The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-12


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THURsDAY...... SEPTEMBER 10, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
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To-day the Railroad Commissioners
make show-up.
The yacht races are getting almost hot
enough to make the ocean boil.
Some Eastern papers have begun to
spell it ''cigaret," and spelling reform
gets another puff.
Times are certainly Frightening when
prospects of Republican victory can be seen
even in Kentucky.
Europe might afford to maneuver some
of her soldiers in way to make the Grand
Turk behave himself
The Republican party. expects Commits
sioner Clark to do his duty and to remem-
Der that his duty is to the State.
IngersolTs latest contribution to politi-
cal discussion is the statement that Lincoln
was elected President in spite of his fitness.
What is the matter with the East? The
silly season is over, and yet they are still
seriously discussing the third-term craze.
&c cd hot for,
feeding their hogs on grasshoppers, and, if
so, the pork market is liable to take a
jump.
Campbell of Ohio may think himself
candidate for the Presidency, but the
people have begun to speak of him as
Brice's hired man.
Chicago is talking of making a bid for
the National conventions next year, Just
as if the people had forgotten the kind of
weather she dealt out to the last con-
vention.
If it be true as reported that the prepar-
atoms for the international yacht race
have cost upward of 100000 it would
seem that we might have got flying ships
for less money.
The gold men are talking of getting Car
Isle to go down and take part in the Ken
lucky campaign to prevent Blackburn and
Hardin from stampeding the State and
using the goldbug platform for bonfire.
If it be true that there are nearly 50, 200
school children III New York who cannot |
get admittance to the schools because the
buildings are overcrowded, it is about
time for the metropolis to cease calling
itself a representative American city.
man arrested in New York for inter
fering with ash barrels gave his name as
Bonaventura neutrality-suspicious.
and the police magistrate, finding it i'm
possible to fix sentence long enough to
take IN the name, fined him 81 and let
him 60.
Tt is said the "vegetarians" in China,
who massacred the missionaries, are sort
of anarchical society, which the Chinese
Government has been for more than a
century trying to suppress; and for the
same time it has been trying to overthrow
the Government.
1t is claimed that David Bennett Hill is
arranging to have the Democratic conven-
ton IN New York declare against a third
term in language that will reflect on
Cleveland, and thus give Hill an oppor-
tunity to land another blow on his fat foe
while he is still in the ring.
About the lightest dark horse named
for the Presidential race is Judge Caldwell
of Arkansas, who year ago rendered him
self quite conspicuous by his decision re-
fusing to grant injunctions against rail-
road employees who proposed to strike. He
uses his decision for a platform, and
wishes to stand on it with the Populists.
Kansas City packing-house claims to
have invented a process by which it can
put up sixty-fve cubic inches of food in a
package weighing only thirty-fve ounces.
The food is intended for the use of troops
on forced marches, but if the experiment
proves successful, it might be used in
many other ways and prove useful in peace
as well as war.
Clement Scott, who is reputed to be the
greatest dramatic critic in London. has
made a sensation with his little pen w
advising the actors and actresses of that
city to attend the performance of an
American company now playing there in
order to learn to speak the English Ian
guage correctly. Society people with an
English accent might profit by the hint.
Since the war the South has expended
great Geal IN improved methods of
handling cotton, and the advance has been
something wonderful. No machine to pick
cotton has yet been successfully operated,
but new machine is announced that will
take cotton from the wagon and in fifteen
minutes it is ginned and compressed to
look like roll of carpeting. One hundred
bales of ordinary cotton can be compressed
to occupy space of one car.
Eastern horsemen have been startled by
decision of Judge Bischoff of New York
which virtually declares that under the
new law of that State every kind of horse
racing is gambling. The Judge said:
''The outcome of a horserace depends upon
chance; a contract for the payment of
sweepstakes is void under the statute