The Placer herald., 1870-08-13
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
SAN FnANcrsco, August 10, 1870.
WAR MAPS

WAR MAPS.
There is nothing like moistening the earth
with the blood of a few fighting thousands to
make place famous. A week ago Saar-
lains, Saarbrucken and Hagenan were unknown
to the ordinary geographical mind and seemed
almost unpronouneeable, except by Teutonic
tongue, but now they are as familiar in our
mouths as household words, and we talk about
them as if they were old acquaintance. 1t must
be rather notifying to the map-makers that the
opposing Generals won't fight their battles neal
any of the localities printed in big letters, but
IS good for the lithographer, rs it necessitates
new map every few days The supply is quite
equal to the demand. Two day is the average
for the past week, and the cry is still they come.
Every fourth store on Montgomery street has the
seat of war i'll its window, and no two Of then
bear the least resemblance to each other or agree
IN any particular except that they are equally
non-understandable. An uncolored Seat OF Wan
is sufficient to attract a crowd, but when green
France is separated from pink Prussia bv q
yellow boundary line the effect is irresistible 9,d
happy is the man who can get near er ouyh TO
peer and ponder
Payd & Co., on Washington stre.,+ bove n bio
fellow in their wndow-ten fee. by ten-witl
movable armies of red ard b.ue pins, and thu
NTonc'e furnishes free Geography for the mil
lon py means OF richly tinted drawing attach
ed to its bullet. IN board
PINT SHOP POPULARITY.
print shop window is an excellent thermon-
eter of popularity, for the moment your hero gets
a little STALE he is cast on one side for new
novelty. To Judge by this criterion one would
say that King William was in great favor, as fly
speckled portraits of the Prussan Monarch have
completely displaced Grants physognomy, and
grim looking little Won Bismarck, resurrected
from the tombs of unstable walls, have put Sher-
!dan S and Sherman's noses quite out OF JOINT.
Napoleons are in no demand. Kearny street
has one and an establishment on Sansome street
another, a picture of young woman in her night
dress flying through the air with baby in hel
arms having been temporarily withdrawn from
the public gaze, in the latter instance, in order
to make room for the Nephew of his Uncle.
THE NEWS RECEIVED.
Who says that the Germans are phegmatic,
uuexctable race? On Sunday night when the
result of the great battles was made known, they
behaved more like madmen than staid solemn
ia9er drinking Dutchman. They surrounded the
Aia Office and fairly compelled that paper to
publish an Extra; and at the California Theater,
when a German play was in progress, the enthu-
sasm varied from the sublime to the ridiculous
rending itself in yells, shouting, embracing anc
tears. The beer saloons were open all nigh
With free lager for the palate thirsty, and anoth
+ victory will certainly raise the price of th
foaming beverage. The French are gloomy and
reticent, and feel the disaster to their arms very
keenly. Americans here sympathize wholly with
The Prussans and are much elated at the Ger
man victories as if this country actively in
terested
THE LOTTERY.
Although no official announcement has beer
made of the postponement of the lottery ther,
is now no 1oubt that If will he carried over fo,