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The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

"Those old river beds about Forest Hill" +"
said Anthony Clark, the veteran gofd-digger OF
that region, yesterday at the Lick, as he reused
himself from quiet nap, "are about the most
interesting things that can be studied. own
the Big Channel placer property there, as well
as other hydraulic mines, but this is the prin-
cipal one.
There is no doubt about the natural chan
nels there being ancient river beds have
been mining there forty-four years and am
firmly convinced of it. We get our W ater in
that district from different streams. Our
water comes from Shirttail Creek, IN Ell Do
rado County. There is an abundance OF it,
and We are doing very well.
81 never knew of better all-around mining
district than this There is lot of pretty
good mines there. They are mostly old mines,
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NEW TO-DAY.
REAL ESTATE
FOR SALE BY
I'lOS. MagGG & Sons.
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
And Publishers "Real Estate Circular"
+ Montgomery Street,
UKIOy TRUST BUILDING, CORNER MARKET.
NEW PROPERTY.

A bargain-Lots any size, 1875 feet deep, on
King ST. near Second on railroad tracks at water
front, 81 so front foot: or 275 deep. through to
TOwnsend SEE foot for S9 31 s09Ss 'front.' @
steamer and Pacific Mail dock and on deep-wsier
front. $4,000; or any size; spur-track into this
land.
$sOoo-cottage and lot on Hayes St, near Fill
more; 22:6x70.
Lot 4bxlOO; Twenty-third ST., between Capp and
INVESTMENTS.
Sansome St, near Market; large lot and four
story brick building; rents $3.50; low price.
$300O0-Rents $l95 Polk st.. near California:
6OxS0; fine 3-story building; stores below and
roOmfng-ho above.
Fourth st. corner. renting for 1925: S3I, ,OOO
Rents for $274 5O-Fine corner; Ellis and Hollis;
new fats price asked $27 600 and offers wa nted:
it is an estate and must soou sell.
Rents S1S5; 5,5O0 six well bnilt 2-story
houses; z rooms and bath each; Howard-st. corner
near 9th.
sixteenth-st. business corner, on best part of
stores; $17, 900.
HOUSES AND LOTS So 800 AND up
WARD-EASY TERMS.
$500 cash-McAllister ST., near Baker: 25xlOO
and fine 2-story bay-window house. 10 rooms and
modern convrniences; price $o350.
Corner residence; reduced to $4,000; 8 blocks
from Market ST.; cor. octavia st. and Hickory ave
10 rooms, bath and modern conveniences
Bush ST., near Fillmore; 27xl37 ;6 and fine q
story and basement house; 10 rooms and bath; in
Reduced to sis5os shotwel shoy fGToo st w side pea,
Twenty second; 56xs6:6 and two cottages, 5
| rooms and bath each; rents $50: fine street.
Octavia ST., bet. broadway and Vallejo. 95r
IL 20 ana 2-story in good order; rooms. bath
ETC. !n nne view; $4,000; easy terms
Californa-S.. residence, w of Laguna: lot 27.6
x151:6, and fine residence; nearly $4,000 lately
| $95OU ouiS
o SSo0O-Bryant st, N. side, bet. I'd and Sd; 25x
80 and cottage Of rooms.
Two-story and basement and lot 26:3xSO: houae
mas IL rooms; only $1,000; very easy terms; Te-
hama ST, bet. LIST and I'd.
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COMING.

Faint and far-off, hear the murmur
OF an angels ffuttering wings;
Faint and far-off, b ear the charme-
AS her siren song she sings.
She is coming
Hear the hummlng
OF the family fiuttering wings.
Pink and white, the eager mountain
Tops, expectent, stand ana wait;
Silver sands at Neptune's fountain
Tremble lest she should he late.
Eager mountain,
Trembling fountain,
Expectant of her coming, wait.
Budding roses hold their blooming
Till her coming, and they furl
The fragrant flags of their perfumlng
Till she starts the seasons whirl,
Hear the humming
OF the coming
OF the same old summer girl.
w. j. LAMPToN in Lii
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(" THE OVERLAND LIMITED
Via union Pacihc

oN1v 31s DAYS TO CHICAGo-31H
412 DAYS TO NEW YORK-4A
Pullman double drawing-room sleepers and dim
ing-cars San Francisco to Chicago daily without
change. Composite buffet smoking and library
cars between Salt Lake City, Ogden and Chicago.
Upholstered Pullman tourist sleepers, San Fran
cisco to Chicago daily without change. and per
sonaly conducted tourist excursions to ST. Paul
and Chicago every Friday.
For tickets and sleepng-car reservations apply to
general Office 1 Montgomery street. Steamship
tickets on sale to and from all parts Of Europe
D. w. HITCHCOCK, General Agent
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The siehtssers VIII Go.

