The morning call., 1893-08-17

lion dollars year must have been the in
come at least-possibly half million
more. for there are coal fields also trIbu-
tary.. The Duke of DevOnshire, Duke Of
northumberland, Duke of Buccleucb.
Marquis of Butte. Duke of Westminster.
Duke of Bedford and Earl Dudley are
peers quite as wealthy as the Stanleys,
Dut not one has more than million ana a
bali steady income from property. Inc
Grosvenors are considered the weaIthlest.
The Rosalie of the Davie ferry line con-
tinues to be patronizpd by crowds of the
public. They scorn the temptations offered
by the Alameda, for which the Southern
Pacific has now small army of runners
at work bawling the odds on cheap trip
and buttonholing travellers as il they were
saving them from perdtion by beseeching
them not to support the opposition. The
natural effect OF such opportunities and
impertinence on man OF mettie Is TO
make him go straight to the ROsaie. he
scorns these stick-ai-nothlng efforts to
down the opposition and feels that there is
enough of traffic on the bay to fatten sew
eral companies. Why should 1t all 20 into
one company's nav?
Ii there are any white men around
Fresno who are refusing to take work In
place OF Cinnamon discharged they will
probably soon find that surplus white
labor from other parts of the State has
appropriated the openings now at their
service. This is no time to refuse work II
the terms are at all decent Some 800 men
who have been thrown idle at Copperopo-
lis would be glad OF fresh employment.
A Boston paper alludes to the Con-
gressiondl Record as supplying a long
felt vub THAR
speeches in any other paper. But it does
not follow that the speeches of such men
are read because they appear in the official
publication, not even by such constituents
as receivea copy mailed to them. The
form OF life such outp0urings receive. is
little better than tomb like. :: Ii there be.
pleasure 10 that kind Of fame. it miglft also.
be derived from fe W .eopies printed By a;
typewriter: Unless .0ratory be of the,
highest quality in matter. sense. and style,
ajud1elous allnsion II sum mary is all that
S. possible in.the press: =. = T.:
T%mporizing with m0bs SOMETIMES calls.
for measures Of frightfuI severity. in the
end. Bonrbay'is passing through a crisis
Of tnmult which will require quite an army
to correct: Perhaps the telegraph is exag-
gefating occurrences, but the: outlook is
serious indeed il every mosque has. been
'ueSlLoyeu anu large numbers oil persons
have been massacred.. From such out
RACES theremust be bad feelingdeyelep ped
which Wit break OUT lin other troubles If
The immediate disorders are suppressed. :
. The Apreltons announce The issue of the,
Biography of Sir r. Burton. the traveller
and authoT.. 1t is one of the books ofthe.
year in. thrilling interest, and yet Leaves
much untold about as remark able man
as ever lived. The com bination of scho lar.
linguist and explorer mas never bafore
beenf0und in such high devel0Dment.s In.
the new edition Of his works Lady Burton
proposes To- follow her husbands own.
arrangement of order. interests conferred
on two or three new books, chief among
them being collection Of Italian tales. Ii
is said that BnrteE's papers and notes are
SO voluminous as TO fill three rooms. What;
a scrap library they would make! - :. -. -
Its singular that although the harvest
in England is one Of the WORST on record
the price of wheat remains SO phenomen-.
ally low. It is down. to % shillings per
quarter of eight bushels. for new wheat,
and the quality is probably fair Every
thing has failed in England this year but
otatoes. ard according 10 expectations
there should have been higher prices for:
imports. but they have not vet material
lZrd. In bad seasons the masses practice
economy even in food. :,