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she Gets 81 $50 for Being Run Over.

Mrs. Margaret oDonnell to-day 90; a ver-
diet for 1880 damages against the Third
Avenue Railroad company for injuries re-
ceived by being run over by car.
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DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE JAN. a.

Meeting called to r,x Time and
Place 'or tte National Conven-
ton
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Young Darwin J. Meserole the twenty
three-year-old son OF Gen. jeremiah v.
MeserOle, is on t-lal for his life, charged with
murder in the first degree in having
shot to death Theodore ". LarOig, June
27 last, in the fiat OF Mrs. Dovle Comstock,
31S Sackett street who seems 10 have been
beloved ty both these men-tne one young,
wealthy and handsome, the other business
man with a wife and family.
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Los. HIS Watch on q Bridge Car.

John F. Murray, OF l5e Hillary street,
Brooklyn, was held In the Tombs Court to-
day charged with having stolen a gold W al ch
on croNde bridge car nom oscar +. BiI-
lings. OF Boston
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iul! account ui Hali street Affairs will b.
found iu iua EyEHiS1 NOELPs Special
Five O'CiuCA Edition.
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Chdrman. h.l Srun., Faulkner. secretary
~ tn cau-t, iJr Ia. ensuing 'r.m NJ
to"Ssg,S.
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MESEROLE AT BAR.
Jurors Hear Sworn Tales of the
Killing Of Larbig.
The Love That Led to Murder in
Dovie Comstock's Flat.
Witnesses Testifylng In a Crowded
Brooklyn Court Room.

More people applied for admission to the
special term OF the Court OF oyer and
Terminer, In Brooklyn, to-day than could be
accommodated.
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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-28
THE STOCKING TRADE.


What New York Pays for It's Supply of
Women's Hosiery.
The women, girls and children of New
York wear close upon $1,000 coo pairs of
stockings in year. and that is putting the
average only trifle above three pairs for
each, says the New York World.
There are about $500, 900 pairs of cotton,
wooden and liSle-thread stockings and socks
bought in the city every year, and averag-
ing these at 20 cents pair, the lowest price
being 4 cents and the highest 81 70 to So,
the sum paid for them would be just
$500 600.
But consider the other 100000 pairs of
mixed silk and pure silk stockings and socks
worn by rich girls and women, actresses
and others who like to make display of
costly hosiery, and the figures are almost
incredible.
Their chief wear is pure silk, and the
stockings range from So 30, in plain color,
UP to $50. Add in this list the fancy, all
silk articles those hand-embroidered with
all kinds Of artistically wrought figures,
produced in open work and done 10 match
the costume, and the price ranges from $40
to $500 But put the average down to IS a
pair-and you can scarcely purchase an all
silk pair for lesS-and the bill for the 400 900
pairs is $1,200,000, which, added to the
100000 for the stockings worn by the
poorer GRASSES, amounts le Sl, iUO,OUU. III
would be no exaggeration to say that it costs
New York city every year for socks and
stockings for her female population a round
So, 100000, or enough to maintain nearly
10000 persons. whole city, for a year in
food.
For those interested in statistics I may
add that the stockings worn by the women
in New York, if fastened together, would
make row about 1000 miles long, row
longer than the Atlantic cable. TO keep
these 1000 miles of stockings in place 1t re-
QuireS about 400 miles of garters
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A new TORPEDO TRIED.
4 Destructive Engine That Can Be Fired From
ANY Point.

