The morning call., 1894-02-08

tries which can ship by sea-
Toynbee Hall, to which Miss Jane
Adams of Chicago alluded in her address
at Berkeley. Is peculiar institution, do
ing admirable work in Door part of Lon
don, and Frightening the lives of large
numbers OF people, who, before it was
founded, were cut off from sympathy or
association with the educated and refined.
The hall was the fruItion of project
framed by members of Cambridge and
Oxford universities ito provide education
and the means of recreation and enjoy
ment for the people of the poorer districts
of London and other cities; to inquire into
the condition of the poor. and to consider
and discuss plans calculated to promote
their welfare" The scheme drew together
plumbers of very earnest workers who give
their time and means, and IN return are re-
warded by the tangible eievating results
which accrue. The education reaches
grownup people whose training was neg
lected in youth. and it is delightful to see
the interest taken in the work. Several
offshoots have sprung up with resident
students and workers. Toynbee Hall sent
a mum Der of workmen at very low rates to
Chicago during the fair. Il also encour-
ages all sorts of excursions tc picturesque
places or to cities in Europe. and the mar
vel Is how 1t Can arrange to let workmen
see so much Of the world at very little cost.
The craze of trying to discover what is
an impossiblity, perpetual motion. con-
tinues to warp the lives Of deluded victims
in spite of all the sound demonstrations
of the scientific that it is but waste of
time, and labor to twist ropes out of
sand. 1t is not even certain that there is
perpetual motion In the great bodies
whirling onward in their courses in space.
for by interaction the motion of one body
may be arrested by others Thus the
moon has come to almost a standstill in
rota ton on Its axis. but astronomers de-
duce from physics and The rotation of
vlscous bodies that there was time when
our satellite revolved at very lively rate,
and they calculate that some day it will.
by the operation of exterior forces. re-
eminent discovery of the mechanical
equivalent of heat should long ago have
terminated all foolish experiments to
solve perpetuity of motion. A poor Ger
| man mechanic In New York has paid the
pc naltv of too much devotion 10 the prob
lem. He has hanged him self on the beams
which were intended to make, his fortune
by keeping weights in action and storing
up electricity. But his fate will not deter
others from useless toll.
The celebration of Hawaiian independ-
ence passed off with much more eclat on
the 18th ult. than might have been ex-
pected The foreign ships in the harbor
did not salute, and they we're not dressed
with bunting, but the thousands who sup
port President Dole did not fail 10 demon
strate, and the speeches on the occasion
were both temperate and dignifed. Mr..
Willis feeling cannot have been very good
natured. lie was neither in position to
Eless nor curse He did OF honor the day
and he could not interfere, so he looked on
behind the blinds.
Should the Mercantile Library be fortu-
nate to secure the services of ex-President
Harrison for lecture on international
law. or any subject, the engagement would
prove a trump card in securing grand
attendance, and the Golfers OF the institu-
ton would benefit materially. Lectures
are often capricious magnets in San Fran
cisco IL success depends entirely on the
subject, but when the distinction OF
great name is added the attraction is ire
| sistible. 1t is sincerely 10 be hoped that
Mr.. Harrison may waive his scruples
| about appearing before an audience out
side of the Palo A Ito university.
The Berlin papers are supposed to be
very mealy mOuthed when they cannot
reproduce the Emperor's language on
account of its being too strong. II is SIM
ply the fact that they are not allowed to
get the news. They are handled with
very stiff bride IN what they are allowed
to state, for a strong Government. such as
has always existed in Germany since the
army was behind the crown, means the
assertion of much arbitrary authority.
Ii the Emreror did say that war wiz
Russia wo Md result In three months II the
commercial treaty was not ratified, 1T
shows how very slender is the tie of affec-
ton between these great European pow
ers. 1t is a shopkeeper's argument
The Chicago packers have received a
blow from a decision Of the French Gov
eminent that henceforth only French
canned meats are to be used in the army.
| This is not the way to reform. As NJ.
Clemenceau has pointed out. the stores in
the navy and probably also in the army are
| grossly misnaDaged, and there is more
need Of seeing that the right quantities are