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The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

The effects of American energy and en-
terprise are seen in the revival of industry,
and the effects of the Wilson tariff are
seen in the treasury deficit.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

Yesterday an applicant for one of the places
at the dlspos al of the Board of Health made a
melancholy appeal to General Warfield to sign
his petition. The general replied "My sigma
ture wouldn't help you; / am a Republican" +"
"Well, that makes no difference" responded
the applicant. I understand that the Cover
nor is a friend of yours, and the Office doesn't
amount to much, anyhow, and nobody else
wants it." The general became interested by
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

The next administration in England
will be literally Salisbury Government,
for the four most important posts in it
have been assigned to members of his
family
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

The speed with which bicycles are pro-
PEELED makes it all the more necessary that
wheelmen should familiarize themselves
with the law of the road.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

With silver convention in Georgia,
another in Chicago and one to come in
Washington the gold men still swear the
issue is dying out.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

1t would be very easy for the Market
street Railway Company to obey the law
and win the respect Of honest men, if it
had not acquired such habit Of doing the
other thing.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

The City can never expect to prosper till
it has ridded itself OF bunko-steerers, pool
sellers, lotteries, Doodle Supervisors, silu-
rians and cobblestones.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20
BACON Printing Company. sos Clay street.

BROKEN, mixed candies, 1oclb, Townsend's..
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

Horr's statement that there is no such
thing as money power" in the politics
of this country or of Europe shows to what
flights eloquence will lead man when he
gets warmed up.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

If there is truth in the report that the
Rothschilds intend to offer Spain $780,
100000 for Cuba and place the island under
the protection of the United States it
would seem to be a solution of the whole
difficulty, for it is hardly conceivable that
Spain would decline the offer.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

Philadelphia has evolved unique idea
In charity support by selling reserved seats
in long procession of trolley-cars and
having a twenty mile rolling parade
through the city.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

1t is rather waste of energy to worry
about an imaginary anarchistic uprising
IN San Francisco while there are more
tangible and more dangerous public ene-
mics in the City Hall.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

With Cleveland declaring that Democ-
racy is one thing and Senator Morgan
asserting that it is another it is clear that
some sort OF definition other than "con-
fusion" is in order.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

An extraordinary spectacle is presented
in the fact that the civil authorities are
encouraging and supporting the settlers
on the Winnebago Indian reservation in
their armed resistance to the United States
troops sent to eVict them
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

The fruit crop seems to be weakening
everywhere outside of California, and once
more it is made evident that this is the
only section of the Union where the IN
dustry can be carried on as practically
sure thing
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

The whole City has an interest in assist
ing the Church-street improvement Club
In its efforts to oust the Market-street
Railway Company from its fraudulent oc-
cupation of that thoroughfare.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20

Electric cars and bicycles have SO re-
stricted the use of horses in New York and
New England that horses OF class which
few years ago sold in that section for $15O
or $500 can now be bought for $50 or $40.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

July 20, 1895
Milford chronicle., 1895-11-15

A lady let us say, wants to open q
school for her eX-serfs. She surmounts the
many, varied and unexpected obstacles
put In her way by all sorts Of function
aries. She obtains by prodigies Of diplo-
macy the permission to open the school
and looks for a lady teacher. Naturally
she applies to one Of the teachers semi
naries or TO pedagogical school for girls.
There she finds two sorts Of women-n /
am allowed to use two Russianisms, she
finds the "careerist" and the 'popularist. "
The former evidently would not do for the
poor, lonely life Of Russian village and
the hard work in view, so, after having
taken her precautions for not falling upon
"nihilist, the lady makes her choice
from among the "popularists. "
In few months the young schoolmis-
tress is worshipcd by the children. She is
on friendly terms with the lady, the elder
peasants, and even the batyushka (the
village priest), especially If he belongs to
the old type Of priests and cares not to in
crease his income by taking possession Of
the school. But she belongs to that indie
pendent type Of women whom we know
well in England. She addresses the school
inspector as if she ignored that he is
bearer OF supreme power; she shows no
special Difference to the ispravnik of old or
to the modern zemskiy nachalnik, and IL
the latter belongs to the type Of tho fog
ginP brutes, now In demand, she decidedly
avoids him. This is enough. In few
months the idyl must como to an end.
The teacher is a Suspect, and the good
lady must part with her and begin anew
her peregrinations in the teachers semi
naries.-Princo Krapotken in Nineteenth
Century.
Milford chronicle., 1895-11-15

