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opera of the "Meistersingers' would be Wagner's chef d'oeuvre. The accom- panying drawings are exact reproduce tions of the sketches made by M. Jon ciere and published in the Figaro in 1868. NJ. Franz Betz, the celebrated barytone, who took the part of Hans Sachs, re- tired from the Imperial Theater, Vienna. on the first of last September. The Elm peror of Austria has made him an hon. orary member of the opera. and he will appear from time to time in his prin- cipal roles. Hans Sachs, Falstaff. Tell and Kwewenal
 Some more of Rubinstein's thoughts and aphorisms: 1.-The greatest good that has been given to man is the light of the sun. Oh! the beautiful rays of the sun. I cannot understand how men who live under the blue, sun-lit sky can have the same social and political discontent as those who are obliged to live in the fog or under a gray sky"
 Ut is not the same thing to be shot as to be hanged. The latter mode of execution is regarded as more dishonor- able. There are, then, two kinds of deaths-one for great lords, the other for moujiks."
 Everything can be replaced except life"
 'I find it very strange that the law permits people to marry even to the third time, and not only after the death of one of the parties, but even during the life of him or her in the case of divorce What astonishes me most of all is that women make most use of the permission, notwithstanding that they make greater pretensions to constancy and morality"
 (Which is the most fattering compli- ment that lady can address to an art ist? Is 1t this: Your playing has made me quite ilr; or is it this other: Your playing has completely cured me? We often receive these two compliments, and the ladies who make them are equally grateful for having made them i'll or hay ing cured them.'
 An unexpected visit always has for its object an unexpected demand"
 What is the supreme object of the believer? To fulfill his duty toward his God. And that of the atheist? To fulfill his duty toward humanity. I find the latter the most idealistic, for the believer is sure of his recompense, while the atheist has nothing to expect" NJ. Saint-Saens has had a great success in Madrid, where in fifteen days the Concert Society gave under his direction three performances entirely devoted to his works. The first, which took place in the hall of the Prince Alphonse Theater, comprised "Phaeton," the prelude to the ''Deluge." the Breton Rhapsody" the symphony in A minor, of which two pieces were encored, the ''Danse Mac abre' and the airs of the Stephen Mar
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PEARY's METEORITE.

By the way, Lieutenant Peary's "me- teorite" is still on sale Good iron ore Is worth in Egland some Il shillings a ton: metallic iron sells at about shillings a ton. So, taking the latest statement as to the weight of this "meteorite," it may be worth f250. Metallic iron is not a very valuable commodity in either England or New York; so that it ap- pears a pity to have deprived the Green landers of what, according to Peary, was sent to them as an iron mine directly by Providence from the heavens. That the block is a meteorite is open to question. The Greenland basalts contain percent age of metallic iron in what petrologistS call the ''interestitial groundmass" of the rock. This appears to owe its presence there to the reducing action of beds of carbonaceous material, with which the molten basalt came into contact There have recently been described several in- stances of the segregation of the ferru- ginouS constituents of molten rocks into great masses. It is probable that Peary's block of iron was formed in this way, and is of purely terrestrial origin. The process seems still to be going on, for the block was at first reported to weigh some forty-five tons, and the American experts who have seen it put the weight at about that amount. But on Monday evening, at the Geographical Society, it had grown to ninety tons.-Saturday Re view.
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GOING NEW YORK ONE BETTER,

