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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-31

Cut Flower Vases, in blue and amber, 81
llCllcS Liz LUG
Cut Flower Vases, in rose, 61S inches high. 15c
Cut Flower Vases, in blue and amber, 8
inches high.
Cut Flower Vases, in blue and amber, IL
inches high .....................25
Cut Flower Vases, in rose, IL inches high. 800
Bohemian Glass Flower Baskets assorted
colors. ............. ...................15c
Bohemian Glass Card Baskets assorted col
DUG
Rose Bowls, assorted colors. ........2 for 25c
Fancy Flower Vases, inches high, as
sorted colors ......,2 for ESQ
Fancy Deeora ted Dessert Plates. ...........15c
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-31

Played a DratUn Game.
NEW YORK, N. Y, Oct. 30.-Shpwalter
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-31

What's most important, we're
selling these perfect-fitting
winter shoes for less money
than other dealers offer their
inferior clumsy substitutes
for. Mark the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-31

lT9 FIFTH RACE-One mile and seventy
-. yards: handicap: three-year-olds and up;
purse $3.50. Time "A
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-31

Ollie Johnson, the owner of Three Forks,
who finished such close second to Gold Bug,
was fined 50 by the judges for not having his
horse in the saddling paddock when the sad
ding bell rung.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10
Boiling a Solid.

Such thing as boiling solid is rath-
er difficult idea for the average mind
to grasp. Nevertheless, Prof Dewar
is reported to have thus described car
homie acid, which has the singular
property of possessing boiling point
lower than its melting point. Inillus-
tration of this, the professor is said, at
a recent lecture, to have pressed some
solid carbonic acid into a. kind of
SNOWFALL, tied piece ofstring around
1t, and suspended it in water in a glass
trough with parallel sides, so that he
could project an image of the block
upon the screen. 1t was then seen to
be giving off carbonic acid gas freely.
In molding it with the fingers, he said,
it felt no colder than snow, because
IN reality it never came into contact
with the skin. He also burned dia-
monds in liquid oxygen, an experiment
never shown before. He dropped one
or two red.hot diamonds into liquid
oxygen, the cold put them out, and
they sank to the bottom. When, how
ever, he made diamond extra hot by
means of blow-pipe, it caught fire
and burned steadily on the surface of
the liquid oxygen, the latter becoming
opaque because of the carbonic acid
given off. He also burned some
graphic on liquid oxygen, and said
that the combustion of this form of
carbon was sometimes more difficult to
start than that of the diamond.-St.
Louis Republic.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10

here before. Well, as was going to
say, ! made up my mind this morning
that none of them that bought their
land of me should be let suffer. You
can just take another year for your
payment, and l guess can keep us
all till spring"
Could it be? Did they hear Alright?
For moment Mr.. Carter was mo-
tionless, then grasping the hand Of the
plain old man to thank him, he still
found himself unable to utter word,
while Mrs Carter, who could restrain
her tumultuous feelings no longer,
suddenly threw her apron over her
head and burst into a fit of convulsive
weeping. E e
Mr.. Brown had not counted on any
such scene. He was well-nigh over.
come himself, but grasping his hat,
which he had deposited on the floor,
he said to Mr.. Carter: "S'pose we &C
out and look round little."-N. Y. In.
dependent
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10
PUGiLISM IN ENGLAND.
The First Professional and His Female
Emulators.

Mr.. James Figg, a native of Oxford
shire, seems to have been the first
professional bruiser who attained any
great prominence in England. He
was distinguished by his victories over
all his provincial competitors in the
arts of single-sticlS and cudgel-play-
ing, before lie went to the metropolis
to teach the nobility and gentry of
that period the manly arts of self-de-
Tense with the broadsword and the
fists. He fought twice, without
gloves, with Sutton, the pipe-maker Of
Gravesend, and once each with Tom
Buck and Bob Stokes. His portrait
was engraved in mezzotint by Faber.
Hogarth, in the second plate of the
Rake's Progress, perpetuated his face
and figure, and also introduced him,
curiously enough, on horse back, in
Southwark Fair, with his head well
plastered.
Figg's amphitheater was in Mary-le-
Bone parish, near the Oxford road, and
bear-baiting, tiger-hunting, cock
fighting, dog-fght and human fighting
were among the attractions of the
place.
Mrs. Stokes, the city championess,
according TO an old advertisement,
challenged the Hibsrnian championess
to meet her at Figg's; and there are
frequent illusions 70 similar encount-
ers of the pugilistic sort among the
members of the gentler sex in those
days.
t,Dn ~ n A.
fought for new shift. valued at half
q crown, in Spa Fields, near Islington,
and that the battle was won by
''Bruising Peg" who beat her antagon-
list In a terrible manner. And in the
summer of the same year we learn,
that in the same ring, two women,
whose names are not gwen, fought
IAN extraordinary battle with two
tailors, for guinea head. -Harper's
Weekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10
THE PLATYPUs.

