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The morning call., 1891-01-25

Mrs. Mona Card has an ancient spoon in
which she takes almost as much pride as in
her marriage theories. 1t would he hard to
ind Its like outside a museum. 1t has q
round silver bowl and 'cochlear" handle.
so called because the Icing point was used to
draw snals and muSselS out of their Shells
Mr. Card, who has some antiquarian lore
calls 1t Roman, and Mrs. Card uses it on
occasion for an egg-spOOn.
BUnDOn-spoOnS are reproduced exactly
from medieval French and English models,
with fiat, circular bowls, very short stems
and large, fat quantity fashioned tops,
often furnished with rings for hanging at
the girdle. Sometimes there is no stem, bus
a crouching lion or a dogs head is affixed
directly to the bowl for lifting. Teaspoons
have sometimes loRgish oval bowls, and
sometimes these are quite round. In SET
Just finished for a wealthy lady the bowls
are of antique silver, set in narrow gold
rims. Silver and gold are sometimes twist
ed to form the stems. The most delicate
enameling in culors is reSorted to.
The wee cOffee-SpOons have flower STEMS
for handles with each butteTcup dande-
lion, a daisy, pink, violet or field aster done
in gold and enamel for head. Some are
headed by tiny cupids, by the Medicean
Mercury or other classic figure
EnglShwOmen travelling in America are
able to pick up much characteristic, if noS
antique silver. They piece out the beloved
harlequin sets with spoons headed with
Sioux Indians, after the apostle model, or
with squirrels, or as in the case of Salem,
with witch figures. Mrs. Stanley is said 10
have become AN inyeterate collector.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.
The morning call., 1891-01-25
A WINTERS DAY.

To-day hold pink rosebuds lilies white,
Daisies and wildwood volets in my hand,
Dark ivy TO the easement clings;
The sea sapphire geams-an emerald the land;
tiny shadow-'ts tropc bird in flight,
That cuts sunbeam with its wings
OTIS scarlet wings)
And glad song sings.
Such is fair CALIFORNIA; winter day
Where is the dazzling icy-teweled CROWN
The ermine robes on plain and hill?
The last years robins empty nest in branches
brown?
The little snowbirds? Flown away?
The frozen lake? The moonlight still?
The moonlight still
On icy hill
Where are the branches bending meath the snowf
The silver fringe of icicles upon the caves?
The marble of the hills and dells?
The north wind scattering far the dry brown leaves
The frost upon the panes The frellghts bright
glow?
The merry merry sound of bells?
The sound of bells
Through Icy dells :?
Grim winter heard upon the mountains tall,
The woong voice of the fair tropic sea-
Felt kisses Of the warm, sweet air,
The fower-fled air that whispered, " Come with
me'
Dropped ermne robe-let Icy scepter fall,
And stole from mountains down to land of all most
fair,
To land most fair,
From icy air.
GRACE HUBBARD.
San francisco, January 81, 81.
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from the ground. but sit astride the wall like
saddles. Near the top of the wall on the in
side, square holes have been left between
the stones at short distances from each
other and in a horizontal line. In these
holes were inserted wooden beams; upon
them rested a wooden platform. along which
in the olden time the sentiuels of Wisby
paced their lofty rounds in sunshine and
storm. Three portals pierce the wall on
the land side. They are called the SOUTH
east and north gates. A massive tower rises
above each portal. These gates are in fact
but vaulted passageways through the lower
story of great square towers. Grooves in
the sides of the portal show where the port
cullis fell, and on projections outside rested
of old the drawbridge. Streets pass through
each gateway from the city to the country.
A wide meat runs around the outside of the
entire wall. and to the north there were at
least two, perhaps three, meats parallel
with each other
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THE MANIA FOR
SILVER SPOONS.
A New Collecting Fad Which Has Be-
come Quite Popular Of Late,
Souvenirs Of Separated Places and PeODle-An-
Client and Modern Treasures Which
AdOrl Fashionable Boards.
Written for THE SUNDAY CALI

what shall bring you?" asked bonnv
lad who was starting on his Wanderiahre. of
the aunt who had opened her puIse-strings
and in whose eyes he was especially anxious
to stand WELL
From every town where you see fair
face or hear pleasant tale, bring me-a
spoon"
The present fad is to set out ones board
with odd spoons altogether, and to quicken
the tagging chat with silver souvenirs of as
many cities, as many widely removed quar-
tiers Of the globe and the epochs of as many
moldering kings and ancient patrons Of art
as ones purse or ones luck or ones travels
Will provide. At a little breakfast given to
Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner before the fam
lily OF the genial humorist left for the sunny
shores of Italy one bright little woman
stirred her coffee and her wit with tiny,
strengthening, discolored spoon, shaped
like the leaf of the willow tree, and said to
have served some love-Nrn maid or weep
ing matron to empty perfumed liquors into
the lachrymatory into which also fell her
tears.
Next this classic relic, the fingers of
dark, pale, clear-skinned woman who writes
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CURIOUS SIGNALS.
Some Particular Marks Which the mi
tiated Understand.

