The morning call., 1895-02-09

Sykes, attends to the social functions of the
family and goes fox-hunting with the Prince of
Wales.
Sir Tatton occasionally hunts small birds,
and in his younger days was a great steeple-
chaser and stag hunter. OF late years his
health has not been the best, and he is content
with the lighter amusements, such as looking
on while the others ride. No man in all Eng
land knows how to cook birds so well as Sir
Tatton, but being rather of dyspeptic turn of
stomach he seldom eats them. A peculiar
thing about him is that he dimes with his over
coat on and eats the plainest food which he
insists must be cooked certain way and that
way to be his own.
"This interviewing business is quite new to
me. suppose you fellows must have q jolly
time and hear strange things he said, as he
leaned forward foot or two and increased his
pace TO the dining-room, into which he disap-
peared with his overcoat Tapping loosely about
his six foot four of person.
zone of the old landmarks of stockton has
about disappeared through the Improvements
demanded by the city's interests" said George
F. Tyler at the California yesterday. sit is the
old cemetery, which lies just east of the rail
road, and where the bones of the dead have
moldered for many years The work of dis
interment has recalled several events which,
in their character. One of the bodies taken up
was that of Nancy Lee, the wife of the famous
circus-rider of that name, and who was killed
in Stockton many years ago through the de-
struction of platform by an elephant The
remains of young man named Brooks, who
was shot in Sonora early in the fifties, was also
resurrected. The skull of the latter contained a
valuable set of gold teeth, which some by
stander, with irrevelant cupidity, appropriated
to his own uses. The land is to be used for the
erection of a number of residences"
A. NJ Gates, who resides near Oroville, was at
the Russ yesterday. He gives an account of a
singular lapse Of memory on the part of resi-
dent in that locality by the name of Pitts, who
over thirty years ago buried several hundred
dollars in gold previous to a somewhat pro-
tracted visit in another neighborhood. When
he returned he found that he had forgotten the
spot where the money was buried, and the in
tervening years have been spent in a fruitless
endeavor to locate the lost treasure. During
the past summer neighbor who owed Mr..
Pitts a small amount desired the latter to take
a couple OF hogs in payment thereof, TO which
he somewhat reluctantly consented. A week
or more after the porcines had been roofing
around in Mr.. Pitts premises they unearthed
the lost gold and that gentleman now speaks
of the occurrence as striking illustration OF
"hog luck"
W. B. Short, gentleman just down from
Plumas County, and who was at the New West
ern yesterday, says the people of Gibsonville
had great sport at their snowshoe races on Feb
ruary l and 2. "Some of the contestants in
these snowshoe races develop great speed, !"
said he, "and are remarkably adept ON the
shoes. The latter are made especially for
racing and are carefully creased to facilitate
speed. Great crowds gather to witness the
sport, as it has become fixture in the locality
mentioned"
Rev. Mr.. Eugene Bell and wife of Louisville
KY, are at the Occidental They are on their
way to Korea to join the missionary contingent
sustained there by the Lutheran Presbyterian
church. Mrs. Bell is a daughter of Rev. T.
d. Witherspoon, one OF the most eminent
| divines in the South. The couple leave on the
Ocean TunSdav naxt