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DENTIST
EARLY CALIFORNIA SHIPS
Hoiv Commerce Grew In Pioneer
Day of the Golden State
The first European vessel to enter
the port of San Francisco of which
4 there is any record was the Eagle in
lSlu commanded by Captain William
H Davis She sailed from Boston via
the Sandwich Islands and Alaska She
carried an assortment of goods which
j were a revelation to the natives and
their garments of skins and hides were
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I tion Payments were made in hides
J I tallow soap and flsh The Eagle then
became engaged In the sea otter trade
and was very successful as otters
I were plentiful In San Francisco bay
and all along the coast She made
three trips netting about 25000 on
ach trip This stimulated others and
this discovery no doubt gave an Im
petus to commerce which made this
port known to the world
Commerce in those days of manna
was carried on in what might be term
ed a free and easy manner On
many articles the duty was 100 per
cent which practically amounted to
confiscation or made smuggling neces
sary in self defense The Mexican of
ficials generally opened the door Fre
quently vessels were permitted to pass
Monterey the port of entry going to
Yerba Bucna and after selling as
much of the cargo as possible to re
turn to Monterey for entry and dis
pose of the remainder
The shippers were not sworn as to
the value of the cargx They gave fic
titious invoices and by this means
would get off on the payment of 5000
on a 20000 cargo
It became so customary to swindle
the government as scarcely to excite
comment except in cases where goods
were concealed in false linings of the
vessels and the government officials
were outwitted
URIC ACID IN THE SYSTEM
A Medical Opinion on This Foe to
Health and Life
Haig holds that the man of average
weight elaborates twelve grains of uric
acid in twenty four hours and woe be
tide him if he does not excrete the full
amount with due celerity A little re
tained uric acid will give rise to head
ache lethargy and mental depression
A greater retention will give rise to
arthritis lumbago and sciatica The
uric acid miser will end his days
through bronchitis Brights disease
apoplexy diabetes or cancer Man
cannot avoid his fate and cease being
a uric acid producer He can avoid
to some degree swallowing the wretch
ed stuff What he cannot avoid swal
lowing he can with care excrete If
man had been wise and had continued
to live where he belongs near the
equator and had fed on fruit and nuts
all might have been well But having
wandered from the tropics he must be
wise or perish Here are the rules
that one must follow to be healthy anj
live long First swallow no uric acid
and pass out each day regularly and
punctually all that is formed in the
body Second excretion of uric acid
may be obtained by clothing warmly
by avoiding exposure to cold In every
way the morning cold tub is an espe
cial abomination by eating freely of
potatoes especially In cold weather
and by avoiding fruits Bicarbonate
of sodium night and morning for peo
ple who live in a climate similar to
Londons is a fine habit In addition
to all this It Is also advisable to se
cure the proper distribution of time
between bodily and mental exertion
and to dispense with dependence on
tonics stimulants and bracing cli
mates New York Medical Journal
Water Thieves
Water thieves are not unique Their
prototypes existed at least as long ago
as 1479 At that time a Londoner
wrote This yere a wax chandler in
Flete strete had bl craft perced a pipe
of the condlt withlnne the grounde and
so conveied the water into his selar
wherefor he was jugid to ride thrugh
the Citee with a condit upon his
hedde There were other difficulties
too A century later 1574 it is re
corded that owing to a sudden shower
of rain the water in the Dowgate chan
nel had such a swift course that a lad
minding to have leapt JiGr it was
taken by the feet and borne down with
the violence of that narrow stream till
he came against a cart wheel that stood
in the water gate before which time
he was drowned and stark dead
The Suns Corona
Thus far we know the corona of the
sun to be a sort of outer envelope so
shielding us from the Intense solar
light and heat that it may be said
without exaggerating that the sun has
never really been studied comprehen
sively Within the corona is an ocean
of gas 5000 miles deep stained a ruby
red by the crimson blaze of hydrogen
Flashes of flame leap from this ruddy
mass often to a height of a hundred
thousand miles and more
In a Bad Way
It was a New England parson who
announced to his congregation one Sun
day Youll be sorry to hear that the
little church of Jonesville is once more
tossed upon the waves as sheep with
out a shepherd Boston Christian
Register
Done In Advance
Artist I sold a picture yesterday
Friend Ah What are you going to do
with the money Artist Its already
done with My landlady bought it for
half the board bill I owed her
A long slow friendship Is the best
a long slow enmity the deadliest