EDO you know, said an army Off
Ger, ''that if Sitting Bull, the old Sioux
ehief, had been a white man, he would
have been called a great general? In
fact, he was a great natural soldiers
sort of red Napoleon.
"Sitting Bull was not real chief
that is, he wasn't war chief He was
a medicine man, what the Indians call
o medicine chief. But he had great nat
pral capacity as a commander. His sur
prise and cutting off of Custer would
have been called a great achievement if
a white general had in some war per
formed the feat It is significant Of In
dian character that Sitting Bull would
never tell tho story Of the fight at all
wouldn't say word about it, although
1 suppose the question was put to him
a thousand times by all sorts Of people. "
Washington Post.
Milford chronicle., 1895-11-15


are finely divided, the chemical energy
of rusting is so great that tho metals
burn with a vivid light and emit a
dense white smoke. The permanency Of
these rusts and their protective charac-
ter are utilized in white paints
Professor Skidmore then directed at
tention to a third group Of metals,
which includes those which have dark
or colored rusts, as with copper, iron
and silver. A series of experiments fol-
lowed to show how these rusts were
formed, and the changes which iron un-
dergoes in appearance in the tempering
process were carefully noted Attention
was directed finally to the fourth group
of metals, which never rust. These are
gold and platinum, and it was noted
that they are also the metals which are
found as metals in the earth, and not
as ores from which the metal must be
manufactured. In the case of the other
metals, it is an advantage that they are
found in the rust or ore condition, as
they can be manufactured much more
easily than they could be cut from
lodges of the pure metal.-Iron Age.
Milford chronicle., 1895-11-15

The knowledge that France would fly
at GermanY's throat as soon as it seemed
safe to do so has been a permanent factor
IN all international bargainings and con-
troversies; the terror that some untoward
accident might preoipitate the always
threatened conflict, even against the de-
sires and best Judgment Of the conbatants,
has never ceased to haunt the imagina-
tions Of men. If this prolonged anxiety
has strained tho nerves of onloOkers, what
must have been the tension upon the poo
pies directly concerned? Statistics afford
some slight conception of the material
burdens which they have been forced to
bear. When the war ended, for instance,
the Germans had $40, 900 troops of all
arms on French territory.
Today the peace footing Of the regular
French army, without counting gondarm-
cry or any reserve, actually exceeds by
80, 900 that total muster of the Germans at
the time of their triumph. The present
standing army of the German empire, be-
ing formed on tho theory Of defensive
force is a triao smaller. 1t has only $685.
600 men under arms. These figures are
too vast to convey realities to the mind
The fact may be made little clearer by
saying that the French and German poo
pies together have now some 500, 600 more
professional fighting men in active service
than they found it necessary to maintain
before the war of 1870. Yet this, too,
fails to give an adequate idea of the ire
mendous sacrifices which both nations
have been compelled to make year after
year throughout this weary quarter of
century Saturday Review.
Milford chronicle., 1895-11-15
Ravages Of Loeusts Do Cyprus.

One reads Of plaques Of locusts, but
it is difficult to realize what a terrible
infiction an invasion vi these ravenous
pests can be. Nj J. Z. Mavrocordato
of the civil service, Cyprus, has made
the subject of how best to destroy, OF at
least to decrease, theil numbers, a spe-
cial study, and tho very graphic ac-
count Of his experiences as related at
the Colonial institute is full of interest.
Cyprus in past years has suffered sorely
from tho ravages Of louusts, and the in
habitants have at times been reduced to
famine. The locust, one of the grass.
hopper family, is abcut two inches III
length and increases at the rate of
about 90 to annually. When the eggs
are Matched, the breeding ground is COW
cred with a deasely packed mass of in
sects, not much larger than an ordinary
ant This mass eventually marches for
ward, consuming every green blade on
its route. This goes on till, arriving at
their full size, the creatures take to their
wings, and wherever they settle devas-
tation is complete. Westminster Ga
zetfa
Milford chronicle., 1895-11-15