raccoon. He is not curiosity on ac-
count of his shape or size, or because
he resembles the coon and lives in Aus
tralia, where all nature is topsy-turvy,
but because of remarkable habit the
female of his species has of laying eggs
and Matching them after the manner
of birds. This queer egg-laying ani-
NAL, the only creature of the kind on
earth, so far as the biologists know,
is called a platypus. 1t inhabits the
deep forests of the river bottoms Of
both Australia and New Zealand, and,
1t Is said, has many Of the character
istics which distinguish the beaver
tribe. The platypus is not common
animal even in it's native haunts, and
it is yearly becoming rare, because Of
the war which has been waged against
it on account of the continuous dread
Of the harmless little creature, because
it's habits deviate so widely from those
generally noted in Uncovered, four
footed creatures.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10
FAITHFUL OLD AMY.
How n Black Woman Showed Her Devo.
tion for Her Mistress.

now BLACK woman showed Her Dovcs
tion for Her Mistress.
In North Carolina over century ago
lived Mr.. John Payne, a wealthy plant
err descended from an earl's daughter.
He and Thomas jefferson, who after
wards became president of the United
States, both loved the Same beautiful
girl, Mary Coles. She preferred young
Payne, and married him, and became
the mother of Dolly, the wife of Presi-
dent James Madison, one of the most
beloved of women ever in the white
house.
Dolly was an uncommonly beautiful
child, and her fond mother, lest the sun
should tan her face, used to sew n sun
bonnet on her head every morning, and
put long gloves on her arms when she
went to school.
Mr.. Payne, her father, Quaker, be-
came convinced that slavery was sin,
and sold his plantation, freed his slaves
and moved to Philadelphia, in 1856.
This was just after tho revolutionary
war, and the money of the country had
become deprecated.
John, his oldest son, was travelling In
Europe, and came home to help his
father start in business. Neither knew
much about close economy, or business
methods, or the dishonesty of some of
their competitors. After time Mr..
Payne failed, and the rich family were
reduced to poverty. The father sank
under his misfortune.
A wealthy young man by the name of
Todd, of excellent habits, had befriend-
ed Mr.. Payne in his pccuniary troubles.
He wished to marry Dolly, but she did
not love him well enough.
The father called the young beauty
of nineteen to his dying bed and told
her his wish, that she should accept
John Todd Dolly consented, and thus
made her fathers last days happier.
Mr.. Todd proved u devoted husband,
but died of yellow fever three years
after their marriage, leaving Dolly
with two little children, one baby
of three weeks, who died soon after.
Two years later she married James Mad
ison.
Mr.. Payne and his beautiful wife,
Mary Coles, had always been kind to
their slaves, SO much so that some re-
fused to leave them, and came to Phila-
delphia to live in their home. g
One poor slave, called Mother Amy"
when freed, went out to service. She
saved'all her money carefully; nobody
could guess for what purpose.
For herself, she could endure poverty
and not mind it. She did not need or
care for fine clothes, but she could not
bear that the woman who was once her
lovely owner should DO in reduced cir
cumstanccs.
When death came for "Mother Amy"
after all the hard years of labor, she
left $500, which she had struggled al
the years to save, to Mrs. Payne, hcI
widowed MISTRESS Globe.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10
THIS ECO is WORTH $4,000.

