The morning call., 1894-06-01

from the danger to life, is the noise, which Is
particularly depressing upon a nervous person.
This noise is not only that produced by the in
cessant Changing of the electric alarm bells, but
that which proceeds from the wire, which is by
far the most annoying of the two. MIR.
Miller made the familiar objection TO San Fran
cisco of the difficulty which stranger en-
countered in finding his way about the city
through the absence of street signs, and men
toned an annoying experience on a Pullman
car while coming up from the South, and one
which, he says, all travellers on that route meet
with. rule of the company prohibits pas
sengers from giving their tickets TO the porter
upon retiring. as is usual in all other sections
OF the country, and at Bakersfield at about 1
o'clock In the morning, the conductor came
through the car and awakened all the pas
sengers for the purpose of inspecting their
tickets. AT about O'Clock in The morning the
same inspection was repeated, and Mr.. Miller
says that the manner of the conductor was
particularly offensive la parting the curtains
cOncealing the berths Of ladies and gentlemen
alike and contemDtuously remarking that
people who didn't like the way the road did
business ought 10 ride on some other line"
when expostulated with.
w. w. Davis, wealthy Tanchowner OF
Woodland is at the Russ. He says that at
one time the farmers thought the years crop
would be total failure, but that indications
have improved so in his locality that the pros
poets now considered good for double the
amount Of grain it was thought weeks ago
would be harvested. This year. he says, will
thoroughly test the re sources Of the negligent
farmer, as those who have put their grain in
well will profit, while those who have done
their work poorly will suffer. The Prohibition
lists, according to Mr.. Davis story, are about
the only active politicians i'll YOo
County, and are in a fair way TO sweep
that county. While speaking OF the moral
tone OF the county mentioned Mr.. Davis drew
comparison between it and Fresno, and incl
dentally the experience of an individual from
the latter county, who while in This city some
time ago visited a Hammam bathhOuse. The
attendant put the visitor In an apartment where
the thermometer registered 100 degrees, and
after leaving him there while returned TO see
how be was getting along. The attendant found
his charge coOlly reading paper, and 10 an in-
quiry as to whether ii was hot enough for him
the man from the south responded that he
hadn't turned a hair "Where are you from ?"
solieltOusly inquired the attendant. PPM from
Fresno" replied the latter. "Oh!' exclaimed
the attendant, "Pve made a mistake. You
want to 90 in where it's 100"
One OF The clergymen who recently attended
the annual meeting of the Cumberland Presby-
terrain churches in the United States in Eugene,
Or, is at one OF the hotels in this city in
rather embarrassing position. He purchased
tickets at the reduced rates TO clergymen in
Oregon by way Of this city aud Ogden 10 Texas,
but upon his arrival here he concluded 10
change his route aud 90 by the way of Los An
geles and FL PasO. He went to ticket broker
and negotiated an exchange OF his tickets for
those running over the aforementioned route
but the Southern Pacific officials got wind OF
the transaction and his tickets were taken up
when he started 10 leave the city, aud he and
his wife compelled TO return here. The ticket
broker now has the two original tickets In bis
possession and is afad TO offer them for sale
because they will simply be brought back to
him by any purchaser, as the road has bulle-
tined them and instructed conductors 20 take
them up upon presentation.
J. Maurice Duke, the millionaire coffee
planter OF San Salvador, is at theIPalace with
his son. Mr.. Duke has been seriously i'll tor
some time and is en- route for Europe in the
hope OF gaining renewed health. His residence
in San Salvador is the finest in that city.
Charles s. Diehl, formerly Pacific Coast
manager of the Associated Press in this city, but
now assistant general manager of the same
organization with headquarters at Chicago, is
at the Palace with his wife.