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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-07
THE BEGINNING OF LONDON.
4 Town That Was Built Long Ago in The
Midst Of Marshes.

Let us 60 back to the beginning of all
things-to the lay Of the land in which Lon
don was planted. The reader, if he will
consult that very admirable book. LOftie's
History of London" will find a most in
structive map 1t shows the terrain before
the city was built at all. The river Thames,
between MOrtlake on the west and Black
wall on the easT, pursued p serpentine way,
in the midst of marshes stretching north
and south. There were marshes all the way.
At spring tides and at all tides little above
the common these marshes were under
water; they were always Swampy and COW
cred with ponds half a dozen tributary
brooks flowed into them and were lost in
them. They varied greatly in breadth. being
generally much broader on the south side
than on the north. On this side the higher
land rose up suddenly in cliff or steep hill
from twenty to iye-and-thirty feet in height
This cliff, followed from the east, ap-
preached the river, touched it at one point
and then recedtd again as it went west
ward. This point, where the cliff oveThung
the river, was the only place where the city
could have been founded.
l call 1t point, but it consisted of two
hillocks, each about thiity-five feet high
standing on either side of tie little stream
Of NalbrOOk, where it flows into the Thames.
On one of these hills, probably That on the
west, was a fortress OF the BritOns, con-
Structed after the well-knOwn fashion of
hin forts, numberlesS examples of which
remain scattered about the country. On
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with the muddy boots sits up rigid in
chair. The scene changed to the Temple of
Sengakuji at Tokyo. No curtain falls. but
the stage reyoves. Soon all is over. The
forty seven have finished their noble lives
in noblest fashion, the Satsuma man has
shown his. regret by killing himself over
Kuranoske's grave, and by ten o'clock the
curtain is down and only the ballet to wait
for.
The ballet is the Makodori, and beautiful
scenery has been painted for it. The eur
tain rises on the temtles OF Ise at Yamada.
Up one of the tOngans come twelve girls
prOfusely whtened and in glittering
kimonos. Every now and then there is
shout Of TaichU." Twelve other girls APP
pear in the same dresses, with the same
movements then the scene changes to the
sea, with more pOsturing and more mo-
notOny. A great trans formation scene with
colored lights, and all is over.
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PAGES IS to Is.

those offerings of the nations hens, I'd be
satisfied with profit of 2 cents on dozen.
What would be my little divvy? Well,
If | haven't forgotten what old DabOl
drummed into me, | make it out that when
the old year died | would lug home some
thing like S15.000,000 clean and slick, ahead
OF the game. Ten years of that and / think
could sit down with the boys and stay
with as heavy jack pot as any Of EN-"
" What would become of the other co.
100000 dozen 2" asked the reporter.
There you are again. replied the
marSetman. If / owned all the hens
there's another little item that would help
me To keep from worrying about the pune
tuality of the rent and the intalllbity of the
gas meter. Last year folks broiled, fricas-
seed and roasted something like 600, 600, 600
chickens, young and old. That used up that
balance of 100000 dozen of eggs. That
50,000,000 dozen of eggs were turned
into chickens that gObbled up $780,
100000 of the hard eaten corn Of
this realm, ciphering the thing down
close to fifty cents a chicken. Z don't
deal in poultry. but from the size of the
diamond pins of the ones that do don't
hesitate a moment to say that there can't
be less than five cents profit on every
chicken they sell. Old DabOll comes in
again and lays it down for another nickel
plated fact that if l owned all the hens in
the country l would have to make two trips
home from the shop at the end of the year.
for here l would have SIS, 600, 900 more piled
in the till to be carried ava, and stuffed In
the stocking, and S15,000,000 is plenty for
one man to carry at one time, amt it2"-
Corning On. " Evening Chronicle.
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GET A CORNER ON HENS.
And Colonel Sellers Widest Schem
WIFI ~ NJ Ootb;u~

And Colonel Sellers Widest Schemes
Will Be as Nothing.
" If / owned all the hens in this coun-
try" said Corning dealer to reporter, as
he counted out dozen eggs and put them
in customers basket, !" and had a place
to pasture them in, all 1 would ask would
be ten years in business, and I'd make It
warm for the Vanderbilss, the Astors, aud
the rest of EN-"
"How's that2" asked the reporter.
