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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15
CRIMSON PINE TREES.
This Singular "EvcrGrcen" Is Found
I'm flte Newest Ae.Nets

The very latest material for autumn and
winter blouscs IN satin velvet or silk
plush. printed In Oriental designs. which
have a richness and a beauty unattainable
in foulard or nuns yelling, so fashionable
during the summer. IL is almost impossi-
bic 70 render by words TO the mind what
the eye discovers In this delightful new
fabric. The Persian designs, where blue
and gray predominant. are most distingue.
the pine being reproduced in every size
and tone. In one Of those designs, where
the pattern is picked out in crimson, and
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15

Cards. .,.ii-iiea-s. ss@s~.-enls. Letter
te..t- NoIe-ae.4s. IiTeu-AIs. HandblllA
I,..,,-,rs- A., yg.aleo w me Dispatch
COMPANY al low prices Vim give you
gosd work at same prices you pay for
Interior WORK. Send US your orders and
we win guarantee satisfaction In every
ma rticular.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15
INSTEAD OF PosTAGE-sTAMrs.
A New scheme That Is "a he Tried
by the German Postal Authorities.
lPhnadelphla Recordl

A novel system Of paying POSTAGE or
letters. so-called postago-adde3." has
been accepted by the German postal au-
thorities. The new apparatus Is INTENDED
to save labor and time to such firms o.
individuals as have a very large business
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15

A new lead for deep-sea sounding car
ries a cartridge which explodes on touch
ing the bottom a submerged micro
phone receives the sound and tie depth
is estimated from the time occupied by
the lead In sinking to the bottom.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15
DO NOT GIVE ADVICE.
She May Regret Her Actions bu'
want Take Your Advice.

Sometimes II Is the wise "oIds ot an
infant thai impress US NOR tnai' ,, 49,
carsfuilv thought out by the sage. There
fore This morning we quote the words
Of the most innocent Of mothers who has
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15

Rousseau declared that IAN Idle man in
the community is a thief" This Is rather
hard upon the gentlemen Of elegant lei
sure and may explain why only plated
ware Is used at the fashionable dinners
o. the season in always suspicious vanity
fair
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15

The length Of the day varies in DIFF
ferent places In London the longest 10y
has sixteen and a han hours at St.
Petersburg, nineteen. and in Spitz5ergen,
the longest day lasts three months and
a half
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15

Tramps In Holland are put In cistern
which has a pump in the bottom. Water
Is turned on In sufficient volume 10 keep
them pumping brisky TO keep from
drowning. One dose is generally suiii-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15

Nervous prostration is naturally the re-
suit OF the recent stupendous social event,
and the fashionable physicians with tner
soothing presence and bread pills. are
very huSy
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15

Sensitive finger covers are now used
They are made of thin rubber finn and
protect the skin from chemieal stains
while retaining the sensibllity OF touch
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15

A collection OF over 100 Saxon and Me-
rovinian coins found at Crossdale. In
Hampshire. In ISIS. was recently sold IN
London in one block for s., 40.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15
A QUEER RESIDENCE.
Invited Guests slept In bookcases
chiffouiers, and WnrdrObes.

There Is not bed to be seen in the
house. There vas the Oriental room, with
a great. low divan There were TWO large
wardrobes, but apparently no bed In the
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15

n vingless angie. l think 1t Is scripture,
isn't IL. which says, there is t'me ana
a place for all things? AT all events
the saving Is true as Scripture
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15

revolutionize to a great extent the pres
ent system OF selling stamps.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15

OLD papers for sale At the p,spascs
erce.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15

Blotting pads are now made from
porous stone.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-15

,hat one must admire even while won
dering.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-18
WAVE WASHED ISLES OF THE SEA,
Glowing Tribute Paid Hawaii by a
Visiting American Attorney.

