The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-15

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WEDNESDAY. ..................-...MA 10, 1880
Street improvement must not be made
to wait forever.
Prospects are never bright for those who
have clouded eyes.
Even debt on the streets would be bet
ter than cobblestones.
We may have feeling for Cuba, but we
are not reaching for it.
1t would not be very hard job to i'm
prove on the street-paving.
For those who keep out of crooked paths
the world is straight enough.
Talk of enterprise may be nothing but
wind, but it will turn somebody's mill.
New York will evidently have to do all
her reforming over again ON another basis.
It is an easy prediction that during the
coming decade Sacramento Valley will rise
rapidly.
San Francisco should set an example to
the State in street work as well as in rail-
road building.
Princeton beat Yale in debate, but when
it came to an athletic contest with Berke-
ley her wind gave out.
Since Mrs. Lease has exhibited her pos
session of the power of hypnotism, there is
a wild demand for her to try it on Grover.
Even the silurians ought to understand
that when the cobblestones are removed
from the streets they will have quieter
time.
The political reformer thinks he has a
soft snap when he enters into non-partisan
com inations, but they generally turn out
to be quagmires.
Japan will have a sweet revenge in de-
handing a right to have a voice in the set
Element of the terms Of peace after the
next European war.
The announcement that Cleveland has
nine different lives OF Andrew Jackson is
calculated to weaken the popular belief in
the influence of books.
In disciplining Admiral Meade the Cleve-
land administration will have the IN
pleasant task of proving his insubordina-
ton by his patriotism.
Ysaye has fiddled his way into the hearts
of the people here, but his bow is graceful
or otherwise, according to the way in
which we pronounce it.
The sincerest expression of sympathy
which California can show to the FROST
tri,ken fruit regions of the East is to sell
to them better fruit than they have lost.
The use of bicycles has become so COM
mon in New York that the builders of new
lighthouses are arranging to furnish each
fat with storage-room for the family
wheels.
Those who enjoyed Dean Holes humor
during his visit to this country will appre-
ciate his recent remark, II was glad to
note that athletics are not neglected in
American colleges"
Some of the big Eastern papers are hav-
ing lively dispute as to whether it is the
more correct to say ''up to date" or down
to date,' and until they cease agitating the
question it is safest to say Sin de steele"
The information that the Indians of
New Mexico are about to "rise'' does not
add that they will rise sufficiently high to
serve as targets for army rifles and as elo-
quent protests against pilfering by Indian
agents.
The reduction of gas rates for lighting
purposes and the promise of still greater
reduction for gas used in machinery is
another of those torches which are coming
fast to light the way of San Franchises
progress.
The President g assurance to Mr.. Ricketts,
that the mineral lands in the railroad
grant will receive attention might be IN
comfortable news for the Federal Land
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