The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09

heaven and earth" to escape the electric
chair, but he might simplify matters a
good deal by moving the chair.
According to the latest reports paper
hosiery is supplanting woven goods, arti-
fetal cloth is made of wood pulp and
wooden matches are made of leather.
1t is not surprising to learn that the lit
tie Queen of Holland enjoys the compare
lively large territorial freedom which the
corridors of Buckingham Palace afford her.
Among the striking features of the ola
dies edition" of the Omaha Bee was a vigor-
Gus editorial denouncing Cleveland's letter
on the money question as a violation of
the Monroe doctrine
All that keeps California from maintain
ing a monopoly of the fruit-growing in
dustry of the country is the backwardness
of her fruit-growers in exercising the
power which they hold.
As promoter of.r.harmony among all
the agencies which can be made useful in
the advancement of the State, the Half
million Club is wisely abstaining from the
Dreedlng or contentious.
The proper course for all good citizens to
pursue is not to apologize for anything in
the local government or in the conduct of
private citizens that may seem inimical to
progress and right conduct.
The local press could not better forward
the prosperity of all classes in California
4hon Nv HOT ba
States are hard hit by strikes, in California
no mans hand is raised against his bread.
An Eastern book collector bought rare
edition of Poes "Tamerlane," spent $500
in giving it a gorgeous binding, and then
had to sell it for $1,000 less than he gave for
1t because the fancy binding spoiled it as
an antique.
If Mr.. Taubeneck, the leader of the
Populists, should select either one of the
three syllables of his name for a personal
patronymic or a party shibbobeth, the
complications of the political situation
would be considerably reduced.
In its editorial columns the Philadelphia
Record notes the return to the East of 1.-THE
breath of summer, the chirp of the robins
and the golden smile of the dandelions,"
but the telegraphic reports from that Sec
ton are as full as usual of foods cyclones
and forest fires.
Bicycle riding has become so common
on the roads around Boston that complaint
is made of their interference with the use
of the roads for driving 1t is said to be
not unusual to find one set of riders on the
- IL. i
on the left of the highways. and about as
many of them going in one direction as in
the other.
The book just published, intended to
prove that Marshal Ney wasSnot executed,
as history tells Us, but that he was spared
by the soldiers and escaped to North Caro-
lima, where he died as Peter S. Ney, re-
minds US that no new Charley Ross has
been discovered for a long time, and that
no recent accounts of John Wilkes Booths
death in the Barbados have been pub
lished.
An illustration of the way the Wilson
tariff affects American industry was dis
closed at recent convention of American
potters at Pittsburg, where it was found
that American potteries generally are run
ming two or three days a week, while the
potteries of Staffordshire, England, are
running day and night and their owners
have all they can do to fill American
orders.
Progress in the effete East is of grave
character evidently, for the Buffalo Com
nterciol recently said: "There. is one place
where there is always noticed a steady
growth of population and that is at the
beautiful Forest Lawn. The graves are
increasing at startling rate. The part of
the cemetery near to the main street
entrance is now most attractive and the
white tombstones are already numerous"
The accomplished editor of the SANTA
Clara Valley displays commendable zeal
in insisting that the 'amapola" with the
accent on the "po'') is what the gorgeous
papaver of California should be called, and
which some people give themselves
profitable linguistic exercise is calling
''eschscholtzia;" but in spite of papaver,
amapola and eschscholtzia livery worthy
things in their several ways) the pretty
flower viii be called a poppy and that is the
end of it.
Inc OI-nanu way III winch the QlS-
patches announce that the old feud be-
tween the Fulghams and the Townsends
of Tennessee has broken out afresh is
apparently intended to make Us feel small
if we happened never to have heard of the
Fulghams and Townsends of Tennessee
and their terrible feud. extending over
several generations of men and oceans of
blood, but this is long way from Tennes-
see, and, so far as we can judge, about 5000
miles nearer to civilization.