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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-08-21
SKETCHES BY M.QUAD
The Stony Of . Trunk.

The Stony Of . Trunk.
was baggageman ON passenger
train on the c., b. and @. read for five
years before came east, said the one
story man with the yellow goatee. "In
my day no man on the face of this earth
could beat me at trunk handling, and I
got the name along the route of THE
Destroyer. expect did smash few
hundred trunks yearly, but I wasn't
half as bad as they tried to make me
out. had curious notion about new
trunks. never got hold of one that I
didn't just ache to smash it, while I
handled the old ones with all mothers
care. think got malicious about it,
but the feeling was beyond my control /"
"And WHAT queried.
well, one day ON the run up to Chi
cago there came aboard particularly
overgrown and particularly handsome
Saratoga. was mad that day anyhow,
and no sooner got hold of chat big
trunk than I saw way to work off my
bile. AS soon as the train got under way
and had checked off my numbers took
off my coat and vest and went in for a
row with Saratoga. I banged her and
slammed her and Knocked her about and
jumped ON her, and in the course of Is
minutes she was the saddest wreck you
ever saw. By and by, when got cooled
off, began to wonder how could ex-
plain the damages to the owner, and
while thus engaged it seemed as if some
of the contents scattered about had
familiar look"
Eyes, I'm listening"
81 gathered them up and hunted up
the end of the trunk to look for name.
I found certain initials which sent cold
chills up my back. wasn't dead sure
yet, but was feeling like fool, when a
woman came into the car, saw that
wreck and uttered a wild shrek"
"She was the owner, Of course?"
eyes, Of course"
"And how did you get out Of the
scrape?''
II never got out of the scrape. I'm in
it yet. It is thrown up to me every day
of my life. Z"
"Then the woman was"-
"My wife? Yes; she was going up
to Chicago on visit, and, unbeknown
to me, had planked down $2S for that
Saratoga to pack her buds in. I had
tackled and wrecked our own family
property, and though I have bought her
silks and satins and diamonds since
then she won't let up on me. 1t got out
among the boys, and just had to leave
the road. It got into the papers, and
have to leave Burlington. Say!'
"Well?"
~Never mind, though. I'm ont Of the
railroad business and running butcher
shop, and it won't hurt me to have the
story republished. If it does, I must
stand it. I'm chump, and chumps
have no rights which newspapers are
bound to respect. You needn't even try
to make it easy for me, for my wife has
so newspaper articles about it in
scrapbook, and every time get little
off she points to that book and says:
Young man, come down. You are
the chap who knocked the stufing out
VT trunk which cost you a months
wagesr"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-08-21
Fauntleroys Return.

Years elapsed.
They sometimes do.
"Bah Jovc-aw!" exclaimed fat,
irregular looking individual in London
made clothes boosting himself painfully
down the gangplank of the English
steamer and looking around with dis
satisfied air, "but I think it<-aw--a
blooming beast1y country, doA't yoa
know, aud ALI thatw
Then he went back to London.
1t was Little lord FauntseFpS -ts'
Rock4ahd TribuiiA
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-08-21
Undue Exertion.

Ragged Haggard-Blame it all, WabA
bly,! Dere ain't no rest for de weary
nowhere any more.
Wabbly Walker1-Wat's de matter
now, podner?
Ragged Haggard-W'y, I went to
sleep ssttin on de fence, and de top rail
broke, and, darn 1t, was obliged to fall
to dc ground zuAIifa
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-08-21
particulars In Hin Wants.

Just before reaching the North Caro-
lima line came Upon asquatter's cabin,
with the squatter himself smoking his
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

Grated we will call the four square.
Since there are eight points to the cube
and each point has its first and its second
position the four square has sixteen points.
Each point generates line making eight,
and each of the twelve lines of the cube
has its first and second position, giving
twenty -four, which with the eight gener-
ated by the points makes thirty-two lines
in ALL Each of the twelve lines generates
surface and each of the six surfaces has
its first and second positions, making
twelve more, or twenty-four surfaces in all.
Each surface generates solid and the
solid itself has its first and second posi-
tions, making eight solids in all. The
! four square consists of these eight solids
! cubes, twenty -four surfaces squares, thirty
two lines and sixteen points. Were such
an object introduced into our Spaceland 1T
/ is evident that single eye would see only
a cube A space of one dimension, line,
is bounded by points. space OF two d!-
mansions, triangle square or polygon, is
bounded by lines. A space OF three dlmen-
sions as a cube is bounded by surfaces, and
an object of four dimensions is bounded by
solids. With a single eye in Pointland
one could see nothing. There is nothing
to see. In Lineland a single eye can see
! but points, in falkland only lines and
points, in Spaceland only surfaces, lines
and points, and in land of four dimensions
the eve can perceive. solids, surfaces, lines
and points. As each section of line is a
point, each section of plane is line,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
Due1ing in France May Cease.

