The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-07-01

of his calling by any means. He belonged
to the old schoo! of medical men who are
veritable encyclopedias and general prac-
titioners rather than specialists One bit
of scientific work gave DR.. Blake consider
able credit as naturalist. he described
the viviparous perch of the Pacific Coast
a fish quite strange to Europeans and to
the East.
After the arguments for new trial. the
Blythe case. Judge Coffey set an example
Of promptitude in decisions. In five or
SIX words he denied the motion. and
blandly intimated that he might give
written opinion subsequently. What
weary woe. what bitter strife" in prolix-
ity he had to endure before making that
announcement There were days and
days con umed in narrowing the ground.
Now the case goes to the Supreme Court
for the final scene.
A young man is ON tramp from New
York to San Francisco. and proposes to
finish his feat in 1872 days. This is no in
dica ton that he is Splinter. If he only
walks seventeen miles day he will ar
rive within the time. Perhaps he intends
to have a rest on Sundays. and may spend
a week at Chicago. The weather is pro-
ptious for knights of the road OF pedes-
tran adventures, but it is a trfe m0nOt-
Onous 10 take q tour so long without COM
partnership. The sole commendable fea-
ture about this journey is that it is not
marked by any circus eccentricity, such as
taking wheelbarrow along.
Yale and Harvard have had the annual
boatrace. and the former has won in very
decisive form. The long training neces-
sary for such contests is not thrown away
in after years Of vigorous health. and it is
now we'll established that brainwork does
not suffer by severe physical discipline.
ANY loss OF time at study is afterward re-
covered. This year the race does not seem
to have been remarkable in point of time.
energy. Two or three weak men had to
be accepted.
A Kansas conductor has knocked the
stuffing out of railroad robber very
adroitly. in the face of odds, too. The
bold bandit had a Winchester, but in a
moment of unguardedness he was laid fiat
by blow from the conductors fist, and
for further coercion and subdual the
Winchester came in handy. Then the
robber was presented to the officials of
Jail for safe keeping. The railroad COM
pany should handsomely reward this
IL
before he fellsd man with Winchester.
1t has long been the fashion of visitors
from the East to make tour of the
Chinese quarter and note the sights of
Asiatic civilization. A funeral occasionally
befalls, and when 1t is that Of great per-
sonage, such as DR.. Ii Pc Tai, the kodak
camera may be usefully employed. The
surprises in Chinatown are various. One
just made is good deal of a shock to
American notions. On the roof of rock
cry where an undertaken carries on his
solemn business skeleton was discovered.
For some reason the flesh had been scraped
of. and the still articulated bones had
been exposed to dry. The skeleton did
not appear to have been buried. AS the
cal knowledge. the history of this frame
work of the human form divine is mys-
FERROUS.
The sort of work European capitalist
can squeeze out OF human flesh and blood
is illustrated by prosecution in London.
A poor woman. who was on the point of
starvation, had stolen two pairs of trous-
ers worth less than So each. The tailor
had the woman arrested. She had worked
for him number Of years. and it was
proven that this was what she had to do
in trousers-making to earn 61a cents: She
had to put on twelve buttons. one band.
put lining in, fell the buttons and tack
them. put In seat-linings. tack the pick ct,
put in white cotton, work six bnttonhoIes.
hand-press tops, seams and bottoms, and
supply her own thread. Apparently Holds
"Song of the Shirt" has faded from the
Briton's memory. All the agistrate
could do was not to punish the woman.
He could do nothing to the gentleman who
employed her.
Australia is now little more than
twenty-six days steaming from London,
via the SueZ canal. The Himalaya has
NJ ade the voyage to Adelaide in twenty
six days six hours, showing an improve
ment Of half a day. Considerably faster
time could be made None of the Austria
Ian steamers are equal to twenty knots
an hour. Difficulties of fuel stand in the
way of passages like those on the Atlantic.
There is an advantage in being Embas-
sador in England. The diplomat who is
of this rank enjoys some of the cOurtesies
that would be shown to a sovereign when
he goes to court. Thus Mr.. Bayard, when
he went to Windsor. was conveyed from his
hotel to the railway station in a state
carriage. On the railway he had a special
saloon carriage to Windsor, and then
another state carriage was at his service
from the station to the castle. Mrs.
Bayard was also presented to the Queen.
With all these extra attentions Mir. Bayard
has no more salary than had MI. Lincoln.
Henry Irving and Ellen Terry are to
leave England on the 23d of July for
short American tour. They are to take
holiday in Canada, and then come direct
to San Francisco via Vancouver These
stars Of the stage have not announced fare
Sarah, but they contemplate an eight
NOR .hs' visit. The plays they will appear
in have all been reproduced at the Lyceum
recently for the sake of drilling the COM
pany thoroughly.