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to Fashoda, on the Nile, there to meet the Marchand expedition coming from the Congo, plant the standard of France and actualize her possession of an un- broken connection from the Red Sea to the Atlantic. These movements have caused the greatest concern in England. She sees the Nile country and Ethiopia slipping from her possible grasp and is powerleSS. All the expenditure in this direction promises to be without fruit France has outgeneraled her and holds the position of vantage, whose future value cannot at this time be even esti- mated.
 In the whole conduct of the matter the French have evinced much shrewdness and discretion. Instead of approaching Menelik with an air of offensive conde- scension, as is the wont of their neigh bors across the channel in dealing with dusky potentates, they have not only accorded the fullest recognition of his imperial dignity, acknowledging his right as a sovereign and independent monarch to sit in the hereditary ruler ship of his people, but have done their best to make him appreciate their atti- tude of respect and enhance the splen- dor of the evidences of his power and personality.
 With the sanction and at the expense of the Government M. Legarde had made and carried with him on his late return from Paris to the Abyssinian court many presents of rich design and costly work manship, intended for the personal use and adornment of the Emperor and his consort, Taitou. The principal one con- sisted of throne of very particular de-
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MAY BRING TRAVEL
 THIS WAY.

 ing of the Central Traffic Association western Traffic Association and Trans continental lines which has for it's obiec+ the fixing of a permanent and satisfac- tory rate to all points in the Alaskan mining district for the large travel that IS expected thls spring. The meeting was called by +. C. Donald, president of tl,o Central Traffic Association. and n n caldwell, who is at the had of the West ern Traf1c Association. The steamsbir lines running northward from San E,rarE CISCO and connecting with the diffara,+ points of debarkation for the ElJondil-e country have so increased their rates +bot very material difference is made in the expense attending travel to that corpt,,. via San Francisco and via Sornd r,Ut.'.s The steamship companies have ,af-,so5i to reduce the rate, as they argue that nm der any circumstances the number of ,,os sengers who will go northward from Ali, city will be large enough to more +ba,, Ill the carrying capacity of their vessels consequently in order to bring the traffic to this city the railroads will ha,-a +o make rates low enough to cornna+e 1,-;t1, those which will exist over the r,ora northern routes and as the steaposbi,s will have to be utilized to forward ,,as9 sengers to their ultimate 6estinatiot cut in railroad fares in proportion to tbe increased rates by water will have to he nieAuS, anu HI oruer 10 equallZe the loss that will accrue to the various roads run ming west of the Missouri this meeting has been called
 Dr. I. W. Powell, one of victoria's most prominent physicians. Is at the Occident- al
 H. W. Edwards. superintendent of the San Jose Gas Works, is in the city to wit ness the Golden Jubilee; he is staying at the Grand.
 Judge Platt Rodgers. ex-Mayor of Dem yer and Joseph G. Sandredge. wealthy mining man of the same place. are stop
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they have been able to make rapid ad- vances and have been graciously received by the NeEus and his followers. Large privileges and concessions, with grants of land, nave been made to them, under which, quickly acting, they have laid and nearly completed from Djibouti on the Gulf of Alden to Harar the first section of a railroad which it is intended to carry on to Gondar and thence across the Nile and the Soudan to connect with one com ing east from French Congo. On the other hand the English. bringing with them the yet fresh memories of Sir Charles Napier's invasion of their country and the bloody field of Magdala. have made but little advance in the favor of either the Negus or his subjects. While Ras Makonnen was receiving, with the most friendly demonstrations, the French envoy, and conducting him with every mark of consideration to the court of his sovereign at Adis-Adaba, the English mission was yet halted near the coast almost unnoticed.
 M. Legarde was received at Harar with a salute of twenty-one guns, and the French flag was floated at the side of the Abyssinian standard. No such re- ception was accorded his rivals on en- tering the Abyssinian territory.
 With Menelik's permission and assist ance, M. BaUchamps pushed on with a well-equipped expedition across Abyssinia
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sign, which is intended to serve both as a seat of justice and a couch of recep- ton.
 On the days of audience the sovereign, ''The Lion of the Tribe of Judah as he styles himself, claiming descent from King David, seats himself "a la Turque' between the two cushions, while the dig nitaries admitted to the reception pass before him. This throne is of fine wood, overlaid with gold. with the points and panels relieved with green and red the colors of Abyssinta. The curtains are of purple silk damask, ornamented with fringe and tassels of finely worked gold thread of the highest richness. The cushions and front piece are likewise of silk damask finely ornamented.
 With the throne went collars and crosses of gold set with jewels for Men elk and the members of his family, those for himself and the Empress being of particular richness and splendor, the first being set with amethysts and gar nets and the other embellished with sap phires, fine pearls and turQuoises This collar is composed of three chains inter- bound, and weighs over one and a quar- ter pounds. Each of the four children received collar and cross, also of com mensurate worth. NJ Legarde made careful study and left nothing undone to further the success of his mission.
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:8....a ...:a........:. & SEEKING THE FAVOR OF MENELIK.

