The morning call., 1892-08-17

culties and contentious should be settled In
a similar manner.
One of the uuutterable but not indescrib-
able sensations OF the day is the marriage
of the Duke OF Devonshire with the Dow
ager Duchess of Manchester. The Duke
has figured in politics, and In the British
Cabinet too. since be left his university,
Cambridge. where his father was q monu-
ment Of patrician learning too rare to afford
any basis OF comparison with his peers. By
reason of bis noble Whig blood, sent cours-
ing IN full family stream during the time of
James Ii and William III, his Grace was,
OF course, pronounced a born politician the
moment he was Of age, and the Cabinet had
the benefit of his wisdom the moment his
party was in power, and ever since until he
separated from Mr.. Gladstone on the home
rule question. He is not in any sense a
brilliant man. or profound man. saying
little and thinking much, neither Is he
mediocre man or a man sunk fathoms deep
beneath mediOcrity. Like the great horse
1had Stevens, he has always link to let
out on run, but he is generally too lazy to
let it out himself. As a Minister in the
Cabinet he has always been slow going
duliard III every field. and has effectually
conveyed the impression that hOrserace
or diet of lotus leaves was better to his
taste than active thought for the honor and
benefit Of n nation. The odd thing Is
And now he is. and all clamor is silenced
about his past re eiatlons.
Every body knows that the Duke of
Devonsbire was dying to see the late Duke
of Manchester dead and his wife a widow.
The widow is now the Duchess again; no
longer Duchess Dowager, but a Duchess
with new title. Thus there is hope that
The title OF the Devonshires. very proud
name in English history, viii pass along In
the peeraee books by the direct line of the
eldest son. There Will be a good deal of ILL.,
natured caekle over the jnghng of the mar
riage-belIs But the Duke Is as phlegmatic
as If the dermal superfices of his bronzed
and bearded face were imposed of old
boot And the snobbish English public
will forgive, forget and adore anything in
Duke. Only the other day Truth had a
sketch of the present Duke of Manchester
poor a church mouse. living of the earn
iDgs of a cOncert-hall dancer and singer
and getting drunk and going TO sleep in her
company at table. Yet other diners-out
were sublimely struck by the majesty of
their being permitted TO dine in the COM
pany of a dissolute pauper Duke, and drew
their breath as he Teeled out on the arm Of
woman who had paid his score" People
who denounce Thackeray for cynicism DO
not half know the nOyelists opportunity for
cynlcism.
The souvenIr-dollar pastime at Chicago
may run itself into the earth unless a halt
Is called. A note souvenir Is now the propo-
sition. The note Will be redeemable at its
nominal value, but is expected TO sell al
three or four times its value, and, conse-
gently, the purchaser will never redeem it,
and the Chicago commissioners will be
yerwhelmingly grateful, because what
ever genuine coin they lay by for redemp-
tlOn Will not be dis speTsed, but will remain
or their hands TO fruetify in the proper
direction. Is there not much danger of
OVERRIDING this souvenir farce? Why may
not man buy a stamred envelope in the
exhibition and preserve that as souvenir?
Or Why may he not glue together all the
bills he has 10 pay In Chicago and preserve
the amalgamated lot of eXtortion as a souye-
mir? Even the remembrance of mans
railroad ticket from California would be
souvenir. The souvenir notion is going to
seed.
San Francisco business men, il they had
any time TO spare TO enjoy comedy. might
attend the present sittings of the Railroad
Commission and applaud or laugh at the
proceedings, as is their mind. Tney might
laugh with all the more conscientious salts
faction, because it IS a comedy for which
they have paid dearly in supporting the
company OF actors, and especially the
Southern Pacific Company. The Shively
complaint is pretty study for historians OF
States regulated by constitutions and con-
trOllei by courts of law. But all the
schemes of the Southern Pacific cannot d-
vert attention from the fact that traffic
round the Horn by clipper ships or steam
ers can compel II 10 listen to the reason OF
being conciiatory. Everybody under
stands that the moment the pressure is re-
moved tie oppression will be as unendur-
able as ever ii has been. So merchants
must not relax their opposition.
a barber in the new Croeker building has
been compelled to pull In his pole of red and
white as being too unesthetic for an es-
thetic business quarter. Few people grasp
the meaning of the BARRIERS pole. sometimes
accompanied by brass plate. IL Signified
that the barber was practitioner in the
letting ef blood, whicE was the great
remedy for ali diseases only century ago,
and was pTactieed by the renowned DR.
SaDgradO of Ls Sage's fiction with mar
vicious success. BARRIERS no longer bleed
their subjects, unless accidentally, as when
they cut in upon pimple or make too
vigorous a slash during an earthquake
But why should a BARRIERS pole disgrace a
region where banking and bill-shaving pro-
ceed merrily?