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ems she loved best. How very strange in Rollin to send such valentine as that to Jennie, and make the choice he did for her!
 Poor Avis! It was almost impossible to give attention to her history le!son after that; and she came as near mak- ing a failure as she ever did. It did not help her to notice that Rollin Bain- bridge looked over at her with symIa- thy, not only, but real distress in his eyes. The boys from his department were excused just as Avis was hurrying down the walk; and began hAs eager conversation.
 'Oh, Avis! I have been trying ever since recess to, get a chance to speak to you. Do you know there has been horrible mistake? I sent you a valen- tine this morning; one that I know you could not help liking; and sent one other; and by some horrible blunder put them into wrong envelopes, and Jennie Hadden got the one which should have gone to you,'
 Then, indeed, was Avis Denning's face red! The blood seemed to be fairly bursting through it's veins, and her eyes llaSneu lnQlgnatlon.
 And did I get the one which was planned for Jennie Hadden! Thank you for telling me; should never have even for moment believed such thing if you had not told me yourself When I thought it was for me, I only felt that it was piece of school-boy rudeness, intended to be funny; but since it was planned for Jennie, with her poor crooked eyes and unnaturally large feet and hands, and homely hair, see that it was meant to be mean and cruel. How any boy who respects himself can descend to the meanness of caricatur- ing schoolmate for defects which she cannot help and is in no sense to blame for possessing, is more than can inn agine. I burned the wretched thing; you owe me thanks for so much, any, way. Poor Jennie will never know how she was to have been insulted, unless you are generous enough to tell her! And for you, Rollin Bainbridge, I want to tell you distinctly that you are not the boy I thought you were. If you care to know what think, I will say frankly that am disappointed in, and ashamed of you
 And then Avis walked on fast, leav- ing Rollin Bainbridge standing in the middle of the street staring after her like one who had been paralyzed with amazement, possibly with shame.
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A Tame Butterfly.

We have heard of tame fieas and per- forming midges, but the following au- thentic story of tame butterfly, told by French lady, has novel elements in it:
 T found in my garden a. magnificent butterfly, quite numb with cold Talk ing it into the house and putting it into a box for two hours revived the little thing. Then dipped its antennae in a solution of syrup and sugar, and con tinued this Urea tment for three days. On the fourth day the creature fluttered on to my hand and sucked the liquor of it's own accord, and after this it be- came perfectly tame. I put flowers in my room, and it fed on them, and was perfectly happy. When it sat on the table I could pass my finger down it's back without the slightest fear the but teray might take to wing. Tn fact, it arched it's back as does a cat when it is pleased. After three weeks of perfect tameness it's colors faded, it's wings shrivelled up, and it died.''
 What next, one wonders? A butterfly arching it's back when stroked by a human hand is surely a phenomenon that seems to give promise of all kinds of possibilities. Scientists and variety artists take notice.--W Westminster Ga- zette
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Hungary by the affair of Dr. Karl Pulsky, well-llnown expert, and di- rector of the National Art gallery of Budapest. He was intrusted with the duty of buying artistic masterpieces for the approaching national celebra- tion, and before long it was discovered that he had been paying extravagant prices for all sorts of unauthentleated and worthless canvases. To save Q scandal his relatives asserted that he was insane and procured his eommittal to an Insane asylum. The opposition leaders, however, saw good chance for an attack upon the government, and investigated Pulsl1y's private life, discovering, without difficulty, that he had been living for years in a pronigate manner far beyond his means. An ex- animation of his accounts in the Minis try of Fine Arts exposed a long series of defalcations. Thereupon he was in- dicted for embedding about $1 800, ,000 His family, meanwhile, rallied to his support, declaring their belief in his insanity and their readiness to make good any financial deficit. His brother, August PulsSy, was especially bold in his defence, expressing his readiness to meet all accusers on the field of honor. It looks now as if the doctor will be con sidered insane enough to stay in the insane asylum for awhile.
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Tho Home of the satans