I HE plan to make a separate State Of the
 majestically swollen city of New York will
 be recognized having points of excellence tocracy and the brains of the land Any New Yorker will tell you so. It is also cultured to degree almost awesome. Anybody who doubts this has only to reflect that its best people had crystazed into a select Four Hundred and that this aggregation has been pruned down to a super select Seventy five Where but in New York would just and proper a division have been made? Every of these Seventy-hve knows what to wear to dinner, and in the park rides be- hind a bang-tailed horse They blue -blooded too. None in the lot admits descent from clam peddler, calmly and with unquestioned wisdom eliminating such ancestors irrelevant to the present situation So New York deserves to be State if such is its desire But it is too modest
 New York should be kingdom. To set up throne and it place the mighty Croker, to build up local nobity-for which much raw material Is going to waste-nothng could be finer nor in keeping with the genius of the times With a nobility of its own New York would no longer be under the painful necessity of hawking its daughters to paupers from abroad It could sustain with the United States such relations must nat urally obtain between the pedigreed and the scrub, and by erecting dividing wall keep the pebeians of the West from getting too fresh. Altogether it is a beautiful scheme. The only embarrassment to be anticipated springs from the multiplicity of ap- picants there would inevitably be for the position of court fool
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SPECIAL LAWS FOR HAWAII.

THE Chronicle should not get reckless. It
 should trust to the healing influence of time
 to cicatrize the wound made in its hopes by the defeat of annexation Such poutce its editorial anger makes will n1ame the spot. It has said, among other enraged and lurid things, that the labor organizations don't know what they talking about that the annexation treaty tends our humane labor laws to Hawaii and sub stitutes freedom for slavery" etc. We'll if that is so, the labor organizations in the distinguished company of President Mckinley, who says in his message:
 'What the conditions of such union (with Hawai) shall be- the political relation thereof to the United States, the character of the local ad- mnistration, the quality and degree of the elective franchise to the inhabitants, the ex- tension of the Federal laws to the territory or the enactment of special laws to fit the peculiar conditions thereof, the reg. ulation. IF NEED BE, of the LABOR system therein, all matters which the treaty has wisely reIegated to Con- gress.''
 The Call has said that somebody is being cheated, either the planters of Hawaii or the white labor of the United States The Chronicle flies mad at this, and with congested face and corru- gated front raises apoplectic shriek of "You lie!Y
 Will 1t tell frankly whom it is trying to cheat by telling white labor that the treaty extends our hu- mane labor laws to Hawaii" when President Nc Kinley says it does not? Why not tote fair? The plot stands exposed. Shah Dole and his planters know that they must have Asiatic labor, and he says he believes will give them separate law to protect penal contracts with such labor.
 We don't think the Chronicle will deceive any one but its clients whom it may deceive into the belief that it can deceive white labor in this State. But white labor is not like its description of the Azores and Cape Verde islanders in Hawaii. It reads and writes and ciphers, and figure well as the Chronicle It knows which side to butter its bread and uses butter for that purpose.
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SONG.

spirit haunts the years last hours Dwelling amid these yellowing bowers. To himself he talks; For at eventide listening earnestly At his work you may hear him sob and sigh In the walks; Earthward he boweth the heavy stalks Of the moldering flowers: Heavily hangs the broad sunfiower
 over its grave Y the earth so chilly; Heavily hangs the hollyhock
 Heavily hangs the tiger-liIy. The air is damp and hushd and close AS a sick mans room when he taketh renosa An hour before death; My very heart faints and my whole souI
 grieyes At the moist. rich smell of the rotting leaves. And the breath Of the fading edges of box beneath And the years last rose Heavily hangs the broad sun1ower
 Over its grave f the earth. so chilly: Heavily hangs the hollyhock
 Heavily hangs the tiger-Iily
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1868. After he had written "Tannhauser"
 Wagner thought of writing an opera that should be a comic counterpart to this work. In his own words, 'I sud- denly conceived the idea of a comic play which might follow my minstrels' con test in the Wartburg as a significant satire play. This was the mastersingers of Nuremberg, with Hans Sachs at their head" On this occasion Wagner broke with all his dramatic traditions. No more did the sirens and the voluptuous pagans of Venusberg appear; no knight in white tunic and sparkling coat of mail descended on his legendary swan from the celestial heights of the Holy Grail. as in "Lohengrin"; the love philters, the aspirations and the enervating buddhism of Tristan and Iseult" equally disap- peared. The action passed in times and places with which we are still familiar in the imperial city of Nuremberg to- ward the middle of the sixteenth cen tury. 1t Is said that if the finale of the third act of "Tristan"-the scene of the trans1guration and the death of Iseult- did not exist, and the representation could be reduced by half an hour, the
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MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.

