The morning call., 1893-06-12

statesmen. During five years of divorce
privileges 10000 DEGREES have been pro
bounced, and the rate is increasing. This
IS melancholy for proud county.
Brazil is making bid for Chinese and
japanese as cultivators OF the soil and
builders up of the republic. Those who
have had experience of the Asiatic in
the United States have no objection to
South Americans of Spanish or Portuguese
stock obtaining all the help of that kind
they want. 1t might be supposed that the
drain of inhabitants from Southern
Europe, Italy especially, would suffice,
but the experience of large proportion
of these immigrants has been dismal. The
inducements are abundant on paper, but
fimsy and illus"ry in practice. The
whole country has got very black eye IN
England and Belgium. 1t is said the Jap
anese Government is verv anxious tn
oplige any part of the world with surplus
Japs. The exodus thus far does not
amount to $4,000 all told, but japan could
easily spare several millions. Its density
Of population is 274 per square mile as
against 229 in India and 2S9 in China. Ii
cannot go on increasing its population
much. Australia is a tempting field, but
the Australians would soon resist III
vasion as they did in the case of the
Chinese. Brazil may prove more suitable.
announcer maRuIuc6HG Udltle-SHlD mas
been added to the navy from Cramps ship
building establishment at Philadelphia.
The Massachusetts compares advanta-
geously with the largest vessels in the
British, French and Italian navies in
respect of amor, guns and speed, and is
one of the most formidable afloat. These
successes of American ship-builders
demonstrate that any naval programme the
country needs may be undertaken and the
work done admirably and rapidly. There
Is no longer need to borrow European
ideas. But for delays in the obtaining of
armor plates the Oregon at the Union Iron
Works might almost be ready. The time
will come when this coast will furnish its
own steel and iron.
South Carolina has two Commissioners
whose duties are peculiar. The better
they work the more should the bon viveur
who frequents Delmonico's be grateful for
one branch of good government. The
ferrapin Is In danger of extinction and the
Commissioners are to keen hands off from
april to August. inclusive. Moreover.
errapin-trappers must take out licenses,
and II caught in violation Of law may go
to Jail six months.
One hardly expects to hear of any new
land being discovered on the face of the
earth, but just one little additional patch
is reported in the Antarctic seas in s. deg.
of latitude 1t is too cold and unfre-
quented a region to be OF any use TO the
land-grabbing powers of Europe and can
only be of possible utility TO the whalerS.
The seals of the South Seas are apparently
now so numerous that the quest is profta-
bic for skins. and if the Berng Sea supply
should unfortunately be exhausted by the
peagic pirate ladies may still hope to be
adorned with furs.
1t is said that there are more than
100000 bachelors in the United States
1t does not follow that they will adhere to
to the single condition, but they have
passed 80 years of age and ought not to
delay too long Mr.. Cleveland is believed
to mediate direct taxation. Instead OF in
come tax. which is unpopular, he might
try the popularity of a tax on bachelors.
1t would not be novelty in fiscal dreams,
but it would be a novelty if it succeeded.