5 af
 The greatest natural wonder in Java, and is called an island because the great emerald sea of vegetation which surrounds it gives it that appearance, if not in the entire world, is the justly celebrated "Gheko Kamdka Gumko," :" or "Home of the Hot Devils," known to the world as the Island of Fire, :" This geological singularity is really a lake of boiling mud, situated at about the center of the plains of Grobogana, The ''island' is about two miles in cir conference, and is situated at dis tance of almost exactly fifty miles from Solo. Near the center of this ge- ological freak immense columns or soft, hot mud may be seen continually rising and falling like great timbers thrust through the boiling suhstratum by giant hands and then again quickly withdrawn. Besides the phenomenon of the boiling mud columns there are scores of gigantic bubbles of hot slime that fill up like huge balloons and keep up a series of constant explosions the intensity of the detonations varying with the size of the bubble. In times past, so the Javanese authorities say, there was a tall, spirelike column of baked mud on the west edge of the lake which constantly belohed a pure stream of cold water, but this has long been obliterated, and everything is now a seething mass of bubbling mud and slime, a marvel to the visitors who come from great distances to see it, London Public Opinion.
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RAYS,

If there is anything in a young man the Roentgen rays should bring it out. -Yonkers Statesman.
 Out of Practice.-She-Wh don't you talk to me as if you loved me? He (absent- -minded)-I'm so horribly out of practice!-Detroit Free Press.
 Foreman Gin charge of building new prison wing)-I tell you what, Gafferty. you won't know this place in a year from now. Convict No. 671-I hope not, sir!-Puck.
 Master-How was this vase smash ed, Mary? Mary-If you please, sir, it tumbled down and broke itself. Master -Humph! The automatic brake again -Tid Bits.
 ate.-Father-Why did you permit young Mashman to kiss you in the parlor last night? Daughter-Be- cause I was afraid he'd catch cold in the hall.-Harlem Life. In Kansas.-"That was a powerful interestin' debate at the nttery society last night" What was it about ?'i Whether the microbe was more inju- rious than the cyclone. Pluck.
 Consoling Reflection.-Lot's wife had just looked back. At any rate,'' pant ed Lot. flashing a tear from his eye in hurrying on, lit has cured her of being too fresh"-Chicag Tribune
 Hotel Proprietor-Why did you let that countryman climb the stairs in- stead of taking the elevator? Clerk He'll be so out of breath that he can't blow out the gas-Harper's Ba- gar.
 Mir. Sanford-Is the old lady who is talking to your father so earnestly your grandmother? Freddie-That' S what she is Mir Sanford-On your mothers side? Freddie-Yep, every time,-Truth.
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are by no means the only ones A bod ice is a coat if it has tails or hip skirts to correspond with the rest of the waist, and if it's sleeves are all of one material and match the rest of the coat. The second material of a coat appears in the waistcoat or the front over which the coat opens. To set on skirts of a second material and to have sleeves that are not like the rest of the coat is to make a mongrel affair that Is padchy and neither one thing or anoth- CT. The line between coats and jackets lis so indistinct that the two terms be- come almost interchangeable. But "coat" has a better sound, so even such a bodice as that pictured here should be thus styled It was sketched in nut brown cheviot. had a back that fitted like a glove and was worn over fitted vest of brown velours that fastened at the side. It's loose fronts were trimmed With bias folds and buttons, and the high stock collar was wired. Straps showed at the cuffs, and a very pale Ihlue satin lined the jacket fronts. The accompanying skirt was banded with a bias fold of the goods little below the knees, and coming from this band was a series of tabs that were ornamented with buttons. FLORETTE.
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Advertising Rates.

Situations, Wants, Rents and other small advertisements One Cent Word each in- sertlon. Five cents word for full week (seyen times)
 Display Advertisements-Per inch, ono tii- sertion. Sl.20; each subsequent insertion, 4O cents; one week, S3.3o; one month, Slo; one year, $40.
 Obituary notices, in prose or verse, l5 cents per line. Notices of bi ths, Marriages, Deatns and Funeras, 50 cents each. Local notices, 10 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immedite business (all matter to be unob- jectionable), and their contracts do not 1n- clude Wants, 10 Let, For Sale, etc.
 Discounts-0n two inches or more one month and over, 10 per cent; on four inches or more. one month and over. l5 per cent.
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'I was very much disappointed to- day" said Mrs. Northside, when her husband came home from the office, What about?" Ut was fine after noon, and ! thought I'd return Mrs. Hawks call" And she was out, was she? That was too bad" NO; she was in."-Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele- graph.
 A Refutation.- -"There, doesn't seem to be a great deal of money in stories, {" remarked the young man with literary aspirations,
 That's where you are palpably mis- taken" replied the architect, Just go out and take look at that seven-story building I have been putting up."- Washington Star.
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FASHION NOTES.
Have a Coat to It.


