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WHALEBON E FACTORIE‘3
Where the Crude Bone Is Prepared
for the Market.
The First Factory Established in San
Francisco, Others Will Be Located
in the Eastern States—An
Important Industry.
The establishment of the whaling
station at Montcrey bay will, it is ex—
pected, increase the demand for skilled
labor employed in this city in the man-
1 facture of 11 halebone. This is looked
upon by the \Ierchants’ association as
another int. ication of good times for
California, and the whaling industry
on this coast will be fostered.
1n itself, the whaling trade is consid-
erable at this port, but its increase
means more to landsmen and the manu—
facturing interests of the city than is
generally known. It means that with-
in the next- few years San Francisco
will become not- only the whaling port
of the world, but also the center of the
whalebone manufacturing interest.
, Already a whalebone factory has been
established in this city, andbefore long
the six other factories in the United
States—now located in the eastern
states—will undoubtedly be moved to
this city. This proposition is almost
self-evident. when it is considered that
at present five-sixths of all the whale-
bcne manufactured in America is
shipped from this port across the corn
tinent before it is prepared for the
market. '
New Redford, once the great whaling
port- of the world, does not send out
more than one or two ships after the
leviathan now, and all the rest of the
trade is centered at'this port. It. was
this fact which called into existence
the whalebone factory and that will
bring other factories of the same kind
to this city.
The price of this commodity is on the
increase, if anything, though the w hal-
ing industry itself has fallen into coni-
paratively insignificant proportions.
Many refined oils have been found to
take the place of sperm oil, but no sub-
stitute has ev er been found for whale-
bone. Ma nv efforts have been made to
find some substance that. could be used
in the place of whalebone, and many
expel imcnts on various metals and sub—
stances have been made, but to no pur-
pose. For corsets and dress bodiccs, no
other substance will answer. Nothing
else is so pliable and so lasting at the
some time.
It is not generally known, but it is a
fact, that whalebone may be used over
and over again, and is practically in—
destructible. When bentout of shape
it can be straightened by first steaming
and then placing it under pressure.‘
Aside from the part it plays in woman’s
apparel, its chief use is for whips. The
process of cleaning and drying the crude
11'halebone when first taken from the
ships is interesting. It is scrubbed
1. "nd (.1 cached with fresh water when
unloaded at the 1' ard. .1' (I then s ood up
> in bunches to dry in ”he 2.1111. Down at
the van (.5 of the. Pacific Steam Whaling
company at the I’otrero the stranger
11 he sees the vessels unloading from a
distance and beholds the washed strips
of bone stacked up to dry, is very like-
ly to mistake it. for some rank growth
of weeds 01' tules.
When thoroughly dried it is bundled
up and taken to the factory on Califor-
nia. street, or shipped east to the fac-
t-ores, there to be still further scraped
and dressed, then steamed and polished
and cut into marketable strips. From
first to last a good many men are re-
quired to handle the bone product that
is brought to this port by the whaling
vessels, and when it is considered that
v each one of these. vessels is manned and
provisioned here the real importance of
the entire industry is seen to be not
at all insignificant to the material wel-
fare of California.—San Francisco Call.
FIREDAMP TELEPHONES.
No Danger of Explosions in Mines Here-
'after Without Warnings
For inventors the ever-present danger
to miners from firedamp has always
been a problem. Sir Humphrey Davy,
with his non-explosive lamp, decreased '
the chances of danger considerably,
but the frequent fatal accidents re-
. ported show that the risk is still alarm-
m . '
it lost, however, a French scientist.
Hardy, by nafne, has patented an inven~
tion which entirely obviates the dan-
ger, and has thereby earned the grati-
tude of the hundreds ofthousands of
workers underground in America and
Europe.
Some years ago M. Hardy made adis-
covery, which he communicated to the
French academy, which reported fa-
vorably upon it, and suggested its use
for the purpose of mining. Acting upon
the suggestion, the inventor has been
workingupon the idea. ever since, and
A r
' connects
has 110'." perfected a system by which
any 011‘ break of ii redamp becomes im-
mediately known all over the mine that
is threatened. _
The system is a simple one. M. Hardy
found that different gases could be
made when connected with telephonic
arrangement, to produce several
sounds. , The system he has in1ented
all the shafts of a 11re111tna
central point,. "-..t 11lnc.1 an operator is
stationed. ‘.n1 outbreak of the fatal
gas is immedh telv discovered by him,
however minute its quantity, and he
at once notifies the miners of their dan-
c11Thcv are able, therefore, to es-
cape long before the gas could accu-
mulate in any quantity Sufficient to be
dangerous.
