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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Queen V.ctoria's fayorte instrument is
the harp.
Right Rev. Frederick Courtney, Bishop Of
Nova Scotia, is 10 serve officially In the
Boston Diocese for a mouth.
Dr. Calling has invented a toy Calling
gun which works with an electrical dynamo
and fires 1000 shots minute
Rudyard Kipling's father Is a man of
great ability, and holds an important posi-
ton as art director of an Indian museum.
Lady Evans, wife of the late Lord Mayor
of London, was a hnusemaid at the Oaks
Hotel. Seven Oaks. England. prior to her
marriage.
F. Marion Crawford. the novelist. has no
svmpa by with the realistic school of fiction,
and he does not hesitate to express his
opinion OF IT,
Mrs. A. E. W. Robertson Of Indian Ter
rt0ry recently completed the translation Of
the New Testament from tie original
Greek into the Muscogee and Greek Ian
guage.
President Harper Of the Chicago UDiver-
sity was precocous student in his younger
days. He graduated from college at "A and
delivered his commencement Grafton in
Hebrew.
Millet's painting "La Bergere," which
formed part of the Van Praet collection in
Brussels, has been sold to NJ. Chauchard,
merchant prince If Paris and chief pro-
prietor of the Magasin du Louvre, for
S240,000.
Herbert Spencer finished his principles
of Ethics" a few weeks ago and al once
took TO his bed from nervous exhaustion.
While his condition IS not so alarming as
has been represented, it is true that his
health is poorer than at any time during
the last ten years.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
STRAWS.

A newspaper which for some years has
had the reputation of being n the pay Of
the Southern Pacific Company thinks the
fact that is, 10000 shares OF the Nicaragua
Canal Company are divided among the two
countries from which concessions have been
obtained and the original stockholders who
have supplied the money for the work
already done may prevent the passage of
the bill now before Congress. The is, 900, 600
shares are to he divided in this way:
Nicaragua 6.000000. Costa Rica 100000,
the Nicaragua Canal Association 5000. 600,
and the balance will be used to lake mp
stock sold to subscribers. For its 6,0O0, coo
shares Nicaragua gives the canal cOnces-
SioHs and about 2, 100000 acres of public
lands. Costa Rica comedies right Of nayi-
cation OF part OF the river San Juan aud
public lands along the banks of the river;
the subscr bprs TO stock get their money
back and the promoters get S6.000,000, more
or less, for their trouble and expense. The
United States takes $4,000 600 shares anu
guarantees in crest on 100000, 600. II does
not seem that y learagua or COSTA Rica re-
ceive more stock than they would be en-
Titled to If there was no Government behind
the Nicaragua Canal Company. 1t may be
that a code of morals is contemplated by
the Southern Pacific Company which will
require the first subscribers to a national
enterprise to lose the money paid in,
and also the promoters to make the
Government a present OF property which
has cost heavily, bnt certainly no
such code was IN operation when the
Central Pacific Railroad was building If
there had been the i've builders would
hardly have rea lied fortunes amounting
TO $4,000 600 each from tins enterprise.
When men 20 into an enterprise Of the
magnitude OF the Nicaragua Canal they ex-
pecl to lose money if they. fail and TO make
money il they succeed. If there was only
less in sight work Of this magnitude would
not BE- undertaken. The promoters have to
spend a considerable amount of money in
surveys before they know the enterprise is
practicable When finally they have
established the fact that the project is
practicable they naturally expect, IL they
turn II over 10 the Government, that they
will not only get back the money they have
expended but something in the way OF
profit. If the something they ask for is not
exorbitant they should have il. In this
case it should be remembered that there is
no reason in law why the promoters should
not 20 to foreign countries for the capital
they need. They would probably get into
trouble il they should but the hight of the
United States TO object to the construction
Of a canal by foreign money, while refusing
10 construct it with its own money, might
be questioned
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
QUALIFICATION FOR OFFICE.

