The morning call., 1893-08-09

Chile is evidently not satisfied with the
nitrate industry. The wealth represented
in the nitrate deposits is probably far more
than in guano. There is still abundance
of nitrates, but if there were any scarcity
the price would 60 up very much higher,
as the worlds supply of gun powder, high
explosives, nitric acid and other chemicals
depends upon these mineral accumula-
lions. The Congress of Chile is bent upon
Investigating the nitrate combine and
Colonel Nor his railroad enterprises. An
effort will be made TO increase the produc-
ton, which is limited by the mbine in
order to obtain higher rates. In whatever
way the matter is managed Colonel North
has succeeded in amassIng a colossal for
tune. He was said some years ago to have
a fortune of S35. 100000 and as everything
he touches seems to turn into gold he is
not any poorer to-day. The colOne's for
tune would 60 a long way to raise Chile
fin ancially.
All sorts of rumOrs go tripping airily
about the Emperor William. He arrived
in England in the jolliest of foods because
he had got his dearly beloved army bill
from the ReichStag, and he was quite
frOlicsome with his crew and any people
Of yachting tastes he met. Gossip gives
y
must be unfounded. At all events an
Emperor hard up would not dash into
another bill for new yacht. which Wat
SOB. the builder of the Meteor, the Bri-
tannia and Valkyrie, is said to have carte
blanche to make the fastest aflOat. His
Majesty is exceedingly anxious, it is re-
ported. to geta return visit from his grand
mother. Queen Victoria. somewhere in
Germany. The Queen is averse to more
no do no @ n arv yuh ch q IN
the Continent, and is fonder of the liberty
and simplicity Of a retreat than the splen-
dor and display OF capital She Will, IL
she goes at all, eschew Berlin, but the
Emperor'S castles are numerous, and he
may be pleased with visit in state in any
shape The alienation Of the petty ana
the great in the round Of m0narch'S life
is remarkable. What trump il would be
10 play the Emperor at the Chicago fair
The attendance would jump high.
There was only one place for the Aus
tralian flying fox. whose corpse is now
drifting about in the bay. 1t might have
been domiciled at the park in very
secure cage and fed for the instruction OF
visitors in natural history. A colony of
these huge fruit-eating bats would never
do in California. They would play havoc
with Riverside and all other regions
where oranges. pears. grapes, peaches and
plpms ripen for the Chicago and New
York market. aud would cut into profits
already meager. That California would
suit their tastes, there can be no doubt.
If they could send back now to Australia
they would bring all their tribe hither. In
a carefully tended menagerie the flying
fox is an interesting creature. with head
pendent and seeing the world upside
down. But so far Golden Gate Park has
only the rudiments of menagerie. and
aintaining one on large scale is very
costly.
The Great Northern Railroad continues
to be original in it's management. 1t has
put on palace sleeping-cars of its own and
will reap whatever prof: comes from the
service. It is curious this independent
full ownership of all rolling stock is no.
followed on other roads. improvements
would accrue through competition. and
the public would obtain better treatment
and possibly lower rates. At present all
sleepinR-cars are as much alike as two
beans-uphOlstered most irr1atingly in
plush. stuffy through bad ventilation. and
wheezy people always considered first and
last. and the upper berth always let down