Some Particular Marks Which the mi
tiated Understand.
The private signals of ships often create
curiosity which cannot always be satisfied
Each line has some peculiar mark which is
known as the house flag and which serves
for Identification where other signals might
fail. One of the most curious of these sig
nails is that OF the British steamship Dun
more Head of Belfast, Ireland, now loading
at Canton for that port. 1t is the represent
tation of bloody hand on each side of the
funnel and in the center of a white da-
mond in blue flag flying from the main
mast. Below the wrist are elongated marks
of crimson, representing dripping blood. 1t
is left hand, as is shown by the thumb
being forward on the port side and aft on
the starboard side OF the funnel.
This CORY symbol has meaning. 1t is the
oat-of-arms of the province of Ulster, Ire
land which derived it from the crest of the
0'Neils, who were once the royal family of
that kingdom. The whole is based upon a
tradition which the crew of the Dunmore
Head take pleasure In relating. Two sons
of the King OF Ulster, were foragng in Scot
land when the death of their father was
heard. the two agreed to row across the
channel in their primitive canoes, and the
first to touch land was to be King, to sue
coed the father. When nearing the shore
one of the brothers was about to lose the
his left hand on the gunwale of his boat,
chapped it off, and, picking it up, threw it
ashore. He became King, and the bloody
hand became the crest of the family In its
descent through ages it has, in these utili-
tartan times, served to decorate the funnel
of fleet of the finest freight steamships
ahoat. The Danmore Head belongs to the
Ulster Steamship Company. The line is
better known as the Head Line, as all the
vessels are named after headands in the
maritime counties of Ulster. They are the
Bengore Head, Teelin Head. Innisshowen
Head, Horn Head, Black Head, Fair Head,
Head. now building, is TO carry 5000 tons of
cargo. On all these steamships the officers
wear the sanguinary hand on their caps.
The plates and cups and dishes and table
linen are likewise emblazoned. In fact. the
bloody hand of Ulster is prominent every
where.-Baltimore sun.
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often plain and diguided only by tie hall
marx marx OF the crowned leopard that pr6cIafms
tnem made in London
Of mrs I Edward Burnett, the only daughter
Un James russell Lowell, is posssssed Of
many highly interesting old spoons. One
which no long tiwe since was passed IN i
visitor IN cup of bouilon, has a howl fssb~
Toned like a scallop she'll and attached 10 n
strong spiral handle, which ends in 4 soIid
knob somewhat in the form of crown II
IS OF silver and was picked up in HeideIs
berg. No one knows its history, but # is
supposed to belong to the sixteenth century
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie has several spoons.
a oHfh English and Continental, Of consider.
Sole antiquity. One of these is carved in
u9 ;I,e and ivory and has a pear-shaped bowl.
S %1ta an acorn affixed to the point OF the
handle. Two Others in silver do not differ
treaty IN form, but are surmounted. the
one 0issp py b the device of pomegranate, the
maiden. All these are attributed To the
period before the English Restoration per.
haps to the time of Charles L They differ
from the modern type in every particular.
ana their ornamented character Is quite in
harmony with the decorative and artistic
fashions Of their time.
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suggestions at once of the utmost delicacy
aud yet of ciumsiness. Here one had in a
few bits of silver full two centuries of con-
densed history.
The collection of Mrs. A. Oracle King,
the President of the Colonial Danes. who
claim descent from high officials under the
crown previous to the revolution, is proba-
bly the finest in New York so far as con-
Germs spoons OF the last century. Mrs.
King is descended from Lady Kitty Duer.
whose father was Lord Sterling. and to her
has come plate that figured at the stateliest
banquets of the days of Washington. The
teaspoons are less beautiful than many that
went before them-leSs elaborate than mod
ern patterns. They tend to fat-cheeked
bowls with length of point ana fiat han
dies with expanded heads and narrow STEMS
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GEMS IN VERSE.
Written for THE SUNDAY CALI
BROKEN.

