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The San Francisco call., 1897-02-09

n ENTLEMAN, TEMPORARILY EMBA r.
O rassed would like to negotiate with private
mar " for the loan of $500; said loan wanted for
is days; security worth 5000 will be placed in
toaner's hands to ensure prompt repayment, and
a bonus Of $50 will be given for the accom- moda-
ton; party must be responsible. Address B. B..
box 81 Call Office.
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&EOO PARrNtR WANTED IN GENIE Ill
s satlsned wi with $50 Der week; indoor work: busi-
ness easily learned. Geary. room Q
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CAPABLE YOUNG WOMAN WISHES TO DO
~ cham berwork or housework or hours q
day. Address H., box 11S, Call.
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O.. A DOZEN-FINE CABINETS Al WILL
ID l. SONS Gallery 1928 Market
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MISS KEEGAN (FoRMERLY WITH G. LED
Il erer) has opened a stylish hairdressing parior;
latest effects price 25c. 12412 oFarrell, mr. Powell
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~ ENTLEMAN PARTNER WITH SMALL
" capital wanted by young widow 2O7 Post. r. s
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W WANTED-WATrRESS, COUNTRY HOTEL,
w 500: restaurant, $25; cook hotel. $50; Prot
es- ant COOK and laundress, American family, $50,
see lady here at 10 to-day; German. French and
Protestant second girls, $40: English nurse, $40;
3 cooks, German style. $25, aud a great N any
girls for cooking and housewOrk ]. +. CROSETf
& CO, 316 Su;ter ST.
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ITO LARKIN-BRANCH OFFICE OF THE
1O GALL; subscriptions want ads taken.
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NINE. MYRTLE POTTER, CARD-READER,
uh magnetist. returned. Rm. g. 1924 Market St
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-09

L7LDERLY LADY WISHES POSITION Do
u housework in small family; wages no obje ct.
Address 10 Wetmore place.
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SITUATIONS WANTED MALE.

EIRST-CLASS HOTEL AND RESTAURAN
i help of all kinds furnished on short notice by .
+. CROSETT & CO. 62S ~acramento st.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-09

DRIVATE n effective WORK DONE REA-
i sonable; 10 years experience; all alters
strictly confidential. g. r. WEBSTER, 104 Mason
st, room g.
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YOUNG EASTERN WIDOW OF RHINE
ment culture desires position as manag-
ing nousekeeper in widower's or bachelors house
Room 2, 122 Post ST.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-09

9 ALOON FOR SALE: A BARGAIN: ON AC.
~ count of leaving city. SIS Market st.
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" OMAN WISHES SITUATION; UNDER
w stands cooking and general housework. 924
Washington ST., bet Powell and Stockton.
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GERMAN LADY, GOOD sEAMsTRESs. DE
" slres few more places for plain sewing OIL
mending in hotel private families; 90 cents pei
day. Address l. B., box 164. Call
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-09

DROF ARNOLD, MAGNETIC HEALER-ALL
i disease successfully treated: rheumatism posi-
lively cured. Call or write 7S6 Stevenson ST.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-09
AGENTS WANTED.

SIX OUR AGENTS WHO Is MAKING THE
IA most money. BRICK & CO., novelties, TIT
Marketst
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DOR sALE-oLD-ESTABM SALOON
l. and house on account of sickness; cheap. $50
Spear st.
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n ENTLEMAN PARTNER BY ATTRACTIVE
VI and refined young lady. 1 Fifth ST., room l.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-09

t900 SALOON NEAR PRINCIPAL MAR.
.OOOO. ket; cheap rent For information ad-
dress 8. P. WILSON, 43l Greenwich ST.
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FEMALE HELP WANTED.

