The morning call., 1893-06-19

Publishers who study their own pockets
and are Indifferent about the public and
the authors so that they can keep control
of both may quake as they read about the
novel press" which has been invented
and is ready for action in New YORK. 1t is
web machine with two cylinders, on
each of whi 144 pages of a novel may be
placed. Every revolution of the cylinders
prints 2SS pages, and the machine folds,
cuts and delivers books at the rate of 5000
to 5000 an hour, or from $4,000 to SO, 600 in
ten hours. Another machine stitches and
covers the volumes at the rate of fifty a
minute. A retail bookseller may get cart
load of a new novel while he stands in the
doorway. The cost of paper is more than
that of printing. but cents covers the total
expense. and sales at 10 cents a copy ought
10 yield handsome profit. With such
presses the publishers will find it impos-
sible TO collar the market much longer.
There is no reason why all the standard
novels out of copyright (there are now
thousands should not be sold at 10 cents,
and there are also hundreds of volumes of
history and travel which should be as
cheap. a 10-cent syndicate is believed to
have possession of the novel press 1t
treats literature as Chicago does the pig.
1t has been kindly pointed out to Eng
land that the Suez Canal is OF no possible
use as an adjunct of defense for the en-
pire, and that her true policy is to keep
to the open ocean and maintain ms many
naval stations as possible along the Cape
route. Gibraltar is now fortress prac-
tically OF no consequence owing To steam
power and the immense range of modern
artillery. In fact. it would be better to
secure some point on the Morocco coast
and hand over the rock fortress to the
w N hos al fnr
a natural resentment at the impudence of
the British in keeping a footing IN the
peninsula. Could England obtain a few
more islands In the South Atlantic she
might acquiesce in surrender eIing Gibraltar
but she is tenacious of what she has, ana
believes in the prOverb about bird in the
hand. Were England to give up Gibraltar
she might also cede to Italy, France
Greece and Turkey all she has in the Medi-
terranean. Then Europe might be happy
and diSarm.
Penurious habits are conducive 20 lon
gevity, even when there is pinching in
food. a man may suffer from eating too
little, but escapes the sufferings entaied
by eating too much. and the balance is in
his favor. A doctor has Just died in Scot
land at the age OF 80. He rode about the
borders on pony that he was only known
to feed once at his own expense. He
pbysicked his patients with only two
powders, and his surgical instruments con-
sisted Of rusty pair of pincers for tooth
pulling. When his landady's children
had cough he put them to bed upon a
prescription ofgruel and deducted a shil-
ling from the weekly bill. On one occa-
sion he set the dislocated Jaw of woman
who would not pay him his fee on the spot,
so he brought her to reason by throwing
her jaw off its hinge again. In riding
about the country he collected all the way
side tufts of wool and had this raw mate-
rial spun ana knitted into stockings by old
women who were in his debt for medical
| advice. This eccentric medico is believed
to have left $4,000 to nobody.
The falling off in trade last year in Aus
tralla accounts in some measure for the
depression and distrust which led to the
collapse OF so many banks. The inter-
colonial and foreign trade was 500. 600. 600
less than in previous years. In 1892 the
| iniercolonial trade amounted TO about
| S207. 000. 600 and the extracolonial to about
S415.000,000. as against total of S720. .OO0,-
| coo previously. Victoria, South Australia
aud New South Wales showed great de-
cline and Queensland and Western Aus
tralia slight increase. In imnorts the
decrease was about So. 100000. Economy
IS now the rule In the colonies and there is
long null ahead to make up for The lee
way. But the gains in population, which
is the manstay of progressive country,
are very satisfactory. In five of the colo
nias the birhrate was 12S,650, and The
deaths only came to 1854. This is a
| bIrthrate of 32.99 per thousand and a death
| rate OF only 12.Sl per thousand. Australia
| IS therefore not in the predicameut of
France, with population stationary and
debt constantly growing
NJ. Turpin seems to justify Bismarck's
opinion that artillery is the most valuable
arm in fighting. He has provided melinite,
! the smokeless powder which set all other