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ECHOES In STATUARY HALL.
Curious Properties of the Old House OF
representatives..


Chicago Tribune.
Statuary Hall was for many years occu-
pied by the House of Representatives.
previous to the completion of the great
south wing of the Capitol, where the Repre-
sentatives now meet annually. 1t is semi
circular room, is this old Hall of Repre-
sentatives. and a very peculiar place. For
some reason, which no one has been able to
explain, it is an echo hail, possessed of re-
markable acoustic properties.
There are certain blocks upon the tiled
floor which echo to other blocks, so that
when a Capitol guide familiar with these
blocks is standing seventy-ive feet from
you he will address you in an ordinary tone
of voice and the sound will come from the
floor beneath you. seemingly from the
air above your head Under the eagle there
is an exit, and any enc standing in the door
back of those marble pillars can talk away
across the hall to the opposite entrance.
and startle strangers as they enter the
room. Some of the newspaper men have
learned the location of these echo stones,
and take great delight In pulling WISHING
friends or new men on Newspaper Row.
The natural telephone is enc OF the Won
ders Of this wonderful hall. Away over
in the corner you can stand and whisper
while your friends may be at similar cor
ner on the opposite side of the room and
hear every syllable as plainly as though you
were standing face TO face. The sound gees
upward, presumably, and comes down on
the ether side, but how II is connected no
one knows. This is the most wonderful
acoustic puzzle in America great deal
more inexplicable than the known echo
at the top of the dome.
1t was not the intention of the architect
TO make an echo hall. 1t was to build
room in which speech making would be easy
and agreeable. Instead. be built beauti-
full hall In which all conversations were YER
liable jargon. How the gentlemen ever
managed to make their speeches and con-
tlnue their debates no one can imrgine
\ ct Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John c.
Calhoun and Hayne of South Carolina de-
livered some of their finest oratorical efforts
beneath this roof.
There is one block. about the tenth one
on the floor from the base OF the column
over which the eagle presides, which is
called by the guide "the central block"
That is because ii does not carry the echo
to any other block in the room, but brings
back 10 whoever stands upon il his own
voice. If you were TO stand upon the CEN
trial block and utter your name you would
hear the voice ringing In your ears
your own vOi5e-iike the roaring of \
thousand people shouting in unison and
calling you. Ii seems that the block is
the acoustic center of the hall, and everv
sound made upon 1t Is reflected back from
every Granny of the room. What terrible
place for an orator to stand and listen 10 his
own words as they come bounding back and
reyerberating with thunderouS mockeryl n
is stated, however. by the oldest inbabi-
tant" that when the floors were carpeted
the echoes were not so pronounced: but
nevertheless, the members of the HonSe
complained constantly of the bad acoustic
properties of the hall
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WHAT SUSTAINS THE MOON
The Earth Keeps 1t From Flying Fur.
Their Away.



We have read how the coffin of Mobammed
was poised without support in the mosque
OF the faithful, from which unbelievers were
so rigidly excluded; no material support
was necessary to sustain the remains Of tho
prophet. the body itself seemed ever on tho
point OF following the departed spirit IN tba
realms OIL bllss. perennial miracle was
Indeed necessary to sustain the reyered
Sarcophagus in space.
The infldel. no doubt. IS somewhat skeptic
ABOUT this marvellous phenomenon, and
now, as ever, the truth is stranger than
heton: Far over our heads there l. vast
globe larger and heavier than millions of
sarcophagi, no material support is rendered
10 that globe, there 1t is sustained from dav
century. w
ny hat Is III that prevents the moon falling?
nat is the question which now lies befo a
US. IL Is assuredly the case that the earth
continually attracts the moon. The effect
$3.50, ,mJ Ia.tIaetIon IS not. however, shown In
actuaily drawing the moon closer to tho
earth, Tor this, as we have seen. does mot
happen, put the attraction of the earth
keeps the moon from going further awav
from the earth than it would otherwise do
suppose, Ior instance, that the attraction
oil the earth were suspended. tbe moon
would no longer follow It's orbit. but wauld
start oil III straight line in continuation
OF the direction In which it was moving ut
the moment when the earth's action was
intercepted. '
What Newton did was to show, from the
circumstances of the moons distance and
movement, that 1t was attracted by the
earth with forco Of the same description
as that by which the same globe attracted
the apple, the difference being that the in
tensity Of the fierce becomes weaker the
greater the distance of the attracted BODY
from the earth. In fact. the attraction Of
the earth on ton of matter at the distance
OF the moon would be withstood by an exer-
ton not greater than that which would
sufiice to sustain about three-quarters of
pound at the surface Of the earth.
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laborers for the winter, the low price Tor
wheat having reduced the cultlvators 10
beegary." 1t appears from this that tne
farmers lose money on labor paid at tue
rate of three dollars week. The dispatch
does not state what rental is paid for lana.
The English landowner considers TINS pom,
as the KEY TO his social citadel. His social
standing is to large extent determineu ny
his rent roll In some cases English land
lords have adopted the practice OF certain
American railroad companies ana charge
ALI the land will bear. They refuse TO make
a nominal reduction in rent, but give re.
CENTS in full when the farmer shows tha'
he has given UP everything but three ool-
lars a week for MS men and bare living
for himself and family.
The morning call., 1892-10-09
LITERARY THEFTS.
Trials OF Good Authors Due to Plagiar-
izing Parasites.

