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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-06

of the frs, rank. and The rest OF the popu-
latjon fell in somewhere in the remaining
ranks. The poets of America are also
numerous.
In Italy, at least, there appears to De a
dearth of silver currency, and there ought
to be an opening for the utilization OF Sill
ver The straits to which employers are
put in paying their workmen are embar-
RAISING. Workmen are being paid in TICK
cts. which may be considered nat money
with purely local recognition. For coins
as much as cent or ~ cents premium Is
paid for franc. Higher silver coins nave
disappeared. Silver is being exported out
OF the country.
Judge Conlan of the Police Court, and
all the staff of shorthand writer's and
clerks, have implored the City Hall Com
missioners to provide some other temple
promptly. where justice may be admins
tered without feeling of rivalry with the
thousand odd stenches of Cologne. The
commissioners remarked how healthy the
delegation looked. and then went skyward
after the tower which is to ornament the
city's headquarters. 1t is strange that
those Police Court odors should have been
described In cOmmisegating language
more than twenty years ago by Mark
Twain in the Virginia Territorial Enter
PRISE. The accretions of ages Of dirt have
doubtless modified the perfumes for the
worse.
The '49ers celebrated the days of gold at
the Worlds Fair yesterday. They had
some startling contrasts for their oratory.
whether they crossed the plains, came
round the Horn, or took passage by the
lsthmus. The change across the plains
from the Missouri is scarcely credible by
the youth Of to-day. The buffalo have
disappeared; the Indians are gone in great
part to the happy huntiE g-grounds. with a
remnant on reservations; cities and States
have arisen; railroads cross the continent,
and people think less of thousands of
miles OF journey than they did of a hun
dred in 1850. Men who have seen all this
change are still in vigorous health.
Defeat in the case of the Navahoe is
tempered with an occasional victory. The
second score OF the week came up yester-
day in race shorn of any other attraction
than that the Calluna was the competitor,
all the other big yachts having withdrawn.
The Calluna has beaten the Navahoe, and
now its turn has come to be beaten. Phelps
CarroPs skipper is doubtless getting bet
ter acquainted with channel water and
weather, but it does not appear proba Bile
that the trophies to be carried 10 New
York will benumerous.
This is the season when California gets
credit in the East for her fruit. The peach
crop OF Delaware and New Jersey has yet
to be gathered. but there is abundance of
the California growth in the market, and
the public have time to decide upon its
quality. Shipments in considerably in
creased quantity have been freely abb
sorbed in The great cities of the East at en-
prices. Florida is the only
State that can get to market as soon as
California. and that only with oranges.
No other Stale has our variety of produc-
lion.
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A MEAN TIME SUNDIAL.
A Difficulty of Long Standing Over
come by an English Invention.
Horological Review.


