The morning call., 1893-03-20

The artists of other parts of the United
States besides California are crashing
their teeth AT the audacious treatment they
have received at Chicago. Iowa is con-
sdeFed unworthy OF showing a single pic
ture, and New York. Massachusetts and
Pennsylvania. which forwarded about 1000
works, have the modification to discover
that the Chicago judges have only accepted
less than hundred. Chicago is sitting in
Judgment on tile whole country heavily, but
in some miraculous way the Chicago
brotherhood of tie brush stand conspicu-
ously high in favor. Grunbling is useless
Perhaps those who are not hung Will have
fewer uDcOmr limentaTy things said about
them than those who are.
The next steamer on the Panama route
under charter of the North American Nayi-
cation Company has already cargo engaged
for half her capacity. This is a cheerful
sign that the new line has come TO STAY
Tie Mexico viii not only take full cargo
down the coast but will obtain full cargo
on the way up. A. long as support thus
flows TO a steamship company it will have
no difficulty III sustaining fleet.
DIR. Hafkine of the Pasteur Institute
would dearly like to see a searching test
made of his vaccination remedy for cholera.
He has carried experiments in Paris as far
as they can possibly go without that final
touch of certainty or failure-YaccinatiOn of
the human subject. Animals of different
kinds have repeatedly been operated upon
One-half of them have been treated with
the preventive virus solution and afterward
with cholera virus, They have never been
attacked with the disease, showing that the
system had been fortified to resist it. The
others in the unvaccinated state all sue
he'd pholpra whom tho yfr
cnmmunicat ted to them II we are to believe
anything of cause and effect, these expert
ments are startling in their suggestion of
remedy wel-ngh realized for this horrible
scourge. Should cholera become epidemic
the doctor Will have many applicants will
ing TO take the risk. One doctor has been
bold enough to offer to submit to an in jrc-
ton of the deadly virus, but DIR. Hatfkine
was uDkind enough not to oblige him, be-
lieVing that scientific martyrs should not be
encouraged. Some German doctors are
proving that the comma bacillus may be
eaten with impuDiiy, If il cannot with I'M
punity be introduced directly into the
blood.
Alaska is develop ping an enormous canning
trade in salmon, and it must be hoped for
the future of the Territory that the saving
Of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs
is not being realized. The vessels chartered
this month for the trade are ten in number,
with an aggregate tonnage of $3.50. If fully
loaded they Will bring away 10000 or ~, 600
tons OF salmon for the markets of the East
and Europe. This represents a tremendous
drain, even if salmon are plentiful. The
fishing may be overdOne, as it has been in
the waters Of the Sacramento.
In the cellars of the Town Hall at Bremen
the municipality owns some cases OF wine
$50 years old. a computation is made by
the ingenious, that If all things are consid-
cred in rent. value originally and since and
otherwise, this precious wine Is worth
100000 a bottle, S270.O 600 a glass and 500
a drop. II Bremen could realize that amount
per bottle the cases would soon be in the
market. Probably no one IN his senses
would bid higher than $40 or SIS bottle,
and fair wine just as palataDle could be
bought at So. Not a Mob Hill millionaire
could stand glass at the full cost.
At the North Beach prison, where women
are in custody. cigaTette-smoking is a COM
mon indulgence. ana only the young women
whose nature has not become callous by
evil habits appear to be ashamed OF the
practice. Why women should no: take TO
tobacco as we'll as men is not easy 10 ex-
plain, for II there is any solaee in smoking