THE SAN- FRANCISCO
BOARD of HEALTH.
We, the members of the Board of Health of the
City and County of San Francisco,
Cordially approve and recommend the .
Royal Baking Powder. It is absolutely
pure and healthful, composed of the best
ingredients, of the highest strength and
, character.
In our judgment it is impossible
make a purer or stronger Baking Powder
than the Royal
Jos. R. Davidson. M. D.
Henry M. Fiske, M. D.
Chas. McQuesten, M. D.
T. J. Letournex, M. D.
Members San Francisco "Board of Health.
i DUlnfaatloo by Heat.
In the journal of the American
Medical association emphasis is given
to the ready means of disinfecting
excreta in the sickroom or its vicin
ity by the application of heat Ex
act experiments show that the ther
mal death point of the following
pathogenic bacteria and of the kinds
of virus mentioned is below 140 degs.
F. viz., spirillum of cholera, bacil
Ins of anthrax, bacillus of typhoid
fever, bacillus of diphtheria, bacillus
of glanders, diplococcus of pneu
monia, streptococcus of erysipelas,
staphylococci of pus, vaccine vims,
sheep pox virus, hydrophobia virus.
Ten minutes' exposure to the tem
perature mentioned may, it is found,
be relied upon for the disinfection of
material ' containing any of these
pathogenic organisms, excepting the
anthrax bacillus when in the stage
of spore formation.
The use, therefore, of boiling wa
ter in the proportion of three or four
parts to one part of the material to
be disinfected is recommended for
such material, or, bettor still, a 10
per cent solution of sulphate of iron
or of chloride of zinc, at the boiling
point may be used in the same way.
three to one, this, in fact having a
higher boiling point than water, and
serving at the same time as a de
odorant -
- Ta MarqaJa' Caeetarate.
A romantic story comes to hand
from Paris. An eccentric marquis,
whose suit had been rejected by a
beauty of the Second Empire, hired
a coster's stall, planted himself on
the curb opposite her door and every
day used to send in a pint of chest
nuts, in the heart of which pearls,
rubies and diamonds were concealed.
After a week the fair one yielded and
bestowed Iwr hand upon her devoted
admirer.
But the marquis has since been
ruined, and now earns his living in
the strcela of Paris by the same
method which formerly enabled him
to storm love's citadel. Let us hope,
in the interests of romance, that the
story itself is not a chestnut Lon
don Globe.
Oatut of a Sloping Cm.
A sleeping car leaving New York
for Chicago is supplied with 120
sheets, 120 pillow slips and 120 tow
els. The washing is done in different
cities, and is given out in great
quantities at the. low rate of $1 per
100 pieces. An equipment of linen
which lasts a year is purchased in
amounts of $30,000 worth at a time.
One company for 700 cars uses every
thirty days 2,400dozen cakes of toilet
soap, 1,200 dozen boxes of matches,
S5 dozen hairbrushes, 60 dozen
whisks, 60 dozen combs and a vast
number of sponges and feather dust
ers. Porters receive from $30 to$50
a month. Public Opinion. ;
Teearrefiai and Intruders. '
Once every year the park at Far
ringford was thrown open to a'd
comers. The Freshwater flower show
was held 4here in August, but Ten
nyson did not appear on this occa
sion. He left the management of
the affair and the duties of host to
his son Hallam, who for years acted
as his father's secretary and confi
dant There is a good deal to besaid
fa support of the resentment Ten
nyson showed to intruders. Cor.
Bowton Herald. ,
Dinner tables and conversaziones
are the planes for wit, humor and
brilliant talks and general bonhomie
txttweeu the guests. The funny or
droll man in society is not the ele
gant gi-MtUam.
As a rule the art of war was prac
ticed in 1420 with a little too much
regard for rules; it was hide and
seek behind specific bulwarks rather
than warfare. As Voltaire says, the
BolcberB of the land were distributed
between such and such oondottierias
if they were professional harvesters.
The captain of mercenaries upon
one side tried his best tooutmaneuver
the captain of mercenaries on the
ther side. If he succeeded in getting
the enemy into a corner from which
he could not escape, except by a
desperate engagement absurd to
think of, he sent off a bombastic tale
of victory to his employers and
asked far an increase of pay. And
to make sure that his success should
furnish no excuse for a cessation of
hostilities and the signing of treaties
of peace (which meant dismissal) he
straightway shook hands with the
captive general and set him and his
army at liberty, so that the campaign
might be continued.
This was the light in which the
condottieri viewed their responsibili
ties. Nor was it difficult to live
through a career of battles without a
wound at a time when such counsel
as the following was esteemed sage
enough to offer to the stripling sol
dier: "You must know that to secure
yourself against artillery you must
be either out of its reach or behind a
wall, or behind a rampart And,
moreover, see that the wall be thick
enough," etc. MacnulWs Maga
zine. What Farmer Aaeoanpllafaad.