iZ1DE PARISHES
The Gentleman's Magazine.
The success of Henry Mackenzie's senti-
mental novel, 1.-THE Man of Feeling" was
very great Eccles. a Young Bath clergy
man, availing himself of the circumstances
that the authors name was very little
known. transcribed the whole Work, with
erasures, corrections. smears and smudges.
and, on the strength of this manufactured
copy, gave himself out to be the autnor, and
adhered to his pretensions with so much
pertinacity that Mackenzie's publishers
were compelled to adopt legal measures to
vindicate his claim. In our time We have
seen similar fraud attempted with regard
to adam Bede."
Among French writer's no one has carried
the profession of the literary brigand to
such an extent as Nine. de Genlis. In 1880
her evil ways brought her into the courts of
law under very discredtabe circumstances.
Bout, the publisher of serier of manuals,
engaged her for a sum OF ZIG to write a
Manuel EncyclopediQue de PEnfaOce."
The manuscript, which had been paid for,
was discovered TO be an exact copy of the
book Of the same kind published in 1920 by
Nj. Dassacha. Another time she contributed
TO Paris newspaper a feuilletOn which
turned out TO be a close production of a
romance printed some twenty years before.
Surely the poor woman suffered from lite
rary kleptOmanla.
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VOTERS SHOULD pru.yr

some OF our Democratic newsnonor. 20
taking considerable pains to NAV n 81 :
believe that De Young Will be R Reop'e
States Senator il Republicans are rlen,e.
to the next Legislature. The OF act !.
doubtless to induce dissatisfied Republican
10 vole Tor Democratic members. De
fonns,s name. it seems. is to be used to
place Buekley's lambs in Office again. II
possible. IHE CALL classes the boss
Ticket termed Democratic. on par with
Crimmins and Kelly's ticket If eitber If
these two classes Of candidates should be
elected to Office, the plundering in The
Board OF Supervisors and in the State Legise
lature will be continued for another two
years.
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yanclng toward the Ohio. Evidently the
in from the north. They seem to pay but
little attention to hunters and dogs, and are
not not much afraid of the crack of the shotgun.
Az night they are observed crossing the
smaller streams by swimming and on the
bridges Farmers say many OF them cross
a 90 in the morning. Meanwhile they are
. nIsene in the cornfelds From the river
fownsbips the reports come that the woods
ora oro,pdad with them,
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FAcTs WORTH KNOWING.

BE CALL has had San Francisco care
fr'iy eanyassed in order to learn what city
ming newspapers were taken by the
people. The result is that THE CALL cir
eli -Stes fully one-fourth more copies than
51y other paper. THE CALL circulation
ieads by fully one-quarter. The Chronicle
come next after The CALL and leads the
iran '1ler. The above facts show why The
CALI IS so strong in San Francisco.
The morning call., 1892-10-09

there for a while without any danger OF
escape. they notify some New York sports.
man(?) of the capture and give him chance
to come up and shoot the bear. Then the
sportsman can 60 back to the city with the
bears hide and truthfully say to his friends
that he shot the animal, and from his
Imagination manufacture such q tale of
hair breadth escapes and adventures as will
best suit his taste and is calculated to
awaken enthusiastic admiration.
The morning call., 1892-10-09
THREE DOLLARS A WEEK.

a London dispatch says: Farmers have
reduced wages sixpence per day, the men
no" getting twelve shillings per week."
/ we've shillings OF English money is equal
20 ABOUT three dollars OF American money.
Inc paragraph which follows throws a
little darker shadow upon the situation. It
says; Many farmers have paid of their
The morning call., 1892-10-09
WEATHER PREDICTIONS.
DErARTNf-NT OF AGRICULTURE.
WEATHER BUREAU.
- ..-.-.-..-. n..ot.o- = 1900


