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The morning call., 1892-12-18
ABOUT PUNCTUATION,
Common-Sense Observations on an
Important Topic.

hiPOs
New York sun
In discoursiug upon that interesting typo
graphical indicator, the hyphen, our learned
contemporary. the Tribune says:
I'm conversation or in public speech there
is no sign Of sound or silence which marks
the hyphen."
This is an error. In reading aloud, and in
all vocal speech, the time-space between
hyphenated words is less than between
words that are separate from each other.
Take. for example. the compound word
"time-space," in which the hypheE marks
instsncy, and thus aids the understanding.
The mechanical adjunct here affects the
mind Of the reader.
Again we quote from the Tribune of Last
Sunday upon punctuation:
MANY readers will perhaps agree that
books as they now issue from the press con-
tain too many commas, too many quotation
marks, too many strokes of various kinds
that appeal only to the vision. Let US hope
that the tendency may set in TO make them
fewer"
The question of punctuation has been
under debate for ages, and the debate upon
1t has been especially active since the in
yention of the art of printing. To those
distinguished Venetian printers OF the six
teenth century, Aldus Manutus and his
son, Paulus, we owe debt of gratitude for
the splendid service they rendered to man
III.
In the printing of the English language,
there can be no positive or absolute law OF
punctuation. The various systems in ordi-
nary use are merely conventional. The two
leading systems are known as "close
punctuation" in which time marks, blth
| long and short are largely used, and ''loose
| punctuation" in which these marks are not
! so much used. In newspapers the tendency
nowadays is toward the loose system;
| but in books, especially books of
| science, law, metaphysics aud theology,
| the close system is generally used
| Many authors believe In close punctua-
| tlon, and hold that it helps the reader to
comrrehend their sentences or their course
| OF ratlocination. In the works Of CARLYLE
| Coleridge, Emerson, Bancroft, and. indeed.
| in the great majority Of serious works in our
| language, the close system is rigidiy fol-
| lowed. The writings of many of the Ger
| man metaphysicians. especially those in
which the style is involved. would be- unin-
tel!igible if thay were not closely punctu-
| ated. The comma, ths semicolon, the colon,
| the full stop, and even the EN- dash, are
very seryiceable to deep thinkers as well as
| to thoughtful readers.
In the Sun we use punctuation marks of
| all kinds just as often as it seems 10 us that
! they are necessary or useful or desirable
| We do not belong to the school OF close
punctuators or to the school of loose pune
tuators. We watch all the dots in the
paper, and we hope that there is neither a
surplus nor deficiency thereof.
Many people have been mislei by wrong.
| ful punctuation; many documents have
been miseonstrued on account of it; many
wills have been disturbed by reason of it,
We regard punctuation as a thing of ex-
ceedlng Importance; but we do not see how
in the printing of the English language, it
can ever be brought under fixed law of
universal application.
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local curiosity well known to the settlers
In the district This tree had somehow
started al the bottom of a narrow alley be-
tween two high rocks. and the rocks had
slowly settled together, combining and fiat
tenng out the growing tree, but not de-
strOying IT, for they never quite touched.
The tree managed 10 reach the top after
years OF precarious existence, so that il
burgeoned out into quite respectable tree
again. Then. in the course OF time
the lower rock slipped on the hill
settling back under the weight of
q land Slip and much of ID broke away
gradually, so thatth interlapped and netted
con figuraiion OF the madrono was revealed.
II was very remarkable illustration of the
vitality OF forest tree under extremely
hard conditions.
Natural grating or marching Is not lack
Ing IN the forest Two trees. willow, buck
eye, maple, or any tree that readily uniies
with the same species, happen to grow near
each other, aud the trunks or two branches
cross, and slowly unite. Then some acct
dent destroys the roots of one tree, and we
have the strange spectacle Of two tops of a
tree growing upon one root These Illus
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looms more like bags than anything else.
But the clothes Of the people are clean and
whole. and the crowd which walks through
the Thier-Garten or along the streets of
Berlin is a prosperous looking one. There
is great deal of money here, and. what is
better. there is great deal of economy.
Every cent that German spends he weighs
before he lays it down on the counter, and
he tries to get his moneys worth. After he
has gotten it be sees that the product lasts
as long as possible, and there is no waste
in the average German family.
l have some friends living here who give
me some instances of German saving. In
the cooking nothing is lost The crusts of
bread and stale pieces of the loaf are used
as thickeniDg for soup and the waste paper
of tbs family is ALWAYS saved for fuel.
Even the peach pits and such bones as cam
not be worked over for soup are burned.
and the German stove is much more Geo.
nomical than our method of heating. These
stoves are expensive at the beginning. They
are made of porcelain ana they are often
from six to eight feet tail and from three to
six feet square. A very little fuel sufices
to warm them and once warmed they give
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electric light wire charged with 1000 volts
ana the span wire of the railway company.
thus making circuit through the post to
the roadbed.
The first sign of anything wrong was the
frantic jumping of e. B. Moore's span of
mustangs in passing Pieree's block, and of
span driven by E. B. Qunlan, who reared
and ran as far as Maplewo0d. Mrs. Green
leaf. who drove her horse to Renfrew's
store, could not get him to bulge from that
point. and 1t took several men half an hour
to pull him away from a spot in the road to
which his hoofs seemed rooted. This was
laid TO his having cramps in the legs and
stubbornness.
About 8 o'clock Adelbert Huntington. a
milkman. drove his horse within six feet OF
the iron trolley-pole and about three feet
from the curb. and went into Pierce's bIock
to deliver milk. In moment or two his
horse was seen to trembIe and stapger. and
before help could reach him he fell to the
earth, Strengthened out his legs and was
dead. That his death was caused by elsc-
trlclty was not even thought of until Mr..
Renirew. IN trying to pull the milk wagon
shafts clear OF the body. received a severe
shock from the tire of the wheel, against
which a hind shoe of the dead animal
rested The current was then shut off at
the eiectrie-light plant. and the cause of the
trouble was speedily found by the cleo
tricians
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BEER IN BERLIN.
The Immense Quantities
Consumed.
BABIES WEANED ON BEER.
Some Queer Restaurants-The Famous
German Housewives
Union.
BABIES WEANED ON BEER.
Correspondence of THE MoRNIse CALI

