The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-23

title outside of cOvetonsness and sym.
pathy. Ali these mixed natlonallties Oh
the southeastern corner of Europe wlii yer
give lot OF perplexiiy to the powers puI
1urEey cannot keep control. ana tDe
struggle among tie fittest for influence, II
not possession, never slumbers Inc ar
rival OF that reprobate Milan ID Beigrades
is likely 10 cause a ferment OF STRIFE. II
the son cannot govern without such
Iather he is hopeless and helpless.
The Australians make much OF the carl
caturist Hop" who has distinguished
himself in political and social cartoons
and little clever sketches. He is crediteu
with being the founder of school OF carl
caturists as able and original as any VINO
are known to fame in Europe or America.
Mr.. Livingstone Hopkins is American. lie
was born in Ohio. and although early
showing artistic gifts had to slave away at
commercial pursuits as a young man. de
served In the Federal army under GeneTal
Grant, and then had more commerce ior
a livelihood. From practiclDg sketchlng
ne drlfted into making illustrations LOT
HarperS and Frank Leslie, and eventually
9ld m9cn n, work for ScrS0ner s, OF NtcHo,
tdS and The Century. Ten years ago ne
was engaged TO JOIN the staff OF the Baue-
TN in Sydney, and there his drawings:
which show spirit and humOr ana prompt
appreciation of incident, have MADE MN
decidedly popular. Australia Is trine
SLOW Tor this genius. and the law OF IIpei
Restraints his flights of Imagination, Dut ne
has climbed high notwithstanding.
A Russian mathematician named Usher
kotf is said TO have perfected lying
machine which has been pronounced
trustworthy by the Russian Technical So
clety. Details of the invention are not
furnished. but as the Slavs are the coming
race in Europe successful flight may be a
good way OF proving it. Hiram MaXlm,s
aerial engine has not yet been patented,
but that the problem of flight is not be-
yond solution is attested by this very
practical inventor giving so much time TO
the matter Tsherkoff has been thirty
years plodding over his idea. and he can
have little time to lose If he wants TO
crown his old age with glory. One thing
will stand in the way Of travel by aerial
machines. If anything goes wrong with
the mechanism not moment could De
spared for repairs. There would be no
suspension of the law OF gravitation to
enable loose pnion TO be screwed up
tight.
Agents of the Government are said to
have discovered wholesale frauds in the
appropriation and cutting of walnut TIM
Der belonging to the Government in Okla
homa Territory. 1t is the old story. Rich
capitalists have employed day laborers to
perpetrate the destruction and robbery,
and in the ordinary course of things they
will shuttle out of responsibility and
the equity of restitution, and look SNUG,
respecta bic and patriotic as before. They
would resent the libelous insOlence of any
one stigmatiZing them as thieves, but that
Is the true character of the spectators
who cut down Government timber, and in
addition they infct vast harm upon regions
that need the forests to temper the climate.
Ofenses Of this character are regarded
much too lightly. They merit term in
the penltentiary.
The new cruiser Montgomery is not the
swiftest of the new fleet, yet her speed of
fully nineteen and half knots per hour
gives her high rank in the navies of the
world. Success In our shpbuilding de-
ponds not little upon the system of
awarding premiums. A shiDbuilder has
then the incentive TO do his best, because
without first-class workmanship. when the
tests are through. he can earn nothing be-
yOnd his contract and may have deduc-
lions made if his failure is marked. In
other navies there have been many failures
through scamped workmanship.
The divine Sarah needs a divinity to
hedge her when she keeps aiDah omeyan
body servant. She dearly loves the fan
tastic and the sensational, making COM
panions of tigers. finding solace in snakes
and gloatiDg over a bombardment as over
pyrotechnic mimicry. Her fad of keeping
a Dahomeyan to minister TO her wants has
nearly robbed her of life. There may be
fidelity In such a personal attendant but
very little intelligence, and If the BERN
hardt must be peculiar she had better get
hold of an East Indian, who will always
say pleasant things and act discreetly al
though very malignant in heart.
The consumption of opium in all its
forms is growing propensity. against the
indulgence of which all regulations of
drugstores seem powerless 1t would al
most be blessing if opium. morphine and
laudanum, or any other form of the drug,
were $50 an ounce. From being taken as
medicine it becomes a necessity of de-
PRAYED appetite, and then it wrecks lives
beyond reformation, the victims being un-
reliable for any steady purpose of life.
Howard, the lawyer. who has just died
from aSpbyXiation of gas, was in the habit,
it is said, Of swallowing 100 drops OF lauGa-
mum at time. What a saturation his body
must have bad TO endure that quantity.
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