New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-01

IOOdllln, the natuIAI DIoth'i VI INV i""7"
! and the lOafcr everywhere, sciZes an opportu-
| nity to execute his always-latcnt determina-
/ ton to "wipe out China Town" the old Nlgl-
| lance Committee steps once more to the 'front.'
| and crowns its record Of honorable service
with the assurance that it will defend just
! cause, even in an enemy
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In these DAYS Of general slrinkage and collapse
if is reassurng 10 learn that there ~" several persons
on the Pacific Coast who still tolerabiy "eiloH'
| The san Francisco Baiiein has been investigating
some estimates of German newspaper ~ 10 TIC 'c
tual and comparative wealth Oi certain EuIopo'hd'
American capitalists, and while It's moVed 10 'ou
fy the figures trfe, so far as they feleI W our
Western friends. ii adds some suggestive apprase-
m nts of its own, The income Of one Jones "i Ne
vada is rated by the EanLtort Gazette at 80 a
minnie. or onc-thild more than that of the Marquis
Of Westminster and one-haf that Of the late Roths-
child of Paris: while that # j. W. Mackcy who was
thirty years ago renness boy in Ireland ana SIX
% on wears ago a bankrupt is said to be Tl3,15ooOO
Der annum or 400 n minute which II the III
tcrcst AT five per cent per annum OF T2|J'UUouVo'
The Bailtiia declares these estimates to be spec
ulatiyo and curious hut proceeds to revise some Oh
thern with great freedom OF Jones for example, 1t
j. said that "some time ago he ceased to be very
rich man, Flood, 0ISrien, Mackcy N Falr the
mining firm who control two Bonanzas own the
Bank of Nevada. who acknowledge 1e" III
vcstments elsewhere, SET down as t0eether worth
500 coo 900 without any statement ~ To inc eAacl
share Of This spuQ competency winch pertains to
,arh individual. Stanford, Huntington, Croker ana
Uoplfls. principal owners Of the Central Pacihc
and lis appurteuarcos, are rated at Tl2,50OOOO
each. with the cheerful prospect OF being the
richest men in America in six or seven
wears After these are named twenty-five others
who are worth $1,000 coo and upwards, " with mt
"exhau,tug the list by a long way" No catalogue
is attempted of the miscellaneous multitude u COM
paratively reduced circumstances who Goa only
lty claim to two or three millions apiece; but 1t Is
asserted IN general that they are all only middle
AGED men, that none OF them were rich twenty years
ago. and that few had fortunes ten years ago. HE
moral reflection of 1ic BWietm that these
arc men who "haye faith in the good Prov
"idence which is Oh the side OF AL who nom
estly help themselves is not unnatural nor IS
another comment from the same source, which we
think We have heard on some previous OCCASION to
wit: These facts illustrate in u striking way, The
d" wonderful resources oil the PaciEc Coast.'
4 discovery Of Importance 10 science - announced
by Dr. Henry Draper of Observation-Disclosures.
Ii Is well known TO students of the speciroocope
that while tho black lines that Indicate the pres
ence OF metallic vapors are 80 abundant IN the
solar spectrum as 10 leave 40 room Tor dhlbt-
ing that most, ii not all, the metals are ~
nitcd in the sun. there is yet an absence OF
tso lines that characterize nearly all the nom
metallic substances. Hydrogen Is excepted from
this sweeping rule but thero many reasons for
clas,ing-that gas with the metals Various theories
have been put forward to explain the absence Of non
metallic lines from the solar spectrum and the fact
has even been used 10 throw doubt over the nebu-
lar hypothesis which necessarily assumes that the
constituents OF The cannot greatly differ from
those of the earth. Dr. Diapers discovery, II 1t be
confirmed shows that AT least One-and probably
seyerll-nou-metallic Substances are present IN
the sun Ia a paper read before the American
Philosophical Society last month, he gave tho de
tails Of experiments which appear 70 prove that
oxygen forms Of the suns coLst ,ucnts.
rs presence is indicated in the spectrum. rot
l,v black but by bright lines. To make 'h,- moro
apparent, Dr. Draper has photographed with the
spectrum Of tho sun "comparson spectrum of
common air-the air being iented by the electric
sparks of a LeydenJar. The comparison spectrum"
gives the bright lines of oxygen and nitrogen.
and also from the terminals OF the battery uscd)
those Of aluminium ard iron. The lines OF the
metals serve check the accuracy with which the
two spectra-of the sun and Of air-are matched.
These spectra are reproduced without tho interyon
ton Of the engraycr by Biersadts Albert-type pro-
cess. and appear rs a frOntspece in The american
Journal Of science and Aris. If it is conceded that
there are bright lines the solar spectrum showing
the presence of oxygen, il seems probable that the
discovery of the other nOn-metallic substances such
"a nitrogon chlorine sulphur, carbon. etc, may DO
similarly made. new view Of the suns constitu-
ton will then follow since the circumstance that
Lryl. lines flow from the n0n-mctals indicates that
their quantity in the sun is probably enormous as
compared with the metals
In Ncw-Jersey the military situation is practically
unchanged but the troops are concentrated at dis