Most persons know that an ordinary sundial
does not give clock time. Sometimes the dial
time is fast and sometimes 1t Is slow a.
compared with sun time, for the sundlal
days are not like ordinary days-all of
equal length. The mean time shown by or.
binary clocks Is based upon the division OF
mean day, which corresponds to the mean
length of the days as measured by the sundial
shadow at different parts of the year. Ten
O'Clock tim corresponds to the dial time which
would be shown by Fictitious" or ''mean'
sun moving uniformly in the equator at the
same average rate as that of the real sun in the
eclptic.
TIE difficulty of contrivlne dial to show the
mean time has been overcome IN simple
manner by Major.General j. h. Oliver of Lon
don, who has devised gnomon which
practically makes its own correction for
the equation of time. In this inStru-
ment tue indication OF the time Is not by
the shadow OF a straight edge. as In the old sun
dials, but by the point where all equatorial
circular line is cut by the edge OF the shadow
of curved surfacr. the curvature OF which Is
above or below the equator as To compensate
for the equation Of tine"
The instrument Is il universal one and con-
sisls OF meridianal semicircle, the diameter
of which is an axis carrying the cuIving
guomon and eaua'Oriil circular arc. The
la ter has engraved upon its cOncave
surface a graduated line, on which are
There Is a screw for clampiug the merldlanal
arc at the proper position for any given latitude
and ano her clamp for adjusting the equatorial
arc The dial not only indicates local mean
time, but by a very simple adjustment, may be
set so as show any required standard time.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-06
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Carl Schurz has for two years been at
work, under contract with a great pub
lishing house, upon a history of The United
States between 1852 and 1860, both inclu-
slye.
Walter Besant. in London Queen" ar
ticle. locates Central Park in Massachu-
sets.
George KEENAN,, the apostle of prison re-
form in Russia. was 20 years old in 1865
when he made his first trip through Siberia.
DR.. w. G. Anderson of Yale College. Di-
rector OF the ChautauQua School OF Ply
steal Culture. says that physical training is
IN its infancy in America.
Zola and his publisher are evidently on
the !rieDdliest sort OF terms, as the latter
has given breakfast in honor OF the cele-
brated author.
Florence Nightingale. who recently cele-
brated her seventy-third birthday, is con-
firmed Invalid. but pursues work for the
benefit of her fellow-creatureS with her
old-time zeal. nevertheless.
Next to Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe. the
most successful American author from a
pecuniary point of view is General Lew
Wallace, whose Ben Hur" alone has
earned him more than 500, 600 in royalties.
Miss Maria NJ. Ogilvie has passed the
final examination for the degree OF doctor
of science at the London University. She
is Scotch girl, the daughter OF DR.. Ogilve
of Gordan's College, Aberdeen, and her
scholastic career has been brilliant.
President Cleveand's brother. pastor OF
the Presbyterian church of Chaumont,
jefferson County, n. Y, does not resemble
the President. He is Of much lighter build
and almost spare in figure. An easy, CHEEKY
expression and light voice further add to
the dlSSimilarity.
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THE DISTURBANCE IN SAMOA.

The rumpus in Samoa is hardly entitled
to the Importance which the newspapers
are attaching 10 it. IL was simply popu-
lar riot, which was entirely suppressed,
though according to the custom of
atoned for their turbulence with their
lives. The incident goes to confirm Sena-
tor Sberman's rather harsh sentence that
1.-The SamOans, from their character and
peculiarities, seem to be totally unfit to
conduct regular form of government"
1t is just ten years since civil war
among the &C. 600 inhabitants of the islands
was brought to close by an agreement
that the head Of one Of the factions should
be King under the name of Malietoa,
which in the SaToan language signifies
King or Supreme Chief, and the head of
the other faction, wfose name was
Tamasese, should be Vice-King. This
plan did not work, and in 1884 the King
applied to Great Britain TO annex the
islands, or at least establish a protectorate
over them. The application. though
strongly Endorsed by New Zealand. was
declined by England. Shortly afterward
he German Consul drew constitution
in German hands. and the German Con sui
was authorized to establish German
monopoly of trade in the islands. This
instrument was signed by Malietoa, as he
says. under coercion and Threats. 1t
failed to command the assent Of Great
Britain and the United States and disturb
anceS breaking out, which involved some
loss of life among sailors of the German
gunboats at Apia. an International confer
ence was held at Berlin in 1889. by which
the neutrality of the islands was guaran-
teed by England, the United States and
Germany, the monarchy was declared
to De a permanent institution and a new
official was provided for under the name
of a Chief Justice. This official was in
reality the dominant authority on the
islands. He possessed criminal and civil
Jurisdiction and 1t was his business to see
that the members of the three treaty
nations enjoyed equal rights Of residence,
property and trade. To prevent jealousies
Swede was chosen, by name Conrad
Cederkranz
Some months ago it was stated that Mr.,
Cederkranz found the task he had under
taken beyond his powers. 1t is presumed,
though not absolutely certain, that he has
gone home, as his name does lot appear in
the accounts of the recent fray. The Sur
render of the rioters under Mataafa APP
pears to have been demanded and insisted
upon by the three Consuls. assisted by the
commanders of three gunboats, two Ger
man and one English. The loss of life Is
said to have amounted to about thirty,
while as many more Of the riotous war
riOrs were wounded.
The affair thus narrows down to fray
between two native clans. involving no
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THE CIGAR INDUSTRY.