An interesting experiment with new
electrically propelled torpedo was recently
made at the naval station at Grevlle. in the
harbOr of Havre, France. The Distinguish
ing feature of this torpedo, which is the
Sims Edison, is that the operator, stationed
at the place OF departure. retains complete
control over it. BY means of electricity it
can be guided in any direction, stopped or
exploded at the will of the operator, on
shore or on board a war-ship, says the En-
cheering Record
The torpedo consists of two distinct parts.
The upper portion or loater is built of sheet
copper and filled with buOyant material
that serves to support the lower part, or tor
pedu proper, the Whole remaining sub
merged at a fixed depth below the sur
face of the water. The torpedo, which
has the common cigar shape. is III
vided into four compartments, of which
the Hst contains the explosive, 450
pounds of dynamite or gun cotton.
The second compartment is filled with air,
which, besides cOnnteraCting the weight,
serves to separate the explosive from the
mechanism of the torpedo. III the third
chamber is cOiled 1850 feet Of tWO-wre
cable, well insulated and carefully wound
on movable spool The cable is fOur-tenths
of an inch In diameter and its specific grav-
ity is exactly that of water, so that when th
cable is wound off the spool and water takes
its place in the cOmpaTtm ent the total weig'
of the torpedo is not changed. The
apartment gives room for an electric
tor directly connected to the pTOpelle
making 500 revolutions per MIMI
ducing a speed of twenty knots n
The motor is furnished with a gov 80 ~
regulating its speed The total weight Of
the torpedo is 1920 pounds and its length is
"a feet. Ii is placed in the water through a
tube in the same way as any ordinary tor
pedO.
A small mast surmounted by red ball
projects above the surface of the water and
enables the operator whether on shore or in
a vessel. to follow and regulate the move
ments of the torpedo. A continuous cur
rent dynamo of q capacity of twenty-five
amperes at 1900 volts furnishes the power.
The current is passed through a rheostat TO
the cable OF the torpedo. The terminals of
the cable are Joined TO the COmmutatOr Of
the motor in such a way that the unwinding
of the cable is governed by the rotation of
the motor armature. The motor is a two
pole machine wound in series, so that the
reversing of the current is utilized in de-
feeling the torpedo from side 10 side and is
accomplished by the aid of a polarized relay,
which is mechanically connected to the Tud-
der.
Another purpose served by the electric
current is that of exploding the torpedo.
An electro magnet having an armature bal
anced with spring is Joined in the circuit,
but remains undisturbed as long as the cur
rent does not exceed the average speed.
When an explosion Is desired the operator
draws out his resistance; the increased cur
rent then attracts the armature of the mag
net ana causes a short circuit through the
explosive compound.
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loOsed. The Washstand Is pr0pDed, the bowl
is cracked, the towel Is as shredded as poll
tician'S record. Youcan only sit in safely
on the hoar You tip" the man you
have caught out of all reason, and
shiYcriugly ask for a light and fire.
Lord bless US, yes, certainly - as to a
light; but there must be a consultation
ab ut the fire. He departs ami you stand
there supported by hope and compact,
black atmosphere for a good half hour. lie
never returns. Another man does. This
one brings one tiny candle family limiting
of light, and disclosing the extraordinary
necessity for light. You suggest that you
will need more. He is appalled,. But you
pledge your ability to pay for two. or even
three candles, if all are burned together.
That may be admitted, but the innovation
is too much. You fee this new man. Lord
bless US, yes, certainly; he will see. lie
goes away and never returns. You take
your candle and make a little trip around
the echuing halls, but you find no one.
Then You return to your room, find the
Oell-cOrd, and enliven the hOstelry for a
long time with dOleful tOllings, janglngs
and impetuOuS Staccat1s Of a remote but
strengthened bell. By and by another
man comes, as if in doubtful effectiveness,
and seems anxious to know II you have
really rung. Yun endeavOr to make It
clear that you have, and why you have ;
and you fee him and say: My good fe,-
low and There's a mani and other
friendly things This one goes and stays.
like the rest You begin on the bell again,
OF thoroughly reckless and desperate, rush
to your door and yell; yell as one viii yei!
when the limit of human patience is
reached. In a moment they aTe ali there !;
all the pack OF prosecutors who first gave
you welcome. You address them in unmis-
taxable language. They are surprised,
panied, Inundated al your extraordinary
conduct. But by a frank statement that I'M
less a fire Of Goals is put in your CRATE, you
will utilize The uuj iinteG sections of iurnl-
ture for that purpose, and unless YOU are
furn shed enough candles yOu viii make a
pYre OF the inn itself for light with which 10
&c, out Of It. you are eventually provided
with what You vanity two or three other
people who have been lying in wait for this
very denOuemeut; these only submitting to
accommodate you alter their palms have
been crossed with silver like the bad old
witches of the st1ry-b0okS.
In every other act or fact about the British
inn, there IS tine same hope eSS stu6bOrnneSS
Once within it you must resign yourself, soul
and body, 10 indeScrbable delay, inattentjOn
and every conceivable atfront and inciyillty.
The guest is a creature t. be plucked, bullied
ana pillaged. To these beings with wooden
heads and straw hearts, who do not keep"
them, but ale kept by them, civilily is un-
known; comfort is unheeded; innovation is
treason, and dynamite turks in all sugge ton
Of Improvement. EDGAR /. WAKEMAN.
fC0pyTigkt, 1891
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A PECULIAR WHIM.
The Extraordinary Wedding Present to
q DAUGHTER.

