The morning call., 1893-01-01
:RIES IN MEXICO.

THE GREAT EAsTERN-InQuirer, Quincy,
Cal. The famous steamer which laid the
first successful transatlantic cable. was
beached In the Mersey River near Liver
pool, on August 26. 1888. to be broken up
She was the largest steamship ever built
and had a most eyentfui history The
original intention when she was projected
in 1853 was to place her on the East India.
trade from London or Liverpool around the
Cape of Good Hope, the idea being n vessel
that could carry its own fuel to India and
return. besides large mum ber OF passengers
and a great, cargo. The ship was con-
strncted from the designs of Sir Isambard
Brunei and was finally launched at Mill
wall, on the Thames, on January 81, 1858.
The launching commenced on November g.
1857, the delay being accounted for by the
ships extraordinary size. She had to be
got into the water step by step on the high
est tides, and the rise of the tide in the
Thames at Millwall is twenty-0ne feet.
When launched the company which built
her had no further. funds and a new COM
pany was formed to f,her for sea. On her
trial trip from Deptford to Portland ten
firemen were killed and many persons
wounded by an explosion Of her boilers.
She was never put on the East India trade
after all, but started on run from Liver
pool to New York on June II, 1860 making
the trip in eleven days. During the next
three years she made frequent transact
ianic trips, at one time accomplishing the
ran in eight days. which was then thought
to be extraordinary time. In 1864 she was
chartered to carry the Atlantic cable, ear
ried the first cable in 1865. which broke in
m.dOcean, and also that of 1866, which was
laid successfully. She was afterward en-
,1tox nd kxy-v tho nrfg CHI
transport ship, as she could carry an entire.
division with equipments. She laid the
French-Atlantic cable in 1869; laid the cable
from Bombay to Suez In 1870, and the fourth
and fifth Atlantic cables in 1873 and 1874.
The vessel was exhibited at tile New Or.
leans exhibition in 1885, and then sent to-
Gibraltar as coal hulk. Finally she was
broken UP.
EXCHANGE OF MoNEY-H. s., City. u
You woald certainly be wiser, If going to-
Europe. in exchanging money In San Fran
cisco with q money-changsr whom you
know, rather than with a broker In New
York City whom you do not know There
are many swindling moneys changers In all
the great searorts OF the East, and it Is q
common practice for employees OF the steam
ship companies TO make side profits by
changing money for confding passengers.
-.
The vagrancy act has not been tested by the
Supreme Court. II is very possible that
persons are arrested on this elastic charge
where there may be difficulty Of making
another charge at the time, but respectable
person need have nc fear of unlawful de-.
know what customers they have to deal
with. 1t Is easy for a man to show that he
Is not vagrant. (3) Persons found with
lottery tickets In their possession arc liable
to fine. or Imprisonment in default; THE
usual fine Is $40. but the legal penalty is
much higher. The LEGALITY of the fine or
Imprisonment has never been tested in the
Supreme Court, the offense being specific
one covered by thela OF the State. !.
HEIGHT OF MAN.. NJ. City. ~ The
average height of the human race is, for
men, 8 feet inches; for women, feet 2
inches. t2) What is called the medium
height, as applied to native American men,
is higher than the above. A man of 5 feet
~ or 5 feet inches is often said TO be ''of
medium height" (3) The shortest men on
earth are the Bnshmen, who average only
Afeet 81 inches; the tallest are the Pata-
gonians, who average 5feet 8 inches. a.
AS a rule Americans and Australians are
taller than Europeans. but not so compactly
built. The American runs to nerve aud
sinew, the European to bone and flesh. %
A man of % feet 10 inches is tail. Above
this height men are seldom well-propor-
toned.
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| PRICE OF COFFEE p, Healdsburg.
The great difference between the -nrice of
coffee in New York and San Francisco is
caused by the extortonate rates charged by
the Pacific Mail Company on this side for
| freight between Central American ports
| and San francisco. To this must be added
the heavy tax imposed in Guatemala the
| principal cotfee-producing country on this
| side) on both exports and imports. Guate-
| mala taxes every bag of coffee before it
| goes out OF the country. The only reason
| of tha ,ieeraaSa in thu nricA of cnffea In San