The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-15


The troubles of the Infanta Eulalla OF
Spain on q visit OF state to the Worlds
Fair promise to be serious. 1t is clear she
does not intend to pay all her expenses, as
was understood TO be her intention. but
while guest she is inclined TO lay down
the conditions OF her reception very
closely. She probably has very little read
ing acquaintance with life in the United
States. To give her rooms in hotel
seemingly savers of affront. although the
President has nothing better when he goes
on journey. She is possibly not aware
that there is no selection of palaces. The
White House cannot be duplicated in
every city, although enough has been spent
OH its furniture to build several such man
sions. Private hospitality is hardly per-
Missile If the royal visitor is to be the
guest of the nation and the Fair commits
sloners. But what is to he done if hotels
are not considered suitable? The house
OF Braganza was not difficult to satisfy in
the matter of etiquette, Dom Pedro of
Brazil travelled through the United States
like simple citizen. and preferred to be
ignored as an Emperor. He lived to be
actually Ignored by bis own people.
Polkas and Quadrilles are to be sup
pressed at parties in London this season,
and waltzes, schottisches. galops and the
lancers are to be danced. The chaperons
have planted their feet down very firmly
against skirt-dancing. for the simple rea-
son that as long as it is in vogue the gen.
temen will not learn to dance, and So will
not take partners in life as they dutifully
should do. 1t is a very Ingenious reason
for the reSusctatiOn of dancing at parties,
but ii is practical, and. as il will have the
Endorsement of all properly educated
ladies, its success is not doubtful. In ad-
dltlon 10 society. those who earn living
by teaching dancing are loud i'll denuncia-
ton Of sklrt-tripping, because they are
robbed Of their pupils. Now that young
men who go out" must ada dancing to
their complishments, the corybantic
profession may once more flourish and the
marriage rate is expected TO increase.
a traveller named Poorten, who has Just
returned from the Upper Congo, describes
having seen two slaves tied together, with
peculiar marks upon their bodies. This
was near Matadi. He learned that these
men were to be slain and cooked on the
following day, and that the marks indi-
Gated portions of the body which had been
purchased by human flesh devourers as
choice mOrsels. Tie practice is frequent
IN TINS district, and il defended because
the victims are slaves. II is a moot point
whether the domestic animals have any
understanding of their doom when being
led to the slaughter, but there cannot be
the smallest doubt that these poor Afri-
cans were conscious of the horrible fate
awaiting them.
1t is said that Miss Braddon he's Melted
100000 from her novels, over fifty in
number. lola may snrpass her in success.
He has entered upon novel dealing with
miracles, entitled "Lnurdes," and obtains
for h. f.I vim e. n ITs IN
and from the New York Herald he is to
receive $4,000 In England, ITO. he will
he well paid, and then he has his copy
right in the novel as book. The success
full novelist in France has no reason to
complain of the worlds treatment.
Recently the Cars train. on a journey
to the Crimea, was stopped by displaced
rail. AS the whole route was closely
guarded by soldiers, it is not easy to mag
ine how the rail could have been removed
without connivance. But a still more
startling version of the accident was fur
nlshed by an imaginative correspondent,
who declared that this was what happened :
Several thousand peasants, assembled in
order to petition against certain local
abuses, lay down on the rails and refused
to move until the Cars train came. A con-
fiet ensued. which resulted in the death of
fifteen soldiers. FOrty-two peasants were
either killed by bullets or crushed by the
train" This story is now declared TO be
wholly an invention. But any such fabri-
cation is possible In the Cars dominions,
because the utmost care Is taken to sup
press genuine news of any kind. The
whole world has awakened to the value of
newspapers, but Russia sgnalizes itself by
rigid censorship and the extlrpatiCn of
all independence or enterprise in Journal
ism. A foreign paper that reaches its
destination without some of the columns
stamped cut must be very neutral organ.
Some extraordinary experiments have
this year been made by Professor Dewar
IN lectures on the atmosphere. He throws
quite strong light on why cyclones op-
crate with such terrific force. He allowed
compressed air to escape through a thread
OF aperture, and showed that in this way
gases can rush into one another at the
rate OF several thousand feet per second.
Air also PUSHES into vacuum at the rate
OF nalf the speed of modern rifle bullet
a cyclOnic or whirlwind motion was
shown to result when two currents meet
at right angles. Such currents were made
TO play upon various objects and keep
them spinning A vertical vortex column
Is produced, with the center vacuum and
the outside edges q spiral. Coins NAV
thus be kept spinning on a table, the YER
teal pull lifting them up and the whirl
rotating them. A rush of air through
vacuum was made visible by electric
phosphorescence. which gave it pale
| luminosity. This column Travelled at the
rate OF July 1000 feet a second, or almost
the velocity of sound in the atmosphere.
Electric luminosity is attributed to the
presence of oxygen. 1t Is not obtained
With hydrogen or nitrogen separately.
WHY THIS WANT OF coNFTDENcEo