Tie Chronicle condemns the nomination
Of Daniel /. Cole to be RaTb0r Commits
sioneT on the ground that Mr.. Cole has 10
qualification for the position. There could
be no better reason urged why a nomination
should not be confirmed by the Senate than
that urged by tie Chronicle, if facts are
brought forward to support II. But the
sudden soIcitude which NJ. u. de Young's
personal organ expresses IN tie welfare Of
the public service Is a sort Of surprise 10 the
community. This solicitude was not az
parent In The columns Of that paper uring
the few weeks Immediately preceding the
November election. In that period voters
were urged to stand by the party. The fact
% a nomination by Crimmins and Kelly was
sufficient reason why Republicans should
support them. Now the Chronicle says:
TIE Only hope Of Sau Francisco and Of the
State lies In the Senate, which, II it has the inde-
pendence which should Characterize such
body, VIII refuse 10 confirm Daniel L. Cole as
Harbor Commissioner.
Then follows an intmatlon that Governor
Markham VIII crack the party whip after
his usual fashion. OF this, however, there
is 0 danger. There is no snapper On the
party whip. 1t was worn eff In the late
campaign and has not been renewed Il is
not long since the swish Of the party lash
carried terror to the hearts Of office-seeking
Republicans, but at present the sound is
regarded as mere noise. The CALL GAS
no very strong hope that the nomination IF
Dir. Cole viii be considered on the ground
Of fitness or unfness. Il will be acc pied
or rejected according as the Southern Pacific
Railroad dictates. TIE CALL has ex-
pressed a preference for San Francisco
business man for an Office Of such import
aDce to our local interests. but We do not
know that the fact that Mr.. Cole owns
stage route in the SieTas should be coDsid-
cred as disqualifying him for the position.
A man OF more than ordinary executive
ability and one who owns himself is espe.
cially needed at the present tina in this
Office. Mr.. Coles record as delegate to the
Minneapolis convention indicates that he
las the latter qualification. and is possibly
the reason why the Chronicle regards his
nomination as one unfit to be made"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
The Ilse of Poetry.

Charles Leonard Moore in the February Forum.
Nearly all the other arts have an Official
standing. They are endowed, perpetUated,
made part OF the apparatus Of life. But we
are as incredulous of try as of the SER
penis, and the af1idayts Of those who have
seen the thing Itself do not convince a skep-
teal world.
Poetry's killing foe is wealth, and wealth
OF late has grown beyond the dreams OF
ayarice Money which can call into exist
ence many Of the arts, which can rear archi-
lectures, lay out gardens, give to household
decoration a sumptuous beauty impossible
10 poor ages, which can even greatly help
in the creation OF music and painting
money has no potency over the proud and
Cisdainful muse.
But the future Of Cetry is immense, be-
cause when intellectIaiitits Cypress, when
utilities task, when tired OF all these for
restiul death We cry" all we need do is to
open our books and without struggle TO
partake the strife without effort TO obtain
the ease, without putting of mortality 10
have part in the Immortality Of those sole
things which show a semblance Of eternal
life-the creations of the divine poets.
Ponce de Leon sailed far for his tabled
fountain of youth, but the wiser man is he
who reaches down his Homer or his Shakes
Deare and discovers therein the Spring the
Spanlard failed 10 find.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
A MODERN DELUGE.

The deluge which burst upon the city OF
Brisbane in Queensland. Australia, has
rarely been paralleled in modern times. On
Tuesday there was forty feet of water in
the streets aud in low'lying portions of the
suburbs houses sixty feet high were sub
merged. Dwellers on the Mississippi. ia
miliar as they are with freshets, have never
seen anything like that.
The phenomenon. though unprecedented
in severity. is easily accounted for. Bris-
bane lies on the banks of the river OF
the same name about twenty-five miles
from the sea, and some seventy-fye or
eighty miles from the main range which
runs along the east coast of Australia from
north TO south. The moist clouds are driven
in from the Pacific, and striking this range
empty their contents on its side, just as the
moist clouds in Monterey and San Luis
ObSpo counties in this State empty on the
Coast Range. Inside the range is the most
winteTess fiery desert Of Australia, which
has been described as more Ike furnace
than an oven. The greater the height OF
the range, and the less Its distance from the
sea, the heavier is the precipitation. Where
the range is low some Of the rainclOuds get
over il and empty on the west side; and
where the slope from the range is long the
rain is distributed. Thus in the northern
portion Of the province Of Victoria the an
nual rainfall is-abOut 80 inches; but at Bris-
bane it is 90, and ten degrees further north,
in the valley of the Johnstone. 100 inches
was known TO fan in 1877 hours.
1t is evident that heavy stormclouds,
charged with an unusual quantity of mois-
ture. came into contact with the main range
back of Brisbane on Sunday and Monday.
They emptied their con ents into the can
yoas which seam the mountain sides, and
swelled the river till it rose to the enormous
height OF 40 or 80 feet above its normal level.
The destruction Of property viii be eaor-
n, nnr
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
A CALIFORNIA DIVORCE.

