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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-11
POINT D'IRLANDE LACE.

At 25c per Yard.
400 yards BLACK POINT D'IRLANDF
LACE, all silk, AZ inches wide, viii be
offered at 25c per yard.
At Aoc per Yard.
500 wards BLACK POINT D'IRLANDE
LACE. all silk, to inches wide. Will
be offered al 40c per yard.
At soc per Yard.
30 yards BLACK POINT D'IRLANDF
LACE. al silk, to 9inches wide. will
be offered this day at soc per yard
At $50 per Yard.
800 yards BEIGE POINT D'IRLANDF
LACE, 10 to Ii inches wide, worth 75c.
viii be closed out at 35c per yard
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MEMS FURNISHINGS!

Sc dozen MEMS HEAVY SHETLAND
WOOL UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAW
Frs, regular price 81. will be closed
out AT soc each.
At 90 Cents.
43 dozen MEMS FULL-FINISHED 70
TIRE AID FILES H-COLOR BALBRIG-
GAN UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAW
Frs. usually sold at 50, will be closed
out al soc each.
At S1.0O.
% dozen MEMS CASHMERE WOOL UN-
DEESHIRTS AND DRAWERS, extra
VOL finished, good value for 81 30, will
he closed out at s each.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-11

AT SO Cents.
90 dozen LADIES' BLACK SATEEN
w \ 81 :, POLKA-DOT SATEEN
WAISTS and STRIPED SATEEN
WAISTS. regular price 81 90, will be
closed cut at soc each.
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Unasked sympathy.

cannot touch piece of velvet with
my fingers or permit the furry side of a
peach skin to touch my lips without ex-
periencing Immediately sort of cold
very severe, but it is unpleasant. Still
would prefer to living forever under the
ban of such chill than to be compelled
to meet once day one of those oleagi-
nous bundles of insincerity and pretense,
the unctuous and ELUSIVE chap who
thinks you are not properly treated and
never loses an opportunity to tell You so.
OF course am aware am not properly
appreciated, but detest being told of
the fact by another person, who never
Lifts finger in my behalf, and who only
wags his tongue in my favor when am
by to see him do it.-Detroit Free Press.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-04
The Evolution of the sword.

AS men in early times fought hand to
hand, the Oldest specimens of the sword
are short; in fact, the sword is probably
but an evolution of the club, which at
first made of hard wood was gradually
sharpened on one and then on both sides.
so as to inhict more deadly wound.
Even today we find some savage races
employing wooden weapons. Wood
gave way to stone, which in turn was
displaced by bronze, iron and finally
steel.
The sword increased in length as men
became more civilized and showed dis
position to fight farther away from each
other, which required more dexterity in
the use of the weapon. Some specimens
we have of swords of the Middle Ages are
almost if not quite as long as the war.
riors who welded them. During the
Fifteenth century the science of fencing
was invented, when the sword in the
form of rapier reached the highest
point of development.-Ka Fields
Washington.
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TO Celebrate the MarseiIlaise.

Another effort is being made by the
inhabitants of Choisy-le-Roi, outside of
Paris, to observe with much solemnity
and ceremonial what is vaguely called
the Centenary of the Marseillaise.
Choisy-le-Roi claims to possess the dust
of Rouget de fIsle-the composer of the
hymn-who was buried there in 1885,
his birthplace being Lons-le-Saulnier, in
the department. of the Jura. On this ac-
count the members of the borough coun-
Gil consider that they have the right to
take the initiative in organizing a Right
Republican festival this year, as the Mar
seil1ase, under the title of :'Chant de
Guerre de PArmee du Rhin," was first
heard in 1792.
President Carnot is to be asked to be-
come honorary president of the commit
tee of the fete, and appeals for funds
will be made to all the cities, and also
to comnunes which possess more than
1000 Inhabitants. No date as yet has
been fixed for the celebration of the CEN
tenary, to which it is presumed that
every patriotic Frenchman will give his
sentimental and sympathetic-if not
practical and pecuniary-support.-
Paris Cor. London Telegraph
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,1a,xine the Right shade.