BEAUTIFUL LAND OF DAY DREAMS.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-18

HGNACIO SEPULVEDA- the new club rep
resent hundreds of millions of the mon
ey that the people of the United States
have furnished toward the development
Of Mexico's resources. The club, despite
its brief term of existence, is already a
power for good and is ranked with the
Mexican Jockey club, the Spanish, Ger
man, French and other alien clubs of
the city.
The club was the natural outcome Of
the steady growth Of American in1u-
ence and American interests in Mex
leo, and in 90 days from the time the
project was decided upon, the founders
Of the club, with true American enter
prise, had completed the organization
and housed it in one of the finest club
houses in the City of Mexico. The build
ing occupied was formerly the mansion
of General Pedro Rincon Gallardo, gov
ernor of the Federal district, and one of
the handsomest private residence build
ings in the city. 1t has a spacious orr
entail court and is entered by means of
broad stairways of Italian marble.
Every room is light and airy, and there
are numerous shady hooks and tempting
balconies. There are billiard rooms, card
rooms, reading rooms, library, dining
rooms and rooms for ladies, and on the
roof is bowling alley. Every Wednes-
day is ladies' day, when the fair Ameri-
cans and many of their darker Mexican
sisters visit the clubhouse and are enter
tanned with true American hospitality.
Gambling is not allowed in the club,
and one of its most important bylaws is
that at least 70 per cent of the members
shall be American citizens.
The president of the club is Ygnacio
Sepulveda, a we'll known attorney at
law and Mexican government claim So
hcitor. He was for some time promi-
nent citizen Of California and is an ex-
judge of the Golden States supreme
court. The late Minister Isaac Pussy
Gray was an honorary member of the
plub
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-18
BUILT FROM A BowLDER.
A Church at Waterloo, Ia, Constructed
From a Single Solid Rock.

A Church at Waterloo, Ia, Constructed
From a Single Solid Rock.
If the full story of the huge stone
that recently lay partly imbedded in the
earth near Waterloo, Ia, could be told,
it would doubtless prove very fascinat-
ing reading and an invaluable contribu-
tion to scientific literature. Ages ago
the mammoth bowlder, weighing near
" 3, 900 tons, was detached. from some
mountain, perhaps thousands of miles
to the north of Waterloo, and fell upon
one of natures great stone boats, a gla-
cier. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the
gigantic mass of snow and ice moved
south with irresistible force, carrying
the 5000 ton monolith with it as easily
as a boy would carry pebble on his
sled. As the climate grew warmer and
the glacier wasted away beneath the
warm kiss Of the sun the monolith was
finally deposited upon the earth. Since
then seven feet of blue clay, six feet of
sand and eight feet of rich, dark soil
have been deposited around it.
Not long ago the Presbyterians of
Waterloo decided to build a church.
Stone was scarce in the vicinity, and
covetous eyes were turned toward the
great bowlder that had slipped practi-
cally intact from the grinding arms of
the glacier and battled successfully with
the storms and upheavals of ages. Ma
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-18


ture had been unable to rive the great
stones rugged sides, but ingenious man,
with the aid of sledge, drill and pow
der, soon split the massive bowlder into
small sections, which were used in build
ing the Presbyterian church at Water
loo. There was more than enough stone
TO build the whole church, and the
walls would have consisted entirely of
the powders fragments had not a de-
sire to vary the monotony in color re-
suited in the choice of few stray stones
of varying hue.
The edifice, however, is practically
built from the riven monolith, and is as
handsome as it is substantial Small
powders have been frequently used for
building houses, but Waterloo seems to
possess the only church constructed
from the fragments of a glacial mono
18th. The pedestal of the statue of Peter
the Great stands on !, 800 ton granite
bowlder at st. Petersburg, and near
Fall River, Mass, is a huge rock weigh
ing about g. 400 tons.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-18
Ireland Is Poor, but Provident.