ure to his own collection, where he 10
holding it for a rise in price.
1t is quite fad nowadays to collect
rare and curious eggs and vast sums
are paid by wealthy collectors for tho
delicate little ovals One of the largest
private collections in the world is that
Of Mr.. j. Parker Norris, well-known
lawyer of Philadelphia. lie has spent
more than $50, 1000 for fine specimens Of
egg shells.
One must know many things about
birds and their habits in order to make
valuable collection of eggs. Hum
dreds of books have been published on
the subject of birds eggs Uncle Sans
government has published few of
these books, and nearly all of them are
costly.
Mr.. G. W. Crandall, of Woodside, N.
Y, has according to the Philadelphia
Press, been quietly adding rare eggs to
his big collection for the past seven
teen years. This remarkable collection
contains curious eggs from oil parts of
the world. Here are eggs of the casso-
wary, from Timbuctoo, and the queer
yellow eggs of the rhea, or South
American ostrich, contrast with green
black emu's eggs and the yellow!vory
of the African ostrich. Then there ara
10 species of eagles eggs, while the
eggs Of the Lapp owl rest by tho side
of those Of the little Indian pigmy owl.
Many beautiful gyrfalcon's eggs from
Iceland and other rarities adorn tho
collection, which includes, in all, 10000
specimens, sets of eggs of GOO species
Of North American birds and 800
foreign. tr fs
The amount Of work which thu
gathering Of SO many eggs represents,
not to speak of the risk Of life, is inn
mense. Looking upon mere set of
gyrfalcon's eggs in cabinet, one must
think Of the intrepid collector, who de-
scended n rope on some dizzy height
to obtain them, in order to appreciate
the spirit of adventure which animates
the cgg-gntherer.
The gathering of eggs of the birds
familiar TO everyone is both cruel and
improbable, and no sensible boy Or
girl will rob the nest Of a robin or
wren. If you can afford it, collect the
rarest eggs, but, ifyou cannot get those
that are most curious, don't attempt to
start collection with the common
eggs that every one has seen in the
country at some time or other.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10

vested his money and all that resulted
from the sale of his farming imple-
ments and household goods in quar-
ter-section of land in western Nebras-
ka, giving, as everybody did, mort
gage on the farm for the balance
which he was unable to pay down.
Both he and his wife had a great an
tipathy to giving mortgage, but
there was no other way; and then it
was not so large but that in three
years they could pay 1t off-perhaps in
two, if they should have extra good
crops. At all events, they would be as
economical in every way as possible
and pay it off at the earliest practic-
able day.
There was a small house on their
place when they went there, new, and
built purposely for the buyer; two
rooms and a kitchen, with loft in
which person could sleep, though
under the middle of the roof only
could one stand upright. But they re-
garded it as only temporary affair,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10

submitting cheerfully to their cramped
quarters, but never losing sight of the
plan to build themselves a home as
soon as there was money enough to
pay off the hateful mortgage.
By the third year their clothing, not
too abundant when they came, began
to need replenishing in every direction.
Some things had to be bought for
Harry and John, now thirteen and ten
years old, and growing, as their mother
used to say, sin genuine western FASH
ion." But the family were careful in
their OUTLAWS, and this summers crop
would give them at least the satisfac-
ton of an unencumbered homestead.
As early in the spring as possible he
set to work to get the ground in readi-
ness and put in the seed. He had
learned by this time how to do things
on a large scale. He as well as his
neighbors had an unusual amount of
ground planted in corn; for it had
been too dry in the early spring for oats,
SO that the ground intended for that
cropwas taken for corn. Day after day
they had gone back and forth through
were planted.
Hardly was the work finished when
a gentle rain fell; and though it lasted
but an hour it furnished the requisite
moisture at the right time. In a few
days the long rows could be traced by
a faint line of green which grew darker
and broSder almost while one was
looking upon it. Soon the nice work
of the farmer began to appear. Which
ever way one looked, forward or across
or diagonally, as far as the eye could
see, the lines were as straight as if
run by a surveyor. He had done his
part well.
Soon people began to say: "Unless
we have more rain there won't be half
a crop" But again there was slight
shower, and again they were hopeful;
still all longed for copious downpour.
Things were becoming somewhat
dry, and pastures as well as crops were
beginning to suffer, when there was
noticed, one morning, soft south
wind, which Mr.. Carter had been ac-
customed in Ohio to regard as sure
indication of rain. They were fairly
jubilant ut the prospect. One good
rain would insure the crop. Gradually
and steadily the wind increased both
in velocity and temperature; it was
something new. No rain! And still it
blew stronger and hotter and without
cessation. Everything was being dried
up; but still it blew strong and steady
and straight from the south. 1t must
surely stop shsn the sun goes down;
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10

