ENJOYED BYROYALTY

Queen Victoria Hasa Merry Party at

O9borne.

Devon Ox, Wild Boar'sHead and Woodcock

Pies in Array.

Prince and Princess of Wales

Purchase and DistributeCustomary Presents.

AN EXPLORER'S VOYAGE.

Jackson Has Now Changed His Plans

so They Will Not Conflict With

Lieutenant Peary.

Special Dispatch m The Call.

LONDON', Dec. 25.—The temperature

is seasonable, the yellow fops in themiddle of the week having given way

to comparative brightness. The weekhas been the coldest of the season,ten to twenty degrees of frost beingregistered, and skating has com-menced. All who could do so havegone to the country. Christmas houseparties are more numerous than usual.Of the I"nit>"l States Embassy Em-bassador John Hay and Mrs. Hay

alone remained in town. HenryWhite, secretary of the Embassy, andMrs. White spent the first part of thewepk at Hatfteld, where the Marquisof Salisbury has been entertaining alarge shooting party. Thence Mr.andMrs. White went to Blenheim, wherethey participated in the Christmas re-joicings, which included two balls andthe presentation of two playlets, inwhich the Duke and Duchess of Marl-borough and Lady Randolph Churchillhad parts. James R. Carter, SecondSecretary of the United States Em-lapsy, and Mrs. Carter have gone to

Biarritz and Lieutenant-Colonel Well,

the naval attache of the embassy, andMrs. Well are in Paris.

Queen Victoria has a merry party atOsborne. There was a Christmas treeloaded with presents for the royalchildren, the members of the house-hold and servants. The party in-cludes the Battenbergs, Connaughts,Lornes and Albanys. A royal baronof beef cut of Devon ox, fed on theroyal farm at Windsor and roasted atWindsor by cooks sent by a Londoncaterer, was forwarded to Osborne onFriday, with the boar's head andwoodcock pies, which traditionally oc-cupy the Queen's board at Christmas.This year's boar's head Is a genuine

hure de sanglier from the Coburg pre-serves in the Thuringian forest.

The Prince and Princess of Walesearly in the week purchased presents,

as customary, from the royal trades-men, who displayed the wares in anapartment of Marlborough House,

which the royalties selected. ThePrince and Princess of Wales, PrincessVictoria of Wales, the Duke andDuchesa of York, Prince and PrincessCharles of Denmark, and the Dukeand Duchess of Fife all assembled atFandringham for Christmas, wherethe usual festivities took place.

The Earl and Countess of Craven(formerly Miss Cornelia Martin, daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bradiey-Martin),are entertaining a house party atCombe Abbey. They gave their ten-ants a ball on Christmas Eve. Lord"William Beresford and Lady Beresford(formerly Mrs. Louise Hammersley ofNew York, and later wife of the eighthDuke of Marlborough, who died in\K<:<, are also entertaining at DeepDene.

Lord Alfred Rothschild made hisusual distribution

—6000 pheasants to

the omnibus drivers and conductors, abrace of birds each.

According to the newspapers, the la-dies of uppertendom, married and sin-gle, are tired of the hackneyed Christ-mas cards and are sending their fa-vored friends photographs of them-selves, as attired for bed. The Chron-icle thinks that although such souve-nirs are suggestive of a good deal,night dress pictures are less improperthan presentments of the same figuresin ball dress.

As soon as Jackson, the explorer,Completes the work connected with hisFranz Josef Land expedition, he willstart for the north pole. He Informeda correspondent that his original plansWere identical with those of LieutenantPeary, but that he intended to makethe most easterly end of the inland in-stead of the west. But since he heardthe Peary lectures Jackson has changedhis plans, considering that the Ameri-can has prior claims. Jackson nowpurposes to proceed via Davis Straitsand Baffins Bay up the west coast toElsemere Land and Grinnell Land andthence across to the farthest pointreached by Aldrich in 1876, whence hewill push north, making in the direc-tion of any land visible from the coast.The date of his departure is unsettled.Jackson will have only one companionoutside of his crew. Talking over hisplans he said:"Ihope to push my ship considerably

beyond Coburg Island, at the entranceto Jones Sound, and at the point far-thest north with sledges, dogs andponies and with one companion. Iex-pect to bo absent two years."