Those who have sought in vain for
laces to match the color of silk on lamp
shades and other decorative articles may
be able to produce the right shade by
using some of the French tapestry dyes.
One should experiment. on bit of lace,
first to see if the dyes are properly
thinned, SO as to get the desired shade.
Any of the thin laces in silk or cotton
take the dyes nicely, Point d'Esprit and
German Valenciennes looking very well
when treated with the yellow shades.
In the Valenciennes several delicate tints
may be used on the light and the heavy
part of the lace, bringing out the design
with excellent effect. In preparing lace
for the dye, brush and press it carefully,
then stretch it upon board, laying sew
eral thicknesses of paper underneath.
Dip small bristle brush in the dye and
lay it on freely. When nearly dry. lay
the lace on a padded board and press
with hot iron.-New York Post.
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A ,Iuch Traveled Volume,

In opening package of books wrapped
in tin, the custom house inspectors cut
with knife the binding, by Ruban, of a
Poor Richard Almanack. The import
er made no claim for damage from the
government, paid the duty, returned the
book to Paris to be rebound and wrote
an ode to Diana of Poitiers, goddess Of
book lovers, in gratitude for the miracu-
lous escape of the text of his Almanack.
The book, rebound, came back fifteen
days ago. The owner supposes that it is
intact, but he does not know, and he
cannot learn even by paying the duty
again, for the official wants new in
voice, and the importer is naive enough
to think that he can persuade the official
that the first invoice, which is filed at
the custom house, accurately describes
the book on its fourth voyage across the
Atlantic.-New York Times
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Biunders of the Teachers.

A friend, himself for many years a
teacher, writes: "The blunders of teach
ers of English literature are sometimes
more amazing than any that are told of
their pupils. heard the other day of a
woman at the west who, when class
was reading Tennyson's Day Dream,
explained to them that the happy prin-
cess. in following her lover deep into
the dying day. went to America! The
laureate would be tickled to know of
this. A year or more ago there was
discussion in leading educational jour-
nal as to the persons meant in Longfel
lows lines TO the River Charles where
he says:
More than this-thy name reminds me
OF three friends, all true and tried, etc.
''One writer suggested that they were
Professor Cornelius G. Fulton, Nathaniel
Hawthorne and Charles Sumner. An
other thought that Louis Agassiz's name
should stand in the place of Haw-
thorne's, and this was finally accepted
by all concerned. Neither the editor nor
any of his correspondents or readers ap-
peared to see the absurdity of making
the name of the river suggest friends
whose names were other than Charles" I"
Critic
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A Russo-Chinese Railway.

A Russo Chinese railway is reported
as the objective point of negotiations
now going on between Russian and
Chinese representatives. Russia wants
the right to build railway from Vladi-
vostock, the Pacific terminal of the, pro-
posed Siberian railway, across the north
ern boundary of Corea to Tien- -Tsin, and
thence to Shanghai. The alleged OBJ
ject is quick transit of Chinese tea and
silk to Europe. The Chinese, however,
are very jealous of Russian influence
in the east, and will probably decline
Russian aid in railway building.-En
gineering News.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-04

The champion horse jockey belongs in
Belfast in the personA of Lije Walker.
Just to give his boy an idea how to get
along in the world Lie started away
from home one day on foot and nothing
in his pockets but jackknife. He was
absent just one week and returned driv-
ing pair of horses harnessed into top
buggy. Hitched to the rear axle was
another horse and a COW, while ahead
was dog. See how your pap does it, -
said Lie to his son, as he gazed at the
time of day from a handsome watch.
For fact he had got the whole turnout
for his jackknife, and swapping the pro
ceeds into one thing and apother. Bel
fast (Me.) Mail.
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where Amber Is Found.

The largest quantity of amber is found
on the southern shore of the Baltic, be-
tween Memel and Konigsberg, where it
is cast up by the action of the ground
swell after the northerly gales. It is
also found on the coast of Sicily, on the
shores of the Adriatic, on the English
beach OF Norfolk and Suffolk and at
Cape Sable in Maryland. Mining for
amber in beds of brown Ignite or wood
coal is carried on in Prussia, and it is
found in excavations all over Europe
Philadelphia Times.
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Uses for a Bottle of Gold Paint.