On the 10th of last November Wagner's
 Meistersingers' was produced in Paris Tor the first time, with the most gorge ous decorations. No expense was spared to make the opera success, and the result fully realized the most extrava- gant expectations. The French nation had set itself obstinately against Wag- ner and his works, and it has taken thirty years to overcome this prejudice. The recoil has been as violent as the at- tack, and now Wagner is the idol of the hour in Paris. Nearly thirty years ago the "Meistersingers" was produced at the Theater Royal. Munich, under the patronage of Ludwig, King of Bavaria. At that time very favorable criticisms appeared in the French papers. and Nj. Victorin Jonciere, a painter and a musi- elan, sketched M. Betz in the role of Hans Sachs during the performance. He also drew the scenery of the second act, and both appeared in an illustrated sup plement of the Figaro of the 5th of July,
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

The reason why women are better than men is because they don't know it.
 Style to a woman means whether you have to wear clothes that are too big to look well or only too small to feel com fortable.
 A married man always boasts about his having made one woman happy, but an old bachelor is the only one that can be sure of it.
 Even when a girl has fixed sprig of mistletoe in her hair, so it will look like it fell off the chandelier, she will pretend to fight against it.
 All women believe in their hearts that woman is the superior of man, but very few of them care to brag very much about it till after they get married.
 When 8 man gets tired of a girl he has to stand it; when a girl gets tired of man she has only to ask him to carry a few of her littlest bundles.-New York Press.
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n RECENT dispatch from Chicago to the New { \ York Press says that Western passenger agents are now making their arrangements to handle the Alaskan rush, and the longer they study the traffic the larger it appears to them It is said, There is hardly Western passenger man who does not expect the traffic amount to fully 100000 persons.
 That the estimate is exaggerated is beyond ques- ton. It Is hardly probable that anything like that number of persons will start for Alaska from points where the roads of the Western Passenger Association will get share of the business. The exaggeraton itself however, is proof of the ex- tent of the Alaskan excitement in the East It seems to be of even larger proportions beyond the Rockies than on this coast, and is apparently in- creasng every day.
 As every ship that comes down from the north brings additional confirmation the stories of last summer concerning the marvellous richness of the placers there will be no dninution of the popular ardor the subject. On the contrary, many of those who at first doubted the wonderful tales told of the Klondke have ceased to be skep- tca in the face of the evidence given of their es- sential truthulness.
 Another factor that will have tendency to in crease the number of adventurers is the extension and improvements of facilities for reaching Daw- It is certain that the journey next season will be far less hazardous and difficult than it has been. Moreover, there will be hardly any fears of famine next year. These facts will solve the doubts of many who would have hesitated to venture into the frozen north under past conditions and will thus swell the number thatwth the coming of spring will hasten to this coast to arrange for the journey to the gold fields at the earliest date possible
 All signs tend to the conclusion that those who are looking for extraordinary rush to San Fran cisco early in the spring will not be disappointed We hardly overdo the work of preparation for the coming trade There is but one city on the Pa cifc Coast that handle such an amount of traffic That city is of course San Francisco, and with her commercial facilities she may find her energies strained to meet the emergency
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HOW THE MERIT PLAN WORKS

The civil service commission reports to the Senate that in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897, 24 ,163 persons passed their examinations, and of this host S,90s re ceived appointments, or about one in eight. In the preceding year about one in four of those who passed received of fees, and in 1892 about one in every three. Competition is increasing Be- tween July l, 1890, and June 30. 1896, as many as 212.G51 stood examinations, l25.- 113 passed and 31 ,5SS got offices. In the departments and bureaus at Washington there are 14S72 places authorized by law and 13,734 places subject to competitive examinations. There are in these places 1882 who entered the service under the civil service law and 9272 who entered otherwise.-Baltimore Sun.
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A LOS ANGELES ACCOMPLISHMENT

