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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05
ALL ABOUT A HALF DOLLAR,
A Reported Experience Which Had a
Good Deal of Weight.


Haven't you another coin, sr?" asked
Sixth-avenue streetcar conductor OF me
the other day upon being rendered hall
dollar.
The car was crowded with lady shoppers
and every one of them looked suspiclously
toward me. 1 glanced again at the half
returned to me- and hefted it and felt 1t
and pronounced it good coin OF the realm.
whats the matter with it?" L in
qured.
Light" says he. And everybody
looked at me again and then at each other.
as if to say, We'll. get on to the gall OF
the man with the counterfeit money!!
Light. is it?" says 1. "Irs good coin
all the same; but if you want our nall
dollars made heavier you ought 10 l0dge
your complaint with the treasury or Con-
grass."
swell. I'd rather you'd ride free than
give change for il, anyhow" said he. with
growing imDertlnence.
l was pulling out dollar note when a
stout. business-ike looking lady of highly
respectable appearance came over to me
and sat down. at the same time asking me
politely to let her see the rejected piece.
did so.
"Dear me!' she said, ''if that is bad ]
don't know silver. And I've taken one
just like it at IS store this morning! y
She dug down into small bag and
brought forth one of the same vintage.
IF that is spurious, then mine is bad,
too," she said, carefully balancing the two.
ITS light, ma'am." said the conductor.
without looking at her, and giving me
change for dollar note. In doing SO he
gave me half dollar so nearly like mine
that you couldn't nave told the difference.
Hold on there!" said |. You have
given me another counterfetF
The passengers began TO laugh now, and
shuff1ed The pieces so he couldn't tell
which he had given NE.
81 won't take that" l insisted. But
really couldn't tell which was his and
which was mine. So [ held them out on
the palm of my hand. Perhaps you can
tell-you handle so much mora of this stuff
than l do-now which is yours?"
The young man. who had unQuesti0n-
ebly been honest in his conclusion, turned
very red while the ladies Uttered. The
stout woman by my side was especially
pleased. as she now felt that her half
dollar was all right. the conductor
took the two pieces and weighed them
critically. That's the light one," said
he gruff1y, handing me back one and pour
ing out some 10-cent pieces. Among these
was Canadian piece, which l prom pity
returned to him. The passengers laughed
again and he was mad enough to break a
bell rope.
ST guess you're all right" whispered the
stout lady. and with this approval left
the Car at Thirty third.-New York Herald.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05
POULTRY SHOW A SUCCESS.
Choice Collection of Pigeons OF
Exhibition.
SMALL CROWD IN ATTENDANCE
The Parlor. lumber Pigeon Enter
tanned the Audience With Some
Very Clever Feats.

If the poultry show is not success it
will not be the fault of the managers or
the exhibitors.
1t is scarcely possible that the great bird
fairs In the East can excel the one now in
progress in this city. The choicest speci-
mems of numerous species are here ON ex-
hibiion. but the attendance has not been
up TO exneetati ton. Either San Francisco
people are not admirers of fowls or else
the showers Of late have played havoc
with their purposes, for all day yesterday
the exhibition presented the sad appear,
ance of show playing to empty benches.
The roosters even realized the fact, and
in order 10 drive dull care away they kept
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05

