The morning call., 1893-03-22

mush or graham flour, or ijohnDy cake. to
say nothing of numerous artistic prepara-
tions. Corn is chiefly studied by cattle
breeders for their stock, and it is a sad neg
lect OF a good table food. especially as the
United States could supply great quantities.
Colonel C. j. Murphy is entertaining select
companies at corn dinners as q practical
means of showing Europeans what good
diet they have lost sight of. He may also
extend these demonstration lessons to
breakfasts. But it may occur to those who
respect the colonePs good intentions that ii
Europeans approve OF corn they will in
corresponding degree abate the demand for
wheat, of which the United States also eX-
ports great quantities. 1t would not so
much disturb the fitness of things If rye
were undermined. 1t is mostly grown abroad.
The colonel cannot give dinners to every
body, but few field bakeries touring among
the masses would spread the taste for corn.
Any crusade based on sympathy for q
hungry stomach Is sure of appreciation.
The Nobel brothers, who are large in
vestOrs in the oil wells at Baku, in the Cas-
plan, are also interested in the dynamite
factories of Europe. One OF them, Alfred,
is the inventor of dynamite. 1t is incon-
tPstable that a much greater amount OF
damage has been done by accidents owing
to mineral oil than by dynamite, whether
the explosions have been accidental or
criminal. AS rivals in the oil business the
Nobels have the Rothschilds Production
is so abund ant that American oil has very
little opening in the European market.
Inc area tapped fer oil is only few
square miles out OF thousands that would
yield quite as abundant a supply, and If the
husslan Government gave permission the
Industry could he extended immensely.
But from the small area now drawn upon
the supply is sufficient for an Indefinite
period. 1t is strange that the oil in this
region should not have been utilized many
centuries ago. The fires that burned on the
surface from the escaping gases were
known to the ancients.
The California building at Chicago is to
have a curious decorative combination
stuffed peaeocks and stuffed grizzly bears.
How the peacocks represent the Golden
State is not obvious, as the home of the
family is in India, but 1t is a very proud
bird and has much to be proud OF in its in
comparable lrldesceIt plumage That may
account for the selection. CaIifornians are
proud OF their State, and are apt to assume
the mood OF grizzly when anything is said
about 1t depreciatOry. The complete under
standing of decorations is generally latent
In those who design them. and there may
be some other explanation. Grizzlies are
wanted but no more peacocks, eEough
having been offered to crowd a park.
again Inc AK has fallen In the case of
three Of the indicted for the Panama frauds.
Baihut, who wonders how he could have
betrayed his country. shares the ignominy
OF conviction with Charles de Lesseps, and
BlondiD has also been pronounced guilty.
The others arraigned so free. Happily the
crisis oeeasioned by these exposures has
passed the critical stage and France will
quiet down, still under republican govern
ment.
The Traffic Association will perform good
work if it makes an independent investiga-
ton Of the practieability Of navigation in
the upper Sacramento, San Joaquin and
other rivers flowing into them. The water
ways Of the State have been too much
ignored in the transportation of freight
Independently of the railroads, ana now
that an effort is being made to provide
electric railways, the power for when
would be derived from water. the solution
of many difficulties may be near at hand.
Cheap water transportation must insure IN
the long run moderation in railroad charges.