Should the bill drafted and submitted to
the Cham Der of Deputies by the Able Lee
m1re become law, as seems probable, there
is little doubt that dueling in France will
soon become a thing of the past. By its
terms dueling becomes misdemeanor.
Whosoever takes part as principal in a
duel is liable to from one months to one
years imprisonment and a fine of from
lOOf. to 1000f. Should a duelist succeed in
wounding his adversary he will be liable
to from three months to three years.
imprisonment and fine of from 200f. to
1000 francs, and should he kill him, the
punishment is to be from one to five
years imprisonment, and fine of from
1000 francs to 10000 francs, says the Lon
don News. Nor is this all, for the mere
sending of a challenge is to be punisha-
Bile offense, and seconds and spectators,
and even the papers which publish the
particulars respecting duels or challenges,
will bring themselves within the clutches
of the law. 1t is significant of the state of
French opinion on the subject that even
so determined an opponent of dueling as
the worthy Able does not propose to make
the killing of man in duel willful
murder, as in England.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
The finest Collection
n ][L.t4I15 in California

ture is kept even. And the German gar
dener, who knows all the Latin orchid
names by heart, sees that the fires never
go out.
These particular orchids, also, are very
susceptible to onslaughts of insects. The
German gardener has to look very care
fully on the leaves to see that no ugly
thing. bred in this atmosphere, is allowed
to suck the life fluid from these green
veined leaves.
This is the sort of care these plants have
had for six years. In preceding springs
there have been few scattering blossoms,
but this year the Manila orchids decided
that Alameda was not half-bad place to
live, and as they had come to stay, they
might as we'll make the best of it and
bloom a little. And so it happens that
there are HOO eXquisitely perfect Phalan-
opsis flowers III one corner of the Siegfried
conservatory, mixed with pink dendro-
BRUINS hanging from the ceiling in orchid
baskets, and that all the countryside, the
flower laymen, are coming to see and adj
mire, as well as the men whose trained
eyes see beauties in what to other people
are merely ugly green flowers with brown
spots.
There is a worship of orchids, similar to
the Japanese feast of the fruit blossoms,
that is the fad in Alameda just now.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

variable and obtain the equation of the
bounding surface of the solid in which
they intersect. Lines intersect in points.
Surfaces intersect in lines. Solids inter
sect in surfaces, and fourth dimensional
objects intersect in solids.
Again, let represent a line. az will
represent surface, an area of a square, of
which one side is e.
13 will represent the solid contents of a
cube, one edge of which is g. Now, what
does "a representa- Either it has no
geometric meaning, or else it represents
some function of the fourth dimensional
object which we will call four square.
Whatever that function is it is to solid con-
tents as solid contents is to area or as area
is to length.
A creature of Lineland cannot have less
than two points or bounding surfaces and
must have at least one line.
A Flatlander cannot have less than three
lines, or bounding surfaces, and not less
than three points. A Spacelander cannot
have less than four points, six lines and
TOUR surfaces. And a fourth dimensional
creature cannot have less than five points,
ten lines and ten surfaces
We will now consider some of the prob
able relations deducible from analogy be-
tween creature of any dimension and the
dimension below him. He can enter or
leave the world below him; that is, appear
and disappear at will, and that without
changing his form. However near he may
be he remains invisible to the world below
him until actually in it.
He can be in closest proximity to the
world below and the beings in that world
and yet outside that world altogether and
therefore invisible.
From his dimension he can see the in
side of every living being and thing in the
world below him.
| When he enters the world below he can
never be completely seen, and that part Of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
MISSION RESIDENTS TALK
They Want a Park That Will
Be a Public Comfort and
Beauty.
Additional Cars Placed on the Va
Iencia-Street Line to Accom-
modate Travel.

