The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-25

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building Rose and Duane streets, New York City.
SUNDAY. AUGUST 20, 1888
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The booksellers claim victory, but the
fight isn't over yet.
You will find every page of THE CALL in
teresting this morning.
If you have not been into the exposition
yet you are simply out of it.
In the domain of California architecture
the new CALL building will set the standard
high.
In her WEAKNESS of Non-Partisans, New
York has the full sympathy Of San Fran
cisco.
The Sutro site for the Affiliated Colleges
will not have to wait long for the City to
grow to it.
About the only law known to Americans
that the courts cannot get away with is
lynch law.
Eustis is slow and DENLY is slow, and
they must either get move on or else
they must go.
An honest man may be the noblest work
of God in this City, but man eligible for
the Durrant jury is the scarcest.
Miss Democracy may not like to walk
with Grover for third term, but what will
she do if she cannot get another beau?
1t is said that cycling in the East has
seriously affected the sale OF pianos. and
there is no longer so much music in the
air.
If we are going to make laws as fast as
the courts declare them null and void, we
shall be compelled to have Legislature
every thirty days.
Sooner or later the United States will be
the recognized leader of the nations, and
she might as well begin by leading the re-
turn to bimetallism.
There are more different kinds of climate
around the bay of San Francisco than
there are on the whole Atlantic Coast from
Cape May to Bar Harbor.
According to Judge Wallace, poolselling
downtown is only form of commission
business; but how do our commission
merchants like the classification?
The quickest way for the Half-million
Club to increase the population in this City
is to initiate the example of Chicago and
Minneapolis and take City census.
Up to date the vigorous policy in the
State Department has been devoted more
to the collection of a private claim than
the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine.
There is a r1mor in the East that the
bicycle is going to make horses so cheap
that no one will herd them, and they will
overrun the West like rabbits in Aus
tralia.
AS both the Defender and the Valkyrie
have been built and rugged as light |
weather boats, it will be Just like the New
York weather to make big blow when
ever they race.
In appointing Liu, who originated the
Cheng-Tu riots, to investigate them, the
Chinese Government has at least the JUS |
LITIGATION OF selecting the man who knows
most about them.
The Spanish troops in Cuba are finding
yellow fever in camp about as deadly as
the red right hand of war on the battle
field, and they are signing nightly for
their castles in Spain.
If Judge Wallace is right in holding that
the ordinance against poolselling in the
City is insufficient for the purpose in
tended, the Supervisors should immedi-
ately supply one that will be sufficient.
The {" Hospitable State' is the latest
name for California in the East, and we
beg them to remember that the state of our
hospitality is wide enough to welcome
both the great National conventions in
1896.
The claim of Philadelphia that Wana-
maker makes a profit of 81, 100000 year
has been offset by the claim of Chicago
that Marshall Field makes $4,000 1t
is scarcely necessary to point out that both
of them are great advertisers.
Those persons in Happy Valley who
showed their objection to Chinese labor by
setting fire to the property of orchardists
have not helped their cause any. The
Chinese must be expelled from this coun-
try by law and not by lawlessness.
A New York firm has made midsum-
mer ten-strike in business by advertising
sleighs for sale at sacrifice The novelty
OF the idea struck the public fancy as being
pleasantly cool, and everybody who can
afford it has bought sleigh in August.
A new novelist Mr.. Shepard NJ. Duggar,
in describing his heroine says: Her
mouth was set with pearls and tuned with
minstrel lays, while her nose gracefully
concealed its own umbrage, and her eyes
impaired a radiant glow TO the azure of
the sky" This must be the new woman.
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