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plant on the top of some large building at q
cost of less than $4,000 that would be OF suf-
fcient capacity to furnish every building in
the block with power TO run electrical motors
for Illuminating, pumps to supply all the
buildings with pure water, elevators and Ill
kinds Of machinery; besides, a current OF air
could be provided for carbureters containing
gasoline buried in the ground that would fur
nish the cheapest and cleanest fuel in the
world, with no risk whatever.
Ii it was possible to introduce such an enter
prise it would create new industries and new
wants and give employment to thousands OF
idle men.
If any plan can be devised that will cheaper
the cost of our necessities. light, heat ana
water besides cheap power for manufacturing,
the conditions are more favorable tor the ma
jority and better for the W hole community, as
the money saved the laboring man leaves him
more to spend in trade.
Compressed air perhaps is the coming power
that will even relegate our ponderous loeomo-
tives to the scrap-pile.
The use, Introduction and development OF
electricity has interested and absorbed the at
tention of most of our inventors to the exclu-
sion of every other field. Electricity is won
derful, but then lots of it can be made by
using the wind for the purpose. Perhaps these
few lines may induce some one to think over
the subject 1t is said an idea is never lost to
the world, but it may slumber long time be-
fore it is acted upon. DAVID B. JAMES.
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spection and organization of Druid lodges in
Southern California.
Andrew Young, business man of Virginia
City and chairman of the Board OF Supervisors
OF that place, is at the Russ.
h. B. Ewing, representing the international
Manufacturing Company of Providence, is
stopping at the Cosmopolitan.
George H. Warfield, son of General. ..Warfe eld
and cashier OF the Healdsburg Bank, is down
for visit, and is at the California.
Thomas Browning and wife and James Fill
more and wife of Boston, rubber goods manu-
facturers, are guests at the Cosmopolitan.
G. F. Downs the proprietor of the electrical
power plant at Sutter Creek, came down yes
terday and took a room at the Occidental.
Thomas r. Minturn, Ward Minturn and G.
R. Minturn Jr. of Minturn, Sacramento Valley,
are in town and have rooms at the Occidental.
Captain William E. Doughterty, U. s. A., sta
toned At the reservation near Round Valley,
is here tor few days and is registered at the
Occidental.
James O'Neill, the actor who begins two
weeks engagement at the Baldwin tonight,
arrived at the Palace yesterday and registered
with his wife from New York.
c. A. Silberster. wine-grower OF Esparte,
connected with the Orleans vineyard and a
member OF the California Wine-growers' Asso.
ciation, is at a downtown hotel.
Lawrence Fahey, Deputy Attorney General of
New Jersey, is on visit to his uncle, Major
William Fahey, proprietor of the Cosmopolitan,
and will 60 from here to Portland next week.
A. L. Wyllie, County Clerk, and John j. Sny-
der, Prosecuting Attorney, of Calaveras County,
are in the City for short visit. They have
rooms at the Grand and are registered from
San Andreas.
Among the citizens of Fresno that arrived in
town yesterday are 7. C. White, A. V. Lesceeby
and o. J. Woodward, registered at the Lick.
ana w. F. Torsey and w. A. Washer, registered
at the Occidental.
Richard A. McCurdy, president of the New
York Life Insurance Company, accompanied
by his wife and by Mr.. and Mrs. Robert H.
McCurdy and three servants, is back at the
Palace, after visit to the Del Monte at Monte
rey.
E. A. Mott Smith of Boston, Mass, son of the
former Hawaiian Minister to the United States
during the reign of Queen Liliuokalani, arrived
from the East last night and will remain at the
Occidental until the next steamer leaves here
for Honolulu.
F. S. Phelps and wife, willard Wilson and
wife and George A. Denham, Boston party on
an extensive trip through the United States In
the special car Boston, returned tc this City
yesterday, after run through the Santa Clara
Valley. They are at the Grand
H. S. Marcy of Belmont. Mass, father OF Will
liam Marcy, the local agent of the Pennsy-
vania Railroad, arrived yesterday on visit to
his son. He is accompanied by his wife and
his daughter, Miss K. Marcy of Bridgeport,
Conn. They are staying at the California.
]. p Craig and wife, young couple married
yesterday afternoon in Woodland, arrived last
night at the Grand. The groom is the son. of
Lee D. Craig, the Montgomery-street notary.
Miss Craig, sister of the groom, ard ]. d.
Stevens, a relative of the proprietor of the
Highland Springs, accompanied the party.
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
UNLIMITED POWER.

