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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-07
A FRIGHTFUL FALL.
A Workman Tumbles n Distance of 1
Feet and Escapes Unhurt.

A Workman Tumbles n Distance of 121
Feet and Escapes Unhurt.
One of the narrow escapes from death
that no one can account for is reported in
Brooklyn.
William Hanley fell from height of 121
feet, and not only was not hurt, but was not
frightened, and the only ebulliton of feel
ing he manifested was in connection with
the stoppage of his watch, caused, no doubt.
by the conclusion. Hanley was working on
brick chimney 125 feet high, at the Ridge
wood Water Works. He and other men
were on a scaffold and were pretty near the
end of their lob. The last tier of bricks for
the chimney were laid. and the coping,
stone in quarter sections. was about to be
cemented on top. Hanley, housesmith,
was engaged adjusting the top girder, and
10 do this work lie had to stretch himself
along his length on the stone coping.
Immediately below him was Ludwig
Mastersou, another houses NTH. Hanley
turned round to speak to Masterson,
and as he did so. the coping stone on which
he was lying slipped from its place, crashed
against the scaffold below, struck Master
son on the shoulder and the two men de-
scended together, but parted half way
down, MastersOn striking against the scat
fold and staying on 1t, and Hanley falling
into mOrtar-trrugh on the ground. He
was tHouble W oe uoaui ahu WAC pIaOeu Uh
pile of blankets in the engine-house. while
the contractor summoned an ambulance
When Ambulance Surgeon McEvitt ar
rived, the workmen remembered Master
son, who had been caught and held by the
scaffolding half way up, ana they went to
bring him down. He was found to be suf-
ferng from injuries all over the body, and
they carried him down the long ladders to
lay him beside the dead Hanley. But Han
ley refused to be considered dead. Not
only that, but he was walking around curl
ously examining the ground and laughing
at the idea that poor Masterson was
wounded, while lie. who had fallen twice
tire distance, was sound as dollar. Mas
terson was sent TO the hospital, while Han
ley went gayly to his home, whistling as he
went.-New York special to the New Or
leans Times-Democrat.
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Judge Gresham makes point of spend
ing his vacations with his mother.
Ex-Congressmon Pidcock of New jersey
is an extensive peach-gr0wer and controls
about half the orchards in Hunterdon
County.
The model for Harriet Hosmer's Queen
Isabella is nearly completed In that artists
studio in Rome.
The King of Siam is good-looking fellow.
whom the Orientals think handsome enough
to be a lady-killer.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is disguised
with the Brooklyn statue of her late hus-
band because it makes him "look like
tramp"
Frank Hamilton Cushing. the eminent
ethnologist, has recovered from the serious
and painful illness which has Frustrated him
for over two years past.
The Empress of Austria@ShOws sympto ms
of insanity. The Duchess d'AlencOn, q Sis
ter of the Empress, is in an insane asylum
at Gratz and the mad King of Bavaria is
cousin of the Empress.
Henry Irvng's son will make his debut
in London this season. aud the expectations
arc that the successful young Oxonian Will
be able to keep. up the family reputation
and be a credit to the stage.
When Collector Fassett was Senator he
wrote his name u. Sloat Fassett." The
Treasury Department has ordered him to
accept a prescribed official signature.
Senator Black burn of Kentucky is seri-
ously i'll and his friends are anxious about
him. His splendid constitution and natural
ability to soon throw off ordinary attacks
of sickness are, however. strong points i'll
his favor.
Mayor Shakespeare of New Orleans, who
is at the Warm Strings in North Carolina.
is in very bad health. He has lost almost
entirely the use of his left arm and leg and
it is feared that this disability may become
permanent.
Julia Marlowe, the actress, is said to have
wonderful memory. AS test not long
ago she committed to memory and reclted
the entire letter Of Baron Faya to Secret,ry
Blaine after il had been read but twice In
her presence.
Rene Raoul Duval, TO whom Mrs. James
Brown Potter's sister is engaged to be mar
ried, is nephew of Leon Say the French
statesman. The young mans father Is at
the head of the gas works OF Naples and
Paris. Nj. Duval Is said to have an annual
income of ], 000,0 600 francs.
When Judge Smith of Magnolia. Ark,
divorced couple one day and on the next
married the liberated woman to- another
man and kissed the bride as part OF his Zee,
he showed bustling method in dispatch
ing business which effete Europe can only
envy without being able to initiate.
The most prolific of English novelsts Is
said to be Mrs. Alexander, who. like An
th0ny Trollope, sits at her desk every day
and forces herself to accomplish certain
amount Of work whether she feels in
mood for it or not She has been writing
for many years, and as soon as she finishes
one book she begins another.
Lord Randy" Churchill takes life quite
pleasantly while travelling around and writ
ing up Mashonaland, and has two cooks,
plenty of cabinet wines, choice champagnes
and lots Of other luxuries and comforts
which tend to take off the sharp edges OF
special correspondence work in Afr lea.
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well known Mr.. Book walter is irving an
experiment in Nebraska that will be Watched
with great interest, not only in our own
country, but in every other civilized land.
The experiment will be the establishment of
farm villages with the purpose of bringing
to farmers the benefits of association and
cooperation, which almost every other class
has secured in some way or other, and
especially of bringing relief from the ter
ribe isolation of farm life.
Mr.. Bookwalter has written for the Sep
tember number of The Forum full state
ment of his own experience on farm, in
Guiding a description of the actual work
done day by day, year by year, by, the
average Western farmer; and he explains
the reasons why he hopes by the building of
farm villages to revolutionize the dreary life
of the farmer. The article is at once lit
erary description of the farmers condition,
a review of the causes of agricultural de-
preston, and. most important of all, an
explanation of practical remedy that
seems to be constructed on the lines of the
most important modern advancement
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wbv the Game Needed Editing.

