Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-07-17

supper, lOr san francisco Is CITY OF
epicures. Instead of dividing the
day as did Doctor Johnson, or as the
knights of Labor would do, by de-
voting eight hours to work, eight to
sleep and eight to play, their theory
and practice is to spend at least a
third of the day at the table. At the
hotel we had breakfast at seven, lunch
at twelve, dinner at six and supper
at nine o'clock, and a generous bill of
fare at each meal. fine restaurants
abound, were one can get anything
that fastidious palate could demand,
and at reasonable rates. The waiter
asks you if you will have coffee, tea
or wine to drink, the latter being con-
sidered as essential to a well ordered
table as baked beans to a Bostonian.
The next day it rained all day long,
and if l had kept a diary, the same
entry that Mark Twain made one day
in his might have been made-"Got
up, washed and went to bed" TWAS
an unfortunate time to see the city,
for it was their rainy season, and we
had only two bright days during the
seven days l was there. On one Of
these, it being a beautiful Sunday af-
ternoon, l took a cable car and went
out to Golden Gate Park, verdant
spot that was once sterile sandbank,
but by planting bushes and kind of
grass, they accumulated a soil that
now supports the most luxurious
vegetation. Trees, shrubbery, and
all kinds of flowers have been planted
and are doing well. A great many
people from..the city were out, loung-
ing in the shade and diverting them
selves in varions ways. With many
many others, l was disappointed in
not hearing the Second Regiment
band, which played there every Sun
day afternoon when / was not there.
/ boarded dummy" train here and
had a pleasant ride of ten minutes
out to the Cliff House at Golden Gate,
passing by some of the sand wastes
that were being reclaimed in the
same way the park had been. AT
the Cliff we were welcomed by the
omnipresent peanut vendors, dime
museum agents and men with trained
canaries. The Cliff House sets on a
high cliff overlooking the sea, and is
a place where everybody goes on
Sunday to drink beer or something
stronger, take in copious drafts OF
the invigorating salt atmosphere and
watch the seals which sun themselves
undisturbed on the rocks, while per.
haps some of the ladies look covet-
ously on their glossy skins with
doubts as to what material their neXt
winters wraps will be, and quote
Pope to the effect that "what warns
a monarch warmed bear" Higher
up on the hill were the magnificen
grounds and residence of Sutro, thu
millionaire, who, with typical Cali
fornian courtesy, throws wide opel
his gates and allows the public t.
wander at will through the premises
and go up in his observatory anC
view the Pacific, the bay and Colder
Gate and the vessels of all cline
going in and out through this marrow
rock-bound gateway to one Of tn
finest harbors in the world. Return
ing to the park, l took another lin
Of cable to the city. Here cable road
have almost entirely supplanted tn
old reliable horse railway, and a NOR
comfortable and satisfactory mode c
travel has never yet been found.
I spent one rainey morning at tn
u. S. mint and the State Bureau c
| Mines. At the former / saw hoy
Uncle Sam makes his gold coin, in a
its processes, from the gold nugget
| the room where it is stamped an
, weighed and finally the bank wher
t it is safely slowed away in vaults
ready to be shipped, at the order {
| the U. S. Treasurer, to needy lawyer
} and editors of country newspaper
, In this banking room was a score {
: clerks at their books making RECORD
9 of the doings and affairs of the inst
4 tuition, upon whose heads we locke
9 from a balcony made for sight-seel
s whose curiosity must be humorec
a In the ante-room was quite an extel
e sive collection of rare coins of all ag'
t and countries; among which WEI
: two beautifully engraved teaspoon
d (the design being vine for the hal
4 die and leaf for the bowD which Il
e placard attached asserted to hay
n been taken from Solomon's Temp
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