SAN FRANCISCO. october ). tS92)
Cf5cial Forecast for Twenty four Hours
Ending Midnight, Oct. 9
Northern CaIifornia-RaIn, except fair in extreme
southeast portion: southerlg winds. brisk to high
on northwest coast stationary temperature. except
cool Ia central portion and warmer in extreme
southeast portion.
Southern CaliforDia-Fair, but CLOUDY and foggy
scng tho coast; westerly winds; generally warmer r.
Oregon and Washington-Rain; southerly winds.
brisk 10 nigh along the Washington coast; station
cry temperature, except cooler in eastern portions
ia southern Oregon and Fort Candy.
Nevada-Tsir. except rain in northern portion :;
brisk sontherly winds; warmer, except followed by
cooler AZ winnemucca.
Crsh-Fair. followed by rain in northern portion;
nearly stationary temperature.
san Francisco-Cloudy, with showers; southeast
@ southwest winds, fresh 10 brisk; warmer. fol
loved By cooler. JOHN 2. FINLEY,
Lieutenant Ninth Infantry. oficer IN charge.
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American Women's Feet.

Said a travelled English woman the other
evening: Il am fascinated by the small
ness and the arist0cratic shape of your
women's feet. And then such dainty, such
elegant, such exquisitely made shoes.
Where did your people learn the art?
had thought that Paris was the home OF
small and daintly dressed feet, but the
American woman Is far ahead Of the NJ"
The morning call., 1892-10-09
LAFAYETTE SQUARE.

Another decision was rendered on FRIDAY
in the case of the State VS.. Holiday, In
which the title to Lafayette square was H.
volved. The controversy has been pending
for twenty-nine years. the city claiming
that the land at the intersection OF Clay ana
Octayia streets was dedicated to public use
in March, 1858, the Holidays claiming that
it was their private property. Several de-
cisions of court have been rendered In FAVOR
of the Holidays, and now Judge HeDDard
has Just placed on file another in the same
sense. The State is still free 10 institute an
appeal.
Among old residents the feeling is against
uolIadav They are of the opinion that the
tract in question was really dedicated to
public use in 1853. and that the buildings
erected upon it were set up in defiance CT
law in order to extort settlement from the
city. But whether the rights of the city
have not been efficiently set forth by their
attorneys, or the Holidays really had q
better case than is supposed, certain 1t is
that whenever the title has come under re-
view by the courts the private owner has
won the advantage. The preponderance Of
the decisions is in bis favor.
As matters stand, t%o leading streets
CLAY and Octavia-are blocked by the HOlla-
DAYS. There is already a cable-car track on
Clay, which stops on Van Ness avenue. but
which would extend to the cemeteries, by
way of Sacramento, If the boundaries of
Lafayette Park were defined north and
south cable line, by way of Cough or Oc-
tavia, has long been in contemplation and
is much needed. as there is no north and
south line west Of Larkin. but its cOnStruc-
ton is stopped by the uncertainty which
clouds the title TO the hogback On Octayia.
The end of the long controversy which
was terminated by the assessment for the
Laguna survey teaches the lesson that
citizen who embarks 10 protracted egisla-
ton with the city loses even when he wins.
Loss OF time and interest oyerbalance any
gain be may derive from success at last
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srRsCRIPTION RATES :

DklIY CALL (ineluding sundays. Sc peryear by
81 All nosrpaid: 10 cents per week. OF 50 cents per
slsrezr month through carriers. DAILY CALI
Eve copies three months, Sc Is. SUNDAY CALI
tliltser psges), 81 so per year, postpaid SUNDAY
CAlLsnd WEEKLY CALL, - 10 per year, postpaid
y EEkLT CALL Is psgesl. 81 per year. postpaid
TEE CALL cannot return rejected manuscripts
rer VII. the editor enter into correspondence re-
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sqs montgomery street, near Clay. open until II
s,elecS P. N. BRANCH OFFICES: 7lo Market
street. near KearnY, open until u o'clock midnight;
sac Hayes street, open until $50 O'Clock, ooa
Tarkn street. open until 80 O'Clock; 25lS Mission
erect. open until o'clock p, M; and 1l6 Ninth
stgeet, open until $50 F. II
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who will not take the trouble to stamp the
fifty odd names on the ticket may be mace
up for by men who will leave their ola
parties to administer a rebuke to the corpo-
ration that warps politics to suit lis own
| catfish ends
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TIE DAILY MORNING CALL