els will De chairman of the Street Com
mittee. and the other chairmeu will be as
follows: Finance, Taylor; Printing.
Hughes; Building, Hobbs; Health and
Police, Ben jamin; Hospital. King. This
leaves the Water and Gas Committee. one
OF the most important unallotted also tne
Judiciary, the Fire and the Outside Lands
commit ees.
Supervisor-elect King wanted to be chair
man of the Buildings Committee. when
offered the Hospital Committee he waXed
warm and exclaimed Indignantly.
"Oh, no; don't want any. OF that on
me. l want no committee OF when the
Governor gives the patronage away.
1t remains to be seen whether ne taxes
the Hospital Committee that has no pat
ronage for his friends on Barbary Coast.
In any event he is hot, and has decided to
fight against his Republicans on the
board. He talked too much and thought
hs could run scheme in the boss inter-
ests." remarked a mem Der of the new
board yesterday.
81 know he endeav0red to get two OF the
Republican mem bers to go into comb
nation with him and three of the Demo-
cratic members, but he would not De
listened to. The com bination as originally
proposed by Rainey, Buckley and Burns
was to get Hughes, Benjamin. klng.
Hirscb, Scully and Wagner together, ana
then to induce Diamond TO stand ill.,. AS
to how Beniam and Hughes received the
proposition | don't know, though under
stand they would not prove disloyal TO
their party to subserve the interest OF
bosses"
Supervisor ELECT Diamond was ap-
preached on the street Thursday after
noon BY a political friend. After pre-
liminary conversation about organizing
the buard the friend said:
Diamond, hear you are the Kicker.
Why don't you stand in in organizing the
bOard?"
The reply was that the Democratic
Supervsor-elect had taken no active part
in forming of committees and the like.
but was passive.
"Would you go into combination with
three Republicans and the three Demo-
Gratis 10 give your side majority on the
board?"
Certainly, I'd go into anything that
won Id give the Democratic side major
ity," Diamond answered.
'Well. then, I'll go down right now and
see Mr.. Buckley"
'Hold onl Hold on there" said Dia-
moDd, rIdely inierruptiDg the speaker.
you don't carry any messages to Mr..
Buckley from me. don't wish to have
any dealings with him nor with any other
boss. III that is the kind or combination
you are after count me out. L propose 10
vote as | please and to 90 as l deem best
when Supervisor"
This ende1 the conference, and in all
probability precluded further attempts at
organizing boss majority irrespective of
politics.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05
BEAUTIFYING THEIR FEET.
Young Women Preparing to Battle
Without Shoes or Stockings.

Young Women Preparing to Battle
Without Shoes or Stockings.
Every manicurist nowadays is also a
pedicurisi. Not few stylish young women
pay as much attention to dressing their
toenails as their finger-nails. a manicur-
ist told me all about IL the other day.
sit is all due to sea-bathing," she said.
1.-THE woman who has a pretty foot is not
averse to exposing it even to masculine
scrutiny when she can do so without in :
curing the censure of those tickle powers
that from time TO time prescribe what con-
stltutes propriety according to the shifting
usages Of society.
"The beach offers superb opportunities
for the display Of pedal charms. 1t is not
alone fondness for salt wafer that makes
pretty girls go bathing. You may have
noticed that many of them seem more par
tial TO the sand than to the water when in
bathing costume.
"a pretty foot as we'll as pretty face
is a cheering sight to See,' and the pretty
foot Is something that eau be cultivated. I
can make shapely foot thing of beauty
and joy forever, and foot that wasn't
originally cast in we'll formed mold L can
make presentabe. There is one thing that
is fatal to pretty foot. and that is tight
shoe. Much OF my work consists 10 over
coming the deformities thus created. 1t
takes time, but it can be done.
II have at least a dozen young women
who seek my professional assistance regu-
larry once week. and that their time is
well bestowed will be proven at several
fashionable watering resorts next summer.
to the admiration of their masculine
friends and the envy of some of their
feminine friends.
"There is nothing immodest in the idea
of woman showing her feet sans shoes
and stockings, and since it involves the
abandonment of tight shoes, and conse-
ouent freedom from corns and other evils
that tight shoes entail, think it is some.
thing that ought TO be encouraged II
sandals were fashionable should soon be
rich. l don't doubt that pedicursts did
thriving business in the palmy DAYS of
Greece and Rome."-New York World.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05

