The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-12-27

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as the wine country of the world. By
planting resistant stock her vineyards
have recuperated into healthy bearing.
and so wonderful has this year proved
that the product of wine is absolutely
double what it was last year. 1t NAV
soon be quite unnecessary to practice the
arts of adulteration in order TO make up
the requisite quantity for home and foreign
consumption, and possibly there will be
considerably less demand for importations
from Austria, Hungary, Italy and Spain
The yield of the vineyards this year is
officially estimated at 1.225 600. 900 gall
Ions, and list year it was only Coo, 600 600
gallons. Sixteen years have passed since
there was so rich crop, and the financial
gain to France must afford i gratifying
rebound to her trade. The contrast be-
tween the wine product of France and
California Is positively startling, yet the
soil of California is equally capable of
yielding as huge a quantity. But at
present there is difficulty in our disposing
of 100000 gallons at remuneratve
prices.
Washington has of late been afflicted
with two kinds of cranks. One of them
had the mania of invading domiciles for
apparently no other purpose than cutting
carpets and tearing up sofa and chair up
holstery. The other had the letter-writing
mania badly, and gave no end of bother to
the gentlemen he favored with his CORE
spoDdence, as well as perplexity TO the
police. This scrhbliDg crank has now given
himself up. He Is described as quite an
athletic Austrian, of some pTetensiOns as
an educated man and skilled artisan, but
he must have screw loose somewhere, or
be would not pen such queer epistes, and
il will be well TO keep him under guardian
ship lest his mania take worse FORM
Such a man, when pnffed out with the
c0nceit that be can advise the Vice Pres-
dent and the Senators of the United States
on legislation, is apt TO become violent in
wrath when his counsel goes unheeded. In
Mt or irritation the homicidal frenzy is
easily aroused.
a gardener has died in London under
circumstances precisely similar to those
which attended Tyndall's carrying off.
The man was being attended medically for
some trouble that required lotion of car
boiic acid. His wife carried home a bot
tie from the doctors aud placed it besid
one which contained medicine to be swal-
lowed. She gave him draught out Of the
wrong bottle, and he Immediately re-
marked that the medicine was not right |
He died in quarter of an hour. The bot
ties were OF similar shape, and the dam
gerous one was not even marked poison"
1t is quite time that all dangerous medi- |
cines were invariably put up in bottles
quite different in shape from those used
for non-poisonouS liquids or preparations
of any kind. Mere labelling is utterly in
sufficient.
A startling story comes from the
Needles-so startling that. as a travellers
tale on hearsay. it requires confirmation to
be accepted. A young Indian mother of
twins was. after grave powwow of the
MOjave lodges camped near that point on
the Colorado. inclosed in her hut OF brush
wood and, without resistance on her part.
burned TO death and all her belongings
consumed Her 0ffense was that Of being
witch from having given birth to twins
The children were dubbed to death As
white people are very little in contact
with this band of Mojaves save to demon
allze them when they come begging around
the trains, incidents Of this character are
not easily prevented.
The official estimates of the cereal crops
in Great Britain are now presented and
show that in wheat alone there is a great
decrease, and 1t is also considerable in
other cereals. The wonder is that with
such deficiency prices should still be so
very languid. Supplies come in from
NUN DeTS OF sources, ana as there is no
actual scarcity for the worlds population
low average quotation is maintained in
spite of adverse harvests In one or two
countries.
A hint is given in the London telegraph
that the story about the two letters found
in Kansas which showed that a plot was
on loot to kidnaD Baby Ruth from the
White House may have originated in the
fertile brain of a reporter who was short
of Christmas copy. This is most charit-
able construction by a journal which is
itself very fond Of sensations. and as it
has seized the occasion to evolve an
editorial on the subject it may be con-
cluded that the writer welcomed the incl
dent for christmas copy" and has spun
out thrilling narrative adorned with
opposite parallels and a proper seasoning
of sentiment. 1t must be satisfactory to the
writer that Baby Ruth passed Christmas
day enjoyably.
1t is to be hoped that cannibalism on the
Pentecost Islands will in future refrain
from converting white men into long pig
with a view to filling the stomach and
assimilating their virtues. An American
crew was murdered on the group in Sep
tember and some Frenchmen were also
butchered. For these atrocities a British