The morning call., 1894-01-17

Another advance is noted in the use of
electricity as a motive power. The Pail
Mall Gazette, owned by William Astor. is
now printed by machinery driven by cleo
tricity. PERHAPS it Is not so economical as
steam-power where coal is cheap, but there
may be some other advantages in the utili-
zation Of electric power to render it of SER
vice to an evening paper which publishes
three or four editions. There are yet very
great advances TO be made il the introduc-
tlon OF electric machinery, and the next
few years will witness some startling
changes in methods Of manufacturing. 1t
is still question whether transmitted
electric power Is as economical as power
derived from fuel and steam, but the expe-
rience which is to guide engineers will
soon be obtained on a sufficient scale both
in this State and in New York and MANY
other regions where the forces of nature
are available. The Niagara experiment
ought not to fail. If it succeeds there are
possibilities OF vast extensions.
Fox-hunting in California is not an i'm
possibility, provided the hounds are I'M
ported aud a pack trained. Those who
undertake to lead the sport will find it
somewhat expensive, but certain charges
that cannot be avoided in England NAV
not be entailed here. Very little damage
would be done to fences or growing crops.
and farmers might not exact compensation
Perhaps the fences would do more damage
to the horses than the horses to them, and
there would often be mishaps with barbed
wire. Earth stopping would be an Item
saved and the dogs would not cost much
to feed. The huntsman and two whippers-
IN would require to be paid and boarded
and the NJ. I. Ii. could be elected annually
by subscribers, unless he preferred 20 sus-
tain the pack himself for the sake of sport
and the honor. Sonoma and Napa conn
ties would afford good runs for the hunt.
One OF the troubles with imported hounds
would arise from the strange scent perpet-
Cally encountered. They would hardly
keep true TO the particular fox selected
and faults would be perpetual. But fox
hunting succeeds. iD France and Spain.
Why not in California?
Robert Boyle, the philosopher of the
seventeenth century. once used West
minister Abbey for an experiment to prove
that the volume of air varies according tn
the alteration of height lie lowered a
glass vessel from the roof and had the diff
ference ascertained between the yolume
a boye and below. Professor DewaI of the
Royal Institution has re peated this simnle
experiment before an audience of children
No one else is supposed to have tried it
dlttl DOgip IL WAS SHOWN Inat
change of position no more than two or
three feet suffices TO show difference in
the height of liquids in tubes acted on by
air. 1t is pity that some of our local pro-
fessors of physics 90 not arrange a series
Of lectures for the young on just such SUBJ
jects as water. air or light. With good ex
periments such lectures would be worth a
Ton If textbooks IN storing the mind with
sound knowledge of nature and its forces.
Telegraph Hill has been irredeemablv
disigured by the slow process of carrying
it away for ballast, and nature is Joining
In the work OF demolition. A huge mass
of rock was dislodged yesterday morning,
either from the rains or too free blasting
at the base, and came bounding down a. a
frightfuI speed. A house was wrecked
and the inmates narrowly escaped with
th cir lives. An inspection of this historic
hill is desirable to see what can be done to
preserve what remains and render it safe
for the dwellers on top as we'll as at the
base. On the western slope there are still
some good residence sites, but how pic
turesqne the hill might have been had il
been let al0nel
An excursion party from Cleveland,
Ohio, is announced as on Its way to the