The secretary of the Cigar-makers' Union
estimates that S1O,OOO.000 is annually sent
from California for the purchase of cigars.
Whether the amount Is little more or
less it constitutes a heavy drain uron a
community of ], $50, 900 people. To one not
versed in the mysteries OF the trade it
seems as If California ought to make the
greater part of the cigars consumed here.
Under the present tariff the consumption
of Havana cigars has fallen off. Eastern
brands have taken the place OF the cheaper
varieties of imported cigars. but there is
no known reason why California-made
cigar should not be equa! to any made in
the country. There are half dozen East
ern brands which are extensively adver-
tised in this city, but for some reason or
other the local product does not receive so
much attention.
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SHORTHAND IN SCHOOLS.

The United States Bureau OF Education
has issued a pamphlet on shorthand in
structiOn and practice which may possibly
have the effect of stimulating an art all
ready much in vogue and not half as use
full as it appears. Unless for professional
uses knowledge of shorthand and great
facility in writing it are of no special value.
Indeed valuable time may be wasted in
the study. A reporter Of debates in Con-
gress or legislatures and a court reporter
must know shorthand well. 1t is also a
good aid to a journalist, though the tend
e3cy to condensation and summarizing
renders it quite dispensable to those who
have good memory and ready appre-
hension to expand skeleton notes. The
interviewer is probably all the better for
entertaining work. not materially inexact,
if he relies upon his memory. Yet other
use is found for shorthand in the mer-
chants or lawyers Office. A letter or an
opinion is quickly dictated. and thus an
amount Of correspondence is dealt with
day by day which could not otherwise be
overtaken. No merchant Of prominence,
no railroad chairman or director Of any
great enterprise dreams of dealing with
his letters in the old laborious style. To
the clerk or secretary who wishes to rise
in his vocation shorthand IS we'll nigh in
dspensable. In similar way the type
writer is assisted. All that the type.
writing clerk has to do is to take down
what is required from dictation and then
typewrite as many copies as are wanted.
There are so many special subjects
taught in school that possibly shorthand
does not appreciably increase the con-
fusion Of too much examining, but If the
teaching we're insisted upon for every body
it would be study lost in the majority of
cases. Shorthand notes are irks0me to
read long after they have been taken, un-
less written with a uniform neatness to
which even court reporters do not always
attain. Therefore, as a brief method of
preserving memoranda, shorthand is I'M
reliable and is apt to involve much bog
Cling in deciphering. A clergyman who
went ba ok to an old sermon in shorthand
would very likely laborate new one,
and Judge who trusts to shorthand for
evidence would hesitate about words when
he came to address the jury. The diff
culties of learning shorthand on any sys.
tenn are not great. 1t is matter Of prac.
tice and free action Of the arm and
hand in writing. Any one whose ordinary
chirography is good and free may acquire
facility in shorthand rapidly. and may
also learn to draw well. But the mere
facility to take down words will not en-
able the brain to understand what is
uttered or to transcribe correctly. So all
writer's have their limit. A discussion on
mathematics. chemistry or any other alb
struse subject fares badly at the hands of
a writer who has only ears and shorthand
to guide him.
Ancient as shorthand is. and numerous
as are the systems. there are writer's to-day
in Germany. France. England and the
United States whose achievements in
verbal speed 60 far beyond previous attain.
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PUSHING ITS WAY.

New York advicss represent that more
California fruit is being sold this year in
the East than ever before. Although this
was late season our fruit got in ahead of
Eastern varieties and still holds the mar
ket. When the fruit transportation and
delivery business is systematized it will
reach millions of people that now only
know it by reputation. The sales are
mostly limited to three or four large cities,
and only in localities in these cities. The
Eastern market is so large that it is quite
probable that consumers will increase more
rapidly than producers. Prices may not
be realized that will enable orchardists to
realize several hundred dollars an acre, as
has frequently been the case. but the in
dustry will be profitable for all that.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-06
AN APPEAL.