INVESTMENTS $3.50 AND UPWARD.
| 450 feet from Market St; Drumm ST., Conn
| mercial; 50 :9x50 1900; very low; with
! Connecting rs feet on Clay and fronts $50, 900.
| Cheap; 1eary-st. corner; 2S feet front; bet.
| Taylor and Jones; buildings; stores below;
Suffer. near Jones; SOx127:6 and large S-story;
a BARGAIN: $40. 600: rents $50; Main St, below
| Folsom; 4sxl37:6: covered with 2-story build
! ings.
1875: $4,000
Rents $3.50; s22, 900; Polk, near Suffer; fine
investment; 3Oxl 10 ana o-story OuAulng' @s'ores
| and flats above.
| bet. 10th and 21st; 4Ox92:6, ana ola style cot
tage: reduced to $4,000
HOUSES AND LOTs-$2900 TO $4,000.
Cheap-$5500; Pine ST., near stockton; 39;ox
| 77:6 and two-story house, IL rooms ana nouern
Bush. near Mason. s. side: 3-story and base.
ment: modern house; rents $40; SlV'OoU;
| $29OO-hawthorne ST. (conneea6s WIZ WIZ n .DT
Montgomery st). off Folsom: 29AllS:o' ana
| large conf ortable 2.story house; IL rooms
Vallejo and octavia SITS; corner 25xllZ;o, lane, ana
very comfortable residence of rooms and every
nns Y W s3 Cav bot Lakn
and Polk: 81 :6x127 - and very comtortaoie q
story and basement house 10 rooms ana modern
conveniences: SUNNY and cheerful - -
Very cheap-Calii ornia. nr. Laguna; ~ Div 20
and very comfortable 2-story OF ~ rooms s anu
modern convenienceS; magnificent VIEW Hom
rear; only $4,000.
WESTERN ADDITION CORNER AND
INsID. LOTS, s. 900 TO $4,000.
Very cheap-S235O; Oak ST., facing the park;
near Ashbury ST. 25x100.
Very cheap-Lot 81 :6x96:s; on Laguua ST.. near
Waller, l block from Market; only $3.50
Cheap-Waller St, N. side, few feet from Mar
ket: lots 25xl37:6: only $1,000 each
$500 ea"h; 2 lots; 25xl 7:6: N. side Sacra-
mento st, bet. Scott aud De7isadero; cabe-cars
pass.
Cheap: oue-fifth cash; lots 25xl10; $1,000 and
$1,000 each; 2 blocks from cable and block from
electric cars: Frederick st near Belvedere and
Clayton: fine view and the park.
Green ST fine view Of bay: n side BEL! q r d
streetWork done; 25xl 20; $2OuO-
Cheap corner; n +. cor. waller aud LaGuna sts;
1 block from Market St Al :3xl37 70 $1,000.
Pine and Buchanan: NV. corner; 55XSl:3: both
streets sc wered and Pine ST. bituminlzed: $1,000.
Make offer; Grove and Lyon SITS: corner; 37:6x
100; $4750; desirable for residence or business.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05
Bernhardt's Stage Gowns.

Bernhardrs dresses in "Gismonaa" are. AZ
usual, works OF art. All the materials, saws a
Paris correspondent of the Illustrated Amerj-
can, were woven at Lyons after ancient designs.
The time Is about the middle of the fifteenth
century. In the first scene she wears hunting
costume of pale hortensia-pink velvet embroid.
cred In gold. In the second white dalmatioue
emoroidered WIN saints holding censers and
angels in the clouds In the third a dress of
another shade of pink. embroidered In purple
flowers and golden lilies; with this she wears n
jeweled cap on Der tawny hair. Her last gown
Is OF pale blue venetian velvet, with banging
sleeves of gold brocade. This dress is EN-
crusted with 5000 rubies. sapphires and
emeralds. All this Is OF no moment EXCEPT AZ a
means OF realizing 1.-The period" Bernbardt. I
hear. looks the part TO the life, despite her
fiftV- odd ANA
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05
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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05
DEATH OF WURKHEIM.
He SuccumbS to the Effects OF
ASphyxiation.

Morris Wurkheim. the well-known mer-
chant who was found Tuesday morning in
clearinghouse at 226 Suffer street I'M
conscious from asphyxiation. died Oh
Thursday from the effects.
While his death is probably due directly
to the asphyxiatioD, still his system was
so greatly undermined by diabetes that he
often had to lake stimulants to ena BILE him
to continue business. He had been in the
habit of taking room at the Sutter-street
house, where he would rest before going
home, as his malady kept him continually
10 a weakened condition.
On Monday night he took room, and
inquiry the next morning by his friends
resulted in his being found unconsc ious
with the gas turned on in his apartment.
Restoratives were applied, but without
avail. and he died on Thursday. The
funeral will take place tomorrow morning
at 1915 o'clock from the Odd Fellows
Hall, corner Market and Seventh streets.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05
HE WAS NOT ON.
A Chicago Bartender Who Knew Not
New Mexican Ways.

