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The morning call., 1893-05-19
A Valuable Hint,
The Or tic.


Here is hint 10 those suffering from ir-
somnia-a form of suffering that falls
largely to the lot of brain-w OF kers: George
r. Sims. the dramatist. who is busy
writer, has made the discovery that an
afternoon nap is the best thing to take If
one wants to sleep at night. Mr.. Sims
held out against it as an effeminate habit,
but having once fallen into the way of it
he finds that it not only enables him to
work with a clearer brain at night, but,
better than all, it enables him to sleep long
and peacefully after he goes to bed. Whit
a delightful remedy for terrible sfflic-
ton for insomnia is a ghastly thing.
Drugs are harmful (see what they did
for poor William Watson); but unbribed
sleep, natures sweet restorer, harms no
one; in fact, it is one of the few remedies
of which 1t is hard to get an overdose
Zoia has discovered this truth. and his
sies:a is as much part of his days pre-
gramme as is his writing. But then they
take lie differently in France. There two
hours is not tor long for the dejeuner a la
fourchette, while an hour Is as long time
as the Englishman can spare for his mid
day meal; and in America! well. here the
proprietor of the "quick-lunch" counter
retires n millionaire.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
WATERS Go DOWN.
All Danger Believed to Be
Past.
GREAT DAMAGE WAS DONE.
The Loss to Railroads in Ohio and
Pennsylvania Will Be Some-
thing Enormous.
Special to THE MORNING CALL

PITTSBURG. Pa, May 1S-The floods are
abating at all points and no more danger
is apprehended. The damaged property
will run into the millions. At Erie the
less will reach S750,000. The damage at
Meadvile will probably exceed $250.000,
while at Titusville 1t Is SAID to be nearly as
heavy as in last June. The loss to the
railroads in Pennsylvania and Ohio is put
at 81, ,O0O, 900.
CLEVELAND. May 1S.-The rain, which
has been steadily falling since Sunday
night, ceased early this morning after a
precipitation of AZ inches.
The Cuyahoga River is higher than ever
known before. AS the waters recede the
property losses along the bank are found
greater than at first supposed. BY noon
the waters had receded three feet. As
fast as it retired men were set to wcrk in
the factories and other submerged build
ings clearing away the accumulation of
mud. All the streets on tie flats are still
flooded.
The body of John Johnson. one of the
life-savng crew. drowned yesterday, was
found on the beach this morning.
ALEXANDER, MIMI, May 1S.-The dam
holding the water from Lakes Ida and
Mlll0na has given way and a mighty Hood
is raging down Long Prairie River. All
he bridges west of town are washed out
or stayed with ropes aud are impossible.
Much damage must result.
TORONTO. Ontario, May 1S.-The Cana
/ dian Pacific train from Winnipeg, due at
| 4:40 yesterday morning. did not arriy e
until late last night. The passengers who
came through on it reported terri BILE
journey. For the entire distance between
! Port Arthur and North Bay washouts and
| flooded tracks were frequent.
AUG UsTA. Me-, May IS. Kennebec
River is on the rampage and the Wharves
are covered with from four TO ten feet Of
water. All the coalsbeds are submerged,
and many cellars are flooded.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
KILLED HER SON.
A Mothers Fear That Her Child
Would Become a Thief.

LANSING. Mich, May 1S.-Last night
the body of the nine-year-old son of Mrs.
Frank HARE. who died on Monday night.
was stolen by some unknown persons from
the house where it lay. About year ago
the husband of Mrs. Harra was killed by a
log rolling upon him, and shortly after
ward the widow began to be annoyed by
having her horses tails sheared, her har-
ness aud other articles stolen and the
wheels taken from her carriages. The
physician requested permission 10 hold a
post-mortem examination upsn the boys
body yesterday. but the m other refused.
This morning the body was discovered at
the bottom Of deep we'll on the farm. and
the mother later confessed to having
poisoned her son TO prsven. his growing
up to be a thief. She was arrested and
her neighbOrs think she is insane.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
ENGLISH SALOONS.
Our Cousins Idea of Why They
Should Be Different From Ours.