The Times editorial, expressing sat-isfaction at the Bering settlement andprotesting against the "loose insinua-tions of bad faith on the part of theUnited States Government which havebeen thoughtlessly and unqualifiedlyma.de in England" and Japan's with-drawal from the attitude she had as-sumed in Hawaii, intimated they wereindications for a desire for an Anglo-Japanese-American alliance.

The alleged attempt of the Prince ofMonaco to "bleed" the Casino com-pany has led to the publication of apamphlet by a group of shareholdersfull of interesting reading. Whileeverybody is aware that the Casinocontributes largely to his revenues,few people know that besides the sub-sidy of the Prince, the establishmentkeeps up the judges, police, lighting,water, postofnce. clergy and chari-table institutions. Last season's ex-penditures of the principality, apartfrom the maintenance of the Casino,which was £834,000, amounted to£130,000, of which sum the Prince had£50,000, the courts, police, etc., £20,-

--000; clergymen and \u25a0chools, £9000;charities. £t>000: prizes for sports,

£11,000, and the postofflce and losses,£2000. The dividends on shares ab-sorbed £576,000. making a total reve-nue of £1,540,000, which the "fools ofthe world" left at the Monte Carlogambling tables. An interesting itemis "press subventions £25,000."

The pamphlet says that it is abso-lutely necessary to expend a largesum In securing the good will of theContinental press, and it ia said thatover half the stories of suicides areonly bids upon the part of the Rivieranewspapers for a share of the"boodle."It appears that the Prince of Mo-

naco attended a recent meeting of theshareholders and offered to renew theconcession for fifty years, the termsbeing a gradual increase of hi? per-sonal subsidy until the sum reaches£100,000 annually, a new port to bebuilt at the cost of £320.000, an opera-house to be built costing £80,000. andvarious other items making a total of£190,000 annuallly. Although thePrince has signed the new concession,it remains to be seen whether theforthcoming meeting of the share-holders willapprove of accepting theseexorbitant terms.

Paris police statistics, just published,actually prove that murder does notpay from a financial point of view.They estimate twenty-one murders bywhich the murders averaged $16, andall the criminals were guillotined. Thestatistics show an increase of over 100more or less famous murderers, in-cluding In many cases but a few cents.The biggest haul was $65. although inmany cases large sums were over-looked.

An antl-sug-ar bounty leapue wasformed on Wednesday, under the presi-dency of Lord Stanhope, with the ob-ject of abolishing or neutralizing du-ties. Prominent firms in England con-nected with sugar refining and thechief proprietary and mercantile inter-ests connected with the colonies havejoined the league. One speaker «'in-phatically stated that unless somethingwas done speedily the West Indieswould raise the stars and stripes.

King Humbert recently received inaudience Remsen Whitehouse of NewYork and accepted a book on PrinceAmadeo, the deceased brother of hisMajesty.

Lord Russell has taken Lord Den-bigh's house at Kensington, formerlyoccupied by Robert T. Lincoln.

Mrs. Bernard Brice has been cor-dially welcomed back to the stage, af-ter a long illness. She played AnnCarew in a revival of Tom Taylor's"Sheep in Wolf's Clothing."

WANT STO BUYTHREE ISLANDS

Senator Lodge of Massachusetts

Has the Territorial Dis-

ease Badly.

He Is Now Preparing a Bill to Pur-

chase the Danish WestIndies.

Special Dispatch to The Call.CHICAGO, Dec. 25.—A special to the

Times-Herald from Washington says:

Senator Lodge is preparing a bill fa-voring the purchase of the threeislands of St. Thomas, St. Crolx and St.John, owned by Denmark in theWest Indies.

The Senate passed a resolution ayear ago asking the State Department

to ascertain whether the islands werestill for sale, at what price they wereheld ar.d whether any other countrywas after them. Denmark has replied

that she is still willingto sell and thattwo European Governments are nownegotiating for their purchase. Theseare supposed to be Great Britain andGermany.

The United States has been discuss-ing this purchase for nearly thirtyyears. InIS6B negotiations went so farthat a treaty was negotiated for thepurchase by which this country was topay $8,000,000 for the islands, but itfailed of ratification. On this occasionthe people of the islands voted on thequestion and decided almost unani-mously for annexation.