All Of the early writers on the make up
of the human frame and its adOrnments
invariably referred to the hair as being an
"excromentn and most Of them held that
1t was fed on substances similar to itself.
The odd notions Of the early ANTAGONISTS
and psychologists, as we'll as the occult
philosophers respecting the growth and
functions of the hair were the basis Of
many old time superstitions regarding
that constituent of the human body. The
ancient philosophers declared that the hair
generated in the fullginous parts of the
blood, and that 1t was 'exhaled by the
heat Of the body, and that it ''becomes
firm and fbrous on exposure to the atmos-
phere, - presumably in the same manner
that the fluid elected by the spider becomes
a web" as soon as the air strikes it, In
modern times, however, every idea respect
ing the character and growth Of hair has
changed. The scientists now universally
agree that tho haiV properly and truly lives
and receives its nourishment from the
scalp and adjoining tissues. It is true,
however that they take upon themselves
tic nature of parasitic plants.
They grow as vegetation does, and each
separate hlament has distinct life and
That they derive their nourish-
ment and owe their existence TO the juices
taken up from the flesh and blood there is
no doubt. However, after all, it cannot be
that this food is taken up from what the
term nutritious juices, for
we know that hair will live and thrive
even though the body starye or DO wasted
by disease. In many instances, in truth,
the hair thriyes md becomes most luxuri-
ant when the body Is most shrunken and
shriyelod by WASTING ailments, And, fur
5hermore, in rare instances it has been
known to flourish after animal life in tho /
body had ceased to exist, and even after
decay had set in the skin and flesh to /
which it was attached. st Louis Repub-
40
Milford chronicle., 1895-11-15
FIsHERMEN's NETS.


Most Of Them Made by Machine NoWa-
days-Their Many Uses.
Most fishermen's nets nowadays are
made by machinery, excepting the small
round crab nets and dip nets, and bait
nets that sportsmen use. These are made
by hand, for the machines cannot make
anything but a straight fat web. Many
larger circular nets, however, are con-
structed from machine made netting,
cut up
Machines have been used generally in
netmaking for about 80 years. Before
that nets were knitted in the families Of
the fishermen. Some fishermen on the
Atlantic coast still make their own nets,
and on one part of the Pacific coast
there is a close union of fishermen using
nets made by hand, but factory made
nets have displaced most nets Of do
nestle make.
There are six netting factories in the
United States, all on the Atlantic coast.
Carload lots Of nets are not uncommon
shipments from this coast to the Pacific,
and the same is true Of netting Irvine.
Nets are made of various sizes Of
thread or Irvine, in any size mesh de-
sired, and they can be made Of any
length, but nets Of certain kinds are
made commonly in certain lengths, and
then Joined together if greater length be
desired. In this way nets have been set
in the great lakes i'll one straight string
of II miles. Nets three or four miles
long are not unusual there. Such nets
are fshed with steamboats,.
A pound net, 100 feet in depth, has
been set in Lake Superior. It was neces-
sary to splice the poles for it The aver
age depth of pound nets on the lakes is
40 feet On the Atlantic coast the aver
age depth Of pound nets is 35 feet. Lead
ers are made 10 to 20 rods in length
In the sounds Of North Carolina very
long hauling seines are used, some Of
them about a mile long. They are oper-
ated by steamboats,. Formerly, hauling
seines were used generally. Within the
last 10 years the use Of pound nets has
increased rapidly. Purse seines are made
200 to 25O fathoms long and perhaps 100
feet deep.
A pound net, complete, costs 5000 to
81, 200; a purse net, $500 to $500; a
lake gill net outflt, $4,000 to So, 900,
although it might not all be used at one
time; a shore seine, from $40 to $500.
There are other kinds Of nets and seines.
The life of net depends on the water
it is used in and circumstances. A heavy
pound net might get thrashed out in a
season. Some nets and seines last three
or four years or longer.
Nets are made for various uses other
than for fishing They are made for use
on horses, in laundries to hold collars
and cuffs, for decorative purposes, for
lawn tennis, and all sorts Of backstops,
for banners and for hammoclls, for poul-
try yards and for fruit trees and straw
berry beds. Some bird traps are made
with nets. There are steamboat nets,
which, however, are not knotted, but
sized. New York Sun.
Milford chronicle., 1895-11-15
MUNYON'S VIEWS
ON RHEUMATISM
THE FAMOUS PROFESSOR DOES NOT BE
LIVE IN STRONG DRUGS GENTLY
ACTING REMEDIES WILL MAKE
PROMPT AND PERMANENT CURts
WHERE DANGEROUS DOSING FAILS.