I" BROKEN vOwl vow that linked a
e. heart
- - In trusting loyalty to one so dear,
90 Sever'd the silken cord-we drift apart,
Traitor, thy treason brings no sigh, tear.
broken heart Each golden link that bound
My heart lies SHATTERED like a fractur'd vase;
No more 1 tread loves consecrated ground,
An outcast, exil'd from that holy place.
broken lifel Loves sacred affairs turn'd
To charnel monuments of loveless gloom;
The glowing lights that round hopes chancel
burn'd
Seem ike the CHASTITY tapers of the tomb.
broken fontl Loves waters dried away;
jewel lost, and dimm'd hopes brightest gem,
Like white-crown'd lilies dropping in decay,
Like roses wither'd on the fresh green stem.
o vow, heart, life font of holy tears
Whose current ebbing left empty stream,
Hopes blighted, broken hearts and blghted years
The Dead Sea fruit-the nightmare of dream.
CHARLES J. BEATTIE.
Chicago, January ~, 1871.
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TO f. AND NJ.
Two little maids IN big bath tub.
Scrub, scrub scrub.
Two little mermaids all in a heap,
Most asleep.
Two pretty heads show DER the side.
Hide. hide, hide.
Two tiny bathers in the steam,
Like dream.
oprecious water happy brush,
Hush, hush hush.
AS white as snow away they 90,
So, so so.
Then in to bed so cute they creep,
Peep, peep, peep.
Two pretty faces free from care,
There, there, there.
Chins dimpled so, lips rosy red,
Snug in bed.
Hark to the noise, It's but snOre
Nothing more.
Aloof from the world and its woes,
They repOse.
Two virgin sisters to sin unknown,
All alone.
Two little hearts that beat so true,
Hid from view.
Two qua rdian angels overhead
Watch their bed.
San Francisco, January, 1891 P. n. OSBORNE.
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SHE KISSED HIM.

Twas Loves Young Dream and Then One
Fond Embrace-Farew ell.
He loved her-very much. He thought he
had never loved half so much before. And
she? Well, she may have loved him; that
lie didn't know-he hadn't asked her.
She was twenty. She was the most beauti-
full creature he had seen. Her hair was
black-as ink; her skin was white-as milk :;
and her eyes-how brilliant they werei
They seemed to look into his soul. And he
wondered if she knew it.
He had never seen anybody so ravishing
to look at-not even in fancy. lie had never
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TO ROSIE.

Ny heart sings as the nightingale
Its passion-song to thee,
That thou thy sweetness mayst unveil
Unto its melody.
Oh, listen, maid and at the sound
Thy modest veil remove,
And, blushng, ope and shed around
The fragrance Of thy love.
January, '9L HALLY.
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THE SOMBER RAIMENH
OF MOURNING.
Appropriate and Becoming Costumes That Are
Created by Redeem.
There is n reaper whose name is Death,
Aud with his sickle keen
He rears the bearded grain at a breath,
AND the flowers that grow between,

LONGFELLOw.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20, 1S91-Hitherto we
have considered only the costumes, bonnets
and wraps which belong to those periods
when life may indeed be a fieetng show, -
but nevertheless one which is more or less
cheerful. aud when the wearers' hearts are
light enough to go through with the every
day routine. But sooner or later there
comes to us all time when we have to real
ize that death and the grave are factors not
to be ignored in our programme; that there
is something besides sunshine and roses and
laughter in each lot Then it is we are
obliged, though reluctantly, to give thought
to the livery of woe, to that Somber raimpnt
of Grape and cashmere, which, however, may
be made stylish and becoming as well as
appropriate TO the circumstances of our loss,
Redeem in such emergencies designs all
that is proper and suitable. The sketches
furnished o.day comprise a Redfern
mourning gown for a young lady
and a widows costume. In the first
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BRILLIANT ILLUMINATION.
The TimG-H0l0TGd H0fDuTg Lighted Up with
llGaldGSCGlt Lights,