 Coats are to be of all kinds and of all materials, for the coat is to be as pre- valent as were the shirt waist and the passing fancy bodice, so if you are making over your last years dresses, keep this in mind: coat it is, and coat it is to be. The change is a good one, first, because all changes are good, since they are either Improvements or serve to teach the value of the thing given up. In this case the coat has all the advantages of the long popular fam ey waist, and has besides some good points of it's own. It is a relief from the rather run-into-the-ground waists and blouses; next, the coat is open to adaptation to all sorts of figures more successfully than was the round bodice waist; finally, the coat adapts itself to a greater variety of materials than did the fancy waist.
 The coat shapes are to dominate the styles so completely that it Is unwise to make up new material in any other way. The Louis XIV. and XIV. styles
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AN ENTERTAINING EXPERIMENT.

That is a very interesting experiment which is being tried on the Great West ern railway in England in order to smooth the path of the producer" It is two-fold in it's character. In the first place, the company has offered to grant lower freight rates if it can be as- sured loads Of at least three tons for a car having carrying capacity of ten tons. In other words, if the pro ducers will aggregate their consign- ments, so as to send them in bulk, the company will charge a lower tariff. In the second place, the company proposes not only to carry farmers produce at lower rates, in the circumstances nam
 ed, but to collect and distribute it as
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-19

Official statistics show that the wealth of the country in 1850 was $7, 135, 7S0, ,22S; in 1860. sl6, 6,159 S06, 900; in 1s7O sSO, ,O6s 51s, 507; in 1SS0 s43642, ,000000; in 1S9O s65,- 037,o91, ,197 Dividing this up among the people in this country at the periods named the official statistician finds the per capita of wealth as follows: In 1850. S3O7; in 1860, S513; in 1870, s7T9; in 1880, SS7o; in 1890, s1,O35. The value of man. ufactures and farm, fisheries and min eral products he finds to have been as follows: In 1S5O $1, 2O9, 1O6, 79S; in 1860, s1,S9S ,7s5,76S; in 1870, s6,s4S, 539, ,616; in 1880, s7,974, ,o97. .4aS; in 1S9O s12,14S, ,SS0, ,626 The per capita of these manufactures and products he finds to be as follows: In 1850, s44; in 1860, s60; in 1870, SIT; in 1880, s15s; in 1890, s19s. The total na- tional debt, less cash in the treasury he finds to have been as follows: In 1S7O s2, 169, ,956; in 1880, s1, ,91s, ,S26, TAT; in 1890. $500, ,7S4,37o. The per capita of this debt at the various times he finds to be as follows: In 1S7O s60; in 1SSO ssS: in 1890, S14. The average annual expenditures of the government, exclu- sive of payments on the public debt, he finds to be as follows; In Ie.., S530, T1S,- S27; in 1880. s26s O47, ,26S; in 1890, s26S, 412,- 454. This gives the per capita expendi- lures as follows: In 1870, s13I6; in 1SSO s5.Ss; in 1890, s42S.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-19

X Canon J. D. Good of British Columbia is convinced that the Indians of that region originally came from Syria. He says their language seems to be a Tur- anian dialect, with pure Syriac words and infections in it; their burial rites are Syrian; their medicine man is the Syrian seer; they are Syrians Tin thought, habits of life, and general cus- toms" He has lived among them for years, studying them closely.
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Notice.

We cannot accept anonymous or return re- jected communications. In all eases tho name of the writer will be required, not Tor publication, but as a guarantee Of good faiCh.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-19

What the use of tobacco, when per- sisted in, may do for a man is illus trated by the fact that centenarian who died recently in London had smok- ed steadily since he was fifteen years old.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-19

The lower Illinois courts have given damages of $4,0OO against the Pullman Car company to a man who fell from an upper berth and received serious injuries, while trying to descend from the same. It was held that the com pany should provide safe ways of de- must in this case. Hitherto the com pany has been able to avoid liability such as attaches either to a common carrier or a hotel keeper, but this case threatens to end the company's enjoy ment of so much immunity from prose- cution for damages.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-19