The Danes do not want any Euro-pean power to secure possession ofthem. A most liberal offer would bemade to the United States to purchaseat a comparatively small figure

—al-

most nothing—

for it has been prac-tically determined by Denmark toeither sell these islands or to renouncethem. Most of the residents of theislands are British immigrants, andtheir first move after securing inde-pendence would probably be to pe-tition England for a protectorate. Thepresent expense of maintaining a gov-ernment on the islands reaches $150,000a year. Considering her position inthe European concert, it is not thoughtnecessary for Denmark to maintain astation in the West Indies, hence herwillingness to sell.

St. Thomas has a harbor largeenough to accommodate the navies ofthe whole world, and in view of theadvantages to be gained, SenatorLodge is sanguine of securing an ap-propriation that willenable the islandsto be transferred to the Jurisdiction ofthe stars and stripes.

The three islands have a total of 100square miles of territory and a popu-lation of 40,000. St. Croix is the big-gest, with sixty square miles and 23,000population. The island is very fertile,and gives an excellent crop of all trop-ical products, especially sugar.

HOLIDAY FOOTBALL GAMESIN CALIFORNIA TOWNS.

IFerndale Defeats Eureka and Berkeley'sTeam Goes Down Before the

Woodlandites.

EUREKA (Cal), Dec. 25.—Therewas a large attendance at SouthPark this afternoon to witness

. the return game of football betweenthe Ferndale and Eureka High School

I teams. The game lasted two hoursiand was one-sided from the beginning,| Ferndale winning easily. The score

was 18 to 0. The first game, played'\u25a0 at Ferndale on Thanksgiving day, was1 also won by Ferndale by a score of 30to 4.

WOODLAND, Dec. 25.—The game offootball between Berkeley and Wood-; land resulted in a victory for Wood-

iland by a score of Bto 4. McDermottand Castelhun played with Berkeley.

SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 25.—The'San Bernardino High School eleven

;defeated the Los Angeles High School1 at a game of football to-day by aiscore of 6to 0. This gives San Ber-:nardino the championship of high-ischool team? in Southern California.

STOCKTON. Dec. 25.— Stockton foot-!ball players this afternoon defeated thej Modesto team by a score of 16 to 4.!Superior team work added to greater

weight carried the day for the homeplayers.

Found With a Fractured Skull.COVINGTON. Ky., Dec. 25.—Charle*

S. Weaver was found last night in anunconscious condition near hiß resi-dence and locked up. It was fourdthat his skull was fractured and thathe had no doubt been murderously as-saulted, and he was transferred to thehospital, where he died. Weaver wasforeman of a planlng-mill.As he neverregained consciousness there is noclew to th* murderer.

DISTRESSEDBY THE DEATH

OF HIS WIFEHoheniohe Greatly

Enfeebled by theSad Blow.

Anxious to Retire, but

Stays in Office by Re-quest of the Emperor.

Heavy Taxes Appear to Be theOnly Way to Increase

Germany's Navy.

CHRISTMAS IS OBSERVED.

The Imperial Family Passed tho Day

nt the Now Palace and Distrib-

uted the Usual Presents.

Special Dispatch to The Call.

BERLIN, Dec. 25.—Prince Hohenloheis much distressed at the sudden deathof his wife on Tuesday last. He spentthe previous three days at her bedsidewithout sleep, and his octogenarian

frame has been greatly enfeebledthereby. His physicians are urgentlyadvising him to retire from public life,at any rate temporarily, but the Em-peror relies upon Prince Hohenlohe'spatrl itism to remain in office in the

Tit. critical time. The remains ofthe Princess will be interred on Sun-day. The body was consecrated onFriday in the presence of the minis-ters, military dignitaries, followed bythe Prince Bishop of Breslau, Dr. Copp,in the conservatory of the Chancellor'spalace. The Emperor and Empress ofGermany sent floral wreaths.

At the reconvening of the Reichstagthe members of the opposition intendto make much of the fact that accord-ing to official figures just obtained, theimperial treasury receipts for the cur-rent year show a decrease of 20,000,000

marks. They will point out that inview of the naval increase and the re-organization of the field artillery thelarge additional funds needed can only

be raised by new taxes, contrary to thepromises of the Government.

The Government willintroduce at thereconvening of the Prussian Diet, onJanuary 11, another anti-Socialisticbill, but not so comprehensive as theone introduced last summer. It willmerely apply to lectures which havebeen brought under Government super-vision.