ERENCH NURSE, $25: IL HoUsEWoRK
girls, city and country, $50 and $25; vopna
girls assist, $40 to ais. MISS CULLEN, S2S
Sutter ST -"
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-09

II PARTINGTON'S SCHOOL OF MAGAZINE
and Newspaper Illustration: particulars as to
terms. ETC., 424 Pine St: illustrations furnished
for magazines, new spapers etc.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-09

A ANIMATOSCoPE-PRo LIVIN
IA pictures Amin atoscope, 933 Mrkt, 7th foo
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COMPETENT COOK GERMAN, STEADY
" and sober, wants situation in restaurant or
lunchhouse: best of references; moderate wages
Cook, pox 9, Call Office.
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INFANTS NURSE (AMERICAN) WISHES
L position; can take entire charge; thoroughly
experienced and trustworthy; has excellent refer
ences from last place; wages $25. &. r., box 2.
Call Office, Oakland.
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LopG1NG-HoUsEs FoR sA1.r

On ROOM HOUSE ON MARKET ?72-00 sT~ s71o00
CO 22-room house only - " 400
% rooms COR: 5000 IA rms Sutter ZOO
Il. e. DECKER, 1920 Market St, opp. Fifth
I oDGING-HOUSE FOR SALE: ONACCOTTNT
j - retiring Inquire 725 Golden Gate ave NJ
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-09

DVICE FREE; DIVORCE Laws A SPEC
n ialty: private; fee without success; pro-
bate Insolvency wills, collections, bills OF sale,
damages etc private detectives; estab. 10 years.
G. w. HOWE, atty at law $50 Market, cor. Stocktn
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-09

NEW PROCESSING MEDICINE, INSTRU-
II ment or worl bless pills used: every woman
her pm stefan for all female troub no matter
from what cause: restores always in one dav; can
be sent and used at home all cases guaranteed; be
not deceived or misled by seifpraised advertisers
DR. POPPER,the we'll known pioneer, 31S Kearny
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-09

. SWEDISH GIRLS WANT POSITIONS TO
- do hcusework; $50 per month. 901 Folsom st.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-06-26

autumn frosts do not stop the growth
OF tho plant or injure the peas.
As substitute for coffee it is rich
and nutritious, having richer and
better flavor than ordinary coffee. 1t
can be used freely by invalids and
children, with known beneficial eff
fects. 1t is nourishing, but has none
OF the stimulating qualities of the
coffee OF commerce. Many old coffee
drinkers prefer it 10 Java or Rio. and
canno. tell the difference. 1t is
parched and ground like other coffee.
one-thild less being used, settled with
an egg, and, with cream and sugar,
makes delicious drink.
When the valuable properties OF this
wonderful plant become known, and
the farmers learn how to produce,
harvestand thrash it to the bet advan.
tage, it bids fair to prove of greater
benefit in the arid region, as there is
probably no other grain that possesses
SO many valuable feeding qualities as
the Idaho coffee pea. Mr.. Sands, of
Nebraska, who experimental with the
plant last year, writes enthusiastically:
sit will build cities and railroads
when it becomes known"
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-06-26
The Feasts Of Rome.

When at its zenith, the Roman EN-
pire laid all the barbaric countries OF.
the world under contribution to sup
ply the tables of its mobiles and wealthy
citizens with the fine Injuries of life.
Asia and Africa poured in the rich
spices and fruits of the tropics Ger
many and the great north countries
raised the grains and wild berries;
Italy and the fertile land of the
Franks cultivated the vineyards to
make or express the wines; every
strip of seacoast from the Mediter-
,ranean to sthe Baltic contributed it's
quota OF fish and the forests of Brit
tany yielded the wild game of the
woods birds, beasts and fowls--for
the banquets of the proud, dissolute
rulers OF the vast Empire. With the
choice products of great world so
easily obtained, there were wanton
waste. foolish extravaganza and strange
disregard of the value of expensive
luxuries, and the historian dwelling
upon these times delights in recapitu.
lating the various articles OF diet ar.
ranged in tempting manner upon the
grooming tables at the great feasts and
banquets.
But, excepting Nero's dish OF pea
cock tongues and Cleopatra's cup OF
wine with the dissolved pearls in it,
the menu of our modern banquets
would compare favorably with those
spread in the times when gluttony. Ii
centiousness and greed for luxury
were insidiously sapping the strength
of Rome.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-06-26
Mechanism of the Human Body

The human body is an epitome in
nature of all mechanics, all hydraulics,
all architecture, all machinery al
every kind. There are more than thr4
hundred and ten mechanical NOV
ments known to mechanics to day, and
all of these are but notifications oil
those found in the human body. Here
are found all the bars, levers, joints,
pulleys, pumps, pipes, wheels az
axles, ball and socket movements,
beams, girders, trusses, buffers. arches,
columns, cables and supports known
to science. At every point mans best
mechanical work can be shown to be
but adaptations of processes of the
human body, a revelation OF first prln.
ciples used in nature. Ladies' Home
Journal,
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-06-26
Road Making in England.