Ireland, if poor, is provident. Ac-
cording to the banking and railway
statistics, there has been n very large
increase in savings during the year
1894, the total amount in the savings
banks in Ireland being close on e., 600, =
600 in December, 1894, as compared
with &C, PIC, 600 for 1898. The actual
increase is e74O. 900 for the year, fol-
lowing an increase of cas-, 900 in the
year 1898 and an increase Of e239, 600
at the close Of 1892, as compared with
Decem Der, 1891.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-18

ready has nearly
250 members and
possesses a mag
nifcent C In b .
house that has
been fitted up at
an expense of
$40, Fully
$50, 900, of
American dollars
are invested in
Mexican rail
roads alone, and
the members Of
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-18

Company F says under no cir
cumstances will their mascot be
deprived of the stripes he has won
for faithfulness. In case the COM
pauy is successful in the shooting
contest their mascot will be pro-
NOTED to sergeant Immediately.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-18
mEMco's AMERICAN CLUB.

It Represents Hundreds of Millions of Yam
kee Dollars Invested In the Republic.
The American club Of the City @
Mexico is only four months old, but al
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-18

Government OF Infant Republic in the
Hands or Conservative, Disnified,
scholarly Men Republicans All.
Schools Under American Management.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-18
Roctfftc n urdware 0,

Did it occur to you that we may have
just what you want? That it will save you lots
of running around town to direct to
store?
If you cannot spare the time ring up tele
phone No. Is. Give your order and we will
that you get just what you want
Our clerks all responsible men and can be
relied upon to send what you require
If you are located on one of the other Islands
we respect your orders and give them the same
prompt attention.
Recently have greatly enlarged stock
in each department and fell justified in asserting
that whatever you may need we can supply you
PACIFIC HARDWARE GO.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-18

The Gazette issued every Tuesday
and Friday.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-18

The Fourth Estate In Parliament.
Ten editors are members of the Eng
lish parliament.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-24
She Is an Artist, and Chats
Entertainingly About
Partisan Art.
QUARTER LATIN DISCUSSED.
Dress and Dirt, Students HauntS and
the Value of Bohemian
Training.

The bohemian paradise of Paris is the
old Quarter Latin. 1t has not suffered
much at the hands of Baron Haussmann
and his architectural transformation, en-
acted in other parts of Paris. 1t is here
that the old-fashioned ideas of bohemia
noise and frolic-prevall. 1t is quite
peopled with painters, but these latter are
not the only students. This quarter also
shelters budding lawyers, doctors, pro-
fessors and savants and litterateurs, many
of whose names will some day become
world renowned. A good deal of turbu-
lent fun and practical joking goes on here.
There are many short-lasting liaisons.
Every Jack has his Jill, but as rule it is
a very willing Jill. 1t is very easy, being
her code of life, for her to replace an old
memory by new love.
French life is different from any other.
Elsewhere you do as the world pleases
here you do as you please. Your spirits
always rise in Paris. The life of the young
artist here is the easiest, merriest, dirtlest
existence possible. Money is always at a
low ebb. The annual income or allow
ance of most artists is a mere pittance ::
consequently "borrowi ng" has become one
of the old and well-established social
archives of the Latin quarter man is
apt TO be looked upon with suspicion if he
never hOrrous
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-24
- ~ -

The new student is exposed to all sorts
of demands upon his hberality for drinks,
flowers, etc., and he often regrets for weeks
afterward the money he has expended so
layishly upon these women. l know one
such.
He had accepted girls invitation to
pay her "bock' and she had taken it.
The waiter had brought all the saucers of
her previous drinks for a month and he
had to pay $7-his pocket money for two
months. 1t might have been his bread
and butter. In many cases it often is. OF
course he was furious, but that made no
difference. He couldn't take off his coat
to fight the waiter or the girl. He had to
pay dearly for his FRESHNESS" That was
all. Sometimes the lesson is long In learn
ing. When it has been mastered the girls
let him alone. Another swlndle lies in
the bouquets purchased from the venders
who infest the night restaurants. You
may have to pay for her bouquets for the
past month also.
After midnight the fun runs fast and
high. Then people appear who have not
seen Paris by sunlight for twenty, thirty
and even forty years. 1t is at this hour
that the cafe is frequently tramped through
by company of students, marching in
single file, one behind the other, the line
sometimes extending for furlong. All
are shouting and believing. The word
monome is the students term for such a
procession,
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-24
STRANGE If TRUE.
The Apparently Impossible Occurs at
the Island of Gamma.