The Department Of Justice has ordered
an appeal from the decision of Judge Ross
that the Imprisonment section of the Geary
act is unconstitutional. 1t is not supposed,
however, that the Department OF Justice
is inspired by au overpowering desire to
have the Imprisonment section decare ed
constitutional. 1t is more likely that the
order to take an appeal is step toward
the recon sideration of the law by the Su-
preme Court. 1t will be remembered that
but eight of the nine Justices sat when the
case was before the court in May. Since
that date Justice Blatchford has died, and
the views Of his successor cannot be known
in advance OF his appointment. Justice
Harlan will return in September and will
probably take part in the reconsideration
if one is ordered.
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interest for the civilized world. The South
Sea islanders have always been belliger-
ent, as our own Indians used to be before
the reservation plan was adopted. Life Is
dull in those narrow regions and without
war from time to time the natives find
time hangs heavy on their hands. 1t is
lucky for US that the responsibility for
keeping the peace does not fall on our
shoulders. Our concern with Samoa is to
see that the Germans do not elbow the
Americans out of the trade which Apla
supports. Up to this present writing that
trade does not seem to be in danger.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-06
GOSSIP OF THE HOTELS.

Among the arrivals at the Occidental Hotel
is Senior LaZarrlega, Minister Plenipol entiary
and Envoy Extraordinary from the Government
of Guatemala TO the United States. He has
been at Washington for the past three months,
and now comes here to meet his family. He
will return to W ashington during the coming
week.
Colonel r. H. Warfeld. the genial manager
of the Baldwin Hotel, is making extensive ar.
ranpements TO entertain Commandments
Wets sart of the Grand Army OF the Republic,
who will arrive here on Tuesday next. General
Weissart is now In Southern California and
Yesterday attended reunion OF war veterans
at Santa Barbara. He Will remain 10 San
Francisco for a week or longer and will be
given rouSing reception.
John Frey of Vallejo is registered at the
Grand Hotel. Mr.. Frey is one OF the city trns.
tees of Vallejo, and IS chairman OF the special
water committee of that august body lie says
the corporation of Vallejo will assume The
ownership aud management OF the Valie1o Clty
Water Works about the LIST vi December.
Miner w. Bruce, one OF the pioneers OF
Alaska, whose home IS in Juneau City, Is a
guest at the Russ House. although young
man Mr. Bruce has seen many years OF Alaskan
life. He was with Rev. Sheldon Jackson on his
reindeer expedition last year. Mr.. Bruce states
that there are nearly 800 head of reindeer now
in the Territory. They are being herded by
natives in the vicinity of Cape Prince OF Wales.
William Napier, a wealthy landowner OF
New South Wales, arrived In the city on the
Monowai and is registered at the Occidental.
He IS the owner Of The largest sherp ranch In
the colonies and also controls large number
nf
Worlds Fair he Will visit England and the Con-
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-06

Union Pacific Worlds Fair Excursions.
The Union Pacific win Tourist Excursions
from Los Angeles every Monday and wednesday,
and from San Francisco every Tuesday and Thurs
day to the Worlds Fair at Chicago.
These excursions will be In charge Of competent
managers who will accompany each excursion
through to Chicago, cars running through to Chi.
cago without change.
Sloeping-car acc ommodations from Los Angeles
or San Francisco to Chicago 81 per berth or
double that am cunt for section. Diagrams are
now ready at the Los Angeles Offices 129 South
Spring street, and l Montgomery street., San
Francisco. for reservations.
All letters telegrams for tickets promptly
answered giving full particulars In regard to the
excursions.
Steamship tickets to and from all points In
Europe.
For further information call or write y. f. Herr.
AGENT 229 South Spring street, Los fgeles, or to
d. w, Hitchcock, general agent. Montgomery
street, San francisco.
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TAMMANY OR MUGWUMP +?