The sale of reserved seats for to-morrow's ex-
cursion to Sonoma Valley closes at 10 o'clock
this evening at 333 OFarrell street. num-
Der of very nice parties have already engaged
seats together while the members of the Sight
seers Club and their friends will practically
fill q car. The schedule is arranged so that the
excursionists may tarry IN hour in old Sonoma,
two hours at the baths at Aqua Caliente and
nearly four hours at Glen Ellen. 1t will be a
basket-lunch outing, but arrangements have
been made to feed number at the MOTEL.
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The late Judge Fair of Atlanta. Ca. was a
curious example of thrift carried to the verge
OF monomania. In his desk after his death
were found all the ink bottles he had ever used
hundreds of them-and several thousand
worn-out pens, and large bundles of envelopes
which had been sent through the mails and
were wholly useless.
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cALIFoRNIANS IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, June Sat the Astor.
E. Brown; Imperial, G. E. Don; Gilsey, Mrs. s..
Ross; Continental, Mrs. Pennycock, Miss A.
Pennycock; Grand Union, s. P. Young; St.
James, ]. Whitehill. Sailed per steamer Stutt-
CART for Bremen, Mr.. and Mrs. A. o. Leuschner.
Sailed per steamship Ems for Genoa, via Gibral-
tar, Pho Fortuna
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We have improved our line OF holdings for
picture frames very much lately by adding q
number of new patterns In oaks and gifts.
Price always the lowest on the new things,
and a discount of just One-half on about $50
patterns of old styles which we are closing out.
Sanborn, Vail & Co., TAI Market st.
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who were born here; besides they know
the Republican party is the friend and
protector of every worthy man, no matter
where he came from, who wants to become
true and loyal citizen and provide him
self with a home of his own. The bill
should pass, because American home
builders need Just such law.
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WANTS A PEACE CONGRESS.
DR.. Michel Revon,- PhiIanthropist and
investigators, Arrives Here.

Investigator, Arrives Here.
DR.. Michel Revon, of Paris. formerly
professor Of law in the University OF
Toxic, and now proprietor of the leading
peace paper in the country, was among the
arrivals by the Peru yesterday. He has
been studying the civilization of Japan.
DR.. Revon is an ardent believer that the
nations should go to war no more. He
has strong belief that all international
disputes should be settled by arbitration.
War. he says, Is utterly incompatible with
the good of humanity. He is desirous of
interesting this country in peace measures,
and that America with her advancement
and intelligence should do all in her power
to establish court of arbitration. The
doctor will probably visit Washington and
interest Congress in the matter
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Evangelist sayford. .

S. NJ Sayford, prominent evangelist, who
is an associate of Dwight L. Moody, will de-
liver special address to young people at the
Young Mems Christian Association audi
noon, at 3 o'clock. The gallery viii be re-
served for ladies. Mr.. Sayford is one OF the
most prominent evangelisls OF the United
usually interestin
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

Watts-I agree with the Shah of Persia in re-
gard to horse races. You know he said he took
no interest in racing, because he already knew
that one horse could run faster than another.
Potts-Of course one knows that one horse
can run faster than another but you never
know whether he will be allowed to do so.
That's where the excitement comes fn.-In.
dianapolis Journal
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Aggregate. -. SO, 800, 100000
D $3.eOO,O 100000

These figures are from NJ. L. Muhleman of
the United States Sub-Treasury at New York
There are some statisticians who claim that the
aggregate OF the estimate is too low by 81 ,000,-
000,0 900. The estimate OF the director Of the
United States Mint is gold, So ,901, 900 900;
silver, So, ,931 ,1O0, 900.
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made removable and thus admits of variety.
The waist is very slightly pointed, and may be
worn with or without the belt or ribbon.
A waist of blue mohair had vest OF white
pleated chiffon. The revers and cuffs were
piped with white and white ribbon collar
worn.
waist of pink silk, heavily crossbarred
with black had revers, standing collars ana
cuffs of black faille franchise.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

