The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-12

probably has corns of his own.
Next thing we know the typewriter will
be as fashionable as the wheel"
The fruit crop of the Nation is short,
but as usual California mas the best OF it.
Whenever enterprise gets thoroughly in
the air it ceases to be a matter OF wind
oily.
A holiday at home does not give any
change, but it enables a man to keep what
he has.
Every Democratic leader seems to re-
gard the Presidential nomination in 1896
as buzzsaw.
He who gives employment to idle men
is casting bread upon the waters OF his
own fishpond.
The announcement that Sullivan is
''fat broke" recalls the fact that he has
also fit his last fight.
1t may be wrong in the Sultan of Turkey
to prefer war to an Armenian LeIow, but
the choice is human.
Inspectors of hulls and boilers some
times invite wrecks and explosions that do
not occur on the sea.
There is a good field in Venezuela for
Olney to cultivate diplomatic laurels at the
expense of the British.
1t is not the money problem that pro-
duces the tired feeling SO much as the in
cessant discussion Of it.
Antagonisms between labor and capital
will exist until capital regards labor as
being human as well as a machine.
It isn't the Four Hundred in the sun
shine of life but the 100 in the shade that
frets the Eastern people in these days.
Those who are excessively punctilious
and sensitive rarely reflect on the hornets
superiority over them in these regards.
With three new railroads getting ready
TO build into her limits, Stockton proposes
to take the first and richest cut of prosper
ity.
There is a probability that the Demo-
Gratis will be ready next year to refer the
u
traitors.
1t seems that there are some good people
in Texas who do not regard prize-fghting
as the finest evidence of an advanced civ
ilization.
Uncle Sam is keeping one eye on the
Florida flibusters and another on his
servants who are investigating the
Colima wreck.
AS the property-owners of Market street
will derive most OF the profit from any i'm
provement on it, they should be willing to
pay half the cost.
If France and Russia really intend to
drive England out of the Mediterranean
they ought to whirl in and do it now, SO as
TO liven up the dull season.
The San Diego idea OF getting railroad
men to Cooperate in building another rail-
road deserves the prize as the best CO.
operative scheme Of the age.
The coming silver convention at Mem
phis will have a ring which will COM
pletely drown the echoes of the faint
chinking OF her gold convention.
The fact that New York has incorpo
rated free circulating library for the blind
may be taken as another evidence of the
progress OF humanity in the right direc-
ton.
According to Wade Hampton the South
is solid for silver but hasn't sense enough
TO vote against the Democratic ticket even
ia
term.
1t would be a pity if any OF the con-
tracts in the construction of the Valley
road which Californians might secure
should be permitted to fall into Eastern
hands.
When the Southern Pacific secured a
monopoly of transportation to Santa Cruz
by the purchase of the South Pacific Coast
road, it did not foresee the bicycle and the
bloomer girl.
AS it appears the French helped Russia
to keep the japanese out of China in the
expectation that Russia would help her
bounce the British out of Egypt, we NAV
see fur fly before long.
The promotion of Otto Hansen, third
mate of the wrecked Colima, to the
position of second mate Of the San Juan
is one of the quickest rewards for service
that modern history discloses.
The announcement that President Cleye-
land is going to American" the State De-
partment as play for a third term does
not inform us that the leopard has learned
the art of rearranging his spots.
AS an illustration of how much depends
on the point Of view, we have but to cite
the fact that the freshman regards the
graduating senior as the awe-inspiring en-
bodiment of wisdom and discretion.
Esop to the contrary Notwithstanding
the fox set an example of conspicuous wis
dom by consoling himself with the fiction
that the inaccessible grapes were sour in
stead OF grieving his heart out in longing
for the unsttainable while magnifying its
value.