a New York dispatch represents hus-
band as applying for a divorce under the
laws Of New York who had already been
divorced under the laws Of California. The
dispatch assumes that the California
divorce was void. Until there is a national
divorce law there will always be suits Of
this kind arising. A party divorced in one
State WHO c0ntempiates entering the mar
Tiage relation in another State will get a
divorce in the State IN which the marriage
ceremony had been performed, rather than
take the chance Of a court decision that the
divorce obtained In another State was void.
a great deal Of needless trouble and eX-
pense are occasioned by this doubt as TO the
legality Of a divorce obtained in State on
grounds that are not recognized as valid
grounds for divorce in the State in which
the marriage had been solemniZed. The
Federal constitution provides that each
State shall give due credit to the laws IF
every other State, and this constitutional
provision would seem to require marriage
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
STATISTICS OF LONDON.
Returns Which Explain Much About
the Doings of the Great City.


The total population of the county of
London ON April 6. 1891. was 4,231. 431. the
increase in ten years being 397. 237, or 1036
per cent. The number of inhabited houses
were 557,134, an increase on 1881 Of 6S, 249, or
1886 per cent
The total expenditure on the local gov
eminent of London in the year 16S9-90 was
$40. 726. OOO OF as much as an Australian
colony. This was equal to G3 los Sd per head
Of population.
The rates were levied upon ratable value
OF 931, 5S6, COO, SO that the amount per 81
was 6s Cd, but the Tatepayer only paid 4s
10d of that amount. The central rates fall
equally upon the parishes, but the rates for
parish purposes are very UNEQUAL, ranging
from 3s 934d down to Is I'd. For imperial
and local purposes cont ined London pays
in taxation approximately 100000 The
inland revenue returns show that the total
incomes earned in London amount TO 4l23,-
$4,000 so that the burden OF taxation
amounts to IA per cent. The balance Of the
loans outstanding at the end OF 1881 was
&4s. 032. COO
On January 1, 1891, the paupers num-
bered 49, 47. and the cost OF pauperism
was in ISS9-90. e., $40, 900, the cost or each
pauper being e2l los Id.
The number OF persons committed for
trial during 1SS9-90 was 2906, while 100, 74S
were convicted summary. The habitual
offenders known TO the police not committed
during the year numbered 1892. The total
represents percentage of 81 TO the whole
population. The est of the police was
Ct, $4,000, or 9l5 12s 90 per head of the in
eliminated class. Industrial schools cost
e20.652.
In the schools of the metropolis the pupils
numbered in 1690-91, 652. 354; the total cost
of the board schools was 9l.960, 600, OF
which 81. 272 600 was thrown on local rates.
The death rate IN London IN 1891 was ola
per 1000 oil the population, which compares
favora bly with other large towns, Liverpool
rising rs high as y per 1000
The open spaces in London, without
reckoning the disused burial grounds, ex-
tend to $40 acres. Besides. there are open
spaces on lis borders which bring up the
total Of parks accessible TO Londoners TO
% 600 acres.
The fires in the metropolis in 1891 num-
bered 1892. of which 1913 were serious. The
lives lost numbered 81. 81 Of these having
been taken out alive. The total cost OF the
brigade was &l20. 1873, or 6%d per head OF
the population. The fire Insurance CON-
panies contributed 427 1856. Property was
insured for no less a sum than GSO6. COO, 000
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
Comparative Growth of Boys and
Girls.
Science.

Observations made in the primary, high
and normal schools and in two OF the pri-
yate schools in the city OF Worcester. cover
ing total OF $3.50 students, ranging from 5
to 81 years, show: % The boys starting
out at five years OF age apparently taller
than the girls, and the girls catching them
in the seventh year and continuing at an
equal stature TO the close of the ninth year,
after which the boys again rise above the
girls for two years. About the twelfth
year the girls suddenly become taller than
the boys and maintain the advantage until
the fifteenth year. when the boys regain
and retain their superiority I'm stature
After the age of II there appears to be little
IL any increase In the height OF the girls.
while the boys are still growing vigorously
at Is, aud probably continue to grow for
several years after that age. (2) In the
matter Of weight, the boys are heavier than
the girls at all ages from to IL, inclusive;
from The twelfth 10 the fourteenth the girls
are The heavier. From IA the boys again
take the lead.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
Henry L. Pierce and President Grant.

