The morning call., 1893-09-29

retire annually. But the Senate in France
is not everything that is useful. No such
body as the House Of Lords exists in any
other country.
Legislators should be more euphemistic
in parlance than to call each other liars.
1t is bold word too certain of sound to
be uncertain of effect. and it is quite
unnecessary. for the purpose of convinc-
ing listeners, that every word uttered
should be sworn to as truth. Morse OF
Massachusetts and Fithian of Illinois have
had an ill-natured set-Io, and the latter in
passion said the former was willfully
lying. The speakers declaration that
both were out of order seems to have
closed the incident, but there were no
apologies. Expressions of regret are usual
Tor incorporate language. but they are
often insincere and only mean II am sorry
said SO, but you know what mean."
The dehorning OF cattle often raises dis
cussions about the cruelty of the practice.
Professor Roberts of Cornell Univer-
sity shows how the suppression of the
horns may be secured by applying caustc
potash to the top of the growth just as 1t
is sprOutiDg in the calf. 1t is so mild a
process that the calf does not notice il,
and yet 1t etfectually arrests development.
If the report announced by Paris paper
be true-which is not a matter of GER
tainty-a city has been unearthed in the
southwest of Greece which the archRolo-
gist will gloat over. and from which the
artist and historian may extract many
treasures II is pronounced second POM
peii, but II il belongs to an earlier period of
Greek history than the city buried by the
ashes of Vesuvus IN 70 A. D., the discov-
cry should be much more precious. From
the art of the Greeks the world has yet
much to learn. The Hellenes touched
everything with beauty.
The large photographs which have bsen
Issued depicting the inaugural proceedings
of the Midwinter Fair at Golden Gate Park
are a positive surprise in the wonderful
fidelity OF the camera in dealing with
groups of people mastering thou sands. 1t
is the custom to sheer at photography as
too minute to be pictorial, but there is a
completeness of truth in the minuteness
which amply compensates for jars Of in
harmonious composition and for too wide
spread distribution Of effect 1t is an age
of marvels, and not the least is in pho
Biography.
At Greenwich Observatory they have
now got refracting telescope with a lens
nty-eight inches diameter. 1t is eight
inches less than the Lick, and conse-
quently far below il in power, but it is
five times the power of the largest tele-
scope at Greenwich heretofore. thirteen
inches diameter. and Is a positive acQuisi-
tion for speclroscOpy and stellar photog-
raphy, to which special uses 1t will be
applied. The next largest telescope in
England is at Cambridge, a present from
a Newcastle Alderman. Mr.. Newall, who
may be described as one of the most far
seeing of local politicians.
The Associated Press correspondent at
Apia gives gloomy outline of the situa-
tion in Samoa. Mataafa is gone into exile,
but the late hostilities seem 10 have only
sOwn a crop OF dragons teeth. Very
likely the SamOans are unsuited for self
government on the white mans plan with
the white man standing by with q cudgel.
Robert Louis Stevenson, unhappiy for
Samoa, is a novelist and not a statesman
or he might draft a constitution which
would be all mirth and gladness for chill
dren OF the sun.