The morning call., 1891-09-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Navy Department has just issued another
volume OF the valuable publication entitled "A
Years Naval Progress" The Notes on Ships"
embouieS succinct descriptions OF the recent
additions to the navies of Europe, the United
StaIes aud the werld at large, particular atlen-
lion being devoted 10 unique features Of con-
stiucton. In the section showing the amount
every one OF Tie great powers intends durlag
the current year 10 expend upon naval eensiTuc-
tiOn, Great Britain Stats on with medliated
expenditure OF SS9,2ol 900: France proposes 10
expeHd S42, 100000 Russia, S33,257, 542 !
Italy, S23, is 900; tho United States, sl6,-
6O7,0oO; Germany, Sl3,o0o,oo0, and AustIli'
81 100000 The Dleibund aud England expect
to expeuu between them Sl26719,o0o, Willie
Russia and France wifi devote S75,757, 542 to
the same purpose. The chapter devoted TO ord
nance alludes 10 The casualties and accidents Ie-
sultIng from explosions of English breech-lo d.
ing rihed guns and The tendency 10 restrain the
movement toward large eslibers Is very marked.
The ''Nutes ON Machinery con aims, among
other data, an account OF experiments maze
abroad on the effect of cold water on red-hot
boilers, calculated 10 reverse the common I'M
preston that many explosions are CAUSED by
turning cold waller into them while in this eOndi-
ton.
European banking statistics up TO September
Sd show where good proportion Of the millions
In the year the Bank OF England holdings Of
gold iucl eased from sI13 AZ. G25 to S13l $780,
800. The Bans OF Frances gold Increased from
$500, SOS, 544 TO S272, 240,579, while lis hold
inge OF silver show u slight decrease flom S253.-
5S9, 523 10 $3.50, 205.llO, its Increased specie
holdings being S525, AS, $50, against S5l4,-
45S O67 Of year ago. The estimated holdings
of gold of the lmierial Bans OF Germany Lad
Increased from S132, 927 900 TO $3.50, 327, 600,
while The estimated holdings Ct silver show a
decrease from sec, 463 900 10 S5l,7CS, 900, The
banks specie representing total OF $50, O35.-
600, against SI99, $3.50, 900 OF a year ago. In
other words, The gold in Tie three banks has IN
creased from S5o7 ,240, 1863 10 S5S7.247, 944,
while the silver In then vaults shows a failing of
from $500, 052, 523 to S3o4, ,l10. The net
specie gain Tor Tie year being SOD, S6S, $3.50.
To reduce the trans Atlantic record is the con-
slant aim OF the great steamship companies aud
their naylgators. The TeutOnic has made The
voyage III five days sixteen hours and thiIiy-two
minutes. a rival line now proposes TO recover
the pennant. and The announcement is made that
a steel steamship, to De nearly thousand feet
long, Is TO be built soon as possible for the pun.
pose OF so far diminishing The surface OF resist
ance, Increasing The iuel stOrage-Foom and AFFORD
ing extraordinary accommodations for engines,
that with some hopes for The discovery Of a
method Of utilizing more than 20 per cent OF the
potential energy Of 4 steamers fuel. 1t may be
possible TO reduce The record from i've 10 three
DAYS"
The cost of rearing aud educating boys ana
girls was the subject Of couple OF instructive
articles recently published In The New York Re
corder II found that hoy Of poor parents
could be brought up 10 ] . wears OF age IN that
ely for a little more than $500, while lie itch
mans son cost during The same period more than
$4,000. No estimate was furnished for poor
mans daughter, but a rich mans was shown to
have had spent on her from birth 10 legal age
the large sum Of S25, COO. Too often childfen
fail to arpi eciate the full value of the sacrifices
made by their parents 10 properly rear aud edu-
cate III m.
CONNIE nting on tin European situation and
the chances OF war one Of the oldest dipiOmaiisis
In London sums up the situation thus: - If The
Triple Alliance thought success certain It would
no. be long in making up its mind TO nave done
with peace which is almost as costly and ex-
asperating as war. What prevents war Is the
utter uncertainty Of the result From that point OF
view ii is a good thing rather than otherwise
that The balance Of power Is as nearly perfect as
possible. and that the Triple Alliance should un-
dersiand that no gratutous attack could be
made upon France without bringing Russia into
the field"
Tie new field guns turned out at the Wafer.
vliet arsenal for the army are demonstrating
their superiority TO anything OF equal caltber
that Krupp can show Tn battery OF four pieces
OF 80 inches caiiber tried by LtghI Battery +,
Third Artillery, Oh the banks oil the GaudalouDe
River could send shells distance OF five miles,
aud Tie extreme range with accuracy was prob
ably L OF lar from Two and half miles. The re-
maikable unanimity with which the shells
pitched practically into the same spot when fire
at tile Target was proof Of the exaellIude 10
which gunnery has ben reduced