Some of the finest buildings OF Berlin be-
long TO the breweries, and the beer business
here is fast going into big stock companies.
The Nurenburger has lately completed, at a
cost of several hundred thousand dollars. a
palatial beer hall and restaurant on Fried-
erich strasse, and there are nGmbef~of
other equally expensive establishments here.
In the Nurenburg Hof everything is fitted
out after the style of a hundred years ago.
The paintings on the walls are by the best
artists Of Germany. The iron work is
wrought in old patterns. AMI the immense
five-storv building is a yeritable museum.
l got my dinner in it the other night. ana
found il crowded wi tn all classes of Ger
mans, who. singly and in families, sat
around the tables of its various rooms and
drank beer. II is the same almost any hour
of the afternoon and evening. and the beer
saloon is TO large extent the parlor of the
Berinese You find beer halls in every
block, and every night 100000 beer glasses
are emptied again and again by the people
of this city. and 1.e00, O00 lips sma them
selves together rs the amber-colored liquor
flows down their 100000 outlets. The beer
drunk by the Germans almost sur
passes conception. The nation swallows
enough every year to make lake more
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PARTED.

In every sound think hear her feet,
And still wend my altered way alone,
And still say: Tomorrow shall meet"
j watch the shadows Ia the crowded street;
Each passing face L follow one b. one;
In every sound L think hear her feet.
And months 20 by. bleak March and May day heat;
Harvest Is over. winter we'll nigh done.
And still say: Tomorrow we shall meet"
Among the city squares when flowers sweet,
With every breath a sigh OF hers seems blown,
In every sound think hear her feet.
Beifry and clock the unending hours repeat,
From twelve to twelve, and still sne comes In
none,
And stlIl say: Tomorrow we shall meet"
oh, Iong-deayed tomorrow? Hearts that beat
Measure the length OF every minute gone;
In every sound think hear her feet.
Even the suns rise tardy feet
And ght the letters on a church yard stone,
And still say: Tomorrow We shall meet"
And still from out her unknown far retreat
She haunts me with her tender undertone,
In every sound Trims hear her feet.
And still say: Tomorrow shall meet"
New orleans PieayGne
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out gentle heat all day and use about
third the coal of a base burner and
nothing like the amount of material con-
snmed by furnace. There is one of these
stoves In each room, and a room which is
not used is never heated. In the buving
OF newspapers 1t is not uncommon for
haii a dozen families TO read the same
paper aud 10 club together to purchase II.
1ney have their fixed hours for reading
IL and journal which costs 9 cents may he
read by SIX families. The same economy is
used as to servants. The German boI,se-
wife always exrects TO spend mart of her
day 10 the kitchen ana the wives Of evan
well-to-do men do a large part of their
own work. Girls OF the best families
are sometimes apprenticed to dressmakers
IN order that they may know how to make
their own clothes or 10 direct their making
by sewing girls. Servants are not given the
same food that the family eats, and IL Is
customary here to allow the seryant-giri
2h cents Tor her supper and II there are
any extra nice dishes, such as fruit and pre-
serves, on the dinner table they seldom 90
down to the kitchen. The German wife
measures out everything to the servants
add she thinks she is paying big wages If
she pays more than 81 a week for hired
girl.
visited biz employment agency the other
day wh,'fe for ~ rrnts you could get ser
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A TERRIBLE JOURNEY.
Thrilling Incident Experienced by the
Famous BlOndin.


