The morning call., 1893-03-13

A sensible rule for the guidance of Office
seekers has been laid down by Secretary
Carlisle. The papers of candidate are not
10 be handed for inspection 10 rival appli-
cants. They may only be seen by his in
dorsers or the member of Congress repre-
sentng the particular district. Also any
unfayorable papers are not to be seen by
anybody except the aforesaid member of
Congress. This ludicious arrangement
throws an of1ice-seeker coldly upon his own
merits. be has no opportunity to fortiiy
himself with supplementary husnel OF
encomiums. BY immuring himself in a Sc
cluded part of the Treasury building Mr..
Carlisle has given a plain intimatlOn 10
callers that he is worn GU: with cODgratula-
tiOns and is bored with visits from the nu-
merous patriots anxious TO serve their
country.
The custom OF shaking hands with the
President is time-honored and by no means
obsolete. Thousands now gracefully grasp
the governing hand where only hundreds
were in q position to shake formerly.
President Cleveland seems TO have felt re-
lief this year when he had respite from
the salutations Of his fellow-citizens who
had been streaming into the audience-room
for hours. The ordeal of a cordial grasp
from thousands Of hands is trying TO the
nerves and sometimes TO the bones, lOr
dIgits used to the plow or the hammer
Clasp like wise. Peculiar and perhaps re-
ptllent as the custom OF kissing hands is il
has the advantage OF not being 5 0 fatisuing
as the orthodox shake. Only the back of the
hand is saluted, but when fifty or hundred
ladies have been presented Queen Victoria
finds even this fatguing and leaves the rest
to her daughter-in- law, the Princess OF
Wales
Mr.. Rock and Mr.. Pigeon came together
in the case of Charles Wells, the American
who figured so prominently recently at
Monte Carlo, and the Hon. William Cosby
Trench, young Irish gentleman of means
Wells advertised in the papers that he had
patent and only needed assistance to de-
velnp it. BE called himself civil engineer,
and very civil he was to Mir. Trench when
he found he had money. The small sum OF
$3.50 was asked TO patent, perfect and place
on board a steamer a new engine which
was capable OF saving GO per cent OF fuel on
all marine machinery. A s'ugle man OF
war like the Rodney would yield royalty
of $50, COO year on this magnificent patent
and Mr.. Trench had this splendid prospect
and quarter share dangled before him for
paltfY two thousand dollars. So into the
speculation he went blin0ly, although he
had never seen Wells and only had his word
III letters, which shows how many simple
tons are entrusted with money.
Wells had a bank in Mr.. Trench and he
drew on him largely and frequently, now on
one excuse. now on others, all plausible
and satisfactory TO the genial young man,
who had not known the world and
who did not even think it necessary to con-
suit anybody. In a month he had dropped
$500 additional into the bott0mless pit of
that patent. Then he advanced $1,000, for
which he was to be credited with share
am oun ting to $3.50. 600. Next as difficulties
bnd 70 I1, 10 In
the patent q chance, he handed over $1,000
in lump and was written down on the
share tablets for S750,000. Then ii uC-
CURED TO Trench that he might as we'll see
his friend, and did in London. Wells pro-
duced a model and expatIated upon its won
deTs, and Trench very inDCcently said lie
did not think it. was capable ofachieving all
it was vaunted to do. OF course this was
pooh-poohed and brushed away, and Wells
extracted two further sums of 5000 and
$500, and Trench had visions OF an invest
ment amounting to 81, 125,OO0 But still that
patent did not work. Wells asked for a
cool $4,000, and suggested gambling at
Monte Carlo on sure principles as fine
stroke OF business, as he had won there
100000. Mr.. Trench had not his eve
opened by this, for he advanced $3.50 and
$500 successively, getting for the latter a
mortgage on three useless yachts, only one
Of which he ever saw. Altogether this
young man of "a lost by the swindler
IOu,bUU. IL Is u Sdu CAptIlbUCe, Dub lie Is
happier than Wells, who will be able to
think out his patent in jail.
The liquefaction of atmospheric air-whch
is not always the same gas as the air we
breathe in eities-has been demonstrated
as possible by Professor Dewar of the
Royal Institution. London, who made use
of great pressure. combined with cold
equal to 327 degrees Of frost Air thus made
visible has a faint blue color. but it is
scarcely to be supposed that this quality in
liquefactiOn has anything to do with the
blue of the sky. Under light the atmos-
phere has the whole range of the solar
spectrum between dawn and sunset.
Gold mining Is carried on In Wales on a
capitalistic scale by Mr.. Pritchard Morgan,
NJ. p, who is familiar with mining in Aus
tralia. Upward of 10000 tons of ore has
been treated, yielding about IS so per ton.
During five years an average of $4,000 per
annum has been paid in wages, and divi-
dends amounting to $50, 800. A bar of gold
weighing 500 ounces was recently cast.
Notwithstanding these assuring statements,
it will require a much higher auriferous
yield to sustain the single standard of gold
In England.
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