The morning call., 1892-11-13

criminal But soon af,er tnat trial strange
alterations were noticed In the bench be-
h ,vior OF SIR. Justice Stephen. and the bar
began 20 lnnk upon him as mad. His rulings
were very peculiar. Lawyers set him down
as ''off his chump" anu perhaps he is. He
had the good grace 10 retire on n pension,
which is always the reward of an English
Judge when he has served q few years. 1t
i this circumstance which adds weight to
the appeal on Mrs. Maybrick's behalf
Given Judge who is mentally incapacitated.
what is the chance Of Justice when he
charges jury not only on the law. but the
facts? An English jury is apt TO be docils
and submissive, bat with a Judge partially
insane, what chance Is there for justice2
In consequence Of prohibitory notice on
chocolate creams issued by the English
Customs authorities one would like to know
what those creams are made OF. They are
extensively sold in the United States and
greedily devoured By small boys and girls.
Poison seems to be in the air in England.
The order Is that no more foreign creams are
to be admitted until they have been an
alyZed and the nature of the composition
ascertained. Upon which the London
speculation: What has the foreign adul-
terator dared TO put into the favorite
sweetmeat of our youth? Sausages some
times contain all that is mortal of the
omnibus horse: sugar Is mixed with
charms with the common cabbage; oats
have been known Tin Yankee-land) to be
shoepegs sharpened at the other end nut
megs have been made of wood: milk is
adulterated with boric scd and heightened
with water; the ruby port owes its beauty
to logwood. and the pale sherry is based
on potato spirit. But the mid chocolate
cream, the choicest gift OF the schoolboy
lover to his fiaxen maid. that that should
be the prey of the poisOner is indeed
blow"
As many tons of chocolate are sold in
America there should be some inquiry by
Coroner careful of people while they are
alive. II matters not so much when they
are dead.
A clergyman in England has published O
book on the history and antiquities of the
Collegiate Church of st. Saviour. South
wark. 1t cannot fail TO interest Americans
that Ralph Waldo Emerson Is traced to this
church by ancestry. The essayist Is con-
nected with Southwark family, and here
line:
Here under lyeth the Body
OF William Emerson, who
Lived and Died honest
Hee Departed ont of this
Life the 17th OF june ammo
DOM, 1873, In the year of his
age 81.
ct sum sic ers.
The American who w0rships Emerson
may also make pilgrimage TO Cheyne Row
In Chelsea. where Carlyle held forth to
Emerson as if he. not Emerson. were the
only philosopher after Plato. But to be
great you must sustain your reputation
with clay pine, chatter, and In profound
knowledge about immensitIes
curious discovery has been made about
cancer. 1t is not disease confined TO man
kind. The American brook trout as intro
duced into Dunedin. Nsw Zealand, is found
to be eancerous, and probably the consum-
ers thereof run risks. In fact, the fish,
both among the males and females, is pro-
nOunced to q very great extent caneerous.
This is new field for the naturalist in fish.
He is too much accustomed to pay atten-
ton 70 measurements, fms, scales and out
lines. The fish that is cance-Ous is now
ant TO be avoided by omniyorous mankind,
and so will have chance for longer lease
of life. The study Of food fishes has new
aspect from this discovery. BRUSH.