Judge Gregorowski, the Orange Free State
magistrate who tried and pronounced sentence
on the Transvaal conspirators, is of Polish
origin, 80 years of age, and studied law at
Gray's Inn, In London.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

FIvE-DoLLAR PIECE-G. NJ. B., Geyserville,
Cal. No premium is offered for So gold piece
of 1843. The selling price of such piece by
dealers in coin is from So so to So so.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

Sidi Ali, the 3ey of Tunis, Is likely to en-
counter sea OF troubles in the near future,
for he has decided to become author. His
forthcoming book is to be entitled ''The Guide
of the True Believer in the Path of Duty" 1t
deals with the sanitary and legal obligations
of the Mussulman, as well as with the tenets OF
his faith.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

Prominent WRITERs-A Reader, Bertha, Lake
County, Cal. The question in regard to Eng
ish and American writers is too indefinite to
admit OF an answer
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

WEDDING EuoUETTE-C. R.. City. An answer
to an invitation to wedding is not necessary
Those who cannot attend either send or leave
their cards for the hostess within few days
after The wedding.
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FIvE-cENT P1EcE-Cad, City. Silver fve-cent
pieces of 1861 and 1862 do not command any
premium, as dealers are well supplied. The
dealers charge from 25 to so cents for a coin of
either date.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

THE N P C. R. R., via Sausalito ferry, wall
put on additional campers and excursion
trains June 10, between San Francisco and
Point Reyes, arriving in San Francisco at 40
A NJ. and leaving at 515 P M, which runs
through country unsurpassed for camping or
days outing.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

CAsINo-Old Subscriber. In the game OF
casino cards count first, and if in the final
play each party has made enough points to go
out the one VINO holds cards wins the game.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

BOOTH A CALL Reader, City. J. Wilkes
Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, was
nota communicant of the church you name
IL your letter of inquiry, and in fact, SO far as
this department can learn, was not commu-
meant of any church.
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To San Jose and Alum Rock.

81 round trip, Sunday, June z. Palace cars
leave Third and Townsend streets at 8 o'clock.
Family excursion, Valencia-street station
$40 sharp.
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ONE OF 1924. F. W., Oakland, Cal A
half dollar of 1924 does not command any
premium, as there is no call for such, but il
you want to buy one you would have to pay
from S5 cents to So so.
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Silver is rising in the market as well as
in politics, in Europe as well as in
America.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

THAT TRAINING sCHooI-H. Il. W., Oakland
Cal AS no provision has yet been made TO
the establishment of the training school OF
Goat Island, there is no place at present a
which to file applications.
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

A BACK DATE-H. s., City. The 31st of May
1858, fell on Monday.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

It is now charged that the Sultan subsi-
dies murder in Armenia with as much
regularity as if it were state industry.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers,
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allens), $40 Montgomery.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

If the Pacific Coast delegates at st. Louis
are united the Pacific Coast can have a
representative in the next Cabinet.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06
LADY'S WAIST WITH PLASTR0N
FRONT.

return to fitted waists is noted in many
handsome gowns The one shown here is fitted
by dart on either side of the front, and has
the usual back, side form and under-arm gore
portions The front has vest effect, which Is
much liked, as the vest or plastron may De
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

There is a prospect that when the crowd
arrives at the St. Louis convention it will
find the hotels have adopted cyclone prices
and are trying for clean sweep.
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$67.50-Specia1 Train-S67 so. Repub-
liean Convention at ST. Louis.

Leaves San francisco Thursday, June IL, ct 10
A. NJ. via Salt Lake CiUy-Denver, thence BurIing-
ton route. The entire California and Nevad dele
cations have accommodations on this train. Rate
to St. Louis and return, $67 3d. Berths for this
train must be secured office of Burli ngton route
80 Montgomery st.
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"All you have to do" said Jules Simon the
other day to President Faure, "is to ride
straight and not to read the newspapers. NJ
Casimir-Perier lost his balance because he was
always perusing the cuttings about himself
which after all were only dished up to goad
him on to resigning"
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

Princess Youriewski, the morganatic widow
of the Gear Alexander II, has bought several
acres of land at Nice. near the Boulevard de
Cimiez. and intends to build large villa there.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