The Imperial family passed Christ-mas at the New Palace in the usualway. The two eldest Princes arrivedTuesday. The distribution of gifts wasmore lavish than ever. This part ofthe celebration took place In the shell

üball. Most of the gifts were purchasedDy the Empress personally at variousBerlin stores. They included hundredsof presents for the servants and courtofficials.

At a secret session of the MunicipalCouncil on Tuesday a New Year's ad-dress to the Emperor was adopted forthe first time in many years. This ad-dress deals largely with national pol-itic?, and is couched in patriotic terms.

Voluntary collections for naval pur-poses are taking place among thepupils of many of the public schools.

The influenza, in a severe form, hasbeen spreading in Berlin. There havebeen thousands of cases, and the deathrate is rapidly increasing.

Negotiations are proceeding in Berlinbetween Germany and Austria with aview to holding an international con-ference at Brussels on the subject ofthe abolition of the sugar-export boun-ties.

The organ of the agrarians, theDeutsche Tages Zeitung, freely attacksBaron Thielman for not declaring waron the United States.

The Vossische Zeitung, however,thinks that the present moment is notpropitious for such a demonstration,

and Great Britain would alone profitby a tariff war of that kind.

To the intense amazement of the suf-ferers from the floods the Governmenthas presented a claim for payment to;tllvillages and individual owners whowere aided during the floods by themilitary. The village of Plaun. for in-stance, received a bill for 400 marks.

Clifton R. Breckinridge, the formerUnited States Minister at St. Peters-burg, arrived here Thursday to spendthe holidays with his family at Dres-den.

There was no Joint celebration ofChristmas by the American colony ofBerlin. Several American ladies hadChristmas trees and distributed giftsto the poor children of the neighbor-hood.

The Agricultural Society has mem-orialized the Government, claiming thatAmerican fruit of every kind importedinto Germany is Infected with the SanJose scale, which Js a constant dangerto German fruit-growers. They wanta strict examination of all Americanfruit, trees and shrubs, and a refusalto admit them wherever the scale is de-tected.

The Emperor has presented the Em-press with a beautiful bracelet consist-ing of miniatures of himself and theirseven children set in diamonds. In thecenter, is the portrait of PrincessLuischen, and below it is the Em-peror's portrait in a heart-shaped set-ting.

TURKS FIRE A SHOTAT A GREEK GUNBOAT.

So the Ottoman Government Will Be Askedto Permit Vessels to Leave the

Gulf of Ambracia.ATHENS, Dec. 25. —As the Greek

gunboat Actium was leaving the Gulfof Ambracia to-day a shot was fired ather by the Turks at Prevasa. at the en-trance to the gulf. The Actium andseveral other gunboats which were fol-lowing, were compelled to return totheir anchorage. The Governor haswired to Prince Mavrocordato, GreekMinister at Constantinople, to Instructhim to ask the Turkish Government fora friendly permission to leave.

Movements of Warships.WASHINGTON. Dec. 25.—The Ter-

ror arrived at Norfolk to take pro-j visions and coal preparatory for leav-ing for Key West. The MontgomeryBailed from Pensaoola, and her destina-tion is not stated by the Navy Depart-ment.

POLICE OFHAVANA PUT

DOWN A RIOTSwords Freely Used

Upon a MaddenedMob.

Festivities of SpaniardsEnd inScenes of Wild-

est Disorder.

Two Hundred Arrested .AmongThem Being Officers of

Volunteers.

ACTIVITY OF INSURGENTS.

Towns Raided "With Impunity andthe Grinding of Cane Prevented

by Force.

Copyrlg-ht, 1897, by James Gordon Bennett.

HAVANA. Dec. 25.— The Christmassaturnalia was brought to a close by aserious riot, which was quelled by thepolice, who used their swords. In ac-cordance with their custom, the Span-

ish population gathered last night inthe parque central to celebrate Christ-mas by dancing and singing songs pe-culiar to the various provinces ofSpain. Almost all were armed withknives and clubs, fights being frequent

between groups from different pro-vinces. A large force of police waspresent, but there was no interferencewith the festivities until about 4o'clock, when most of the crowd be-came frenzied from drinking aguar-diente, and hostile cries were raised.

"Death to Americans," "Down withautonomy," "Down with Blanco,""Viva Weyler," "Viva los voluntar-ios," were some of the cries. Then thepolice closed In and a Bquadron ofmounted gendarmes drawn up in frontof the German Club charged withdrawn sabers. A panic ensued, themob, in which were many women,fleeing In every direction, but the

crowd was hemmed in on all sides by

the police, mounted and afoot, whostruck out savagely with their swords.