''How is it?' replied the statistical dealer.
"Why. easy. That's how. May be you
don't know, young man, that over sc, 000, 900
cackles, announcing the birth of the same
number of eggs. kept the farmer boys busy
every day last year gathering in the efforts
of over $4,000. 900 hens. But they did. Well,
those efforts for SO days resulted in $500,
100000 separate and distinct eggs, or $780,
600, 900 dozen, as near as l can calculate.
Now, 1t took just 75O, 100000 dozen of those
eggs to supply the demand for Tom and
ferries, buildings, hard and soft boiled
eggs, egg nog and ham and eggs in this
country last year, and eggs was eggs at that
figure that about 80 cents dozen would be
about what would make the average price.
Thirty cents dozen for 10000, 900 dozen
climbs plumb up to the comfortable little
purse of S225, 0O0, 900. There's nothing mean
about me, and if / had the handling OF
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A VULGAR HABIT.

Fashionable Bellies Too Lazy to Pro-
nOunce Short Words.
It is curious TO know what vulgarisms
creep into the American language spoken
by well-educated, not to say cultured,
people, says the Boston Herald. Just at
present the ear is narrowed by phrase, or
rather a word, much used by our bellies who
assist afternoon hostesses at the function
called tea Ny DEAR says one girl to
another, I'm invited to pour for Mrs. Com
monwealth next Wednesday, oh. are you?
Well, she asked me to turn, but | had an
other engagement Heavens and earth,
thought, what is the meaning of pour and
turn? IL was seme time before the verbs
and their implied noun made a connection
in my brain. aud then the desire to stand
these young women in corner was so in
tense | retired TO avoid demonstration.
The century has indeed grown old and
lazy where the tongue fluids so small word
as tea difficult of utterance. To pour tea
is about as simple phrase as can be spoken,
and TO drop the final word tea Is TO render 1t
intolerably vulgar The custom at large
afternoon receptions here of having two
good-lo0king girls perform the service,
generally imposed on servants in we'll
appointed houses in London, is thoroughly
American. and so, too. is the abOminable
iauit which has grown out Of il"
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the other hiIlOck the Roman city was first
commenced.
Here was the beginning of the city; here
was Instituted very early ferry over the
river. On the eastern hill the Romans built
their forum and basilica, with the offices and
official houses and quarters. When foreign
trade began to increase the merchants were
obliged TO spread themselves along the bank; ;
they built quays and river walls n keep out
the water, and the city extended literally TO
east and west, just as far as WAS convenient
for the purposes of trade that is. not farther
than Fleet River on the west and the pres
ent site of the tower on the east. II then
began to spread noTthward, but slowly. be-
cause mile of river front can accommodate
a great working p0pu alton. When the city
wall was built, about the year $50. the town
had already run out in villas and gardens
as far as that wall. Outside the wall there
was nothing at all, unless one may count
few scattered villas on the south side of
the river. There was as yet no West
minister, but in its place a broad and
marshy heath spread over the whole area
now covered by the City of Westminster,
Milibank, st. James Park, and so far west
as Fuham. Beyond the wall on the north
lay dreary, unCultiyated plains, covered
with lens and SwampS, stretching from the
walls to the lower slopes of the northern
hills, and even to the foot Of an immense
forest, as yet wholly untouched, afterward
CdlN-u Tic miuuttSeN TOtt,t- IIdSueEtS Oh
this forest yet remain AZ Hampstead, High
gate, Epplng and Hainault. In word, all
through this period, and for long after the
city of London had an immense marsh
wing on the south, another on the west, a
third on the east while on the north there
stretched a barren, swampy mnorland. fol-
lowed by an immense Impenetrable forest.
Later on a portion of the land lying on
the northwest, where is now HOlbOrn,
was cleared and cultivated. But this
was later, when the Roman roads
which led out Of London ran high and
broad over the marshes and the moOrs and
through the forest primeval. Round other
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FADS AND FANCIES.
what is the Proper Thing to Be Worn by
Society Ladies'?

They say we are to wear all summer nit
tens up the arm.
All the imported street dresses are made
with bias velvet rnf1ie running round the
feet.
TurquOises are being extensively worn,
especially with necklaces, mingled with dia-
mOndS.