New York World.
BloDdin, the renowned rope-walker usu-
ally carried man upon his back when
walking the tight-rope. Formerly he was
wont to bargain with some one to accom-
pany him OH this dangerous journey. On
the occasion Of performance In Chicago a
man offered his services gratis. Bondin
accepted them and assembled the rope with
his living burden. When the pair had
reached the middle of the rope the man be-
gan TO laugh heartily.
What Is ii that amuses your" the rope
dancer asked. with hstonishment
"Oh. comic idea has jnst stuck me.
was thinking what sort Of face you would
pull If, during the next half minute, both OF
us were TO fall down upon the audience"
"But we shall not fall" replied Blondin,
reassuringly.
"But have determined upon this occasion
to take my life."
at the same moment the man began to
wriggle about, so that the rope-dancer nearly
lost mis- balance. He, however, soon COM
posed himself, dropped his balancing pole
and gripped the man so firmly with his
hands that the latter was unable to move.
Then continuing his walk, although in a
state OF great trepidation, he arrived safely
at the end OF the rope, and, allowing his
living burden to slide from his shoulders,
he administered a box on both ears with
such force that the would-be suicide fell
down unconscious. Since that terrible jour-
ney BlODdin has carried only one man, his
true and faithful servant.
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New York i'm Olden DAYS.


In one Of the older manuals of the Com
mon Council of New York there appears an
interesting directory of that city for the
year 1855 Then were exactly twenty
streets and q population of 25i. Broad way
at that time was De Here STRAIT (the prin-
cipsl streeQ. The Battery was Aen de
Strandt van de n. Revier. Wall street was
De WAL. Pearl street WAS De Perel STRAIT.
Whitehall street was De Win KEEL STRAIT.
William street was In de Smits Valley Gin
the Smiths Valley and Broadway, above
Wall street, was Buytan de Liant Poort (cut-
side the land gate). All the residents were
Of Dutch extraction, except one, whose
name appears on the list as Jacob, the
Frencbman. There were Roosevelts, BECK
mans. De Peysters, DE Puys, Van Cort-
landts and VerplaDcks in those DAYS.
CLANS. oysters and fish formed the princi-
pal food of the settlers at that period.
Occasionally in the srring New York was
visited by ''such amazing flights of wild
pigeons that the sun was hid by their fiocks
from shining on the earth for considerable
time; then IL was that the natives laid in a
great store of them against a day of need. I"
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THE MARCH OF THE CARAVAN,
The Picturesque Sight That Meets the
Traveller I'm the Lone Desert.