Henry Wilson and Henry l.. Pierce"
said a well-known teller Of political stories,
'were great friends. ! think Mr.. Pierce
did what no other man ever did with a
President of the United States. Without
consulting Mr.. Pierce. President Grant
made an appointment in Boston which was
very dlsiasteful TO Mr.. Pierce who was at
that time in Congress. AS soon as he heard
it he sought out Mr.. Wilson and both called
on the President, who refused TO change
his ideas on the appOintee.
with irmness and respect Mr. Pierce.
arising. said:
Mr.. President. consider this appoint
ment personal insult to me, and l shall
never forget it,
''He never did. at least so far as Presi-
dent Grant was concerned"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
The Microphone in Medicine.

1I'I 'I''IVNV 0 NVIoIIVV uU5SIV
The microphOne of Professor Hughes for
detecting sounds too feeble for the unaided
ear has been applied 10 the stethoscope by
more than one physician, but generally
with Indifferent success. Persistent efforts
are nevertheless being made to turn the in
strument to practical account IN this diree-
ton; and lately Russian lady was saved
from premature burial by means of a micro
phone placed over the regions of her heart,
which could be then heard beating, although
she had been considered quite dead More
recently Dr. Blydell OF New York has
invented a mierostethosc0pe, by which he
can distinguish sounds of the heart, lungs,
blood-yesseis and other organs, which are
wholly inaudible TO the ear alone.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09

or divorce in one State to be accepted as
valid in every other State. On the other
hand, State might be justified in declaring
that marriages not in accord with the mar
rage laws Of that State should not be
recognized as legal, ano that divorces OBJ
tanned on grounds the State does not reccg-
ME should also be rspudiated. The short
way out of the marriage and divorce vortex
would be through a national law.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09

Director General Davis of the Worlds
Fair takes the view that most people in the
interior of the United States take with re-
gard TO precautions against cholera. He
maintains that all the regulations Of quaran-
tine and the acceptance or landing Of
passengers should be in the hands OF the
Federal Government. Only in that way
can uniformity Of action and strict disci-
pline be enforced. If New York, PhiIa-
delphia, Boston, Baltimore, Savannah. New
Orleans and the Pacific ports are all to act
on their own notions of quarantine, the
probability Of the disease entering the
country must be much Increased. Even the
dsDfection or detention Of cargoes at the
ports would be better In the hands of the
Government. Mr.. Davis urges, with reason,
that the Chicago authorities should do all
that is possible to clean the city and keep it
pure. This is all the more urgent because,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

sTocEwEI1,s THEATER. Powell street near Mar
Elt-'Si5erls"
TA1DvIS 1HEAIER. Market street. near Powell
Candy"
TJvCII OPERA EOUsE Eddy street, of Market,
CIera-' Princess O. Treb!zonde."
CRCvF-STEEET HEATER, Grove street. above
ECiA-''The PlUDCer7
NIevAN THEATER, corner Stockton aud Geary
s-s.-opera "Mikado" and Variety Performance.
CAIIFoEaIA7 HEATER. Busb street, above Kearny
a Trip To Chi natOWa"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
Electricity and Water.
New York TrfbunA

The papers In the Northwest say that
everywhere in that region water powers
are being taken up ami utilized to create
electricity. So cheap is this process that
the use OF coal is out of the question No
light and no power can be created so cheap
~ as that where a mountain stream has
been made to do the work. What was
an experiment a short time ago has now
become one of the most remarkable
industrial DEVELOPMENTS of the time. In
nearly all the Northwestern States which
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09

are hilly or mountainous these water
powers are abundant, Swift streams are
flowing down everywhere. These are just
what the electricians want. Finding a
stream anywhere within FIVE or ten miles OF
a thriving town they are ready to light that
town and furnish power cheaper than 1t
could ever be furnished by the use OF coal
This to great extent is the practical s0lu-
tion of the question of cheap light, heat and
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
srBsCKIpTIoN RATEs.