n BYssINIA has been more prominent

U BYSSINIA has been more prominent N ly before the world since the black I \ Emperor demonstrated his power by crushing the armies of Italy at Abba Carima and Adigrat, and the personality
 or Mepelik has become a very captivat- ing actuality. England and France have
 both hastened to gain, at his hands, fav-
 orable recognition of their overtures for
 amity and friendship, and even Russia
 mas made advances in that direction. the opJect or which are not so apparent, how
 ever, as in the case of the two other
 nations. Their object is we'll understood
 It IS the control of the vast and fertile
 country of the Eastern Soudan and along
 the upper Nile. To this end England has
 already wasted over a hundred million
 pounds sterling in futile attempts to force
 her way up the Nile to Khartoum and
 thence south to the lake region, whither she has already carried a railroad from
 the Zanzibar coast. The French have
 been steadily approaching from the Congo coast on the other side of the continent
 and now seem to have gotten the best of thelr rivals, and this by the grace and
 1aVor Of the Abyssinian monarch His country, lying high and healthy between
 tno Red Sea and the Eastern Soudan oHers the shortest and most feasible en- try to that coveted region. Hampered by no bitter recollections of unfair treat
 ment or unfriendly contact in the past.
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LESSONS OF THE LOS ANGELES FIRE.

I N the revelation made by the burning of public
 schoolhouse on Pico Heights, Los Angeles, the question of the value of betterments to the city water property by the private corporation lessee gets
 lurid illumination. The insufciency of pressure in small and pipes came near causing an appalling loss o life and did loss to the taxpayers of
 valuable piece of public property. The Mayor of the city and the Chief of the Fire Department join in the declaration that garden hose attached to proper pipe and pressure system would have been more ef- fective than the best fire engines proved to be when compelled to draw the insufficient supply and weak pressure of "betterments to the citys water plant for which the private corporation demands several millions of dollars The Call only asks justice for the people of Los Angeles. The life of iron pipe under ground IS known quantity. Given the size of the pipe, its thickness and the average pressure it has sustained and its condition can be estimated without digging 1t up for inspection. But the pipe is buried The people don't it. The most of them don't stop to think how much its value and usefulness are af- feced by lapse of time But the water company knows all this They inside and deal with the advantage of ample knowledge of the condition of every inch of their system o the vcssitudes of their supply and of the present value of 1t all
 This knowledge be placed at the disposal of the people by their city government if majority of the Council choose The solidity of that majority how ever, was left to be shaken by an accident which came in the burning of public schoolhouse and the narrow but fortunate escape of several hundred chl- dren who were in its class rooms when the dreadful alarm sounded. Accident has exposed what should have been publicly known by means of official action and now there is further excuse for official mat tention. How long does the Council propose to wait! How many public buildings and private homes must be consumed object lessons before officials will be mindful of their oath and their duty?
 Must the sacrifice be greater than the destruction Of property? Will the spectacle Of score of ch- dren burned to death in their schoorooms or that of working people passing from the slumber of wearness to that o death in chariot of fire be needed to sting these to action?
 They have the chance now to act and they may be even excused for pleading that the fire on Pico Heights revealed conditions of which they were ig- norant, and for one we willing that the people should believe them. We have no vindictve ends to and no selfish interests to enhance in this mat ter. We only want justice to the people of one of California's brightest and best known cities
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ONLY ANOTHER YELLOW TRICK.