How THE WIND MIGHT BE UTILIZED TO DRIVE
THE MACHINERY OF THE CITY.
To the Editor of the San Francisco Cdl-SrR:
Very few people ever think that here in San
Francisco we have the most reliable and avail
able power for all purposes known. 1t is
simply the constant wind that blows in from
the ocean over our City, sufficient ana a
tn ousand times to spare to supply all the
motive power required in the world. It's
source is everlasting Its possibilities are be-
yond comprehension and will afford food for
thoughtful investigation.
Five thousand years ago the Egyptians made
use OF the wind to pump water to grind their
corn and Tor other purposes.
Only think for moment what can be ac-
complished by the currents of the winds, on
which there are no riparian rights to fight or
that no monopoly could claim or control.
They are free for all and cost nothing. Wind
engines OF any capacity could be erected at
elevated points to drive airpumps and COM
pressors; the compressed air can be stored in
large receivers and be distributed like gas and
water to all who require power for any pur-
pose, even to generating electricity for illu-
minating purposes. 1t could be used in plan
ing mills, furniture factories foundries, ma
chine-shops, elevators in buildings, printing
offices, for pumping water-in fact, everything
that power is used for, with no danger from
fire.
believe Impossible and feasible to construct
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with ice the greater part of the year is not
sufficient to explain the enormous expen-
ditures required for the transcontinental
railroad. Of late Russia has been show
ing finely gloved, but none the less pow
erful, hand in various quarters. She
checked the aggressive English sentiment
that was stirred up by the Armenian
atrocities, and that episode quickly flat
tened out, leaving Russia as Turkeys
friend. Just now the Russian Minister to
France has successfully demanded that the
French Minister of Foreign Affairs be re-
quired to resign because of his conduct in
Northern African affairs, and we are in
formed that the same Russian Minister is
to be quartered at Nice with LORD Sails
bury to watch the progress of events on
the Red Sea.
Such an alliance between Russia and
Japan, as Marquis Yamagata's expedition
seems to indicate. would be an essential
part of Russia's ganeral policy to become
the dictator of Europe. That the Cars
great nation, hardly yet emerged from a
savage state, should use the weakness of
Turkey and the strength of Japan in for
warding her ambition presents as curious
study as does the independent struggle
of Japan to make western civilization pay
dearly for the benefits she aims to secure.
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JAPAN AND RUSSIA.

That the Imperial Government of Japan
should send SO imposing a delegation to
the approaching coronation of the Russian
Czar should be a matter of considerable
interest to Europe, the United States and
China. The delegation, now at San
Francisco on its way to Russia, is
headed by Marquis Yamagata, the fore
most soldier and diplomat of Japan, and
additional respect is shown to Russia by
the inclusion of royal prince in the suite.
1t will be noted with interest that the del
egation is making a considerable stay in
San Francisco, the nearest point of the
United States to Japan, and that the dis
tinguished Japanese visitors have selected
the longest possible route to st. Peters
burg.
1t might be assumed that this choice
presented a far more diversified and inter-
esting trip tnan the one by way of the
Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, as it will
take the travellers through the heart of
modern civilization. Japan is eager to ac-
quire knowledge of the great world whose
inspiration has begun to stir her energies,
but at the same time she is seeking prof
liable outlet for the products of her over
MIA has felt the initial pinch of that
pressure. While the adoption in Japan of
American and European processes of man
ufacture will result eventually in modify
ing the squalor of her working hordes by
enabling them to live better on the unac-
customed profits which they will enjoy,
every good thing which will come to them
will be yielded up by the workers of the
competing countries. We may be sure
that Marquis Yamagata Will not neglect
his duty to his people by failing to take
minute notice of existing opportunities
for extending their markets. He is taxing
long rest in San Francisco.
Meanwhile Russia is steadily pushing
her trans-Sioerian railway eastward to the
Pacific, and China is wondering what is
to be the final fate of Seoul. Russian
possession of a Pacific port which is blocked
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Postmaster Willet, and is to be put into opera
tion with the consent OF the Postmaster-General
and the cooperation of the Weather Bureau.
Twelve stamps constructed with view to the
new work have been ordered, and as
they are received they will take the place of
the old ones.
The new stamps are very much like the old
one, having been considerably enlarged in
order to give space for the insertion of the
weather forecast. In the outer ring there a re
four spaces into which will be set the type
predicting the state of the weather for the fol-
lowing day. These type contain the following
words: "Colder, warmer, frost, cold wave
in position will make an impression similar to
the reproduction below. The new scheme is
expected to meet with much favor, and before
long all the postmasters in tn large cities will
probably be asking for the stamps containin
the weather forecasts. The stamps cost St
each, and as from 200 to 800 of them would be
needed for the principal postotfices OF the
country, it will require considerable sum tC
supply them.
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A MYSTERIOUS MOUNTAIN.