Three newspaper men were playing al
legged billiards in the spacious billiard-room
of the Palmer House the other afternoon
while two fell0w-workers in the business
looked on and made remarks about the game,
which could not stand many remarks. 1t
was weak and hating. When after many
efforts and sundry wild dabs with the cue
one of the trio would count the quintet would
indulge in wild hilarity. But this did not
happen often. The buttons were becoming
fastened on the wire by rust. The play was
bad. Shots were made with the best inten-
tions in the world, but somehow the balls
always rolled too far to one side or other.
Finally after period of futile shots, one Of
the onlookerS said:
You fellows ought to get some one to
read copy on that game you're playing"
How is that?" asked the player who had
missed last.
Because there's so much bad English in
it.'-Chicago Herald.
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ALost Nickel Makes Trade Lively.

A South Illinois street druggist worked
novel cigar-sellng scheme a few weeks ago
in the following fashion He found stray
nickel on the flGor of his store one morning
and revolved to post this notice on the win
dow of his store:
"a sum of money found on Tuesday la st
in this establishment. The owner will re-
ceive same within upon describing the
money"
The scheme worked like charm. Hun
dreds of citizens came in daily for over a
week while the notice was left on the win
dow, describing their losses and bewailing
their misfortune.
Invariably every applicant for the lost
money bought cigar. Some we're satisfied
with 5-cent straight whiffs. but the great
majority, anxious to impress the drug man
favorably toward their claims, invested in
two for quarter.
So great was the rcsh that the fortunate
druggist had TO order fresh consignment
of choice brands. None of the applicants
ever applied for the nickel. All the claims
ran up I'D the hundreds Of dollars, one man
stating he missed his bank-boo with $500.
indianapolis Sentinel.
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A HORRIBLE SUICIDE.
A Lunatic P1uDges Into a Bath-Tub Full
OF Nil linz, Nnt

