The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-30

stelv From Bellows style the average
preacher who has sleepy eoDgEeg" non
eonld learn much. Such man would be
valuable as professor in theological
college.
The animality OF human nature is well
brought out by a tragedy in Idaho. Those
who are familiar with LandseeTs WORKS
will recall the expressive force OF MS
challenge" and Combat" A pair OF
stays fight their battle of rivalry out IN
fierce conflict, not made more fierce by the
painter than il is in nature. Sometimes
these fights between the antlered or horned
species occur in presence OF the 1emaie,
who meekly looks on at the deadly grapPie
of her suitOrs and quietly surrenders her
affections TO the winner Near OOid mn
there has been something Of the same kind
enacted between two stOck-ralsers anu
| prepossessing widow who was nOusekeepeI
to 8 man not IN the quarrel. Each Oh tne
stockraisers had proposed ana oeen &C
cepted. aud when they found out the du-
nIicity of the widow they prepared f0r
hattie. They met st her house and fought
out their quarrel with long knives, the
widow looking on quietly from
doorway The combat was altogether
deadly, and wien eventually the duelists
fell in their agony, the cause OF JEALOUSY
rnsbed to the Side Of one of the dying to be-
stow upon him an embrace Of parting de-
votiOn. The ungrRteful man may have sup
posed that his hated rival was about to have
another prod at him with his bowie. The
widow may be inclined to believe this also,
because the momen: she was by the duel
lists side he sIashed Off her nose with deX-
terous flash of his knife and picked out one
of her lovely eyes with the point, so Ihat IL
will twinkle no more for any BODY. Inc ac-
.f,o n N,r
which tenderly licks the wounds OF theeon-
queror and lameuts not those OF the van
Guished. Such is the struggle for the survl-
val of the fttest
An eccentric man. but possibly financial
philosopher, has come out to Chicago from
Hungary for the express purpose OF giving
entertainments in rapidly of speech. There
are not few married men OF opinion that
speech is sufficiently rapid at present, but
they have fortunately no such experience
as this lIngual expert is capable of int1lct-
ing upon an audience. lie has trained him.
self il fifteen languages, and perhaps he
can think with discretion in one or two OF
them But IN his own Hungarian he pro-
fesses to be able to gable OF 10000 words
in forty minutes. That is to say lie can
articulate 800 words minute. THIS is two
and a half times the average rate of the
exceeds 200 words per minute at his fastest
rate, and his average may not exceed l40 or
10. and this Is quite fast enough Tor IN
tengibility or emphasis. In conversation
the rate OF utteTauce Is much more rapid, as
shOrthand-wrters know, during the eX-
animation Of witnesses. This hungarian
las all his speech committed TO memory,
and he rattles il off probably much faster
than the ear can follow. AS to the
slenographer he cannot possibly be any
where in the race. About 800 words
minute is the utmost speed to which any
one has attained.
A pretty row has broken out between
Lord Salisbury and MI Gladstone on the
subject Of the House Of Lords. Mr.. Glad
stone has made use OF threats about what
may happen to tie august peersge should II
stand in the way of home rule for Ireland
and pree ipitate a constitutional crisis.
Whether this means an agitation TO abolish
the House of Lords or only an intimatiOn
that great batch OF new peers might be
Created 10 swamp the present body cannot
be determined. But Lord Salisbury states
that if 800 new sweeps" are Taked into the
House of Lords by fresh creations the Con-
servatlves may repeat the operation when
their turn comes, and thus regain supremacy
This programme wsuld be very good thing
for England Il would bring into violent
chamber and giving privileges to a class OF
aristOcTats niRe oIt Of every ten OF whom
are downright noodles Nth q fair sprink-
ling OF Blacklegs, debauchees, and other
wise disreputable characters. Tie few
able men in the House Of Lords
do DJt eGnOble il. Not & fifth Of
the members attend the sittings,
shOrs sS they are; not even a tenth Of them.
Sometimes Ii is difficult to make a quorum
O., three. Not twentieth of the peers
cake part in debates or are capable Of doing
II. The hereditary gang are for the most
part just about as cons picuous as imbeciles
would be in a debating chamber. To null
tiply such hereditary legislators threefcd
would set all England ag0g with excitement
and the House of Lords would veritably be
ended, not mended. AS to the titles of
peers nobody cares. They harm nobody. 1t
is their powers in obstructing legislation that
cannot be tolerated. aud those powers the
English people are bent upon clipping.
BRTTSH