The morning call., 1894-01-14

wisdom the Judges asked the board 10
authorize the District Attorney TO nOmi-
nate some one specially to inquire into the
nature of sureties. This was creating
new Office with salary attached 10 do work
already iRtrusted to the District Attorney,
and there was no guarantee that under the
new arrangement the duties would be any
better performed. But all speculation on
the subject is set at rest by the opDortune
discovery OF the Judiciary Committee that
they have not the smallest power to accede
to the request. The board has no legal
authority to act. SO the Judges will have
TO rub their spectacles and look into The
law.
To small extent Lo Bengula. the Mate
belle King, is able to say tit for tat to the
British forces which have ousted him
from his kraals and made him fugitive.
The decisive battles OF the campaign were
more in the nature of massacres than en-
counters between fairly matched forces.
In one slaughter about 5000 Matabele war
riors fell and only two or three of the
white men. But Lo Bengula has at last
had an opportunity to return a blow. A
small party of troopers, led by Captain
Wilson, was ambushed, owing to neglect
OF precautions and too much confidence
and not man has escaped. Whlle car
fridge was left, or there was strength TO
flash sword, the troopers fought, but IN
the end they were speared and killed. Ihe
war is over, hut this is very bad incident
for Premier Rhodes. After the Matebeles
are broken, there are no very powerful
tribes in the region that form menace
to\ the white mans conquest. The road
from Bulowayo is much safer than the
pony express route in early California
times.
Professor Huxley takes the public into
confidence on bis early life and career IN
the collected essays he is now issuing. 1t
is a most interesting fact that Toronto
University had a chance of having both
Huxley and Tyndall among its professors,
and for some reason neglected this op-
pOrtunity of adding to its fame. Huxley
is an illustration of the scientist, great in
his broad walk, who never had college
nor university training. He had only the
benefit of a school at Ealing, where his
father was teacher. Now. att summit
of his life's work. he regrets not possessing
that mellitiuouS elUQuence Whlch Id Eng
land "leads far more surely than worth,
capacity or honest work to the highest
places in church and state. The world
has gained and not lost from this supposed
defect. No one in our time mas used the
English language more clearly, tersely and
precisely than the doughty professor. lie
also grieves that all his life he has been
species Of misfit In science. what he
wanted to be was an investigator IN pnys-
iology. But hard fate drove him into the
practice of medicine on a war-vessel, and
then into professOrship OF paleontology
and zoology in the Jermyn-ssreet school
of Mines, and this he held over thirty
years. His hearts desire, chair in
physiology, never came to him, but he sue
ceeded in rising TO the highest emlnence in
hra1 1nho hlH Al No
The StanhOpe who died the other day
had no blood relationship 30 William
Pitt. Earl Stanhope, who married the
Earl of Chatham's daughter and was the
father OF Pitts niece. Lady Hester Stan
hope, married a second time. and the STAN
hope who has just died traced descent
from this union. A curious thing about
Lady Hester was discovered some years
ago. A Syrian who had attended her at
her death possessed miniature which
was found on her breast. The portrait
was recognized as that of Sir John Moore,
the hero of Corunna. Lady Hester led
strange life among the Arabs. living like
one of them when in the desert with the
Sheikh she married. Another distinguished
English woman, the Hon. Jane Digby, who
obtained a divorce from Lord Elenbnr-
Ough, passed the last years of her life in
Palestine with the Bedouins. THIS lady
could speak nine languages fuently, and
was otherwise gifted. Half the year she
passed in the cities in semi European
state and the other half in the desert, per-
forming down to the miDutest requirement
all the duties of an Arabs wife. such as
milking the camels, attending 10 the
horses, waiting upon her lord at his meals
in his tent, and even washing his feet.
She evidently took a pride in humility.
Sir Richard Burton and his wife met her
frequently while at Damascus.
The telegraph was very prompt with
news from Rio yesterday that battle had
been fought. Judging from the fact that
De Mello is reported to have been de-
feated and compelled to back into safe
waters. the news comes from Peixoto's
side, and Is liable to qualification should
De Mello get hold of the cable to-day.
The end of the war is reported near, but
much the same thing was said months
ago. There has been an immense amount
of misery in the country among DOn-com-
batants, yet the actual fighting has not
been remarkable, considering the modern
weapons, ships and torpedo-boats both
sides possess
The income-tax proposal is rather Bit
ter pill to swallow. This is evidenced by
the separation of the provision from the
rest of the Wilson bill and its formation
into a separate measure. which may be de-
bated ON its merits. In whatever shape
such an impost is carried IL is certain to
stir up much enmity and hard feeling.
Those who pay the tax will growl, and
thousands who are excused will he sub
iected to the grievance OF investigation.
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
P A. Borne, an Intimate friend of ''Bat"