The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-15


THE SUMMER MONTHS.
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THURSDAY AUGUST Is, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Gaining ground is only another name
for California real estate.
The Solid Eight will lose its solidity as
soon as the stufing is knocked out OF it.
No goldbug has yet been found who can
draw up definite money plank for the
platform Of political party.
Virgins has risen again to prophesy that
Niagara is going to dry up, Just as we were
hoping that he had dried up.
Boston carries debt of $4,000, 900 with
ease, but then she has well-payed streets
and no monopoly on top of her.
If Cleveland will appoint Carlisle to the
Supreme Court, he will please the country
by getting bungler out of the treasury.
When they talk of the ''hog combine in
Pennsylvania they do not mean any pork
packing corporation but the opposition to
Quay.
The next Republican National Conven-
-, - oT n hr1f
come to San Francisco and take in the
continent.
There is a story going the rounds OF the
Eastern press that horses are sold in
Wyoming for So a dozen, and not saw
horses either.
At the latest reports, Brice is the only
Democrat named as candidate for the
Presidency who has not fastened to de-
cline the risk.
The Market-stTeet Railroad Company
would be surprised to find how profitable
it would be to obey the law and shake off
the horse-leeches.
Some young women of wealth have
nearly paralyzed London by advertising
for luxurious fats in building where
there are neither men nor cats.
They are noting it in the East as a mat
ter of some importance that the leader of
the free silver men in the Democratic
State convention in Iowa is named Bolter.
The Connecticut man who has invented
a machine for making hats out of wood
owes it to the world to devise means of
talking through it without using an auger.
According to late report Berlin is al
most eaten up by usury, and in an effort
to suppress the evil the courts have been
sending usurers to jail by squads and
platoons.
The short skirts and leggings of the BIZ
cycle costume have been found so con-
venient that the girls at Eastern summer
resorts are said to have adopted them for
tennis and walking parties.
1t is said the Corbett divorce decree pro-
vides that the alimony may be reduced if
circumstances warrant, and consequently
if FItzsimmons whips the champion Ollie's
alimony will get knockdown.
A bill introduced into the Florida Legis-
lature providing for the killing of rabid
dogs was voted down because, as one of the
members explained afterward, rabbit dog
was just as good as any other dog.
Some one has been telling the New York
Tribune that Strawberries ten inches in
circumference are common in the State of
Washington, and yet that commonwealth
was named for man who couldn't lie.
The fnanciers of Philadelphia having
refused to make loan to the city at 8 per
cent the bonds were divided into small
denominations. offered to the people and a
loan of 81, 100000 was taken within week.
According to the Chicago Times Herald
the State of New York grows hops enough
to supply the entire demand of the United
States, and unless somebody quits growing
them there will never be any profit in them
to producers.
A Long Island undertaken in order to
furnish cheap funerals to his patrons has
loaded up a phonograph with funeral
sermon and hymns which he works off
preacher and singer.
After lapse OF six years, the New York
and Harlem railroad has determined to re-
sumo the running of storage battery cars
on their city lines, and this time it is be-
ieyed the storage battery will be perma-
nent and the trolley will go.
Some of the cuckoos who talk of thru
term for Cleveland are uselessly reminding
the country of the fact that when Conkling
was advocating General Grants cause at
Chicago he said that opposition to a third
term comes mainly from fellows who wish
first term.
1t appears that we are to lose the desert
OF Sahara, for according to late French
statistics the Algerian portion of the desert
supports 100000 sheep. 100000 goats,
100000 camels, and grows in the GASES
100000 date palms yielding about So, OO0,-
900 of fruit annually.
The ability of bicyclers to suggest i'm
provements in highways has been pushed
to the limitin BROOKLYN where they com