1t is wonder that Boss Plat does not claim
the solid delegation of his State for Governor
Morton. He says Mckinley sentiment in New
York is simply the talk of the "antis," when,
as a matter of fact, eight-tenths of the Repub-
licans of the State favor the nomination of the
Ohio andidate.-Cleveland Leader.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

'Say, daddy. what is it that distinguishes
| civilization from barbarity?"
sit is very simple; civilization consists in
| the art of killing your enemy with cannon
ball at distance of 5000 yards, and barbarity
in slaShing his head off with a saber.-Le Gau-
1ais
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

GENUINE eyeglasses, specs, 15c. 8113 Fourth
st. (nr. barber's) Sun days 738 Market (Kastsls
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

The Democratic party will not die in its
boots on election day, for the plain reason
that it will be licked out of them before
the election takes place.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

NICE present for Eastern friends-Town-
sends Cal. glace fruits, lb. 627 Market ST.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

Most of the City officials are SO predatory
that Oh question of their character the
people would hardly make any other re-
sponse than "rats."
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

Democracy may promise free silver, but
the people will rem ember that Democracy
promised tariff that would yield a
revenue.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

About the only thing a Grand Jury does
with any vigor is to dodge its oppor-
tunities.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

Tomorrow Delng the day of rest you
will need good reading to amuse your
leisure and the best way to get it Is 10
leave orders to-day for THE SUNDAY CALL.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

1t is said by New England Democrats
that the strength OF the Russell boom is
its spontaniety, and it may be added that
its weakness is its liability TO spontaneous
com bustion.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

Judge Wallace should have put his own
house in order first.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

Morgan talks of war with Spain as
earnestly as if there might be money in it.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

The Senate has got the filled cheese bill
out of the ay st last and now we may
reasonably expect either business or an
adjournment.
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The season,s Family Excursion.

San Jose and return 81. Iroquois Club out
ing. Train leaves Third and Townsend 9 O'Clock,
Sunday, June z. Valencia.street station 8 9:1O. >
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This year will certainly see the breaking
up of the old alignment of parties. Men
who think alike will vote alike, and there
will be no more talk about protection
Democrats or Republicans who are in
clined to free trade.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

According to the English papers they
are not the Car and Czarina. but the Tsar
and Tsaritsa, and we may as well adopt
the spelling, as it seems more like what
we might expect of "a people who call Mos
cow Moskva
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

The noise of the Buckleyites denouncing
Buckley adds another humor to the situa
ton.
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Articles of established reputation can al
ways be had if you insist on having them
and there is no reason why any intelligent
customer should allow himEelf to be i'm
posed on by the substitution of another
article of unknown value alleged to be
lust as good.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

Congress has passed a bill providing q
sum to pay off the last claims of the Co.
lumbar Exposition, but that doesn't close
up the show. The distribution of medals
is still to come
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

AS the case goes now Assessor Siebe is
the man who smiles.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

Some say the tariff is the main issue of
the campaign. and some assign that place
TO the money question, but all agree that
the deficit and the bonds are not going to
be forgotten.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

The Junta stands for gold and the silver
Democrats OF the City are for Buckley, so
the rural Democrats being against Buckley
and against gold will have to stay in the
woods when the convention meets.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

the most lavish extravagance Not only were
the yalparty conveyed from the Thames to
the Neya in the Victoria and Albert, but that
yacht was escorted all the way by two men-of-
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

My husband got one day before yesterday and
the doctor says he won't be out for a MONTH
Yonkers Statesman.
He-I see New York firm is advertising
"howers by Telegraph"
She-I prefer to have them with the stems
don't think they are as good wired.-Yonkers
Statesman.
We now have girls Of every kinds
The bloomer girl so pert,
The golf girl and the horsey girl,
Who wears Ter brothers shirt;
We have the gddy summer girl,
The winter girl as well;
But where, oh where's the girley-girl:
Can anybody tell?-PhiIadelphia Record.
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PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.

M. Gervex is to paint picture of the corona
ton af the Czar Nicholas for the city of: Paris,
on canvas 33x24 feet.
DIR. Lapponi, physician 10 the Pope. says:
"If nothing unforeseen happens the holy
fathers constitution is so sound that he may
well attain his one hundredth year."
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

FROM THE BATTERY-P. NJ, Sacramento, Cal
The distance from the Battery, New York. to
Bledsoe Island, on which the Barthsldi statue
is standing, is little more than mile and
tnree-qGarters; the distance from the same
point 10 Governors Island q little more than
three-quarters OF mile
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sd. Louis Conrention.

