Fkeeland Thibune. fcblirhiw rvEitv MONDAY" AND TI/OIiSDAY. THOS. A. BUCKLEY, Editor a.vr Proprietor. OFFICE Main Stueet above Centre. SI'HSCIUPTION HATKS. One Year 51 0 Six Months 7. Four Months 60 I Two Months 25 ■ Subwrilnirs am requested to observe the date following tho name on tho labels of their papers. Ity referring to this they ran toll at a jrlunce how they stand on the books In this office. For instance: (irover Cleveland 3Umieft"> means that Grover Is paid up to June 2N, iWi. Keep the figures in advance of the pmsont date. He port, promptly to this office when vour paper i Is not received. All orreuraifes must li paid when paper ts discontinued, or collection will he niudc In the manner provided by law. is to linvc n tinivorsity that will rival Oxlord and All the preliminary details for its eßtab lishment have been arranged. The San Francisco Examiner remarks; Several foreign govern ments are urging their people not to immigrate to America, Residents of the United States are prone to tied fault with the management of affairs abroad, hut in this instance (lie only comment heard resembles a rather I emphatic "amen." There seem to he j already here as many povertv-strieken aliens as can starve to death comfort- ! ably. A few days ago the Toovey copy ol the first folio (1023) edition of Shake speare sold for sß4s—a remarkably low price considering the excellent condition of the book. In 1888 SI,OOO I was paid for the imperfect Aylesford copy from Paekington hall, and in j 1883 the Perkins copy, which was far j from faultless, brought $725 Three years ago, in New York, the Ives copy, j a very tine one, sold for $4,200. Ed mund Yates says tho *t>rv best exam ple in the world F>o thoughtful for others, be courteous nnd | kin 1, j And then will life grow to completeness. And thus will the days as tlcy glide into Hold their riches for boy and for man ; \\ ho follows this rule in its meaning sublime. To get all out of life that ho can. Lillian Whiting. Tiit: KI:Y TO SIXTY-SIX. r.Y 15. M. HALLIDAY. Hl ', wwltl,or cold, aud everybody H looked pinched and s*l hltie. It was not '•* the sort of day when i business is brisk ! anywhere. Out of so penetrating, that the constant effort to keep up a circulation to tight against tho weakening influence of tho cold, absorbed every energy and left little over for thought, for ohms, for busi ness or pleasure. Inside, rooms were heated to a suffocating, baking close ness, and men were languid. They stood at windows and looked at tho icy streets, or held hands to aching | heads over ledgers. In the big insurance ofiieo two men were talking in a private room. A card I was brought in, and an old man fol lowed it rapidly. He was a little bent, which shortened his fig ure, and lie held his head at a peculiar sidewise angle. He shuffled a little as he walked, but the very loose ami heavy Arctic overshoes upon his feet may have had something to do with that. His brown overcoat, a good deal worn at tho elbows, was long and of a comfortable, old-fash- I ioued pattern. A gray knitted woolen scarf was wound around and around his neck, and woolen gloves wero upon his hands. Ho put one of these hands up to his ear, and cupped his palm h catch every sound when he was spoken to. and then you saw why he carried his head so oddly, lie was deaf. He had come in, lie explained, to have his life insured. Ho had often thought of doing so, but had never been in a position where he felt that he could regularly pay the premium before. Ho was a kindly faced man, who seemed to state facts because they were such, without understanding any reason why they should he concealed. His eves were clear and apparently good, although not very wide open. "We shall require you to till out a blank before we oau consider your ap plication, ' the uiauag r said. "We seldom take men of your age." "1 am not so old as 1 look," tho ap plicant replied. "I know that the premium will be large, but I have a regular income, which ceases at my death, and I have lutely found a dear young friend to whom I should like to leave something, i might take a fancy to go walking on the railroad track someday," and he smiled whimsically. "We will have that put in your pol icy, said the manager, gravel v. When he had filled out his applica tion blank, we discovere I that his name was Louis A. Cattermole, that he was forty-four years t' age, and came of perfectly healthy parents. He said that |ho was born in central Missouri,that his ( father had been killed in the war, and I his mother had been blown up on a Mississippi steamboat. He had no near | relatives whom he knew. He. had ' been a wanderer upon the face of the earth. Three years before, ho had met John Mackley, u young New Yorker, on a journey through the j South, and he had come to New York very recently to live. He seemed to be a sociable sort of fellow, although looking ten years ol der than lie said ho was. Ho had an ingenuous way of talking, which might have come from central Mis souri. McOary, the insurance mana ger, enmo from Kentucky, and he rather .'iijoyc-il v. rlu.sity wheu liecould conscientiously listen to it, without feeling that I,<- was establishinc a nr.