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From San Francisco we still have very
Midwinter Fair which has been open ever
since January. and is to be kept open until the
end Of next month. The popular interest In it
has been deep and steady. By the end OF April
very nearly one and quarter million tickets
had been taken In at the gates. and. though Q
good many OF the visitors had doubtless
passed through the turnstiles a number OF
times. there must have been about million
people at the Fair. The American. European,
Asistic. and Standardization exhibits 10
mechanism. the sciences. and the arts are ex-
tensiye and attractive; but by far the N ost at
trActiVe feature OF the Fair all along has been
the display OF California fruits. flowers grains
vines. and plants Of all kinds. . display more
rich and varied than has ever been made In
any other State OF the Union. or perhaps in
any other part OF the world. The spectacle
presented on some OF the days In which the
various counties OF the State entered into
rivalry with each other as exhibitors OF natural
products must have been enchanting.
There has not been any reason to suppose,
up to this time. that the receipts OF the Mid
winter Fair can be made to cover its expenses.
More than Sl,OOO.0O0 had been expended in
its behalf weeks before it was opened. and the
running expenses during the past four months
have been Unexpectedly large. while upon
some daTs the price OF admission has been
f!ty cents and upon others only tWsnty-fi ave
csntS We have not any doubt however, that
the defieit will be ehssFiully subscribed By the
wealthy promoters. The Fair has been Of
great beneft to San Francisco.
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THE suN. SUNDAY, MAY Q, 1ssl


ton, was sanctioned in advance by Mr..
DAvrrT.
In other respects IL is equally evident that
Mr.. MoRLKY's project was framed upon
Mr. MoHUeH's bill. Of which Mr.. DAvITr
heartily approved. This ls clear In the case Of
the provision that where a new tenant is in
possession. and is willing to cell. the Land
Commission shall pay half Of the purchase
money out of the Irish Church Temporali-
ties fund. the evicted tenant paying the
other half. The same correspondence is
observable In the Limitation Of landlords
claim for arrears to two years. and In the
arrangement that half OF these arrears
shall be paid by the Commission out OF the
fund Just mentioned, the other half being
payable by the reinstated tenant. In one
particular Mr.. MoRLEY's bill comedies more
than was asked for by Mr.. MoHuGH: 1t
cuts down the term OF fifteen years for
which the rents fixed by the Land Courts
were to remain immutable. and empowers
the reinstated tenants to apply Immediately
for a readjustment of rents to the prices Of
agricultural products.
1t will be difficult for Mr.. REDMOND to Jus
tify his criticism of measure which, as we
have seen, makes an even more generous
offer Of relief to evicted tenants than was
contemplated last year by q spokesman Of
by far the largest faction OF the Nationalist
party. He surely cannot hope to gain any
concession half so liberal from the Conserv-
atives. yet he seems to have made up his
mind to help them return to power. for on
Friday. by causing his followers to abstain
from voting. he reduced the Ministerial
majority to IA in the division on a Untonist
amendment to the Registration bill
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FOREIGN Note. OF Rsa, Is,.r.-,.

