The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-02

1ue money CTISlS IN THIS C1Iy Is not so
big as that OF the nation, but it has worse
edge on it.
England will now do little figuring to
ascertain what were her profits on the
Nicaragua affair
An Eastern baseball team has taken the
name of Trilby, and thereby run the risk
OF being mistaken for football club.
The only use Democrats have for their
platform in these days is to take up a
plank occasionally to paddle Grover with.
If Nicaraguans do not curtail their trade
with England and divert it to the United
States they viii have given the lions tail
only half twist.
Grover will be compelled to issue more
of the bonds which bind him to England,
but even they cannot cover the deficiency
in his own conduct
With cholera in the japanese army and
yellow fever attacking the Cuban insur-
gents, this does not appear to be a very
healthy year for wars.
As Spain shows no evidence of intention
to make that apology, Mr.. Gresham will
probably consider it good diplomacy to
forget that he asked for it.
The contest between bimetaIlism and the
gold standard will probably be fought to a
finish by newspapers and pamphlets before
the politicians get ready to open the cam
paign.
In one thing at any rate Secretary Nor
ton is in full sympathy with the country,
for he has recently declared that he feels a
yearning to return to Arbor Lodge perma-
nently.
Since little Japan has heard the growl of
the Russian bear, she has begun to look to
the printing of her matchlocks and reflect
upon the wearisome length OF the road to
Peking.
The ease with which Japan has whipped
the oldest and one of the greatest empires
in the world has given her magnihed
idea of her strength and dangerous will
ingness to court enemies whom she cannot
suppress.
Stockton's conviction of one of her emf
nent citizens for accepting bribe while
acting as a public officer shows that her
generous encouragement of the Valley
road is not her only way of expressing
pride and public spirit
Fresno presents an instructive case in a
Judgment for damages against its water
company in favor of a man from whose
house it shut off the water at the land
lords request, as a measure, presumably,
to force the tenant to vacate the premises.
II is said that opium eating has become
so common in New England that twenty
per cent of the convicts in the penitentiary
at Charlestown, Mass, are addicted to the
drug ana the warden has been unable to
prevent the practice of smuggling it into
the prison.
The "flibusters' who were reported
recently to be fitting out an expedition in
this City for the purpose Of reoverturning
the Hawaiian Government seem to have
been miraculously transferred to Puget
Sound, where the changing of the tocsin
makes the clouds rain blood.
According to the statistician of the Agri
cultural Department, over 30 000, 900 bush
els of potatoes have been imported into
this country in the last ten years, and it
would seem therefore that Mayor Pingree
of Detroit was filling a long-feIt want when
he set the idle men of that city planting
potatoes.
Ex-Governor Proctor Knott of Kentucky
is quoted as saying that the sentiment in
favor OF free silver has become so domi-
nant in that State that if both Republicans
and Democrats by their platforms refuse
to give it the freest and fullest considera-
ton, then a third party will spring up and
carry off the prize.
Until Russia's great army of Cossacks on
the Chinese frontier shall be convinced
that the Romanoffs are entitled to the i'm
perial crown there is a remote danger that
if she gives these fierce fighters a chance
to smell blood on the Yellow Sea Japan
may acquire an ally more formidable than
any that Russia ever faced before.
Inquiry into the distribution of the
State relief fund in one of the drought
stricken Nebraska counties is said to have
resulted in the disclosure that while the
people for whom the assistance was in
tended received $3.50, the railroads took
500; and the people are now referring to
the State grant as fund for the relief of
railroads.
Under the auspices of the Chamber OF
Commerce aud the Hundred Thousand
Club OF that city, the Fresno Republican
has issued special edition containing
large amount of information OF practical
value to investors and home-seekers, which
will undoubtedly prove great benefit in