The San Francisco call., 1895-11-01

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DAVID NJ. FoLrZ, Special Agent.
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER /, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
1t is not surprising that Venezuela CAN
not furnish boundary to British gall.
The gold output this year promises to
break the record, but the goldbugs are not
glad of it.
If Barney Barnato gets little more free
advertising, there will be fortune for him
in side show.
If Maryland and Kentucky fulfill their
promises, we shall have a grand Repubh-
can jubilee in few days.
Sherman should either have held his
book back until after the campaign or
issued an expurgated edition.
The registration frauds in Maryland
show that German still merits the Cleve-
land brand OF perfdy and dishonor.
Why shouldn't Corbett and Fitzsimmons
talk into monographs q while for the
benefit of posterity and give this generation
a rest?
Betting in New York is said to be 10 to
on Tammany, but then betting is an old
form of Tammany bluff, and fusion isn't
frightened.
It took only one New York policeman to
catch Marlborough on a bicycle, but it is
said fifty of them will be detailed to watch
his wedding
Colt, Van Allen, Astor, Drayton, Wander
bilt-are we to have all the -Four Hundred
displaying their family skeletons in a con-
tinuous procession?
About the only thing creditable to Olney
that has been published in a long time is
the report that there are differences be-
tween him and Cleveland.
Weather experts who trust to signs not
known to the Meteorological Bureau de-
clare the coming winter will arrive early,
be severe and last long time.
The present attitude of the champion
pugilists is slowly convincing this country
that the defeat of Sullivan was a cruel and
unnecessary blow to humanity.
Lady Somerset advises the Prohibition
lists to take the title of Home Protection
ists," but that sounds a good deal like
stealing Republican pet name.
Everything depends on the point of view.
Fusion in New York is regarded as political
virtue, while in Kansas it is being de-
nounced as double-dealing dicker.
New York papers are kept busy explain
ing 10 their readers how to scratch the
blanket ballot under the new law, but
they always conclude their directions by
advising the voter to stick to the straight
ticket.
AS a matter of passing curiosity, we
would like to know whether the prolonged
repetition of the item that Harrison has
made $175, 600 since he left the Presidency
is intended as an evidence that he does not
wish reelection or only as notice that
he has barrel.
An interesting description, by Virgil G..
Bogue, of the first survey of the Northern
Pacific Railway route through Stampede
Pass of the Cascade range, has Just been
published by the American Geographical
Society, and gives a very instructive ac-
count of that picturesque region and the
difficulties of the work.
Many stories are told of the severe
drought in the Mississippi Valley. That
all ho Sc
ton is difficult and IN many places i'm
possible. A West Virginia railroad can
run but one train day on account of lack
of water for locomotives, and in Adams
County, Ohio, the people are said to be
forced to use cider exclusively for drinking
purposes.
The New York Chamber of Commerce
has recently published a letter from the
Hon. John Barrett United States Minister
to Siam, urging American merchants and
manufacturers to pay more attention to
the oriental market. He claims that from
Japan to Java there is a magnificent field
Tor the introduction of American goods.
and that big profits will reward those who
first enter it.
According to the New York Sun a num-
Der of leading Republicans have deter
mined that no matter what member of the
party is elected President, he snail not
have absolute control of his administration
as Presidents have had in the past. but
shall be surrounded by a Cabinet composed
of men eminent in the party, competent
for their places, having absolute control OF
their departments and being responsible
for them.
Millennium has not come yet, but there is
sign of it in the report that Representa-.
tive McGann of Chicago, who for four
years has represented in Congress the
Second Illinois District and holds a Ger.
tificate of election to the present Congress
has decided that he was not honestly
elected, and has already gone to Wash.
ington to resign in order that his opponent
may be sworn in without contest as soon
as Congress assemblies.
In one product at least California leads
the rest of the world. California olive oil
sells readily at hipher nrica than tho MI