A wealthy resident of Kokomo, In diana, is going to move to Peoria, H. linois, and will take his $60000 house with him. The house is of stone and brick and handsomely finished and dec- orated It will be taken down very carefully, the stone, pressed brick, plate glass, mahogany panels, and every other part being carefully marked, and will be shipped by rail to Peoria and there reconstructed. The cost of nov ing the residence will be about $15,000.
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 C. F. Hazeltine of Phiiadeiphia was teaching a class in Sunday school when word was brought to him that his handsome $30o,0OO building was on fire. He also had 8 fine collection of paint ings there valued at about the same figure, and no insurance on either building or contents, and yet he calm ly turned back to his class and contin- ued his teaching. Asked about it after could not do anything to help put the fire out" The loss of the building and its contents was complete, but MT. Ha- zeltine did not lose his head.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-19

It is. proposed that eact State shall have it's separate postage stamp, so that upon receipt of a letter you can tell as far as you can see it where it comes from. A bill has been introduce ed by Senator Pugh asking that each State shall have the privilege of issu- ing it's own stamp. The governor of the State, or the postmaster or the vote of the people will determine the nature of the stamp The design will then be sent to the postmaster general for his approval. That is, these things will be done if the bill becomes a law, which of course it will not.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-13

only $3oO,0o0 This meeting was held September
g. 1895, and on October 2S 1895 the comptroller
OF the currency, knowing that the association was
lnsnlVent, signed certificate specifying the
amount OF the increase OF the capital stock and
approving the same, but this paper never came
into the possession of the association. These ale
cations re all contained in Mr. FoIlets complaint.
The fourteenth bi-monthly report of the Traders ;
Bank of Tacoma has been filed. showing cash on
hand amounting to So, 73 27
The Los Angeles investor has in its New York
letter, under date of August 20 the following bank
statement for the week preceding:
The bank statement for the week showa total
exchanges S416,5S0,211. There WAS q decrease in
surplus OF $456, 400 leaving total excess of legal
reserve $S,s36, ,2O0 compared with $Y9, ,149 925
the same week year ago. Loans decreased
$S, 143, 800 deposits decreased So 1868 SOU specie
increased $549, 100. The decrease in deposits is
due largely to timid depositors who have with
drawn their earnings from the savings banks An
encouraging sign is that further application has
been made Tor the of loan certificates, al
though the clearinghouse committee has met
every day for the purpose of receiving them. The
consensus seems TO oe that Clearinghouse certih-
panic as final measure, although it is thought
that the readiness displayed by the committee to
receive applications has had very good effect
and may even have averted panic. IL is now
believed that the present crisis in the money
market may be safely tided over without any re-
course TO loan certificates Next ~aturdays bank
report will reflect the good effect of shipments
OF gold which are now on their way to New York.
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THE STOCK MARKET.

The range of prices was rather lower again
yesterday, and business dull as usual.
The Bullion assessme ent falls delinquent ip board
tomorrow.
The dividend OF the American Sugar Company
will be paid october l.
The stockholders of the Edison Light and Power
Company will hold a meeting tomorrow TO con-
slider the proposition to reduce the capital stock
CISCO Gaslight Company.
The weekly report Of the Con- Cal. q Va Is as
foliows
1000 level-West crosscut 2, started at q point
In north drift $50 feet north from Con. Va shaft
station or S5 feet south from north boundary line
through hard porphyry and clay separations;
total length 656 feet; face of crosscut is in diore
or west country rock with slight flow of water
1850 level-On ninth floor first hoor above Sill
floor crosscut, started from this south drlIt
at point so feet from itH mouth or so feet nortn
feet, passing through porphyry showing clay
separations and fine lines of quartz; total length
81 feet
1850 level-From thirteenth, fourteenth, ff-
teenth, twenty-tirst and twenty-fourth hoors,
above the floor OF this level at north end OF stope
during week 12O tons of ore. the average assay
value of which, per samples taken from cars In
mine, was S37 SS per ton. From sixteenth moor
from upraise which connects with the twenty
fourth floor from end OF east drift we are stopping
upward in old ground, assaying about $50 a ton.
Total extraction of for week amouni ed TO 122
tons, the average assay value OF which, per sam
pies taken from cars when raised to surface, was
$3S 0S ton.
Following Are the Highest Prices DurIn 4
the PAS Week.
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BORN.