n shown on another page in this issue the Ex- / \ anllner has been caught at of its character
 lstic tricks. It announced that for special edi- ton It had secured certain pictures which had never been published For the purpose of convincing it that its error is known The Call this morning presents the pictures in question, credting them duly to the Placervile Mountain Democrat, from which they were taken. When an interior paper has the enter prise to collect pictures and considerable expense have them prepared for artistic presentation the bus- ness of stealing them is of high order It s in fact, of just the order tempt the Examiner To be tempted, with the yellow journal is to fall It can have the consolation of knowing that 1t is incapable of falling far.
 The Mountain Democrat is to be congratulated both for its enterprise and the fact that it had the bodness not to submit to being footed without pro test To assist this protest in reaching the readers of papers is but simple duty which is here undertaken not gladly, but without shrinking.
 While the pictures they appear this morning are properly credited to the Placerville journal, owing to the merest nadvertence the same cannot be said of an article James Marshall immediately following the introduction This was taken from the same the pictures
 To the lesson here involved to the improvement it may possibly produce, to the implied advice, yellow journalism IS entirely welcome.
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COLLECTED IN
 THE CORRIDORS

Postmaster G. F. Mcbride of Etna Is at the Grand.
 w D. Haslam. banker of Santa Cruz, is at the California.
 F. N. Wade, an assayer, of Los An geles, is at the Russ.
 V. A. Schilling, a railroad man of Port land, is at the Baldwin.
 H. c. Nash, librarian of the Stanford University, Is at the California.
 Joseph c. Thompson, U. s. N, has taken rooms at the Occidental.
 Sheriff S. D. Ballou and Mrs. Ballou of San Luis Obispo are at the Grand.
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A DELICATE
 COMPLIMENT TO DOLE.

finished his breakfast and was standing in front of the hotel drinking in the love Illness of the morning and ruminating on the uncertainty of life, and other things, when he was approached by an individ- ual of rather doubtful appearance. Mr. Dole was positive that he did not know the stranger, as the only persons that he had, thus far, had the pleasure of meet ing were Lieutenant Noble of the army and a few hackmen and railroad agents who had gathered on the wharf the day of his arrival to bid him welcome. How ever, he of the peculiar appearance evil dently had no doubt of the identity of the parsonage he saw standing in the hotel entrance, for the moment his eye caught sight of the distinguished stranger his face became suffused with the warm blush of pleasure and a smile of ecstatic happiness overspread and softened the somewhat hard lines of his cynical coun- tenance, and rushing up he extended the glad hand to the Island President and without giving that gentleman any op- portunity to say a word. commenced:
 Judge. I've been looking for you all over the town as I want to put you right on that little matter of Mag's that is to come up before you this morning. You see"
 You must have made mistake, ,'' broke in MT. Dole 'I am the President of Hawaii and not a judge
 "Hully geer' exclaimed the stranger. falling back. 'T took you for Judge Campbell. as I thought there was only one bunch of whiskers like that in the city"
 J. M- McGee. wealthy mining man of
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Sutter Creek. is at the Occidental with his wife and family.
 E. w. Bramhall, a prominent merchant of Japan, is registered at the Palace
 G. A. Panniman, a merchant of San Jose, arrived at the Grand last night.
 c. A. Storke, well-known attorney of Santa Barbara, is guest at the Grand
 E. E. Fowler and James Howell, min CTS, of Livingston, Mont, are at the Russ.
 J. M. Foote, the County Clerk of Hollis ter, will be at the Grand for the next few days.
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William Harper, chief of the Bureau of Information of the Philadelphia Commer- ciai Museums, who has just returned from a tour in South Africa, Australia. China and Japan. reports that our com merciaI relations with those countries have been perceptibly improved as re- suit of the museums labors.
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NJ. Hanotaux. the French Minister for Foreign Affairs. who has made a careful study of Cardinal Richelieu and his times, was recently permitted to see and examine a number of contemporary docu- ments in the office of an old notary in Paris. He considers these papers a great find, as they are said to contain all the "actes civiles" of the great priest-states- man.
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In the disagreement of medical experts as to the sanity of a woman being udicially weighed at Los Angeles 1t hardly be said that the unexpected has happened Perfect agreement in such matters will never be secured until side the other shall be thoughtful enough to retain all the experts.
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EASEMENTS.

