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The morning call., 1892-12-31
SUNS TO ORDER.
A New Idea for Lighting
Cities by Night.
BALLOONS TO BE UTILIZED
The Inventor Will Construct One and
Have Ii on Exhibition at the
Worlds Fair.

A balloon with electric lights attached to
il for lighting cities is the latest idea of
turning the hight of lights" to a practical
use. This idea may seem very visionary,
but c. A. Smith of 112 Grove street, one OF
San Francisco's inventors. has sufficient
confidence in the scheme to commence over
ations OF constructing a balloon for that
purpose.
This balloon will not be Of the ordinary
silk-bag pattern, but will be made of alum-
mum and in the shape of a cigar pointed at
both ends. 1t will be about forty feet long
and fifteen feet in diameter at Its largest
point and will contain sufficient gas TO sus-
tain it in the toughest kind of weather.
Fans will be constructed so As to held it
point up TO the wind anu help it from dip
ping. and In calm weather il will be so bal
| anced that 1t will remain. perfectly level.
A-cable containing the electric wires will
hold 1t at sufficient elevation so that the
light Will be spread over the area TO be illu-
minated 10 best advantage.
The balloon will sustain six arc lights, or
II can be SO made as to be covered with in
candescent lights. each one OF which will
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tributing the railroad shares to his heirs.
lie TACT plans had been made with the in
tention of extending the road prior to
D0nahue's death,
In addition to securing q vast amount Of
through business with the entire northern
country and Eastern States. for the San
frarclsco terminus, the way business would
De also quite extensive. Nearly all the
road would be through immense forests Of
line lumber of all kinds. including the noted
redwood of the Coast Range and the su-
perior sugar pine and other tim Der of the
interior. Within the mountain regions are
also numerous little valleys that could be
made productive for fruit, grain and other
produce while the hills are splendid cattle
ranges and capable of furnishing hay in
great abundance. ii an opportunity for
Shipping TO a convenient mar ket is afforded.
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A HUSTLER:

:: Suffering: old gentleman (entering
dentists office Il wu-wu-wonld; like: a
Young dentist-Qute rights :lSeizes yisi-
tor. sheves lin into operating -cifalr. and
grabs forcepsl.-Whic is-Ah, / see el-"Out
she: rcoines! pulls tooth), : One. dollar
please!
Cd gsntleman:-.B But cuc-cuc-confound.
sou, sir, ! dud-dud-I dud-didn't want a.
tut-tus-toeth pulled,
Deuiist-Well. what did you want, then |?
Old gentleman-I am Num- Num- Miss
Brisk's fuLful-Pm her father, just retut:
tut-returned from abroad. Sh-Sh-She has
tut-toid me abub-bub-bout your pup-pro-
posa! OF num- mum-marriage, and L came
up to huh-have tut-tut-a ten minutes
chat with you about il.
Dentist (regretfully) - Then, I suppose
this settles it. love her, but can hardly
expect you to give your consent after
Old gentleman = Wu-wu-well, 1 don't
know about that. 1t was pup-pup-it was
pup-pretty rough on me. But L gug-Qug-
guess you'll be able 10 su-su-support her in
gug-good style. You are a nu-hu-hustler.
Take her, mum-mum. my boYi
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The Case of Mrs Hail

Mrs. Marie Antoinette Hall, wife of
Thomas j. Hall, residing on Church street.
between Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth.
was yesterday ordered committed 10 the
Agnews Insane Asylum. The unfortunate
lady's dementia is that her husband was
Killed some years ago. There is a pathetic
story In connection with her loss of reason
Sothe years ago her husband was EMPLOYED
in mine In Yolo County. While Mrs
Hall was entertaining some friends at Innch
one OF them suddenly became a raying
maDiac. and. drawing revolver, shot his
wife All The guests fed. leaving Mrs.
Hall alone with the maniac. She secured
man and bound his hands. The sbocx
affected her SO that her mind became fiighty
from that time forward. The terrible Incl.
dent occurred nine years ago.
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To the Yosemite.