The invention is already in success-
ful operation in a few of the French
mines, and will doubtless come into
general use all over the world. —N. Y
Press.
Beforehanded.
Daughters—Charley Huggard kissed
me last- night.
Mother (i11dignantly)—That is out- I
rageous! Did you sit. on him for it?
Daughter-~I was—Puck.
HEM.
HAD FEARS FOR
hife W’lio Beliciezl That lie
\I 011. '11 Stop.
Never
He had been bitten 1 :1: 3y l:‘\‘ the eye—
ling fever. 1.1: prided l. ..1.~.1-ll.' upon
the fact. that. lac 1112-: an" . ‘ ’ “old-
timers” and that 1.'- Villa" '1- on his
neast a veteran‘s it: .11'. lie had begLn
ia the good old 0.9.1:; of t 1e ordinarv,
1 '11.: 1v:hcr th C1e1v1'asa aical exhilaration
1'111'11' :cl. He had marked the passing of
his friend of old 111 sadness, but he had
taken to the safety with renewed en-
thusiasm.
He had filled every office within the
gift of the league. In his declining
years he refused the higher honors,
but consoled himself with member
ship in 13 clubs of his city, and with
presuleneics and sceretaryships and
treasurerships and captaincies galore.
He had been a. “warm member.” lie
had ridden centuries up to the last,
last week, and was bedizencd with
golden bars like unto the Pharaohs of
old.
011 off days, and other occasions, he
had been a good husband to the sor-
rowing 1101911111 who now mour,11ed and
1'110111'1'1cd, and mourned. Ills taking 011‘
had been sudden, but he had died at
peace with the world, and tizcrworld
was fairly well saitslicd, too. The
13 A. A. A. A. C's were arranging for
the funeral awhcel. It had been his
last request. liut his sorrowing widow
mourned and mourned.
“Madam," said the white-haired
clergyman, with tremulous voice, “do
not weep Your husband is resting
now.”
“Nay, nay! ” she walled, remembering
how lzcr departed spent. the Sabbath
awheel, and not in sober worship
“Nay, nay! I fear he is scorching yet.”
——Beariugs.
INSIDE THE TEAKETTLE.
It. Is Well Worth While to Note Its Con-
dition.
A helpful suggestion is to be wel-
comed, from whatever source it may
come, and fins bit of moralizing re-
garding certain kitchen practices, is
just as valuable as though it appeared
for the first time in some publication
claiming to be devoted especially and
exclusively to the interests of Bridge
and her mistress. It is often the sim-
plest details of kitchen labor that are
the most neglected. The hot water
kettle, for example—how many cooks
pay any attenticn to it? Stale water
simmered, and with all vitality cooked
out, is its perennial portion, with an
occasional filling up and sudden boiling
as the need requires. If every house-
keeper who reads this paragraph should
go straight to her kitchen, lit the ket-
tle, and carry it to the window, where
a- strong light will disclose its interior,
nine out of ten of them will find arusty
layer of lime, iron and dregs, that ef—
fectually prevents any good-flavored
water from issuing from it. The ket—
tle needs the same frequent and thor—
ough care that any kitchen utensil
needs. Into such, having it already
warm, put fresh filtered water, boil rap-
idly, and use at once, and one of the
large aids to palatable food is secured.
——N. Y. Times.
Ominous.
“Genius,” said the lecturer, “too often
is short-lived, while mediocrity lingers
to a. good old age; Methuselah did noth-
ing worth mentioning, and he lived till
he was 969 years old. Virgil died at 51,
Dante at 56, Shakespeare at. 52, and
Moliere at 51.‘
At this point a wild, despairing crv
came from the back part of the hall, and
John Alfred McCraeken, author of
“Lines on Spring” and “Ode to Uncle
Leonidas Horney’ s Old Brindle Cow, ”
was found to have fainted .wChicago
Tribune.
A cap of the style how known as the
“liberty cap” was Worn from’ the.
earliest times among both Greeks and'
Romans.
Quickens
The Appetite
Makes the
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A practical demonstration
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and baking of cake
and other choice delicacies;
While you wait. We invite
you to see it.