"A missionary paper records the fact
that young woman school teacher,
with a salary of 81. 900 year. is living
on half OF it and giving the other half
for the support of missionary in
China.
Miss Melee, of Montreal. has just
obtained the degree of doctor of phi
losophy at Zurich. She is n graduate
of McGill university. and studied phi
losophy at Cornell and under Prof.
Wundt, of Leipsig.
I'm 1912 all Christian teaching was
prohibited in India. Now the govern
ment, in appropriation of missions,
gives large sums and valuable lands
for the erection of hospitals and the
forwarding of education and missions
Mr.. Norwood, the agent of the
American Bible society in Venezuela,
reports exceptionally large sales of the
scriptures by his colporteurs in parts
of the country which have never be-
fore been visited by any Bible society
agent.
"A presbytery of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church having ordained
n woman to the ministry, the general
assembly last year declared the ordina-
ton invalid, and this year reaflirmed
the decision as final. Presby-
terrain.
AT TashlSend, in Russian Turkes-
tan, English has been substituted for
German asian obligatory study in the
high school, while at Riga, on the Bal
tic, Lutheran pastors have been or
dered to give up German and use Rus.
sian in their correspondence.
Rev. Edward Stuart, ID. D., vicar
of Leeds, has been nominated bishop
of Rochester, In place of DIR. Davidson,
translated to Winchester. He is a
high churchman, grandson of the
second Earl Talbot, is married to
niece of Mrs. Gladstone, and was for
eighteen years warden of Keble col
lege, Oxford.
Rev. DIR. Joseph Parker, pastor of
the City Temple, recently announced
to his congregation that henceforth he
would not hold his people responsible
for any fixed sum of salary, but would
take what they were willing to give.
This follows an arrangement lately
made by which DIR. Parker is to receive
an annuity of 81 900 for life after he
retires from the ministry.
Oxford counts nine graduates in
Lord Salisbury's cabinet, four of them
Christ church men; Cambridge has
three, all from Trinity, and Dublin
one. In Mr.. Gladstone's cabinet eight
were Oxford men and six Cambridge.
The average age of, the present cab
fnet is ffty-eight, that of Mr.. Glad
stones was fifty-six, and after he re-
signed fifty-four BY including nine
teen ministers in his cabinet, Lord
Salisbury has made it the largest of
the century.
I'm the new parliament there are
131 graduates of Oxford, 10 of Cam
bridge, "a of London, 81 of Scotch, and
20 of Irish universities. OF the public
sch ools Elton is first with 104 members,
then comes Harrow with 81; Rugby
has only II. The oldest member is Mr..
Villiers, who is 90; next comes Sir John
Mowbray, who nominated the speaker;
he is 81. The youngest members are
Mr.. Richard Cavendish, Hon. A. b.
Bathurst aud Viscount Milton, all 23,
and all belonging to families in the
peerage.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10
THE DRUNKARD's DOG.
He Saved His Master from Being Sent to
the Prison.

He Saved His Master from Being Sent to
the Prison.
The New York Times reports that
Policeman Logan, of that city, saw O
man lying intoxicated on the pave
ment, and went toward him, meaning
to wake him. AS he drew near, how
ever, he sawa brindle bulldog standing
beside the sleeper, and as the police
man leaned forward to shake the man
the dog growled and showed his teeth.
Logan stepped back for fear of being
bitten. The drunlSard's name was
Collins.
''Hey, thcre!" said Logan. Collins
woke up.
"Tell your dog to let me arrest YOU"
Collins struggled to his feet, and said
to the dog: Come on, Bully, we're
rested" ~
The dog ''heeled" obediently, and the
policeman took them to the Thirtieth
street station-house. There was no
reason why the pup should be locked
up, but it was plain that he intended to
stick to his drunken master as long as
he could, and he was allowed to oc-
cupy the cell in which Collins spent the
night
The dog accompanied Collins when
Logan took him down TO Jefferson Mar
ket police court, and was close to him
when Justice Hogan asked:
"Well, sin, what have you to say for
yourself?" .a.
"1'alls TO him, Bully" whispered Col
Inns to tho pup; and the pup jumped
up on the bridge, where the Justice
could see him, sat up, held up his fore
paws and whined. ~. q gal 3,
Everybody in court was watching
him.
"Are we sorry?" Collins asked him.
The pup whined loudly and more for
lornly than before. He looked as II he
would cry in another minute. ""
"Well, young man." said the justice,
"I1l let you go this time on account of
your dog. don't think you deserve
such faithfulness as he has shown. If
/ were dog and had a drunken mas
ter, would leave him. But guess
dogs are more faithful than men" tA
"Thana the JUICE, Bully" said Col.
Inns.
The dog stood up on his hind legs,
gave one short, joyous yelp, and bound
ed out of the courtroom beside his mas
ter,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10
A Familiar Sound.