Chicago Times.
Between the British conception of a sa-
loon and that in vogue on this side of the
Atlantic there is this in common. that both
are entered by side door after nightfa|l.
There the resemblance ceases. John Bulls
saloon is an exhibit in the transportation
building. wherein it is full as difficult
to look upon the wine when 1t is red as it
ought to be in Evanston or Bangor.
John Bulls saloon is as dry as his comic
papers. He labels it sleeping saloon" to
distinguish it from nl!-night places where
we never sleep. 1t occupies position in
the rear of the London and Northwestern
Railway Cnmpany's highly vanished
trainlet, ingeniously constructed TO defeat
the ends OF tie trafficker in popcorn at
five bag"
The British sleeping-room is our great
grandmother's Pullman car. 1t is the
great American Sleeper" as it would have
hern had it been invented before the war
catering by 1t the British passenger finds
himself in diminutive closet. where he Is
permitted 10 smoke his pipe. Two rigid
back chairs would elbow each other for
standing room if they had any elbows.
The Inau in charge says, this is what a
man as to put up with in Chicago" a.
he opens the door.
SIX berihs are st0w0d away on either
side of the smoking saloon. The berth
saloons are divided into compar.ment sa-
looms, four compartments comprising the
entire carriage. Two of the compar;-
ments contain four berths devoid of any
evidence of curtains IN front. The remain
ing couple are of semi-seclusive character,
containing two berthSeach. aud being in
tended for room-mates or elderly married
couples. The car is probably half the
length of tile ordinary Puliman, and is
destitute Of even she adnrnment of the
harmless necessary darky with the appe-
tifn for nnarferS
The morning call., 1893-05-19
A Novel Magazine.

Talk about ingenuity! 1t is nothing to
that of the Brtisher in the matter of pub
lications. There has been magazine
started in England. recently. which is run
on plan entirely novel and oaiginal. An
authors manuscript is published if he sub
scribes for a certain number of copies.
The space allowed the author depends
upon the number OF copies he shows a
willingness to buy. / have heard Of IA
great many strange ways of building up
circulation, but this is the strangest yet.
ran see that it will work admirably
for the publisher; but where is the
auth or's remuneration 10 como in? He is
told by the publisher that he can send the
copies he buys to his bookseller. who will
sell them for his benefit" VIII the pub
fisher guarantees this sale? If he will. why
should not he himself reap the benefit OF
1t? Oh. willy publisher! what do you call
your magazine? Vanity Fair would not
he bad title for it,. for all the poor author
will get out Of il is the tickling OF his
vanity.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
FISHES THAT Do NOT MOVE.
Carp and EeIs Remain in the Same
Position All Winter.
Our Annual Friends.


A great u any Of our well-known fishes
do not move from Christmas TO Easter, and
often for much longer period. I paid n
visit to the chief Canadian fish hatchery.
which Is under the superintendent of
Mr. Wilmot, at Newcastle, Ontario, early
in December. In soma of tho tanks
were carp and in others were cells.
One large eel was in the form of 4 letter
), and posed midway in the water.
When | returned to Newcastle early in
March the eel bad not changed its place
or rs form. and Mr.. Wilmot assured me
that IL had not moved in all that time.
The carp Law close to the bottom of the
tanks and did not move either. They like
20 90 into deep, reedy lakes or ponds, get
close to thc bottom and remain there till
the ice above their heads has melted.
Unless they are disturbed | donbt IL
some of these alternating fishes move so
much as q FIN during the winter. A frog
will remain four months, looking appar-
emily into the heavens with wde-open
eyes without once moving them or any
other portion of his body. At the New
York Hospital they related to me curious
occurrence bearing on the Information of
fishes. In the conservatory. In the upper
part of the building, they had several glass
Jars in which there were goldfish, which is
d species of carp.
One morning the caretaker found a jar
broken and the water frozen through, the
fish, of course, being rs rigid as ice. The
lump WAS taken awav and thrown into an
old rubbish barrel, where IL remained sew
eral " eeks. One March day the sun was
unusually strorg and Il split the cylinder
of ice and what was the astonishment Of
the caretaker TO see the tail of fish wrig-
Cling out Of n part OF the broken block.
The actual freezing had not killed the
fish. which was removed TO another tank.
where it swims about as IL nothing had
hefalien II,
The morning call., 1893-05-19
THE PRESIDE.
Great Races Spring From Places
Where the Family Hearth Exists.