DAILY CALL dneIuding Sundays. So per year By
EIf postpaid; 10 cents per week. or IS cents psr
CElCRdsT month. through carriers. DAILY CALL
fsC copies three months. Sc %. SUNDAY CALL
tsixtesn paEes), 81 SO per year. postpaid SUNDAY
Cali ana WEEKLY CALL, 81 80 per y earl postpaid
NEEhLf CALL Is psgesl, 81 per year. postpaid
TEE CALL cannot return rejected manuscripts
EGi viii the editor enter into correspondence re-
erecting them
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
A Girls / nWfc

Friend Of Mamma 10 little girD-Lottie.
II you drink so much tea you will he an old
maid.
Lotie-Oh, don't believe that at all, Mr..
Harold. Mamma drinks tea, and she has
been married twire. and she isn't an old
maid yet.-Harper's Bazaar
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09

A SERIOUS CHARGE.

The following is from the Chico Chronicle
Record:
The degradation Of the press has seldom had
better illustration than exempiitied IN The article
contained IN the EIamtHer OF Saturday on the
Bidwell County bill. Tie spectacle OF great
metropolitan Journal passing as a censor of pub
lie affairs, purporting to disseminate news and
the Truth, selling is space for money and wan
tOnly publishing column and half OF bare
faced falsehoods aud distorted figures Is a dis
grace TO journalism Could anything tend 10
lower The power and Influence of the press more
certainly than such an exhibI ion OF utter vena-
lty? We desire TO Inform our friends that the
article referred 10 bought and paid for from
the OroYlie corruption fund at the rate OF 50
line.
THE CALL hopes that the Chronicle
Record has been misinformed. Whatever
excuse certain newspaper publishers may
urge for sale of their editorial columns
cannot apply to the Examiner. Whether or
not that journal is profitable speculation.
its proprietor is very rich man. He prac-
tically has control of several millions of
dollars. 1t is possible, however, that he
finds some difficulty in conducting a San
Francisco journal from point so remote as
the shores Of the Mediterranean Sea.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09

COS Montgomery street. near Clay. open until IL
o'clock P. L. BRANCH OFFICES: 40 Market
street, near Eesrny, open until u o'clock midnight
$50 Hayes street., open until 8 SO O'Clock: sos
LeTgp street, open until $50 O'Clock; 1878 Mission
eszeet, open until Q o'clock 2, NJ; and ll6 Ninth
street, open unull g &c p. y
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09

You can't work o much purpose unless you are
well. but you can build up your health and strength
with Park er's Ginger Tonic and ork VIII then be-
come easy. 1t sets the lungs, liver and kidneys In
working order. Coughs and colds vanish before it.
Take il in time.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
TIE CALI CALENDAR
FEBRUARY. 1898.
NODTGRI

zHp OF our patrons 1gbo fail 10 find THE
LbRELNG CALL for sale bu train-boys
Rstco11er q 1uyor jy notify ING his office q
dJoct. naming the date and train,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09

CHINESE ON THE PEKING.-There were 70
Chinese passengers on The Picking 43 for San
Francisco. seven for Panama and % for Havana.
Collector Phelps has examined Is OF their Ger.
titicaes and found thrm 10 be correct but he
thinks that he may have some trouble with the
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
THE MORNING CALL
PUBLICATION OFFICE

Eas . larger circulation than any other
newspaper published in San Francisco.
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WANTS PAY FOR INFoRMATION.-Charle W.
Hnst has applied to the District Court TO grant
him $1400 Tor Information furnished last De.
cemb-r which led TO tile discovery of two trunks
full Of ctatTaband opium.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09

SUGAR BoUNTY.-In 1891 there were S.I75..
43S pounds OF beet sugar produced in this S ate,
the bounty on which at cents a pound makes
Sl635O8 rs In 1892 the number Of pounds
was p, S0l 1872 ana the bounty s436 026 ca
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
THE DAILY MORNING CALL

Fsv York. go. .BRENTANo BROS. EUnIon Square
Chicago News Stand Palmer House
B IN orleans. .......... .GALLUT & JOUBERT,
11ElL
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Appearances Are Deceptive.

Hit doan do" said Uncle Ebeu, "ter
take too much count oh de fac dat er man
looks gOod-natured. De crocodile hab de
broades' grin on record. "-Washingto