Daughter.
There was a fine old gentleman In this
city-he died not many months ago-who,
from the humblest beginnings made his
way steadily up to commercial fame aud
immense wealth, all by the manufacture of
soap, and with all his wealth and prosperity
lie never forgot how poor man feels or
lost any of his consideration for the rights
of others. Pride never pulled him up nor
made him ashamed Of his business or his
carly history. He was proud of the purity
and excellence of his soap. His wife was
as intensely purse proud as lie was simple,
though her origin was as humble as his
own, and her daughter took alter her. This
child married well. as they say, that is, a
young swell about town proposed to her on
account OF the great wealth he knew she
would inherit When the engagement was
settled the daughter and mother asked the
old man wha: he was going to do in the way
of setting the young people up in life.
Here they ran up against ali unexpected
snag. He would give nothing in the way
Of dOWry. The utmost he could De pre-
vailed upon to do was to give his daughter a
wedding present. What this would be he
steadfaStly refused TO say just then. On the
wedding day, however, his gift to the bride
was the deed for handsome house In
fashionable street, comp etely furnished in
costly style from top to bottom.
The bridal tour had all been arranged, so
no stop was made by the happy pair to ex-
anime their new home. All through the
honeymoon they talked of the pleasure they
would have in going over the house. eX-
aiming the pictures and plate and enter
tanning their friends in it. Great was the
delight with which they entered their new
home on their return. The carpets were
velvet, the hangings of silk and lace, the
furniture hand-carved, the pictures old mas
tiers, the linen of the finest. and slverware
was everywhere. even in the kitchen.
The bridegroom was delighted, but the
brides cheeks were crimson, and her eyes
flushed a fire that her tears could not
quencn. Everywhere she looked she saw
familiar objects that filled her with rage.
Snatchng heavy silver salver from the
table, she showed to her husband engraved
on it minut-ly, but with elaborate detail,
the representation of bar of soap with her
fathers well-knOwn trademark on it.
This queer crest was everywhere about
the house, worked into carved furniture,
woven in the linen and hangings, and even
painted on the carriage and stamped on the
harness which were presented with the
house. 1t was the old mans greatest pride,
that trademark and what it stood fer, but
whether he had it put on his daughters
things out of sheer simplicity of heart or
whether he INTENDED it as .rebuke to her
foolish pride, | never found out
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EDISON AND EATING.
Establishing Currents in the Mouth to
Aid Digestion.