- ! cedent.} "I am afraid," ho said to Cptter , mole, ••tlmt you will never pass the j doctors." But he did. They were astonished I to find so vigorous a frame, j "Sound as a nut. In remark able state of preservation. The teeth arn't good, but leav ing out, that and tho deafness, that's as tine a specimen as f ever saw at forty-lonr," tie doctor reported. Ho, after ail the preliminaries were gone through, Louis A. Cattermole received a policy upon his life, made out in fa ; vor of John Mackley, the young stock | broker on New street. We made a great many inquiries, of course. Mackley, who was a big. straight backed* bluff follow, who had a reputation for turning pretty sharp corners on tho street, evidently had no idea of the admiration ho had ex cited in his friend, Mr. Cattermole. When he was asked about him, ho laughed, and said he was a queer old duffer, who told a first rate story with a "nib" in it. "He Jives across the street from me. T livo up in the Dalton, you know,and old Cattermole is in the Merlin, just I opposite. He comes over and smokes a cigar with me now and then, and I return the visit and smoke one of his old pipes, when I am down on my luck, and need pulling out. You don't mind his deafness after you get used to it. Ho tells a capital story." And Mack ley laughed at. the stray memory of some one, showing nil his big white teeth. Ho had had his mustache shaved lately. John Mackley was al ways very much in the mode. The first premium was paid in cash, and when the second one came around we had a letter from Mr. Cattermole, inclosing a check. He had been away for some months, traveling about, and didn't know when ho would bo at home. The letter was from Philadel phia, and tho check was paid in due course. | Next spring Mr. Cattermole wrote the insurance company a letter, sav ing that he wanted to make some ar rangement by which he could cut | down liis policy. It had been an enormous policy, all the office had thought ; and knowing John Mackley, and Mr. Cattermole's slight acquaint ance with him, we had regarded it as almost ridiculous that the old man should spend what must have been the major part of his income that that overgrown young follow might have a fortune some time or other. "Good Lord'."the doctor said. "Thai i man is good for fifty years. John , Mackley will be dead first." McCary went up to the Merlin to j -co Cattermole. lie found him in. The elevator boy said he hadn't been well lor some days; that Mr. Mackley | had been in almost every day. "Jlc's a mighty clever gent, Mr. Cattermole is," the elevator boy gra ciously remarked. The apartment was small, and plainly, almost poorly, furnishod. McCary looked about and thought of all the luxuries this lonely man might buy with the sum he annually spent upon insuring liis life for the benefit of a rather heartless, rather raffish young man, who would doubtless make ducks and drakes of the money when it came into his possession —if it ever did. And then McCary gave a cynical sort of a sigh for the vagaries of human nature. Mackley had let McCary in. "Mr. Cattermole isu't very well to day," the young man said cheer full}'. "I have been trying to get him to go to bed. He'll be out in a minute. 1 must be getting along down town," and lie opened the door and was gone. Cattermole came in presently, iu a flannel dressing gown and a pair of list slippers. lie was hollow eyed, and had a towel around his head. He said one of his ears had developed an ab scess, and ho was almost stone deaf, , and in great pain. McCary had some difficulty in making him understand j the obstacles to lessening his policy. "I've lost money, sir," he said, "I feed as though I were robbing John. He's been like a son to me; but 1 ; must do it! I must do it!" And then after McCary had gone all over the ground again, lie made up his mind that he would not do anything of the sort. The sacrifice seemed too great. McCary's people went to the moun tains for the summer, and he went down to the