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The morning call., 1891-12-04
A NEW ERA IN BULLETS.
German Silver May Be the Coming
Metal.

German Silver May Be the Coming
Metal.
Experiments are in progress at the United
States Arsenal at frankfort which have
for their ultimate object the decision of the
important question of how to arm the troops
of the United States Army go as to bring
them fully up to the latest requirements of
modern warfare. This subject is now under
inquiry by board of officers Of the army,
of which Colonel Robert Hall is President
and Major George w. Mckee, commanding
officer at the Frankfort Arsenal, is mem
Der.
The board is investigating the service
ability, reliability of action and general
worth of all the various firearms recently
invented in England, France and Germany,
as well as in this country, and proposes TO
make an exhaustive study of all the various
phases OF the subject, including explosives
and pTojectiles, before making a report to
War Department.
In the meantime officers of the United
States Army contend that this nation IS
not behind any other civilized Government
in this respect, as all nations have reached
no further than an experimental stage. The
United States is fully abreast, if not in the
lead, of all others in the matter OF arnling
men for service in the field
1t Is fully recognized by army experts
that the ordinary black gunpowder made
solely from charcoal, sulphur and satpeter,
will eventually give way to some of the
newly invented smOkeless powders, and that
the leaden bullet will be replaced by some
harder and more penetrating metal. Ex-
periments are now being made in the manu-
facture OF cartridges, and it appears to be
pretty well settled that German silver will
be the metal adopted for the small-arm pro-
jectle of the future. 1t is the purest of all
substances yet proposed for this purpose is
less affected by the heat of the arm in re-
loading, and does not deteriorate to any
great extent by contact with the atmos-
pnere.
Among the principle questions to deter
mine is whether or not the bullet of the
cartridge shall be fabricated. So far the
experiments at the arsenal have been in
favor of fabrication. The method of lubri-
cation now being experimental with is as
follows:
A series Of four shallow countersunken
rings or channels, about oGe-quarter of an
inch apart and one-eightb of an inch wide
each, are turned in the bullet near its ba Sc.
These channels are filled with Japan wax,
which the heat from the powder, when fired,
causes t. melt sufficiently 10 lubricate the
rlfied grooves Of the piece. This is called
the ''cannelure" process.
OF the sm0keless powders so far used the
best results have been obtained from the
Wetteren, and yesterday 30-caliber bullet,
fired at 500 yards, pierced its way through
nineteen one-nch pine boards placed one
inch apart.-Philadelphi Record
The morning call., 1891-12-04
ALIENATED AFFECTIONS.
Mrs. Mantell's Suit for a Separation
EIcites Much Surnrisa In New Nnr L

Mrs. Mantelps Suit for Separation
EIcites Much Surprise in New York.
Information that Mrs. Robert B. Man
tell, wife of the popular actor, had instI-
tuted proceedings for separation created
good deal of establishment among their New
York friends. Probably no actor since
Montague has been as popular with theater-
goers as Mantcll. For years the domestic
life of the couple has been held up as
model. Only two years ago New York
newspaper quoted Mrs. Mantell as saying
that she had three trunks of love letters
written to her husband by foolish women
all over the country. half of which had
never even been opened much less read.
When lie played with Fanny Davenport,
as Loris Ipanoff in Fedora" the stage door
used to be fairly blockaded with handsome
girls and sedate matrons who were glad TO
get even glimpse OF the handsome actor as
he left the house.
Later at the Fifth-aveuue Theater the
same scene with the addition of bushels of
love-lettcrs was repeated when he played
In Called Back" To all these loVc-slck
persons MIR. Mantell turned a deaf ear, and
Mrs. Mantell had perfect confidence in her
husbands loyalty, even going so far as to
give good advice TO several ingenious but
bold young women who called at the hotel
| where Mr.. Mantrll and she were stopping,
and who hoped by some subterfuge to get an
audience with their idol.
Shortly afterward the anonymous letter
writer began to work, and although at first
Mrs. Mantell paid no attention to cOmmuni-
cations she did not think worthy of cOnsid-
Grafton, names and dates were mentioned
so plainly that, on looking into one of the
cases, she found, as she believed, that the
writer was not telling a falsehood. One
thing led to another, and finally Mrs.
Mantell was induced to consult a PROM
inent legal firm.
II do not want an absolute divorce" she
said, but separation and the custody of
our children"
Her attorneys state that If the actor
would make provision for the support Of
his family the matter would end there.
Mr.. Mantell, who is playing in the South
now, is a Scotchman. His wife, Marie
Sheldon was an English actress, whom he
married abroad.
The person mentioned as having alien
ated the actors affections is SAID to be a
member Of his present company and
young woman well known in the theatrical
world.
The morning call., 1891-12-04
HE CANNOT EAT.
Yet Martin Hannenburg Is Literally Fat
tening for the Surgeons Knife.