Mission residents want a park. They
believe their section has been built up and
beautifed by private efforts to such an ex-
tent that there should be some public ac-
acknowledgement in the way of public COM
fort at the hands of the City. The prop
erty-owners have planted shadetrees
around their homes and otherwise i'm
proved their section of the City, but the
so-called park set aside by the City lies IN
an uncouth condition, with no one to fur
ther its identification except few prop
erty Owners, who, from time, to time re-
quest the City to pay more attention to the
public resort.
According to the Mission Journal the
tamale man made his appearance and is
doing a rushing business in the outlying
sections.
Last Friday evening, at the free public
reading-room recently opened by the Theo-
sophical Society, paper was read by Miss
Clara Brokman on "Theosophy in Daily
Life"
Next Friday evening, at the same place
a lecture will be given by Mrs. M. NJ
Thirds on "Our Many Lives on Earth"
To-day the delegates who attended the
Epworth League Convention at Los Gatos
will report.
Sunday-school classes taught by E. J.
Brigdon and Miss Speakman will give an
entertainment in Twin Peaks Hall, Friday
evening, May 3. The orchestra of the
Sunday school will assist in the entertain
ment.
The pastor of the church and C. W.
Coyle, editor of the Epworth News, are
arranging for an excursion party to go to
Chattanooga and other Eastern points over
the Union Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul routes, leaving San Francisco
June 10.
Excellent progress is being made on the
new Second United PRESBYTERIAN Church
building. When completed the main Sun
day-school will move into the basement
leaving the little structure now used for
the primary department.
Fl. L. Dietz Jr. and A. J. Kuykendall
two enthusiastic cyclers of the Mission,
have Just returned from a weeks outing
near San Jose. They covered the distance
between San Jose and Oakland on their
way home in two hours and half.
Owing to the increase of travel in the
Mission Manager Vining has ordered eight
more cars to be put on Valencia street.
This will cut down time between trips to
minute and a half. 1t is also the man
ayers intention to increase the number of
cars on the Mission-street line as soon as
possible.
Twenty-fourth street. from Castro street
to Hoffman avenue, is being widened six
feet. Three feet of this space is being cut
from the sidewalks. AS the street was a
team could not pass between the tracks of
the electric line and the sidewalks The
work is being pushed forward and will
soon be finished.
Another cement sidewalk is being added
to the Mission list. This one is being laid
on the southeast corner of Nineteenth and
Valencia streets.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

wood enough in it for a whaleboat, and the
movements of it's ponderous wheels and its
cordaeg were measured ,dignified and labor
ious. When it struck at midnight its tones
awoke half the mariners in the city and on
still day the chucking of its pendulum
was audible to wayfarers in the tranquil
streets. But the old clock began to behave
very queerly recently. 1t skipped stitches
IL time. and out of time mysteriously, whis-
tied, clattered and grunted and one after
noon, in the midst of fog, it suddenly
stopped with long b-r-! s-h! Ithad never
done such a thing before in all its long
career; hence everybody wondered what
was up with it. Afterward it was learned
that time was up with it. 1t is the rule in
New London when in doubt to send man
aloft. That is to say, if there is such a
thing as loft belonging to the municipal
ity. In this instance an agile sailor for 81
quickly Skinned up the tapering steeple
and disappeared into the wooden recesses
of the timepiece, while watchful crowd in
the street below held its breath with con-
Germ as to his safety.
The bold sailor, after half dozen mo-
ments of anxiety on the part of the crowd,
reappeared on the outer wall of the steeple
and slipped down to the street as uncon-
cernedly as tree toad. He reported the
sum total of his experiences to his en-
ployerS.
''It's all OWN to the burned pigeons"
he explained. AS near as he could calcu-
late about two dozen city pigeons had been
roosting on the clock beams and bars for
several years. "Seems as if the old clock
had got pretty blamed tired of the hull
gang" he added, specially since some O.
the checklist pigeons have taken to mating
on the internal small wheels and cogs,
sorter ridin' round on 'em in a new kind of
a merry go-round. Finally" continued the
sailor, cit appears that big pigeon got
himself mixed up with the gearing of the
hour hand, an was sliced into pigeon pie"
That was on the day the old clock choked
and gasped and stopped. "There ain no
use tryin' to fix her up" continued the
nautical examiner, "fur she's clock-a-
block, an there amt no more go in her."
Nevertheless, the New London Town
Government having taken the matter into
consideration, at special meeting, rue
fully, but with affectionate unaninity, dis
patched more accomplished expert a
landlubber, it is true, up the steeple, and
after an hour or two, when everybody be-
lieved he was lost. he also came back with
a verdict verifying the sailors. On the
strength of the experts decision, but with
a pathetic reluctance, the Town Govern
ment has rendered judgment that the town
must have a new clock.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