Establishing Currents in the Mouth to
Aid Digestion.
Electricity seems to be al the bottom of
everything. and if so Mr. Edison will soon
have the whole world under lis thumb.
According To the Electrical Review, dentist
declares that currents Of electricity are set
up in the mouth between the saliva AID
many kinds of food, especially such as con-
tin much carbon, ike toast
This same dentist thinks that electric cur
rents are produced when teeth-tillings of
different metals occur 10 the same persons
mouth. Good graciOuSi VIII horrible pos
sibliteS may not Sucd currents suggest
And how many v0lts-iS that what you cali
them, Mr. Edison Pare necessary to make
bimetal.ic mouth strike death to it, pos
SCISSOR? Here sanitary reason for advo-
eating mOnometalllsnl, says Kate Field IN
Washington.
Furthermore, this curious dentist says he
believes the acute relish we experience
when eating certain combinations OF food is
due TO the action of these currents of cleo
tricity upon the sense Of taste.
Now, my dear Mr.. Edison, is this true?
If SO, does it not become your duty to your
fellow-man - especially to your fellow
woman, who does marketing for fastidiOus
palates-to tell us what combinations OF food
are likely to produce the most agreeable
currents? After due experiment, would it
not be the most delectable Of all things for
the Electric Club to give dinner made up
OF such tOothsume foods as science prOclalms
ut for digestion?
Who ever dreamed that you, Mr.. Edison,
would add to your glory that of wearing the
Gordon bleu? Yet, if you can rescue suffer
ing humanity from the horrors Of inedi BILE
edbieS, every hOusekeeper will worship at
your shrine and every S6-a-week bOarder
will rise up and call you blessed.
Invent II way by which badly cooked foods
can be charged with mountaineering cur
rents, and, like Alexander, you will have no
more worlds to conquer. AS you are a
wizard, Mr.. Z lisOn, this is not asking too
much. Is it?
A genius that can invent a knetograph
and make us hear sun spots roar, ought to
be equal to-what shall call it-an Eli
hattprt9
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How WAS IT DONE?
Never Ask q Question You Cannot Answer
Yourself.

In a late number of Forest and Stream
one of its correspondents undertakes to ex-
plain the reason why a beaver is able TO
make wood stay under water By stating that
"it sucks the air out Of the wood"
The mOdus operandi he, however, fails to
explain, and if asked the question at the
head of this article might reply in the same
manner that an old friend Of my youth used
to puzzle the boys.
Old Uncle Cash was beloved by all the
boys in the neighborhood, because he used
to delight in boys company on his fishing
and hunting expeditions, which occupied all
his hours in favorable weather. He was 20
wears of age as long ago as my memory car
rieS me, and was still living, and over J,
when last heard from him: and although
he had then given up his fayorite sport
f0x-huntiug-he had lost none of his old
time love Of fishing, nor any Of the store Of
stories with which he used u interest his
youthful companions.
one that | have often heard him relate,
and with which he delighted TO puzzle a
fresh yOung>teT, was as follows. | viii try
and follow his language and idilm As nearly
As time viii allow my memory 10 recall
them:
WAL, boys, so We want a story? I'll
tell ye 'banut man | knOwad daOwn in old
Cnuc't'c't af1re | moved mp here. l wus a
oDE III sell ilrl, dl Sccu TIE man 4 lll1uStu
times tho [ didu't to see him Jest esackly
do what I'm a g3in' to tell ye bJlut, tho
I've hear a-many a time thet he did du it.
an have no kind Of daoubt but what he did
du u.
''Ye see, this man. he went an made q
bet, lie did, that he cud jump I'm the top OF
the steeple to the new meetin'-house daOwn
{ ID the gra0un' 'ithOut hurtin' hissef. The
day was fixed, au' everybody cum to see
him du it, Pm miles arOun', till there was
an ALFRED great crowd thar.
''Waal! lie got I'D in the steaple an he
male a speech to the crowd, an lie salt on
his hans, an he swung his arms back an
forth, SOS to make a big jump, ar daown
he cum.
He'd only got 'baovt halfway daown.
when. by gorrily gosh, he seed he'd made a
miscac'IatiOn, an wus goin' TO be killed, If
he kept on, 50 he turned right ra0un' an
jumped back agin, an come daown by the
stairs"
Then the boy, who had never heard the
story before, would ask: "Bnt, Uncle Cash,
how could he jump back?" And Uncle
Cash. with a twinkle in MS eye. would re-
ply. Sonny. that's your question; answer it
Yourself"
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A SPECTACLE NEVER
TO Be FORGOTTEN.
Daring ESGapadG Of Two Union Soldiers
During The War.
They COolly Walked Into the City of FEEDER
icksburg While Batteries Were Blazing
Away at the Retiring Foe.
Written for THE SUNDAY CALI.

