The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
The news is festal.

The news is festal.
The fiestas illustrate the State.
The shock of the tragedy is over, but the
trial is yet to come.
Don't forget to look for California goods
on your shopping trips.
Sound money means both silver aud
gold, and the people know it.
Having no boom to bloom this year
California is booming her blooms.
By next year San Francisco should be
ready to have grand carnival OF her own.
A good celebration OF the newly awak-
eued harmony in the State is itself har-
mony.
Read all about the beautiful festas and
relieve your mind from the strain of the
tragedies.
1t may as well be conceded that we never
had better things in spring bonnets than
at present.
Wailing voices come from all parts OF the
East complaining that the price OF spring
flowers is too high.
Eastern readers will please take notice
that single department of California
fiesta is equal to forty picnics.
The great trouble with knavery of all
kinds is that it overestimates its ability
both to deceive and to corrupt.
Philadelphia newsboys have devised a
new phrase to describe q stingy customer
they call him "a bloke with slim gilt
SOUL"
The publication of such terrible tragedies
as the Lamont-Williams affair is more a
warning to mothers than to the officers of
the law.
Senator Stewart has promptly called
Growers hand on the sound money propo-
sition, but it isn't likely the fat prophet
will show down.
All kinds OF improvement are needed in
San Francisco, and there is no intelligent
citizen who cannot find some work Of the
sort that will be congeniai to him.
This is the season when the optimist
rejoices in the coming of the strawberry
and the pessimist complains OF the ap-
preaching retirement of the oyster
1t is so pleasant to read that rich or
titled persons always 'wed and that only
poor people marry, and the divorce court
records show that there is really gr eat
difference.
1t would seem that Los Angeles ought to
be sufficiently intoxicated with her deli
cious climate without seeming to welcome
a distillery that is to be set up by Eastern
capitalists.
The citizen who is negligent OF the ex-
ternal appearance OF the City should deem
himself responsible to certain extent for
the presence of any moral turpitude that
may appear.
We would be glad to have Mr.. Cleveland
give US the name of the party that advo-
Gates silver ACCOMPLISHMENTS neces-
sarily for publication, but as a guarantee
of good faith.
AS an aluminium cannon, made by a
Canadian mechanic, is said to weigh only
10 pounds, while an iron one Of equal size
weighs $50, the invention may be safely
classed as a big improvement in light
artillery.
The male resident of Sonoma County
who would not cheerfully resort to bribery
in the election that is to determine which
of the pretty girl candidates shall be queen
of the carnival may be a good citizen, but
no girl will break her heart for him.
If the streets of San Francisco should
appear to be lacking in something bright
during the next few days, it might be re-
fiected that the Hall Million Club excur-
sion to Los Angeles was expected to carry
southwark many Of the most enterprising
citizens.
In drafting its new constitution Utah
makes the sad confession contained in the
constitution of California-that county
and municipal governing bodies cannot be
trusted with authority to issue bonds
in ala of telegraph and transportation
enterprises.
If the population of Sonoma County
might be judged by the vote that is being
cast for the queen of the Santa Rosa car
nival, either the fair contestants are so
pretty as to make many men disloyal to
favorite beauty. or there has been an
enormous recent accession of settlers.
At a recent meeting of the Gardeners
and Florists Club in Boston it was stated
the flower business in that city had shown
no falling off during the past two years,
Notwithstanding the depression in all
other industries, and the fact may be cited
as an evidence that Boston is prepared to
sacrifice everything rather than the beauti-
full.
Every year comes the threat that if there
are not good rains in April and May there
will be a short crop of grain, and the
humor of it is apparent when it is re-
fected, first, that irrigation would reduce
the problem to certainty, and second, |
that grain-growing in California is gener-
ally not profitable, and that fruit-grow-
ing is.
The Iooseness with which county author
tiles guard the custody of important papers