The morning call., 1893-05-07

Drought prevails in France rs well as
England. and no news of rainfall YET comes
to cheer the situation. Up to the end Of
April there had been practically two
months Of almost mostnreless weather.
One little shower fell in London. Such a
spring has not been known in England be-
fore, as far us record tells, and IN France
$50 years have passed since the ground
was parched with this Sahara-Iike aridity.
Nege tables in England are 100 per cent
higher in price than the usual rate. The
crops are despOudently bad, much OF the
seed being quite dormant. Grass is with
cred and light, permanent pastures yield
scaut heritage and stock must suffer
throughout the year from short supplies.
As Northern Europe generally is affected
by the abnormal season the outlook is
gloomy. Had the crops got some headway
drought would have been much less dlsas-
trOus, but time lost in spring can never be
made up by the most favorable meteorology
afteTward. Unless fresh croIs are posi-
ble-an expectancy too remote for practical
cOnsideration-a very deficient harvest is
highly probable. A bad season entails q
loss ot many millions.
The earnings Of great cooks in America
the superior artists who display genius in
what mankind believes to be one OF the
noblest professions, at least worthy to rank
Win biidi VI dllliSf NiiiCll UOt5 u ROOu uehl OF
splitting without c0Oking-are understood to
be as high as the income of a judge or
lawyer in good practice. Vanderbilt had
one al $40, 900 year on n three years en-
gagemeDt. Delmonico'S principal artist has
perhaps half that amount, and there are
numbers of hotels and clubs V here III emolu-
menis are worthy Of supreme efforts.
Abroad the cook is thTea tened with ruin by
cheap labor. The teaching of cookery Ia
the common schools of England has diffnsed
not only a taste for good eating but eapac-
ity 10 crafty it. and the frsi-class woman
cooks have lowered salaries materially The
chefof the Reform Club in London resigned
lately on a salary of $1,000, and The greatest
reward in the Kitchens OF the great is only
S2j0O. Such DeTquisites q s Jars OF dripping
may again become valuable to those who
WELD ladle and keep an eye on the sauces.
young man who emerges from college
with the Greek letters tattooed symmet-
ricaily over his face. and little of Virgil
indelibly linked into his body, has special
claims to be classicist physically, although
not higher than the ordinary Ounce intel
lectually. This disfgurng f0ible fits the
subject more for career in dime m aseum
as freak than for success Mt the bar or
the pulpit or in medicine. lie would not
even .adorn boodling Legislature. The
practice seems to be on the increase Nine
young men were recently expelled from
Delaware College, Ohio. for tattoong prae-
tices on others, and some young women
who have also distinguished themselves as
artists in nitrate of silver deserve the same
punishment. Lord Craven, who was mar
rled In New York the other day, is elabc-
ralely tattn0ed on the body in colored
heraldic designs, and it is rumored that
many clubmen, both in the United States
and England. have been operated upon
deliberately. The New Zealand savage has
faftnOinU dnfa fo fhar
suaslon OF the missionaries and civilization
is now giving Its high sanction to beautify-
irg with the pigment needle. Ladies are
undoubtedly made beautiful forever" as
Nine. Rachel would say, by this barbaric
establishment.
The German army bill has been rejected
in the ReichStag by substantial majority
of twenty eight. SO the Reicbstag has been
dissolved, as was threatened, and the Kaiser
Is asking the people of Germany what they
think OF more taxation and further sacrl-
ices 10 the ranks CT an army already enor-
nous. Excitement runs high, and will not
abate until the election Is over on the 18th
Of June. The interval is sufficient for
thorough canvass of the country on point
short and sharp. With such an issue it will
be no arduous task on the part of the social
it's to return with augmented ranks.
Mayor Elleri's efforts to get Chinese
lepers shipped to China or to the Hawaiian
islands set apart for these poor sufferers
may solve the pesthouse dilemma to the
satisfaction of all concerned. The objections
to pesthouse in any part Of the city cannot
be explained away 10 the satisfaction of
persons affected. Were there no possibility
of disease spreading. still the effect In
lowering the value of property would be
marked. Residential property would never
have a boom in neighborhood so afflicted.
A bookseller of Milan has drawn up an
advertisement in English, with the assis-
tasce OF dictionary. and has introduced
phrase about Benjamin Franklin which