Oriental Hotel at Man hattan Beach, and dined and bathed and slept. Two or three times he met Cattermole walking along the ocean front. The walk, and the odd car riage of the head, seemed exaggerated. The old man told McCary that he had been ill ever since the winter before, that grippe had gotten the better of him. Then he would ask McCary if lie had seen Mackley. He often liad seen him going gayly about with some 'friends; but he never saw him with Cattermole. Ho used to despise John Mackley I for an ungrateful oub. And then he realized that Macklcy had no reason on earth to suppose that poor deaf , I old Cattermole had put him under any j particular obligation. No doubt he ! knew nothing about the policy. Mack ! lev was like all his class. ! Cattermole said that ho thought the 1 : bathing did him good. He and i Mackley had taken bathhouses side by ! side for the season, and often went in i together, he said. McCary saw Catter mole in the w iter one day and laughed heartily. He had tied up his poor ears in wads of cotton, and a rubber band, and covered almost his entire head with a straw hat. His arms were covered, too, and altogether ho made n conspicuous figure in the water, even in tlmt great and motley crowd at Manhattan Beach. He was a bold swimmer, and often went away out be yond tlio float. | One day it happened that McCary was in the bath house when Mackley i caiue in for his key. "Give me 66, will you?" ho said to the attendant. "The other gent's got 66. T give it ! to him 'bout ten minutes ago." | "Ob, that's all right! Give me 68." "1 thought you had battled, Mack ley,'' McCary said. "I saw you com | ing out of the bath house just as 1 | came in." 1 "1 went up through from the beach. I forgot the formality of a key and my ! bathing suit. I had to come all the 1 way around. Did you see old Cat termole? I haven't seen the old beg gar tor a week. We'll have a swim. Many people in? Ugh!" McCary went up into the pavilion i anil looked at the bathers. The | water was black with people. He saw [ old Cattermolo come out of tho bath I house in his queer rig, accentuated by j his curious walk and twisted neck, I and plunge into the water. Two bun- j dred people turned to look after him 1 with curious eyes. He went away out j beyond the float, and then presently j in the chopping of the waves MoCary lost sight of him. Presently he saw another head bob bing about, and then he saw a man 1 spring upon the flont and wave his ! arms wildly. He seemed to have < something 111 his hand; and then he 1 plunged into the water again. A dozen swimmers started for the i float, but it was a long way in that j cold water. They found John Mack- I ley dancing about, half crazy. He ! had been swimming out there with his friend Cattermolo, ami the old man had been taken with cramp, or some- j thing—perhaps it was the undertow— I and he was gone. Mackley had pulled the hat from his head in his efforts to ' save liini. lie had been there but a minute before. McCary pressed his way down into | the crowd. He too had seen Catter- | mole but a few minutes before. Every I effort was made to find the body, but ! they were nil unsuccessful. "It will wash in, ' tho guard said. I "They always do.' "He was a great friend of mine," j John Mackley said with feeling, j "And he was tho beat story teller in j New York." ' McCary followed Mackley into the ; long row of bath houses. He was an ! insurance manager. He had seen the j whole thing, ami 110 might as well ! know all tho details. Mackley went down tho corridor with his heavy, majestic tread, hip shoulders straight, his head well up, ! and his bare, brawny arms shining, i He stopped at his door and tried to lit in his key. It wouldn't turn. Ho looked at it again. McCary saw it too. i On the brass tag were the figures "(50.*\ 1 McCary put his hand upon the key. i ' "You threw away tho wrong one, j didn't you?" he said coolly. "What do you mean?" Mackley asked angrily. His big list was in the , "Hush!" McCary said sternly. J "You don't want any trouble, any ox-i plauations. It was all perfectly done, and you were very clever to carry it out so far, and right under my eyes. I advise you to go on the stage. It isn't so dangerous as this, and it's more profitable than Wall street— j sometimes." Mackley's face was rigid, but de I fiant, "I never should have suspected yon in this world, except that 1 had my I field glass to my eyes when you tore the hat and bundage off your head out there in the water. | 1 saw it. It saw Cattermolo turn ! to Mackley and as you stripped ' your arms I saw your plan. It wat- j clever, and it was simple; but you | ought to have gotten under tho float, 1 and thrown away tho key to 66, in stead of the key to 68." "Perhaps you can prove some of these things." "J can prove that your teeth were drawn—very bad teeth—in February of last year, and new ones put in. Perhaps the physicians who examined Cattermole, and the dentist, could corroborate my actual vision." Me- Cury smiled. "But 1 will relieveyoni mind, Mr. Mackley. The case will never come to court. Wo will keep the handsome premiums you have paid us, and not advertise your' histrionic abilities. 