The morning call., 1893-11-10

tne Opera-n0uSa on the gaia DlBnt siuslc
seats IN the stalls sold at $500. ana an oter
OF $1,000 was made for two seats. Dnt as
all seats were given in names no transfer
was allowed. The enthusiasm at thus per-
Torrance was literally unprecedented.
Edward Whymper, who first made the
ascent of the Matterhorn, is disguised with
the ease of Alpine mountaineering to-day.
CHAINS have been hung on the Matterborn
Itself, the peak which was the most dill
cult Of all, and he thinks that In short
time people will make the ascent as Jansen
did that of Mont Blanc recently-in litter
carried by fourteen persons. Not long ago
there were twenty-five happy peorie on
one day looking down on the world very
far below from the top of the Matterhorn,
and of course they all leave memento
alpenstocks. and are entered In the regis
Ter OF fame. AS he has made the ascent OF
ChimbOraZo and COt0paXl. Whymper is
now eager to try Mount Everest, IN the
Himalayas. Should he succeed there he
can get no higher unless he Is waited to
the moon. Mount Everest is precisely
29,OO2 feet in height. and it is an eagerly
disputed point whether those two feet
ought not to be taken off Conway and
Graham have assembled several of the
highest Himaayan peaks, but not the
monarch The route would be easier from
the Thibet side, but the Thibetans object
to strangers for any purpose, evidently
under the belief that their land is the Gar
den OF Eden, and greatly coveted.
L hey are still beating the drum In Eng
land for poet laureate. One critic has
made out list of sixty-1ve who WOO the
muse and who might be eligible. and an
other in the Edinburgh ReUie,o criticiZes
the merits of twenty-three. and gives the
palm to Swinburne, with William Morris
second. This writer takes the view that
the best modern poetry is found In short
pieces. He rakes Sir Edwin Arnold
severely by inviting him to find his level.
and drags forth this passage from The
Light of Asia" on arithmetic:
Then comes the kot nahut, minnahut,
khamba yiShkamba, abab, attata,
To kumuds. gundhikas. and utpalas,
BY ppndarikas, unto padumas.
Which last is how you count the utmost grains
or Hastagiri ground to finest dust.
The opinion seems to be that no versifer
is so eminent that he or she should sue
coed Tennysnn. Why not submit the
question TO the poets themselves? They
would all modestly suffer eclipse lndividu-
ally for the sake of some one star who
enthralls them.
The Ferris wheel was a purely Amer-
can idea. never preached in any other
land. and never put to test except at
Chicago. It's originality took the puDlic
fancy as nothing else did at the fair, and
the inventor and his company have reaped
a huge reward. The receipts are nearly
three-quarters of a million. Over $500, 900
remained to divide with the exposition
management. and the company has just
distributed profits amounting to S150.000
The construction cost has been paid, and
tha xr,b nj f-nr
various cities. Meanwhile Chicago keeps
possession.
Somebody has Numbered in the con-
structiOn of the cruiser New York. Her
displacement has been so faulty calcu-
lated that she draws nearly two feet aft
more than she should do. The draught
aft is 20 feet inches, and forward 10 feet
6 inches. This would be bad longitudinal
trim under any circumstances, but IL is
particularly bad when the New York is too
deep for the drydock at Brooklyn. She
will have to be lightened in some way, and
this may interfere with her efficiency.
Already some torpedo tubes have been re-
moved.
Lord Mayors day in London is a species
of circus procession winding up with
banquet A million or two look on at the
pageant and the City Fathers and two or
three hundred guests attend the feast.
This year the speech-making is shorn of
any Importance. Mr.. Gladstone was not
there and no announcements of much
political value were made. There seems
to have been an exhibition of common
sense in indignation at civic extravaganza
when so many thousands of golfers and
their families are at the point of starva-
ton.
The jury who had Ward the jockey in
their keeping have not separated without
rendering verdict. They had to DELHI
crate on very brutal murder and have
found the defendant guilty. There could
be no other conclusion on the evidence
Exercising their discretion they have
affixed Imprisonment for life as the pen
atty. This is probably more discreet
finding than one imposing the penalty of
death, for in that case there would have
been endless shifts for new trials and
justice would be long in doubt.