NNE of the notable successes of holiday jour | nalism has been achieved by the "midwin-
 ter number of the Los Angeles Times The publication is attractive one and forms valu- able advertisement for the whole southern section of the State.
 The main portion of the edition is issued in a form half the ordinary size of the paper and con- sists of eighty-eght pages. This is veritabe com pendium of the resources, attractions, advantages industries and prominent leaders of Southern Cali fornia It is well written well printed handsomely illustrated and will be found instructive as we'll as interesting to all concerned in the welfare and progress of the seven fourishng counties to which Los Angeles serves as metropolis
 While the edition a matter of course is largely devoted to the wonderful fruit industry of that ton, considerable space is given to the mineral wealth and mining industry. The number is there fore pertinent to the coming exposition of mines and mining in San Francisco. It will recall the at tenton of the south to her great mineral resources and make known the importance of exhibiting them where all the world can see Taken alto gether, the number is successful one in every re- spect and deserves a wide circulation not only in California, but throughout the East.
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sECTIoNALIsM VANISHING.

Rev pr. A. J. Palmer. a Northern minister, Is featuring in the South on the Federal Soldier" and General John B. Gordon. a Confederate soldier, is Iec- turing in the North on the Last Days of the Confectionery" Both gentlemen are having crowded houses and making money. One country, one people: no North. no South. No millennium impend- ing, but jolly good feeling on tap-DalIas CTex.) News.
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under the stars and stripes living in communities where only the parental tongue is used. and who never come into any useful knowledge of the English language. For these people, as well as for the newly arrived, separate maga- zine in their own languages, yet all tend ing to explain American institutions may become vast power for good citi, zenship.-Boston Transcrint
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celP' ballet. After these concerts, which were for him perfect ovation, M. Saint Saens was named Commander of the Or der of Isabelle the Catholic and mem Der of the Royal Academy of Madrid The next Saturday, under the direction of the composer. the first performance of Samson and Delilah" was to take place. with M. Dupeyron in the role of Samson.
 Schopenhauer, who, like Nietzsche, was a great musical amateur, speaking one day of Wagner, expressed himself in these terms: "Tell your friend Wagner that I thank him for the copy of his 'Nibelungen,' but he ought to give up music. His aptitude is for poetry As to me, I remain faithful to Rossinf and Mozart. He has sent me his trilogy but the boy is no musician When Schop- enhauer spoke of Rossini he devoutly raised his eyes to heaven, but yet one day when Rossini was spending a few days in Frankfort he refused to be introduced to him, saying that it was impossible that the fat Frenchman could be Rossini. Schopenhauer possessed a complete col lection of Rossinfs operas, arranged for the flute, and played them every day from F till 1, but he never permitted any one to listen.
 It is rumored that the great maestro Verdi, is again a candidate for matri- mony. And why not? Years are not al- ways a guide to age. Some men are old at 40 and others are young at S0 and the truly grand old man" must possess won derful vitality, for when people were look ing for him to be overwhelmed with grief he wisely buries the past and determines to make the most of the future, in company with another celebrated singer. Mime. Stolz is expected to be the third Mime. Verdi.
 At Monte Carlo, on the occasion of the second classical concert, a. new ovation was accorded to M. Leon Jehin for the remarkable execution of Cesar Francks Symphony in D minor, which was lis- tened to with profound attention. The overture to 'Tannhauser" and the very curious suite of Greig upon Peer Gynt and the 'Hallutah Chorus," by the or chestra and chorus, followed.
 The Royal Opera, Budapest, has just given the premiere of LeoncavalIo's "Boheme" with great success. On the eve of the performance a concert was given, at which all the elite of society assisted. Mime. la Countess Vasquez and Mime. Bardossy sang, accompanied by the maestro. A grand banquet followed the concert
 At Riverside, Cal, the Arlington band Twenty-Five pieces) Is fast becoming one of the best military bands of Southern California. It is in charge of Professor Reynolds, who Is an accomplished band master and a finished cornet soloist.
 A new device has been applied to the clarinet, the invention of M. Prepeschi, an Italian. The peculiar advantage claimed for it is that while it does not require any change of lingering the key arrangement is such that passages which are difficult even for the Boehm system become as simple as the common chord.
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POLAND-CHINA HOGS-J. I. w., Nor dyke, Nev. For information about Po- land-China hogs address a communica- Stockgrowers' Journal, this city.
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It is reported that the train robbers who attacked an express car at Kansas City were very nervous As they got what they went after and nobody at tempted to interfere it probable that however nervous they may have been they had no monopoly of the prevalent tremors
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As to the actual situation at Dawson, it seems to be that there is sufficient shortage of food to stin- ulate the commercial instinct and induce specu- lators to which get there first with the privilege of charging famine prices
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CUBAN LEAGUE-W. H. N, Eureka, Cal The head of the Cuban League in San Francisco is Faust E. Mascherini of 71S Greenwich street.
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STREET ROAD-F.. Farmers Home, Visalia, Cal. The Post-street cable road in San Francisco was opened on the 18th of August, 18S9.
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The matter of pugilism is of no great importance, and yet the literary persons who pose champions manage to keep up sort of interest in it. This in- terest just takes the form of wonder that two arge-hsted non-fghting fighters who are so bliss fully certain each that the other is making a bluff do not call the bluff and let the world have peace
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Colorado produced gold than any other State in the Union last year. It is hard for Cali fornia to give up its accustomed place temporarily, but it might well do pleasantly. It still leads
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ANUS SEMENTS.