Parties taking advantage of the cheap rates to
the Republican Convention can secure tickets re-
turning via St. Paul and the Northern Pacific
Railroad. T. h Stateler, general agent, 638 Mar
ket street. San Francisco
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BEST peanut tafry in the world. TOwnsend's.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

LONDON "butter-scotcn' tablets Townsend's.'
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SOFT baby ere am, l5o pound, Townsend's.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

AS it is reported from Washington that
there is something of scandal involved
in the selection of design for the pro-
posed monument to Sherman, the natural
inference is it is to be case of high art.
That is always regarded as scandalous in
this country.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

Attention has been called to the fact that
this is the centennial of the Democratic
party, it having made its first Presidential
contest in 1876, when it undertook to elect
Jefferson as the successor of Washington.
1t was beaten then by John Adams, and
now in its decrepld old age it can be beaten
by almost anybody.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

What would it profit Governor Matthews to
gain the Democratic nomination on a free
silver platform and lose every Northern
State?-Indianapolis Journal
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

LADIES take DR.. Siegert's Angostura Bitters gen.
orally when they feel low spirited. 1t brightens
them up Immediately.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

There is probability that the old rule
of Democratic conventions requiring a
two-thirds vote to nominate candidates
will be broken through this year as mat
ter of necessity. Neither the silver nor the
gold wing of the party will have two-thirds
of the delegates, and as a compromise
seems impossible there must be either
split in the convention or nomination by
simple majority vote.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

The fact that the Liberals have gained
two seats in Parliament will occasion but
little interest outside OF England itself.
Since the retirement of Gladstone British
Liberalism means nothing in which the
world takes the slightest interest or has
the least concern. 1t is hardly more than
a waste-basket of odds and ends which
the great man left behind him when he
went out Of Office.
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ALONG THE sK1RMlsH LINE.

The Democrats are in for Donnybrook Fair
at Chicago sure. Wherever leading Demo-
Gratis head is in sight there will be another
leading Democrat ready to hit it.-New York
Recorder.
The trouble with the sound-money Demo-
Gratis is that they stand off and talk about the
justice of their cause while the free-silverites
pitch in end elect the delegates.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Here is a ticket that ought to suit the "boys /"
1t is Boies and Dubois.-St. Joseph (Mo.) Her
aid.
These would be dull days in the United
States Senate but for the efforts of David B.
Hill to defend his dear friend, Mr.. Cleveland
Cleveland Leader.
President Cleveland is one of the hardest
men to move in the country, both
physically and mentally.-B Bridgeport (Conn)
Post.
There win be no further experiments with
free trade in this country until generation
arises that doesn't remember any of the re-
suits of that last previous experiment.-Chi.
cago Times-Herald.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

Adolphe d'Ennery, the French playwright,
has tried in vain to keep secret the fact that he
and his wife have resolved to bequeath 2,0OO,-
900 francs to the French Actors Benevolent
Eund
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

LAKE CoUNTY-A Reader, Bertha, Lake Coun-
ty, CAL Lake County, California, is in the
Seventh Senatorial District and in the Tenth
Assembly District. Henry C. Gesford is the
county is in the Third Congressional District,
which is represented BY S. G. Hilborn.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

WORLDS GOLD AND SILvER-A NJ, Agnews,
CAL The following table is said to be a con-
servative estimate of the gold and silver of the
world, which includes bullion and COIN
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06

There will be huge bill for the English tax
payers to defray in connection with the Duke
and Duchess of Connaught's visit to Moscow
All the arrangements were made on scale o
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CHARLES Nj. SHORTRIDdE,
Editor and Proprietor.
SUBSCRIPTION RATEs-postage Free:
THR suMMER MONTH";.

BUSINESS OFFICE:
TO Market Street,
San Francisco, California.
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The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

sArURDAY -. .JUNE 8, lse6
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Parson ITO youngster fishing on Sunday)-My
boy, Pm surprised to find you here.
Youngster dnnocently)-Do you know some
other place where they bite better?-Up to
Date.