1 advise you to dress your self—if you can get into OS—and be ready to meet the reporters." And Mr. McCary went over to the hotel and ordered his dinner. —Muu j bey 's Magazine. "The Lamb Hourd." I The Duke of Holstcin inliis "Travels in Muscovy and Persia" (1636) gives a j full account of a wonderful vegetable ! growing in the neighborhood of the ' city of Samara, Russia, and known as the "lamb or sheep gourd." The. Duke . says: "It most resembles a lamb in ; all its members, and on that account I is called 'the lamb gourd' by the poo* . pie. It changes place in growing ae i tar as the vine or Btalk will roach, and I wherever it turns the grass withers. When it ripens the stalk withers, and the outward rind iu covered with a j kind of linir which the Muscovites use instead of fur. They showed us some of these skins which were covered ! with soft wool, not unlike that of a lamb newly weaned.", J Scaliger also speaks of the "lamb i gourd" m his works. In one chapter he says tliut the queer vegetable con tinues to grow as long as grass is plentilul, but that when the grass tails, the "pore ereotyr dyes fromo lac •1 nourishment." lie also says that the wolt is the only animal that will feed upon it.—St. Louis Republic. Nervous Singers, The effects of nervousness arc varied and Amusing. One young mezzo-so prano was prevented just in time from walking on to the platform in a huge pair of fur-lined overshoes, which were put on above her slippers, and which contrasted comically with her dainty gown. Another songstress, who was gifted with a good verbal memory, was sing nig without note. During a rather elaborate symphony, preceding the second verse of her song, she chanced idly to glance at the book of words which KIIC was holding. Confusion followed. She could not link the melody with the poem. It was a ter rible moment; but she stepped swift ly to the piano, glanced at the accom • panist H copy, and finished her song eon amore . ft appeared, on inspec tion, that by a printer's error two lines of her song had been left out of the book of words. This had confused her, and was the cause of her failure to blend words and music together.— i Atalanta, |A QUEER PRINCIPALITY. A.NNETTE ISLAND. ITS ABORIGI NES, AND ITS RULER. riio United States Deeded the Island to the Rev. William Duncan— Building Up the Place. THE Rev. William Duncan, ruler of Annette Island, a queer principality in the (0 Pacific south of Sitka, has ar rived hero after a long absence from civilization. He has for thirty-seven years been a missionary among tho Metlakahtla Indians, who, as long as they have been known, had practised cannibalism, and among whom one had to take his life in his hand. He first settled among tho Metlekahtlas just across from his island in British Colum bia, in sight of Mount St. Elias and tho great Fairmeath range, and there 1 remained until five years ago, when, 1 owing to too tight a rein by the Church of England and tho British Columbia Government, ho removed to Annette Island. Jlc lirst received assurances from tho Government at Washington, however, that this island should deeded to him and tho Indians in feo simple, if ho removed there, and this has since been done. The Metlakahtlas, to tho number of about 700, followed him there and he has since built up a town called Metlakahtla, after the former town in British Columbia. The strange island of Annette is about fifty miles long and twenty-five miles wide, and covered in the centre by a snowy mountain range. All around tho shores aro valley and rolling lauds, 011 which are great forests of pine, cedar and other similar trees. There aro also some open glades, and there are many pretty coves. All things considered, however, tho island is unfit for occu pancy, except by natives of the far North, accustomed to tho changing I climate incident to the raging ocean ! about. The island was unpeopled be fore, and the Government, thinking it would never be valuable for any other purpose, gave it to tho mis sionary and