Baldwin-HThe Henrietta" California-Song and Lecture Recitals Coumbia-"At Gay Coney Island" Alcazar-'The Girl Left Behind Me" Morosco' 's-'The District Fair" Tivoli-'Mother Goose" Orpheunl- Vaudeville Bush-The Thala Opera Co., Friday night The Chutes-Vaudeville Oberon-Cosuopolitan Orchestra Ingleside Track-RaceS to-day.
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One lady correspondent in the K1ondike has be- come the wife of "Nigger Jim" We hasten to con gratulate the gentleman, there are it is under stood here, paucity of eligible women in that country. However. out of respect to his new dig nity he should insist on being called Negro James"
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SALIC LAWS, Hueneme, Cal. The law that you refer to is the Salic law of France, not of England. You will ind that law in the ninth edition of the En- cyclopedia Britannica.
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THE OLD BRIDGE-J. S., City. The old bridge between Third and Fourth streets was removed in 1893.
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If you lack appetite try half wineglass of ANGoSrURA BITTERs half hour before dinner. Made by DIR. T. c. B. SIEGERT S SONS.
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There has just been peculiar pair of dues in Hungary Somebody got hurt in each event Such violation of precedent will be apt to discourage statesmen from resort to physical rudeness It is just as effective to make faces at the opposition.
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There IS an easy explanation of the fact that an Oregonian failed to die after shooting himself twice, both bullets entering his head The surprise and novelty of having anything in his head merely acted as stinlulant
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THROAT TROUBLES. To allay the irritation that induces coughing, use "Brotrts Bronehies T1oches." simple and safe remedy.
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months at one Amador County mine yielded $5o,ooo Naturally there are some people to whom it is useless to talk of the riches of the klondike.
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READ THIS TO YOUR CHILDREN.

If Chinese children do not obey their parents and the latter whip them to death, the law has no punishment for them as obedience to parents Is the car dinal virtue.-Philadelph Inquirer.
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Senator Teller seems to be wise in opposing the partition of China. The habit may grow upon the powers so that in stme they will take a notion to divide us. They could not do it, but the effort would lead to a straining of relations
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