The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-06-24

| Tue uank Keeps Tor Lnat purpose anu tHe
application hopored or not with but small
regard 10 the state of mind the applicant
may be in. Fortunately. at the present
! time in this State the mind-cure remedy
may be recommended without the slightest
mlsgiying. Our banks are as solid as real
estate values can make them. Even the
! two banks that have closed their doors
are solvent, but short of ready money.
! Our bankers are often reproached with an
excess of conservatism, but that quality
comes in good play al time Ike this.
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! The hattleship Victoria, which has gone
to the bottom with over 400 men on board,
after collision with the Camperdown, an
other colossal vessel, was built at Eiswck
by Armstrong. and was launched in 1887.
She was regarded as one of the most pow
erful ironciadS ever constructed. Her
armor was steel faced is inches thick.
She carried two Hilton guns. besides one
! of 20 tons and twelve 5-ton guns. The en-
! gines were 1900 indicated horse power.
| giving a speed of 17.2 knots. Only the
| Benbow and the Saus Parcil in addition
! have the Hilton guns. which have now
come To be regarded as mistake ou board
| ship. In the Queens jubilee year model
of the Victoria in silver was presented to
! her Majesty as contrast to another gift
of drst rater in the old days of wooden
walls. The Camperdown is "a battleship
of almost equal tonnage and armament.
| but instead OF the largest ordnance she
| carries four Cotton guns, and her official
| speed record is III knots.
Sir George Tryon, the Admiral In CON-
mand of the Mediterranean squadron, was
an officer OF the highest ability. tn oroughly
| experienced in modern naval tactics ana
accustomed to the maneuvering of fleets
He was twice in command during the an
nual naval maneuvers. The disaster
shows how very precariouS is the buoy
ancy of any huge vessel, bulkheaded as it
may be, unless the bukhead doors are
kept closed On modern commercial
steamers of the first class the transverse
and longitudinal bulkheads are carried
above the main deck solidly. In case of
collision there are no doors TO close below
| that deck, and there must always be time
to close those above. The Victoria evil
IDENTIFY foundered because the doors were
open and could not be shut in the few
minutes available. Water poured in, and
Notwithstanding her great beam the vessel
became topheayy, rolled over and sank.
| Such a catastrophe ranks as nearly the
most appalling in recent naval history.
1t is only OF less magnitude in loss OF life
than the laundering of the Captain, which
| turned turtle in the Bay of Biscay and
carried down 800 men-alI on board. Cap.
tain Cole, the designer of her turrets. sank
with her,
The number of discovered murders that
go without arrests in England is not large
but there are many bodies found in the
Thames during year as to which the
uar1int of dro padr &c
satisfactory. A Parliamentary paper has
just been issued as to the number of per-
sons sentenced to death for murder in
England and Wales from 1884 to 1892 in
elusive. During those nine years 256
death sentences were passed. Only 145
persons were executed One person was
pardOned, ninety-five had their sep fences
commuted to penal servitude for life, eight
were fOund to be insane, and seven other
prisoners were sentenced to prisOnmeDt
for term of years. The executions give
an average of only sixteen per year. 1t
might be supposed that the abolition of
capital punishment would make little
difference in the number of murders CON-
mitted. but there is good reason to believe
that burglars would not hesitate to take
| life if they had no fear of the hangman.
| Convicts themselves have SO testified.
The train-robber is developing into
utterly diabolical methods when he at
tempts to overpower express messengers
with suffocatine chemicals. Dastardly vii
lainy of this kind appesrs to have been
attempted at Coolidge, on the Atlantic and
Pacific route, but was not successful. The
messenger seems to have been quite inssn-
| sible when rescued A road agent who
risks his life by the ordinary methods has
| some redeemlng traits, but they are not
| discernible il the wretch who murders
| first and then grabs the treasure in the
messengers keeping.
| A boy of 10 years has given his life his
tory in very succinct shape over in Oak
land to Judge Allen, who has sent him
mercifully to the Whittier Home. This lad
! acknowledged that he smokes, drinks and
swears; that he has twice been drunk and
| that he steals. The father and mother are
intenperate and their young hopeful mas
only had two weeks OF school. What bet
ter could be expected from such parents
and snch negligence. The boy is probably
bright and he now has a chance to grow
up into an honest man.
There were fifty graduates at West
Point this year. Forty-fiye of them are
able to enter the army and five are without
employment, there being no opening for
them, and after n years pay they can
transfer their abilities to some indepen-
dent arena. 1t wonld not be correct to say
! that they are better off than those who do
| obtain commissions, but they have no rea-
son TO be disappointed. They have been
! grounded in thoroughly sound education,
which qualities them for almost any career
| hey wish TO follow. II they still desire
martial fame they must go abroad, unless
a militia appointment has charms for them.
The Philadelphia Ledger calls the at
tention of educators TO the Galn-Paris-
Cheve system of teaching music, by which
| pupils soon read sat sight. In seven
months training pupils sing from the notes
| in any key, major or minor They are
even bic 10 sing the DOieS backward. A
system that can accomplish this Is worthy
If attention, but the time of the title might
be faster and the euphoDy improved.
A lady in San Diego County has carried
| on experiments in raising silkmoths dur
ing the greater part of year consecu-
lively. and intends to present a report on
the operations to the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. The practical
bility of silkworm culture was long ago
| demonstra ted in California. Experiments
were even successful in San Francisco,
out at the Mission, where one enthusiast
had quite large colonies Of the caterpillars.
it is "A question of labor and attentio to
the feeding and temperature. In Italy
and France experience has long been re-
| duced to right methods. and the time may
come in California when silk will take an