Two members OF the Moscow Cycling Club lsst St.
Petersburg three weeks ago to ride Europe to
Naples and back on bioyeleA
There isA great gIuT "f potatoes in several districts Of
southeast England ThsY are selling low as ~
cents sack. aud large quantities are being fed to
steek
A scheme for ship canal connssung the Baltic and
the Black seas from khsrsOn TO Riga being eonsid
cred by the Russian Ministry OF Ways and Communt
cations The canal Is ssimAtsd to cost thirty million
ToublsA The construction Of the proposed Caucasus
Railway has been postponed for Two years
On the occasion OF his recent birthday Bismarck re-
csived more thAn llooo eonsrAtulaiory addresses let
terra tssKrAns and Otnsr Ike msssAEsA It took hts
secretary two full days open ana arrange them all
and Bismarck Is engaged In the task OF reading
them. having the Intention. It Is reported. OF faithfully
reading sAch one
1t Ia asserted by the London Pal Nal ea..a. that
practically nearly IS per cent OF the men manning
the British mercantile marine are foreigners" The
chief why ship prefer foreign SsAmsn
said be that the foreigners easily sAtisnsd
regards food and accommodation than BEitish ssA-
men. The dsneeney in English sailors ts considered
serious because the mercantile marine Is looked to in
great measure Tor reserves Of ssAmsn In cAss Of
nAEA var
Tue depression in AustTAlAsiA duFIas ysaT opsr-
Atsd 20 TstAEd the grOEth Of the population OF the
colonies In remarkable degree There EAs far lssa
immigration In 1898 shan IN any former year in the
history Of the eOlOnisA and smaller total Increase
thAn in any year slnes 1873 Ths total gain Of the
combined colonies Of Australia kss Zealand aud TaA
mania WAs sS.o4A OF thls number T4S2I EAs due 90
ths HstaTs Increase the Of blrths dsAIh
sAd saly s,27s 70 immigration. No colony suffered
actual decline In population bat because sf the grsEg
humbss % PsOps vac smisEatsd laFgs proportion OF
the natural increase EAs lost IN both Victoria and TGs
mAaiA- In victoria there 10 OoO births than
dsAihs bat ths actual gain in population bat 64
bssAass 1SAil psrsOas smiETAtsd from the sol0ny.
Ths total population Of AHIsTsAsA ths end Of Is0s
WsI AOosslL
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We cannot tell whether Immigration to
this country from Italy will be discouraged By
the circular OF warning against 1t which has
been issued from Rome By the Council OF
Italian Workmen's Societies. Though the
Industrial and economic crisis" spoken OF In
the circular began here at an early period Of
last year. there were as many as 20. 600 Italian
i'm m grants brought to this port in the year.
and sufficient number at our other ports to
make nearly 100 600 In all. The immigration
from Italy in 1888 was greater than that OF
any previous year; and 1t has been greater
than that from any other European country.
during the past four m onths OF this year. Not
withstsndinR the hard times that have lasted
for nearly a twelvemonth. the great majority
OF these immigrants have been able to procure
work OF the kind for which they are fitted and
we have recently had reports from Ellis Island
that the demand for Italian laborers there has
been greater than the supply OF them. They
are Leoded in the building trades. in railroad
construction or Improvement. In mining In
factories. In farming. upon public works. and
In other Industries requiring common labor.
Many Thousands Of them, perhaps not less
than 10000 OF them. are employed iu this city.
We spprehend that italian laborers will con-
tinue to como to this country as long as they
are able to get work here at better wages than
they can earn In Italy.
For all that. We make no objection to the
circular OF warning issued by the Council OF
Italian Workmen's Societies We certainly
do not desire that italian immigrants shall
come here as freely as they have come during
each and every year OF the past decade. We
would be pleased to see the m attitudes OF new
comers from Italy greatly reduced hereafter;
and not those from Italy only.
The sun., 1894-05-06

WASHINGTON. May 5.-Ths President to-day
signed his warrant for the extradition to Cuba
OF Lieut.. Graciliano Baez a young officer OF
the Spanish army. who has been critically Ill
In New York. Lieut. Baez Is accused OF forg-
ing vouchers 10y which he obtained 81 800
from the ,commissary Of his regiment In Cuba.
State DepaTtment he will be taken by easy
stages 10 Tampa. Fla. whence he will sail for
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4 $4,000 SILVER NUoGEE
It Weighs $500 Pounds. aud Il suia to he
the Largest on Record,