Yet Martin Hannenburg Is Literally Fat
tening for the Surgeons Knife.
Martin Hannenburg of Detroit. Mich. is
literally fattening for the surgeons knife.
Martin has not eaten square meal until
within a week for many months, and even
now does not eat although he manages to
get comfortable allowance of nutritious
food into his anatomy from three to six times
a day.
Martin takes his meals directly into his
stomach by means OF a rubber tube, natural
facilities for masticatlon not being called
into use at all. Hannenburg is getting quite
q respectable color, and is gaining vitality
right along. As soon as he gets fat and
strong the doctors will cut into him some
more and see ii they cannot dispense with
the rubber tube altogether. and allow food
to be taken into the stomach in the regular
way.
Martins affection is the closing of the
eSophagus by some unnatural growth. As
the gullet gradually closed it became more
difficult for Martin 10 get food into his
stomach. At last he could swallow nothing
but liquid food, and only IN small quantities
at that. At the rste the malady was pro-
crossing the gullet would have become en-
tirely closed in a few weeks.
AS 1t was he almost starved to death
when he entered Emergency Hospital re-
Gently and put himself under the treatment
OF DIR. Wyman, who decided to perform the
operation of gastrotomy for the in
PRODUCTION of rubber tube into
the stomach. Hannenburg was cut
open, the tube was successfully
placed and the incision closed. Despite
his emaciated condition, the patient dis
played marvellous recuperative powers. The
first nutriment introduced through the tube
was whisky punch. The effect was marked :;
Martin Draced up Immediately and seemed
to grow stronger for the moment the liquid
gurged into his stomach. Punch and corn
meal Cruel have been the menu since and
will be for some time to come. Just as much
food is administered as the patient is able
to digest. When Martin became strong
enough the doctors Will see what can be
done with the closed gulet Considerable
cutting will probably be found necessary.
The morning call., 1891-12-04
Tested by a Candid Doctor.

DR.. G. r. King: | add my testimonial to
the virtue of your Royal Germetuer. Two
members of my family have been afflicted
with chills and fever, and from various
remedies failed TO ind relief ! tried Royal
Germetuer. and after short time the chlls
and fever broke. and no return. That it is
valuable for other diseases l am convinced
from the testimony of my friends and
neighbors. ANDREW YOUNG, NJ. D.
Cleburne, Tex, May 9, 1889.
A teaspoonful of Germetuer in glass of
water sterilizes the Impurities and makes
bad water good. A dose twice day will
counteract the poison of sewer gas and pre-
vent disease besides keeping the system in
good cond ton. A specific for indigestion.
81 81 by mail. Send for circular OF full in
formation. Call and examine our book Of
1000 testimonials.
The morning call., 1891-12-04
KINGS ROYAL GBRMEFUER
CURES
MALARiAL DISEASES.
You can't avoid Sewer Gas, but you
can Counterfeit the Poison.