The dispatch announcing the appoint
msnt OF James F. Kibreth as Collector of
the Port of New York classed him as
Tammany man. New York papers are
not so certain about the Tammany eIe-
ment in Mr.. Kilbrsth's politics. The
Tribune says he has always been an
earnes. opponent of Tammany ana the
Advertiser says that he was an anti-sBap-
per with mugwump proclivities. Possibly
MIR. Kilbreth's politics is of color now
somewhat common in New York. pro-
nounced shade of Clevelandism with a
subdued perspective Of Democracy.
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m ents or the actual needs of speech.
There are men able to sustain their writ
ing at over 300 words a minute-or nine
long newspaper columns an hour. Hap
PLY the ordinary rate of speech. and not
thoughtful at that, is less than 1000 words
an hour. A facile typewriter is equal to
over 100 words a minute. which is four
times the rate of ordinary handwriting,
and by using contractiOns typewriter
could supply a verbatim report instantly
available for the prjntpr.
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THURMAN MODS.

When Allen q. Thurman became face
tous over the idea that the people are
afraid OF the consequences of a policy
they had voted for he perhaps did not
sufficiently consider that the Democrats
get their majority from the States in which
the tariff question was not prominently
mentioned during the campaign. Every
one knows that the race question Is domi-
nant in the South. so much so that jour-
mails which had advocated protection aban-
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-06
Good Roads.
New York Sun.

The effect good roads have upon the social
life OF a community is illustrated by the cond.
tons prevailing in the broad level area of Della
ware and The eastern shores OF Maryland, lying
Immediately below the fOothill region that bor-
ders Pennsylvania. The level tract is fine
farming region, Inhabited by a prosperous peo.
and Stale lines are disiegarded in social life,
and the young folks OF one State think nothing
of ten or fifteen mile drive across The country
to dance IN the other. Every man knows not
only his neighbors of the same village or county.
but as well half the inhabitants of bordering
counties In the other State.
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doned that issue as unmportant COM
pared with that of the Federal supremacy
of elections for members of Congress.
The so-caled force bill was brought to
the front with such effect that the South
is now almost solid in the House. Had
protection been the issue the result might
have been different
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PUBLICATION OFFICE:

525 Montgomery street, near Clay, open until IL
o'clock P. NJ. BRANCH OFFICES: 10 Market
street, near Kearny. open until 10 o'clock midnight;
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street. open until O'clock SW. corner Sixteenth
and Miss on streets, ouen until o'clock; 25lS
Mission street. open until o'clock; and 116 Ninth
street, open until 8 go o'clock.
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nEvISITORS TO THE WORLDS FAIR will
nd THE CALL on sale at the newsstands in the fol-
lowing hotels: Palmer House, Auditorium Hotel,
Briggs House. Clifton House, Commercial House,
Gault House, Grand &c Hotel. Sherman House,
Leland House, Northern Hotel, Richeieu Hotel
fremont House, Virginia Hotel and Wellington
Hotel
AT WASHINGTON D. C.-The Willard, Airing
ton, Ebbitt and shoreham Hotels.
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WEATHER PREDICTIONS.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
WEATHER BUREAU. 2
SAN FRANCISCO, August 5, 1893.
Official Forecast for Twenty -four Eours
Ending Midnight Sunday.
San Francisco and vicinity - Fair weather;
cooler westerly winds.
PRESLEY 7. JENKINS,
Local Forecast Official in Charge.
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p,,in,n., Rock Island Excu rsion.

Leave san Francisco every Wednesday and Satur-
day via RIO GRANDE AND ROCK lBLAND RVS
Through tourist sleeping cars TO Chicago and Bos-
ton Manager and porter acc ompan4 these excur-
sions through to Boston. For tickets seeping-ca car
accommodations and further information address
CLINTON JONES, General Agent Rodk Island Ry.,
SO Montgomery street, san Francisco.
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the city ariU notify the business office OF
tier change Of address the paper aciH be
J0rwarded to them regularly.
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A Texas girl, Is years old, proposes to
walk to IT, the Verbs Fair If she can get an.
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