This continued until the mob wasthoroughly cowed, many being wound-ed, and then the police formed a cor-don around the square and proceededto make prisoners of the ringleaders ofthe demonstration. Two hundred pris-

oners were marched to the prefectureAmong them were many officers of thevolunteers. On four of the officers werefound bundles of circulars declaringSpain's honor had been compromisedby granting autonomy and calling onall loyal Spaniards to resist to the ut-most. Copies of these circulars werealso found scattered in the streets thismorning.

No further details are at hand re.garding General Pando's operations inOrient, but it is expected that a ser-ious engagement has already occurred.News of the result is anxiously await-ed at the palace.

The Herald's correspondent in SantaClara writes that General Gomez i.sagain in the saddle and using all ef-forts to prevent the grinding of cane.Work on BUgar estates is practicallysuspended. The proprietors of the Car-

t-state, the second largest sugarplantation in the world, have been no-tified that the slightest attempt togrind will be the signal for the totaldestruction of this valuable property.The Spanish troops are chiefly in gar-risoned towns, and are unable to af-ford adequate protection. Six estatesin Havana province were burned thisweek. The rebels raided Encruicijada,a town of several thousand inhabitantsnear Saguay La Grande, on the nightof December 21st, and carried off allthe supplies they found. Five days agotwenty-seven volunteers of Cumanaya-gua went over to the rebels. Insur-gents looted the town of Rodrigo onlast Monday evening, canning awaya large sum of money in addition toclothing and food. In Santa ClaraProvince trains are constantly derailedand traffic is practically stopped.

Local papers publish a report of thehanging of a prominent gentleman InPinar del Rio province. He went to arebel camp with proposals of autonomyand was executed.

General Parrado, with his force, re-turned to Havana last night after afruitless attempt to surround and cap-ture Colonel Aranguren, who is not of-ficiallyadmitted to be alive. The rebelshad all fled to Pinar del Rio provinceafter the execution of Colonel Ruiz.General Parrado will take the fieldagain in a few days.

La Lucha, in an editorial yesterday,lamented the fact that there is no en-thusiasm among the people over auto-nomy. The paper says nobody daresto state in public what he thinks aboutthe new regime; confidence in it ismore apparent than real. La Luchaadds that everybody is looking into thesky expecting something from an un-known quarter.Iwas assured by Captain-General

Blajico to-night that Cuba will be un-der nutonomical government by Janu-ary 1. The new Ministry is now en-tirely formed. It will begin work withthe new year, with offices in the palace.As soon as autonomy is workingsmoothly General Blanco will take thefield to conduct the most aggressivecampaign against the rebels remain-ing under arms.

"Autonomy in Cuba," said GeneralBlanco, "willbe an established fact by-January 1. The Ministry is completedand will be at work by that time. Ofcourse, there are some persons who arenot satisfied, but there always is a mi-nority.

"With an autonomlcal rule estab-lished, Iwill be to a great extent re-lieved of the responsibility, except asa sort of viceroy, and Ithen intend totake the field and conduct an activecampaign against those rebels who re-fuse to submit, but Ithink that onceCubans see autonomy actually work-Ing their doubts and prejudices will beovercome."

La Lucha has published a documentclaimed to have been authorized byUnited States Consul-General Lee,stating that Colonel Ruiß was executedbecause he proposed peace in contra-vention to a decree issued by GeneralGomez.

Reports from Pinar del Rio to theauthorities here say that two commis-sioners who were sent to propose peacewith autonomy to the insurgents inthat province have been hanged in con-formity with the decree of GeneralGomez.

Senor Antonio Govin, secretary of the

Autonomist party, who has for nearlya year past resided in the UnitedStates, has cabled to the Governmenthis acceptance of a post in the colonialcabinet. In March last Senor Govinleft Havana for the United States. Onhis departure it was understood thathe was starting only on a short tripfor his health and relaxation. Manyfriends went to the wharf and boardedthe steamer to see him off. Once onboard Senor Govin surprised hisfriends by pointing to Morro Castleflag and stating that he would not re-turn until the flag was changed.

"Up to now," he said, "Ihave hadconfidence and faith in the edifice ofSpanish nationality, but now it iscrumbling and falling down. Ido notwish to perish in the ruins, hence Iamgoing away."