Umbrellas and parasols designed to carry
with mourning costumes have eboulZed or
onyx handles
A unique bracelet is the one of woven
chain showing strands of silver, different
Colds and platinum.
A brides jewel-case is not complete when
it does not iaclude diamond bracelet, ear
rings finger-rng and brooch.
1t is the correct thing now to add sOuve-
mir spoon to the conventional christening
present Of pap-bowl and mug.
Most OF the Louis Nv Jackets have elab-
crate jabots of old MechIin lace or Of en-
brOldered chiffon drawn to the front
Tables are now bought on purpose for the
large lamps, which are so much used White
enamel tables, about knee high, are used
for the delicate eolored porcelain lamps and
ebony tables are used for the various kinds
OF iron lamps. Some of these tables have
space underneath for piece of bric-a-brac.
This season fancy crops out for long
chains worn about the neck and hanging
loosely over the bust. AT the first ball OF
the season Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt wore
string of diamonds a yard long that went
round her neck twice and fell almost TO her
belt. Mrs. Edmund Russell always wears
at her art lectures string of gold beads,
suDerbly carved. Some of the gold chains
have whole pearls introduced every two
inches. Then there are the gem chains OF
plain POLISHED stones, such as carbuncles,
turquoises. amethysts, spinels, moonstones
and onyx, none cut but the diamond.
In favor of the woman who adorns her
self, 1.-THE feathers of the peacock begin to
vie with r0settes and mock Jewels But let
each fair maid pause and question with her.
self before she puts them on. There are
conditions; can she fulfill them? In the
days when poets and singers went about the
world as trOubadours they plucked the long
feathers from the tails of peacocks and
stripped them to leave on the mdrb only
the central eye. This, each troubadour
wore upon his cap, and it meant that the
eyes OF the world were turned upon him.
Are the eyes of the world turned upon you.
fair maid, in attention and admiration? If
so you may wear on your cap peacock s
eyes.-EX
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THEY POSE FOR EFFECT.
Women Stenographers Who Are Hired
-

Women Stenographers Who Are Hired by
Business Men for Show.
A woman who has hal twenty years of ex-
perience as stenographer says:
my first weeks work brought me SIS.
To-day the same work will not bring SO.
There are some women who receive $500
or 5000 a year, but they are women who
have become thoroughly acquainted with
the business and are private secretaries,
not stenOgraphers. There are men VIII
keep stenOgraphers in their offices for show
and not for actual use. They think it gives
tone to their establishments. They talk to
every one who comes in about my stenog-
rapher' or my typewriter Girls who re-
spect themselves do not like positions of
that sort but what can they do? They
know they don't earn thOir salaries.
Il know girl who gets SIS a week in just
such position. She is a good girl and she
would rather have a position with bust
ness man who would make her work, but
she has mother to support and she can't
throw up this position until she's sure of
another Some girls complain because they
get only 81 a week when they're not worth
So. A stenographer's life is not rosy. Con-
sidering the hardshipS in stenographers'
lives they should organize for self protection.
/ am thoroughly in favor of it. Gentle
manly and brutal employers could then be
separated, and the latter might be re-
formed. '-EX.
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scrubbed herself with it, she deluged herself
with water, scattering the drops all over her
by means of wooden dipper. Then her
hair had to be redOne, and she was not salts
fed with her tire-woman till her black locks
shone like silk. and her coiffure a la Full
san was as stiff as camelia oil could make
1t. Then she runs over the mats, slips the
cord of her sandals between her big toe and
number two. and catters down the street.
She picks up Miss Pearl on her way and
off they CO. 1t is a great day for Kyoto, for
the descendant of the gods has brought
himself and his wife to the neglected capital
Of his ancestors. and faithful Toxic news
paper sets the fact forth in the usual lumi-
nous manner. and then publishes the regula-
tons that are to be- strictly observed.
Briefly. the rules are that no one must peep
at her Majesty, but must sit down at the
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for the student Those abba to speak or
write it easily, who have ready command
OF correct phraSeology, possess a power
quickly recognized and strongly felt And
it is power which sufficient amount of
study can give TO those willing to take the
trouble TO acquire it.
