The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-07

constructing DOuieVdTdS Is one OF tue
surest ways of extending the City and at
tracing population.
1t may yet require a war to decide
whether Japan or Russia is to dictate the
terms Of peace with China.
At the present time politics in this coun-
try is divided between the Republican party
and forty headless factions.
The self-complacent metropolitan who
believes the City is bigger than the State is
also persuaded that he is bigger than the
City.
In taking prisoners the Cuban insur-
gents display a lack of knowledge concern
ing the fundamental principles of insur-
rectionary warfare.
1t is one of the paradoxes of the financial
situation that while recommendation has
its foot on the industries of the country it
hasn't leg to stand on.
When the Olympia becomes the flagship
of the Pacific squadron the ''hoodoos'
which haunt it may be driven to haunt
some of the silurians hereaboUt.
We are assured of the return of spring in
the East by the fact that Delaware has be-
gun guessing on the peach crop and Kan
sas is beginning to complain of drought.
The "Black Flag" fighters of Formosa,
though disowned by the Chinese authority,
have indirectly given China the comforting
assurance that they will slit the weazand
of every Jap who sets foot on Formosa
soil.
Fruit-growing in the East will cease to
be a profitable industry as soon as freight
rates from California are reasonably low
and a perfect system of distribution
throughout the entire East has been estab-
hshed.
The Calls new press is hurrying with
all possible speed across the continent, and
is apparently anxious to get to work and
double the present pressroom facilities so
that no subscriber will get his paper late
in the morning.
According to the report of the City AS
SCISSOR nearly 5000 acres have been con-
verted into building lots in st. Louis in
the last ten years, and the city is now
talking of taking another section of Mis-
souri, and giving Chicago the ha-ha.
Professor Rudolph Falb of Vienna pre-
diets that the earth will collide with
comet November 13, 1885, but we need not
be afraid, for before that time the Repub-
icans will be in power and the United
States will have thorough system of pro-
lection.
Prince Poniatowski's announcement that
he will start magazine in Paris for Amer
leans and print it in French makes US sus-
pect either that he cannot write good
English or that his expected American
readers find French much easier to read
than English.
The decadence of fruit-growing in the
East is largely explainable on the score of
the superior quality of the fruit which Cal
ifornia sends to that market, and thus the
props that have held up the old scare of
overproduction in California are being
knocked aside.
The auction sale of the Woodward's Gar
dens lots to-day reminds US of the past
glories of this resort and of the fact that
there is nothing in the form of a private
show to take its place as an attraction for
rural visitors; but Golden Gate Park,
which is free, is a greater show than this
old resort ever was.
America has lost nothing by the appar-
ant fail IF hor :,
with the English thoroughbreds at New
market, in view of the fact that trotting
is the speciality in horse speeding which
America has developed to so wonderful a
degree and that in this higher class of sport
England is utterly deficient.
The elaborate pains taken by the police
to keep Ralfour, the adventurer of the
Liberator Building Society enterprise, from
being interviewed looks discouraging in
view of certain old rumors that the song
which he might sing would CRATE on the
ears of certain members of Parliament
who are at present respectable.
Since the Supreme Court has decided
that incomes derived from the rent of real
estate cannot be taxed, an Eastern bank
has determined to test the validity of tax
ing incomes from mortgages, and as the
case seems to be a good one this will be
another of the income-tax conundrums the
Government will have to give up.
Chauncey M. Depew's prediction that
the free coinage of silver in ratio of 16 to
will cause the holders of American securi-
ties abroad to return them to US and force
US to take them has no further value than
to serve as a hint, first, that the ease with
which we have been able to dispose of our
securities in Europe has not proved an I'M
mixed blessing, and second, that it IS
about time the issuance of American Sc