Senor Govin's remark created agreat deal of excitement.

SYLVESTER SCOVELL NOT HANGED.

Stories Circulated About the New YorkNews-paper Correspondent Are Not True.

HAVANA, Dec. 25.— Rumors whichhave been circulated here that Sylves-ter Scovell, a New York newspapercorrespondent, had been hanged by

the insurgents are untrue. It is re-ported that he and Senor Rafael Mad-rigal, the American Consul at SanctiSpiritus, were the bearers of an im-portant dispatch from President Mc-Kinley to "President" Masso and Gen-eral Gomez.

Generally speaking, the condition ofthe concentrados ft as pitifulas it wasduring the administration in the islandof General Weyler, despite Captain-General Blanco's relief decrees. A re-lief fund of $100,000 willhardly give thesufferers 20 cents each.

La Lucha demands that the amountsexpended by municipal authorities forthe relief of the destitute inhabitantsbe published.

During the last month numerous rob-beries and stabbing affrays are report-ed to have occurred in Havana. Thesenut rages are ascribed to the return toHavana from Ceuta Prison of the "Na-nigos," who have been pardoned forpolitical offenses under recent decrees.

A party" of insurgents, it is reportedunofficially, recently dynamited a cul-vert and bridge on the railway be-tween tfagua and Remedios.It is reported that in various engage-

ments with the insurgents the forcesof General Pando have suffered con-siderable losses. The column for sev-eral days was short of provisions,owing to the vigorous resistance made"bi the insurgents to the advance ofthe Spaniards and the many impedi-ments placed in their way.. GeneralPando's exact losses are not known,owing to the difficulty of communica-tion.

Eighty residents of Bejucal, In Ha-vana province, while foraging a fewdays ago, were surprised by a band ofinsurgents, who stripped them of theirclothing.

While a number of insurgents werecarrying a case containing dynamitein the province of Puerto Principe thedynamite exploded, killingseven of theparty and wounding eight others.

Heavy Indemnity Demanded.NEW YORK, Dec. 25.— The Sun's

London cable says: A dispatch fromMadrid to ;i news agency here saysthat the United States has demandedOf Spain $8,000,000 as an indemnity toAmerican traders for damages sus-tained through the war in Cuba.

SUES HUSBANDFOR HER GEMS

Fresno Wife Demands the Re-turn of Valuable Diamond

Earrings.

Strife Follows Closely Upon theMnrriage of W. R. Thomas and

Mrs. Bernitt.

Special Dispatch to The Call.

FRESNO, Dec. 25.—A suit for thepossession of her valuable diamondearrings was commenced in Justice St.Johns court yesterday by Mrs. C.Thomas against her husband. W. R.Thomas. The earrings are valued at1299, and the plaintiff alleges that herhusband will not deliver them into herpossession. The suit is perhaps thefirst of a series of sensational suits,and it is believed some deeper motivethan the mere recovery of the dia-monds is at the bottom of the proceed-ings.

lUit a few months ago the plaintiffand defendant in the suit were mar-ried. W. R. Thomas, capitalist andmoney lender, wedded Mrs. C. Bernitt,a captivating grass widow with con-siderable means and the match waslooked upon as a favorable one forThomas. Soon, however, it became ap-parent that the honeymoon of the cou-ple had passed more rapidly than iscustomary, and rumors of disagree-ments were circulated. It is rumoredthat Mrs. Bernitt had thought that herelderly fiance had some financial at-tractions, but shortly after their wed-ding it transpired that he had trans-ferred his property to his sons. Thiswas an apparent shaping up of affairsfor a separation, and a long legal bat-tle and sensational developments havebeen expected for some time.It appears that Mrs. Thomas, upon

learning that her husband had trans-ferred his property to his sons, thoughthe did so for the purpose of deprivingher of the enjoyment of it. and shethen deeded away her holdings Shewas formerly the wife of Fred Han-stead, better known as ProfessorYoung Dutchy. They were divorcedand she then married a wealthy Ari-zona miner named Bernitt. They tooseparated.

TO SHOWTHE STARS

INMOTIONFlammarion Sets His

Fine Camera to

Work.

Rather a Slow Process toCatch All the

Sky.

Eventually He Will Put the

Picture on a Cinema-tograph.

FROM SUNSET TO DAWN.

