The morning call., 1893-04-17

a bronze statue Of Roscoe Conkling has
been cast and his friends desire it to be set
mp in a public place within the gaze Of all
They want one of the corners of Union
square. New York, the very spot where Mr..
COnkliug was struck by the blizzard which
hurried him to the grave. He was great
enough to receive his death blow there, but
objections ara raised to him being sufficient
ly great to 1--we there in fame. The Park
Board Of Commissioners say that Union
square was intended to commemorate only
four great Americans. Two of the corners
are occupied. Washington. has one and
Lincoln the other. Grant should be worthy
OF third, and there must be galaxy of
claimants for the fourtS corner. Was Conk-
ling sufficiently eminent in any capacity 10
deserve monumental Immortality in a chief
place of honor? Perhaps it would be as
well to leave the fourth place vacant for the
coming man.
To put its gold coinage on an unimpeacha-
BILE full-weight basis Great Britain has lust
passed an act which sanctions an expendi-
ture of 81, $4,000 TO Withdraw light gold
from circulation. a similar large outlay
was made few years ago for the purpose
Of getting possession OF light half sOver-
eigns. AS the Bank of England weighs all
gold passed over its counter and only paws
dCGblIllR 10 WtlAut tue result Is tlat very
little light coin is taken to the bank. 1t
continues in circulation. aud would get more
and more debased unless tile Government
shOuldered the loss.
According to the Society OF Authors and
Mr. Walter Besant, novelist. the cost of
issuing in England $50 copies of a three
volume novel-the delight of the circulating
library patron-is S60S, including 500 for
a6Verfigipp Tho nf -
and Of 1000 copies S945, or about 81 per copy.
The sale Of 271 copies pays for Production n
and allows fifty copies for review and pre-
sentation. and il the remainder out of the
Thousand is disposed Of the profit is esti-
mated al S2405. This margin should satisfy
both author and publisher on principles of
lair dealing; put a large proportion of
novels are unsuccessful.
Only the other day Sir John Lubbock.
banker, naturalist and member of ParlIa
ment, well known to the world for his
studies of bees and ants, stated that he
believed he had taken the first photograph
after the discovery of Daguerre, his special
opportunity arising because his father was
a friend of the inventor The Daguerro.
type was made known In 1889, and as Lub-
book is still far from old age he must have
taken his sun picture when a boy Within
this half century photography has become
the most familiar and yet the most mar
velOus art the world has known. 1t is so
rapid that II gives us the flight of a bird
the rush of a train at sixty miles an hour
the minute motions of a horses stride, the
image OF cannon or rifle ball in the air
Ii is so patient and delicately sensitive that
IL is now being used TO chart the armament
Through continuous impacts of light too
feeble TO excite vision with the aid of the
most powerful telescope II enables the as
trOnomer to picture the whole sky luminons
with myriad star systems Of which only this
generation Is c0gniZant. What shall the
world knoI hundred years hence?
The Chicago fair would not have had n
proper sendotf without a patronizing word
from Ward McAllister. He has spoken.
and the world may entertain ITSELF He
calmly says that New 7 Yorkers have begun
ito make investigations as to the wealth
and beauty of the Chicago women" and he
has personal knowledge that the society
women of Chicago are well-dressed and
cultivated" On the other hand Chicago
people will see New York in new phases.
Dinners are to be such dlnnersI Mr.. Me-
Allistar smacks his lips and turns up his
eyes in rapture. Thus be expatiates: "Old
champagne, which one never sees outside of
London and New York, burgundies of 1878.
Haut BrlOn claret of 1870. which now brings
$40 bottle in Paris, and which is unknown
to the West will be used freely to illustrate
how free New York society is in the m after
of proper dining" New York is in other re-
spects TO open the eyes of the West to its
superiority. It's representatives will not
hold aloof from the social element Of Chi
cago-a most gracious condescension to the
meat-packers. he deprecates hospitality
in quantity, but adores it in quality. Hos
pitalty which includes the whole human
race is not desirable" Finally, as nothing
is too small for great mind, Mr. McAllis-
Ter recommends ChicagOans to import
french chefs, lays down precise dlrnclinns