From a farmer in Virginia some
years ago I received a request that
he might send me a package of col
ored sketches of wild flowers and
that I would verify or rectify his de
termination of their names.
Inquiry developed the fact that he
had reached adult age as a farmer
when he began to feel the need of
some subject of thought and interest
outside of his daily work.
Without any scientific help or
knowledge he set about collecting
and naming the birds' of the Shenan
doah valley. Not satisfied with
stuffed specimens he conceived the
idea of painting the birds he collect
ed. With no artistic knowledge or
instruction be ordered paints and
brushes and set himself at work, and
today there are very few artists in
the country who can paint birds
with so much of artistic grace and
scientific accuracy as he.
After a few years, having trans
'erred to paper all the birds of the
region, he procured a "Gray's Man
ual'' and began to study the plants
of the valley, first determining their
names and then painting them. He
accordingly sent on a package of
colored sketches, artistically attract
ive and sotrue to nature that there
was not the slightest doubt as to any
of the 750 species represented, while
his own unassisted determinations
were so accurate that not a dozen
names needed to be altered. Pro
fessor Pickering in Christian Union.
Bichardson was driven back on
sentiment as the only note which
could arrest the attention of his read
ers, and the only motif those readers
could understand.
At York, Pa, in the orchard of
Simeon Muchier, there is a tree that
annually bears a crop of three differ
ent kinds of fruit pears, peaches
and apples.
By the code a Chinese boy under
sixteen csnoot be nmiiahed. What
Chinese do is to pop him into prison
irid keep lam there until he hi sixteen
FONDMSS FOR ANTICLIMAX.
A aVa ot Maay KaamplM Otillwl in tto
Boat and tka Wert.
One of the most laughable fea
tures about Eudyurd Kipling's short
sketches of East Indians, and also
onoof the truest to life, say those wbo
have lived in India, is the strong
tendency the natives have to use the
most startling anticlimaxes in their
formal speeches to one another, and
more especially when a native of
low caste or great poverty petitions
a European fur a favor. In the lat
ter case the speaker will say some
thing like this: c
"Will the presence, whose reputa
tion for justice ib known from east
to west, and whose countenance
spreads joy among hm inferiors, who
are ae the sands of the seashore in
number, graciously deign to take
but an instant's notice of him who
has the almost delirious honor to
name himself one of the most un
worthy among the servants of the
protector of the poor, and will the
favorite son of the lord of the uni
verse magnanimously overlook my
wmmring presumption in asking him
for the payment of a bill of two an
nas for hen feed "
This sort of thing is not unknown
in this country among the people
who aim at a grandiloquent manner
of speech and whose sense of the
ridiculous is not highly developed.
Courts presided over by unlettered
judges are especially prolific of ex
amples. For instance, a police jus
tice, is reported to have sought
to arouse a sense1 of shame in
the- breast of a burly negro
prisoner in this way. "Prisoner at
the bar! An all.wise and all merci
ful Providence hoe endowed yon
vntn an intelligent mind and a pow
erful physique, instead of which
you spend your days in playing
craps and your nights in robbing
clotheslines:"
At another time the same justice
ought to impress upon a prisoner
who was about to testify in his own
behalf the solemn nature of an oath.
Assuming his most pompous tone, he
thus addressed the culprit: "Pris
oner at the bar, in taking this sol
emn oath to tell the truth the whole
truth and nothing but the truth
take care that you do not allow
yourself to be tempted by the dan
ger of your position to commit a will
ful perjury. Remember that the
, eyes of the all seeing Providence and
of the village constable are upon
you!"
j Another judge in a rough and
ready but highly ambitious frontier
town, in commenting severely upon
the heinous crime of horsestealing,
thundered forth: "For century after
' century that dread command. Thou
Shalt not steal! has rolled along the
ages. It is, moreover, a standing
rule of this court if not a bylaw of
our progressive and goon to be incor
porated city I" New York Tribune.
Lawkj People.
There is one thing on which we
may congratulate ourselves we who
are little we who have escaped the
penalties of greatness. That is some
thing. We may at least call our
souls our own. We may have a
taste for onions, raw or fried or
baked or boiled or anyhow, and yet
the world shall not wonder at the
grossness of our appetites. I saw in
an Australian journal the other day
that a certain English actress has a
taste far porter. We may thank our
stars, we little ones, that the fact of
our having a taste for porter is not
flashed around the electric girdles of
the globe. Hmith, who passes his
days soaking at the bar of the 'Tip
pler's Tryst," may congratulate him
self that he belongs to the family of
the unknown ttmitns. .Nobody ca
how much be soaks except his wife
and family, oinitu cares nothing
tor what they think.