A Lunatic PluDges Into a Bath-Tub Full
of Boiling Water.
Notwithstanding every effort to conceal
from the public by the officials in charge of
the Weston Lunatic Asylum it leaked out
that the fourth suicide in the past two weeks
among patients occurred there recently, the
details of which are more horrible than
any heretofore reported William F. Cook,
admitted from Wood County about year
ago, went into the bathroom during the alb
sencs of his nurse, got into the bath-tub,
turned on boiling water and laid there I'M
til his body was entirely cooked. 1t was
some time before he was found, and when
the attendants attempted to remove the
body from the tub the flesh dropped from
the bones In large pieces, leaving only his
misunderstanding wv. Va) dispatch to
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-07
SEVENTEENTH STREET.
Property Owners Protest Against Il
Grade as Established.

Property Owners Protest Against the
Grade as Established.
A meeting OF rroperty-owDers along the
proposed official grade of Seventeenth
street. from Clara avenue west, was held
yesterday morning at Smiths Hall, corner
of Douglass and Seventeenth streets.
Z. j. Mcnamara was selected rs Chair
man, and he stated the object of the gather
ing to be the adoption of some feasible
plan to protest against the present estab-
lished grade, and to suggest changes that
would not nure so much to the hardship of
any of the owners of property along the
street, as the continuation of the work on
the proposed official grade would result in.
A petition was formulated, and received
many signatures. 1t will be presented be-
fore the session of the Board of Supervisors
tonight.
A committee of nine property owners, in-
Guiding the Chairman, was appointed to ap-
pear ebefore the Street Committee of the
board on Thursday and further the cause
n the OetitiOnprs
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rock formed by the action of the water
aqueous r0ck-and in these cObglomerates
there certainly was copper. This seemed
find indeed. But when the matter was re-
ported science scoffed at the explorers, say,
ing that the copper conglomerates found
were simply freak of nature, and that
money would be wasted If an attempt shoulu
be made to work them.
$50 Mr.. Hurburt, who owned the lands,
continued to give his attention to the huron
mine, which was working the lava flows.
For the money lie borrowed for the Huron
he gave to Quincy Shaw of Boston the iands
ON which the conglomerates were found.
Mr. Shaw soon began to work these rocks.
and from these beginnings the richest, most
stable and the best promising copper min Q
in the world has been built up."-De troll
Tribune,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-07
A Miraculous Escape From Death.

Charles Wood of New Brunswick, n. j.,
had miraculous escape from death
in the Park place disaster, New York.
While in the city that day Woods
was called by business to Park place to
make some purchases. Happening to pass
Hudson's Restaurant. in the building where
the accident occurred. he stepped into 1t to
get some lunch. He had walked halt way
down the restaurant when he remembered
he had other purchases to make. and II he
took lunch he could not finish his business
and catch the train to New Brunswick. He
pulled out his watch and noted the time,
and. turning about, walked out Of the res
taurant.
minute later there was a rumbling noise
and the building out OF which he had just
walked had fallen in mass of ruins to the
street. Woods was then not more than
twenty or twenty-five feet away. He says
when he was in the restaurant il was
crowded, and there must have been between
sixty and seventy people In it.-N.Y. Press
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-07
THEY WAITED IN VAIN.
Their Prophet Failed Them, and Now
Thev Are Willing 10 Wnrk

Their Prophet Failed Them, and Now
They Are willing to Work.
A correspondent of the Mohave Miner
states that the miners of that county are
now finding willing workers and assistants
in the Wallapai Indians. change has
come over the spirit of the WalIapa dream
evidently, which, the correspondent states,
is mainly due TO the fact that the old chief,
Sherum, has proven himself false
prophet, aud has lost his political pull.
For year previous to April 1st he prophe-
sled that ali white people would disappear
from the earth on that date, and the In
dams idly waited. to take possess ion. Now
they believe the whites who told them the
old chief was either lunatic or liar. and
have gone to work in earnest,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-07
FRACTURED HIS SKULL.


