The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-11-20

A few dredgers at work such as the
Brancker on the Mersey would clean out
the Gulf of Mexico and give the Missis-
sippi all the depth necessary for the deep
est shipping. 1t is not. however, the
mouth OF the Mississippi which causes SO
much concern as the shoaling of portions
Of the river by the bed rising. The
Brancker is a wonder. 1t removes $50, 600
tons of mud and sand in q week during
favorable weather, or at the rate of
100000 tons year. 1t has not been at
work twelve months, but already has
made great impression on the sediment
of the Mersey bar. The total quantity of
sand and mud removed during the three
years of dredging at the mouth of the Mer-
sew amounts To 8, 1856. COO tons, or over
100000 cubic yards. New York harbor
needs such a dredger. 1t affords great
scope Tor enterprise in harbor cOnstrue-
ton and would make short work of OBJ
structions in river. IL America does
copy this vessel there are certain to be
number of improvements.
The race between the English and
American locomotives, if it does come of,
will determine the tyres of engine best
suited for fast traffic. The New York
Central engine. No. $780, is equal to 100
miles an hour. and the engineers go so far
as to maintain it could keep up this speed
all day. The engine designed by Webb of
the London and Northw estern Railway is
also very swift, but no English engine
heretofore has performed 100 miles an
hour. There are no tracks in Britain,
however, so straight and level as on the
Hudson River route to Chicago. Ten
years hence we shall all think of 100 miles
an hour as a commonplace ride. The
electric line from Chicago to St. Louis is
TO provide for that speed as an ordinary
affair for every hour of The day. 1t will
then be quite possible for ST. Louis ladies
to go shopping in Chicago and return
home for dinner.
The cure for drunkenness which W. T.
Stead has been applying to topers, male
and female, with success for a month at
least is very powerful tonic, exceedingly
bitter to the taste. 1t is, otherwise said to
be of South American origin, which is a
vague way of giving information. The
drug might as we'll come from Kamschatka
as far as Identification Is concerned. From
the fact that persons under its influence
have an intense dislike of alcohol or its
doors, it may be a preparation of one of
the ingredients used In the Kelley cure.
tits given to patients night and day every
three hours. The first two or three davs
patients are miserably detected. Then
they brighten up. eat we'll and sleep well,
abhor the thought of liquor. and are al
lowed to gu about as they please. The
crucial point, however, is whether the
of the drug has been abandoned. A year
or two would make real test of so-ealled
reformation.
1t is announced in Vienna medical
journal that Professor Klebs of Karlsruhe
hos FOR iph
which he terms anti-diphtherla. No medi-
cal discovery short of one for consumption
could be more welcome. Professor Klebs
took up the Koch discovery of cure for
consumption aud invented ''tuberculoci-
dine" but everybody knows the Koch
cure was failure. Notwithstanding this
recent bit of history the Austrian medical
faculty are prepared to experiment with
antl-diphtherla with considerable amount
of confidence. 1t is stated by Professor
Kebs that in thirteen distinct cases life
was preserved by the remedy. These
cases were in the hands OF different doc
tors. No untoward consequences at
tended the treatment in any respect. 1t
would be an incalculable boon to have a
specific remedy for this dreadful scourge.
1t seems to be always epidemic in VII
emma. and it is greatly on the increase in
London. and there are many fatal cases.
The Coolgardie gold mines in Western
Australia are panning well. One of the
companies took 500 tons of ore from seven
foot reef, and out of ten tons picked. o.
less than 10000 ounces Of smelied gold
were obtained. The ore is not all so rich
as that, but the estimate is that the re-
naming ore will average at least ten ounces
to the ton. Success like this will be sure
to attract capital. but it seems there are
many difficulties to~oyercome as regards
obtaining an adequate supply of water.
The Imperial Institute in London was
opened by the Queen. and is very hand
some building, but it Is not fulfilling any
very useful function. To popularize II
smoking concerts ere being given. One
week the concerts are to be given for