BhuNINGS-ln this city. August 2S. 1896, to the
wlie OF John III. Brunings a daughter.
CoLSTEIN-In this city, September g. 1896, to
the WlIe OF James III. ColsIein,
EISFELDER-In Stockton. september 9. 1895,
70 Tue Wire o. +. M. Esfelder.
EAHAR DIN this city, September 10, 1885, to
the wife of Anton Ekhardt daughter.
. Mn this city, September 5, 1895. to the
wlie OF Waiter HufYam son.
McOAFFIGAN-In this city. September TO- 1885,
10 the wife of Michael Mccain san, a daughter
oSoH Merlin this city, September H. 1898, 10
Tue Vile OF Daniel O'Conner, u daughter.
hofF FNER-In this city, September g. 1895, to
tne Wlfe OF Clarence Ruffner. a daughter.
THIN this city. August "a, 1895, TO the wife
OH. T. Smith, a daughter.
AOnfh1NS-In this city. September IL. 1895,
20 tne wife OF Horace Tompkins, n daughter.
WElNBERG-In tins city, September z, 1896
20 sne wife OF Gustaf Weinberg. son.
WHIITlER-In this city. September H. 1896,
10 the wife OF Alonzo Whittier, a son.
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Latest SHIPPING INrELLIGENoE
Movement. iI5.I..7,1 Of Tron.-a,iantio steamer-,

Movements of Trans-Atlantic Steamers.
NEW YORK-Arrived Sept 12-Stmr Umoria,
from Queenstown and Liverpool stmr La Tou
raine, from Havre, 0bdam and Rotterdam
sailed sept l2-~tmr La Noimandie, for II avre; ;
stmr Campania- for Liverpool; stmr Veend am, Tor
rotterdam; stmr Aachen, for Bremen; stmr Pala-
Tia, Tor Hamburg: Kaiser Wilhelm H. for
Naples ana Genoa; stmr Russia for Genoa: stmr
Anchorla, Tor Glasgow; stmr Island for Stettin.
GENOA-Arrfvel out sept 9-otinr Ems.
Salled sept lO-Stmr Fulda, for New York.
SOUTHAMPTON-Saile Sept 12-Stmr st.
Louis, for New York
HA VRE-sailed sept 1z-stmr La Gascogne,
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MARKIAGE LICENSES.

The following marriage licenses were issued oy
the County Clerks office yesterday:
9. w. Wadleign and Annie NJ. Hacker, 37-21.
Max Grimm md EfIie Watkins 27-26.
J: hutchinson and kmma Nunan, 3l-21.
r. J. Splalne and Nellie e. Langdon, 1913.
j. Hayes and Nano NJ orrissey. $3.50.
w. U. %. Binz and Wanda Lintn er. go
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RuildarsI Onntrants.

George D. Toy wi h II. Williamson, sewerage,
gashtLing and plumbing in three-story brick
building and one story in Powell, near
O'Farreil; $2924. Howard & SWAIN, architects.
Westminster Presbyterian Society with James
Campbell and Thomas Pettus carpenter work,
etc, on corner Page and Webster streets; S9SOO
Charles Geddes' architect.
Richard O'Connor with Wallace G. Boswell to
erect two-story frame building w line of scott
street. 1875 Of Bush; $259l Thomas ].
Welsh, architect.
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MARRIED.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES this city, September
q 1896, by the Rev. J. F. McGInty, William j.
Biggy and Lucy McDonough.
DAM-In this city, September
g. 1895, by the Rev. Father Fireman, Philip E.
FRAZIER and Maggie F. MacAdam, both of San
Francisco.
HAUSER-EHLERT-In Alameda September
II. 1895, by the Rev. III. +. j. Ongerth, conrad
HAuser of San Francisco and Hedwig Ehlert of
Alameda.
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bin llARRIAGES-DEAfhA

Birth. marriage and death notices sent by m Ill
VIII VII not be Inserted. They mus be handed In a;
tltner OF the publication offices aud be indorsst
Win the name and residence OF persons authorizsl
to nave the same published
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BOARD SALES.

Following were the sales In the San Francisco
Stock Board yesterday:
REGULAR MORNING SESSION, COMMENCING $780,
800 Belcher. SO 400 Occid 56IOO : New "a
100 & b. IO51O0 Ophr.. .1.05 200 Union -. AZ
20O Choir. 90 .30lSO0 s Nv .7SI2OO Utah.. Oe
500 G6C. SO
Following were the sales in the Pacific Stock
Board Yesrerdny:
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THE DIVORCE RECORD.

Compiaints filed:
Jesse Hughes against Annie Hughes.
william M Brisco against Margaret J. Brisco.
Marian L. Friedman against Manuel Friedman.
Divorce granted:
Jennie b. Pruna from Luciano Pruna, for fall
ure 70 provide; by Judge Sanderson.