Every one may not be able 70 write freely
and with the most agreeable effect to the
reader, although. with the requisite amount
of pains, more could be done in this direction
than most people suppose. But it is at
least possible for young p0ople-and some
older peOple-to ''get few more words into
their vocabularies." A book of synonyms
is an easily acceptable help. 1t would teach
few adjectves besides those in everyday
use, which are frequently worn threadbare.
Indeed, some Of these stock phrases have
become meaningless. A family which es-
tabished a fine for the use Of any one of
them, coupled with arewaTd for a clever ap-
plLcatIOn OF new word, might institute a
reform which would spread, as do ripples.
until it covered a whole corner of society's
ll-pOnd.-Harper'S Bazaar.
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companied By their friends; Britannicus is
invited to drink; he does so with
out fear and dies poisoned. JUNE
takes refuge with the vestals, TO escape
from Nero, and is protected by them and by
the Christians. Furious Nero condemns
the Christians to be devOured by wild
beasts, but before delivering the Christians
Nero organizes a fete in his own palace and
we see the gladiatOTial cOmbats in all their
eXactitude. The cOmbals finished, the con-
QueTOTS receive golden palms, the dead are
C rried away and the Christians make their
entrance. Immediately an iron cage, large
IS the arena, springs up from the earth, the
tanner makes his appearance, gees To the
lions den, sees that the Christians are
thrown into this den, from which jump six
enormous lions. The tanner then amuseS
himself with his lions, chasing them about
the cage in the widest manner. This is the
first time that PaTisians have seen'liOns lib
Grated IN so large a space rs the arena Of the
HippOdrOme. After Seeth drives the lions
back into their den the cage descends to give
place for the tableau, the burning of Rome.
1t seems alarming that these Hons have
their liberty in so large a space, but sDecta-
tors are separated from these kings OF the
desert By a cage or iron grating that sur
rounds the whole arena This grating
weighs q, 600 pounds, and was constructor
Dy the same engineers who made the eleVa-
tors Of the Elffel Tower. The grating or
fence measures on the TOUR sldeS LOW Ieet,
and The bars are iron tubes, two inches in
diameter, OTked at the top. The height of
these bars is fourteen feet and they are five
inches distant one from the other a net
work of iron bars forms a support for this
grating, and at the top these bars are held
together BY one straight rod. The entire
fence is supported by sixteen elevators, and
disappears in a kind of ditch that forms the
tour of the areQa. The often is covered by
q hinged -four That is overturned when the
nee ascends. 1t requires only forty sec
onds for the appearance and disappearance
of this grating, and this appearance and dis
appearaDce is really marvellous.
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A GALA DAY
IN ORIENTAL KYOTO.
Miss Peach and Miss Pearl Enjoy
Themselves After the Rain.
The Fruit Of Civilization in Japan-Banquet
Oh Dog Rather Than Chinese Rice.
The Ladies Visit the Theater.

The scene is laid in Kyoto, and the story
IS chronicle of day. Mademoiselle Peach
has been dreaming about cherry blossom,
but as she looked up at the laden branches
dragon gaped from the top of the tree, the
blossoms fickered to the ground and she
awoke. Tossing the heavily wadded futons
OIL her she slid a screen aside, pushed the
raln-shutters into their cupboard. and looked
out. Her dream was true. Peach's own
dear cherrytree was in tent of blossoms.
Peach and her people sold umbrellas; not
the fitmsy, new native limitations of our
European umbrellas, but those heavy oil
skin brown and black halOs, which not even
the most pitiless rainy season is able to
penetrate. Business had been brisk, for
long shafts of MINDLESS rain had barred
KyotO for weeks. But now longed-f for
day Of sun had come, and all could enjoy
their well-earned holiday. Not an umbrella
would be wanted to-day. so Miss Peach did
not linger long. She lit the little stove under
the bath, and, when the water was hot. she
took her little bag of bran, and having
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LAUGHING TO DEATH.
A Farmer Whose Mirth over Prosperity,
Wealth Is Killing Him.

Wealth Is Killing Him.
Joe Duhrlinger of Wrightstown. Buck
County Pa, is literally laughing himself to
death over the New Hope extension of the
Reading Railroad, which runs by his farm.
The first train passed his farm on the 1st of
March. Duhrlinger has laughed so much
since then that he now weighs ouly 10
pounds. The doctors are puzzled, and DuhI-
fingers friends are awaiting the result with
mingled feelings of alarm and curiosity.
