The morning call., 1893-05-18

that the pest will sicken and die. The
coyote has become veIy numerous under
the stimulus of rewards for its death.
The fruit-grow of California are in
vited by Assistant Secretary Markley to
send supplies of green fruit to the Worlds
Fair. The inducements are fame in the
general horticultural display or in the Cali
fornia building, and then solid profit by
sale at market rates to the local company,
which has the privilege of conducting
business within the grounds. Packages
will be made up into carload lots ard
forwarded direct to the exposition grounds
without being unloaded in Chicago. EX-
hibitors possibly may have other arrange
mentS for the ultimate disposal OF their
fruit, but they can at least ponder Mr..
Markley's offer. Fruit will be on exhibit
tion two-days and then placed IN the hands
Of the dealers.
The system of paying a premium for
extra success in the trials of warship is
expensive, but it tends to Insure good
work from the builders. Everything de-
pends upon the thoroughness of the trials,
and as a rule they are very exhaustive.
a lew runs over given distance might be
contrived without ally demonstration of
are prolonged there can hardly be any
doubt. 1t is said the Cramps will earn $780,
600 premium on the New York. This is a
high percentage for superior workman ship.
The sinister rumors about Japan's terri
torial designs in Hawaii are finally allayed
by the Nauiwa receiving orders to return
home. She is useful cruiser with maxi
mum speed of nineteen knots, and could
do some damage in raking wooden oppo-
nents, but she is by no means invinciple.
In the excited state of affairs at Hawaii
probably much that has been said about
Japanese ambition has been conjectured
and vampeG up. But there does appear to
have been some indiscreet Wanting by
the Japs that the Nanwa could blow out
of the water any warships now cruising in
her vicinity. An American seaman who
takes proper pride in himself and his
country does not like to hear that sort of
tall talk.
One bit of news from Honolulu is inter-
esting. The harbor has at length been
deepened sufficiently to permit vessels of
deep draught to enter and lie alongside
the wharf. Thirty feet is the depth at low
tide over the entrance reef, and this is
enough for the heaviest iroDclads as well
as merchant vessels. The Oceanic drew
up to the wharf when drawing "a feet 6
inches. Facts of this kind demonstrate
the use which can be made of the islands
as naval base.
Recently Lord Salisbury entertained
large delegation from Ulster who are op-
posed to Mr.. Gladstone's home-rule legisla-
tion. The cost OF the entertainment is
estimated at $4,000, which is full years
salary when Lord Salisbury is in power,
and he may have concluded that PATRIOTS vi
has its burdens. The delegates put them
selves outside of 1000 bottles of cham
pagne, 1000 bottles of claret and $50
bottles of whisky. and some one afterward
remarked: II don't know if Ulster will
fight, but l am sure that Ulster can
drinkw
Fortune on the turf is illustrated by the
victory Of McCalmont's Isinglass at New,
market This horse is also expected to
carry off the Derby. The owner is a young
army officer. who re emily stepped into a
fortune of S15. 600, coo left by an uncle who
respected him because he kept within his
income Of $4,000 year. There were num-
bers of other relatives, but they got moth
ing. The uncle had seen little of him,
and only knew he was prudent. Captain
McCalmon has bought The Duke of Rut-
lands property near Newmarket for
S1,750,O00, and is otherwise comfortable
with town house. lie runs his horses
honestly. aud honesty last year won him
over S40,0 900 in stakes. He is bachelor
aud should visit Chicago.
Tie morality of duel between a Minis
ter of Justice and parliamentary deputy
is edifyIng TO elevated conceptions of juris-
prudence. There does not appear to be
any incongruity in such a renconter in Italy,
1t is possibly understood that the pistols
are to be very innocently primed or the
swords to be dourlshed SO as to wash
honor with as little blood as is convenient
The French alternative of handing over a
million francs to the poor is not yet CON-
mon.
Judge Campbell yesterday lent merci-
full ear to the tale of poor man who had
stolen a can of milk. The man declared
that he has long been out Of work, that
his wife is sick, and that to appease the
hunger of crying child he committed the
petty larceny. This touching story de-
serves investigation. If the NAH really is
in distress city so rich and so generous
should have some resources to tide over
struggles for food.