The morning call., 1894-03-12

There is nothing in the nature of a
bombshell in the pamphlet advocating
Canadian independence issued by Joseph
Royal, formerly Lieutenant-G Governor of
the Northwestern Provinces. Canadian
independence has been 10 the air for
years, and IL the Canadians really want it,
and show their feelings unmisfakab bly,.
nobody but sentimentalists and dreamers
in England would stand in the way. The
English people are just as well aware as
the Canadians that Canada is in no special
sense of service TO the mother country
which, as it appens, is French as well as
English. Perhaps III consequences of
emancipation Canada wonid la ke a bound
forward in commerce. 1t certainly would
il allied with the United States. But Mr..
Royal admits that as far as internal
administration ministers to well being.
Canada already enjoys full freedom. Ali
he thinks would be necessary at the ont
set is to elect a Governor-GeneraI in
stead of having one appointed by the
British Government. Canada sounds big
as possession of the British crown, but
so far as tariffs go it is no closer friend
than Africa. and England. as far as her
commerce goes, is just as dear to Africa.
because she will hot give preferences to
any of her colonies over foreign countries.
believing that such policy would be pit
ing her own nose off.
Very likely the report that Jack the
Slasher of Washington has been captured
will not prove true. This is the individual
who had the queer taste of going from
house to house among the wealthy and cut
ting up with knife all the richly uphol-
stored furniture, carpets. curtains and pic
lures, occasionally smashing a gem of
pottery by way of interlude. A more pro-
v0king eccentEicity i'm lunacy could
scar cely he imagined, especially as his OBJ
ject was not theft. The man in Gust, dy is
negro. who is hardly the sort of person
to have mania of that description. A CO.
incident rumor is also on its ROUNDS that
the more celebrated Jack the Ripper, who
murdered eight or nine women in London
in manner almost unheard Of is luna
tic under confinement at Broadmoor
Asylum. There Is every probability that
Jack the Ripper is maniac of the recui-
reEt type, but the authorities know MOTH
ing about him being at Broadmoor or any,
where. Some day he may come o light,
but the clew 10 his identity was never found
He and Deming capnot be one and the
same, but they were net unlike in charac-
terisiics.
The London Chronicle asks Professor
Garner why he does not come to his lee
lures arm-in-arm with gorilla. missy or
mister, it does not matter which. The
professor has been lecturing on his African
experience IN learning monkey lingo and
he does not seem to have got any deeper
into similar or anthropoid glossology than
TO convince himself that they do talk and
understand good deal from one another's
sounds. But every one had a suspicion OF
this before. Canaries, pigeons, fowls.
pigs. cattle and dogs all have language
comprehensions. each in its own specie ).
ana mao may initiate many of these
sounds aud perhaps deceive so as 10 evoke
responses. Garner is said TO have fur
nshrd no proof that he ever saw gorilla.
He says he lived in the forest within a
steel-bar cage with a looking-glass, pho
nograph and chimpanzee, and he looks
back upon the happy time with a