The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-06

Even Corbett'S wife has wearled OF his
oratory.
Insanity is the logical end of Oscar
Wilde's career.
The Pioneers are as ardent for progress
in '95 as they were in '49.
No man ever accuses a pretty woman of
having too long tongue.
Enterprise is argus-eyed in picking out
promising localities in California.
There is no political economy that
teaches politicians to be sparing of words.
If we could only get Europe to burst that
war cloud the future would be full of SUM-
shine.
Some people are so sensitive that they
mistake an ailing liver for an outraged con-
science.
1t is about time to notify the State that
everybody is invited to our Fourth of July
celebration.
By the time 1896 gets here there will be
general stampede to get on the platform
of bimetallism.
The talk of progressive men for any pub
lie enterprise is sooner or later emphasized
as popular demand.
The wheels of progress and industry
have begun to move fast enough for every
body to hear them hum.
When some men are weary of the bur-
dens of life they commit suicide, but most
OF them commit them to their wives.
Hunger may be the best sauce, but it is
one of those condiments which we prefer to
seek rather than have it thrust upon US.
1t is said to be impossible to make mir
ror so perfect it will not to some extent dis
tort the proportions of the face it reflects.
The proposition that the sovereigns of
the world do becoming thing by travel
ing has set President Cleveland to think
ing.
1t is a happy circumstance that when
the strawberry reaches the fullness of a
royal luxury it consents to accept demo
cratic price.
If more of the literary school of which
Oscar Wilde is an exemplar were in the
penitentiary the morals of the reading
world would be healthier.
If the Eastern people were wise they
would drop the exciting silver debate
during the hot weather and leave it to the
West for arbitration in 1896.
The vacancy in the Cabinet has given
many an old, half-forgotten Democratic
warhorse a chance to prance out on the
track again as if he was in the race.
1t is purely by logic one arrives at the
conclusion that when there is a murder
there must be a murderer, for the fact is
rarely ever proven in law in this country.
The latest war prophet predicts that
within two years France and Russia will
combine and drive England not only out
of Egypt but clean odt of the Mediterranean
altogether.
The latest novelty suggested for the Paris
Exposition is to turn the garden of the
Tuileries into a paradise of children and
ut 1t up with everything for childhood's
play known TO the world.
Just before Gresham died, it appeared
that Cleveland didn't have a political
friend in the country, but as soon as there
was a vacancy in the Cabinet, the voice of
the cuckoo was heard in every bailiwick.
1t is happy consolation for San Fran
ciscan that whenever he lifts his eyes from
the cobblestones he sees the bay or the
soaring hills and knows that his City is
beautiful however rough its ways may be.
Optimistic orchardists in the East are
rejoicing that the late frosts killed the in
sects as well as the young fruit, and it is
now believed that Eastern orchards are
freer from pests than they have been for
many years.
Oroville has new paper in the Morning
Times, established by Robb & Seton, and
the community may be congratulated on
the appearance of the new champion which
shows so much promise of promoting its
interests and welfare.
This is evidently good time to borrow
money for public improvements, for Pitts
burg bonds for S., 625, 600 at per cent for
eighteen years were recently bought by
local capitalists for $6.115, $50, being pre-
MUM OF $3.50 500 or s.72 per cent.
After the National convention of State
Railroad Commissioners, called for the
purpose of regulating interstate transpor-
tation, it might prove advisable for the
railroad presidents to hold National con-
vention for the purpose of regulating the
Commissioners.
1t is not surprising that the residents of
San Francisco should be regarded as the
best-dressed people in the country. for
if they were not they would be showing a
small appreciation for the tailoring skill
which Nature displays in adjoining her
plants and landscapes in California.
A mathematician who has nothing else
to do has calculated that there are II, 900
newspapers printed in the English Ian
guage, and that the useless letters in our
mode of spelling cost these journals annu-