The California Camera Club gave its
thirty-firSt illustrated lecture last night
before a crowded house in the Metropolitan
Temple By S. O'clock all the seats were
filled. but with fashionable delay the
speaker, Charles A. Adams, did not come
to the front until the audience began to
show its impatience.
The lecture was entitled 1.-THE Yosemite
Valley" and was a grand success, the
speaker starting with his audience from the
Oak land boat. and describing all the scenes
en- route. being ably assisted by the stereop-
ticon, which illustrated every feature from
slides taken from negatives made Dy the
members of the club
There were several musical intermis-
sions by Robert s. Duncan and Luigi Arditi,
and remarks by j. NJ. Huichings, Father
of the Yosemite"
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A Head Master of Harrow,
Strand Magazine.

He had way essentially his own of get
ting rid Of little boys whom he invited to
breakfast. You know, little boys have a
peculiar habit Of becoming ineonvenieDtly
glued TO a chair.
The hospitable "head" would quietly 60
up 10 the youugster--who was perhaps in
the middle Of another mufiin-and saw very
gently and with paternal Kindness: "And
must you really go?" The little boy In
variably went.
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Where They Differed.
Detroit free Press

They were in Pullman car on the G. and
o. road, between Lexington. Ky, and
Washington, ID. c., when somebody pulled
out large and shapely bottle filed with
might CAPS"
will you have some to sleep on?" said
the pnller. as he extended it toward a New
Yorker.
"Um-er.thanks. 1 don't care if / do.
though l only drink when I'm away from
home. he responded. apologetically, as he
drained the glass.
well. it's a blame good thing I'm not like
you are" exclaimed a tall Kentuckiap.
reaching for the bottle, ''or I'd be away
from home all the time.
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REMOVAL. NOTICE..

At meeting Of the Board OF. Directors. Of
the KENTUCK CONSOLIDATED MINING COM:
PANY, held this day, the office of the Com
pany was Ordarad removed to Room 23, NE
YADA BLOCK No. 3O9 Montgomery street,
San Francisco. -. ~ : -. r.. =:
AUG. WATERMAN, Secretary. !:
San Francisco Decemher 2I. lSa2: de2Y EAt
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Violent Gale at Flagstaff.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz-. Dec. 30-A violent
gale visited this section last night 1t was
the hardest wind ever known here Houses
were blown down and others unroofed, and
hundreds of trees were nprooted Nine
huge pines within two miles east cf here
fell across the Atlantic and. Pacific Railroad
track, obstructlng traffic for a time.
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Evans and Sontap

|: SAN Diego, Dec 3O.-Sheriff Cravath and
the various constables are in receipt of de.
scriptions of Evans and Sontag, accom-
panied by new offers OF rewards. 1t is sup
posed that the Southern Pacific and Wells.
Fargo people ascertained that the pair were
coming southwark to cross into Lower CALI
fornia.
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Meeting of PopuIists.

VENTURA. Dec. ga meeting Of repre-
sentatiyes Of the Peoples party met in
Ventura to-day and resolved to push their
organization. The sentiment expressed
was in favor Of Populist Senator, but in
case of failure to elect such one much
friendliness was expressed for White.
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On CrOwIey's Trail.

UKIAH. Dec. 30.-Sheriff Stanley and
posse started late last night bent on captur-
ing Phil Crowley. who was shot In the at
tack on the Postmaster at Bear Harbor and
escaped, presumably via the southbound
coast s.OOp line or by way of Cazadero.
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CRUSHED TO DEATH.
Fatal Accident to a Child at Stock.
fnn

STOCKTON, Dec. 30.-JOhn Reid. three
years old, son of a iaborer, met his death
this afternoon by falling under the wheels
of heavy dray, which crushed his head.
The little fellow ran out as the dray was
passing his home and started TO climb on
the dray where other children were riding
but ran against the wheel. falling under il.
lie was carried home. but did not recover
consciousness
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Justice Slarpstein,s EuneraI

The secretary of the Bar Association has
requested the members to meet at the rooms
OF the association at IL o'clock this morning
10 attend the funeral of the late Justice
SlarDSipin
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After Sharnsfein,s place,

Los ANGELES. Dec. 30-The Express
says to-day that Judge Walter Vandyke of
the Superior Court of this city is a candl-
date for Justice Of the Supreme Court,
made vacant by the death of Judge Sharp
stein.
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AMERICAN ENGINEERS.
Important Works Constructed by
Them in the Old World.
St. Louis Globe Democrat.