Malaria is known and acknowledged by
all investigators to be germ life. These
animacua are taken into the system with
foul air and impure water. and produce
the various evils differently named accord
ing TO the seat and nature of the distress,
such as chills, fevers, blood poison. tor
pidity, etc., all of which are serious. All
are from one cause-micro- organisms. All
leaves NO i'll effects that follow the use of
quinlne, anti pyrine, calomel, ETC., but which
always does good and leaves the whole sys-
tenn in perfect tone. Germetuer comes from
a malarial country. II CURES WITH
OUT FAIL.
The morning call., 1891-12-04
TrIpped Up by an Awning.

1t Is very easy to laugh at other folks
misfortunes. Yesterday afternoon, while
the rain was drenching the streets and the
wind was playing havoc with umbrellas, a
porter at 16 Post street attempted to raise a
large, rotten awning, which had become
saturated with water At this moment c.
ii. Eldred, with his umbrella up, passed
piacidly along, but when under the awning
the rotten concern fell with crash. The
boom tripped up Eldred and carried him in
heap back to the wall, to the intense
amusement of knot of clerks in the real
estate office. The uulucky Eldred was
bruised about the hip, but no bones were
broken.
The morning call., 1891-12-04

The will of Robert c. p. Sanders, the
hermit, filed for probate yesterday, declares
that the testator lis not now and never has
been married and never had and have not
now any children" Sanders property,
valued at $4,000, is left to his brothersi and
elsfnrs
The morning call., 1891-12-04
Incorpora,ed ComnaD,es

The following companies were incorpor-
ated yesterday
Electric Railway Development Company.
Directors-Dr de Witt Clinton Moore,
George I. and j. w. Dunlap, w. NJ. Fitz
Maurice and Ira V. Hitchcock.
Pacific Mining Exchange: Directors
Alfred S. Moore, II. NJ. Shaw, w. a. Clark
and w III Worden
The morning call., 1891-12-04
City Miss
CnlnmhnS OHM

K. r. G. will break any ordinary fever
within twelve hours-even typhoid fever.
The profession claims that typhoid fever
MUST run from nine to twenty-seven days.
This was formerly true, as no remedy was
germ. Germetuer destroys this germ and
cures typhoid fever-so pronounced by COM
petent physicians.
The morning call., 1891-12-04
Cannot Keen Ont of JaiI.

Mary mckinley, who was some days ago
released from San Quentin, after serving
two years term for grand larceny, was yes
terday sentenced to six months imprison-
ment IN the House of Correction, for having
entered the house of G. c. Coey and carried
oil some clothes. Mary has the reputation
OF being unable to keep out of iaiI
The morning call., 1891-12-04
Panama Shares wortbless.

Letters of administration have been ap-
piled for on the estate Of Florine Trdou,
also called Florine Duppard, also called
Florne Paureau. Among the effects are
fifteen shares of the capital stock of the
Panama Canal Company, which is of no
ynlua
The morning call., 1891-12-04
A Certificate.

I have had malaria for years. and this
Q8S9) being a very warm winter, | was
tied down to real dumb ague. l was for
two months unable to do any wOrk-could
not sew, read, or in any way employ myself.
l took Kings Royal Germatuer as directed
and am now able TO work hard. Have not
had a chill for four weeks.
Mrs. c. A. THOMAS,
The morning call., 1891-12-04
Mortgage Eoreclosnre,

The Hibernia Savings and Loan Society
has sued the executors of the will of j. c.
Gouldn TO foreclose a mortgage for SIP, 600
on lot on Valencia street, near Twenty
second.
The morning call., 1891-12-04
Mismated Couples.

Judge Levy has granted NJ. J. Martin
divorce from G. e. Martin, for desertion.
Edward " Sourdey has sued for divorce
from Elizabeth A. and Emily II. from WILL
lam A. Smith.
The morning call., 1891-12-04
RAILROAD TRAVEL.
Wiz
NORTH PACIFIC COAST Rail Road
TIME TABLE.

