The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-14

across the continent by which the Pacific
Mail and Occidental and Oriental companies
defeat all the present enterprise on
the the part ba 81 our Rp Gr
road is key 10 the improvement. When the
Nicaragua canal IS completed, any railroad
across the isthmus viii be secondary. The
prospects, at least, are encouraging for the
people, if they vii, stand by one another
and utilize their advantages.
Chicago is now getting on so we'll with the
Worlds Fair that the directors suggest that
the enterprise might be carried on to the
qualification Of all concerned two years in
stead of one. Assuredly Chicago will have
no objection. The municipality may even
offer premium to have this budding idea
realized. But what the rest of the country
will say to the matter is hardly doubtful.
IL will say there has been enough of exhibit
ton. The project as initiated is too vast
for continuance. either in honor of Colum-
bus or anybody else. Our Rsylums would
be filled with lunaiics. oyercrovdiDg the
space, II this gigantic perpetuity Of exhIbi-
ton went on beyond normal period of
endurance. IL we must have whirl OF
exhibitions let them be held in different
towns, and let each be confined to one or
two fields of industry or art. Then there
might be some profit to visitors. But when
everything is represented the average Wis
Itor is In wilderness.
A New Jersey man is fasting. not be-
cause he wants 10 distinguish himself, but
because he cannot help himself A few
days ago he had performed the longest
fasting feat on record. He had then chalk
marks to his credit TO the number of sixty
three. What his limit may be before he
gets up an appetite must be left 10 the
keepers Of stop watches In his neighbor-
hood In Ohio worthy German who as
saved the feat OF fasting fifty days has
given up the task in disgust Perhaps he
had read about the other mans perform
aDce and felt chagrin as we'll rs stomach
ache. A German faster is also handicapped
by the fact il it be fact. that he has the
largest equipment OF digestive organs
known among European races Still the
typical man in the West who can swallow
three pounds of meat, hunks of bread and a
famous circle of pic within quarter of an
hour has a prospect of winning in any
guStatory competition.
At San Luis Potosi, In Mexico, typhus
fever is raging. and remedy is being ap-
plied-it is said with singular success-com-
pounded from the broth OF bruised spiders.
The remedy is desperate, but so is the dis
ease. 1t is not 20 be imagined that the
spiders are of the tarantuia species, or bear
KIN 10 any OF those monsters which catch
live birds and feast upon their bones. The
sOnons secreiionS, and 1t would require much
persuasion To induce the average person IN
sound mental health TO swallow a filament
from SPIDERS spinnaret. But it may be
conceded that the Quack doctors of all ages
have used remedies just as farbidding and
dangerous. and perhaps with ike success.
English wheat has touched the lowest
price known in the memory of the present
generation OF farmers. 1t was quoted last
week ct q shiliings per quarter of eight
bushels. American wheat was offered in
London at % shiilings per quarter. The
Mark Lane Express. the leading journal in
the grain trade. is of opinion that exports
from America can hardly continue on this
basis. so that a rise of price is TO be ex-
peeted. But what can be done? Wheat
pGurs into England from all quarters of the
globe and il is Impossible to pnt duty on
cereal imports for the benefit of agriculture
lists, who are only tenth of the population.
1t was expected TO be year of scarcity, If
not famine, but apparently 1t is year OF
great plenty.