hiofSiSt fh Tic ktUc DSSGEt.
Chicago Inter Ocean
Perhaps the welrdest and most impress
siye of the many unwonted memories that
the traveller carries away with him from
travel In the East is the recollection of the
camel caravans which he has encountered
at night.
Out of the black darkness is heard the
distant boom of heavy bell Mournfully
and with pc rfect regularity of iteration it
sounds gradually swelling nearer and
louder, and perhaps minglng with tho
tones OF smaller bells signaling the rear
guard of the same caravan. The big bell is
the insignia and alarm of the leading camel
alone. But nearer and louder as the sound
becomes. not another sound and not a yisI
Bile object appears TO accompany it.
Suddenly and without the slightest warm
ing there looms out of the darkness like
the apparition of a phantom shin, the form
OF the captain Of the caravan. His sponpy
tread sounds softly on the smooth sand.
and like great string of linked ghouIs the
silent pro ession stalks by aud is swallowed
up In the night.
And how wonderful and ever-preseut is
the contrast in Eastern travel to all life and
movement at home! No heavy carts and
numbering wagons jolt to and fro between
the farmyards aud the fields. No
HRut Nenicies anu swirl eQuipages dash
past upon macadamized roads. Alas! there
are no roads; and If no roads, how much
less any vehicles or wagons. Thatched
roofs and tiled cottages, lanes and hedge
groves and trim fields, rivers coursing be-
tween full banks, beyond all the roar and
sudden smoky rush Of the train-these might
not exist in the world at all, and do not
exist in the world of the Persian, strateped
and stunted, but inexpressibIy TRANQUIL in
his existence. Here al! Is movement and
hustle, fiux and speed; there everything is
imperturbable; ffnmemorial. immutable.
alow
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neighbors. That they haven't killed him
yet may be due to the fact that he has
chosen to write in the English language
and publish in England and America.
Joost Ayelingh, In his latter days silent.
morose and misunderstood. ID the picture
this Dutch gentleman has drawn of himself.
Against the follies and foibles of his time
and people he turns trenchant weapon in
his caustie, dripping pen.
His pictures Of the coffee, tea and cocoa
aristocracy of Koopstad are among the
masterpieces of delineatory art. BE uses
his little Dutch world of mist-soddrn
marshes, stolid traders, narrow-minded
women and dissoiute youth as his football,
but | do not believe be will succeed in kick
ing it nearer the goal.
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A Curious Superstition.

'9Hbsof
In regard 10 the habit Of pariridges of
fiying into civilization aud popular super
Sutton regarding them an Augusta man
says: Zone few on our premises and was
captured. Then came up the question
whether we should kill the bird or allow il
TO live. AT that time there was a general
superstition that, if partridge came 10 the
house where a sick person lay and the bird
was killed and the sick person ate the
broth 1t would effect cure. There was a
girl sick at our house and the doctors had
given up her case as hopeless. Some of the
family said kill the partridge and give the
sick girl the broth. But the sick girl and
others We're for permitting the partridge to
live. We were equally divided, and agreed
to let one of the Deighbors whom we saw
coming to the house decide whether the
partridge should be killed or not. He said
Kill 1t. and we did. and the girl ate the broth
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and thirty years in the same family, and
the Housewives Union Is doing much t. en-
courage good service here. and ii deals with
such questions as marketing, as well as the
servants wages and servants work, II
prices Of vegetables and meats rise the mat
ter is thoroughly discussed in this assOcia-
ton, and II the women OF Germany can
lower them they do so. | have heard some
OF the ladies Of Washington, wives of Sena-
tors and Cabinet Ministers. d scuSs the
question as To whether such an institution
could not be organized in the United States.
1 doubt very much whether IL could, and
our seryant-giTls would turn up their noses
al the promise of little gold pin as the
reward of ten years hard ard faithful
work. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Berlin. November 2S.
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AN IDOL OF PARIS.
Yvette Guilbert, a Singer
of Popular Songs.
HER STRIKING APPEARANCE
She Says That the Secret of Her
Success Is She Loves Her
Profession.
Correspondence of THE MORNING CALI

Yvette Guilbert is one of the idols of the
Partisan public and admirers come from
afar to hear her songs.
Yvette is very striking In appearance.
She is tall, with auburn hair. brushed from
her forehead in shining waves. Her form
is perfect, and although she is always very
decollete one thinks only of beautiful
statue. Her great fear is that she will be-
come stout. for she says in her family at the
age of 80 every one takes on embonpoint.
She has been told that she is built like a
Roman matron, and her costume for the
stage is arranged after old engraYings
Her corsage is kind Of casaque that she
puts on without a corset and her skirt q
sheath. All is most simple and she says ''a
gown never costs me more than 40 francs.
but that gown gives me silhouette quite
extraordinary" Long black gloves accen-
tuate the great length of body, and very
small waist increases the breadth OF bust
and hips. Yvette Guiibert has no gestures,
for all expression is given by means Of the
voice and the mobility of the face.
Strange that the one who wrote these
songs for Yvette is Xanrof, a bafrister,
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Got a Fortune for a snowdrift.
st. Louis CLIQUE. Dcmocrat.