American engineers have every reason to
congratulate themselves over the fact that
several large bridges on the line of the
Transandine Railway were built by Ameri-
eau companies in the face of active Eng
lsh competition. Time was an important
element in awarding the contract: the
railway :wheye the bridges were needed
was practically completed, but could
not be opened until the bridges
were constructed and I'm position. Several
British bridge builders were therefore asked
10 state the time they would require to build
a bridge OF 246 feet span, and the shortest
time asked was eight months. A cablegram
TO few American firms brought the reply
from two that they would deliver four
bridges OF the size required alongside ves-
sci IN New York in eight weeks, while
again sent to three firms stating
the load and tests 10 be made
when the bridge was IN position, and
others were at once returned. The spah
was 246 feet. the tensile strength of the steel
used was to be twenty-six TO thirty long
tons per square inch. with an elongation of
20 per cent before fracture. Time and
weight being important elements in accept
ing the tenders, II was accordingly decided
to make contraction a bridge weighing loo
tons, 10 be ready in eight weeks. and costing
So per ton. English engineers have since
been discussing the reason for their loss OF
the contract and have come to the conclusion
that 1t was owing to the American system of
bridge-building. In great Britain the builder
of a railway bridge gets his drawings from
the railway englneer;- no designs. every
rivet, even sreeifying in some cases how the
rivets and bolts are 10 be driven. One en-
gneer wishes one style and another desires
an entirely different type so that the
builder must be prepared for anything.
In this country, on the other hand,
the builder designs the bridge. or
rather he generally has standard
type, and the engineer has only to.
state the requirements. The firm, therefore,
can have special machinery for rolling
its iron and steel TO the standard sections
needed. AS to relative prices it is to be re-
greited that in the case of the 264-fGot span
quotations were not obtained from both
American and English firms. Fortunately
the idea suggested itself 10 get an English
from drawings supplied by an American
firm which had made tenders. so that in this
case the following comparative prices were
obtained:
Company Weight tons. Price Per ton.
American. .sl7,75 SSI63 s69 "a
brltish. ..l3S 1S42 II 70
1t will be noticed tnat the British firm as
sumed greater weight and that their price
per ton was greater, notwithstanding that.
material and wagons are higher in this
country, These bridges are designed to
carry road Of meter gauge feet 3 81 inches,
and were all calculated TO support, in addI-
tIon to their overweight, live load. con-
sisting of a train of sx-cOupled locomo-
tives, the length of the wheel base of each
engine being p feet inches and its total
81
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Ungarische Lustspiel.
Following is the programme the band wilt
render at Golden GATE Park this afternoon
A Ship on Fire.

CALCUTTA. Dec. 3O.-A fire on the shin
Dumbsrton Rock. hence for San Francisco.
compelled the vessel to return. The fire Is
SUN smoldering- The cargo is damaged.
but not 10 such a great extent as the shin
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Loring Pickering's Funeral.

The funeral of Loring Pickering will
take place this afternoon al o'clock from
Trinity Church at the corner of Post and
Powell streets.
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HARD CoueH distresses the patient and racks
both Lungs and Throat. DIR. ID. yayne's Expector-
AMI Is the remedy wanted TO cure your Cough and
relieve both the Pulmonary aud Bronchial organs
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An Eel and a Pickerel.

Lewiston Evening Journal
A large crowd Of men watched battle
between an eel and pickerel in the canal
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Betrayed by the Woman

LITTLE Rock. Dec. 3O.-A. j. Hudspe th
was executed at Harrison. Ark. to-day for
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the murder Of George Watkins in 1887.
Watkins wife confessed that Hudspeth
murdered Watkins so as 10 marry her.
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Lost 2..lbs

: In s months, and.was a misery to myself and all
about me- from indigestion ana liver coin ntaint
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-02-26
Committee Program Mapped Out.

WA'HINGroN, ID. Cit rs announced
that the intention of the Ways and Means
Committee is to call up tho tariff qucs-
ton i'll the House carly next week. This
program would to some extent defer the
consideration Of the silver question. The
silver bill, caunot he taken up and got
out of the way in advance
of that time The announcement
Of the purpose to call up the tariff qucs-
ton about the first of March, was made
in the Ways and Means Committee at a
brief session Of the full committee. An
agreement was reached among tho mem
bcrs of the Committee that the minority
should have until week from Saturday
70 prepare their reports :gainsa .ho three
bills, wool, binding twine, and bagging
measures, heretofore ordered fayorably
reported to the House by party vote.
Chairman Springer then announced
that it was intended to call up one of the
three bills on Monday following the sub.
mission Of the reports to the House. No
objection was manifest d upon the part
Of the Republicans to the course.
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An Ingenious IkObber.

