Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-14

All American currency Is as good as gold and some of 1t brought better prices last week; but the pr. nium Is disappear ing.
 An eighty. pound ws melon has been sent to Senator David B. b'ii from Georgia. The New York World hopefully enquiries: Does this indicate au intention on the part of the South to cut of debate in the upper housei
 Talking of co-education, Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer says there Is nothing in the world that will take the foolishness and romantic notions out of girl SO quick as to set her ct work with young men, when she will find out how little they know. Oucbl
 English government officials, who ought to know, say that the alleged proposition from England to join the United States in plan to resume free coinage in India at a ratio of 24 to 1, on condition that the United States continues silver purchases, did not eminate from government~eources, but Is probably ruse of silver men to de- fer or defeat repeal of the Sherman law.
 Ibsen Is desirous of visiting England, not on accout of the attractions that lure other foreigners to the "tight little isle" but solely to see the old men. "In all other countries" he says, "the best work is done by men between 40 and 50 years; in England the best work Is done by much older men, and a man of 70 or 30 Is often still in his prime. I should like to see such men as Gladstone, Salisbury and Her bert Spencer"
 It pays to dwell in Boston. Any young man who can speak the French, German, Spanish and Italian languages huently, who knows enough Russian to converse with immigrants from the Czsr's domain and who in addition is smart enough to pass the examination for Post Office clerk ship, can obtain the position of interpreter at the Boston Post-Office. The salary he will receive is only ssO0 a year. but then there Is the compensatory advantage of living in Boston.
 Americans are deeply interested in the  burg in few days, when there will be unveiled in that city 8 monument to the Scottish-American soldiers who served in | our civil war. There Is eminent appro- | priatenees in the fact that the monument consists in the main of ststue of Abraham | Lincoln. The erection of the memorial Is due to the energy of two or three patriotic | Americans, including the Hon. Wallace
 Bruce, our consul at Edinburg and Henry
 R. Heath of New York.
 With very few exceptions the old cities of Belgium and Holland have lsveled the l walls which have played suoh grand parts
 in the national histories, and they are con
 verted into promensdes after the manner
 of Chester and York. The walls of Ant
 werp and Malines have been replaced by
 boulevsrds. The old bsstions of Amster-
 dam still remain, but the citizsns of Arn-
 helm and Utrecht and Hoorn and Zwolle
 and Hasrlem and Lsyden disport them
 selves on fine evenings upon the line of
 Notifications famous in the most stirring
 pages of what is perhaps the most stirring
 of Europssn histories.
 "There Is one thing at Plymouth" says
 the Boston Transcripts Listener" "thai
 is not cheerful. It is the Pilgrim Monu.
 ment, 90 called, which stands in a deser,
 on the top of another hill to the northwsrd
 perhaps, that the persons who designed Il
 received $300 for the design! If there is
 about it one single element of beauty ol
 true impressiveness, the Listener failed
 to discover 1t after a careful and indulgeni
 study. A colossal statue, in slices of gran
 ite, the slicing being painfully distinct
 misrepresents Faith, and certain othei
 stony figures typify certain other sbstrso tions. In spite of its sizs the whole thing has petty look. The plain fact is that as a work of art, 1t is pitifully bad. Tn, best thing that there ever was about 1t wa Boyle O'Rsilly's magnificent ode at its ded
 ication. However, it is not conspicuous ii } Plymouth; on the contrary, 1t Is we'll ou , of sight. If 1t were on Burial Hill 1t woult be national calamity"
 3 Just now while all the world is talkin t so much about gold our southern CalifoI , nis friends come forward with the claim 7 of thst section as gold producing region f The Los Angeles Herald ssys gold minin 8 boom Is on in that section, and adds: "Th Q progress of development In the vanderbil - district Is very encouraging. A revival c 2 prospecting and promising work has take 8 place in Julian district, and some of th - new discoveries In eastern San Diego cour 9 ty are turning out we'll. We hear nothin a but good news from the late discoveris :- east of the Csjon, and the recent develop j. ment of placer mines in Arizona give ]. room to hope that extensive gold fields vi c soon be opened in that Territory. All th l. mines in southern California that are no s receiving attention are gold producers, an > the activity which prevails in them show
 that capital is eager to develop the yello IS metal, now that silver has fallen SO To l. in the markets of the world Notwitl l. standing the tremendous amount of gol l. California has added to the wealth of tt |. world, her treasures in that metal ha, IT only been skimmed. The present cond ,e ton of affairs may lead to wonderf y things in the development of yellow veal of in the Golden State. From Yreka to SI ,e Diego our mountains have countless stor ly of gold that require only enterprise sI