John Brosman Falls From a Doorstep
and Is Killed.
10 I'm Brosmnn, a longshoreman living at
1873 Perry street, died early yesterday morn
ing from fracture Of the skull. Just how
he received the fatal injury is not definitely
known. At O'Clock his remains were
found lying in the basement beneath the
steps at 1877 Perry street. He had been
drinking heavily, and 1t is supposed that he
went to sleep on the doorstep, and, losing
his balance, fell over into the basement.
His remains we're removed to the Morgue,
where an autopsy and inquest will be held
to-day.
The deceased was unmarried, aged 81
years, and native Of Massachusetts.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-07
HELP FOR THE EXILES.
San Francisco Hebrews Aiding Russian
EmiRranfa.

San Francisco hebrews Aiding Russian
Emigrants.
A. NJ. Levy presided over a meeting of
Hebrews held yesterday afternoon in B'nai
Birth Hall, for the purpose of discussing
means for assisting their c0-relgionists who
are driven by the tyranny Of the Gar of
Russia TO seek an asylum in the United
States.
After brief discussion, it was decided to
appoint committee OF eight ladies to solicit
subscriptions among the Jews of San Fran
cisco, and the following were chosen for the
work: Miss Jennie Mar kowitch, Miss Lille
Levin, Mrs. Sarah Zuckerman. Mrs. Annie
Schoenield, Mrs. Annie Light, Miss Sadie
Markowitch, Mrs. Annie Levin and Mrs. j.
Fechser. The subscribers will pay at least
10 cents a week per capita
Mr.. Glickman was elected Treasurer OF
the association and j. Godstein Chairman
for the next meeting, " hich will be held at
1886 Folsom street On Septem Der goth.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-07
PIGS FOUND THE COPPER.

The Scientists Knew It Could Not Be
There, but Nevertheless 1t Was.
"How was the Calumet and Hec!a dis
covered you ask. Here. Captain Duncan,
you tell this man what he wants to know"
Thus appealed to, the broad shouldered,
smiling-fa man whose spirit pervades the
great copper mine stepped up to the little
group waiting for dinner in the hotel at Cal
umet.
at was pigs" he said.
"Yes, il was pigs" echoed the group.
"Pigs!" 1 exclaimed, incredulously.
"Pigs, and no mistake" remarked the
captain. "Back In 1868 an exploring party
came here to try and find copper. They
built a shanty to live in, and, of course,
they brought some pigs. One night the
pigs were lost The boarding house keeper
started out to find Them. After long
search he heard the pigs roofing and squeal-
ing. but he could not see them.
1.-The noises seemed to come from down
in the earth. Next morning party of men
went back to the place whence the noises
came, and, after search, they found a pit
10 or 10 feet deep. The mouth was covered
with bushes, and the growth Of the trees
about the sides gave every evidence that it
had not been used for centuries. There the
pigs we're cOntentedly roofing among the
broken pieces OF rock.
A rude stone hammer and some charred
sticks gave evidence of earlier explorers
who had evidently gone away unsuccessful.
The hammer was of the same kind as the
other implements, which had been tracked
back to the days of the predecessors of the
Indians whom the French found in posses
sion of the landslide Indians who built
mounds, and who overran the whole country
from Mexico to Lake Superior where they
got copper for their implements and uten-
sis.
1.-The mound builders. like the explorers
VINO had discovered the ancient pit. looked
for copper only In masses, as II had been de-
posted in assure veins and in the lava flows.
The huge chunks of virgin copper weighing
many tons, and the smaller masses hanging
in the rocks like metal icicles, were the only
kind known to the ancients. and the m6derns
had been assured by the learned biologists
that copper could be found only in rocks
formed from lava.
"But the pigs had turned over ieces Of
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-07
Gemmed With Pearls.

mouth gemmed with pearls flashes radiance
every time IL opens. The contrast between the
ruby of lovely lips and the pearly teeth they in-
closed has winged the fancy of many poet.
SOZUDONT, fair ones. is the Thing that most
contributes to adorn the feminine mouth. II is
pure, 1t is aromatic. It retains the natural color
Of teeth incru,ted with yellow tartar. No gritty
or other Objectionable Ingredient communicates
IT, its odor is balmy, aud its purifying operation
thorough.
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work of a LandIord,s club.