Here, in a French paper lying at
my side, is recorded the foot that a
well known politician is compelled
to wear a particular kind of boot
owing to a peculiarly troublesome
corn which be bos on his big toe.
Great Harry! Think if the eyes of
the world those million Argus eyes
were on the corn on my big toel-r
AUthe Year Bound.
Seofet Waa Bated a. a Drrwe.
As a boy Walter Scott gave few
indications of his coming greatness,
and was described by one of his early
preceptors as "the boy that has the
thickest skull in the school. " After
ward at Edinburgh university the
future "wizard" was thus epitomized
by one of the leading professors,
"Dunce he is and dunce he will re
main." London Standard.
The Drying Jalat.
Little Scotch'Andy was sent to hold
S wet towel before the fire until it
should become dry. A few minutes
later he startled bis mother by coll
ing out, "Mithor, mither, ist dry
whfrnit's taxml -'Juchange.
- MeCijr'M Kneora on tho OaUowa.
"Speaking of bravado on the scaf
fold Temiuds me of ft one legged
man I saw turned off in western-Pennsylvania
when I was a boy," said
Roger Blokmlee. "He was known
to have killed five men. He bad lost
a leg while trying to add a sixth to
his string, but finally recovered, was
tried and sentenced to bang. . The
execution took place in the court,
house yard, arid several thousand
people gathered to witness it. McCoy,
for that was the criminal's name,
ascended the scaffold with no other
assistance than that afforded by his
crutch. When asked if he hod any
thing to say he replied that he
would like to say goodby to his fid
dle. It was brought and Btunding
on the deathtrap he played a lively
air, handed the violin to the sheriff,
and with the aid of histirutch danced
a jig on the trap. He then an
nounced that he was ready. - .
"His arms were pinioued, the black
cap drawn over his bead, and the
trap sprung. The roie broke, and
after beimr earned back on the scaf
fold more dead ilmu alive he asked
how long it would take to procure
another one. He was told alxiut ten
minutes. 'Well, give me my old fid
dle while I'm waiting,' he said. . He
was unpuuoned, the cap removed,
and he made bis best bow to the au
dience, saying he hod siot expected
an encore." St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat '
A Mlakwdlinj Placard.
Two colored women in one of the
large dry goods stores the other day
topped in front of the elevator on
which the sign. "This elevator rune
from the first to the fourtl floor,"
was conspicuously displayed.
"We dont wont this," said No. h
"Why not?" questioned her com
panion.
'Because it runs from the first to
the fourth floor, and we want to get
off at the second."
. "How do you know?" queried No. i.
"Can you read the sign!" impa
tiently remarked the all knowing
one. -
"Why, sure njf," wonderingly
remarked No. 2; "well have to get
one that runs to the second floor or
else go up the stairs." whereupon
they strolled off. and it was as good
a picture to see the look of sur
prise when, having reached the sec
ond floor, they beheld that deceitful
elevator discharge its load of passen
gers at the very pirn they wanted
to go. Philadelphia Times. ;
Tnbaecn la (ha Army.
Professor Horsford tells of his ef
forts to secure tulwcco for the army
during the civil wur. Upon visiting
the vamps at Fredericksburg and
elsewhere and asking the soldiers
what they most wished to complete
their nappineHH, he received the re
ply, "Tobacco." "Why tobaccof he
asked. "Because if we sit down on a
march and can have a little smoke it
makes us think uf home, and lulls
our minds and cures the homesick
ness." The measure encountered
much opposition in congress and
failed at first. But just after the
war closed provision was made for
a tobacco ration iu the army sup
plies, and the soldiers still receive it.
Newport News.
Chine. JnnlHiuHt far Murder.
In China, according to Mr. Jesse
Herbert, late legal adviser to the
government of south China, and pro
fessor of law in the University of
Canton, officials are held responsible
for the conduct of the community.
If a son has murdered his father, not
only is the murderer cut in pieces,
but the house is pulled down aud the
ground dug up to a depth of about
an feet All the neighbors, moreover,
are punished, the boy's head master
is beheaded, the magistrate loses his
place and the higher officials are re
duced three degrees in rank.
A Blndoa Bailor About Owla.
The Hindoos declare that the flesh
and blood of an owl will make a per
son insane who eats or drinks it
On this account men who are de
Toured by jealousy of a rival or
hatred of an enemy oome furtively
to the market and purchase an owL
In silence they carry it home and se
cretly prepare a decoction, which an
accomplice will put into the food of
the object of their malignant de
signs. All the Year Bound.
Throat diaeaaw oommenoe with a ootigh.
cold or aore throat. "Brovm't Rronekial
lYoenat" give immediate relief. SoU only
wMxai. rnce, U5 otmte.
It is tometlmee dMCtmHto deteYmlne whether
a French oruia la a now iaiue or tha eame old
crtelH.
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tmr aorta, aa I know of a lady hi Oakland who
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