w hCi th k-AiStSs
Peterson's Magazine.
Somebody found out that the friction Of
two sticks would produce flame. And
10, all the arts and sciences were born
This discovery must have been made
very, very long ago, for the earliest
people of whom we have any knowl-
edge had forgotten about it and were
turning it into myth and miracle. Agni,
the fire, was worshipped by the Hindnos
as one of the great gods, while among the
Greeks the Titan Prometheus was SAID to
have stolen the fire from heaven, and
brought it down to men hidden in a reed
This he did in pity for the sugering race of
man, while for the pity and help ne, like
su many other of mans helpers and re-
formers, was doomed to persecution and
torture.
1t is only within the persent century and
since the discovery Of the old Sansk rit
scriptures that we have found out that
Prometheus is Pramantha. the fire drill,
and that out Of the wonder of the fire wor-
shipping imaginations of the people have
created the wonder story of the man-loyiug
victim of Zens.
The fire early became a symbol of the
sun and through Thousand changes this
primeval marvel of the fire has become a
part Of the poetry. the folklore. the reli-
gion of all the world. The Parsis were
fire worshipers. Bael. the fire god. ruled
many Semitic tribe. The beautiful
Persephone is seized by the god OF the
under world and born away 10 his sunless
kingdom. k Her mother. Ceres. mourns her
and searrhes everywhere over the desolate
earth for her daughter.
By and by she Is permitted to return and
spend six months in the upper world. The
flowers bloom, the corn grows and the
birds sing at her approach. So grows the
fairy story of winter aud summer. But
n ot only In pagan lands DO these tracns oil
sun and fire worship appear. Our Lent:
and casters, our altar candles, onr Hal
lnweens, our eastward positions in prayer
all these are poetic relics of the age-lone
wonder of the fire.
In the first place. the sunshine is the
condition OF all life on earth. and the fire
on the hearth is only Transformed sun
shine. This sunshine was stored sd age,
ago in ihe beds of coal Or in the CROWNS
trees year by year. SO. as we sit abnu
the fire. it is the sunshine of other year,
or other ages that dances in the fame O.
glows in the red anthracite.
And as it is the sun that gives life, SO /
is this sunshine in the fire that makes mar
the free in abitant Of all the earth, what
ever the natural climate may be. Whereve
he is able to live at all he creates for him
self artificial tropics, thus estabiishn:
once more and permanently the essentia
conditions OF his primeval home.
The morning call., 1893-05-19

of which is as familiar as my own name,
only to realize the fact that my manuscript
has gone beyond recall.
Perhaps the strangest circumstance in
this connection is the fact that the realiza-
ton of error Is almost invariably apropns
of nothing. In the still, stormy hours of
the night-while wrapt under the influence
of music or oratory-oftenest. perhaps,
while lingering in the boIderland between
sleep and consciousness in the dim light
of The early morninG-the world, in ali
the horror of its false presentment. will
stand out as clear TO my mental vision as
was the awful mural ins 'riptIon to the eye
of the Chaldean monarch, while my heart
sinks and my knees knock together"
The morning call., 1893-05-19
Sleep For Brain-Workers.

An Eiiglish journal Las been gathering
statistics among authors on the interest
ing subject of sleep, and finds that many
of them may be caught mapping during the
golden hours Of dny. Professor Blackie
has followed nature in practicing the
afternoon nap now for fifty years" +;
and he is a wonderful example OF
vigorous old age. Walter Besant does mi
take an afternoon nap as a rule. bnt If he
drops of between luncheon and dinner. he
oors not regret il. Hall Caine confeSses
TO the nap habit. but adds that II is a great
waste of time. though not Of tissue.
". L. Stead considers plenty of sleep
The morning call., 1893-05-19
ORNAMENTAL JOURNALISTS.
Feeding Now at the Expense of the
CITY of MINNEAPOLIS,

ST. PAUL, May IS. = TIE Eastern dele
gates to the international convention of the
League OF Press Clubs arrived this morn
ing. The convention was called to order
a 10 o'clock by President NJ. H. de Young
OF the San Francisco Chronicle. and after
brief session, during which various com-
mittees were appointed, an adjournment
was taken until tomorrow. This after
noon the visitors drove about the city, and
tonight the literary programme in Ford 5
Hall was followed by general rece p,io II
ut the Commercial Club rooms.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
A Preacher on the Bicycle.

"Do you consider it wrong to ride a
bicycle on Sunday ?" was one of the ques-
tions which member of tine Grace Bap-
list Church. Philadelphia. handed up to
Pastor Russell II. Conweli at one of bis
Sunday afternoon talks to the Bible class
In the temple.
''No, indeed. do not consider it wrong,
II the bicycle be ridden for a good pur-
pose" was the prompt answer. ut IS
easier. better and quicker locomotinn than
walking. and. as compared with driving,
the bicycle is away ahead of the horse and
carriage for Sunday use. since its rider
compes no onn else to work-neither man
nor beast-that he may ride. ! sea no rea-
son why the members Of our congregation
should not all come TO church on wheels,
if they find that tho easiest way to come" J"
The morning call., 1893-05-19

workers." and says that John Morley,
when editor of the Fall Mall Gazette. took
forty winks after his chop. That very ac-
tive journalist, T. p. O'Connor. NJ. p, is
great believer in sleep. aud thinks that ten
hours out of the twenty-four should be de-
voted to slumber. II is not always the
brains that work the hardest that require
tie most sleep. Napoleon. for example.
whose brain was always working. slept but
four hours out of the twenty-four, unless
ne has been m srepresented
The morning call., 1893-05-19
Pittsburg's Many MilIionaires.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

