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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28
LEGISLATING AGAINST PUBLIC
SENTIMENT,

A dispatch from Mexico states that at a
recent bull-ight the bulls declined to face
the matadors and ran back to their stalls,
whereupon the audience, deeming them
selves defrauded, rose in an uproar, tore
down the building and drove the manager
out of town. On this hangs a tale.
Two years ago the Governors of the vari-
Gus States of Mexico, touched by the
worlds condemnation of bull-fghting, for
babe the practice, and severe law against
bullfghts was passed by the National Con-
gress. The gubernatorial orders and the
law were obeyed. But the Mexicans
growled at being deprived of their national
sport. Time hung on their hands. Even
the ladies confessed that they were victims
of ennui. To allay the popular discomfort
a fine racecourse was laid out atthe City of
Mexico and strings of blooded horses were
brought in from the United States. Spring
and fall meetings were arranged and prizes
for races were announced. A fair assem-
blage attended the first race, the audience
was diminished at the second, it gradually
fell off until at the last there was no one
present but the horse-owners, the jockeys
and handful of boys. The projectors OF
the enterprise lost every dollar they had
put into it.
Then a hushed murmur arose against
the law prohibiting the national sport of
bull-fghting. Mexicans said that their
ancestors had been brought up on bull
fights, and that the modern generation did
not pretend to be more virtuous than they.
Young ladies declared that life was tame
without matadors. Young men walked
the streets humming the Toreador song
from Carmen" President DiaZ was wise;
he knows how to yield to public sentiment
when it does not menace public order; he
gave orders to wink at an evasion of the
law, and a bull-fght was given. Unfor-
funately, the old race of fighting had
either been exported or converted into
beef. 1t was impossible to find fighting
bull, and now, if the sport is to be revived,
animals will have to be bred for the pur-
pose.
It never answers to be wiser than ones
day and generation. That was proved just
about century ago among the congeners
of these very Mexicans, in old Spain, when
Florida, Blanca and Amanda tried to intro
duce civilization and enlightenment into
the kingdom in spite OF an ignorant popu-
lace and their benighted leaders. 1t seems
odd to us that refined gentleman or lady
should enjoy seeing horse ripped up by
a bulls horns, or the bull himself, bleeding
from countless wounds, expire under the
sword of the killer. But people differ.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28
Up TO DATE IDEAS.

writer in Shooting and Fishing says: The
greatest difficulty that experience in the field
is the rapid and correct estimation of distance.
Ever since began to use rifle have expert
mented with rifles which promised TO produce
the most desirable combination of trajectory
and accuracy. During the course of my ex-
periments have used rifles of ealibers varying
from - inch to so inch, loaded with great
variety of powder and lead charges, but could
never, at range of 200 yards, secure curve
whose maximum ordinate was less than ten
inches, unless sacrificed accuracy to an alarm
ing extent.
might have been satisfied with q ten-inch
trajectory at 200 yards, but found that the
rifles which produce this curve, although ae-
curate enough at the distance named, are I'M
fitted for shooting at longer ranges. wanted
rifle which would shoot with fair accuracy at
a range OF 400 yards, but never succeeded in
combining accuracy at this range with salts
factory trajectory when using a rife having
one barrel
The problem was solved, however, when 1
received double over and under rife of
45-inch caliber. The upper barrel contained
five very shallow grooves, having slow twist,
and, when loaded with ITO grains of powder
and 34o-grain bullet, produced very salts
factory trajectory, combined with good hunt
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28
BAREF0OTED BEAUTIES.