ASPEN. COL May "a nugget has been hoist
ed out OF tho Smuggler mine at this point that
for size surpasses anything on record and for
richness is almost as remarkable. A few days
ago tho workmen encountered huge body OF
ore. and. In digging around II. Ascertained
that 1t was = monster nugget After con sider-
surface intact.
The, chunk weighed $500 pounds and con-
largest silver nugget ever known. and ia Al.
most pure This beats the record made In the
Gibson mine few years. ago when a nugget
Weighing 5000 pounds was removed.
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It was on this day eighty years ago that
. British squadron under SIR JAMES YEo ap-
penred OF oswego. n. Y. and demanded its
surrender The town was defended with
rude earthworks. which were garrisonet By
200 regulars and some militia. under the COM
mshd OF Lieut. Col MITCHELL. The entire
American force mum bered fewer than 400 men,
while there were only four guns that could
be used. The British vessels opened heavy
fire on the fort and attempted to land troops.
but few men. sent down TO the shore By Col.
MITCHELL. opened such an effective fire on the
British boats that they retreated to their ships.
one Of the boats. sixty feet long. being SO
shattered that 1t was abandoned The enemy
afterward, however. succeeded in landing
1000 men. and although the Americans made
q stubborn resistance they were compelled to
retreat up the river. having lost six men
killed. thirty eight wounded. and twenty-five
missing. The British admitted q loss Of
eighteen killed and sixty-four wounded. After
spikinR the four guns and capturing the
schooner Growler. the British returned to
KinRAton.
battle was fought May q. 1777. in which
tho British navy was worsted. Tho 32-gun
frigate Hancock. Capt. JOHN MAsLY. was nruis-
ing or the coast OF Maine. In company with
the 2i-gun ship Boston. Capt HEcToR MCNEIL.
when early on the morning OF that day. a
strange sail was sighted. The American cruis-
ers gave chase. The Hancock being the swift
est vessel In the service. soon outdistnnced her
consort and closed on tho stranger. which
proved to be the British 2S-gun frigate Fox.
Capt. FoTHERISGHAM. A yard arm action I'M
mediately took place and was m mainta In ed with
great spirit on both sides. until the approach
OF the Boston. when the Fox attempted to es-
care. The Hancock. however. was soon along
side again and compelled the EnRlishman to
surrender. The Americans had eight killed
or wounded. and tho British thirty-two.
The sun., 1894-05-06

Mr.. CLEVELAND hauled down the Ameri-
can flag In Honolulu. Ia he going to haul Il
down in the United states too. and run up the
red Tag In its placer
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SHE SHED TEARS.
Mrs. Shattuck's Icy Calm
Dissolved.
REALIZES HER LONG TERM.
The Murderess of Harry Poole
Talks in Jail.
HAD DISGUISED HER FEELINGS.
No Sorrowing for Her Crime-Why
Truly Refused Seventy-Five
Dollars a Week.
HAD DISGUISED HER FEELINGS.

Sunday is what the prisoners call "a
blue day" at the Branch Jail. There are
few visitors. only two meals, and little to
while away the hours OF confinement ex-
cept some religious exercises. which are
not always appreciated at their true value.
Mrs. Shattuck, the murderess of Harry
Poole. when seen by CALL reporter yes
terday, was a shade bluer than her fellow
prisoners. Only the day before she had
learned that she need expect no new trial,
and as the long hours of the weary day
succeeded one another she began 10 reafize
what imprisonment for life" might mean.
~ have no statement 10 make and
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would give sensitive impression of vocal
sounds, but one has merely to experiment
With placing pencil against the throat to
verify the possibility to his own satisfac-
tlon. Quite all appreciable vibration will
be communicated through the pencil.
what amounts to more in the application
oil the phenomenon to the construction and
use of an instrument for telephonin 2
speech Is that this vibration is much
stronger than that produced by the ''sound"
waves of the voice. The receiver of an or
binary telephone has TO be very delicately
constructed to register all distinctions Of
sound-sO delicately, indeed, that it re-
9uires very little extraneous noise to con-
fuse the articulation of the person speak
Ing. The sound of an organ or piano
playing in room, for instance, frequently
makes 1t impossible for person at the
opposite end of a telephone line to hear
what is spoken to him. With the stetho-
save the movements of the throat of the
person holding the instrument. Conver-
sation can be carried on without difficulty
IN the noisiest environment.
This was sufficiently demonstrated in
the private test given In the presence of
some newspaper representatives yesterday
morning, when in the noisy operatlng-room
of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany an operator speaking in his natural
tone OF voice was heard distinctly in Los
Angeles. So strong was the impression
conveyed to the transmtter that only one
battery was needed to carry the sound to
Los Angeles over very busy and iniper-
feet telegraph line; whereas four batteries
are used for common telephone within
city limits.
1t seemed rather odd to watch the oper-
atOr standing before the small company
with SO slight an instrument placed against
his ear and throat, while he was speaking
in an ordinary voice, directed apparently
10 his immediate auditors. Hello, Los
Angeles" and Eyes. l hear you. 500 miles
away" etc. 1t was sort of east your
words on the desert air" experiment ''and
they shall bear fruit In unexpected places.
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LARYNX DOES 1T.
Communication by Wire
With Los Angeles.
At a Private Test the Stethephone
Sounds 500 Miles Over Common
Telegraph Wire.