The average width OF country roads
in England is fifteen to thirty feet, ir.
respective of foot walk. MacAdam,
the great pioneer in road-msking,
who lived in Scotland and England in
the early part of the century, said /:
'sRoads near great towns ought not to
be less than thirty to forty feet wide
but at distance from such towns it
would be waste of land to make them
so wide. A road should be as fiat as
possible, with regard to allowing the
water to run off at all, because car
rage ought to stand upright in travel
ing, as much as possible. have gen.
orally made roads three inches higher
in the centre than at the sides when
they are eighteen feet wide. II the
road be we'll made, the water will run
off very easily in such a slope"
A report prepared by the chief en-
cheering inspector of the board gov
erning British highways contains the
following: In adjusting the size of
drains to roads. one important consid-
Grafton should always be borne in
mind. and that is, that the velocity of
the water should not be so great as to
wear away the sides and bottom of the
drain. The drain should be too large
rather than too small, and too wide
and shallow than too deep and mar
row. In the use of broken stones for
the formation of roads, MacAdam at
tached the greatest importance to the
size. He said that size of stone used
on road must be in due proportion
to the space occupied by wheel of
ordinary dimensions on a smooth,
level surface. This point of contact
will be found to be longitudinally
about an inch, and every piece of
stone put into road which exceeded
an inch in each of its dimensions is
Since his time there
have been notifications of this idea.
American Agriculturist.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-06-26
Infancy aud Childhood.

Every physician encounters deplora.
BILE cases of children three and four
years old whose diet consists almost
exclusively of meat, simply because
their perverted appetites demand that
article. In such extreme instances
the most severe measures are justi-
fable in order to resume the natural
and healthful method of feeding, to
save the child's health, if not its very
life. We should permit it to become
genuinely hungry by Unfolding all
meat, or even all food, until it will
consent to recommence taking milk.
We may aid the child to overcome
any temporary repugnance to milk by
making it as palatable as possible. It
may be aerated in a milk shake,
beaten in cream-whipper, favored
by oyster juice and renamed "oyster
SOUP" seasoned with any harmless
essence.
Variety is desirable, and even nec-
essary, in the diet of all children; but
in seeking variety we should never
lose sight of the main principle--that
milk should be the chief and frequent
article of diet, and meat, if not wholly
excluded, admitted only as an occa-
sional and non-essential part in the
diet, of any child under six years of
age. Many children reach that age in
superb health and with fine physical
development without having known
the taste of meat. The little one will
naturally tire of milk if he is always
given plain milk, milk, milk, without
any change. But milk with oatmeal.
milk with hominy, milk with cracked
wheat, with cracked corn, with rice,
with baked apples, seem in infantile
Judgment quite different dishes.
There are also the various cream soups,
made up without butter or seasoning,
beyond the natural pinch of salt.
This we may vary with number OF
articles not taken with milk, but
served in different course. -Harper'a
Bazaar
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-06-26
POPULAR SCIENCE.