1t is darkly whispered that there is to be
a revolution in bathing costumes this COM
ing summer. The bathing dress of the
period is mere aquatic variety of the
house dress, with the usual articles of
outer clothing worn at home, including
shoes and stockings, and in extreme cases,
a corset. Trilby has led to a cult of the
female foot. and ladies whose feet were
naturally pretty and have not been de-
formed by tight shoes, propose to start the
fashion of bathing in bare feet and ankles.
When the idea was first suggested Mrs.
Grundy gasped and had to be restored to
consciousness by repeated applications Of
smelling salts; but she is feeling better now,
and is beginning to realize that a practice
which was followed by the saints cannot
involve any real danger to morals. .
The laws which govern the female bath
ing dress have always been puzzle. The
belle of the season, who would rather die
than exhibit an inch of clicked hosiery in
her drawing-room, will sit contentedly on
the sand by the side of her young man
with nothing between the white epidermis
of her lower limbs from the knee down but
black silk stocking. Her pretty cheek
will not flush when she observes him
studying the artistic contours. But on the
other hand, if her bathing jacket should
slip from her shoulders so as to expose one
half of the dazzling surface which she ex-
hibits composedly in the ballroom, she
will fly shrieking like one of Diana's
nymphs when surprised by Actaon.
Modesty seems to fiuctuate between the
upper and the lower ends OF the female
frame, according to locality.
The British matron, surveying wicked
world with suspicious eye, forbids her
daughters to enter the water unless they
are covered from neck to feet with a gar
ment which is cross between a teagown
and the robe of Carmelite friar, and will
not be convinced of the unsuitableness of
this costume even when an impudent wave
plays pranks with the skirt. In this coun-
try girls follow the French costume, and it
must be admitted that it is neat, pretty
and modest. If now it is to be modified by
discarding shoes and stockings it will be-
come more admirable still. AS Du Maurier
teaches us there is no lovelier object in
nature than a pretty female foot. But it
is so delicate in its structure that undue
pressure quickly deforms it. The toes of a
girl who usually wears tight shoes often
overlap each other, and the foot is hideous.
Trilby wore wide mems shoes of felt and
wool. So long as a foot is taper and well
proportional it may be beautiful without
being small. A tail, well-built woman
should stand on two good-sized feet, but
they ought not to be beetle-crushers.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

empire. He opposed the war, but when
Nicholas had resolved to undertake 1t he
Loyalty acquiesced, and was the only states
man in Europe who had conducted busl-
ness with the two Napoleons.
Those Who would understand his sue
eessor, Chancellor Gortschakoff, should
read Klaxko's 1.-TWO Chancellors." He
learned politics under Nesselrode. and was
present at the congress of Laybach. He
made a deep and exhaustive study of polit-
ical science, so that when he and Bismarck
were serving together at Frankfort, in the
diplomatic service Of their respective coun-
tries, the German confessed that he was
glad to learn from his Muscovite friend.
He was nearly go when he became Chan
cellor of Russia, but his mind was as alert
as it had been in his youth. 1t was he who
founded the railroad system OF Russia, and
insisted on the abolition of serfdom, and
the establishment of public schools. Be
tween him and Bismarck lifelong friend
ship never wayered; when the war OF 1870
broke out, Gortschakoff served notice on
Austria that if she interfered on the side of
France, Russia would take hand on the
side of Prussia. In 1882, when he was "a
years old and broken down by intirmities,
he relinquished his Office to his secretary,
Nicholas de Giers, who has just died.
1t did not fall to the lot of this statesman
to fill as large part of history as his two
predecessors. But he faithfully carried out
the great purpose of his imperial master,
which was to preserve the peace of Europe.
He was smooth, conciliatory diplomatist,
who had wonderful gift for bringing men
to his way of thinking. Like all the Rus
sian diplomats he was secretive, insincere
and willy. But he was consummate man
of the world, and his place viii not easily
be Tiled.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28
SUBSCRIBE TO TIE NEW ROAD.

1t will do the rich men of San Francisco
no harm to recall to memory chapter of
past history. Thirty years ago, when the
Central Pacific Railroad was being built,
the company was often in the direst straits
for money. The proceeds of the subsidy
bonds and the tirst-mortgage bonds did not
come in fast enough TO meet the payrolIs
and pay the bills for rails at 500 ton, and
Governor Stanford and his associate, Hop
kins, spent many weary day going round,
hat in hand, among rich men begging them
to take stock in the new road. They gen.
orally encountered a contemptuous rebuff.
Men of means had too much sense to invest
their money in such wild-goose schemes.
Before fifteen years had elapsed the builders
of the road had placed their names on the
list OF the great millionaires of the world;
and then and ever since, those who gave it
the cold shoulder in the sixties have been
cursing their want of foresight. History
is repeating itself. Those who hang back
now, and instead of following the lead of
Claus Spreckels, put their dollars in rows
of two-story houses which will be hard to
rent if the competing line is not built, will
presently be bewailing their present blind
ness and saying that it is just their luck.
The road is going to be built, and what
is more, it is going to pay when it is built.
Labor abounds, steel rails are cheap, and
line through the valley without grades and
almost without curves can be constructed
for less money than any well-built road in
the country has cost. How much money
such road could earn, no one can predict
at this stage. Mr.. Leeds has a way of Jug
Cling with figures which does not inspire
confidence. But it is fact that the South
ern Pacific line from San Francisco to Los
Angeles is enormously profitable, and half
its present receipts would constitute fine
gross income for the new line without al
lowing anything for traffic from the dis
tricts which the San Joaquin road would
open up. If that road can earn net $1,000
mile-and it would probably net much
more than that-the income should be
satisfactory return on an expenditure of
$4,000.
From causes which it is not necessary
now and here to explain, the Southern Pa
cific has been very slow in building the
feeders which the San Joaquin Valley has
required. A vast portion of that valley is
insuficiently supplied with railroad facil-
tiles. Half a dozen east and west lines are
needed to serve as outlets for the Sierra
foothill country, and as many more to
connect the present valley road with the
foothills of the Coast Range. The Southern
Pacific ought to have built these years ago.
Now that an example has been set, we may
look forward confidently to an outburst of
railroad building in such counties as Stan
islaus, MERGED, Fresno, San Luis Obispo,
Monterey and San Benito, which will
presently double the productive capacity
of those noble counties.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS

At the dinner-table in a country hotel guest
says to the waitress:
sMiss, are you sure that this is wild duck that
you've given me?"
"Wild! Well, I should think it was If you
coud "a seen US chasin that duck more'n forty
times round the barnyard fore we ketched it,
l guess you'd believe it was wild."-Youth's
Companion.
"What's this?" demanded the guest, point
ing to one of the side dishes the waiter had
brought.
"Sausages, sir" answered the waiter.
'I didn't order any"
al thought you did, sir"
sfI ordered sauce. Can't you tell the differ
ence between sauce and sausage?"
eyes, sir" said the waiter, gathering up the
rejected dish with unrufled dignity. Between
sauce and sausage there is merely a difference
of ages. Wish coffee sir?'-Chicago Tribune
wittieus-The woman's rights girls are going
to discard the divided skirts, after all.
Quericus-What for?
witticus-They find they cannot crease them
down the front.-Truth.
Clubman rather fulfil wish you'd (hic)
take me home. Do you know where (hic) 1
live? Policeman-What's the name of your
cook?-Life.
Her skates were loose, but when my aid
CALAMITY presumed to tender,
! got snubbing from the maid,
For she was sensitive-and slender.
New York Herald.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28
Long-Distance Telephones.

Long-distance telephone installations in
Europe are increasing in number. The
circuit between London and Paris has been
working for some time and is soon to be
teI s to The line between en- Vienna
and Berlin has been opened, and so large
has been the patronage thai it is antici-
pated that second and perhaps even a
third line will very soon be required. Dur
ing business hours the present line will be
exclusively at the disposal of the bourses
in the two cities,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

No one will deny that our highways as
well as our low ways need looking after.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Liberal subscriptions to the Valley Rail-
road will assure the people of the interior
that San Francisco is not only going for
ward, but is going their way.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

A new San Francisco is a big promise
but they are big men who make it.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28
Death From Hemorrhaee.

B. Luckman, sheetiron-worker residing
at 43 Erie street, died from hemorrhage of
the lungs early yesterday morning in q
saloon on Seventh street. The remains
were taken to the Morgue.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

The statement comes by the way of Londol
that William Waldorf Aston made his home il
England at the urgent solicitation of his wife
who had dread of the cranks.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Claus Spreckels and his committee are
showing US the way 1--WE long have sought
and mourned because we found it not"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

The Rev. G. Wynne Jones of Baltimore il
going to start domestic Institute" the OBJ
jeet of which shall be to train girls for domes
tic service.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Among other satisfactory things is the
knowledge that the life of the fiasco Con-
gress is growing smaller and smaller and
beautifully less.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

When you are seeking for purity don't
overlook the pure food exhibit.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Reforming legislators should see to it
that there is no kicking during the dance.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

II our property-owners give a proper
support to the new leaders it won / be long
before the interior viii be pointing TO San
Francisco with pride.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

If all the legislative attaches attend the
inaugural ball it win be known as an
assembly of the Four Hundred and over.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

A non-partisan alliance of all Pacific
Coast Congressman to advance Pacific
Coast interests may be Iog-rolling, but il
viii be better than rolling off the log every
time.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

It is noted that one of the effects of sub
shutting electric for horse cars in Phil
adelphia, is that the work of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has
fallen off 20 per cent.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

If we have too many investigators they
may spoil the broth and fall in the soup.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

tits evident that "Adolph sutro, Mayor"
is a mighty good sign.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Reformers who intend to investigate our
ways shouldn't overlook the cobblestone
streets.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

It is evident that Pacific Slope interest
is something that the East is not inclined
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Every mans influence counts for some
thing, and therefore every man should see
to it that it counts for something good.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

The latest electrical girl to be heard from is
Jennie Moran. who lives near sedalia, Mo. One
OF her many alleged wonderful powers is that
of Illuminating room by her presence.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

AS a matter of straight criticism on their
intrinsic merits, it is said that Colonel
BrecHnridge's lectures are ''no good.''
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Whatever doubts one may have of the
future it is beyond dispute that the out
look is distinctly hopeful.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28
Elevator ON ocean Steamers.

