The morning call., 1892-02-20
The Postmaster.

postmaster BackuS eHOrtS 10 uOWn the
10 ttery advertisements are of that earnest
ness that can only spring from the work
being a labor of lOve-a fad, in fact
Deputy Surveyor VaTney Gaskil and
Colonel Andrews have the blazing brill
liant fad in an aggravated form.
United States Marshal Long Is never so
happy as when he has foisted a Manila
cigar Of extra strength on a call0w youth
with 4 sensitive stomach.
Police Captain Short, although In his
eighty fifth year, takes his dumb bell eXer-
erciSe regularly, and while he is not looking
for fight is ready to take fall out of pre-
tuning youth.
Attorney A. J. Leggett is a confirmed
bicyc!iSt, and owing TO his love for early
morning spins has grown expert in lodging
the wheels and maledctionS of the milkmen.
Deputy Sheriff Barry is the ''Bijah" of
Judge COtfey's court. His Honor frequently
appeals t. Mr. Barry for his opinion Of the
soundneSS Of a ruling, and 1t Is not of rec
ord that the bailiff has ever differed with
the bench.
Matt Brady, the Chicago lawyer. who is
defending Sidney Bell, looks like General
Master Workman Powderly. He smokes
good cigars and is fond OF quoting Latin.
Oregon Sanders, Deputy Attorney Gen
eral Of California. is addicted to reading
poetry, and has on more occasions than
one been detected in writing verses.
W. j. b. Mackay, President of the Fed
tlUIEu lduCSt 10 an dlAtuN 0uQ AGdAAG5S
womau-hater, but likes babies.
b. NJ. Thomas Is a kodak fiend, whose
passion for touching the button and letting
Others develop his picture is all-cOnsuming.
Paris kilburn's bette noir Is the modern
newspaper; his only hope is TO find one so
condensed that editorial comments are i'm
possible.
Next door to the police station at Ithe
PotrerO dwells a saloon keeper who is VIC
tim of the whiting fad He has succeeded
in cutting a clock frame out Of a single
piece of wood, without joint or splice, in
which there are $50 cuts.
w. G. Curtis Of the Southern Pacific is a
civil engineer by profession, but every mo-
ment of his spare time goes to the mechan-
Zeal branch of this science He loves
locomotive better than his wife. aud his
library is filed with standard works on this
subject, over which he has for years burned
considerable midnight OIL He knows more
about machinery and mechanical appliances
than any other man in the service of the
company, and if Mr. Westinghouse had not
invented the automatic air brake. Mr. Curtis
would, without doubt, have taken this glory
unto himself
Genera Superintendent j. A. Fillmore oil
tho Southern Pacific Company has fad for
collecting calendars. The walls of his pri-
vate Office are adorned with every conceiy-
able design and size and large trunk in an
adjoining room contains the result of sew
eral years of choice selections. Dir, Fill
more's taste does not run exclusively to the
illustrated article. dark colors and quiet de-
signs being his preference. In a fire sew
eral years ago he lost about 5000 calendars
which he had been accommodating from boy
hood.
Fire Commissioner Maurice Schmitt dis
Germs a great future before him as the
apostle of dlsinterestedness and the boss of
all the bosses In the Democratic party. 1t
is his special and burning ambition to dis
prove the assertion that he is tout for the
| stuff"
Attorney KOwalsky spends much Of his
| spare time in planning strategic movements
and tactical combinations to he used whom
he is made brigadier OF volunteers in the
next foreign war;
Scouchin Maloney is graphing with the
problem as to how dude is evolved from
an ordinary walking stick. His efforts are
also devoted to revenge on Stanford for
throwing him down on that foreign mis-
sion and how to "cut" Stanford on the
street with the greatest assumption of dig
nifty.
Authority on Coal.
Everybody knows that Steve Gage of
Southern Pacific fame has a pretty well de-
veloped penchant for politics; but since
Coils p. Huntington drove him from his
locomotive hobby he has become an author
| ity on coal His Office is fitted with speci-