Baldwin" The Man From Mexico" Cafornia-"Courted Into Court" Alcazar-"A Mans Love" and Forbidden Fruit" Morosco's-''The Blue and the Gray" Tivoli-"Brian Boru."
 Orpheum-V Vaudeville.
 Bush-The Thala German Hebrew Opera Company. Olympia Eddy and Mason ssKuchner's Ladies' Orchestra The Chutes-Chiquita and Vaudeville Lybeck Cycle Skating R1nk-Optcal Illusions. Coursing-Ingleside Coursing Park, this afternoon. California Jockey Club, Oakland Racetrack-Races to-day.
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During the re- cent visit of Hon. olulu's chief ex- ecutive to the city the following del icate compliment was paid him. Mir. Dole had just
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CAL1FoRNIANs IN WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21-E. E. Nichols of San Diego is at the Raleigh; c. E. Young of San Francisco is at the St. James; A. F. Strong and family of Los Angeles are at the Normandie.
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Cal glace fruit 5Oc perlD at Townsends'

Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 610 Mont gomery st. Tel. Main 1042.
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ping at the California on a short visit to the coast.
 G. W. TealI, a large manufacturer of Rochester, New York. is at the Califor- nia-
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General lPa ssen-
 ger Agent Good man of the South ern Pacific Com pany started East to Chicago last Thursday night
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STEAMSHIP PACIFIC-O. S., City. The steamship Pacific was foundered in a collision with the ship Orpheus off Cape FIattery on the 4th of November. 1875, while on voyage from Victoria, B. C., to this port.
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THEATERS-Some individual has for months periodically written to this de- partment asking for the seating capacity of two of the city theaters. The question has been answered several times in the course of a year, and this department has not the space to answer the same ques- tion every few weeks.
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Hicks Beach has warned Canada that it is her duty to do something to add the naval strength of the mother country. If the mother country can't get along without aid of this it would seem time for Canada to begin wondering what is the use of being a colony and tied to an apron string.
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THE most effcacious stimulant to sharpen the appetite is DR. SIEGERT's ANGosTURA BITTERs. Don't accept an imitation.
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Dr. Chalmers, the State quarantine officer could ex- cite interest by article setting forth what he is for emitting, of course any reference to his ability to draw salary, controversy having arisen on this point
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GRACEFUL TRIBUTE.


 following story on General Horace Por- ter, the present Minister to France. which, as he remarked, is too good to keep. The party were discussing swell dinners and after-dinner speakers, when the gentleman from the East said: Tn our section of the country General Por- ter enjoys a reputation as an after dinner speaker that is second only to that of Chauncey Depew On the particu- lar occasion that I have in mind General Porter was in attendance upon the annual banquet of the Sons of the American Revolution, which was held In the Jeffer- son Hotel, In Richmond, Va, last year. The Hon. William Wirt Henry was the toastmaster. Upon his right sat General Porter and to his left was General F1tc- hugh Lee now representing this country in Cuba while ex-Vice-President Steven son was also present. General Porter was not down for one of the regular toasts' but before the banquet was over MT Henry called upon him for some remarks. He arose with his accustomed grace anu said: As you all know I had the honor or being upon General Grants stan at the time that Richmond feIl see many here tonight with whom 1 was not upon speaking terms at that time. When our party left Washington the other day to come here some one in the party asked me how long it would take to reach R1ch- mond. I replied that judging by my ex- perience of over thirty years ago 1T the Lee family interposed an objection IL would take us about four years. with this General Porter turned and bowed to General Lee and took his seat amid great applause. It was one of the most grace ful things 1 have ever seen done.
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THE GENUINE BROWNS BRONCHIAL TRooHEs" are sold only in boxes. They are wonderfully effective for Coughs and Throat Troubles.
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CALIFoRNIANs IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-F. A. Lyon of Sacramento is at the Stuart House.
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AUCTION SALES.

