The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-17

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The police are looking blue over their
uniforms.
Silver speaks out warmly, but gold is do.
ing the clam act.
The blush of the May Queen is lovelier
than a royal flush.
In the game of life when progress leads
you must follow suit.
The interior press is vigorously ringing
the death knell of inactivity.
Even Ysaye's fiddling failed to open the
Bohemian Club OWLS other eye.
There is more pleasure than labor in
working for a living in California.
Never was silence so golden as that of a
politician on the money question.
Public sentiment is one of the best things
which the Half-million Club is weaving in
its looms.
The Valley road will be an artery
through which the richest blood of the
State will flow.
Never before were the interior papers OF
California so eager to round up silurians
and build up industry.
First in Nicaragua and then in Boring
Sea, the British seem determined to make
us draw our snickersee.
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Napa Valley is going to have its compel
ing railway in the shape of an electric road
between Napa and Ca.istoga.
:. :. The housewife who fails to preserve ber-
ries and fruit when they are cheap will be
lacking in the sweet by and by.
- The war in Cuba will never be over until
Spain quits setting match to the native
train of powder on the island.
Now that the matter of National Guard
officers is settled, the organization is wear
ing Dimond in its shirt front. e
The revival in business is simply the re-
suit of the revival in public confidence
caused by Republican victories.
The greatest novelty of the year is the
prolonged delay in sending out the usual
report of the destruction of the Delaware
peach crop.
From the way the Democrats are taking
to the woods it appears they intend to have
nothing to do with the conventions of pol
itics in 1896. :.
Eastern wheelmen complain that tramps,
farmers dogs and rattlesnakes are adding
too much OF thrilling variety to outing
tours this year.
Mr.. "Spud" Murphy, the Vallejo arson
ist, has been trying to hang himself, but
his prison-mates, preferring his company
to his ghost, gave the alarm.
These are cool and delicious days on the
coast, but in the interior, where heat is
needed to ripen the fruit, the sun is pour
ing its wealth all over the land.
1t is as much the duty of California
manufacturers to turn out the best prod
ucts known to the world as it is of Cali
fornians to buy homemade products.
A student of affairs in Chicago asserts
that as soon as the lake fishing becomes
good in the spring strikes increase in the
city and the labor element gets disorgan-
lied.
The next time Cleveland desires to fire
off an open letter he will confer benefit if
he addresses it to Adlai Stevenson and let's
: the public know what has become OF the
/. young man.
Mr.. Corbett's contemptuous remarks
about swell London sporting club ex-
hibit the natural superiority which genius
feels over an aristocracy based on the acct
dent of birth.
The street-lighting companies propose to
show the City, through the courts, that
they can throw some light on the assumed
municipal authority to make them turn on
the darkness.
So long as people will buy where they
can get most for their money, the neces-
sity for furnishing them with home made
articles which will meet that requirement
will never relax.
1t will be amusing to observe whether
the threat that Cleveland will be a candi-
ton OF stamping out frees silver tendency
in the Democratic party.
- If the Massachusetts, Spectators who
were swindled by sailed gold mine in
California had put their money in Cali
fornia orchards they might have been
picking the gold from the trees.
The financial editor of the New York
World estimates that within few months
less than one hundred of the leading secur.
tiles dealt in on Wall street have advanced
sufficiently to show an aggregate profit of
$500, 600, 900.
In order to get twelve men to serve on
: the jury liz the Mclaughlin trial in New
York it was necessary to summons over
1900 talesmen, and as a consequence there
is now big demand for a change in the
system of selecting juries.
The National Sculpture Society. New
York, has offered first prize of $500 and a
second prize of 5000 for the best designs fol-
an artistic silver dollar, and it would be in
accordance with the fitness of things if Q
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