The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-27

To the friends of progress every prospect
pleases.
Nobody can accuse the women of being
silurians.
We must have beautiful city as well as
q big city.
Santa Cruz is to be known as the Amer
lean Venice.
There will be many a Trilby foot on the
beach before long.
The Cuban revolution has just about as
many lives as a cat.
Last week the Woman's Congress, this
week something else.
Better have an adequate tax levy than
scandal of unpaid bills.
The rule of gold is about the direct OPP
posite of the golden rule.
Rising wages are not only the best signs
of prosperity but the surest.
San Francisco is training the eagle to
scream nightly on the Fourth.
Tulare knows the value of fine raiment,
for ii has gone into the silk industry.
This is the time for the friends of the
Mercantile Library to let their coin talk
Street improvement in London is said to
have diminished crime as well as increased
health.
The coyotes of Kern County are not the
only predaceous residents who wear invit-
ing scalps.
Carlisle may soon call himself cham
pion for he is talking almost as much as
priZe-fghter.
The spread of anarchism is to be meas
ured by the general decadence of respect
for government.
1t is not every man who wakes up with
the big head this morning that will feel
proud of himself.
Whitney is in train for his Presidential
candidacy by cultivating the English aris-
tocracy in London.
1t is a good thing the extremists are do
ing their talking on the money issue before
the campaign opens.
An expert on the subject declares the Ma
tional drink of America is neither whisky
nor beer but soda water.
The biggest industrial feature of the com
ing decade will be the development of Pa
cific Coast manufactures.
We could mend the ways of good many
people as we'll as of the City by putting
idlers to work on the streets.
AS we predicted, the bears of the Chicago
wheat pit have already begun to sharpen
their claws in the specializing farmers
hides.
Trilby is getting her revenge at last, for
she was little steam yacht at Buffalo and
she has capsized and drowned a mum Der of
persons.
Governor Altgeld, by opening the doors
of the Illinois penitentiary has transferred
to Judge Lynch the jurisdiction of GRIM
inal cases.
The great gold strike near Redding will
be followed by many another before the
subterranean treasures of California shall
have been exhausted.
If two years of hard labor do not extin-
guish Oscar Wilde, they will, at least, give
the recording angel reason for an entry
on the credit side of his account.
Market street was originally designed TO
be the great boulevard of the City, but
King Cobble is tyrant and depends on his
army of silurians to keep him in power.
This is the time of year when the sweet
girl graduate plucks star from the heav-
ems and wears it in her heart just so long
as her heart remains big enough to hold it.
Bismarck's request of the Silesian women
not to let their husbands vote the Socialist
ticket has caused more discussion in Ger
many than anything the Kaiser has said
for month.
No sooner are we closing up for the pres
ent the industry of making queens of car
nivals out of our pretty girls than we have
opened numerous factories to turn out
goddesses of liberty.
Those girls of San Francisco who are
considering pending offers should close
all contracts before the carnival opens at
Santa Cruz, as the girls down there will
prove dangerous competitors.
1t is to be observed that all the crowned
representatives of royalty and Olympus in
California are members of the fair sex. and
yet nothing is more needed than few
kings and gods to serve as exemplars for
weaker men.
There is chance for somebody to buv
the old wooen-mill at the foot of Van Ness
avenue and change the great brick struc-
ture into an ideal hotel or sanitarium d.
rectly on the beach and wholly removed
from the noise, hustle and dust of the City.
AS proposed link to bind Tammany
and the Clevelandites, William G. Whitney
is set up for the Democratic Presidential
nominee, but the split etween those two
factions is as wide as Cleveland's self
conceit and as dark as the history of Tam
many's corruption.
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