Merriam
Having been poor Is no shame but
being ashamed of it is Franklin
Thirty Dollars Word I
A poet and literary man of some ce
your own price Well announce in the
progrm
My price interrupted Mr Gillespie
will be G0
Isnt that a little steep
Not at all everything considered
The manager tried to beat him down
to 50 but he was immovable and the
bargain was finally closed at the first
named figure
Alpheus said Mrs Gillespie after
the cailer had gone wasnt that more
than you intended to charge him when
he first spoke
Yes he said its just twice as
much But he Irritated me thirty dol
lars worth by calling it progrm
What Gave the Earth Its Motion
You have often asked or had the
question asked of you What gave the
earth Its dally motion and how is the
force of that motion kept up but have
never been really satisfied with the an
swer given or the reasons therefor
which you were able to advance In ex
planation The astronomers are not
even agreed upon this question Some
of them claim that the original Initial
centrifugal force was directed in a
line slightly to one side of the center
of the globe which would of course
cause the earth to rotate upon Its axis
and by the law of Inertia of matter
must continue to revolve at a uniform
rate of speed This law of the Inertia
of matter is to the effect that matter
once set in motion must continue to
move until arrested by some outside
force Others claim that the motion Is
a compound resultant of the motion of
the earth In its orbit and the attraction
of the sun
How a Wound Heals
If you have run a pin into 3our thumb
or received a bayonet thrust precisely
the same thing takes place A myriad
of white corpuscles those tiny first
aid cells the phagocites from the
surrounding blood vessels and lym
phatic glands at once come hurrying
to the rescue They begin to clean up
whatever wreck there has been made
In the skin and muscular tissue They
eagerly absorb into themselves or clus
ter opposingly about all foreign mat
ter that has been introduced into the
wound Then they proceed to pile
themselves tier upon tier around it
like so many little sandbags about a
broken bastion Later they gradually
join together and solidify Into the lay
er of new skin which appears beneath
the sloughed off scab They are at once
workmen and repairing material A
E MacFarlane in McClures
Why He Sees Double
The reason that a man sees double
who has gazed too long on the wine
when It is red Is that the nerve centers
are changed by the action of the alco
hol There is a want of harmony In the
action of the muscles which move the
eyeballs Consequently instead of both
eyes being focused simultaneously on
an- object one eye- receives an impres
sion independently of the other The
two impressions are communicated to
the brain and the object is therefore
seen twice The inflamed condition and
loss of energy in the brain centers from
overdoses of alcohol also account for
the staggering gait of an intoxicated
man
How Icelanders Tie Horses
The Icelanders have a strange but
effective plan for preventing horses
straying away from any particular
spot If two gentlemen happen to be
riding without attendants and wish to
leave their horses for any reason they
tie the head of one horse to the tail of
the former In this state it is utterly
impossible for the horses to move on
either backward or forward If dis
posed to move at all it will be only in a
circle and even then there must be
mutual agreement to turn their heads
the same way
The Money Lenders
There are many examples of Lord
Palmerstons ready wit in Sir M E
Grant Duffs book Notes From a
Diary In a debate about tho Jews
an orator rather bored the house by
enumerating many of the things which
the English owed to Hebrew Initiative
Lord Palmerston In reply gave the dis
cussion a sprlghtlier turn I quite
agree with the honorable gentleman
he remarked Many of us owe a
great deal to the Jews
Priests and Beards
The beardless priest is only a matter
of custom there being no edict upon
the subject All of the popes from
Adrian VI to Innocent XII and all
the cardinals and other church clerics
during the same period were bearded
dignitaries Ignatius Loyola St Fran
cis Xavler Francis de Sales Vincent
de Paul and the Cardinals Bellarmlne
and Richelieu all wore full beards
An AtvI nl Finish
Hen What makes you look so glum
Rooster Ive just been chased out of
the wood shed with a feather duster
It got so close to me that I recognized
the tails of three of my family De
troit Free Press
A Man of Ability
Chollie Can you recognize ability
when you see it Miss Ruth Miss Ruth
looking around Certainly Where
la any
It cannot be too often repeated that
It Is not helps but obstacles not fa
cilities but difficulties that make men
Matthews
CARTS IN SCOTLAND
lebrity was Visited In his study OHO The- Were a Canne of Wonder la
morning by a manager of a lecture bu 1 e Eighteenth Centnry
reau who said that he had called to In Scotland at the beginning of the
ask the writer to take part in an eighteenth century produce was car
