The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-08

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SUNDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1895
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The lingo tune keeps time to the music
of America.
Civilization cries, peace! peace" and
keeps on fighting.
Salisbury must wait for an answer-our
Grover wishes to shoot ducks.
Fine boulevards are not pleasure roads
only but highways to prosperity.
The horse show is memory, but the
lovely clothes will bloom another day.
No dilemma will ever fret the Sultan as
long as he can keep his grip on the Golden
Horn.
California novelties for your Eastern
friends will give them a new JOY in the
holidays.
If San Francisco was not so noted as the
Golden City it would be famous as the City
Beautiful.
The holiday season promises to be extra
lively, for even the moon will be full
twice this month.
After the display of loneliness at the Pa
vilion San Francisco society has certainly
a right to be proud of itself.
a mass-meeting does not always speak
with a massive voice, but that OF last night
will be heard across the continent.
The Sultan would like to have the world
believe that Armenians are killing them
selves Just to give the Turks bad name.
In Tom Reeds statement, "There must
always be tail to the procession" the De-
mocracy can find reason for its existence.
The immigration restriction bill should
be so amended as to protect our home
cranks from the competition of such aliens
as Ahlwardt.
Since Ingersoll was not converted by the
fact that Kentucky went Republican it
was hardly worth while for a convention
to pray for him.
Many of the Christmas novelties are so
familiar the shop windows in the evenings
look as if they were Illuminated by the
light OF other days.
In the five months that have expired of
the current fiscal year the deficit in the
revenues amounted to S17,601, SAL, but
Cleveland never mentioned II.
Pittsburg hotel-keepers claim that they
can accommodate $1,000 guests in their
hotels without raising the regular prices,
but can they do it without raising the
roofs?
Those people who remember that there
was once in the Senate a certain Philetus
Sawyer of Oshkosh may be pleased to
learn that he will probably be reelected
next year.
1t is not easy to predict what kind of
weather is coming in California but fortu-
nately that which visits US is generally so
genial we have no occasion to object to the
surprise party.
New York has an idea that by consolida-
ton with Brooklyn she would be bigger
and better, but Brooklyn sees the other
side of the shield and thinks she would be
bigger and worse.
As a rule billiards start in the north and
drift southwark, weakening as they go,
but the one that swept the East and nearly
blew Chicago into the lake the other day
started in Texas and was stemwinder
that frightened with every twist.
1t was once said our leading rival for the
convention was PIttsburg, but when we
passed her we found Chicago in the way
and now st. Louis looms up; so it seems
we will have to face the tackIing of all the
cities in the East before we reach the goal.
Some of the conservative women in the
East have organized what is intended to
be a National association called the
Home Makers" with the object of &C
complishing the reforms advanced women
are talking about, but through home in
uueuCeS luSledu OF platform OTdIOTy.
1t looked at one time as If the trustees of
the big Brooklyn bridge could escape in
dictment by the New York Grand Jury
only by jumping off the bridge, but they
have managed to get ashore all right, and
now there is a suspicion that the jury took
water.
Police Commissioner Roosevelt is wag.
One of his policemen got into trouble
through having soiled linen on his dormi-
tory cot, his sheet being spattered with
tobacco Juice. "You have condemned
yourself out of your own mouth" said the
Commissioner, as he fined the culprit ten
days pay.
1t would seem that the modesty OF St.
Louis is not widely different from the gall
of Chicago, for she now asks the country
to make her the established seat of Ma
tional Conventions, and proposes to erect
a building designed expressly for such
purposes as soon as the two great parties
agree to make arrangements for meeting
there regularly.