his wards. The missionary, who is the absolute ruler and king of the island, has built 011 Annette Island a practical repro duction of the first Metlakahtla, though with some now features. He has built a saw mill, and tho Metlakahtlas have erected a large number of buildings, modelled somewhat on tho plan of American huts, yet having distinct Indian characteristics. Father Dun can has also caused a cannery to be built, and have given tho Indians shares in it, when they so desired, in return for their labor. They have caught- a great many salmon, halibut and other fish this year, ho says, and have made considerable money. He thinks his queer colony will be as great a success 111 Alaska as it was in British Columbia. "I have about 800 Indians with me now," said the white haired old mis sionary, "and they are increasing slowly all the time. The Alaska In dians aro coining over and joining 11s. Thoy are not us good Indians as the Metlakahtlas, since they have for a long time been able to get whisky from the traders along the coast. This lias debased them, and since they havo acquired the taste for spirits it is hard for them to desist. There is no drink ing in tho island of Annette, for I have prohibited liquors of all kinds from coming there. I do not allow any cards either, or any other kind of gambling. This is thought to be a very strict rule, for if there is any thing an Indian likes to do it is to gamble. Gradually, however, I havo cured them of all this. "When I first went among the In dians on the mainland, the Hudson Hay Company, which had just estab lished a post there, cautioned me that my life was in imminent danger every time I went among them. I speedily learned that this was true. The build ings of the company were within a stout stockade, formed of great logs and reaching very high. The houses, too, were what are known as block houses. Thefo wero two high and stout gates, or more properly great doors, to the formidable stockade, and at the side of each was an outpost manned with cannon which could be turned to sweep the Indians right and left should they attack the fort. "I went among the Indians every day, and returned to the fort each night to sleep. In this way I picked up their language and began to think of getting some books published in their native tongue. Hut my prog ress was slow. I had oftentimes to go into the fort in daytime when an at tack was imminent. Once I had to take my position on the outpost in charge of one of the guns* and on numberless occasions 1 had to, in one way and another, help defend the place. The Indians wore the worst when the different clans wero at war. At such times they particularly wanted to wreck veugcauce on us. I have seen them kill Indiaus with whom they wero at war, and cut oft their arms and bite out pieces. They would also, when infuriated, bite pieces out of the arms of their allies, or even out of their own. They did not practice cannibalism in the sense of cooking the flesh, but they be lieved that to eat some of it would add to their valor. •'All this is now changed. I suc ceeded in translating parts of the Bible ami other books into their lan guage, and have now got them pretty well Christianized. In addition to the steam boilers for their boats, I am introducing i little electric light plant at Metlakahtla, and hope soon to have the Indian village lit up in this way. The Metlukahtlas no longer give me any trouble, and ere long they will be a credit to the American Government that has given us the pretty island of Annette."— New York Sun. SELECT SIFTIXUS. Opera is just 300 years old. The first clock in England was set up in Westminster in 1288. The French Government reserves to itself the right of using white paper for posters. William Tell did not found thoSwiss Confederation, and the story of Gess ler has no historic basis. The first hat makers who plied their trade in England were Spaniards, who came to that country in 1510. English sparrows have become so great a uuisanco in Maryland that farmers organize parties to slay them. Several of the auoient nations con sidered that the disembodied spirit was a tangible substance of a bluish color. Seven cars of mail matter, aggre gating eighty tons, passed through Pittsburg on one train one day re cently. Pliny says that the Romans learned the use of yeast from the Greeks dur ing the war with Persius, King of Macedon. The linen weavers* clubs in Augs burg, Germany, practically ruled tho city during tho tenth and eleventh centuries. The use of sand-glasses became com mon all over Europe in the eleventh century. Tho