An oj soldier In Chicago, who was a
telegraph operator, sawed off the end of
his wooden leg, bored a hole in it. at
tached It 10 telegraph battery and began
to talk to Milwaukee. He waited two
years for An answer. At the expiration OF
that period the patent on the receiver of
the Bell telephone ran out. The old SOL
der connected the amputated portion Of
his leg with one of the copyrighted instru-
ments and heard what Milwaukee had to
respond to his message.
Such, in brief, is the fantastical history
of most remarkable invention which was
exhibited in this city yesterday. The in
strument Is called a stethephone. 1t
emanates from the genius of one James
Lowth of Chicago, who says thar he con-
structed the first model from his old
wooden leg, and that he waited two years
for the patent above mentioned TO expire
before he could complete the invention
and make it serve the commercial pur-
poses for which 1t was designed. If all
things go we'll the instrument will be in
quite general use in San Francisco and
throughout the country in a very short
while in place OF the much-cherished,
niue h-admired, but very unsatisfactory
telephone.
To describe the thing as concisey as
possible. one must say that it Is the old
time doctors steth oscope-the instrument
with which the medicine man measures
the beat Of the heart and listens~to the
wheeling of the In ngs-connected with an
electric transmtter and receiver, and
made to answer the purposes of tele-
phone. In the same manner that the
stethoscOpe enables the physician to hear
;he slightest sounds inside a patients
chest, the stethophone transmits to an
electric wire the vibrations of the larynx
when one is speaking. The accompanying
cut illustrates the form of the instrument
and the way tits used. Both receiver and
transmiiter are on one piece of steel, hitch
is applied in the manner shown to the ear
ana to the throat directly over the larynx
The projection al the lower end contains a
sensitive button, non-electrieal, which re-
spends to the physiological changes in the
larynx and conveys the impression to cleo
trical parts inside the steel piece. which in
turn cause electrical fluctuations that pass
over the wires in the same manner that
the telegraph and telephone messages are
carried.
1t would seem incredible at first thought
that mere eternal contact with the larynx
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A POLITICAL SCIENCE CLUB.
To Be Composed of Prominent
Citizens.
FORMED BY PROFESSOR MOSES.
1t Will Meet for the Consideration of
Economics, Politics and
Jurisprudence.