Professor Munyon says The usual treat
meut for rheumatism consists Of poisonous
doses OF potash, salicylic acid, colehicum and
morphine, which destroy the stomach irritate
the kidneys and PROSTATE the nerves. Mum
yon's Rheumatism Cure is guaranteed to be
absolutely harmless and a strong tonic in
building up the weak and debilitated. It
cures acute or muscular rheumatism in from
one to i've days. Sharp, shooting pains in
any part of the body stopped by few dos s.
A prompt, complete and permanent cure for
lameuess, stiff back aud al pains in hips and
Ions Chronic Rheumatism, eciatica, lumbago
or pain in the back are speedily cured ="
Price, 25c
The Munyun Remedies effect prompt and
positive cures in the most obstinate cases, a
separate srecifc for each disease. Al all
druggists, most rs cents each
Munyon's Dyspepsia Cure is guaranteed to
cure al form of Indigestion aud stomach
troubles. Price, IS cents
Munyon's Headache Cure stops headaches
in three minutes. Price. a5c
Munyon's Vitalizsr restores lost powers TO
weak men Price, 500
Personal letters to Prof Munyon. 1905
Arcn street Philadelphia, Pa, answ. red with
free medical advice for any disease.
Milford chronicle., 1895-11-15
Ia cHuRcH oE 81. soPHIA.

IL Stands rs the Masterpiece Of byzantine
Architecture and Construction.
Materials were brought from far and
near, Egypt and Greece uniting with
Asia Minor and the islands, each con-
tiguous TO the capital, in supplying their
quota of marble for the columns and
walls Of the church of st. Sophia For
nearly six years the work went on with
undated energy. Many difficulties
We're overcome and many experiments
were tried and found successful, and at
length, on the goth Of December, 537,
the church was dedicated amid the ac-
CARNATIONS Of the populace, and the en-
peror exclaimed in the fullness Of his
pride: "Glory be to God, who hath
Thought me worthy to accomplish so
great a work have yanquished thee,
o Solomon 7"
The emperor's joy in his church was,
however, destined to receive a rude
shock some 20 years later, when the
apse and part of the dome were thrown
down by an earthquake, but the same
energy which was shown in the build
ing Of the church again asserted itself
The damage was repaired-the dome
being heightened 20 feet to give it ad-
ditional security-and the church was
reconsecrated on the gath of December
563, 81 years after the disaster
The church of St. Sophia has never
been surpassed in the unity and COM
pleteness Of its design and in the dar-
ing nature of its construction. In this
building the arch and dome assert them
selves and dominate everything, and we
have a lightness, a spaciousness and a
grandeur that had never been reached in
the finest Of the basilicas and has never
been surpassed since. During all the
centuries which have elapsed since its
erection, it has maintained its supremacy
as the masterpiece Of Byzantine archi-
lecture and construction, and it fixed
generally the type ON which most Of the
later churches in the east were based,
but it has never been surpassed by any
of them. Scottish Review.
Milford chronicle., 1895-11-15

A good story is told of one Of the can
vassers Of a leading publishing firm in
London, He found his way into the par
lor of branch bank, and saw the man
.ager, who, as soon as he learned his
business, ordered him out. Very quiet
ly he said:
II meet with so many gentlemen in
the course of the week that l can afford
to meet a snob occasionally, and took
his departure.
Next day he called at the bank again,
and wished to open an account. He was
again shown in to the manager, and
gave very satisfactory reasons for open
ing the account, and deposited e27O.
The manager could not do less than
apologize for his rudeness on the day
preceding, and ordered copy of the
work, an expensive one, and allowed
access to the clerks, several Of whom
did the same. Two days afterward ev-
cry farthing was drawn out London
Tit Bits.
Milford chronicle., 1895-11-15


The registry of the Bastille contains
the entry: con Thursday, Sept. IS,
1859, at O'Clock in the afternoon, NJ
dc Saint Mars, governor Of the castle
Of the Bastille, arrived to take up his
duties, coming from his post at the lies
Sainte Marguerite, and having brought
with him in his litter a former prisoner,
whom he had in his custody at Pignerol.
The latter he keeps invariably masked,
and his name is never mentioned. M.
de Saint Mars. in the years in question,
had only five prisoners in his charge at
PigneroL The fate Of four has been
clearly traced. The fifth must be Mat,
toll. The prisoner died in 1908, and
was buried on Nov. 80 in the cemetery
of St. Paul M. Bertrand of the French
foreign office has examined the registry
of burials and finds the name Mattioli
under that date Louis XIV told Nine
Pompadour that the prisoner was an
Italian minister.
Louis XVI assured Marie Antoinette,
on the authority of Maurepas, that the
man was a dangerous inTiguer, a sub
jtCJ VI tu6 Ouht VI hdutuoi VIII udu
been arrested at the frontier and impris-
oned first at Pignerol and then in the
Bastille. The evidence seems conclusive,
and puts an end to all other theories,
including Voltaire s bold invention that
the man in the iron mask was a supposed
brother of Louis XVI, which Dumas has
taken up and immoralized in his
Three Guardsmen' romances Mattis
oh's crime was giving information to
Austria, Spain, Savoy and Venice Of
into which Louis XVI had
entered with him to induce him to sell
the important fortress Of Casale to the
French. Revue Historique.
Milford chronicle., 1895-11-15