For the last day or two the time-honored
Hofburg has been, after dusk, one great ilu-
mination, the windows looking over the
Burgplal and the Franzensplatz, or the
inner square of the HOfburg, being blaze
of light. The explanation is that expert
ments have been made with the electric
light, which is to be installed throughout
the palace For the present only tfty-twO
halls, receptlon-r0oms and apartments have
received the new illumlnant, but next spring
it will be extended to the remaining forty-Une
rooms, which are now occupied by the En-
peror, the Empress and the Archduchess
Stephanie, and are, therefore, not ready for
the workmen.
The incandescent system is the only one
adopted, and the chief difficulty experienced
in fixing 1t arose from the strict orders
against any alteration of the character and
outward appearance Of. the handsome can
delabrn, III embossed gold and crystal
which dale from the time of the Emperor
Francis /. In the great Ceremoniensaal
alone there are twenty-seven of these, with
hfty-tour lights apiece. The difficulty was
surmounted by inserting small white lac
quered wooden tubes, resembling candles at
distance, into the old lusters, each tube
being fitted with movable lamp. The en-
tire installation, when completed, Will con-
sist OF $3.50 incandeScent lamps, equal to
10000 wax candles, in the apartments, and
nearly 1890 lights in the entrance halls, gal
leries and staircases, or some 1000 lamps in
all. This Will be the largest installation in
any one building in Europe. The length oil
the wires inside the buildings will be fifteen
English miles.
The experiments made last night were
completely successful, and it was interest
ing to notice how well the magnificent cell
lngs were brought out, and what au unSus-
pected wealth OF color was developed in the
famous Flemish tapestries on the walls of
the Privy Council Chamber and other
apartments From Vienna letter to the
London Standard
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with black veil that could not haze the
sparkle Of her eyes.
She held out her hand and then mpulsive-
~ she took his head in her hand and then
kissed him.
what thrill went through him.
lie looked up-She was gone. Shortly, he
heard the rumbling of the stage. Then, he
heard nothlng-exceptt that he ifnagin ed that
he heard his heart be IT.
lie was all alone, and he let his head drop
on ms breast, and he cried, as though his
heart would break.
For. after all. he was only six years old
Kate Fields Washington.
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ANCIENT TOWN
ON THE BALTIC.
WHISKY, Also Called THE City Of the
Place Of Sacrifice"
IT WAS ONCE AN IMPORTANT SITE.
4 Metropolis Of the Twelfth Century in Which
The window Frames Were Of GOld-It
Was CAPTURED in 1861 by Atterdag Of
Denmark, who Became ElTiOUS Of The
CiB'S Prosperity and Riches.
in the middle Of the Baltic Sea. lust

1N the middle Of the Baltic Sea, just
about equidistant from Sweden,
( \ Germa ny and Russia, is a low. flat
\ I island of lime stone called Cortland.
1t has an area OF 1900 square miles
z and population of $1,000, or there
abouts. In the middle ages the island was
the best place in all Northern Europe for
sea traders, and those who settled there
prOSpered. In the beginning of the eleventh
century little town was settled at a
spot giving a good harbor. Back Of
1t was a cliff, where victims were
sacrificed, and the place grew to be known
as Wisby, or the City of the Place of Sac
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The widows gown is of the finest cash
mere, as it is intended for indoor wear in
second mourning. The front drapery is in
turrets above pleating, and is headed with
minute bows. Bands of lawn are worn
about the throat and wrists. and the whole
effect is so bewitching that it is evident Red
fern will have to answer for the peace OF
mind OF all masculine hehOlders. r.
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The Duke of Nassau is the possessor of
almost unlimited wealth ann is the envy of
almost every German and Austrian prince
ling because be has the biggest and best Gel
lar of rare old vintage aud cabinet wines in
Europe. The reading of the mere cata-
logue of his rare bins is enough to make a
Prohibitionist kick his dog,
The morning call., 1891-01-25

President Harrison knows how to drive
pair of horses and dignity the box-seat of a
dog-cart as well as any man around Wash
ington. He has a smait PAIR of hard-bitted
but fast-soing trotters, which are supposed
to be named "Stewart" and Teller" OF
course he doesn't say they are SO named.
but that doesn't count.
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An Arbitrary Pet.

My eagle is named Ronival, after the hill
In South Uist, where he was Matched. He
Is male and very fine bird. have had
nm now for four years and he has assumed
his white tail. He is allowed to fly about at
large, but he is not fond of going far and
VIII always come at the call of the kitchen
maid, who feeds him, and for whom he
shows the greatest affection. She can man
age him even when in most ungovernable
temper. He has apecu.iar aversion to small
boys ana VIII fly at one going near him.
lha only animal he is afraid of is the pig,
and to hear pig grunt Is enough to make
him fly off, even if 1t should not be in sight.
A well-dressed friend ventured one day to
touch him with the point of his fashionable
light umbrella, which so offended Ronivap S
majesty that he flew at the offending instru-
ment and literally smashed it, breaking the
Suck and tearing the silk to tatters.
Usually. however, he is affable enough, and
does no more mischief than occasionally kill
ing hen or two if his own dinner is not
served up punctually enough, and this is
really great forbearance, considering he
actually lives at large in a poultry yard
Birds of Iona and Mull-Gralram.
The morning call., 1891-01-25