Kuhn, the great German naturalist,
informs that in the year 1893 some
monks who kept bees observing that
they made unusual noise lifted up the
hive, when an animal flew out, which to
their great surprsc-for they at first
took 1t to be a bat--provcd to be q
deaths head hawk moth, and he re rem.
bcrs that several, some years before, had
been found dead in the bee houses.
Huber also, in 1904, discovered that il
made its way into his hives and those
of his vicinity and robbed them of theii
honey.
In Africa, we arc told, it has the same
propensity, which the TIo,tcntots obscrv.
ing, in order to monopolizc the honey oI
the wild bees, have induced the colonisti
to believe that it inficts mortal wound.
This moth has the faculty Of emitting a
remarkable sound, which Huber sup
poses may produce an effect on the bees
somewhat similar to that produced by the
voice of their queen. AS sooE as ut.
tered, this strikes them motionless, and
then the moth is enabled to commit with
impunity much devastation in the midst
of myrads of armed bands. .--Cassel'i
Nagazine.
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The largest British ship is the Liver,
pool, of 1880 tons, built of iron by
Mcssrs. Russell IL Co., on the Clyde.
She is 333 feet long, IS feet broi.d and
2S feet deep. Her four masts a.c each
squarc-riggcd but she is far from clumsy
flSFt %SF bchu.s il sashAt viz ttaHa4tsrabs ttHa4sra IND aa,aus
with such II ship as the Thcrmopylp, or
large American wooden ship, having
bright lofty spars and decks rs white ~
u hounds teeth. Iron decks do not lend
themselves readily to adornmcnt.
Next in size is the Palgravc, Of 307S
tons. Tho United States ship Shcnan-
doah, of Bath, Nc, built by Mcssrs.
Scwall 81 Co., of that port, is tho largest
wooden vessel in existence. She is
1888 tons register and will carry about
5000 tons Of heavy cargo. She recently
left San Francisco, Cal, with 112,0
ccntals Of wheat, worth SIZE, 900. This
is the largest gram cargo on record.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-02-26
Found n MastOdOn Tusk.

The tusk of huge mastodon has been
discovered at Darlington, ten miles north
of Charlottesville, Ind. The find proves
to be much better than was Mt first
thought, and promises to be one Of the
finest ever made in this country. The
tusk was discovered in digging well at
the residence CT George Lynch. Tho
tusk was struck by the drill, and so per-
feet did the ivory seem to be that they
decided that it had commercial value
and concluded to dig it up. They dug
down to it, about twelve feet under
ground. and found that the tusk that
they had struck was at least twelve in
ches in diameter, an even on the out
side was almost perfectly preserved. Tho
men have already uncarthcd about four
feet Of the tusk and have found no sign
Of an end either way. Judging from
that already in view, the tusk is about
fourteen feet in length, and the finders
are confident in their belief that the skull
and other bones will be found in n like
state OF preservation, as the whole is sub
merged in living water and covered with
clean, pure sand. Several gcologists of
this and other cities will make every ef-
fort to get it out and mount it for tho
college museum.-St. LOUIS Republic.
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Georgia, Carolina and Northern.

A press dispatch from Atlanta, says: :
The Georgia, Carolina and Northern
railroad has been completed to within
two miles of Atlanta Trains nrc cling
run to point twenty-five miles from
Atlanta, and it is expected to complete
and open the road by the middle of
March. This road is intended IA link
in the Scaboard Air Line, composed of
the lines controlled Ivy the Scaboard und
-Rurruau UUrnpduys. me company was
organized in 1886 to build standard
gauge railroad from Monroe, N. G., to
Atlanta, Ga, $50 miles. Work was
commenced on the northern end OF the
line, and it was opened to Chester, s, g.,
a distance of forty-fvc miles, in October,
1888. On July 1, 1899, there were is
sued Is, 3G0, C0J first mortgage 8 per
cent forty year 81 900 gould coupon
bonds, which have become very popular
amoug investors. especially in Baltimore,
being considered among the safest ruil.
road bonds that can be obtained. The
Mercantile Tru.t and Deposit Company,
OF Baltimore, is the trustee named IN the
mortgu and interest on the bonds il
made payable ut the Trust Company's 3
office The Scaboard Air Line is com
posed of six railroads. which form rail
road system whose northern terminus is
at Portsmouth, Va, where connection is
made with the steamers OF the Baltimore
Steam Packet Company and the Old DO
minion Steamship Company, and whose
southern terminus will be Atlanta, Ga. =,
as soon rs the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern is compl, ted. Through trains
viii! be run between these points via
Charlotte
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Renewed Confidence in Southern
Investments.