Spring lines of childien’s
new White Aprons, in sizes
fiom 2 to. 14 years. Sorts
that the children like as well
as the mothers:
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Special Sale of Dotted
S1111 ' iss w111bioide1'1es, with
guipute edges, Alto 7 inches
wide, for 10 and 12% cents a
yard. The handsomest lot
you’ve seen for many a sea-
son. You’ll say so when you
' c them. \
Fine Dresden and Persian
Ribbons, very newest effects,
from 10 to 75 cents a yard.
As choice and elegant as any
we have ever shown.
Style upon style of new
Jackets, Separate Skirts and
Capes. No two exactly alike.
But all petty, and in the
he vest sh: mess and makes.
THEEV E 11:11 N G on Z E STATE ' V
MAKE-BELIEVE Fool).
Adulterants Now Include Pulver-
ized Cigar Boxes.
Hardly"Anything That We Eat Is Abso;
. lutely Pure—“fines and Liquors Are
Also Doctored to Increase the
Merchant’s Profits.
An analysis by the Massachusetts
board of health showed that several
leading dealers in cocoanut were in-
creasing their profits by pulverizing
broken cocoanut shells and mixing with
ground pepper. When the attention of
t 1e autl101 ities w as called to this swin-
dle the general quality of ground pep-
pbr all over the country took a. sudden
rise. Trade price lists had hardly
reached Europ’e when some enterpris-
ing French and Italian manufacturers
began to send huge bags of “poiviette "
a compound made by grinding up al-
mond shells, olive stones, cherry twigs
and other ligneous fibers, fla1 ored with
a few drops of pepper extract. When
the wholesale grocers and spice dealers
found out about “poivrette” the loud-
est denunciations of the new adulter-
ant came from the lips of the worthy.
cocoanut shell grindeis.
At one time, when the sugar duty de-
pended upon the col-or of the article, be-
ing lowest upon the raw, dark brown,
and highest upon pure white, the offi-
cials noticed a, sudden falling off in the
imports of the latter and an immense in-
crease in the former. To the eye and
judged by ordinary standards the stuff
seemed the poorest and impurest raw
sugar impoi ted. The chemists in a
short time demonstrated that the raw
sugar had been refined in the west
Indies, and then, to make the. tariff
light, had been mixed with fine clay 11.n-
til it looked like mud. It only needed to
be dissolved in water, filtered, boiled
down, and then it. was as pure and white
11. sug. 11' as can be produced.
In examining what was sold all
through New England as powdered cin-
namon, Massachusetts chemists were
amazed to find that it did not-
contain a particle of that bark,
and they could not discover
a trace of the. substance with which
powdered cinnamon is usually adul-
terated. Finally, in the rod powder.
they found something green. which
turned out to be a. frra'gm‘ nt of an in-
ter nal 1ev enue stamp, such as is used
for tobacco. This gave. the elew. and en-
abled them to show that the mysterious
stufi' was old cigar boxes, dried and
ground up and flavored with a few
drops of essential Oil. The authorities
not only published the discovery forth-
with, but attacked the biand so vigor-
ouslv that in the next mon h all in the
111a1ket had been confiscated or de-
stroycd.
In Boston a man has amachine which
takes the favorite food of that. city,
splits each been into two grains. chan—
ll-L’I‘S. and finishes these so much like
coffee that when roasted they deceive
t.- -1e. average g1 ocer. I11 Chicago an other
commercial crook has a machine 11 hich
makes a roast coffee been out of court" e
and damaged wheat flour. The dies
which cut out the grains are so well
(Nontrixed that out. of 200 no two are
alik e.
Sophisticated wines and liquors were
formerly very common. One house in
Ilamburg and one. in Bremen not very
long ago did a large business with the
United States. They were quite honest
in their dishonesty, and spared the gov—
ernment by announcing in their bills
of lading that their champagne was
“carbonated gooseberry,” their old
cognac flavored with “potato spirit,”
or “industrial alcohol,” and their lieu-
cdlctine‘ ‘111cdicinal c011lia..l " 'l‘hcylcft
the hing to the. American customers.
1111011 1mg probably, that. the new '11 orrld
is for superior in this regard to the old
world.
