The morning call., 1893-10-30

1t is limited in vein of sarcasm by an
Eastern paper that as the new Cunard
steam ers have beaten all records in Allan
tic voyages it may be necessary to pass
another act of Congress giving special
permission 10 hoist the stars and stripes
on other foIeign-built steamers in order
that there may be none superior. There
cannot be the slightest doubt that if capi-
taliSts want to have better steamers than
the Campania and Lucania built in Amer
lea they only require To subscribe the
money. The vessels would in due time be
forthcoming. Ii Is absurd to Imagine there
is any inherent lack of ability IN America
10 construct the fastest steamers as well
as the fastest yachts or clippers. Our
builders labor under only one defect-the
paucity of orders for first-class vessels.
They have shown their skill so we'll in en-
gines and designs of the hull that they
may easily take the lead in construction.
Merchants must create the commerce, and
then there need be no appre hension about
the speed of vessels TO carry mails. passen-
gers and cargo. Ii is not even advisable
to depend too much upon Government as
sistance.
Brooklyn rejoices that the days of the
carhorse in that city are doomed. Elec-
tricity is taking its place, very large
number of the lines now being operated
by the trolley system. The method SUBJ
stituted is not by any means perfection.
but if the carhorse could be consulted it
would probably rejoice at the change. Its
lite as drudge on the streets has usually
been short and miserable. There Is an
aspect OF the matter, however, not so
agreeable 10 those who raise horses. AS
the demand grows less the price falls. and
II is becoming serious question how to
nf I'm nj
like old rates. In the event OF a European
war between the great powers there would
be such drain UPON the cavalry horses
t hat a considerable export would spring
up. Occasionally at present inquiries are
made by foreign Governments. But what
ever benefit might come to the horse trade
from wars, many evils would also accrue.
The farmer can have little hope that hip
pophagy will ever be popular in America,
as IN Paris and Belgium.
The natural method of striving to keep
up asupply of food fishes is to find out. as
preliminary, how they take care of
themselves in their migrations. and what
their nourishment is. Of all fish the her.
ring should be best understood. as it has
been the pursuit of fishermen during cen.
turies. Yet there are still many mysteries
to solve in its migrations 1t is we'll
waters, both in the Atlantic and Pacific.
| The Scotch have taken to tying disks with
| a Bit of aluminium wire to the dorsal fin,
| in the hope Of following up the migra-
tions round the British coasts; but thus
| far. out of 800 thus decn rated, not Que has
again come into the nets. 1t IS not I'M
possible that metal disk on the back
renders them a brighter mark for the
maws of their enemies. There seems to
| be no doubt that the herring does not for
sake the British coasts altogether at any
part of the year. The shoals either make
| a tour of the islands or are strictly local.
| They can always be caught somewhere
north or south. The migrations of the her.
ring in San Francisco Bay and in the Pa
fic are deserving of study by the scieu-
tifc. Very little will ever be found out by
| fishermen, who are eminently practical in
their fishing, like the seafowl.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Long before Professor Garner went to
Africa to study the language OF mon-
keys, in which he has made some headway,
Richard Burton experimental in a most
original way in the same direction. He
formed happy family Of forty monkeys
of various races and ages. and lived with
them. He gave them offices-as doctor,
secretary. chaplain, aid-de-camp, agent.
| ETC., aad one Silky-looking specimen he
called his wife. He kept q refectory for
| them, where they sat at their meals with
| himself at the head of the table. and the
silky monkey seated near him in baby's-
chair. With little whip he kept them 10
| order, and they needed a tOnch Of it occa-
sionally when they showed jealousy of the
| silky favorite. Burton talked to his CON-
| paniOns, and repeated their sounds, SO
that in time he knew as many as sixty
calculations which the monkeys could COM
prehend. This vocabulary is more copious
than the one formed By Mr. Garner, but
then Burton had marvellous facility in Ian
guages, and unquestionablv some of the
human dialects be mastered were far more
difficult in pronunciation, il easier in mean
ing.
Tho Iatast portrait of Iohenpula fhe