As comets near the sun their velocity
always increases.
Glowworms are much more brilliant
when storm is coming than at other
seasons.
To aid in filing saw teeth straight q
new fileholder has q frame with two
parallel guides, between which the file
is fastened to make it run true.
Under forced draught the new Brit
ish first-class battleship Jupiter made
an average of Is. 4 knots in her four
hour trial. nearly knot more than
the contract speed.
Microscopical investigation is said to
prove that the pores of wood invite the
passage of moisture in the direction
of the timber's growth, but repel it in
the opposite direction.
Newton calculated the velocity of
the comet of 1850 obe $50, 600 miles
an hour. Brydonne rated the speed
of the comet he saw in ITO at two
and half millions of miles an hour.
A thermometer was left near stove
in sleeping room at Dusseldorf re-
Gently and the fumes from the mer.
curry poisoned two children so that
their lives were saved with difficulty.
So says the British Medical Journal.
Gold or bismuth is extracted from
various mineral mixtures by melted
lead in the process of two Swedish
metallurgists, Ohm and Loftrand, and
this method is claimed to be so effec-
tive that even very poor ores are made
to yield profit.
Perciyal Lowell in an interesting
paper on 'sVenus in the Light of Re-
cent Discoveries" show how his oh.
eervations at Flagstaff, Arizona, have
led to the conclusion that the planet
Venus always presents the same side
to the sun, and is, therefore, lifeless.
Some iron tonics of the pharma-
copoeia are useless, others are harmful.
1t has been suggested that the iron
should be obtained in an assimilable
form from vegetables, and the idea
has now been extended by French
chemist, M. Gabriel Viaud, who pro-
poses to feed the vegetables with iron
toprepare them specially for vegetables
having any required proportion OF
iron.
The red clover, when introduced in
to Australia, grew most luxuriantly,
and lowered, but produced no seed.
The reason for this was the absence of
humble bees-the humble bee being
the one that does the fertilizing, al |
most exclusively, in the red clover.
Bees were introduced, and the clover
seeded in profusion consequently.
Exactly the same was the case with the
apple.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-06-26
The Way to Sleep.

Where practicable the bed should
be placed on line north and south,
with the head toward tho north. This
arrangement places tho sleeper in
harmony with the electrical currents
caused by the rotation OF the earth on
its axis. Often person in sickness
and sometimes in health can obtain
much needed rest in no other way.
Bedrooms should, where possible, have
q southern exposure, that is, have the
windows on the south or tho sunniest
side Of she house. The head to the
north will keep the lungs anl respira-
tory organs away from any possible
draughts, and the room will also OBJ
tain that indispensable requisite to
health-plenty of sunlight through tho
day. In many cases it will be impos-
sible to obtain these conditions in
houses where there is very little SUM-
light that can enter the bedrooms, and
where windows and doorways make it
impossible to place the head OF the
bed toward the north, but where there
is choice of rooms those that offer
these conditions for. comfort and
health should be chosen for the bed.
roons in common use.
Better sleep can be obtained with
low than with high pillow. To lessen
the work of the arteries that propel
the blood to every portion of the
organism should be the aim of every
one, so that the posture that most.
nearly places the body in horizontal
position is the most to be desired.
Bolstering up the head is always to be
condemned, whether in sickness or in
health, unless bodily injuries render
the perfectly recumbent- position i'm
possible.
! It is not we'll to lie always on the
back; by this practice the spine and
the nerves that there congregate are
kept too hot, and feverish sleep is
apt to be the result. The right side
is the best to recline on, for then the
heart and the larger arteries are re-.
lieved from undue pressure. Occasion
ally one rests well lying on the
stomach. As q general rule eight
hours is ample for person in health
more produces a dull, heavy feeling
on arising; less, an unsatisfied craving
for more. And there is also no room
for doubt that the two hours i'm.
mediately preceding the midnight
hour are the most favorable for enjoy.
ing the "beauty sleep" of the night.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-06-26

The Rosetta Stone," famous
Egyptian curiosity now in the British
Museum, was discovered in the year
1899 by NJ. Boussard, French ex-
plorer, near Rosetta, a seaport of
Lover Egypt. 1t is Of black basalt,
about forty inches long by thirty
wide, with three engraved inscrip-
tions upon its surface. The first of
these is in Greek, the second is a
conglomeration of hieroglyphics and
the third is enchorial writing, sys-
TEN used by the Egyptians in record
ing everyday matters. After years
of -laborious research the savants of
Europe ascertained that the three in
scriptions were three versions of a
degree in honor of Ptolemy Epiphanes
by the priests of Egypt, because he
had RENTED their taxes. This won
derful relic dates back to about the
year 200 B. C.-Philadelphia Press.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-06-26
Advantages OF Electricity,