By Easton E1drdgeThis day, January 22 Turkish Rugs at 2A Sutter street at and P.
 By Shainwad Co.-Tuesday January 25 Real Els tate at 2lS Montgomery at l2 o'clock
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A VIGOROUS growth and the original color giyen to the hair by PARKERs HAIR BALsAM.
 HINDERCoRNs, the best cure for eorns. IS eta
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Any murderer who chooses to scan the news from San Mateo will the conclusion that an indi- vdual of his stripe regarded there as persona non grata
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

MARK TWAIN-W M. F., Middleton, Cal The address of Mark Twain Is Hartford. Conn.
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Once more 1t has been demonstrated that Fol- som IS not an agreeable prison to escape from. However, if convict is bent upon suicide the method is speedy enough
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Huntington tells the people of Southern California that he has not made money out of railways in this State Still, Huntington is not unreasonable he does not expect anybody to believe him.
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A TO minent Eastern gentle man, who Is stop ping at the Pal ace Hotel, in con- versation w i [ h some friends yes terday told the
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Chicago lawyer pleaded for the life of assas- sin on the ground that there other hope of generation for the wretch However, it is to be in ferred from observation that this hope is hardly worth mentioning.
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EXEMPTIONS. M. L., San Jose, Cal. Under the laws of the State of California chairs, tables and books to the value of s200 belonging to the judgment debtor are exempt from execution, also the neces- sary household table and kitchen furni- ture, including one sewing machine. stove, stovepipe and furniture wearing apparel, beds, bedding and bedsteads. hanging pictures, oil paintings, drawings, painted or drawn by any member of the family, family pictures in suitable frames, pro
 visions actually provided for individual or family use for three months, and three cows and sucking calves, four hogs and sucking pigs, and food for such for specified time; also the instruments and chest of a physician or surgeon necessary to the exercise of his profession with his professional library and necessary office furniture
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THE SUN-A Reader, Dutch Flat. Cal. If the earth were so poised in space that the sun would be vertical at the equator throughout the year it would certainly rise exactly in the east and set in the west during the entire year. This is just what it does on March q and September g, when it shines vertically at the equator As the earth's inclination from a perpendicular to the plane of it's orbit is the same throughout the year, thus causing unequal day and night alter nately north and south of the equator 1t shines more or less obliquely according to the latitude toward either pole, and the moment it deviates from a perpen- dicular at the equator it shines beyond the north pole in our summer When the suns declination is g degrees 2S minutes north of the equator. as at the summer Solstice, it is, of course, 23 degrees 2S minutes north of an east direction and will so appear at sunrise and sunset.
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BEZIQUE-S., Woodland, Cal. There are twenty-three rules to govern the game of bezique and ten paragraphs of advice This department cannot print them all, but the rule specially inquired about, the one that applies to the last trick is as follows: "The last trick hav- ing been made, each player counts the aces and tens which are in the tricks the player has taken; these aces and tens are called brisques. For each brisque the holder scores ten points, which are added to the score made during the playing by the combination. Brisques are not count the game by scorings made by combina- tions; that is to say; when neither of the RXeSd 4o hc9 c9nete tbe 4t beo poles m who. with the brisques counts most over the fixed number wins and, in case of trick.