A twenty-five cent bottle of gold paint
is a capital investment for any woman.
She will find a dozen occasions for its
use every week of her life. Perhaps she
chips some bit of japanese or other
fancy porcelain in dusting; brushful
Of gold paint over the chip will make
everything right. A gilt picture or mir
TOR frame may be bruised or tarnished; !;
call in the little bottle again and remedy
in five minutes and for a fraction of a
cent a damage the cabinet maker would
charge dollar to repair and keep your
frame a couple of days besides.
By the by, you girls who are clever
with your paint brushes, did you ever
spend few dollars at the damaged
counters of the large Japanese stores?
Do you know that you can buy for a
trihe lovely delicate vases and bits of
oriental wares that would sell for many
dollars were it not for crack or chip
somewhere. Buy them joyfully, take
them home tenderly and spend half an
hour with your paint box, filling up the
nick with -four paste, plaster of paris OIL
putty. Any of these will take color
nicely, and if carefully painted and
dried the vases will be practically az
good as the best.-New York Press.
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A Tremendous barley Farm.

"We have now secured 250,000 acres
of land in North Dakota for barley
farms, and next spring we will send
thousands of German e1nigrants to that
state from Ohio, West Virginia and In
diana," said Colonel o. NJ. .Towner as
he discussed the future of this great
northern state. Colonel Towner is man
ager of what is best known as the Barley
syndicate of Chicago. During the last
two or three months the company has
succeeded in securing $50, 200 acres of
land in North Dakota, ON which it is
proposed to place German farmers to
raise barley for malt purposes. These
lands have been purchased in Nelson,
Norman, Towner, Ramsey, Steele and
Bottineau counties.
1t is the opinion of the managers of
this company that barley can be most
successfully grown in that state, and
they have the conviction of their belief
sufficiently to purchase these lands and
to send out emigrants from other states.
The Germans are chosen on account of
their knowledge of barley culture for
this purpose. These emigrants will not
be tenants, but owners of the land, it
being sold to them on easy terms. The
crops will be bought by the company
and shipped to all points where there is
demand for barley.-St. Paul Pioneer
Press
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The Amateur Actress.

We had rather throw aside this pen
forever than to write word to discour-
age any woman who is conscientiously
striving to earn position on the stage;
but there are other women-some in the
profession, some in the audience-to
whom it is grossly unfair to put forth an
inexperienced amateur as a star. Con-
slider, ladies and gentlemen, what poor,
miserable art that of acting would be if
anybody could acquire it in a few les
sons, in a year or SO, from private box
across the footlights fo the center of the
stage. 1t takes a longer time to learn to
be a carpenter or to play piano, to be
dressmaker or to paint picture, to be
a typewriter or to cut hair properly,
than amateurs who are now willing to
bestow upon the art which includes, en-
ploys and dignifes all other arts from
statuesque posing to wig wearing. If
acting could be taught in day it would
not be SO well paid nor SO highly esteem
ed, and good acting would not be SO un-
common.-Stephen Fiske in Spirit of the
Times.
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a Story from the American Indians.

A Story from the American Indians.
Many years ago boy found beauti-
full snake, so an Indian legend runs. He
kept 1T in bowl of water and took no
tice that small feathers dropped into the
receptacle became living beings. He
experimental and discovered that what
ever he put into the water became alive.
He rubbed some of this snake water on
his eyes and found that he could see
things that were actually hidden in the
ground. Concluding that he would
make the liquid more powerful by put
ting more snakes into it, he hung up a
number of serpents SO that their oil
dropped into the water. By putting
some of the solution thus obtained into
his mouth he could breathe fire, and by
placing some of it in his eyes he could
see in the dark.
At will he could transform himself
into serpent, could become invisible
and could travel at an incredible rate of
speed. An arrow dipped into the liquid
and shot at any living being, even if it
did not hit its object, would neverthe-
less kill it. A feather dipped into this
snake water and pointed at any game
would Immediately start for the latter
and slay it. This boy became in this
manner a great Washington
Star
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An IDEAL way to Live.