To gather the wise men together to in
troduce a new element into civic govern
ment. to join the teachers of theory and
the doctors OF practice in the matter of
economics, politics and Jurisprudence is
the ambitious purpose Of new club
whose formation is just announced in this
city, Professor Bernard Moses and the
recent economic congresses are directly
responsible for its organization. The
name by which it is to be known is the
Political Science Club of San Francisco.
The first regular meeting will be held the
first Tuesday in September in the Mark
Hopkins Art Institute, when Professor
Moses will have returned from his summer
vacation. The following prominent citi-
zens together with msny others have sig
nified their intention of participating;
Professors PIehn and Bacon. Judges Dain-
Rerfeld. CARRIER, Slack. Hon. Horace Davis.
John K. Glascock and Arthur Rodgers,
Messrs. +. p. DeeriEg. William Greer Har-
rison, Sheldon 6. Kellogg, c. A. Murd ock,
Warren Oluey. James u. Phelan, Charles
w. Reed and j. j. Valentine.
Professor Moses has no idea that the
club will at once assume all the importance
suggested in the paragraph above, but cal
culates to begin humbly. with the hope
that in the end it will develop to the mag
nitude ana practical utility of the Ameri-
can Academy of Social and Political
Science of Philadelphia, the American
Economic Association of New York, or
become an operative branch OF the Ameri-
can Institute of Civics.
At first the aim will be merely to sup
plant the university extension lecture
courses with meetings that shall appeal
more directly TO the class of citizens who
have, as it were. got beyond the age of in
int hn aftrr oF. -, d.
and who prefer 10 cOngregate for an eX-
change of views rather than for a course
I'D didactcs.
Sometime during the latter part Of April
Professor Moses sent a circular letter 10
the gentlemen above mentioned aud to
many others, announcing that the extern.
sion lectures would be discontinued this
year and in their place "a political science
club be organized for advanced study and
critical discussion of topics relating TO
economics. politics and jurisprudence.
The results of Investigations by the men,
berS would be presented in papers which,
as read at any given meeting, should not
be more than thirty minutes in length.
After he reading the topics treated would
be discussed by the members present. All
the instructors In the econ omlcai depart
meut of the university would participate,
ETC."
To this letter generous response from
all parties was forthcoming, and when
Professor Moses left for his usual sum-
mer vacation three weeks ago there was
every prospect that the proposed club
would have large and active initial men,
bershiD.
In the absence of Professor Moses, J.
d. Phelan, president of the Midwinter
congresses, and Judge Slack were inter-
viewed in regard to the matter last even
ing. The former stood very close to Pro-
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lessor Moses during the latter's conduct
Of the Economic congress-, and ascribes
the origin of the whole movement to the
impulse Of The congress. The presence of
Professor Andrews. the animated interest
manifested in the live topics of the dav
as descanted upon by him and by others,
so encouraged Professor Moses as 10 make
him say to Mr.. Phelan that the work so
begun must not be allowed to drop with
the aGjournment of the congress. Some
Immediate steps must be taken to con-
tinue the meetings of persons interested
in the subjects there treated, and if posi-
BILE to form a permanent organization to
hold them together.
The public universally were at the time
interested In questions of government,
economics, financial legislation. social
statistics and charity problems as they
had not been Tor many years. According
10 the professor, the rank corruption mani
tested in various local political fields. the
strange hesitation of Congress In the face
of established custom as opposed to the
expressed popular will, the reaction of the
delay in American fiscal legislation upon
foreign commerce and trade and vice
versa, all tended to make people more re-
f1ective than usual, and more regardful OF
their suffrage duties and privileges.
1t was, therefore, the gentleman agreed.
good time to draw the more thoughtful
Of the citizens into formal union for the
consideration OF these matters. The prac-
tical men of the daily world could join
their ideas with the theories of the pro-
fessors and evolve results that might prove
of vast service to the community aud to
the State at large. Eventually such an
organization might assume the scope and
usefulness of the famous COsmopolis Club
as outlined by Washington GLADDEN. in
The Century last year.
Judge Slack had not talked much with
Professor Moses about the matter, but he
was ready 20 say that the Political Science
Club could, and probably would, contribute
Jurisprudence in California. The State,
county and city laws. or what Judge
Slack called the governmental statutes.
are becoming seriously involved and in
tractable. They interlap and contradict
at many points, so that II Is becoming very
difficult for lawyers to advise their clients,
not TO mention the disposition Of cases by
the Judges.
"The State Code" be said, has not
been revised for twenty years, whereas
good government would naturally suggest
a revision every ten years. New statutes
have been added at almost every Legsla-
ture without scrupulous regard to con-
sistency. The result is a very dreary en-
tanglement indeed. Besides, the city
charter is weak and imperative, except
for evil"
An active Political Science Club. the
Judge thought, could do much by cautious
and temperate agitation to alter these
things and to bring about many other
good ends. For instance, aside from the
field of law, it could DO much to supple
ment or rather to stand as principal to
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~ Country orders receive prompt attention.
Goods delivered free San Rafael Sausaito
Mill Valley Oakland Alameda and Berkeley.
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BEAT AN OLD MAN.
Rough Work of Hoodlums on the
Mission Road.

Harry Wall and John Devlin. two noted
characters of the Mission, were locked up
at the Seventeenth-street police station
yesterday afternoon on a charge of assault
TO murder. Sergeant Shea and Policeman
Shanahan made the arrest.
The victim of the assault was Nicholas
ranger, an old man who lives on the Mis-
sion road, near the SiX-mile House.
About $3.50 o'clock on Saturday morning
wall and Devlin were returning from q
ball at Cannon Hall. With them were a
number of rough characters and as they
passed rangers place they saw him
hitching up his horse. For fun or deviltry
they began TO bother the old man, I'm til
John Berwitt, his partner. came TO his as
sisiauce.
AT this juneture the gang went for the
two men and beat them very badly.
Ranger was so badly used up that DIR.
Baumeister thinks his injuries may prove
fatal.
Wall and Devlin were taken before the
injured man, who positively identified
them as being the men who assaulted him.
The men deny that they did anything of
the kind.