For the last half century the American resi-
dents of Tucson, Ariz., have been irving to
solve mystery in the shape OF what appears
to be hole through a mountain peak in PLAIN
sight from the town. In the clear raritied air
it looks to be only short distance away, when
in reality 1t is at least forty miles. The
earliest residents noticed the phenomenon,
and the only difficulty that lay in the way of
finding out just what it was was the fact that
it was inaccessible, and when they came any
where near the spot the hole disappeared from
sight. In fact, it can only be seen from within
a few miles of Tucson, and this has led many
people to believe that it is not hole at all.
By the aid of good marine telescope the
mountain can be brought to within few
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PROBABILITIES STAMP

The Washington Postofflce is soon to inaugu-
rate new feature in the way of stamping
letters, says the correspondent OF the Brooklyn
Eagle in that city. All mail matter received
at the postoffiee for distribution will, in addi-
ton to having the date and time OF its receipt
placed on the back OF it, contain forecast of
the weather conditions for the following day.
This novel scheme originated in the brain of
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30
AN ATTRACTIVE COSTUME.

The waist shown here is especially adapted
to making very handsome parts of costumes.
or separate waists, because the box-pleats are
separate and CAN thus be made OF different
material from the material of the body.
For gown of green taffetas, black chiffon Tor
the body will be found stylish contrast, max
ing the box pleats and sleeves of the SILK to
match the skirt.
A gown OF crepon is pretty made with top
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Miss Flora lin pair OF stupendous sleevesl-
How do look, Ned
Ned Tapturously,-You're simply unap-
proachable.-Boston Transcript
Mamma, honest it wasn't me ate up all that
cake-it was Bobby" ''Well Dick, bring me
the cathodal kodak and I'll see at once which
one of you is guilty."-Chicago Record.
"Don't you admire the old English authors
Miss Louise?"
"Oh, very much; they furnish such lovely
quotations for menu cards. ."-Chicago Record
''Wouldnt you oblige," said the reporter
who gets novel interviews, "by telling me
what book helped you most in life?" And
after thoughtful pause the great man
answered. "My bank book. k."-Family Call.
Mr.. speckilate-Awfully dull in the wheat
pit to-day. Buyers and sellers didn't get to.
gether at all.
Mrs. speckilate-Why don't they mark it
down and have bargain sales-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
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cALIFoRNIANS SAIL FOR EUROPE

NEW YORK, n. Y, March 29.-Among the
passengers who sailed on the steamship Ems
for Genoa was J. 8. Bunnell The Campania
had among its passengers for Liverpool Mr..
and Mrs. Julien Liebes.
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SAN FRANCISC0'S TRADE.

