The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-26

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the fund for the celebration of the Fourth
of JulyP
We have not observed that any of the
literary statistics have recorded the popu-
larity of the almanac.
The dispatch of the Atlanta to Havana is
a tardy recognition OF the fact that Ameri-
leans have interest in Cuba.
Georgia promises to send the Northern
States 6000 carloads of watermelons this
summer to help them through the heated
spell.
1t is said that if it were not for the
whisky plank it would be impossible to tell
the Prohibitionists in Ohio from the Popu-
lists this year.
The famous soup made out of the
shadow of chicken was thick and rich in
comparison with the nutriment you get
with lottery ticket.
When San Francisco opens broad con-
tinuous driveway along the Golden Gate
and the ocean she will have boulevard
that will be a world beaten
Santa Clara County's fruit and wine ex-
hibit, which is wheeling railroads.&c.
through the Eastern States, is creating
more enthusiasm than circus.
Between the Kentucky wit of Watterson
and the metropolitan sarcasm of Dana,
Democracy has reason to make a daily
prayer to be saved from its friends,
Before the discussion of a third term for
Cleveland goes any further it might be as
well to inquire whether there is any man
in the country who would vote for him.
All the exhibits of pavements and pay
ing material which are to be made at the
Mechanics Fair should be turned over to
the State University for a scientific and
practical study of their merits.
Were it not for the bogy man who is al
ways dragooning California for flibusters
to overturn the Hawaiian Government,
there would be little to do hereabout ex-
cept work to build up California.
st. Louis has still line of streetcars in
the center of the city drawn by mules, and
the people try to persuade visitors they
tons and take an interest in the town.
There are some sanguine optimists who
declare before the century runs out the
Turkish empire in Europe will be dismem-
bered, and in China every obstruction will
be removed. from the path of civilization.
If there are any ambitious sections of
California that are not preparing to con-
struct electric roads for the delivery of farm
products to main lines of Transportation.
they will please stand up and explain what
is the matter.
France has produced a genius who de-
clares that, as gold to the value of half
million dollars is consumed annually in
America in the industry of teeth-filling.
the future gold mines of this country will
be our cemeteries.
Chicago insists that her drainage canal
will not injure other cities On the lakes, but
Secretary Keep of the Lake Carriers Asso-
citation estimates the lowering of the water
in the rivers and harbors will entail loss
10 navigation of over 5000 year.
Chairman Gould of the Democratic State
Central Committee wants it distinctly un-
derstood that the California Democracy
must wait for sign from what he terms
the "great leaders" of the party before it
cracks the armament with a silver veil
The next thing we know prospecting for
gold in California will be done by powerful
machinery which shall have an eve able to
see far below the surface, and thus capital
will effect the same revolution in prospect
ing that it has brought about in mining.
The manager of the Boston Theater
made ten-strike at matinee by Offering
pair of diamond-studded slippers as
prize to any woman in the audience who
could wear them, and now a Chicago man
is going to try it, presumably with pair
of fiat boats.
Chicago complains that the Lake States
have been having hot stuff every day since
the end OF May, whereas the region of the
magnolia has been deliciously cool, re-
freshed by abundant and frequent rains
with now and then a delicate, barely per-
ceptible pinch of frost in the air.
In recent contest in France, between
various forms of road vehicles propelled bv
gas or electricity, one of them made dis
lance OF $50 miles in forty-eight hours over
the ordinary roads of the country, and sew
eral others did nearly as well. Between
vehicles of this kind and bicycles, the
horse is liable to be put off of everything
In the world except a racetrack and a cir
Gus.
While San Bernardino is exulting over
the guess that the Southern Pacific will
shorten the Sunset route hundred miles,
by leaving the main line at Mojave and
cutting through Swarthout Canyon to San
Bernardino and Grafton and re-entering
the main line at Banning, it forgets both
that Los Angeles is not a safe place to leave
off the overland line and that the Southern
Pacific is preparing to strengthen the posi-