The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-30


We may consider the Atlanta EXPOSE
ton success, for it is said the Midway is
all right.
Big Republican victories in the State
elections this fall viii help on the revival
everywhere.
The time is coming when we can no
longer picture death on pale horse, but
on a bicycle.
In few days Grover will have to return
to Washington and wait for Congress with
bated breath.
The only issue in Maryland is German,
and even that will probably be choked off
on election day.
1t is now asserted the Chinese invented
the bicycle ages ago and that it is about as
old as gunpowder.
The report that Senator PETER intends
TO start a newspaper is calculated to make
Kansas bleed again.
Give the proposed lottery ordinance
trial and those who advertise the games
will also have a trial.
OF course prosperity can stand on the
gold basis, but to get there with both feet
she needs bimetallism.
In the East the tide of sympathy with
Cuba is running very nearly high enough
70 float the ship of State.
The Syndicate contract with the Gov
eminent to maintain the gold reserve runs
out tomorrow, and then what
1t is said the Eastern corn crop is so
large there are not even hogs and cattle
enough among the farmers to eat it.
I Though Willie K. and Lady Alva are
divorced, Miss Consuelo seems to be able
to reach the pockets of both with her little
Duke.
Corbett and Fitzsimmons are to have
the honor in Texas of an extra session of
the Legislature assembled to do them
justice.
/ 1t is said that Marlborough is already
enjoying the benefits of the Vanderbilt
alliance in the form of free passes on the
railroads.
For the Lords sake said DIR. Park
hurst, " let US sink fads and side issues"
+ but isn't DR.. Parkhurst himself fad and
side issue?
I We are just near enough to the scene of
disturbance to be interested in the State
elections this year without having to hear
the brass bands.
Mrs. Langtry is certainly no actress or
she would never have postponed the
divorce advertising until she was ready to
retire from the stage.
! As an evidence of the good crops it is
noted that the universities of the corn
Estates have opened this fall with larger
number of students than ever.
II 1t is within the limits of possibility that
Ia syndicate has been formed among the
British nobility to corner American
Iheiresses and squeeze the market.
In asserting "there is no city so delight
lful as Philadelphia in the month of
lOctober," the Record of that city over
Hooked either San Francisco or veracity.
As an outcome of all the carnivals, fes-
rivals and celebrations in Eastern cities
during the past summer there has come
forth demand for less bunting and more
art.
Lots of people who now declare them
selves to be in favor of short campaign
next year, will be so hot for the fight by
next spring that they won't wait for the
campaign to begin.
If California is to hold her prestige as
fruit-growing State some of our rural ex-
changes must furnish US with a story to
match that of a New Haven man who
claims to have successfully grated an
apple twig on a grape vine and is now rails
ing good apples and good grapes on the
same vine.
That wonderful aeetylene from which we
expect cheap gas in the near future, may
not prove such blessing after all. for a
French chemist asserts he can by means of
t furnish drink bearing an exact re-
3emblance to grape brandy at cost of two
tents quart. Science had better put
icetylene back where she found it.
The Iowa State Register speaks slight
ngly of the arid districts of the great
West and says: "Iowa, of course, is not
INTERESTED in the irrigation question.
Here we simply plant seed and nature
does the rest" Exactly SO. The Iowan
plants the seed and the blizzard reaps it
ind occasionally takes in the planter also
Speaking in reference to the attitude of
london on the subject of bimetallism Mr..
Gladstone recently said: ST it stands
irm, and is seen resolutely to exercise on
his subject the authority to which it is
ntitled, no power which blmetallism at
present commands, or is likely to enlist,
will be able to overcome it.' This state
nent is doubtless encouraging to the gold
men, but before the contest is over the
)imetallists may be able to show that the
United States is bigger than London.