Duhringer is about 50 years old. He is a
native Of Germany. When the New Hope
extension went into operation, with a station
at Walton, about half mile from his farm,
his property increased in value at once and
he began TO grin. All his talk was of the
improved value which the extension would
give his land and how his pOsterity would
benefit thereby. Then he began to neglect
his own work, and took TO watching the
railroad men at theirs. He was so ticked
that he took several of the railroad men 10
board for almost nothing.
Duhrllngers mirth grew as the time went
on, and he did nothing but sit OH bis porch
and wait Tor the trains to 60 by. His keen
ears detected the whistle in the distance,
and this was so gratifying to him that he
would burst out into uncomfortable laugh
ter. a fter train had passed he would In-
spect the track, laughing quietly TO himself.
and return to his house, chuckling TO
await the coming of the next. He knows
the timetable by heart and can tell to a
minute when train should be due "Off'
his farm.
He allowed everything to go to pieces on
the farm. His wife hopes that the novelty
of the thing may wear off. and that he will
regain his normal ate-NeWark Journal
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she bows not to her people. II is great
privilege to gaze on the Empress, and the
very dogs know il. Tie Empress enters
her carriage, sheaf of rockets is let off and
the Empress has left the capital. Then
cltter-clatter go the tongues, and then
shout, as the crowd pursue one of those
pariah dogs which is trying to escape from
a crowd of famished coolies. who throw
themselves on their prey. This is the fruit
of civilization in Japan. A corner in rice
by native capitalists, the uneducated jap
anese refuses TO eat foreign (Chinese) rice,
and prefers, haggard and hungry, to starve
or banquet off dogs.
Peach and Pearl make their way slowly to
Maruyama. On they go across the Kamo-
past pottery mandatory on the right.
and then straight up the hill leading to
Maruyama; then ON few yards, wher re all
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Underneath the central portion of the
arena, twelve feet below the surface. is the
lions cage, and beside this an elevator,
thirteen feet square. For the representa-
lives the elevator is placed on a level with
the cage, and an aid of tile tanner, reaching
the cage by means Of corridor under the
arena, drives the IiOus from the cage to the
platform Of the eleya tor The door is closed
and at the moment that the Christians are
thrown into the lions den (Of course. the
Christians in this case are stuff d figures
The elevator rises and the lions spring to
liberty.
Mons. Lalo, composer of the "Roi d. Us, "
has unsteady illustrated the crimes and viO-
lent death Of Nero. The symphonies and
choruses are very appropriate for a lyrical
drama. In the first scene we hear the
chorus of Christians condemned to death,
their prayer at the moment Of execution,
and aIterward the music describing the
burning Of Rome and the entrance Of
Galba. The ballet Of Venus, Vulcan and
Mars has a very harmonious orchestral ac-
compartment, and Nero IN its ensemble
is pantOmime that has never been eaualed
in Paris. BARONESS ALTHEA SALVADOR.
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side OF the road along which her Majesty
shall pass Children must not play in the
road or Obstruct the passage of her Majesty !;
headed; no one must smoke or carry stick
or cane. Only foreign women may wear
their heads covered. No one must raise an
umbrella. Dogs will not be allowed on the
road. The road along which her Majesty
passes must be kept free and no one must
steaE. 20; ne arrival OF her MaJrsty at the
fireworks.
Peach and Pearl hurry on and finally ar
rive at the shop Of their friend, Mrs. Ono,
who sells embrOideries to foreigners. oppo-
site the station, and here they sit and chat
passes by. There is no sound Her loyal
subjects are not allowed to cheer. The En-
press is inside of EurOl can carriage, but
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him, but the Satsuma man is not perfect in
his part and the prompter, with open book,
follows him over the stage.
The story drags on. KuranGske has to
don his armOr, so his attendant comes from
behind the scenes and dresses him on the
stage, the audience being supposed to be
cOnventionally blind to the performance of
the task. In the auditorium bows wander
about with oranges and green and white
slices of custardy fruit. Peach's father and
mother are making a meal off lobster and
saki The armor of the knight is hooked
OH and the hero is ready for war. There is
little STIR An Englishman and his guide
entered one of the boxes overhead. The
EngliShman with pain and trouble squats
on the floor, but his civilized Japanese guide