The San Francisco call., 1895-10-08

1t is natural that the See Yup boycott
should break up; it had too many tongs in
the fire.
Having sucked dry the orange of life, it
is said the Jersey Lily will now take up
with the peel.
Selling fresh fruit in London is good, but
perhaps it would be better to preserve more
of it at home.
The islands of the world would not make
so much trouble if the continents would
let them alone.
The Armenian crisis is rapidly becoming
critical enough to put an end to criticism
and call for action.
What will it profit US if Mrs. Langtry
comes here for a divorce and goes back to
England to marry?
1t is reported that the London market
demands big fruit, and that happens to be
the very thing that California can furnish.
The way that Buckley shows his hand in
politics is to feel the pulse of Democracy
little while and then reach for the throat.
Because the people have become tired of
discussing the silver question, the gold
bugs believe there is no longer any such
question.
AS there are no wars at present except in
Cuba, Formosa and Madagascar, it appears
the troubles of the world are confined to
insular eruptions.
In deciding to come West this season
the Yale and Harvard football men will
hitch their teams as well as their wagons
TO the star of empire.
If they keep up the lick of finding gold
in the gravel pits of Nebraska money will
scratch gravel for it.
1t is hardly worth while for local De-
mocracy to make so much fuss about clean
ing out their party when the people will
do that at the next election.
According to Labouehere there are only
eight novelists in Great Britain who make
as much as a thousand pounds year. and
these have no sure thing of it.
The high building is the only architec-
ture we have that is distinctively Ameri-
can, and to limit its development would be
to put bonds on our art as well as on our
enterprise.
The prophets of prosperity are rising
everywhere. Even one of the Rothschilds
is reported to have said, 'There will be
more chance to make money in America
in the next five years than in any other
country in the world.''
The people of San Jose are so iubilant
over their success in making preparations
for a carnival of roses next May they are
half persuaded to whirl in and celebrate
the preparations at once and then start in
all over again to prepare for the celebra-
tion.
The Republican convention which as
sembled at Sioux City on June 16 TO nomi-
nate a candidate for Congress to fill a va
cancy has put two candidates in the field
and adjourned after taking 7137 ballots,
thus showing that under certain condl-
tions even the voting habit may become
useless dissipation.
French inventor is said to have de-
vlsed an ingenious attachment to the
storage batteries used on some of the
streetcars of Paris, by which when the
cars are going down hill the motors are
changed into dynamos and the batteries
recharged with power. An invention of
that kind ought to be profitable in San
Francisco.
1t is reported that the Director-General
of Railways in India has approved of
forty-five new railway projects which
when carried out will add over 5000 miles
to the railways of that country, and this
is but the beginning, as parliamentary
commission has reported that to deyelop
the resources of India 90, 600 miles of rail
road are needed.
1t is striking illustration of the extent
to which the stamp-collecting fad has been
carried that some spectators have been
accused OF getting the smaller Central
American States to issue new sets of stamps
every few years, thus enabling the specu-
lators to make profit by selling the new
issues as something novel and the old ones
as something rare.
The Sacramento Valley editors ought to
have good time at their convention at
Marysville. The accomplishments of the
year have been good, the prospects of the
future are better, the surroundings of the
convention are rich in all things that make
up California Eden, and as they have got
away from their devils for awhile what
more can they wish2
A reminder of the rapidity with which
some of the most potent conditions oi
modern life have been developed is found
in the announcement that Joseph Bell,
who served as engineer on Stephenson
first locomotive, has just died in London.
: This man during his working days saw
the whole railway system grow up and
witnessed bigger changes in the world
than were seen by Methuselah in a thou
sand years.