The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30


ing horrors.
Ferdinand's connection with the SIAM
buloff affair may be characterized as in
voluntary suicide.
Bandit Brady is employing his wits with
the dexterity that distinguished his opera
tions on the highway.
The latest social development in the
East is the appearance of the chappizette
to keep the chappie company.
The memory of Clusters death is steady
ing the trigger finger of every soldier
marching upon Jacksons Hole.
The muzzle that works on Joe Black
burn is the one nature gave him and not
the one the administration tried to put on
him.
The decision that the Oklahoma divorces
are Illegal is no more dep lorable than the
circumstances which ma de the decision
possible.
The laws have not yet provided that
married woman's sending of flowers and
sympathetic messages to a murderer is
ground for divorce.
The syndicate of bankers that was to
have protected the National treasury seems
to have become almost as tired of the con-
tract as the people are.
Brooklyn is said to have evolved from
obscurity a sensational preacher who
claims distinction because his mother was
a pupil of DR.. Parkhurst in Boston.
Chapman, the mechanic" who says he
mounted" four skeletons which Holmes,
the Chicago insurance murderer. furnished
him, is the latest humorous phase OF a
ghastly record.
The Chicago T1mes-Herald in studying
the Horr and Harvey debate on the spot
says that Horr began by trying to answer
Harvey with eloauence, but gave it up
after the third day.
If the Defender wins the coming yacht
race it will prove that we can lay aside our
distinctive centerboard and build better
yacht on the British system than the Brit
ish can do themselves.
IF there are any interior editors who are
inclined to sneer at the Half-million Club
they can justify their course only by show
ing what better their towns are doing to
increase their population.
The Indian is rapidly "dying off" and
the character of his final appearance as
dime-museum curiosity has already been
foreshadowed by the uses to which Buffalo
Bill has been putting him.
New England naturalist who, as
scientific experiment, crossed firehies with
elm beetles is said to have produced pest
that destroys elms. defes poison and
proves that scientist sometimes monkeys
too much with nature.
If the intelligence of Chicago and San
Francisco is to be measured by the sensa-
tional police and journalistic treatment of
their respective famous murder cases, New
York has nothing to fear from its sneers at
the woolliness of the West.
That was an amusing confidence on the
part of the officers who took Brady out to
find the buried S53, 900, in view of the fact
good and would have deprived him of his
only hope of escape from life imprison-
ment or the gallows.
The effort OF the Police Commissioners
in New York to enforce the Sunday saloon
closing law has so far encouraged the Tam
many people they believe they can carry
the next election without leader by Just
giving tickets to the voters and letting
them go their own way.
A yachting expert asserts in the New
York Tribune that in the recent trial races
between the Vigilant and the Defender
neither yacht was officially measured, and
expresses the opinion that had this been
done and the proper time allowance made
the Vlgilant would have been the victor.
One of the advantages of getting new
men at the head of affairs occasionally is
shown by the fact that the recent election
of DR.. B. L. Whitman as president of
Columbian University at Washington has
excited so much interest among the
alumni that they have pledged themselves
to raise the S75, 600 for the university be-
fore next fall.
The sharp remark of the Santa Cruz Sem
tinel that "when we are in San Francisco
we feel that we are about eighty miles from
home, and when our people try to get
credit there some of them find that they
are 1000 miles from anywhere" shows
that either our money-lenders do not un-
derstand one of the principles OF State
building or that our complaining country
friends do not give evidence in their own
enterprise of that sort of progressiveness
which capital is generally willing to assist.