While electricity is certain to effect
a very material saving in manufacture
ing, it has other uses quite as import
ant. Where there is one factory, there
may be hundreds of dwellings, and
when the electric current can be intro
duced into these dwellings, its advan-
tages will be manifold. As to econ
omy. the Niagara Falls power has pro-
duced the most startling results. 1t
costs but S36 year per horse power
for electricity used twenty -four hours
in the day. This is much less than the
cost of steam used ten hours a day.
There are hopes that even these fig
ures will be very materially reduced,
and that new appliances will show new
uses for electricity, and that we will
not only have our houses lighted and
heated by this means, but it will be
able to perform many services auto
matically. One of the latest adapta-
tions of electricity is its use in laun-
dries. The irons are heated by cleo
tricity, and by proper regulation, q
current is used which is absolutely
uniform. All OF the heat is utilized,
and every stroke of the iron tells, as
there is no waiting, or. wondering, or
questioning if the iron is hot enough.
Another great advantage is that it does
not heat the room, as the radiation
from the iron is not perceptible. Ges.
heated irons vitiate the atmosphere,
and the operators become weary and
lack vitality. Where natural gas has
been employed for heating
irons, it is now used to generate cleo.
tricity, and the change is of great adj
vantage, both financially and in point
Of health. New York Ledger.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-06-26
Making Commercial Diamonds.

Chemists have recently and in pub.
lie made actual diamonds, comparable
in every respect, save one, that of size,
with natures most valued product.
But the crystals so manufactured have,
while true diamonds, been so micro
scopic in proportions as to be of
no commercial value. Now, however.
United States Consul German at Zu-
rich reports to the State Department
that Mr.. E. Moyatt claims to have
discovered process by which dIa-
monds OF larger dimensions may be
produced. In principle his process is
similar to the one already used-that
is,to crystalline carbon out Of iron and
steel by means of high pressure
and high temperature. Yet there is
an improvement in the technical oper-
alton. Pulverized coal, iron chips and
liquid carbonic acid are enclosed in
strong steel tube, Theoretically sealed
and subject to an electric current be.
tween two terminals in the ends of the
tube. The iron liqueies, is saturated
by part of the pulverized coal. and at
the same time tho liquid carbonic acid
evaporates, thereby creating enormous
pressure on the liquid iron and coal.
This process considerably increases
the dissolution OF the coal in the liquid
iron. While the mixture is cooling
the carbon crystallizes partly in the
form of real diamonds and partly in
the form Of similar stones. These
crystals are released from the ingot by
dissolvirg the iron in diluted muriatiq
acid. The mixture by this method re.
mains under high pressure during the
operation of the electric current.
New Orleans Picayune.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-06-26
Awakened by TeleDhOne

The Johnstown PENN telephone
Office has adopted the call system like
that in vogue at leading hotels. The
subscriber who wishes to wake at a
certain hour calls up central" who
registers it. When the time arrives
the operator rings mp the subscriber.
II he turns over and fondly imagines
that it's an alarm clock, he is nicely
fooled, for the telephone bell will keep
ringing until he stops it. and thus
central" viii know that he is awake
and up.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-06-26
A Mixed Brood,

A resident of Friendship, Ga.
owns a turkey hen that not only
keeps his family well supplied with
young turkeys, but sometimes sur
prises the family by the presentation
of mixed brood. On the last occa-.
sion, after setting on twelve eggs for
her usual. term of incubation, she
was found the other morning hover
ing over ten young turkeys and one
young opossum, it having required
two turkey eggs to produce one pos.
sum. The young 'possum in question
was about the size of a half-grown
rat, and was nesting under the
turkey as contentedly as any one of
the legitimate brood.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-06-26
A Remarkable Gag

A remarkable story was told in a
Cleveland (Ohio) court by Nellie Gill
bert, The wife prominent physician
OF that city. She says that her ia
ther-in.law, who does not like her and
has tried to have his son divorce her.
filled her mouth with wet plaster OF
paris and allowed the stuff to harden.
SO that she could not talk. A hammer
had to be used to break thesplaster in
her mouth before it could be removed.
She now sues her father-in-l law for
SO, 600 for this assault, and for $780,
600 for endeavoring to ALLEVIATE her
husbands affections. Detroit Free
Press.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-06-26
To Clean Copper.

To get the tin, solder and dirt off
old copper bottoms, so as to make
them clean, cleanse first in a boiling
solution of three parts caustic soda,
one part inter and five parts water,
and then in dilute sulphuric acid; or
dip moaientarily in warm nitric acid,
specific gravity IL, and wash I'M
madiately In running water.