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

across the Kara Sea to Archangel. Sealers
who have returned from the Kara Sea re-
port ice as very little seen in August. The
probability is that Nansen made good
start.
A great fossil. or at least petrified
turtle, is reported to have been captured
by digging somewhere near Monterey and
Is bound to form an antediluvlan feature
at the Midwinter Fair. 1t almost rivals In
mammoth proportions the huge tortoises
OF the Galapagos, which do not seem TO De
embarrassed by man sitting on their
Dack. His weight does not retard their
progress noticeably.
The epidemic of cranks shows no signs
OF abatement. One of these formidable
terrors, who carried more explosives than
were desirable, has made his escape In
Cleveland, Ohio. after making bold de-
mand for $4,000. He supported his re-
quest with dynamite bomb and a revolver,
yet his would-be victim was not scared to
any extent. He simply knocked his visitor
down. and then they rolled together on the
moor, until the crank concluded tnat MS
best course was to flee. The haste to get
rich in this mad fashion has not prOhted
any OF the lunaticS thus far.
Portland, Oregon, has sent a long way
for materials to embellish the new City
Hall. now in process of erection. a ship
has arrived from England with Sixty-eight
columns Of red Peterhead granite. and.
assuming these to be of considerable size.
the vessel must have had very dead
weight cargo. This quality of granite is
very beautiful when polls led, and 1t Is also
durable. but it is indisputable that there
are many fine gram es and marbles on the
Pacific Coast. 1t is scarcely necessary to
go so lar for raw material.
The incident down in Honduras of fir
ing upon Pacific Mail steamer is evil
IDENTIFY going to be atoned for with an
ample apology. The Government is said
to have already disavowed the conduct of
the officer who ordered the firing at ANA
pala. 1t is almost 10 be regretted that
there was not little stubbornness shown,
because that would have led to stern
reprimand. Some of these little republics
need lesson in the c0urteSles OF friendly
relations.
A writer In the Quarterly ReUie,o. the
ponderous magazine Of Tory authority.
comes to this conclusion in an article on
The Command of the Sea-: Every
power in the world holds all It's trans
marine possessions merely as the care
taker OF The ultimate naval power. III
England is that power every such posses
sion is hers for the trouble of taking il
whenever she is at war with the power
which holds it. If she is not her empire is
at an end and her very existence as an in-
dependent nation must ever be at the
mercy of her victorious foes. This, and
no less than this, is the srrategical mean
ing of the command of the sea. To the
British empire its possession means Scout
ity, its loss annihiation. To secure this
priceless advantage at the outset Of war,
and to maintain it to the end, is or should
be the paramount preoccupaton Of Brit
ish naval policy" The millennium will
have come when England is abba to take
possession of all the islands of the earth
she wants. 1t would be safer to curtail
her policy of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Holland
tiourishes without too much colonizing
and grabbing.