The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-02

Joaquin Valley Railroad.
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The NavahOe's second APP earance in the
matches OF the Royal Yacht Club at C0wes
raises expectations Of what she may set
do. She has won a race and may prove
the victor In others. The very small diff
ference of time between the Navahoe and
her rivals In Mondays contest indicated
that slight improvement In her sailing
would have suficed to beat the Britannia
and Vaikyrie. This Improvement might
come from more sail, better Judgment In
handling, or the accidents OF wind. 1t was
said that In going TO windward she did not
show so we'll as her competitors. but they
were probably in the race Yesterday and
vet the Navahoe has won. The German
Emperor Is, no doubt, anxious to carry off
the queens cup with the Thistle. Unless
that yacht has become much faster the
prosDect Is not bright. The Navahoe Is
probably debarred from entering. but il
not 1t ought to show clean pair OF heels
to the Thistle.
There are probably many other reasons
for the numerous assertions from the
Monterey than that she is uncOmfortably
hct below decks. In the crew are num-
Der OF landsmen whose taste for the sea is
by this time satisfied, whether they are on
board yacht or coast-defense vessel. all
utility and 10 ornament. During the trial
trip q NUM- Der of the men were sick from
the pitching and rolling. ana their help
iessness did not indicate a seasoned she'll
back experience Of the briny. At Portland
they seem to have said adieu to Uncle
Sans navy very uncerem0ni ously. A few
are reported in San Francisco and appear
to be jaunty and vaunty enough to defy
arrest as deserters. The tales such men
can unfold OF hardships near the boilers
and around the smokestack are marvellous
to the listener, but it requires something
strong to Justify them in slipping their
cable. A warship is not first-class hotel.
even to an admiral.
The man who imagines there are no
errors in schooIbooks has surely never
read one. Why it should be conceived
there are none in American schoolbOoks
is strange. Such an impression seems to
have been entertained by firm OF bicycle
makers who offered a safety prize to any
teacher who should point out an acknowl-
edged error in textbook. Thereupon
teacher pointed out that In Potter's Ele-
mentary Geography the sun is described
as standing still. The publishers were ad-
vised Of this inaccuracy, aud replied that
the statement Is correct according to
public estimation, as The sun is supposed
to stand still, and for all practical pur-
poses does stand still" Hence it continues
as 1t was In that geography. But they
afterward wrote that 1.-THE sun IS too iar
away to know much about II definitely"
and that il the bicy, le-makers 'wished to
get learned visws about it they would have
10 get hI2her authority than the pun
fishers of geography" The astronomer
and physicist could no doubt carry this
matter much further by showing that
space is a Jelly, that it also Is whirling
somewhere, that the countless stars OF the
armament are but plums in this jelly
with some dependent motion. and that
nothing in the universe Is mOtiOnless.
SPECULATION is as restless as matter.
A portion of the opium cargo Of the
Haytiau Republic has been seized in
Chinatown by Inspector Noyes in quite
an adroit and, as the admirers Of detec-
tves might say. lynx-eyed manner. He
lerreted cut the contraband alone. and it
is worth $4,000. The loss is grievous to
the lawyers. There are fifteen persons
under indictment in Portland for SNUG
Cling, and the suspicion Is that the pro-
ceeds OF the sale were INTENDED :" brief
lawyers for the defense. This untOward
occurrences is not a calamity to any other
industrious class OF the community, aud
probably the lawyers have hope that
there Is more opium in Hong Kong coming
to Chinatown.
The ease with which certain corre-
spundents get at the seer cts of the English
Foreign Once on the Siamese question
may be explained by the process of tele-
patty. The correspondent wishes and he
has it. 1t is a process much to be pre-
til I'D dn to
personal visits to the Foreign Office,
where everybody Is as inaccessible as a
cirrus cloud. and a correspondent is re-
garded with suspicion even by the p0rters.
BY thought tranSferenc0 there are no
bitches. Out comes the news as by a
brain pumr. and the only marvel is that
Bangkok, Paris and London do not supply
the same veractieS.
Spectators in pork we're hard hit yes
terday at Chicago. Nobody has any par
ticular commiseration for them and they
probably scorn sympathy themselves. If
they had won somebody else would have
lost. as 10 q horserace. where money goes
from one pocket to another without pro-
duction. The farmer who feeds hogs is
affected by the fluctuations Of price aud do
what he will ihsse fluctuations cannot be
abolished. He perhaps is amazed TO find
I8ll OF % DaTTeI 10 SlUKto uay vi MOu-
day pork for September closed at $19 and
Yesterday the price descended to $40
Three Trims have collapsed and now the
market Is normal.
At Port Townsend q method Of protect
ing piles from the teredo is being tried
with more than the usual hope OF success.
The pile Is JACKIE ed with iron one and
quarter inches thick and the interspace is
filed up with cement. There may still be
some teredos left in the wood. but when
the jacket is tight there should be no &C
cessons. The process may be durable.
but it is expensive, and where wood is
cheap the old plan NAV still be preferred.
The Davie Ferry Company is issuing
Communication tickets this month on plan
which must suit purchasers we'll. The
tickets are sold in books. fifty for 81 30.
and they are available by anybody until
used. On the Southern Pacific ferry the
commuter pays So for his privilege and
when the month Is out his ticket Is dead.
This applies to cases where the tickat may
only have been used for q few trips In
addition to this Limitation the passenger
must sign his or her name and the tickets
are not transferable. The Davie ferry Is