of beginning
at Washington aud Kearny streets. Right
carefully did Billie Bubbles work this route.
Every other man he met had some kind of
dodger to shove in his face, whether he
wanted it or not. Among them were Qirec-
tions how to find the cheapest lucent meal
in town. private instructions to young and
mlddle-aged men, and samples of So pants
gummed to card, together with map Of
the shortest route to the place where the
pants were made.
Billie took them them all and put them in
his gunny- without saying a word. 1t
was much easier than pottering around
in the back alleys. fishing waste paper
out Of barrels with wire hook. Yes,
indeed. Nice polite young men who had
received a good common-school education
and then met with reverses handed them
to him with bow and smile which plainly
said, They cost you nothing"
The receipts grew so heavy that Billie
was Obliged to establish way stations along
the route where he could dump his loads
from time to time Then at night lie could
hire horse and wagon, haul his waste
paper to a junk dealer and sell it at the rate
OF l cent per pound, which was all clear
profit, except the wear and taie on shoes.
In four days billie had accumulated
Sl1 %. Then the Commissioners got onto
him, and be was arrested and fined S11 %
for keeping the streets clean.
This unloOked-fOr Interference not only
knocked Billie Bubbles Christmas pros
pects galley west but at the same time
killed a budding industry which might, in
the future, enable unprotected people to
walk the streets of San Francisco with none
to modest or make them afraid
The morning call., 1891-12-25
HE PLAYED GHOST.
But a Strong Minded Sister-in-Law Al
most Scalped Him.

But Strong Minded Sister-in-Law AL
most scalped Him.
The arrest and trial before Squire Butts,
at Amity, Ohio, of Miss Nancy Herring, on
the charge of assaulting Chris kimmerly
with an iron pot, developed an unusually
interesting ghost story
A few months ago kmmerly's wife in
herlted some property by the death of her
father, and her fiat refusal to convert the
patrimony into cash and give the control of
it to Oh riS. led to an enlargement betn cen
the Two, so that they occupied separate
apartments in their house. Some time
after the beginning OF this unpleasant state
of affairs, kmmerly impressively informed
Mrs. klmmerly that for several nights past
her fathers ghost had appeared to him.
and SAID 1t would never rest until Mary, the
daughter, consented that her husban d
should invest her inheritance in some paying
business venture.
This startling information quite unneryed
Mrs. kmmerly, who is a weakly little
woman, and night or two after that she
was still further shocked at seeing the
sheeted image of her father standing by her
bed. The ghost seemed to be greatly dis
tressed, but it did not speak, and soon
moved slowly away in the darkness. Then
Mrs. klmmerly wrote a letter to hel Spin
ster sister, Nancy Herring. at Columbus,
relating In full her strange experience and
requesting the lady. who is a woman of
great nerve and decision of character, to
come to her right away.
Miss Nancy came and slept with Mrs
kimmerly, and that very night the old mans
ghost reappeared, passed his hand across
their faces, and then vanished. On the
third night it came again. The spectral fig
ure softly opened the door and advanced to
the bedside, and as it stretched out its long
arms another form in white, with a frilled
nightcap on its head, followed closely from
behind the door. 1t was the spinster sister,
and in her uplifted right hand she grasped
heavy iron pot, which came down, bottom
upward, with raking crash squarely upon
the ghosts mead The rim OF the pot
scraDed its way over the specter's ears,
nearly severing one of them from its base,
and MIR. kimmerly, with yell that was
horribly suggestive Of a hot-potted Anna
hagGer, fell all in a heap on the floor.
In court the unfortunate man testified
that tine almost scalped condition of his
head. the halfway severed ear and the
broken bridge of his nose were the results
OF his sister-in-law's assaults-the iron pot
The morning call., 1891-12-25
A FRACTURED SKULL.
Ono of the Most Remarkable Recover

ono OF the Most Remarkable Recoveries
Known to tho Medical Profession
One OF the most remarkable recoyeries
from fracture of the skull known to the
medical profession is that of Frank Bossert
oil PhGnlxvile. Pa. Recently Dessert and
the 1anltor of the Ph9nixville Iron Works
were sitting in the Office of the works when
Bossert playfully tossed small piece of
wood at his companion. This led to teasing
and bantering, and the janitor hurled n
small shovel at Bossert. The shovel.
which was OF peculiar shape, with a shank
ana handle somewhat similar to crow
bar, struck the young man on the head.
The sharp handle. descending with consd-
cradle force, penetrated a suture between
two bones OF the skull, and remained
wedged there
The unfortunate young man fell to the
noor unconscious, and remained so for some
time. Dr. Shoemaker was hastily sum-
| moned, aud it required the united strength
The morning call., 1891-12-25
TWO SHOTS FIRED.
The On Yeks Make Another EFF.
fort to Even Up.

Another highlander shooting took place
on Waverly place at O'clock last night,
growing out of the murder of See To On
about five weeks ago. The victim this time
was Wong Kay. an expressman, belonging
to the Duey Leong Tong. He was going into
basement restaurant on Waverly place,
near Clay, when two shots were fired from
above.
One of the bullets went crashing through
a glass door and struck in the middle of
damage. The other hit Wong Kay in the
right shoulder, infiicting a slight wound.
the bullet dropping out of its own weight.
This makes the seventh Duey Leong
wounded since the murder Of See To On, an
On Yek.
1t was Duey Leong that killed him, and
the On Yeks have since been trying to play
even, but have not yet succeeded in bring
ing down corpse.