A new luxury is, it is said, to be added to
ocean liners. In future they viii be fitted
with lifts" Lifts are used on board men
of-war for the conveyance of powder and
shot from the magazines to the guns, and
why not for the raising or lowering of
passengers between the different decks of
steamship?-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Great to-day; greater tomorrow.
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New San Francisco

The inaugural ball has the floor.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

To get San Francisco out of the old rut,
nothing is needed but long pull, strong
pull and pull all together
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Society girls viii go to the ball with the
happy thought that wherever there is a
crush there is apt to be mash.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

We will never get our rightful appropria-
tions from Congress unless we reach for
them with grizzly hug.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

1t is quite the proper thing that we
should start our new movement on a
railroad.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Now that we are no longer Indifferent to
fate, the old lady will cease to be indiffer-
ent to US.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Christian Diedan, the oldest member of tn,
German Reichstag, celebrated the eighty-fourtf
anniversary of his birth the other day. He il
one of the most active and faithful members o
the body.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Mrs Mary A. Livermore, at 70, has retired
from the lecture platform, upon which, foI
fifty years she has labored so energetieally
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

D. L. Moody is about to conduct an extended
revival in Texas.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

The Empress Eugene in her English home i
constantly besieged by applicants for assist
ance. These come chiefly from France in tn
form of begging letters, most of them in tn
name OF religion.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

That $500 subscription by the Iroquois
Club proves that all the good Indians don't
die Young.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

We may look for the elevation of the
lecture-platform; Governor Waite has de
eided to get off it.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Since the Government has the site of the
Postoffice we would like TO have sight of
the building.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

John II. Hamline, a member of the new Chi
cago Police Commission, charges the people OF
Chicago with selecting their Mayors with q
pitchfork He also brands the chief executives
for twenty years past as miserable men, with.
ont brains CT abilities"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

BY and by the metropolis Of the Pacific
Coast will be noted for its sand in more
senses than one.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

movement is or foot in Richmond to have
all the Southern States subscribe toward fund
to be raised for the purpose OF erecting bronze
statue to George Peabody, the philanthropist
in the Capitol at Washington. On February Is
will occur the one hundredth anniversary OF
his birth.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

So far as the present Legislature is con-
cerned, the people will recognize Just two
parties: one standing for retrenchment
and good government, the other standing
for extravaganza and bad politics.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Many reformer who starts out to be a
bowling success never gets any further
than the bowling.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

In the persons of Adolph Sutro and Claus
Spreckels the older men of San Francisco
are setting an example which the younger
men should emulate with all the ardor of
young hearts and the Yigor OF young ener-
gies.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28
A skin of Beauty IS a Joy Forever.

New York police cost s5,5oo,ooo yearly.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Miss Morton, sister of the Secretary of Agri'
culture, is the only person prominently con.
nected with the administration who is able to
talk French to members of the Diplomatic
Corps. She lost her fortune indorsing notes OF
another brother and was compelled 10 open a
girls school in Detroit.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

The average life of ship is about twenty
six years.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

1t is said that Gladstone in his younger days
used TO sing negro melodies, with banjo accom-
paniment, very creditably. Recently Arthur
Balfour won distinction parlor entertainer
by acting as an amateur Snowman at Whit
tinghame. In his leisure hours Mr.. Balfour
cultivates both sport and learning very success
fully. He is notably good golf player, and he
has become an authority on ghosts and other
objects of psychical research.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Mrs. Paran Stevens has caused some
thing of futter in the East by saying
that the newspapers are driving the social
leaders out of the country by meddling
with the affairs of ''great families" and
adding that she has half a mind to go her
self and ''leave America to its fate" The
threat has great terrors for many cities,
but fortunately San Francisco is indiffer-
ent to fate in thatrespect.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28

Eastern bimetallists assert they are
making notable converts in that section
every day, and that it won't be long before
the majority of the people there will be in
sympathy with the West on the silver
question.