best were made in Nuremberg. Sam Wall King, n Chinaman, has started a cattle ranch in Montana with a capital of SIIO,OOO. Ho employs only Chinese on his ranch. Bee hive tea is one of the items on the bill of faro of a New York eating house. It consists of tea with a spoon ful of honey in it in lieu of sugar. During tho reign of Augustus there were 320 public bakeries iu Rome. The societies of miller and bakers were incorporated by Trajan about A. D. 108. When a prisoner resists the Paris police they take off oue of his shoes and compel him to walk like "My son John." He is so hampered usually by this treatment that there is no further trouble. Tho Van Rensselaer House, opposite Albany, N. Y., is believed to be the oldest inhabited house in the United States. The building was erected iu 1(512, and made of bricks imported from Holland. Lawton A. Sherman, aged ninety, and his wife, aged ninety-seven, ob served recently at Exeter, R. 1., the seventy-eighth anniversary of their marriage. Soon after they buried their eldest daughter, aged seventy seven. Tho Lyceum Theatre, New York City, has adopted a new and elegant variation on the "Standing Room Only" sign. The Lyceum's method is to hang out a largo and handsomely engraved brass tablet which reads "Seats All Sold." A light-honso keeper on Long Isl and Sound has a cow that swims two miles to tlio mainland, whenever she chooses, and goes home when she gets her visit made out. She gives milk regularly, but after her swimming ex peditious it has a slightly salted taste. Signs of the Zotilac. The signs of the zodiac embrace the twelve important constellations which, owing to the motions of the earth, ap pear to revolve through the heavens within a belt extending niue degrees on each side of the sun's apparent an nual path, ami within or near which all the planets revolve. Since the sun appears successfully in each of these constellations during the year, the zodiac was divided into twelve equal parts, corresponding with the months. ' These signs and their subdivisions were used bv the ancients in measur j ing time and as a basis for astronom ical and astrological calculations and predictions. Astronomers now, for convenience, use these signs, giving to each constellation an extent of thirty degrees, although the constel lations vary in size. The early as tronomers wore astrologers, and claimod to be able to predict the fu ture careers of individuals and nations by observing the positions and move ments of the planets and the condi tion of the weather at the most im portant period of men's lives.—New York Dispatch. A Notorious Provost Marshal, He was William Cunningham, the son of a trumpeter in the English dra goons, and was born in the barracks in Dublin. He came to New York in 1774, and became a horsebreaker and riding master. He left New York early in the Devolution, going to Bos ton, where General Gage appointed him provost marshal to the royal army. As such lie had charge of the prisons in Philadelphia, and later in New York. He was extremely cruel to the prisoners, two thousand of whom, while under his charge, wore starved to death, while two hundred and fifty were hanged without trial. Ho was in charge of tho execution of Nathan Hale. Alter the war he went to England and lived for a time 111 Wales. He was in great poverty, mortgaged his half pay, forged draft, and was condemned and hanged for this crime on August 10, 1791, in London.—Trenton (N. J.) American. She Remembered the Cat. A woman who started to jump into the Columbia River to drown herself suddenly remembered that she had left the cat in the pantry, and hurried back home. She afterwards said; "The idea of my struggling in the water and thinking that, the cat was lickiug tho cream off my milk in the pantry at that minute was more than I could bear." —Walla Walla (Wash.) Statesman. • RISE OF SAN FRANCISCO. HOW THE PACIFIC COAST 7IETHOF OLIS WAS FOUNDED. A Spanish Mission and Fort First Oc cupied the Future City's Silo- Gold's Discovery Caused a Doom. THE story of the little settle ments among the hills of tho peninsula of San Francisco I £ reads like some picturesque romance, and lias always been interesting to mo because it is so dif ferent from the story of other Ameri can cities. Spanish priests founded a mission here, and Spanish soldiers built a fort, or Presidio, in tho an tumif of 177(5, while General Howe was capturing New York and driving Washington across into New Jersey. Many of the Spanish governors lived here. San Francisco Bay, the beautiful inland sea, with its surroundings of fertile