The Apparently Impossible Occurs at
the Island of Gamma.
In September, 1892, the daughter of the
blacksmith in Gamma, an island of the
HebrideS, was wandering on the shore,
gathering driftwood for fuel, when in q
small bay about hundred yards distant
frcm her fathers house she picked up a
piece CT wood bearing the inscription, cut
with a knife. "Lachlan Campbell, Bilbao,
March %, 1892, )" says Goods Words. On
taking it to her mother she became con-
cerned, as this was the name of her own
son, who was boiler-maker in Spain, and,
as would be the case with most people,
certainly with Highlanders, she could not
get over the superstitious dread that this
message from the sea was the harbinger of
evil tidings regarding her son. The family
of the proprietor did its best to calm her
terror, exhorting her to wait for an ex-
planation.
When writing to her son she told him of
what had happened, and was greatly re-
lieved on receiving q reply assuring her of
his well-being, but was astonished to learn
that he perfectly remembered how when
on holiday he had written, as described,
on piece of wood and had idly thrown it
into the sea from rock near Bilbao. We
all know the power of ocean currents, and
need not be surprised at this piece of wood
having been carried about for SIX months,
but the marvellous and, except for un-
doubted evidence, the incredible circum-
stance in this case is that this piece OF
wood, after its long drifting, should have
been washed on the shore within hun
dred wards of where the writer's mother
lived. and that it should be picked up by
one of his own family and taken home.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-24
.sse ~ ~

Another artistic idiosyncrasy shows
itself in the matter of dress. 1t has al
ways been q fad with artists to give express
sion to their principles by adopting some
distinctive costume and fleeing from
cleanliness as they would from leprosy.
Their hands are never rubbed save with
imaginary soap. Their fnger-nails serve
as paint boxes.
But there is reason for the horrid dress
and appearance of many artists, both men
and women. 1t may rise from lack of
shame or act as a sort of bluff. "Poor
fellow! he an artist! Why, he will never
amount to anythingr' is the encouraging
phrase from his friends. This attitude OF
your friends gives you certain defiance.
All the business portion of your world are
scornful of your success. To them the
pleasures OF the Imagination do not balance
plain dollars and cents. They do not
understand your revelings in the beauties
OF the mountains of Southern Spain.
So YOU say, 81 will be superior" and
YOUR garments try to indicate that superb
ority. You feel that dapper appearance
is against you, and in place of art you
cultivate the accessories OF art in the fol-
lowers of the Dusseldorf school. You don
corduroy Jacket and trousers and slouch
hat You wear your hair long. Your gait
is hating and your shoulders always
slouched. Though this school Is dying
out, one sees every VI COllIuIc IildJ
has ever been known-rlngiets are scented
with tobacco, straight locks are laved with
oil. Boards are always in disheveled
condition.
As for jackets, we'll, fancy all that you
have ever seen, and even then you would
find surprising cuts here. Trousers are
spotted with drops of oil: There are all
sorts of caps from Chinese cap to
striped worsted nightcap, which does duty
by day as well as by night. That head
gear The top hat is rarely seen within
the sacred precincts of the art corner of
Paris. Professors wear them, and on
Thursdays the college boys when led out
IN flocks for an airing. But often these
men do something more than be guilty of
boyish mummery and, however we may
take exception to their liberties and ques-
ton their worth so far as the growth of
art is concerned, it is nevertheless true that
they labor from morning till night at de-
veloping their art and practiclng their
theories and we should rejoice.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-24
lanes B. Olcott En- Route to
Australia to Collect Seeds
and Sods.
is SENT GUT BY HIS STATE.
What California Should Do With Her
Overlooked Lands" Greening
the Deserts.