Commencing Tuesday, Dec. I, 1891, ana
until further notice. boats and trains will run
follows;
From SAN FRANCISCO for sAUSALITo. ROSS
VALLEY and SAN RAFAEL week dsys)-7:35
$50, IL 100 a. M. :45, 1928, 1855. 6:lOP N.
(Sundays)-S:00, 10:u0 II 80 "; l 80, $500,
$500, $3.50 p. NJ.
From SAN FRANCISCO for MILL VALLEY (wesk
days)-7:5o, $3.50. IL 100 A. N. 1928, 4:55 $40
r. N.
tsundays)-s;oo, 1000, IL: 80 A. NJ; l 80, 8 100,
200 p N. Extra trip on Sata days at 40 P. N.
From SAN RAFAEL for SAN FRANCISCO (week
days)-6:25. 7;45, $3.50, Halo A. M 40. $3.50.
1863 P. NJ.
tsundaysJ-s:oo, ESQ A. NJ; 1900 N; 1880 $3.50.
500 p. NJ. Extra trip Saturdays at 625 P. N
Fare, 50 cents round trip.
From MILL VALLEY for SAN FRANCISCO week
days)-640, 7:55. $40, lI:00 N; 1885, 500
r. N.
(Sundays)-s:lO, 1910. ll:4o A. NJ: LAS. $3.50
6:lo P. NJ. Fare, 80 cents round trip.
From SAUSALIro for san FRANCISCO (wssk
days)-7:00 S:15. 1905, 1853 A. NJ 2:30, 4:0o.
s go NJ.
lsundays)-s:45, 10:4O A. NJ: l2:t5. 2:l5, AIS.
6:45 NJ. Extra trip on Saturdays at US 2. n
Fare rs cents round trip.
The morning call., 1891-12-04

RHey's Resignation.
L. i. Riley, Assistant Auditor of the
Custom-house, resigned yesterday He will
be succeeded by Charles L. Cloyes, who
formerly occupied the same position.
The morning call., 1891-12-04
FOR PORTLAND g. ASTORIA, OREGON
OCEANIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

THE SPLENDID 3OOG-ToN STEAMERS /sag
L of this line. carrying United States, -
Hawaiian and Colonial mails sail from Folsom-st
Wharf under.
EOR HONnfUI.U ONLY.
SIS AUSTRALIA. TUESDAY, Dec. %, at 2 P. NJ
FOR HONOLULU, AUCKLAND AND SYDNEY
DIRECT.
rs MARIPOSA. THURSDAY, Dec 20. at 8 P. VI
For freight and passage apply at Office 327 Marke,
street J. u. SPkECKELS & BROS,
26t General Agents.
The morning call., 1891-12-04

The San Francisco Gaslight Company
will soon erect another large gas reservoir
at its works at North Beach to be, it is
said, the largest in the United States.
The morning call., 1891-12-04
ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET co.

CLEANERS LEAVE ASPlNwALL
= fortnightIy FOR the West Indies and <fHiSEEs
Southampton, calling route at Cher -sAa-afzz@s
bourg France. and plymouth to land passengers
Through iillls OF Lading in connection with tn,
Pacific Mail 5. S. Co., issued for freight and treasure
10 direct ports in England and Germany
Through tickets from san Francisco 10 Plymouth
Cherbourg, Southampton. First class $l95; Jairi
class, $97 80. for further particular apply to
le1uu fAtROrt Gu Agents 3u5 CailIo rnia So,
The morning call., 1891-12-04
PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY

T.ali '0N'AN'' . ANA'A will -
FOR NEW YORK VIA PANAMA..
6. S. CITY OF SYDNEY, Saturday, Dec. IL. 1891,
IL ncon taking freight and passengers direct for
Mazatlan, San Bias ManZanilIo Acapulco. Cham
perico. San Jose de Guatemala, La Libertad and
Panama, and via Acapulco for all lower Mexican
and Central American ports.
FOR HONt;-KOSG VIA YOKOU ANA.
CHINA (via Honolulu. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
.......... Thursday. December 10. 1891, at PM
CITY OF PEKINa. .,.........,,,...,...
Thursday, December 81, 1871, a. PM
CITY OF RIO DE JAN EIRO. ...... ......,....,,..,,
........... Saturday, January D. 1892 at 5 rx
Round trip tickets IL AoAohama and return,s.,.
Cuced rates.
For freight passage apply at the once cornsrI:
First and Brannan streets
branch otice-2D2 Front street.
9Th II ALEXANDER CENTER, General Aren't
The morning call., 1891-12-04
RAILROAD TRAVEL.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY.

