The morning call., 1893-09-18

tnelr opponents an object lesson In the
way of demonstrating their usefulness.
L. ID. Armour is one of the capitalists
like Drexel OF Philadelphia who has laid
up treasure in the good opinion of his fel-
low men by founding a collegiate estab-
| ilsnment on a pattern needed in every
great city of America. There are univer-
stiles enough in every State where the
learned professors may be recruited with
brilliant results, but much is needed in
! technlcal education in all branches OF en-
glneerlng, chemistry, the arts, industrial
ana me, and mechanics. From the col
| lege founded by Armour the student is
aole at once TO enter upon practical busl-
ness career as a specialist in one Of manv
branches Tor which All education in science
or artlstle training is necessary. The in
stltutl0n has been very broadly planned to
| include almost every conceivable feature of
modern industrial and artistic work, and
with thousand students in Its classes it
must soon exert an influence on the coun-
try's progress such work lessons the DIS
tanre between the man of colossal wealth
ana the proletariat.
Nj. Charles Fere, French authority on
nervous diseases and alienation. especially
In infancy, traces their increase, which is
at an alarming rate, to the rapid growth
OF drinking habits and other forms of ex-
cItement in recent years. Suspecting the
cause he tried singular experiment. To
ascertain the effect of alcohol on embry-
0nie lie he subjected hens eggs during
the process OF Incubation to alc0holiZatlOn
by means Of fumes. Some eggs were
treated w enty-siX hours and others forty
eight. Inc gr0Ath of the chick was de-
layed and monStroslies were common.
Another lot of eggs was exposed TO the
tunes during a hundred hours, and the
result was retardatiOn of development so
marked as not TO be more than twenty
| hours OF ordinary Matching. Tie doctor
! nence concludes that the children of
drunken parents are only lmperfectly de-
| veloped, and warns the Aryan stock that
II 1t continues TO debase itself with drink
the Hebrews, Arabs and Chinese-why
not the Hlnd0os also?-will become the
dominant races. This is dismal outlook,
but II Will not be in our time.
The recent crisis in Australia and the
prevailing dull times everywhere have had
no effect on the revenues of the submarine
cable companies. In periods of prosper
lty the commercial world is glad TO use the
cables. and in periods when business is
awry and distracted the commercial world
Is compelled to use them. This is the
theory on which Sir John Pender ex-
companies, recently, which paid 10 per
cent on It's preference and 4 per cent on
ordinary shares. OHe effect of having
telegraphlc communication betw cen places
widely severed Is that a bank crash may
De averted by few ticks of the telegraph.
Some OF the Australian banks collapsed
one day and were up the next The fact
that telegraph business does not diminish
when money Is stringent and confidence is
unsettled seems 10 lie lost sight of in the
South American Republics where civil
warts raging. Whatever side gets pus-
session of the wires the general policy is
10 interdict the sending of messages, eX-
cept thOSe which mendaciuuSly circulate
favorable reports about the party In
power.
An English prison chaplain traces many
crimes 10 the evils of betting. Betting is
stimulated by newspapers publishing the
odds and giving ups of winners. The men
who hazard these gueSses are mostly the
mahdis of the turf. To test the matter he
took he tips of eight sporting papers with
reference 10 weeks racing on one track.
when they were announced and before the
meeting. The results were remarkable
There We're eight races. seven prophets,
Seventy-nlne prophecies, and of these five
prophecies were right and seventy-four
wrong. One paper named two winners
hopelessly wrong. In England the men
who make these prophecies do not 90 to
the races at all, as a rule. aud are not good
judges Of hOrsetlesh They simply follow
The public performances of the animals,
the conditions OF distance and weight and
make up their tips from slate. Tens of
thousands of men aud women put faith in
these Vaccinations, drift into systematic
betting, with wagers varying from four
cents To hundreds of dollars, and enormous
sums change hands because the multitude
has the craze of gambling. By-and-by
clerks rob the till. or otherwise cheat their
employers and become unsettled in habit.
1t is demoralizing practice, ana news
papers and the telegraph are responsible
for much of it.
One Of the new features of the intelli-
gence department in warfare anu during
the progress of battles is the utilization of
balloons and the Photographic camera.
Provided the wind is not blowing gale,
balloon may be kept captive attached
to a wagon and moved about in rear of
headquarters or any part of the line. 1t
is now said to be possible to take photo
graphs of positions held by an army,
showing the units IF the force for a radius
OF seven miles from the balloon. These
can be transmitted TO terra tlrma, devel-
Oped and printed from so as 10 supply
copies wltnln an h0ur. Hence Uy a sue
cessOn of these photographs. and by
noting the time and aspect from the
point of observation. a general may be
able to follow mOvem ments accurately as
they are taking shape. By going up to
great height it may not be possible to
observe these movements by smoke or
any other device. Smokeless powder
certainly will not conceal the army from
which volleys are poured forth. Prob
ably the telautOgraph instrument will
prove great aid to the strategst in the
field. 1t will supply plans from bal
loon.
The Chinese do not abate their wistful-
ness TO enter the United States, although
most CT them are now menaced with de-
pOrtatl0n as a consequence of non-regis-
tration. They have been arriving at New
York from Cuba in the familiar guise of
merchants and students. with plaus BILE
excuses for preferring a circuitous route.
Ii Is considerable descent in dignity
from this role TO be packed into closed
car as bananas and sent id TO Washington
State from British Columbia. Bananas
are yellow and so are Chinese, but the