''The man l marry" ".quoth vivacious
young woman the other day, 'shas got
to promise to give me a yacht home.
I've just been visiting some friends who
live all the year round on their yacht.
During the summer they cruise about
our northern waters and in winter go
south, taking in the Mediterranean,
Japan or Norway and Sweden by way
of occasional outings. The yacht, a
large schooner, is gorgeously fitted and
has every needed convenience, comfort
and luxury, including well stocked Ii
brary, aboard. 1t is an ideal existence
mo calls to make, no balls, no shop
ping, no uncomfortable gowns, sunshine,
fresh air and the starlight-what can
one want more:"-Her Point of View il,
New York Times.
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why the Shark Is Always Hungr

Why the Shark Is Always Hungry.
AS it is source of wonder how the
flea manages to exist in the sand, where
his chances of obtaining a meal may
not occur once in a lifetime, so natural
lists are puzzled as to how the shark
maintains himself. The ocean is wide,
and the mum Der of men who fall over
board small indeed in comparison to its
area. The vast proportion of sharks,
then, must go through their lives with
out u remote chance of obtaining meal
at the expense of the human kind
There is no ground for the supposition
that the shark can exiss upon air; he is
not like the whale, provided with an ap-
paratus that enables him to sweep up
the tiny inhabitants of the seas. He is
too slow in swimming, and infinitely too
slow in turning, to catch any fish that
did not deliberately swim into his mouth;
and unless we suppose that, as it is said
of the snake, he exercises magnetic in
huence over fish and causes them to rush
headlong to destruction between his
jaws, it is impossible toimagine how he
obtains sufficient supply of food for his
Eustenance.
Indeed, it would appear that it is only
when he gets the good luck to light upon
a dead OF badly injured fish that the
shark has ever the opportunity of max
ing u really square meal. His prolonged
fasts certainly furnish an ample explana-
ton and excuse for his alleged savagery
of disposition. Standard
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Tho Brilliant Student. Dilemma.

A Harvard student told me an anus
ing story about himself the other day.
1t seems that recently his mother had a
young lady guest at their home on the
Back Bay, and when he came from col
lege in the afternoon he was introduced
to her. At dinner also she sat opposite
him at the table. He paid little atten-
ton to the fair visitor, as his mind was
engrossed with a problem in his lessons.
However, his brothers were as assiduous
as possible in entert lining her. AS it
happened, the latter had engagements
out that evening, and, as Mrs. A. had
promised Miss B. to have one of her sons
take her to the theater, it fell to the lot
of my friend George, the Harvard man.
He accepted the situation gracefully,
and in due time the young couple set off
for the theatre. Arriving, George left
his companion at one side of the lobby
while he stepped up to the box Office and
purchased the tickets; then, turning
about, he looked toward the place where
he had parted from the young lady, and
was surprised to see half dozen there,
and-ye gods! is it possible?-he could
not tell which was his precious charge!
Here was dilemma
George said he Immediately decided
that, rather than risk speaking to the
wrong person, he would stand still till
the young lady spoke to him. So he
gazed at his tickets for what seemed to
him an age, but was probably only a
minute, when Miss B. came up and said,
II fear you did not recognize me-" "Oh,
yes-yes-" stammered George, equivo-
cating-''yes, did; I thought they had
not given me the seats asked for, and
was considering what was best to do in
the matter. Boston Herald.
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s,oolnes. IN . Mlxed collees.

There is a GOODNESS between the boys
and the girls of the Stanford university.
1t all came about from question of pro-
priety. The boys gave a ball in their
dormitory hall on Monday night, to
which they invited all the girl students,
as, well as the professors. Elaborate
preparations were made, and the young
men anticipated an evening of enjoy
ment. They hired band, and had the
dormitory beautifully decorated.
One or two of the more modest and re-
tiring of the maidens in the girls dormi-
tory were shocked at the avowed inten-
ton of some of the girls to attend the
bali, and called meeting of the girls, at
which there was a long discussion of the
affair
Many of the fair students said they
could see no harm in going to the ball as
long as the professors were willing, but
the more prudish damsels read a strong
lecture on the evils of such doings, and,
on vote, there was majority in favor
of not attending the ball. So none OF
them went.
The boys waited long for the coming
first the collegians were very angry.
Then they took the dancing floor them.
selves and made 'fstag" party of it.
They say, however, that for future fes
tivities they will send no invitations tc
the girl students. This suits the ultra
modest among the latter, but the sociable
girls feel crushed.-San Francisco
Chronicle a..
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The App.rition In the Elevator.

