The morning call., 1893-10-22

into froth with an egg-whisk or fork anC
allowed to settle for twenty four hours
when the clear liquid is decanted off.
circular pool of albumen is poured on
glass plate and a straight ruler Qts end
being wrapped with waxed paper TO pre-
vent its edge from touching the plate any.
where except at the margins) is drawn
over the plate, sweeping off the excess OF
albumen and so leavinga an even film. The
plate is first allowed to dry spnn tan eousiy,
a final heating being given to it in an oven
or before the fire. The heat hardens the
solution and it becomes insOluble and
ready for the nitrate Of silver bath. Care
should be taken not to use too much OF
the various salts, as they precipitate
readily.
PEMBERToN MILLs-Old Subscriber,
City. January 10. 1860. the city of Law
renee. Mass, was smitten by disaster
which carried agony and death into scores
of homes. About O'Clock in the after
noon the operatives in the Pemberton
Mills felt swaying Of the floors and the
N machinery began TO run irregul larly. Be-
fore the fact tha at the building was falling
could be more than realized the walls were
bursting apart, the floors falling and
rafting looms and human beings were
swallowed up in a terrible plunge of death.
The first those in the lower stories knew
of the catastrophe was a crashing through
of the machinery upon them from the
floors above. There was no time, no way
to escape. The building then caught fire
and scores of wretched. wounded beings
were burned to death. Hundreds OF citi-
zens were on the scene Immediately after
the fall and worked heroically, and all the
fire engines in the city poured on floods OF
water, but it was some time before the
flames were eXtinguished, and all the In
jured could not be got out OF the building
until the following day. Over 100 persons
were killed and some 800 others were more
or less injured.
o. K.-Subscriber, City. The origin of
this abbreviation is lost in obscurity. 1t
is usually attributed to General Jackson.
who is said to have used it bumorously or
in ignorance, to signify "all correct" 4"
Another story refers it to "Old Keokuk." "
an Indian chief who used to sign treaties
o. K, and still another account is that
the in itials first made their appearance in
a telegraph Offire. the sender of message
writing "oll korrect" for all correct. 1t is
not likely that any of these stories is
true. The phrase appeared and seems by
common consent to have been ad opted into
colloqnial use. 1t means all right. now
from Maine to California, but it would be
impossible to ascribe its origin.
PALACE HoTEL-Reader, City. 1t is
impossible to state just what the Palace
and the Crocker building did cost. The
figures are not made public by the pro-
prietors. When the former building was
first constructed it did not pay for LONG
time, and MIR. Sharon urged that 1t be
assessed at much lower figure than ii
actually cost. which was done. 1t is be-
lieyed that the building cost betw cen
three and four million dollars, probably
nearer the four million limit Some put il
as high as four and half millions.
SANTA CLARA COLLEGE,. R.. Santa
Clara. In recent letter the query editor
was asked to compare Santa Clara Col
lege with Yale. Harvard, Oxford and
Cambridge. In doing so it was only in
tended to compare that college with the
large universities as whole. not with
their collegiate department or the stand
ing of their graduates.
MAcMAHoN-Marie Edne Patrick Maui
rice de MacMahon succeeded NJ. Theirs az
President of France on May "a, 1873. being