"The most artistic swindle known to the
history of the Colorado mining Industry oc-
Cured three. years ago this winter at
Georgetown" said Richard Beauchamp.
"Georsetown Is up In the mountains, and in
the center Of a very rich mining country.
In the winter snow drifts hundreds of feet
among the mountains and packs down very
hard. Two old miners ran tunnel into the
snow at the base ola mountain distance
OF 800 feet. timberrd IL up nicely, plastered
II with mud and at the far end piled great
quantity Of very rich quartz.
.'Then they went down to Denver and be-
came acquainted with a couple of wealthy
Englishmen who had just come over to look
for an investment for their spare cash that
would pay big divvy. They took them to
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CURIOUS TREES.
California's Horticultural
Wonders.
OAKS, rIADRONES, PALMS.
Strange Forest GrOwths - "Nick of
the Woods "A Berkeley
Mans "Live Oak"
OAKS, rIADRONES, PA
PALMS.
Written for THE MORNING CALL

In these days. when the pedestrian and
the amateur photographer are abroad
every summer, the views afoot' of some
wide-awake tree-lover might be made into
a volume as interesting as Thofeau's
Woods of Maine" The forests are full
Of strange growths and lie h stories of
trees. told so plainly that any student can
read them. Others there are. obscure and
mysterious, concerning which one cannot
form any opinion. except that of Topsy-
that it lust growed.''
Trinity County. one of the least known
portions of the State, and one of the regions
best worth the attention of people who
love the picturesque. used to have a
crumpled and Fl tened madrono tree that
was worth journey TO see. 1t stood near
the mountain trail west from Douglas City
on ridge overlooking the Trinity River.
and it probably still remains. as it was a
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Georgetown and showed them their tunnel
and the FL Dorado at the end OF it. The
tunnel. had it been really into the rocky
mountain. would have represented thou
sands of dollars. The Euglishmen were
charmed with it and the prospect They
bought the claim for $50, coo spot cash, and
went East TO contract for guartZmill ma
chinsry. When they returned in the spring
there was nothing left OF the tunnel but the
woodwo rk and wagonload OF quartz at the
end. 1t was the most ridiculous sell ever
known, and the most successful"
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THE DISAPPEARING LADY.

Explanation of How an Astonishing
Trick Is Performed.
Magasin Picturesque.
The accompanying figures illustrate a
trick in which the prestdigitator, after
placing a chair upon an open newspaper
and seating a lady thereon. covers her
closely with silk veil, and after the words
zone" "two," three" lifts the veil and
shows that the lady has disappeared.
The newspaper is provided with trap,
which Is concealed by the printed charac-
tiers: This trap is of the same size as the
one that must exist in the floor upon which
one operates. AS for the chair, that is gen.
orally an old affair, without any cross rod
in front l6gure u. 1t is provided with q
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trations of natural gratis are usually seen
upon small trees in thickets. A pair of
buckeye trees near Jackson, Amador
County, trees of four or five inches in diam
eeer, have made perfect nnion by what
gardeners call ''inarching." They prob
ably pressed closed together, swinging in
the wind, until the bark and n part of the
wood were ubbed away then the glutinous
buckeye sap helped the process of healing
and union.
The cannon tree" in Shasta, on the
eastern side, above Shingletown, an old
the things difficult If not impossible to
adequately explain. A huge oak tree
standing little apart on the edge of
glade in the forest, is pierced at right
angles by horizontal pine log twenty feet
long. 1t is high above the ground, and the
oak has grown closely about it-so closely
that double ridge Of bark clasps the pine
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Electricity in Hothouses.

E4ectrieity heaters are found to be excel
lent Tor use In Conservatives on account OF
the absence Of all nwholesome gases or
yapnrs which might injure the plants. sim
picity OF construction in the parts convey
log energy, perfect safety as regards heat.
which can be regulated at will. cleanliness
and convenience. and rapidly In starting
and extinction.
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ton Is hidden by the veil that the presti-
digitator spreads out at this moment in
front OF the lady.
AT this instant the operator actuates a
spring which opens the trap in the floor,
The lady passes between the legs of the
chair lngure b and then through the two
traps. the one in the paper and the one in
the hoor. As soon as she reaches the floor
beneath the stage she closes the trap In the
newspaper with gummed paper and shuts