The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29

The Berkeley "bete noir" seems to have
been bigger than her mascot.
We are sorry for the people of the bliz-
zard-swept East, but why don't they come
west?
Road improvement is one OF the reforms
that is always on the highway to pros
perity.
The Congressional Record should issue
an illuminated holiday number and make
itself popular.
Street improvement in this City is
spreading so rapidly we may almost have
hope of clean sweep.
The sympathy of our climate with that
of the East is a good deal like human
sympathy-rathe cold.
Prosperity after. the long depression is
not coming back with bound, but all the
same it is bound to come.
California has beaten the funding bill
whenever it came up in the past. and Is
qaite ready to doit again.
and learn where to make your holiday
purchases to best advantage.
Santa Claus taxes everybody heavily,
but he promises a rebate in the shape OF
something nice on Christmas.
There is a prospect that CIeveland's
message will try to cover everything, in
Guiding the blunders OF his administration.
AS Weyler has returned TO the front it
seems clear he went to Havana only to Get
his second wind and be ready for another
'blOws
About this time every body resolves he
will not spend as much for Christmas
gifts as he did lastly but he is fooling
: himself.
The. tax reform aconvehtion caused so
little discussion there is reason TO believe
0the people are satisfied with their taxes
after! :a!ails e.:
Senator Hill says tits not advisable for
oapy one to attempt to reorganize the Dem
'oc=atie party at this time, and the Seniors
head is Level.
All parties and all statesmen are in favor
of coast defenses Just now, and it looks as
five will soon be so ready for war we will
have to- in vite it in.
AS the newly elected Senator from Ala
bamaswiII begin his Senatorial career at
the age of rs he probably looks upon the
.senatorshfp as grave position.
IN odu Of ba oir
G. the inducement it gives to young men and
women to take evening strolls The hea-
vens are always worth looking at.
= If Spain should give Cuba independence
for a Christmas gift she would break the
record byocombining economy ana gener-
osity In one act of grand-stand play.
The war in Cuba cannot possibly last
much longer, since it has now exhausted
the resources of Cuba, the finances of
Spain and the patience OF the United
States
The oPittsburg Dispatch claims that an
electrical locomotive recently invented in
that city is the greatest mechanical i'm
provement of the day, but evidently it has
. not posted itself on our airship.
Q Garret A. Hobart did: not cut a verv
o large figure in the campaign but press
clipping bureau claims 10 have newspaper
notices Of over 800 babies named for him
since his nomination for the Vice Presi-
dency.
There are football experts in the East
who declare that Princeton victory over
Yale was due to the fact that one of Yale's
men did not part his hair in the middle,
and the criticism may have suggestion
OF value to, Berkeley.
Henry Watterson advises Democrats to
hold day OF fasting and prayer on the
@ 81 of January, while Coxey wishes them
ito hold a grand reunion at St. Louis on
that day and invite the Populists in, and
we shall see which of these men has most
influence with the donkey.
According to writer in the London
Financial Times Russia is preparing to re-
sune specie payment son a novel plan.
Instead Of bringing her paper up to the
standard of her gold, she is arranging to
reduce the weight of her gold coin to bring
it down to the level of tie money now in
circulation.
Attention of California deirymen is
called to the fact that Denmark sells to
Great Britain 100, 00o,o 900 pounds of butter
at an average price of 24.53 cents pound,
while the United States sells to that coun-
try but 1000, 900 pounds at less than 20
cents pound. There is big chance for
improvement on that condition of affairs.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon indorses the
miners request for representative in the
Cabinet and says: AT stand ready to coop
crate with any Senator or mem Der of the
House at the coming session who may be
disposed to take the lead in the matter"
Now, then, let the California delegation
get to the front and begin the fight at
once.