The Beholder WillLook at the Won-

ders of Heaven as They

Pass.

Copyright, 1597, by James Gordon Bennett.

Paris, Dec. 25.—M. Camilla Flam-marlon is applying the cinematographto the purpose of teaching astronomy.The well known astronomer has under-taken the task of cinematographingthe sky. He is well satisfied with theresults already obtained. The appar-ent movement of the celestial bodiesis very slow, and M. Flammarion con-tents himself with taking 2000 and 3000photographs of the firmament every i

night when the sky is clear. He con-tends that they will be amply suffi-cient to show the motion of the moon,stars and planets, without any per-ceptible break in continuity.

The object glass he employs in hisphotographic apparatus is such as toembrace 180 degrees, so that the wholefirmament will be seen when the pho-tographs are put into the cinemato-graph. He commences at dusk, whenthe moon and stars appear as darknesscomes on. They appear one after an-other In proportion to their magnitudeand what can be seen of the rising ofthe sun produces the inverse of thephenomenon that is witnessed in even-ing. M. Flammarion intends to treatthe spots on the sun in the same way.

Much satisfaction has been causedby the publication of statistics for 1896,which show the population of Franceto be increasing. In1593 the number ofbirths only exceeded the deaths by7146. In 1894 the excess rose to 3978,which was also a trifling figure for apopulation of 38,000,000, and which jus-tified anxiety as regarded the future.Nordid the alarm appear to be ground-less in 1895, for the number of deathsthat year exceeded the births by 17.813.Figures for li>96 show that last yearthere were 94,000 more births thandeaths. This gain has not been solelyobtained by decrease in deaths, butalso by a notable increase in births.

Captain Baure, the officer who re-cently escaped from the military fortat Marseilles, where he was awaiting

trial for various charges, was recap-tured, and committed suicide. On

iescaping from prison he remained, dis-guised, in Marseilles, but was identi-fied by two detectives. When takenbefore a police official Baure swal-lowed poison, supposed to be prussicacid, and died in a few minutes. Thedeceased had been in the Spahis andhad done good service in the Soudanand Senegal, but was ruined by ex-travagance. He was condemned to im-prisonment for two years by a Pariscourt, and was also to be tried inMarseilles for falsification of accounts.

Leon Daudet willin a few days begin

workupon a life of his father, in whichhe willpay less attention to the writerthan to the man.

There is every prospect of a consid-erable enlargement of Paris. The Min-ister of War has formally placed on thetable of the Chamber of Deputies thedraft of a bill for the complete disman-tlement of that portion of the fortifi-cations between Point Dv Jour at An-teuil and the Gate of Pantin on theeastern railway line. The work of de-molition will occupy about three orfour years. The bastions to be pulleddown extend circularly for a distanceof a little over ten miles. It is pro-posed by the war office to sell theground occupied by the fortificationsand with the proceeds to build a newseries of forts farther off from the me-tropollta and to perfect In other waysthe military defenses of the city.

Neither the Dreyfus-Esterhazy casenor the Panama trial aroused much in-terest this week. Indeed, there havebeen no new developments in either. Itla expected that Commandant Rava-ria, who is conducting the EsterhazyInvestigation, will hand in his reportto General Saussier early next week.

Mrs. J. W. Mackay, who has beenstopping at Biarritz, has left for Rome.

Thrice Attempted Suicide.DENVER, Dec. 25.

—A special to the

News from Canyon City, Col., says thatEd Kohlman, who killed AlexanderDoull Jr. at a resort near Denver andwho is now serving a sentence In thepenitentiary for the crime, made threeunsuccessful attempts to-day to com-mit suicide.

THE SAX FRAXCISCO CALL, SITXDAT, DECEMBER 26, 1897.8NEW TO-DAY.

CUT THIS OUT!

NOMINEES FOR'

FREEHOLDERS r-

OP THE-

i\' _ "

Charter Convention and

Non=Partisan Convention.

X—

JEROME A, ANDERSON. 1IS—JOSEPH5

—JOSEPH BRITTON. X

I6—JAMES BUTLER. *

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These men are opposed by allnthe bosses; are opposed to a CzarMayor. They favor a Simple,Short, Honest Charter; the CityOwning Water Works and otherutilities; $2 for 8 hours' work asa minimum on all city work; aBoard of Public Works.

$250 REWARD.The sum of two hundred and fifty ($250) dol-

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