The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

sponses from many of the newspapers
all over the North--Leslie's Weekly
Lincoln's famous Gettysburg speech
furnishes theme round which Mrs.
Andrews has woven story for the
July Scribner. entitled The Perfect
Tribute"
The Ten Commandments have been
engraved in characters so fine that they
could be stamped upon one side OF a
nickel five-cent piece. and on several
occasions the Lords Prayer has been
engraved on one side of a gold dollar.
the diameter of which is six-tenths OF
an inch. 1 have also seen 1t written
with a pen within a circle which meas
ured fourtenths OF an inch in diameter.
-(From "Phin's Seven Follies OF
Science" D. Van Nostrand Company,
Publishers, New York;
Readers who always imagined the
late Walter Pater TO be a stern and
severe person, much above frivolity Of
any kind, will be surprised when they
read A. c. Bensons monograph on him
in the English Men of Letters series.
Mr. Benson tells US that, far from be-
ing man of strained and affected SOL
emnity." Pater loved easy talk and sim
pie laughter. Nothing amused Mr..
Pater more than the Gilbert and Sui
hyan operas, and he is said to have
laughed till his sides ached over "Rud-
digore, and. later, Mr.. Pinero's Mag
istrate."-New York Herald.
An odd bit of description OF the San
Francisco fire is the following:
"At the end of the third day / was
standing on the top of Russian Hill.
Tne fire had then swept the city. but
was still burning In the North Beach
district To the south. a little below
me, was the Jones-street hill A
strange hallucination possessed me- ]
thought I heard strains of music. 1t
was no hallucination- Upon the tip
top of the Jones-street hill, IN the mid
die of the street, the only thing stand
ing for miles, was piano. A man
was playing on IL; I could see his
hands rising and falling. his body
swaying. In the wind his long black
hair and loosened red tie at his neck
streamed. The wind bore the sounds
away from me. but in a lull I finally
heard the music. 1t was Saint -Saen's
Danse Macabre'-the death dance. His
hands beat up and down, his body
swayed. his hair streamed, and from the
crest down over the devastated city,
like cascade. poured the notes with
their sound Of shaken dry bones."-
ooA4tNS ~AORRSA "a @AA- ROA . " COnAys
That interest in psychical phenomena
still possesses the public mind Is clearly
shown by the fact that Professor James
II. Hyslop's two volumes, Science and
a Future Life" and "Enigmas of Psy-
chical Research" are in constant de-
mand- The aforementioned book. pub
lished but a few weeks ago by Her
bert B. Turner & Co., has Just gone into
its second edition.
The agitation between manufacturers
of automobiles and popular taste TO at
tempt to fix a name for the new self
propelling carriage-horseless vehicle
automobile or motor car-has pretty
definitely been settled But the term
wireless telesraphy" Is still in dispute.
On this point J. A Fleming of Untver-
sity College, London. has taken a
definite stand in his new work. pub
lished by the Longmans, dealing with
electrical current passing through
ether. The title of the work prociaims
Professor Fleming's point OF view. A.
Is. The Principles Of Electric Wave
TeIegraphy. New York Times.
Years before the villa Crawford. at
Sorrento, became a tourists shrine. the
proprietor used to write his novels in
an octagonal room at the top of the
building that peers across the Bay Of
Naples toward Vesuvius- OF late years,
however, Mr.. Crawford has removed his
workshop to picturesque ruin eighty
or ninety miles south OF Sorrento. on
the Calabrian coast. The rule IS that
of one of the watch-towers erected CEN
turies ago by Charles v against Sara
cenic invasion 1t rears its head upon
a bold headland, is two stories in
height and has walls eight feet thick
The manner In which Mr. Crawford ac-
quired this eastelleto forms an interest
ing story Macmillan Company. Lite
rary Notes)
A BUBBLE SONG.
I'll make the soapsuds clear and strong
And blow the bubbles, one by one:
Then we'll sing our bubhle-song-
Such a merry, foolish one
We babble of bubbles like this. you
Bibbety- -bobble the bubbles go;
Bubbling light,
Bubbling bright.