In spite of the cheapness and whole-
somenes's of American wines, t:1c offi-
cials occasionally run down people who
make a scant. livelihood by compound—
ing poor imitations. The New York
board of health, for example, found a
“vineyard” in the. cellar of an old ware-
house in the heart of the business cen-
ter. It consisted of a. lot of old hogs-
heads, in which the proprietor vas
fermenting damaged raisins and de-
cayed currants. The resulting wine,
after being filtered and fortified, was
them altogether vile. The officers threw
several gallons into the sewer and ar-
rested the vintner. I'Iis defense was
novel, if not ludicrous. He said: “I
am a gentleman and a Christian. That
wine may not seem good, but it is
splendid. And I wish it distinctly un-
derstood that it is respectable, because
I sell it to 1,000 churches for commun-
ion wine.
In the manufacture of jellies, confec-
tionery and bonbons the soul of adul-
tcration runs riot; A cheap crab-apple
jelly, made in New York, but sold by
the trade, generally consists of water,
glucose, burned sugar, cider vinegar,
oil of vitrol and vegetable gelatinc.
lt is sold as cheap as five cents a glass,
and is said to cost less than three cents,
the tumbler included. 0f the Turkish
fig paste, Arabian delight and jujube
paste, much of which was once and all
of which is [still believed tobe imported,
nearly every ounce is made in the great
manufacturing cities of the country.
Of 200 brands of chocolate, plain or
confectionery, examined officially, not
20 are pure. Sugar, starch, glucose,
terra alba, barytes, brown ochre, clay,
Venetian brown and other adultero-
tions are added to it, until in- some cases
there is not more than 15 per cent. of
the genuine article indvhat is offered
under its name. Some years ago, in
the factory of one of the largest
makens in this country, the board of
health found a. .ton of Venetian brown
in the work room, with the workmen
busy mixing- it in the machines. with
the chocolate—Philadelphia Times.
-—The last recorded sale of a seat in
the New York stock exchange realized
$16,000. Seats were selling‘ one year
ago at about $20,000.
'39 i“ ashiilgton Slio 1:! ‘South
A Simon's STORY.
An Old SaltSpeaks in Norwalk.
The life of a sailor has many ups and
downs. The haxdsbips of the man who
sails the briny deep are not appreciated
by the land Iubbers who know not what
U is to struggle with the elements to
keep above Water, it takes brawn and
muscle and good constitutions, to
stand it. While men, even the hardiest
when they return from nautical life
find the exposure has left them With a
legacy, as a Constant reminder of the
past. And often when a Jolly Jack
Tar is relating an experience the back
that. has carried 'him through it all is
burdened with a. far heavier burden.
Our representative had- a pleasant chat
the other day with just such a man. A
sailor for thirty years. Thos. Gooney
by name, :1 Norwalk citizen residing at
No. 73Ba1bol Ave. he has also held
the position of dockmaster for ten
years and to add to the (lifiiculties he
has had to contend with, he fell from a
tree when a boy striking a fence. This
accident. left- lnm with back trouble and
the life on the water with its
hardships added their share until he
found backache Was more or less a
steady thing, coming on from lime to
time. Like? most people, he 11. d not
understand that it came from the kid-
neys, but reading that Doan’s Kidney
Pills cured backache he got a box 1:1
’Hale’s drug store and was surprir ed t 1
find how qu1ckly they acted. W 111,
says Mr. Uooney, they S‘mply cuxed
me and you may be sure I have a good
word for Doun’ s Kidney Pills they have
done such good work for me. I shall
be glad to tell anyone about it who
wishes to know.
Its like a case of mistaken identity,
Mr. Cooney did not realize that it was
kidney ache, and that his kidnc ys were
injured, not his back. That exposure
had simply increased the kidnev com-
plicatidus. It‘ s easy for Dean’ 8 Kidney
Pills to cure such cases.
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents or mailed by Foster- Milburu 00.,
Buffalo, N. Y. sole agents for the U. S
11' your ceuler tells you that. Some-
thing else is' just as pooo’ ’aud Donn’ s
Ointment for Hives, Pin Wofms, Itch-
ing P1les, or other 111.1111»st [he skin,
tell h1u1 \uu want the orig1nul.1t 1s
sa_l'e_; never falling. -
J. D Jennings. 1.
UNDER FAKFR
4 Knight street. opposite
Street- Ballwas Depot
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Piano Lessons.
BS. GEORGE W. BRADIEY, (daughter
I ofthelate ’ra.R Nash.)2ives efiirenl
and satisfactmv instructions ou the Piano at
her home No.193 Main s1reel;
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