New Mexican WAYS.
The man from New Mexico and his Chicago
friend stood against the bar in one of the pala-
tial saloons of Chicago The dispenser put out
four glasses.
"where's your beeswax?" asked the New
Mexico visitor.
II am not on" responded the dispenser.
''Never tend bar in New Mexico?"
The dispenser said he never had the pleas
uTe.
Pleasure nothin'. 'Taln't no pleasure, Pm
tellin' you. It's much as mans life is
worth. But [ see you don't savoy
about the beeswax. Well. Pll tell you
how they drink in New Mexico. There's
only one thing. 10 drink-thars whisky
liquor, see? The BART ndsr sets up one
glasses. like you. He just sets UP one big
glass. Then he takes out his beeswax and
he marks the glass for as many drinks
as there. are drinkers In the. party.
marks on the glass about so far apart. Then
be fills the glass himself with liquor TO the rim
OF The glass. The first man in the party drinks
down TO the first beeswax mark, aud then he
passes the glass 10 the next man, ana he
drinks down to the second breswax mark, and
the third man drinks down to the bottom
OF the glass. 1t ain'I safe for a man 10 go be-
low his Deeswax mark. A man ID New Mexico
who'd 90 that wouldn't live long enough 10
send his wife dying request A New Mexico
man might rob stage coach. but lie wouldn't
drink below his beeswax mark. Got any
water?"
'.Oh. yes. Plenty of water"
well, set Ter up. And If there's anything
extry for 1t Pll pay the cost. Say-this Is the
all-fii eldest town / was ever In. The Idea OF
set in up four glasses for two men TO drink
outen. reckon there amt another town on
earth where such 'stravagance is seed."-Chi-
cagO Herald,
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The Great Work Is F;n,sbed-

thousands OF our readers are still calling
Ior the portfolios of Picturesque Cali
fornla" necessary to complete their sets.
We trust that no one who has taken few
portfolios will allow this splendid oppor-
UNITY 70 pass without securing the WORK
Joaquin Miller ana many others have said
70 the nnest publication devoted to Cali
IoInla's magnificent scenery and great and
varied industries.
ionr children want 1t. and you want IL,
ana no California home should be without
It.. Better go at once to The CALL Branch
Of11ce. ITO Market street, anc complete
your sets; o2ly 10 cents for each portfolio.
lake few parts each week until com plete
u not convenient to secure all at oncea
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the pit, who had taken off his wig 10
wipe the sweat from his head. had placed
the wig for while upon his large DOG,
who stood facing the stage with MS lore
pa VS. resting on the pit ratings"
This is as good an example as couid De
found to contest the foolish assertion that
all laughter has its rise in something in
evitably lowering to human nature 1t was
pure incopgruity.
The French tell US that sic rire est n.y.
gieEique." We knew that even before
they made the phrase, but it is well TO nave
their confirmation OF the fact. Salubrious
Why, of course it is. For what purpose
else did our wise forefathers keep certln-
Gated fools to make sport for them at their
meals and in their intervals of business, or
more methodical pleasure-seeking ALI
the Year Round.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05
China,s Old. Soldiers

Nowhere are old soldiers so distinguished az
10 CHINA. In 1880 the Emperor Kiane-Su
issued proclamation, which read in bari az
follows: ITO thank heaven that ii has allow d
US TO reach The age OF 20 years, we herewlth
raise aii active soldiers OF the eight banners of
Mancburia and Mongolia TO the rank ~ the
nobility. To those who have passed fourscore
we give IN addition piece of silk, ten meas
ures OF rice and ten pounds OF meat Those
VINO nave passed their uineteth birthday ale
70 receive double measure in each case ,,
Wnen the crack regiments of the Chinese army
contain men almost century old, it is not so
n S.ina 10 understand the successes OF the
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05
SECOND AUCTION SALE.
Disposal of Large Number of Boxes
of Oranges.

