The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-29

No city had better Thanksgiving than
ours.
1t was bad day outside, but the home
was happy.
In few days Congress will have Grover
on its hands.
Attend to your Christmas shopping early
and get the first pick.
There is no doubt that Ashworth had
cause for Thanksgiving.
There is always music IN the air when
business begins to hum.
The next thing will be Christmas, and
that means more turkey.
Many a happy man of yesterday. will
have to pick pone with his family to-day.
Chicago has her eyes on the convention,
but we are reaching to get our hands on it.
We can give thanks this morning that
few turkeys are left for seed and another
day.
The rain was troublesome, but it will
bring US many things to give thanks for
later On.
Nearly every time we get onto the curves
OF a street contractor we find something
crooked.
This is a good time for Corbett and Fitz-
simmons TO begin again; after the feast
come the scraps.
There is some comfort in knowing we
will not have to take Cleveland message
on an empty stomach.
That which was known as an appetizer
yesterday is known as a digester to-day,
but it smells just as sweet.
Cleveland's best friends say he is not
candidate for third term, but his fool
friends are more numerous.
If We can only get the National Conven-
ton now we will feel justified in writing
this down as a mascot year.
Eastern farmers are arranging to make
it warm for one another by holding farm
institutes through the winter.
1t won't be long before winter racing in
San Francisco will begin breaking the rec
ords of summer racing in the East.
a Street Superintendent who never
superintends should be considered as street
rubbish and cleared out of the way.
Civic reform can hardly be said to have
illumined the City as yet, but it has let a
good deal of light into some dark places.
Money never seems as big during the
holidays as at other times, because it has
to move so lively it hasn't time to talk
much.
tits reported that the Vassar girls have
adopted Yum, yum. yum, we chew gum"
as a college yell, but you needn't strain
yourself to believe it.
1t is now said that Cleveland is more
companionable and less stiff than ever be-
fore. So it is evident the tidal wave was
big enough to take the starch out of him.
No man has ever yet declined a Presi-
Dental nomination after it was given to
him, and lots of Democrats, with an eye on
his barrel, don't believe Whitney would
break the rule.
The Trans-Mississippi Congress did well
in favoring TransMississippi Exposition
under the patronage of the Government.
but it should be held in Salt Lake City in
stead of Omaha.
Many an aspirant for the Presidency who
had the pleasure of eating his turkey with
the sauce of expectation yesterday will
have to take it with a pill Of disappoint-
ment next year.
The Academy OF Sciences may yet
practice what it breaches, for it has begun
to show signs of evolution and evidences of
the survival of the fittest in its government
as well as in its museum.
AS the seal fisheries are rapidly being
reduced to a point where there will be
nothing left to dispute about interna-
tional supervision may be regarded as
triumph of peaceful diplomacy.
The statement that the export of gold is
due to the fact that we have too much
money in this country emanates from the
Boston Herald and not from lunatic
asylum, as one might reasonably suppose
At the present rate the National revenues
fall short of the expenditures by about
$50, DOC, 900 year, and if in the face of that
Cleveland should veto bill placing pro-
tectiye duty on wool and lumber he ought
to be impeached.
Walter Wellman in the Chicago Times
Herald credits q leading New Yorker
with saying that if the National Conven-
ton is held in San Francisco fully 1000
New Workers will make the trip across the
continent, every man paying his own ex-
penses and these amounting to an average
of $1,000 man.
As DIR. Lorimer of Boston is reported to
have said in recent sermon on profanity
that many women of that city use slady.
like explosives of profane character" we
feel justified in calling on the Boston press
for illustrations and diagram showing
the ''expletives" and explaining wherein
they are profane and wherein they are lady
like.