valleys and high mountains, was sailed past by early Spanish v °yagers and by Sir Francis Drake himself, who, in 1(570, cast anchor, as all critics agree, in "Old San Fran cisco harbor" (Drake's Bay), under Point Reyes. The sea fog must have lain across the Golden Gate when the famous sea-king sailed past. For ninety years longer the great bay was undiscovered. Then in 17(50, Spanish priests, soldiers, and colonists came to California; and, November 7th in that year, the expedition led by Governor Portola and Father Juan Crespj, f the Franciscan order, discovered the bay of San Francisco. Six years passed before the new harbor was entered by water. Then, in 177(5, Mission Do lores was founded in the valley at the base of the twin peaks, and a Spanish fort overlooked the Golden Gate, and tho Spanish folk began to settle the long peninsula and the valleys south, east, and north of the bay of San Francisco. Missions and settlements were founded at Santa Clara, Sau Jose and Sonoma; and the Indians wero subdued, till, in 1813, Mission Dolores had twelve hundred converts, and thousands more were at the other missions. About sixty years after Mission Dolores was founded, an English trader named Richardson pitched s tent on the shore of the bay at the head of Verba Buena cove; Jacob Leese built the first wooden house, and a few Americans settled at the place. One was old Galbraith, tue blacksmith, who used in take hi homemade Kentucky rifle at day break, and shoot deer among the sand hills where the City Hall now stands. The cove had been called Yerba Buena because a fragrant, white-flowered lit | tie California vine much liked by the Spanish people was very abundant along the shore. Tho large island in the bay, now Goat island, was ulsc called Yerba Buena in those days. bo there were really three settle ments within the present limits of the city of ban Francisco; the soldier* camp at tho Presidio, the Indian and Spanish village at the mission, which was called ban Francisco, and tht trading-post of Yerba Buena. Com lnunication was slow and diflicult among these settlements; for bog.--, rocks, mountains and sand-hills cov ered with scrub-oaks and dense under growth tilled the space between. It January, 18*1(5, eleven years after iti foundation, Yerba Buena contained only thirty houses, but, Inly Bth, the Stars and Stripos Were hoisted ovei tho little frontier village that lay ou the eastern slope of the peninsula, facing the continent ; and in January, 1817, the American magistrate issues a decree adopting the nam a Sun Fran cisco. In a few months more then we*e 157 houses and t V.J people in tin town. Then followed the disc >very o gold in tho Sierra foot-hills, and I.!r "Golden Age of ' in three vcari more ths population of tho you in metropolis of California increased ti 30,000.—5t. Nicholas. Beefsteak Under lis Aliases, An amiable member of the Travel ers' Club in this city, who possesses a minute knowledge of foreign places, is frequently consulted by Iri*-mis con templating a European tour. ll< J brings forth his neatly kept notes o; travel and gives valuable pointers con* eerning routes, hotels, cafes, etc. Jus) now he is beset with inquiries about Antwerp by intending visitors to it? Exposition. To oue of these ii • im parted this hint: "In patronizing tin; cafes, which, in various ways solicit the custom of English and Am; rirans, notice the spelling of the word "beef steak on the outdoor signs, or hilJj of fare, and ho governed accordingly. If you prefer French cookery, seek out restaurants where it is spelled •biftek' or 'bifstik.' But if you wish to try a purely Flemish cuisine, look at these various ways of spelling the word, which 1 copied literally from signs and menus during my stay n that city: 'Beefesfcec,' 'beaufsteake, 'beavesteik,' •biefstock,' 4 bates tee to,' 'beevestchek', *biffstoake, and 'heeafu steeacke.' " —Philadelphia Record. A London Drygoods Community. At a great drygoods London house all the saleswomen are expected, nay, are obliged to dress in black. There are two huudred, but not a "saleslady" nor a "foreludy" among them. They make derision of these terms, which are so commonly hoard in New York. Tho firm also employs six or seven hundred young men. All the unmarried employes live on the premises, and this plan is found to operate satisfactorily to nil concerned. The young men wear black coat, waistcoat and necktie. Years ago salesmen in Loudon drygoods houses were not allowed to wear a mustache, but there is more liberty now, and they can wear their faces im fancy dictates.—New York Journal.