The morning call., 1893-04-01

1t Is not an unknown trick to remove
rail and then warn an express of danger.
The gratitude of the railroad company and
the passengers is apt to be exhibited rap
turously if the dodge succeeds. The at
tempt made to dPrail train in Oregon does
not appear TO be of this base character.
gardener on a tramp made the discovery
that rail had been displaced on trestle
bridge, and on his way to a telegraph sta
ton he was assaulted by five men and
was stabbed twice. One of the wounds
may be fatal. Atterward the poor fellow
crawled 4 distance Of half a MILE climbed
back to the railroad and gave the alarm.
Should this rescue prove fraudulent faith
will be quite upset in these heroic stories.
The Kewepnaw, She next steamer for
Panama which the North American Navl-
CATION Company will dispatch on April S,
has a carrying capacity equal TO 3209 tons.
She is the largest Of the fleet yet chartered.
But such is the demand of shippers for
space that even such n vessel may leave a
considerable hill of surplus cargo behind.
The company is Furnishing financially also
The subscriptions required by contract
with the Panama Railroad will now, accord
ing to Treasurer Upham Of the Traffic As
s0clation, be doubled.
The Howe is once more afoat. A big re-
ward will compensate the salvage workers,
for this battleship cost the respectable sum
of about 100000, and the British Adj
miralty are relieved from tile palpiiating
nervousness from which i'll luck has lately
caused them TO suffer. Nearly FIVE months
have been occupied in working the huge
irOnclad off the rocky ground at the en-
trance to Ferrol harbor and SO much must
the vessel be strained and damaged that IL
Will be creditable if the repairs do not cost
more than 100000. When the Sultan was,
fShed up from the bottom near Malta the
trouble was poorly repaid, because she was
of an obsolete type. But the Howe has
still to come Of age.
Mr.. w. w. Reynolds, who has died by his
own hand in the East, was the man who
caused all the worry 10 the Germans after
they thought they had France stricken
down pOwerless. He was in Paris as the
agent OF the Remingtons and to get out he
chartered balloon. Gambelta was invited
to go with him and seized the opportunity.
Then followed the agitation and fighting in
the provinces and the desperate prolonga-
ton of the war.
The folly of doing more for tramps than
giving them meals or tickets for meals IS
occasionally illustrated. What can De
thought OF the Gaberlunzle man who has
been arrested in New York begging a
quarter, on whose person were found GER
tificates Of deposit for $50, 600, a handbook
containing S1S4 81? The curmudgeon Is 60
years old, and lately he has walked from
Chicago TO New York to save car fare. The
proper treatment of such miser is to con-
hscate all his savings for some genuine
charity and feed him on sparing diet for the
remainder of his life. Another pPnuriuus
decelver, who is 81 years of age, after
secretly amassing the competence of $4,000
while living in filthy howell and CARRIED in
rags. is abOnt to close his existence in
France by plodding in agriculture. He has
strength enough TO dig his grave, but that is
about all. Yet he is not absolutely sapless
in the heart core. He has surprised a
friend with gift of $1,000 in gold pieces
The miser's excuse is that he is only bobby
horScal to his own detriment.
Some people may accept the yarn that
portrait OF Columbus by Titan has been
discovered. 1t is appropriately on its way
to Chicago, where. were it genuine, 1t would
take away all the glory from the postage
stamps of this wonderful year and be the
chief attraction. Unhappiiy, as the Vest
minister Gazette points our, the discovery of
this priceless portrait of the navigator has
been made in the fashion of many other
discoveries. 1t came to the light in Naples,
accidentally, of course. The panel which
bore the precious likeness has also been
used for some portrait of nobody, but
when, as luck would have it, this was
scraped and smudged off, there stood re-
vealed the lifelike lineaments of the inn
mortal Christopher. The dress of Spanish
admiral was confrmat0ry of identity.
What other man would Titan paint in that
uniform? But along with the portrait
documents establishing the authenticity
bave been unearthed. All this happens at
Naples where nothing spurious has ever
been manufactured. No other portrait has
yet been heard of to weaken the value of
this invaluable acquisition, but II Is not too
late to rub down few more panels. We
owe debt of gratitude to the ignorant
daubers who succeeded the grand masters
and preserved their immortal achievements
by wooden superpositlons: One other relic
Of interest is to go to Chicago 1t is calf
of the cow that butted Mr.. Gladstone down
10 show its indignation at the thought of
home rule. The cow was supposed to have
died violent death, but the calf lives