Cheese, the supposed to DO edible
milk curd of commerce, is the best sell
in the world for microbes and bacteria,
and on its surface flourish millions up
on millions of infnitesimal parasitic
plant growth. A microscopic examina-
ton of a single gram of fresh cheese,
such as is usually sold at the grocer's,
proved that it contained not less than
10000 separate aud distinct specimens
of bacteria. After seven days this same
section of cheese was examined and
found to contain $4,000 separate and
individual bacteria. Professor de Kahn
says that a cheese, properly sliced and
exposed Will within week be implant-
ed with bacterial growth containing
more separate specimens than there arc
trees upon the whole of tho earth sur
face st Louis Republic.
Milford chronicle., 1895-11-15

In orc division of tho Louisiana section
there are the d,licacios for which the Gre
ole kitchen is famous and which are begin
ming to be appreciated in all the great
cities Of the world There are the Barra-
taria shrimps which arc as largo as prawns
and ten times MS delicious. They are harm
less little crustaceans, which neither sting,
scratch nor bite, and which seem to have
boon made by kindly nature for an ideal
food We prosaic people of the north boil
them and cat them with great delight and
give them no more thought, but not so
with the gentle Acadian of the southland.
He CRATES them into wonderful bisques,
makes them into marvellous sauces. pastes
thom together with batter and fries them
into wonderful rose colorcd little cakes;
makes thom into salads and stews, stirs
them into a chicken soup with gumbO and
Sassafras and produces n marvellous gumbO
fllet. He stuffs a ponpano with 100
shrimps, a little chopped fat pork, bakes
the dish and has for "a result a dainty
which would have pleased Brillat Savarin
He spits them on a skewer with mush-
rooms, and has brochette which Is rev.
elation; he chops them up with a little
pork and spices, stuffs them into n skin
and has a shrimp sausage that will make
your eyes bulge with delight
1 was told by good old New Orleans
nanny, who prosides over the kitchen:
"They are u good many ways Of cookin
the shrimp, honey I can cook 'em 200
ways myself, and I don't know much
about it sure.
Another matchless delieacy are young
ripe fgs preserved in maraschino. 1t is tho
first time 1 ever saw this preparation, and
hope it is not TO be the last. Tho raw
fig has a certain rawness about it, the
dried fig is too sweet and oloying, the
ordinary preserved fig is too pulpy and
sticky, but the young Fl Is preserved in mar
aschino has every advantage of all the rest
without single defect. Besides there are
creole pepper sauce, gulnbo filet powder,
preserved okras, all sorts of exquisite
liquors and cordials and great variety of
fine canned vegetables and fruits.-New
York Mail and EXPRESS.
Milford chronicle., 1895-11-15
rHe wTcA wIEEls cHARMs.

As / came down the budding lane
The birds a-singing free,
There came along an old witch wife,
And shrilly called to me.
"Oh, buy q charm, young maidi" she said
ooh, buy q charm of me,
To chain thy sweetheart to thy side
Though he is on the sen
81 will not do 1t. dame, . said,
ssIf false at heart he be,
I'd rather have q charm to keep
His face afar from mel'
ooh, buy a charm, young Inaidi'' she said,
sfOh, buy q charm Of me,
To break the curse of foes Of thine
Who might work III to thee. r."
ST win not do it, dame, " I said,
fsIf foul Of heart they be,
A deeper curse is laid on them
Than aught they lay on me.
ooh, buy charm, young maidl" she said,
"a potent charm Of me,
To bind the strong heart Of thy friend
In love and loyalty"
81 will not do It, daniel" / laughed,
'The charm could never be
Could make or break the chain that binds
My friends strong heart to mel"
G. George in Youths Companion.