The flags of the Fighting Fourteenth"
fluttered over Falmouth Heights. Freder-
icksburg, soon to be the prey of the North
ern dogs Of war. was plainly visible in the
distance. Mcdowell was in command of
the Army of the Rappahannock and the
main body of the Confederates had sullenly
retired, leaving only few struggling COM
panies to harass the advance of the Union
troops. Falmouth Heights had been reached
with little resistance. Dashing Lieutenant
Decker, with his sharpshooters, had hur-
ried forward too precpitately. He was
ambushed, and three saddles, his own in
cluded, were emptied in an instant This
was, however, the only serious casualty
which occurred on that glorious April
morning in 1862. Below Falmouth
Heights bridges were burning and little
TO the right Battery B was blazing away at
the retiring foe. Beyond Fredericksburg,
Anderson's division could be seen in mo-
ton. For the Fighting Fourteenth. chris
tened "Red-legged Devils" by the Confed-
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agine ourselves in some ancient city Of BEL
GUM or Holland. The river bends and
turns, and its banks are lined with old red
bri"k wharves and tiled roofs and project
ing cranes with dangling ropes. By the
side of these wharves are long, brightly
colOred wineries, with their straight masts
and curving hullS. In midstream. per-
chance, another of these eminently pctur-
esque craft is being navigated round the
sharp bends of the river by the aid of long
quanting poles. One will not fail to see
the picturesque old Bishops Bridge, named
after good Bishop Walter dc Suffield.
According to old prints this bridge had
formerly gate-house erected at one end,
but its present appearance is admirably de-
picted in the cut which accompanies this
article. Past Bishops Bridge, and up
considerable hill. is famous household, or,
as it is called by the natives, "Mussel"
Heath, a breezy expanse of heather and
gOrSP, with sandy roads and merrily revolv-
ing windmills, looking out over the old city,
its cathedral, red-tied roofs, orchards,
meadows, gardens and gliStening reaches of
the river.
The inhabitants Of Norwich still talk of
living sin the TOmbland," and the custom
has an air of Quaintness. Here is old st.
George TOmbland, whose cool purple walls
and bright green church-yard we see through
tie dark shadows of an ancient archway by
the side of house at whose portal formerly
stood two large carved figures, Samson
and Hercules" who, IL was said, used to
walk in the Tombland when they heard the
cathedral clock strike at midnight. And
here stand the two well-known gateways
leading to the cathedral precincts, St. Ethel
bertS Gate and the Erpingham Gate. The
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fancied it might Sc big brother, older than
the others by seme hours. and SC entitled to
the Difference he seemed to exact.
Then, in another part of the drop OF
water, the little ones formed almost circle,
and presently in the center of this came a
big fellow-he must have been 1-1000 of an
inch long-who began revolving slowly.
"P. T. Barnum" thought 10 myself. That
is exactly the way l have seen him address
an audience surrounding circus ring
but l can never know what he told
the smaller ones, for not even the
little ghost of an inaudible squeak
reached my ears. Besides these little
creatures | could see what looked like
dark specks darling above. Determined to
find cut what these were used a stronger
magnlfying glass, and looking through it the
sDeckS proved to be other little swimmers
such as had just been examining, and the
latter, of course, seemed larger. But now
there were still ether specks darting about
so still stronger glass was used, with the
same result Magnify as l might, l could
not reach a point where there were not
some moving atoms needing further magni-
flying. / have since learned that no glass
has ever been made powerful enough to re-
veal the tiniest of these infusoria as they are
called.-St Nicholas