One of the difficulties which the Architect
ural Commission of the Chicago Fair has to
face is to decide whether statue of Column
bus or an efligy of Carter Harrison has to
occupy the post of honor on the great dome
Of the principal building
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A TABLEAU.
4 HAPPY HOME.

within cottage room in simple gulse,
The day toll done family is grouped;
The father sits and reads bu oft his eyes
Desert the page and seek his wife, low stopped
Above the child that nestles at her knee;
His rugged face by love grown young again,
The while he hears the grooming a" "B." &c"
That eeps his heart like serdphs' sweetest strain
Three manly boys arouud the table pore
Ger books ia earnest study bent The one
Grown daughter. stepped in all the pulling lore
OF chess, cxpounded by a neighbours sou.
The sleek white cat, whose tricks for notice fail,
Contents herself by frsking with her tail.
The large black dog full stretched In calm content
In blinking bliss before the rnddy CRATE.
Whose dancing fame across his sable fur is sent,
And wrinkles from the pictures poised sedate
Anon, some foolish move or happy feat
That makes king or counts queen the less,
Floats out in merry laughter ripping sweet
Fair augury from ont the realm Of ess.
The appraised faces echo back the chime,
Until it dies in whispered smiles away.
Their glowing eyes reflect the wordless rhyme
That turks within maideus Laughter gay.
All, happy home. thy peaceful love aud cheer
The GROWING bliss vouchsared TO mOrtals h erel
Child LIFE
Pink tinted with the warmth Of rosy June
The bud of nature drinks the shining draught
OF life its elixir unconscious quafed
In mystic beams. The gentle
or seraphs music sets the world atune;
And all the harnouies OF heaven watt,
As II with revealing baby angels laughed
In soft, low Chimes strange but merry rune.
Full brightly dawns the child's aurpral world
BY sunbcams kissed. by angels lulIed to rest;
Fair rose within maternal arms unfurled.
An Anglers ch1rge since first 1t cried at birth;
Its grlefs swift sOothed upOn mothers breast
The straugest fairesu blossom known to earth
Oakland. January. 1891, MARY LAMBERT.
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LINES SUGGESTED.

San francisco, January s1 81.
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BACK AGAIN.

Chicago, January ~, 1891.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-10
ALYNcHlNo THREATENED.
Two Flends Who WIN suffer II Mob Cots
Hold of Them.

iOiu Ol lnrm.
PLEAsASToN, KAs., Nov. 0.-Saturday
afternoon Dan Williamson and Vim.
and Bert Austin, negro coal miners,
were arrested and taken to the county
Jail at Mound City, charged with n
tiendish assault on Maggie Luce, l6-
ycar.o!d dcmcntcd girl OF good family.
The girl was horribly lacerated and Is
not expected 10 recover.
Early yesterday morning, band OF
twenty-five incenscd citizens, gathered
ut the edge OF the town and rode TO
Mound City with the avowcd purpose OF
lynching the negro fcnds. Their pur-
pose was discovered, however, and the
sheriff was warned by telephone. The
deputy in charge OF the jail secured II
rig, handcuiled the three negroes, and
drove them TO Fort Scott,
About two o'clock the crowd from
Plcasanton appeared ut the Jail and
made demand on the sheriff for adj
mittancc TO the jail. This was granted,
but the negroes could not be found.
The crowd was quito indignant and
trouble is looked Tor to-day, when the
prisoners are to have their preliminary
examination.
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Tho Sngnr Ilniiniy.

The new policy Of paying bountics to
American sugar.growors to compensate
them for the removal OF the sugar
duties has sufficient interest for tho
Cuban planters to bring some OF Thorn
to this country to see how it works.
An intelligent and frank Cuban
visitor complains that the bounty robs
tho Cuban planters OF part OF their
nearest and best market. and he fears
that worse Is to csmc. He adds that II
he lived in this country he would favor
the bounty, but as Cuban planter his
sympathies are with tho Democratic
party, which is against tho bounty.
This frank Cuban explains just why
it is that Cuba can raise sugar cheaper
Than tho United States can. "Chcap
labor that lives on cheap food and has
so little need for clothing that a value
can hardly be placed on it," is suf-
iicient explanation. To this the Cuban
adds, greater productiveness OF the soil
Happily tho sentiment OF this country
is not in favor OF cheapness at what.
ever cost.
Through the bounty our planters arc
able to pay living wages, and in time we
shall produce enough of cane, sorghum
and beet sugar to supply our wants and
have some to export. We have struck
the right pace on the sugar question.