somewhat after this form: There is an al
most universal belief in a soul and in a
hereafter somewhere. Now, where is this
hereafter to be spent and what is the soul
These are questions that are difficult to
answer; but is it not reasonable to believe
that heaven is all around and about this
space and that the soul at death becomes a
four -dimensional creature, able to go and
come, appear and disappear. at will. For
more than twenty centuries evidence has
been accommodating that beings of a
higher order than humankind do oc-
casionally appear among men. The great
bulk of such evidence is not worthy of
credence. Yet much has been written,
both in the words of divine writ and in
profane literature, of supernatural arrivals
and appearances. Have these witnesses
all been mistaken? Does no traveller e'er
return from that bourne? All the accredited
appearances of beings, apparently from an
other world, have been in the likeness of
beings of this world. All that has seemed
supernatural about them has been their
method of arrival and departure. They
have been apparently untouchable. They
were acquainted with means of escape I'M
known to men. What has become of the
souls of the untold millions that peopled
this earth in the centuries that are past?
Did they migrate across Infinite space to
worlds unknown, or are they here around
and among us? If near us why do not our
senses perceive themP Why, indeed, I'M
less they are of higher order than human
ity and in the space beyond them.
The question may arise, Is spiritualism
then reasonable? Can individuals from a
higher world step in among men and out
again at their own volition?
Before considering this question it may
be well to say that the assumption of such
a space and new direction by mathema-
ticians does not argue the real existence of
such a space; or even granting its real
existence, it does not follow that it is peo-
pied by beings formerly of this world or
| that it is peopled at all.
The spiritualst makes capital out of the
tender memories of mankind for their
dead loved ones. To the man whose home
has been made desolate the medium
appears as ministering angel and tells
him that for stated sum he can obtain a
message from his dead wife, father or
brother; tells him that the dumb lips may
be induced to speak words of love and
comfort The spiritualists have seized
upon the fourth dimensional assumption as
hypothesis upon which to base their
articles of faith. The fourth dimension
theory has its use in mathematics and the
theorems of geometry based upon it are
undoubtedly true. This, however, does
not prove that such a space exists any
more than we can show that the square
root of minus Quantity is an actual
quantity, but it does show that we can
make the assumption i'll mathematics
without fear that by its use an error will be
produced in the result.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

There is a conservatory in Alameda
where a man has for his private edifica-
ton finer collection of orchids than can
be boosted of by any other single owner
on this coast.
The man is J. G.. Siegfried, and he spends
money like water and time as though life
was eternity-and all over orchids. For
tunately he is wealthy enough to crafty
his fad, and as business takes him fire.
quently to far Eastern shores he looks up
new and brilliant varieties of the parasites
that grow, crimson-throated and purple
dyed, on great trees under moist East In
dian suns.
The Siegfrieds have kept no account of
the thousands of dollars that they have
poured into their orchid house. Some
rare specimens, brought from the very
heart of deepest iungles, cost several hun
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
BOATING AT THE PARK.
A New Feature Among the Amusements
at Golden Gate Park Last
Sunday.

An amusing little episode occurred at
the Casino Canal at Golden Gate Park last
Sunday. 1t appears that Chinaman
came up and inquired the charge for one
boat. The boatman replied 25 cents, but
to his great surprise four or five grown
Cinnamon and half dozen little ones
were produced. The whole crowd were,
however, slowed away in the boat and
safely sped around the canal. They
seemed to enjoy the ride just as much as
the American. To be, prepared for further
invasion from China large ark has been
built the past week and several small boats
have been added. Not only will the delay
that has occurred several SUNDAYS be pre-
vented, but the usual May-day crash will
be accommodated. The reconstruction of
the canal has served to double the speed
and materially add to the pleasure Of the
ride
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

tute the outside four terminal points. the
angles and one space The number of
points has been doubled over what it was
in the line. We have line for every
point and two lines for every line of the
first figure. Also we have a space for each
line.
Now, let the square move in a nav direc-
ton, up it will generate the cube" Each
point will generate line and each line
will generate two, making in all twelve
lines in the cube. Each point will gen
crate two, making in all eight points each
surface OF which we have but one will
generate a solid and two surfaces and each
line VIII generate surface, making in all
has one solid, six surfaces. twelve lines
andseight points. Now suppose the cube
to move in an entirely new direction at
right angles to all three of the direc-
tons OF space. The new object gen
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
A Sensible Woman.

If reports are true ex-Queen Liliuokalani
has accepted the situation philosophically,
and is really enjoying herself in her en-
forced retirement. She is posing neither
as martyr nor as political prisoner with
the hopes of release and advancement.
The fact is generally getting abroad that
Mrs. Dominis is sensible Woman.-Balti-
more Herald.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
Miss DaIy,s Recital.

matinee recital at Laurel Hall on May II at
8 P. M. She will be assisted by Miss Ella "
McCloskey as contralto soloist and male
quartet, consisting of Messrs. Coffin, Rice,
Parent and Ward, and other local talent
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

Glasses of people
those who are saving and those who are
not.
The big difference between the prices at
our factory and those the retailers are COM
PEELED to charge will buy other necessities
and comforts for the economical; more
Injuries for the lavish spender.
Shoes built for you-built on honor
with due regard to Madam Fashions
whims.
If $3.50 buys an exceptionally high grade
Ladies Russet Shoe-of unusual beauty of
style and orkmanship-willy you pay $3.50
to $500?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
PIGEONS IN THE CLOCK.
They Interfere With the Town Time
piece of New London.

piece of New London.
A quaint moon-faced, steeple clock, high
above the street, in the tower of the an
Gent First Church of New London, Conn,
had kept time for the old whale town for
half century and had been about as faith
full and true as the sun, says the New York
Herald. The clock was of old-fashioned,
liberal architecture, heavily timbered with