tertalnment rled In sacks on horseback or on
We want you to read selections Bledges or later in the century on
from your own works Mr Gillespie tumbrels which were sledges on tum
together with an original poem com- bllng wheels of solid wood with wood
posed expressly for the occasion Name en axletrees all revolving together
These machines were often so small
that in a narrow passage the carter
could lift them bodily for they held
little more than a wheelbarrow They
had wheels a foot and a half In diam
eter made of three pieces of wood
pinned together like a butter flrkin
and which quickly wore out and be
came utterly shapeless so that a load
of COO pounds was enormous for the
dwarfish animals to drag Yet even
such vehicles were triumphs of civili
zation when they came Into use when
the century was young
Carts are a later Invention still and
when one in 1723 first carried Its tiny
load of coals from East Kilbride to
Cambuslaug crowds of people It Is
reported went to see the wonderful
machine They looked with surprise
and returned with astonishment In
many parts of the lowlands they were
not In ordinary use even till 17G0
while In the northern districts sledges
or creels on tlje backs of women were
chiefly employed to the end of the cen
tury The wretched condition of the
roads was the chief cause of the re
luctant adoption of carts
In the driest weather the roads were
unfit for carriages and in wet weather
almost impassable even for horses
deep In ruts of mire covered with
stones winding up heights and down
hills to avoid swamps and bogs It
was this precarious state of the roads
which obliged judges to ride on cir
cuit and a practice began as a physic
al necessity was retained as a dignified
habit so that in 1744 Lord Dun re
signed his judgeship because he was
no longer able to ride on circuit
Scottish Review
LIFE IN ANCIENT GREECE
No Itemizing Whatever of Grecian
Domestic Architecture
Of the domestic architecture of the
Greeks nothing whatever remains
writes Jean Schoepfer in the Archi
tectural Record Magazine In ancient
Greece private houses never had any
architectural Interest A citizen of
Athens or Sparta was too busy with
state affairs to spend much time at
home He wanted to be in the public
place where he could find his friends
and fellow citizens Moreover the
climate allowed him to live in the open
air during the greater part of the year
It was on the agora that the citizens
assembled in public meeting It was
there from a rostrum that the orator3
harangued the crowd hence the need
of a good voice and a clear enuncia
tion hence too the famous pebbles of
Demosthenes It was in the open air
that Socrates and the sophists held
their discussions alongside the Ilyssus
under the plane trees or on a public
place It was in the academy gardens
that Plato patronized and in open air
gymnasiums that the youths practiced
their athletic games There was no
raison detre for a domestic architec
ture with such a people and in such a
climate It is not necessary to have
palatial administrative buildings for
governing a people that live in the pub
lic places Besides what significance
would the term comfort which is so
full of meaning to us twentieth cen
tury westerns living in cold damp cli
mates where fog wind and rain pre
vail during half the year what sense
we ask would this word have for the
robust Greeks of the fifth century B C
whose children Aristophanes pictures
to us on their way to school barehead
ed in spite of the falling snow and
singing as they go
Took the Ltist Chance
An old Scotch gravedigger was re
monstrated with one day at a funeral
for making a serious overcharge for
digging a grave
Well ye see sir said the old man
in explanation making a motion with
his thumb toward the grave him and
me had a bit o a tift twa or three
years syne owre a braw watch I selt
him an Ive never been able to get
the money out o him yet Now says
I to myself this is my last chance
and Id better tak it
Was It St Marie or Lazarnst
As Jesus was being led captive from
the garden back of Jerusalem one form
followed the guard It was white in
the moonlight and looked like an ap
parition When the guard noticed the
figure they sought to lay hands upon
It when the figure cast off the cloth
around Its form and escaped St Mark
is the only historian who mentions
this and some writers think St Mark
was the figure Others think It was
Lazarus
Graphic
The end of a novel compressed by
the editor owing to lack of space Ot
tokar took a small brandy then his
hat his departure besides no notice of
his pursuers meantime a revolver out
of his pocket and lastly his own
life Deutsche Leschalle
The Thrown
Im taking my riding lessons
In
strict privacy
Why not In public
So as to avoid the fierce white light
that beats about the thrown Louis
ville Courier Journal
Breaking Her Word
She Would you believe it When the
bride came to the word obey in the
wedding service she stuttered terribly
He Well she might just as well break
her word one time as another Yon
kers Statesman
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