James B. Olcott of South Manchester,
Conn.,, who has been for many years in
charge of the State Agricultural Expert
ment Station there, is at the Russ. Mr..
Olcott has for years been devoting much of
his attention to raising grasses, and he has
an enormous photograph with him show
ing hundreds of kinds of grasses in plots
at the experiment station. Some of these
grasses have been obtained from Korea,
Japan and other parts of the world, but the
larger nun ber of them are those produced
in the United States, or at least on this
continent.
Mr.. Olcott has been in California before
in connection with the securing of grasses.
He is now on his way to Hawaii, NewZea-
land and Australia. He has never been in
any of these coun tries, and believes that
his researches and collection of seeds and
sods OF different kinds of grasses will be
particularly valuable.
He is sent at the expense of his State,
which, he says, is far in the lead in its ex-
periments regarding grass, and will remain
at the Antipodes several months.
Australia is great country and has in
it many English graziers," said he, ''and [
want to get over and see them and see
bne native grasses. Inc EnSnSn nave pdlQ
more attention to grass-growing and the
proper handling of livestock on it than any
other nation.
Over eighty years ago a book was pub
| lished in England on the various grasses,
/ the subscription price of which was 500
| guineas, and there is nothing better pub
lished at this day. About 100 years ago the
Duke of Bedford began on his landed pos
sessions the first notable experiments in
grass growing and his line since then have
continued it. | think the experiment. of
] the English Government are now being
carried on on the Bedford estates.
California will do we'll to give more at
tention to the raising of grasses. You
have lots of overfowed lands which some
day will be put in grasses. They are the
| hest lands you have. Grass of some kind
or other will also be grown on the now
| desert wastes. / had talk with w. III.
Mills of the Southern Pacific Railroad
some time since about this. He fully
recognized the value OF 'greening' them.
1t is a great field for research and expert
ment. Nothing is impossible with the
right kind of grasses and proper care, but
the grasses must grow into the affections
of those who raise them.
81 expect to ship both seeds and sod
from Australia and cultivate them"
Mr.. Olcott has probably had more ex-
perience in grass-growing than any other
man in the United States. 1t has become
the passion Of his life.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-24

Is bread-and-wa diet necessary for
generating a great artlStF A question
more often answered by the meagerness of
the purse than by the higher choice of the
stomach. Somehow we expect an artist
to be always wearied and detected. This
attitude seems to go best with high think
ing and poor living.
At the same time there are many who
suffer in silence and only reveal their dis
tressed condition 10 one as poor as them
selves. They starve to buy the few books
and the small amount of paper necessary
for their studies. There are others who,
unable at times to pay few sous for shell
ter, walk the streets at night. This occurs
sometimes among the American students.
But this is not the acme of suffering.
Upon the earnest and sensitive student
who has no allowance whatever and must
depend for the necessities of life upon his
own exertions the moral sufferings and
material privations leave their traces on
face and mind. The brain, constantly oc-
cupied with the worry of material wants
and the grinding chains cf economy, can
not act unhampered. Poverty ard priva-
tlon Kill the Imagination a. well as under
mine the constitution. There are many in
this unfortunate condition.
But for him who has no thought for the
morrow lack of ducats is quite another
story. When his allowance comes he
blows it all in, often upon Jill and her
friends, and then staryes in a philo-
sophical manner. He is never without his
tobacco, however. Sunday comes and he
can only show one sou in his purse. Then
his friends step in and rattle some painting
for him. This week be is the unluckiest
one. Next week he may help 10 swell the
fortunes of another unlucky one. And so
this life of luck and chance - on
Sometimes they sell their embryo paint
ings at the numerous little picture-stores
in this quarter but it is not profita BILE
and prices are extremely low.