The morning call., 1890-04-15

zen of Nevada and of the Black Hills
country, has arrived here with MS wlIe
after winter in Dakota. Senator Spencer
was interested there in urging the lottery
bill upon the Legislature of North Dakota,
but other influences were stronger ana the
lottery scheme was rejected by the young
State. Colonel John S. MoSby, VINO mas
just won verdict from the Supreme Court
and received nearly $4,000 OF back consular
fees, is the last Confederate leader to lend
his name to a lottery scheme. With Beau
regard, Jubal Early and John S. Mosby all
IN the lottery business it rather becomes
Republican Congress to keep legislating
against the evil which these four COnfed-
crates are fostering.
Since General Schenck's death last
Sunday all the old anecdotes of him have
been revived and the time-honored chest
nuts about the Little Emma mine and the
great treatise on poker are told over anu
over again. For the last dozen or fifteen
years OF his LIE General Schenck has lived
mere very quietly with his two unmar-
RED daughters. Years ago the doctors
gave MIN up and prophesled
speedy death from Bright's disease.
Another doctor took the case, put him on
rigid diet of skinned milk, and General
Sehenck recovered and has enjoyed as good
health ever since as any man past three
score could look Tor. As there were dlpn-
therltlc complications with the pneumonia
the funeral was private and there was less
obli IMPRESSION Dlbut Nv his utdlu Iuhh
IL there could have been public funeral
with all the h0norS that go TO such a vet
eran.
Max O'Rell has come back to have an
other look at Jonathan and his continent,
and lectures here this week. AS he did not
say anything so very bad about us, and
with his criticisms praised US good deal,
he is receiving decided welcome back, ana
Is to be the lion of breakfast, dinner and
supper party on the night Of his lecture,
Theodore Roosevelt is enlivening his
life as Civil Service Commissioner by de-
llvering lectures here and there about the
country and has been on the wing for the
past week, telling people as far away as
Chicago about Americanism.
THE PROFESSOR AND THE CANNIBALs.
Professor Carl LumhoItz a Norwegian
scientist, who spent several years in Aus
tralIa, has been much feted in scientific
circles this winter. and has in turn adj
dressed the different societies which the
capital boasts. Before leaving in few weeks
the Geographical Society has arranged for
public lecture for him that shall come off
this week. Professor LumholtZ will talk
about his lite among the cannibal tribes
and will illustrate it with lantern slides.
The illustrated lecture is an Institution OF
the age, and no lecturer now can hold his
audience without pictures to embellsh his
talk and make his descriptions clear. One
good cannibal story which Professor Lum-
holtZ told at recent dinner was in answer
to a woman who asked him if he
was not afraid of being bitten, of
having a piece nirped out of his arm
or shoulder if not toasted and eaten entirely
by the cannibals. NO." said the traveller,
Il was safe by being too salty. The can
nibals do not care for the flesh of Euro
pean. II tastes salty to them, and they can
not eat it," As the Maoris of New Zealand
are distinguished by their dislike OF salt
and never touch it, there is plainly some
thing at the antiDOdpS that makes the ma
tive taste so different from ours.