The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-30

all declared that their dirty linen was
purlhed in the Seine and Knew not
lnames water A city which actually re.
Jolces In an annual festive parade OF
washerwomen has thus saved It's reputa-
ton. But a similar inquiry in London led
to the astounding result OF finding that
numbers of Englishmen of means do
actually send their dirty linen across Inc
channel to be washed and Hundred oy
the French. These must be fastldious
people, but their preference is good testi-
mony to the superiority of France IN some
things. Where do gilded Gothamites get
tnelr washing doneP
The position of affairs in Italy is de-
scrlbed by correspondent of the Daily
telegraph as intensely gloomy. He hints
at bankruptcy as probable unless there be
retrenchment in army and navy expendi-
ture and reduction of the useless ranks
OF the bureaucrats who simply swarm in
what Is after all poor country. While
securities of all sorts are trembling ana
fancy prices are paid for gold and silver
tne very army and navy, for which so
many sacrifices are made, are pronounced
"a mockery. a deluslOn and snare.
trade and Industry are at the lowest eOo,
and the agricultural class, comprising the
great bulk of The population. is plunged In
depths of misery unknown, 1t is said, any
where in England. 1t is pulling In the
extreme to provide fresh income from the
tariff taxes, and the receipts from direct
taxes are less than they were twenty years
ago. Reforms are possible yet II Italy
could associate herself from the Triple
Alliance, and at the same time not commit
herself to the fortunes of France, but re-
main neutral. Evidently it is crisis.
The last of the famous Vokes family is
dead. 1t was talented. and for many
years very successful on the stage. When
they played as a family in their own
selections they were happy themselves,
and their audiences delighted. Fred
Vokes was quite a good pen and ink
artist as well as actor. Occasionally he
contributed to Punch, and one little
sketch of his hangs in the Bohemian Club
of San Francisco. which he presented
during a visit in the '70's. One of the
girls had a stage laugh so perfectly
natural that it was highly contagi Gus, and
drew the audience into laughter irresiS-
ubly. That power at will of initiating
laughter was worth fortune 10 her. pro-
vided the jokes were sufficient to explain
her merriment.
What the burglars meant who have
sullied the sanctity of the American lega-
ton Offices at Rome it is difficult TO
imagine. They do not seem to have got
any money, and possibly expected none,
but they displayed an amount of reckless
ness and malice truly exasperating. They
smashed George WashingtOn's bust as if
it had been hat of DR.. Cogswell, rum
mayed through drawers, destroyed papers.
and made a bonfire of the library. All of
which is very reprehensible, but why was
it done? Has the burglar become
anarchist also?
Agrculturist. in the United States re-
call the New York Mills sale of pedigree
shorthorns, at which the Earl of Beehive
gave $4,000 for one cow. the Tenth
Duchess of Geneva. The Earl also paid
S14,34O for her yearling heifer and S6372
for the Ninth Duchess of Oneida. These
prices showed that the New World had
succeeded IN raising better shorthorns
than England, where the breed originated.
his lordship made money out of the herd
he established at Underley Hall. Last
year 1t was stated that five public sales
and four private sales yielded S3l5, 900. and
the herd still flourishes. although the
Earl, who was so fond of his duchesses, Is
gone. But the great prices of those years
are no longer Obtainable. The highest
price recorded last wear was for bull
belonging TO Queen Victoria. 1t sold for
$3.50.
Eastern visitors are making a study Of
California weather. They had yesterday
an opportunity 10 note one popularity.
When fog comes, or a driZzle, or fire.
quently when there is a heavy downpour
of rain, the worst of it comes at night.
Soon after sunrise the mist rises and the
clouds sever and out comes the sun, strong
and warm. 1t Is not one continuous gloom
or misery, as is often the rule in the East.
where there is real winter. full of
severity.
The newspaper men who have come from
the East and West for the Midwinter Fair
have had tour through Chinatown. 1t is
20 be hoped they will repeatedly inspect
the quarter until they become familiar
with it. Then they can write about it
well primed with knowledge from Obser-
walton, ana enlighten the readers of their
papers on the actual situation and the pc
culiarities of Chinese civilization, A
Frenchman has said that we can bear with
resignation and equanimity the miseries
of others. The East has this sort of pa
thence with the Chinese, and is fond of
lecturing San Francisco and the State on
the virtues Of forbearance. 1t knows Chi
natown at a distance.
The Prince Esterhazy, who has Just died,
was a Hungarian of the class that society
loves to picture as noble, cultivated and
lOfty-minded. he had enormous wealth
and used it generously. He could not af-
ford to be disagreeable. But it is absurd
10 picture him as a typical Hungarian.
The race has Turanian blood in it and has
some kinshlp with the Turk. When Kos
suth went to Constantinople and received
protection he had some claim TO say that
blood was thicker than water. Many of
the excellences attributed to Hungarians
are shared to a great extent by the other
races in Hungary.