The volume on the commerce and navi-
cation of the United States for the fiscal
year 1895, issued by the Bureau OF Sta
tistics, shows some very interesting things,
summarized in the following comparative
statenpn of narcan ta uas.
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The campaign this year will not be c
struggle for protection, but general ratl
fication OF the principle.
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G. H. Woods has demonstrated the
growing importance of Templeton by es-
tablshing an educational paper there
called the Public School Reporter.
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dustry in the northern part OF the State is
shown by the starting of the .Sn,elter at
keswick by Kenneth w. Millican and H.
G. Harvey-Wray.
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FOREIGNERS IN THE WAR.-A. S., City. Dur
ing the War OF the Rebellion the number of
natives OF Germany enlisted in the Union
army was 176, 800; natives OF Ireland, 144,-
200
A PHILADELPHIA FIRM-Anxious City. An
swers to correspondents has no knowledge of
the firm named in your communication You
trusted your picture to some concern of which
you did not know anything, probably because
it offered to do the work of enlarging cheap.
Unless you have some friend or acquaintance
In the place where this concern did business,
who would look after the matter, your chances
of recovering your picture are very small.
AT THE TRAcKs-P. G., Crescent City, Cal.
The California record for half mile is 4714
seconds. No charge is made at either OF the
racetracks for stalls, but TO send horse here
and have him trained would cost the owner
about $50 month. Horses frequently work
out halves in 49, and 40 seconds. 49-horse,
half mile would be of no at either track in
this City unless he is a two-year-old as half
mile dashes are no longer given Tor aged
horses.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC EARNINGs-W. S. P, Au-
burn, Placer County, Cal. In 1887 the gross
earnings of the Southern Pacific was $50, ,732,-
131 O3; the operating expenses, $23, ,305,-
1O8 90; earnings over operating expenses,
$15 427 022 50. In 1888 the figures show:
$40 699.615 II: $3O,7Os. .676 O3; earnings
over expenses $15 ,990,939 IA. In 1889, $46,-
343,307 So; $50, ,304 ,365 rs; earnings over
expenses, SIG OBS, ,S42 IL. In 1890, S4S, ,201.-
994 IT; $31 ,007, ,729 81; earnings over ex-
penses, $17, ,196. .265 10. In 1891, $5O,449,
815 SO; $3I 1853, GIL "a; earnings over oper-
ating expenses, $19 .2S6, ,2O3 o. In 1892, $48,-
972 I95 20; $31, ,2SS, 1877 27; earnings over
expenses, s17 ,6S3, ,995 90. In 1893, $4S,049,-
54S 80; $50 $50 244 90; earnings over ex-
penses, STATS, ,304 &c. In 1894, $44, ,772,-
0O3 "a; S29 4O5, 736 20; earnings over ex-
penses, $15 1856, ,267 04.
THE Town TALK--C.,. City. THE MORNING
CALL YVES not built upon the ashes OF the Town
Talk, as you suggest in your communication.
THE CALL was established by five journeymen
printers-James J. Ayers, Llewellin Zublin,
Charles F. Jobson, David w. Higgins and Will
liam L. Carpenter. The first number OF the
paper appeared December L, 1856 The Town
Talk appeared for the first time November 8,
1854 with the following announcement:
Town Talk published every morning. except
Sunday, by A. 5. White and w. II. Mantz, 121a
cents per week. Office at Still & Wood l55
Kearny street. between Clay and Commercial.
Printing office at Maiden lane between Washing
ton and Jackson and Kearny and Montgomery
streets.
The first issue measured twelve inches i'll
length by eight 6nd half IN width. March
90, 1855, it passed into the hands of 2. P. Hull
d Co and enlarged, and the publication
office removed to 129 Washington street,
in Montgomery block, near Montgomery street.
In September, 1857, it was merged into the
San Francisco Times and lost its identity.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

Glney should have at least vigor enough
to haul the Cuban question off to one side
before tie campaign opens.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

Cleveland may settle the Cuban ques-
ton this week, provided he does not de-
eide to take a fishing trip.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

Even the free trader is not as bad a foe
TO home industry as the lottery swindler.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

T. D. Fennessy, ]. NJ. Scott and w. n.
Jackson have bought the Haywards Euen-
ing Mail and are making high-grade
daily.
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If PETER is right senatorial funeral is
only another name for junketing tour.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

The festivals will be holidays for the
people. but money will have to circulate
Just as hard as if business were rushing.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

Some of these Democratic Presidential
possibilities might get move on if Keely
could make his motor work.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

The Healdsburg Tribune is now eight
years old and full of vim.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

Up to date Democratic enthusiasm re.
mains barreled up and waiting for a bung
starter.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

Gold has never yet relieved man of the
whisky habit half as completely as whisky
relieves a fellow of the gold habit.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

Do not put Off taking spring medicine. Little
ailments if neglected will soon break up the sys
tenn. Take Hoods Sarsaparilla now to expel
disease and give you health and strength.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

1t requires no Roentgen ray to expose
the inside of Rainey's politics.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