Trains Leave and Are Due to Arrive n,
San Ey>kNCyGEn
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-20
Dung came out thought smelt something

bung came out thought smelt something
natural.
Another chap stepped up with ward of
rubber hose, put one end in the cask and
took big pull at the other ed. Then be
handed me the hose, and | just filed nv
tank plumb to the Plimson mark with
genuine water front whisky. The whole
tribe took whack at it. and all toddled
back home drunk and joyous.
81 concluded that my skipping from the
whaler was the biggest piece Of lnck that
ever was, aud wasn't in any hurry to go
aboard again. Talk about being cast away
on an island where bread grows on trees
and turtles lay eggs that roast on the sand
without a fire! That's solitary confinement
at hard labor alongside of tumblng into au
Injun camp. where all you've got to do is
to kick hole in the sand and get blind
drunk.
Zone day when the chief had lucid i'm
terval, having been toe drunk or sick early
in the morning TO take his regular beach
cocktail, l asked him where he got the
liquor, and he led me around a point and
showed me the charred wrecks Of lot of
vessels. / saw that these were some of the
whaling fleet that had been lost. When the
ships came ashore the natives started in TO
strip them, and the first things they got out
were the LIQUOR casks and the medicine
chests Anybody who has been at sea knows
what sort of stuff is slowed in a medicine
chest for sailors. But the natives didn't
know and they pitched in and drank up all
the drugs and ate what wasn't drlnkable.
1.-The chief gave me to understand that the
tribe wasn't much struck on medicine
chests, and he showed me where about half
the original population of the village was
buried. AS well as could make out from
bis signs and his lingo he didn't feel very
well himself for few weeks after tackling
the drugs, and he shed most OF his teeth be-
fore he got through with the job.
1.-The survivors of the medicine spree
thought the job had been put up on them
and when they got well enough to move
around bit they went aud set fire to the
wrecks.
II was with the tribe for about six weeks
and was full all the time. Whenever a
cask was emptied they scraped another hole
in the sand and uncovered fresh supply.
don't know how many barrels of liquor they
had buried, but there must have been a lot
of them.
FINALLY got tired of living on whisky,
for never did get so that | could eat their
grub, and one day when a vessel showed up
near the point persuaded some natives to
take me out to her in a canoe, and / left
them. A few days later he fell i'll with very
vessel l had deserted from, and | was not
put aboard"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-20