There are just eighiy-thrse individuals
or firms in this city who are entitled to
that dearly sought, dearly bought term
''millionaires," and many of these run far
above the round figures. This statement
comes by the authority OF the most COR
servative and thorough mercantile agency
in the country.
The list does not include Alleghany
County, nor even the city of A ilpghauy,
bat comes from Pittshurg. plain, flat ioo,ed
Pittsburg, alone. Then 1t does not include
banks. nor even individuals VINO have re-
tired from business, but simply means
those who are doing business right here
to-day.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
The New Storm Center.
oSt0n AdvertIStr.

The order of President Cleveland.
quarantinng the White House against
office-seekers has placed fresh burden
on the shoulders of Cabinet mem
bers. as the aspirants for preferment
are now laying siege to the heads Of
departments. as the best possible .snbsti-
tutes for Mt. Cleveland. However, there
ara eight Cabnet officers and bat one
President, and. If the office- seekers are
equally distributed among the several de-
partments, the strain" unon any one
mem ber of the Cabinet may not be so grea.
as it apparently was in MIR. CleYeland's s
pa5p
The morning call., 1893-05-19
Not Her Fault.

Look here" he said Indignantly to the
man with the hungry cow. don't you see
that Keep Off the Grass sign?"
Yes"
well. yer cows on tie grass"
Il know 1t mister" was the placid an
swer. II know jest as we'll as You do.
You see. that cow can't Washing
ton Star
The morning call., 1893-05-19
Not an Uncommon Case.

.'Will some one versed IN psychological
phenomena say whether l am singular in
frequent experience of what | msy call
sudden, total photographed eclipse?" In
quifes }. S. B. incorrect spelling Is no
rarity. and there are, in our language, GER
tain combinations of letters when may
well heiuddle the most prnsaically accu-
rate; but often, in the fun tide of compo-
siiion. with DO hesiiancy or demur, mis-
spell u common word. the correct spelling q
The morning call., 1893-05-19

will be obtained between the Bay of Biscay
and the mediterranean, is now again to the
fore. Applications have been made 10 the
Government for a ninety years concession
and state guarantees of 2 per cent. The
aggregate length of this waterway would
be some $50 miles. breadth 120 feet to 300
feet, aud pth q feet, so that the largest
vessel could pass !hrnugh il.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
The Fire Record.

An alarm was turned in at 9:55 yester-
day for a fire in the saloon of Lewis
Taussg on Main street near Mission. 1t
was occasioned by the bursting of a
whisky barrel and the accidental setting
of the fluid on fire. Damages nominal.
The morning call., 1893-05-19

One of the results of the recenT inyestiga tion
by lie Labor Commissioner inio the ondition
of the city hakerieS and the grievances OF tile
men employed therein is shown in the arr est
yesterday of Reinhod Beck, a Kearny-street
baker, for working one OF his men days
week. The complaining witness is Charles E.
WpnGt.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
An Extravagant Woman.

Mrs. Flirgton is an awfully extrara-
CANT woman. isn't shc ?"
"What has she dunc?"
Just now l heard her offer Dumleigh n
penny for his thoughts. .."-Chicago Inier
Ocean.
The morning call., 1893-05-19

benjamin Joiner threw large knife at a
peddler named john DrIsc0ll on Fourth street
yesterday afternoon, and was arres ed for as.
sault with d deadly weapon.
The morning call., 1893-05-19
A Proposed Canal.

The projected canal from Bordeaux to
Narbonne. France, whereby connection
The morning call., 1893-05-19
-sso Tc1 1GHICAGoANORE RETUgSgN Owe

THE BIG VALUES was the
temptation held out to the
people and they just swarEned
to the Big Store.
TWO PEOPLE ARE GOING
TO THE WORLDS FAIR.
If you're the nearest guesser
of the weight of the Prize
Sheep exhibited in our Win
dow 1T Ill BE YOU.
The morning call., 1893-05-19