Harry Knapp, man of uncertain occu-
patton, entered a Commercialstreet lodging
house yesterday afternoon in search of a
friend. Instead of finding his friend he en-
countered the landlord, with whom he be-
came involved in a quarrel. The sauabble
ended by the landlord knocking ont Knapp
with club. Knapp went to the Receiving
Hospital, where DR.. Berry dressed a deep
wound over his left temple.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-07
BAGGAGE NOTICE.

DY RETAINING YOUR BAGGAGE CHECKS
- until you reach San Francisco and then leaving
She same at our Branch once. located In the wais-
tng-room OF the Oakland Ferry Depot, foot OF Mar
ket street, you will not only the annoyance OF
transfer agents, but will also save l5c on the de-
livery of each trunk. Our rates: One trunk S5es
per trunk. MORTON SPECIAL DELIVERY. II
Geary street. .se2tf
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LABOR DAY.
Final Preparations for the Annual
Pageant.

The annual parade and festivities OF the
trade and labor unions will be held to-day
The parade will form at II o'clock TINS
morning at the corner of Market and Call
fornla streets. The place of honor has been
given to the Council of Federated Trades,
which will be followed by the unions.
There will be seven floats in the process
sion. The unions that will participate VIII
muster about 70O0 men, about One-thlfd OF
the number OF organized labOrers In Inc
city.
The parade will move along Market TO
Montgomery, to California, to kearny, TO
Market, to Van Ness avenue, TO Bush'
where the line will countermarch to Mar
ket, and will thence proceed along valencia
to Wo0dward's Gardens, where speeches
will be made and "A theatrical performance
Will be given.
The officers chosen for the parade are: W..
j. Mackay, grand marshal; Alfred Fuhr-
man, chief of staff C. j. Boyle and Harry
Rogers. chief aids. There will be ten
divisions, in charge of the following mar
shals: A. Philo, c. Munk, &. II. Saunders,
Z. Anderson, l.. j. Cannon, j. Bacon. X. l.;
Schmidt, A. Falon, w. a. Lewis, +. b.
Bishop.
a handsome banner of red silk has been
purchased by the Council of Federated
Trades, who will be marshaled by NJ. h.
Atkins of the Typographical Union.
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Found.

Found, a gem Of priceless beauty;
Found, pearl without flaw,
Found, friend to all the people;
Found, play to always draw"
Found, foil to wasting canker;
Found. Joy forever more;
Found, the choicest, purest, sweetest,
Dentifrice e'er known before.
Found Is SOZOD0NT the Peerless
Boon to every one on earth;
Cleansing. heallnG-all meu bless the
Hour sweet S0ZODONT had birth.
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uasd a GentIe Hatchet.

C. w. Perkins was arrested yesterday af-
ternoon at his home, on the corner of Third
and Folsom streets, while driving his wife
from home with Ratchet.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-07

A dairy-schnol is soon to be opened in
connection with the Maine State Agricul-
tural College for the purpose of teaching the
best methods Of handling milk and making
butter and cheese.
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ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET co.

CLEANERS LEAVE ASPINwALL op>
= fortnightly for the West Indies and 1eNEN-
Southampton, calling route at Cher -
bourg France. and Plymouth TO land passengers.
Through iiills of Lading in connection with the
Pacific Mail s. Co.. issued for freight and treasure
TO direct ports in England and Germany.
Through tickets from San Francisco to Plymouth,
Cherbourg, Southampton. First class $l95: third
class, $97 So For further particulars apply to
ielOtf PARR0rr u CO.. Agents. 3U5 California St
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LAID TO REST.

A strong organization of taiors was
formed on Saturday night to oppose Chi
nese competition.