The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-06

in every other.
As the bicycle brought in the bloomer
perhaps the fying-machine will bring in
the balloon skirt.
Advertising home products in home
papers is the surest way OF manufacturing
the market as well as the goods.
The Spanish campaign in Cuba is re-
ported to have cost $40 O0o, 900 up to date
and hasn't even carried precinct.
New York newspapers are now accusing
one another of publishing English jokes in
order to please the Duke of Marlborough.
If the Pennsylvania people will only
hurry up and hang H. H. Holmes in time
to choke off the book he intends to write
they will confer benefit.
1t is an evidence of the dullness in the
Democratic camp that David B. Hill has
been lost to sight forever so long and no
one seems to be looking for him.
Now that James Whitcomb Riley is re-
ported to be learning to ride the bicycle
there is hope for improvement in his dia-
lect or, at least, more vlgor in his style.
1t is said that nearly $4,000 American
visitors registered in London during the
past summer, and of course every one took
some gold with him and sent home for
more.
According to some careful authorities,
although it is morally certain that Holmes
killed eight people, there is not suf-
hcient evidence yet known in a single case
to convict him.
As Boston is now clamoring for both
National Conventions in 1896 and claiming
to be the best summer convention city in
America, it is evident our champagne has
had its usual effect.
It is reported that x-Postmaster-General
Bissell has been offered the vacant position
on the Supreme Bench and declined it be-
cause he had tried Washington and would
rather live in Buffalo.
The new Capitol of Georgia was built of
Ohio bluestone, and now that Rhode Island
has decided to build her Capitol of Georgia
marble the Georgians do not know whether
to be proud of her choice or ashamed of
their own.
Some good yachting authorities declare
that both the Defender and Valkyrie are
racing-machines rather than real yachts
and that neither of them has any right to
contest for the trophy won by the clipper
sea-boat America.
In honor of the opening of the broad
guage railway to that town, the Los Gatos
Ne,cs issued special illustrated edition
that gives an excellent review of the condi-
tions and attractions of the town and de-
serves wide circulation.
BY Iway of enterprise New York pro-
poses to make the Erie canal big enough
for the largest steamers on the lakes, so
that grain can be brought direct to the
ocean at New York City, leaving Chicago
in the rear and out of the race.
A handsomely illustrated monthly, 1.-THE
Interior" has been started at Fresno by T.
S. Price and ]. w. Shanklin for the pur-
pose of promoting the interests of the in
terror of the State, and the first number
gives assurance of an able championship
of all that it advocates.
The latest K ansas freak is man named
Perkins, who, in the firm belief that
Kansas air is more elastic than that of the
rest of the country, has made arrange
ments for storing and shipping it, so that
it can be used for filling pneumatic bicycle
tires for wheelmen who wish to achieve
prodigies of success.
Complaint is made in New York that
the women members of the State Board of
Education and board of members of the
State Asylum on Long Island have at
tended none of the meetings this summer.
Society says women of good form should
take holiday in the summer, and they
took it.
The Ukiah Republican Press of recent date
said: 1.-THE CALL did an excellent thing
for the taxpayers of the State when it
exposed the manner in which the various
State Boards of Equalization had continu-
ously decreased the Southern Pacific
assessment. Taxes would be much lighter
were we to elect honest boards who would
assess the holdings of the octopus at their
full cash value"
Governor Altgeld of Illinois, in speaking
recently of Cleveland, said: 1T is an I'M
doubted fact that he was three times nom-