The second auction sale of oranges took
place yesterday. In all $50 boxes were
disposed of. Fancy navels brought So 35
per box. with the exception of few off
sizes. which sold for ST 60. Choice fruit
of the same class brought from 81 40 to
So %. while culls averaged from 81 So to
81 so.
Florida growers are now rushing their
crops to market, and this has had a ten
dency to keep down prices, in spite of the
fact that sucn large portion of the Flor
Ida oranges were destroyed in the recent
freeze.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05
Repeated by Request.

Rev. K. P. bennett, S.T.B.. by special
request OF the official board of Simpson
Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church.
will repeat tomorrow evening, at z 80
o'clock, the Thanksgiving address deliv-
cred at the union meeting at Howard
street Church on Thanksgiving day. The
doctor has some advanced views on some
OF the social questions of the day and their
relation to The church.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05
PRISONERS LINED UP.
Hunting the Weber Murderers in
the City Prison.

at noon yesterday Captain Lees had
the prisoners of the City Prison at the
new City Hall lined up for inspection by
a Sacramento detective.
He was looking for the murderer or
murderers of Mr. and Mrs. Weber, who
committed that horrible deed on Saturday
last in Sacramento.
None of the prisoners tailed with the
description which the detective evidently
had, as he dismissed them with great
rapidity. 1t is thought that one of the
murderers came to this city on Sunday last
and that the police have pretty thorough
description OF him. although they are
kee ping the matter very quiet.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05
Accidentally Shot.

While patrolling his beat in the Rich
mond district yesterday morning Police
Officer Henry j. Pyle met with painful
though not serious accident. Ris hat
happened to blow off and ne ran after it.
On STOPPING to pick it up his coat caught
the hammer Of his revolver in some way
and exploded the weapon. The bullet
en- tered the calf of his right leg.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05

Mclaughlin, who is charged with assault
TO murder for shooting at Louis Cordes,
was called in Police Court 5 yesterday
morning L. d. Rordap. his attorney,
moved to have the case transferred to the
United States court as the prisoner was a
Government official. A continuance was
taken until Tuesday. in order that the
court might consider the matter,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05
Why He Died.

At the inquest on the body of Arthur
Walsh, who received fatal injuries on De-
cember 26 by falling off a streetcar, the
Coroner's jury decided yesterday that the
decessed's death was due to cerebral
heDlorrhage, caused by the violence of the
fall.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05
SUDDENLY SUMMONED.
7. j. de Puy Found Dead at the
Golden West Hotel.

L. j. de Puy. an attorney of Seattle. was
found dead in chair in the Office OF the
Golden West Hotel on Ellis street yester-
day afternoon about o'clock, and the
body was taken to the Morgue. The de-
ceased took room at the otel on the 28th
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05
The Dynamite Scare a, the Presidio

Prisoner Smith, who created the dyna-
mite scare at the Presidio few days ago.
has been removed from the guardhouse
and placed in the isolation ward of the
hospital.
Smith has been In confinement over four
months. and has been doing hard labor
under charge Of q sentinel during that
time. but has not yet had his charges read
to him nor been tried. which is without
precedent
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05

PURE materials are half the battle in
the struggle for good housekeeping. No
kitchen agent can compare with DIR.
Prices Cream Baking Powder.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05

SUPPos E 1T DOES Cost ONE DOLLAR? Don't
be penny wise and pound foolish" through TAX
ing for your Cough medicine that you know
nothing about when one of long established repu-
tation and proven quality like DR.. ID. Jayne's Ex-
pectorant can be had.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05
Laugh and Grow Fat.

Garrick was In the midst of tragedy
when suddenly he stopped and roared with
laughter. What was the cause? Why,
simply this: "A butcher in the front of
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05

SEARCH the wide world over and you
can not find a rival to DR.. Prices Baking
Powder.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05

WoULD'sT breakfast in luxury? See
that DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder is
in the food
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-05

Want 1t in the United States Courts.
When the case of Special Agent Major
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NISCELLANEOUS'
REAL ESTATE.
FOR SALE BY
Tl0s. MageG & Sons,
Real Estate Agents
And Publishers Real Estate Circular,"
REMOVED TO
4 Montgomery ST.,
UNION TRUST BUILDING, COR. MARKET.
NIscELLANEOUS'
Real Estate Agents
REMOVED TO
4 Montgomery st.
sTMENTs $3.50

UNION TRUST BUILDING, COR. MARKET.