"And you say that the young fellow
showed no sign of fear, while dismay
sat upon the faces Of even the bravest
and most experienced men in the com.
pany?"
yes; 1t was case of where 'igno-
rance is bliss He beard the awful war
hoop of the redskins, but instead Of
instilling him with terror he seemed
quite pleased with it. We found out
afterward that he thought it was a
new coaching parade yell."-Boston
Transcript.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10
EGGS WORTH A FORTUNE.
That Of tho Great Aux IL Valued ut Eli
teen Thousand Dollars.

That OF tho Great Aux IL Valued ut Eif-
teen Thousand Dollars.
How would you like to own an egg
valued ut SIS 1000?
That was the price recently paid by
a wealthy collector Of rare birds eggs.
This particular egg was that of the
great aux, and there are only sixty
eight of this extinct birds eggs in exist
ence. Two aulSs' eggs are in this coun-
try; one is owned by the Academy Of
Natural Science in Philadelphia, and
the other is in the collection of Vassar
college. The former collection held for
many years among its treasures the
rarest of all cggs-an egg Of the Cali
fornia condor-but it mysteriously dis
appeared few years ago, and it Is
supposed some scientific sneak thief
thought it no sin to transfer the treas
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10
avcrare Rate, Of sne,d.

/. One who has made study Of tho
subject states that the average rates Of
speed attained by certain travelling
things are as follows: A man walks
three miles an hour; horse trots
seven; steamboats, run eighteen; sailing
vessels make ten; slow rivers flow four;
rapid rivers flow seven; storms move
thirty-six; hurricanes, eighty; a rifio+
ball, one thousand miles minutes
sound, eleven hundred and forty-threet
light, one hundred and ninety thou
sand; electricity, two hundred and
eighty thousand.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
ToMMY,S ALPHABET.

Now this is A." mamma would say,
And this is Q, and this is u.
And this is l.
Now say ther-try"
Oil Tommy was youngster yet
To learn TO say his alphabot
But. bless his hearth though he was small,
He know his letters-noarly ALL
So mother pointed. and her son
Began to name them one by one.
This oner' Its B,""And thisS' "It's O."
" And thisY" ITS L; know 1t we'll"
Nay; try ngaini"
IL must DO N"
"And this oneg"-pointing to AMI
That's YoUi" was Tommy's quick reply.
Mamma, the error TO undo,
Now pointed to the letter u.
Small Tommy pondered; then quoth he.
His face aglow with smiles: "That's MET"
Agnes Lee, in ST Nicholas
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10
Reuben's Explanation.

Reuben" inquired Mr.. Upjohn
sharply, "if the gate has been closed all
might, as you say it has, how do you
suppose that pig got into the stable
yard? 1t couldn't have climbed the
fence.
II guess it must have crope through
n crack, SIR" answered Reuben, the
coachman, with dignity.-Chicago
Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10
Domestic Needs.

Misunderstanding you want down
town to-day, my dearp Shall order
some more of that self-raising -four?
Wife-We have plenty left; but !
wish you would stop at an intelligence
Office and order me self-raisirg serv-
ant Rirl.-N Y. Weekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10
A Promoter.

"You say he is promoter? What is
his line, do you know?"
II couldn't say positively, but have
a suspicion that he deals mostly in
filling for pneumatic tires Indian.
sapo,is Journal.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10

There is an active principle in the
human soul that will ever be exertine
its facilities to the utmost stretch, in
whatever employment, by the accidents
of time and place, the general plan Of
or the custom and manners
of the age and country it may happen
to find itself engaged. Blackstone.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10
THE HOT WIND.
EY FLORA X. REGAL.

HIS was Mr.. Car
ter's third year
in N e Or aslsa.
HI Q h ad g o t
tire d of h i S
small farm in
Ohio, with its
s l ow returns;
and when there
c a me to him
what he regard
ed as a good
opportunity to
sell it, he lost
no time in clos
in G t h Q bar
nnin. He in
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-10-10
THE FUNNY PLATYPuS.

An Egg-Laying Mammal from tho wiids
of Australia.
One of the oldest of the many queer
and unique creatures that inhabit the
antipodean wilds is an animal about
the shape and size of the American