EVh SAIL
View York -. BRENTANo BROS Union SQUARE
r-st.sso ~ News stand Palmer House
X ~ ssrirsps .GALLUT & JOUBERr,
1851 Common 81
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The kn1tted woollen sweater worn by
athletes and others who must guard against
shdden cold when with exercise IL
tie almost exact counterpart of the outer
garment worn by Dutch fishermen on the
coast Of Holland.
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THE EASTERN OFFICE OF THE CALL
Cd Potter building. New York City Sprovldea WIN
Gitsef California papers. Visitors welcome ~
tel tisiHg rates and sample copies furnished
F. K. MISCH. Manager
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.OCTOBER Q. Ise2
sCNDAY......................ocIoBER 9, 1892
SEt0Gl-Page Edition.
NOTICED

Of our patrons lrbo fail to find THE
ING CALL for sale bu traiR-boyS
.Ver a fdror By notifying this office d
j. {. naming The date and train.
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Migration OF sautrrels.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat

ON LuuIs UNCONSTITUTIONAL
:, seldom have squirrels been so plentifu a
they are now in Southern Indiana. They
are swarming In great numbers on the
Knobs, north of Jacksonville, and are adj.
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DIVIDEND NOTICES.

NY Dividend NDtice-Of2ice of the Pa
8~S cifc Coast Borax Company, San Francisco
Septem Der 80, 1892. At a meeting OF tho Board Of
Directors of the above named company, held this
day, a dividend NO. 22) OF one dollar (Sl) per
share was declared, payable MONDAY, October 10.
1892 at the Office OF the company, No. l0l San.
some street. room 20. Transfer books Will close
october 8, 1892. at 8 r. NJ
ocl I'd ALTON II. CLOUGH, Secretary.
The morning call., 1892-10-09

DO not neglect disorders OF the kidneys and liver
Hood's sarsapAria isl ust the remedy to rouse the
important organs to healthy aud regular action
Give IL trial now.
The morning call., 1892-10-09

JFCUTTRR'sOLD BoURBoN.-This celebrated
whisky is for sale by ali first class druggists and
grecers. Irademalk-star within a shield.
The morning call., 1892-10-09

For ladies, the best and purest tonic is Angostura
Bitters. II eectuaIly dyspepsia and tones up
the system. DR.. J. q. b. Siegert IL Sons mfrs
The morning call., 1892-10-09

SLIGHTLY damaged ornaments sold cheap lhi
week AT Nathan. DOhrmann & Co., 122-132 Sut
ter street. below Kearny.
The morning call., 1892-10-09

WHEN the scalp is atrophied. shiny bald. no
preparation will restore the hair in al other cases
Hairs Hair Remover Will start a growth
The morning call., 1892-10-09

GREAT sale finest eye-Rlass specs 15c up. 65
Fourth ST., Sunday 72S Market Note numbers.
The morning call., 1892-10-09

PALACE BATHS. enlarged, beautihed. Warn
sea-water tubs and swimming. no Fllbert.
The morning call., 1892-10-09

The baliot-papsr on which the election
in San Francisco has to be expressed has
got into the hands Of the Mayor, and some
sample sheets of the same have, as report
goes, got into the hands of Kelly and Grim
Minis. What the results of this happy con-
junction of friendiness may be will better
be understood after the election. Politics
are in desperate straits when such raw
material as paper is considered. But that
paper is raw material of influence not to
be neglected cannot be lightly denied. 1t
assists in ballot-boX stufing, and is an aid.
50 far as il can be carried, to organized cor
ruptiun. What the Mayor will do with his
paper victory-if by that term it can be
called-remains to be seen. The bosses
may be relied upon to study ballot paper
advantag
The morning call., 1892-10-09

sNovENBER STYLES Butteriek's patterns Cata-
Iogues mailed free. H. A. DemIng. "a Post st S f
The morning call., 1892-10-09

IL afflicted with sore eyes DR.. Isaac Thomp-
son : Bye Water. Druggists sell 1t at % cents
The morning call., 1892-10-09
The Worst Adirondack Boar story.

The Kingston On. " Express says that
often, when the natives In the Catskills
nave bear In trap so that he can be kept
The morning call., 1892-10-09
THE MORNING CALL
PUBLICATION OFFICE.

Has q larger circulation than any other
-,~,s,ane~ published in San Francisco.
The morning call., 1892-10-09

Ell. BLACK, painter, ia Eddy street
The morning call., 1892-10-09
SUNDAY MEETINGS.