Some years ago young man came to
Chicago from Germany. His father had
cut him of from his annuity. He lived
in the same house where lived. He
finally obtained a place in one of the big
grain elevators here. | do not know
what the place was except that he had
something to do on the top floor, away
up under the roof. Several men were
employed with him in the same place.
One day while he was dusting he sud-
denly stopped and asked his assistants
who that nicely dressed old man was
that was standing back there by the
shaft. Strangers are never allowed in
these big elevators, and to see one there
well dressed was enough to excite COM
ment. His companions looked in the di-
rection indicated and said they saw no
one. He insisted, and when they laugh
ed at him he went to the place where he
saw the figure standing. On his ap-
proach it vanished.
The young man tainted. He recov-
cred and then asked his companions to
make a note of the occurrence, the date
and the time of day. He said the figure
he saw was that of his father. In
twelve days he received letter from
the old country telling him of his fathers
death. The date and time agreed with
the date and time of the occurrence
have described. The letter informed
him that his father had forgiven him
and remembered him in his will. He
returned to the fatherland, got his por-
ton of the estate and is living there
now. You may say what you please,
but have never felt like scoffing from
the time heard this story. The spirit
of that boys father appeared to him on
the top floor of that elevator.-Eugene
Field in Chicago News.
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colerea Glass for speetaeles.

Adams is reported to have been the
first to recommend the use of blue
glass, but they We're at first more widely
used in Germany, chiefly through the
recommendation of the great oculist
Crate, of Bohm, and others. The bluS
color of glass is chiefly to be recon-
mended because it absorbs those rays in
their passage which belong to the yellow
and orange portion of the spectrum, in
which the greatest brightness and great
est heat are concentrated, and the eyes,
especially weak ones, consequently
greatly protected by the blue color,
while rays which such eyes are able to
bear obtain access.
The material for blue glasses which
has to be made in various shades to
suit individual eyes, is somewhat less
hard than that employed formerly for
green spectacles and is also inferior in
that respect to white glass, but it has
gained in durability compassed with
former descriptions of glass.
Still greater is the progress recorded
in the manufacture and hardness of
'smoked" glass, also used for protecting
the eyesight. This kind Of glass, which
is colored gray or mouse colored by the
addition of manganese, formerly suffered
from too great softness by the addition
of large quantity of lead; but the best
manufactures now made are nearly
equal to white glass in point of hard
ness. The object of smoked glass is to
reduce the glare of light without segre-
eating colors.-Chambers' Journal.
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Lobsters Dig CLAIMS.

There is nothing which Holsters, WHEN
grown, are SO fond of as fresh fish.
Founders and other bottom fishes fire.
quently fall prey to their appetite, and
sometimes they will nimbly capture
small minnows as the latter go swim
ming by. They dig CLAIMS out Of the
mud or sand and crush the shells of
mussels with their claws, devouring the
soft parts. Washington Star.
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HaIninr ono Annther.

A seventh ward man rises in the early
dawn of Monday morning and does the
family washing, because his wife has an
organic heart trouble. After he goes to
his daily toll, with the consciousness of
having performed his duty, she goes over
and does the washing for the minister's
fami1y.-Springfe1d Homestead.
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DR.. John Piente, the amateur telescope
maker, is now finishing 304 inch silver
on glass mirror for Allegheny college,
which, when mounted, will give that in
stitution the largest rejecting telescope
in this country.
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An immense hume is being construct
ed near Fresno, Cal, which will not
only furnish water for irrigating pur-
poses, but will be used to transport lum-
ber needed by farmers living near by.