So striking have been the advances in
modes of cultivation and the appliances for
planting and harvesting peanuts, says B.
w. Jones in an exchange, that the old direc-
tions and plans are now, in many instances,
no longer applicable. Much less work is
now done by hand, than was formerly.
Planting is performed by machines that
make the rows, drop the pease, and cover
them at one operation, one hand, with single
horse, planting, in nice order, five or six
hands. Now the cultivation is done with
the pillow, or peanut cultivator, or sweep
mainly, and much less hoe work is required.
All this saves great deal of labor and ex-
pense, and the cost of growing the crop is
very much lessened Much has been learned
too, as TO soils and fertilizers best suited for
growing bright, solid peanuts and large
products per acre. Mari is now the sine
qua non it formerly was though still much
used, and oyster she'll lime, land plaster and
special peanut fertilizers are more employed
1t Is found that peanuts precede corn in a
rotation better than they follow it. Land
covered with a smart growth of vegetable
matter of the previous year, with shell lime
applied in the drill under the pease is found
to yield more and finer pods than clean land
du0 lei bAllLeI.
Perhaps the most striking change in pea
| nut culture during the past decade has
been the rapid and wide extension OF area
| on which peanuts are now grown. Con-
| fined originally as a market crop to a small
section Of Southeast Virginia, one or two
| counties near Wilmington, N. c., and to a
| district of very limited extent in West Ten
nessee, its cultivation has widened greatly,
embracing now practically one-half of
| tidewater Virginia, nearly the whole of
| Eastern North Carolina and ten or more
counties of West Tennessee, and has also
been extended to many other states until
now it is grown more or less in nearly
every southern state, in Missouri, in the In
| dian Territory, and even in Arizona and
California More than dozen states now
produce the savory and profitable peanut
where but two or three grew it ten years
ago. 1t is quietly, but rapidly. becoming a
national product and like tobacco, cannot
boast any longer of being the peculiarly
| southern crop it once was.
But for the fact that this product has
been captured by trusts and syndicates, and
the profits that ought to be the farmers are
turned violently into the Golfers of the mid
dlemen, the culture of peanuts would be
one of the most profitable OF rural employ
ments. Were there nothing to hinder the
natural law of supply and demand, the
grower would get paid for his work, even
though the cultivation should increase ten"
fold still. The demand for it, and uses to
which it is applied, are constantly increas-
ing, and of course as long as these continue
to multiply the price will not fall materi-
ally. 1t is not easy to surnise what the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-20
HUNTING ANTELOPE,
How the Animal Was Lured to His
Ruin.

How the Animal las Lured to His
Ruin.
In early days before the game of the
prairies became educated to the wiles of the
white man, it was easy to flag an antelope
and lure him TO his ruin. A white or red
rag tied 10 stick aud allowed to futter in
the breeze would bring herd OF antelope.
Even the white canvas Of a prairie schooner
would then SO excite the curiosity of a herd
that they would approach near enough for
the teamster to shoot two or three.
Since those days, however, the antelope.
owing to the relentless war waged against
him. has become so wary that he not only
restraints his own curiosity but prevents
the hunter from approaching within 600
yards A guide, scout, hunter, trapper and
Indian fighter, known as Li7er-enting
johnson, while. hunting with the writer Of
an article contributed TO The Big Game
of North America, said to him: ia
What live antelope don't see between
dawn and dark isn't visible from his stand
point; and while you're a-gawkin' at him
through that ERE glass, to IN Ike out whether
he's a rock or a goat, he's acolntin' your
cartridges and fxln's, and maxim up his
mind which way he'll scoot when you dis
appear in the draw for tofslesk on i'm"
The writer OF the3apt Gle eaee got sinto a
not corner Whl1s pun tlFea aptsippe,n n was
out with the S@venths Cavalry &c uster' s
regiment-folloWiug a trail which took q
short cut across one of the big bends of the
Missouri, the neck of which was not more
than mile wide :. .eo et11
The scouts and Indians wers skirting the
river two miles 20 the right. Suddenly
several shots were heard IN that direction,
and herd of 700 pr 500 antelope we're seen
weeping over the prairie.usThe cavalry
with the wagon-train spanned the marrow
neck from side TO side, so that the antelope
found themselves ia a cul-de7SGc,. from
which there was no escape. y g.r1b 81
The writer. being midway between the
column and the scouts, had full view of the
flesing herd as they charged 300 or SOC
yards past him. Seeing several strAgglers,
he dismounted, picketed his horse, aud
killed two or three s.-.-
he was beginning TO enjoy this battue
shooting. when a volley of bullets came
Whizzing by. Instantly he dropped on the
ground. He was between two fires-the
scouts firing as they advanced from the river
and the soldiers pelting away as they
closed in from the neck. The bullets
before reaching the spot where he was hug.
ging the earth, struck the ground, and ther
came tumbllng and rlcCocheting over his
head, buzz.ng at times SO close as to make
his position highly uncomfortable.sW
During the lulls IN the firing be signaled
several times to the soldiers not to kill him.
But he had nerve and kept on Shooting
firing forty shots and killing eight ante
lope. On riding over the ground forty or
NIFTY dead antelope were 70 und, enough to
Keep the regiment in meat for several days.