NIX. Philosophical Society-Free Public
&~E lectures every Sunday, as r. NJ, at 800 Post
ST. Tonight, What is Theosophy," by MIR. Abbott
Clark.
RR DIR. e.. II. Rin-es Spiritual Meeting
R-T St Georges Hall, 90SIa Market st. Sunday
2 aud s r. NJ. Circle and platform tests and or
dination. Good mediums.
R. John Slater at Washington Hi all, 80
8~& EDDY St. Sunday afternoon at GALS. evening
&C 8 sharp. The only hall In the city TO hear the
greatest platform test medium living Admission
10 cents
The morning call., 1892-10-09

Professor Pickering, director of the OBJ
servatory of Harvard, makes out a good
case for the purchase and equipment Of a
great telescope which would sweep the
heavens in the clear air of the Andes. He
points out tue commanding advantages of
the Andes at Arequipa for observation.
There are chances here for better work
tn an at any station in northern regions.
There is an opportunity to acquire from
Avian Clark a refracting telescope Of forty
inches aperture, and the completion Of such
a noble instrument, with mounting and
building, would not exceed 100000. That
is small sum to raise 10 country so rich
as America, and the appeal Of Professor
pickering should have its sympathetic
answer within day. The Government at
washington has no appropriation for such
purposes, but in a country with thousands
Of millionaires there should be no difficulty
in providing the needed funds. Big tele-
scope astronomy should have its attractions
for men who hardly know what to do with
their glut of wealth.
The morning call., 1892-10-09
CHURCH NOTICES.

ExrRA MInce Pies SWANS. als suffer street
The morning call., 1892-10-09

Dull business in Great Britain has induced
a Glasgow firm OF curtain makers to trans
fer their plant to this side of the Atlantic,
where. before the Mckinley tariff came into
operation. they had large business field.
The firm may hope to flourish here. for
nowhere on earth is there so large demands
for curtains in almost every house as in the
United States. The lace manufacturers
Industry should also flourish here if any
where in the world. After this experience
of the Glasgow fro we may expect to learn
that Nottingham in the lace trade is going
TO pieces. Many of the manufacturers
there, Notwithstanding cheap labor, with
Ine-1ngered women working at 81 or SO
week, must be in extremis to keep their
factories open. When the pinch comes
they will not hesitate to shift the scene of
operation to a new region The Mckinley
tariff has the effect of compelling foreign
business men to join hands with us. The
personal interests of trade are paramount
to patriotism.
The morning call., 1892-10-09

1t fits in appropriately with the Repub-
lican campaign argument at this moment TO
show that iBdustria depression is conspicu-
Gus in free-trade England. and that starya-
lion almost threatens some classes OF the
population. The picture drawn Of gloom in
trade is not In the least exaggerated. The
stagnation of all none airy enterprise ap-
plies to landlords as we'll as to manu-
facturers, to the middle classes as well as 10
the laboIers. These dull fits in business
recur in cycles OF ten years or less. one OIL
them is paralyzng business everywhere, at
least in Europe, at this moment. and the
way out Of the depression Is not yet clear.
Caution in all movements Is the guiding
direction of those who venture upon COM
meTcial enterprise. AZ in former sea sons OF
gloom, England will weather the storm.
Mean while the manifest advantages OF the
United States under a protective tariff, with
vast resources constantly available for self
development, are conspicuous and potent.
Cholera is a very serious disturber of
commerce in many respects. Rags are COM
monty associated with the spread OF the
disease, and the importation of rags is gen.
orally stopped at the ports of most intelli-
gent countries. But rags are essential to
the fabrication of good paper, and intelll-
gent countries use more paper .han those
which are backward. At this moment the
paper firms of the United States are troubled
about the shortness of the supply OF rags,
and it is scarcity which occurs at bad
time The Presidential election is on. and
hundreds OF tons of tbs best paper that can be
made are needed for that august function.
No ballot paper is too good for the citizens
use in choosing a chief magistrate. 1t is
perhaps a good way to get rid of rags to
convert them into paper but there are
many vegetable pulps which can be turned
to account usefuIy, especially for the
cOarser kinds of paper. Ia this sense the
Mojave Desert is not without its uses to in-
dusirial man.
The morning call., 1892-10-09

l07 STOCKTON - TOMATO SAUSAGES SPE.
IO' elaity: pork tenderloins every day; cooked
man, Tongue, corned beef: all kinds sausages dairy
produce; overland lunches put IN seI7 I'm