Tho Manufacturers Record, Of Baiti
more, An its issue Of February 90, says:
There are many siyas of "A revival of
confidence in Southern investments, and
among them are the proposed reorganiza.
ton by the foremost tiuanciers of tho
country Of the Richmond Il West Point
Terminal, tho large amount of money
lately furnished for extensions of tho
Norfolk & Western Railroad, the great
improvements involving au expenditure
of some millions of dollars by the Cbesa-
peake & Ohio, and the consummation of
financial plans for carrying out many dc.
velopmcnt enterprises. The troubles,
due in part to low-prico cotton, in pnrt
to tho natural effects Of such world
wide panic as We had last year, arc now
seen to be, as tho Manufacturers Record
has steadily claimed, only Of temporary
character, aud while severe for time,
they in no way destroy the solid founda-
tion of wealth based on the South's in
comparable natural resources. They may
have retarded tho development of these
resources for while, but they have, only
served to show tho dangers to be avoid
ell, and the result will be moro conscr-
vativc and more solid foundation for tho
great industrial activities of the future.
Among the new enterprises reported for
the week arc important railroad cxtcn-
sions and improvements aud mining and
manufacturing companies that cover
wide range of industry. In West Vir-
ginia $500, 900 coal mining company
and 81 100000 oil aud gas company
have been incorporated, also two lumber
companies, one of 100000 and one Of
$3O, 600 capital stock, respectively; Bir-
mingham, Ala, has n $l5, 900 company
TO manufacture wheclbarrows; IuniinC
ton, Ark a $4,000 Improvement com
pany; at Llano, Texas, a $50, 900 or 800, :
COO iron bridge is to bc built; Dallas has
$50, 600 improvement company; Flori.
da has $500, OOo lumber company and n
$3.50, 600 phosph tic company; in Tcnncs-
sec now furnace has just gone into
oiast MoD!lc has organized company
to build drydock; Augusta, Ga, n
$3.50, 600 woodwork machinery companv :.
large rolling mill is to be moved from
New Jersey to Baltimore and plate
mill added; Queen City, Texas, has in
corporatcd $40O,O COO iron company.
Spartanburg, c., 800, 900 mining
company; Knoxville. Tenn, u $3.50. 600
construction and bridge company; Tex
rs, 81 ,0OO,O0 mining company aud IA
$3O, 600 mill aud gin company. etc "
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A Noted Case Settled.

DEs MONIES, Iowa The Hyde Hope
well case, involving the civil rights of a
colorcd man, has been settled in favor of
the dcfcndent iIopcwell. The court
held that IIopewell had the right to re
fuse to serve Hyde in his restaurant and
that the fact that the latter being n col
orcd man. did not enter into the case. In
other words the restaurant business is q
privat" one, like grocery or dry goods
store, and it differs from an inn and the
proprie or may sell or not to any one
who enters his store.
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The New York independent laments:
The American people have shown SO
much aptness aud skill in almost all
other lines of industry and business
enterprise that it is notifying to have
to confess that we have been greatly be-
hind other nations in shipbuildng.
With the finest timber in the world in
great abundance, with all kinds of
metals in great supply, with rolling
mills and steel mills and other metal
works, we should be first in ship
building. 1t is gratifying, however, to
be told by foreign shipbuildcr, who
has visited our shores twice within q
decade, that we have taken n long stop
forward in shipbuilding in this period.
He says the quality of our American
built warsbips is almost as good as that
of the British warshlps, AMI they arr
built quite as cheaply. II we can built
rs cheaply now we ought to BE- abe to
build more cheaply after having had q
little more experience.