The early bird in the East seeks worm
and finds a blizzard.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

The people will have an easy way tc
follow straight road to honest politics by
Joining the Republican procession.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

The famous old mining district of Julian
has bright paper called the Banner, pub
lished by B. A. Stephens and II. H. Saw
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

The Valley Mirror of North Ontario gives
evidence of prosperity by enlarging to
eight pages.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

The thing which Will make Democracy
sweat most this summer will be the effort
to drag the tariff out of politics.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30
Mrs. winslow,s soothing syrup,

Has been used over so years by millions of mothers
for their children while Teething with perfect sue
cess. It!soothes the child softens the gums allays
Pain, cures Wind Collie, regulates the Bowels and
is the best remedy for Diarrheas, whether arising
from teething other causes. For sale by Drug
gists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask
for Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup. csc bottle.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

The Saturday Vasitor is a bright weekly
that has been started at Woodland by Rob-
ert Lee.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

Belisarius, the Roman general lost his
eyes through dust thrown into them dur
ing siege.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

The Moreno Indicator is justly proud
because it is wholly Of home manufacture.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

All the people of Inyo County are glad
that the Register, upon beginning its
twelfth volume, gives continued evidence
of success and usefulness.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

Observation-Disclosures is perfectly dry, soft
and mild, and is entirely free from the ndsts COM
mon further north. Round-trip tickets by steam
ship, including fifteen days board at the Hotel del
Coronado, 500: longer stay 80 so per day Apply
New Montgomery st., San Francisco.
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CAI1roRNrA glace fruits, soc lb. Townsend,s $ .

SPECIAL information daily to manufacturs:s
business houses and public men by the Prssi
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

If we had known Mr.. Depew was coming
we would have had the festival season
hurried up a little so as to be ready for
him.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

Wilmerding and Lick are good pair of
public benefactors, and tneir schools
might as well stand together for mutual
benefit.
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CURRENT HUMOR.

"Thcre, there said Mrs. Blue-Myrrh, pick
ing up her little boy, who had stubbed his toe
don't cry. Be a man, like mamma. Indian.
apolis Journal.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

A good many of our Eastern exchanges
begin to show signs of being edited by
Presidential bureau that thinks it has the
gift Of prophecy.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

A bill has been introduced into the Mas
sachusetts Legislature requiring all money
received for liquor licenses in cities and
towns to be turned into the State treasury,
and while the rural delegates speak of the
bill as an act OF virtue Boston SCOTS at it
Indignantly as an attempt at petty larceny.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

Peffer's bill restricting expenditures for
Congressional funerals would find more
support from his colleagues if it would as
sure them against having funeral at all.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

The only way for Democracy to get a
Presidential candidate is to give guar
antee that whoever volunteers to lead the
forlorn hope this year may have another
trial in 1900.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

We have already six frst-class battle
ships built or building and the new appro-
priation bill provides for four more,
making ten, but Captain Mahan, who
knows more about the influence of sea
power in determining the result of wars
than any one else. says we should have at
least eighteen, and the chances are he is
right
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

While eighty per cent of all women who
attain manageable age elect to marry
and have home of their own, only
twenty per cent OF college-bred girls are
willing to take the risk, and it would seem
they regard their learning either as a eau
ton or else as a self-suficiency.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

Cleveland's objection to middle-aged
ladies riding the bicycle has not led to any
attack from the ladies, so the conclusion
is clear that none of them feel themselves
included in that class.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

Zibzab-Mozrig, you're lazy. Why don't you
try to get up with the lark every morning7
g-'Twould'nt be any use; Pm no good
at climbing trees.-Roxbury Gazette.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

Charles C. Harrison, Provost of the
University OF Pennsylvania, has just given
u that institution the sum Of $500. 600 to
establish twenty-seven scholarships, the
object being to group around the univer-
sity number of men devoted to the ad-
vancement of leaning who will live
among the students and exert an inffu-
ence in the direction of higher scholar
shin.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

The naval appropriation bill as arranged
by the committee of the House provides
for one battle-ship and one torpedo. boat
TO be constructed on the Pacific Coast, ''if
the cost is not excessive" but there is no
such provision in regard TO those to be
built on the Atlantic Coast. This does
not look like a square deal, but perhaps
our shipbuilders can meet the conditions
and win out anyhow.