Th. nyramids of Egypt were begun about
3. G. 1900.
The morning call., 1893-05-19

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
we place on Special Sale in
our elegant and hon1elike Ju-
venile Department many
very swell spring suits for our
young friends between the
ages of 4 and IA, in All-Wool
Scotches, in AIl-WooI Tweeds
and in Afl-WooI Cheviots, in
Single and Double Breasted
Suits, in both light and dark
shades. at
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1893-12-18

Washing ION, December lH-A j. War
ncr. president OF the conference OF the
Bimetulllc Tongue, which has been In SEES.
sion here several days todas gave out an
explanatory statement OF fhe action Of
the conference. He says.
1T was unanimously agreed In confer
ence:
First-That the money aueHtion will con-
tlnue to be a prominent iqfue IN settled
and settled rightly on sound principles
Second-'rhat the first battle is the next
congress.
Third-That TO achieve the result silver
men must not only stay silver after they
reach congress. but must there unite in
putting silver above o parity ma work
necessarily 10 accomplish the object for
which they were elected
a motion was also adopted recommend
ing that there be held during The present
winter two cuuventons-nna somewhere
In the South and one g Des Nones,
lows.
ON motion Of General King Of Louisiana
q committee of three on union OF the Re
publlcs OF America ara other silver stand
aid nations OF the world. with the presl-
dent Of the Timetable league as chairman,
was appointed.
General King OF Louisiana r. y Stard
OF Ohio, and Judge Joseph j, Sheldon Of
Connecticut We're nnIslcd as the commit
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1893-12-18
snnnln rrcIn.lnn nnIc.

Washington December lG.-Most natural
ly the recent order excluding from the
floor of the scnute All PERSONS excepting
members Of that body and Il few favored
officials has olicited n storm Of protests
and criticism. Before O'Clock Ia the
morning the chamber Is nominally free to
outsiders. But the stray individual who
perbnps once In month or tWo might
be lettering around al that comparatively
early hour would be quite sure it he at
tcmptcd entrance 10 discover tnerr was no
one accessible with authority TO unlock
the doors which had bgch Closed the night
previous.
only in recent years has there been any
attempt at eXcIusiyeness of this charuc-
ter. For long time, even while the Heu-
ate was holding lts sessions, lhe reEuia-
tons as to admission 10 the floor were
quito liberal Step by step, however,
the list was curtalled until scarcely any
one. with the exception OF members OF
the house. can pass the sacred portals n
the senate "a sitting.
The prohibition extends 10 n very large
propoftiOn of the scnHte's own officers. a
large section Of the galleries is also re.
served, where those only can enter who
have a card " permission from senator.
when the senate was not In session. how
eyer. the people have Away enjoyed the
not extraordinary privilege Of inspecting
the chamber, and II there has been any
Instance Of rufIlnnifm or vandalism IN con-
sequence II Is not generally known.
IL is said the rraaon Tor this new hcdgine
OF IN American h0uFe Of lords from CON
tact with the common people Is because
OF the apprehension that crauhs ana ar-
archlsts might gain entrance 70 the door
and do some terrible DAMAGE. II is also
said and this Is more likely, that the
new regulation Is intended 20 Keep out the
army OF Onlce seekers and Others who
have been IN the habit of Invading the
place ana catching senators NJ their desks
where they can pour their appeals into un-
willing ears.
n Is NOT doubted that office seekers aro
numerous and persistent. atd, AS senators
claim. thelr opportunities are burdensome
ana ANNOYING But an the American people
70 ne not onice seekers. and an are eNcluh d
In any event what are senators hcm-
selyes but Office soekerg? Aud the ma
iorIfy Of Thorn continual and uuremituug
onlce seekers Perhaps IN generation
one Of them. ike Mr. Edmunds nifty
voluntarily stop Cut before compelled 20
10 -. But what other class on office seek
ers and office olders resorts % The cljolug,
ne Intrigue The Establishments ihe im-
portlnitieq which they DO TO obtain me
scats. which they viii not now permit tie
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1893-12-18

washinrtnu prrpmber IA MIR Tai.
marc Of TaIn,nrc g "a Ncx N-nri, Nan
interyIcws to,lay Min mrn,1,,'t ~ The
v,nys and means cornritt"s ,ind Nav
Yori, reimbursement In ,,J,5cb N. ursrl
rhanrcs IN mo rIre scb,iuie III c,s mo
tba s,hrapir pannted IA, thn ,,nn,r,lttno
n,ol,tn, N J,,rcrcrcc ~ orty ~ "er,
In mo lnty an rie,,nd ma ,,n',toi,rrJ No
aocs M, gtvs the miner. snf6Ntcr, r,'r-
gin
Mr. TaImnrc also had n ,enq talk Win
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