The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20

Our carnival ball was not big but it was
great.
Roasted pelican is not good diet, but it
is better than crow.
1t begins to look as if the monopoly cen
tipede would soon be without a single leg
TO stand on.
Once more the French republic is said to
be in danger of falling, and once more it
doesn't even totter.
1t is now said it was not the cathode ray
but what scientists call the Y ray that
N ade the ten strike.
The next thing We know Huntington
won't remember that he owes the Govern
ment anything at all.
What Huntington doesn't know about
railroading fills all the books of the
Southern Pacific Company.
Senator Morgan's cross examination is
getting in its work On Huntington with
all the effect of a cathode ray.
The Junta may be right in thinking
Rainey IS away off," but he has long
reach and may capture them yet.
1t is worth noting that every State in
the Union that has large gold mining in
dustry is in favor OF free silver coinage.
Whenever the Huntington burr is
opened up We find the two old chestnuts,
II don't know" and Il don't remember"
1t will be a long time yet before the
fstic carnival gets its quietus, for JIM
Corbett has begun to take tongue in it.
The Senate made a good record for itself
in passing the pension bill in eight min
utes, but It doesn't promise to keep up the
lick.
In her rapid requirement of all the
features OF civilization Japan has Just de-
eloped a railroad combination and a
Cabinet crisis.
The report from Berlin that the Kaiser
is worse in society than he is in politics
may be put down among the tales that
fatigue credulity.
The boulevard movement is good, but 1t
mustn't get too far ahead of the move
ment for the improvement OF streets where
business travels.
About the time Huntington gets off the
stand the bond deal investigating commit
tee will put Carlisle on it and then there
will be more fun.
With the cold shoulder on one side and
basteo ribs on the other monopoly doesn't
know yet whether it has struck cold
snap or hot time
The goldbug papers may be right in
calling Tillman the ''Senate stable-bov
but all the same he does his work well in
currying down the donkeys.
1t was perhaps well enough for both
houses of Congress to turn their fire on
Secretary Morton, but why hunt rabbit
when there is a bear in sight?
Although Senator Morgan has been
forced to play lone hand in the Pacific
Roads Committee, he holds the winning
cards and can euchre the crowd.
1t would be good idea to give the
Balfe-Moore concert series of encores to
raise money to erect a memorial to Bale
and Moore as an ornament to the park.
Senator Hill objects to the Investigation
of the Cleveland bond deal and it seems
these New York fellows have found out
that II is time for them to stand together
The carnival in New Orleans NAV be
larger than any single one of ours but we
will have enough to surround it with such
a ring OF rose festivals as would lose it in
the whirl.
Huntington persists in asserting that
the Cllff House is saloon and gambling
den, but fortunately the fame of that
beautiful resort is too well known for the
lie to obscure it.
Now that the Cleveland Chamber of
commerce has rejected Carnegie because
ne is an oppressor of the poor" thev
should not allow their philanthropy to
stop there. The poor are still with them.
In the great international game for the
Korean stakes Russia holds the King, but
1t remains TO be seen whether he belongs
to the trump suit. There is a chance vet
Tor japan to turn up card of another
color.
In publishing interviews of prominent
Huntington not only counts his chickens
before they are hatched, but what is more
no sooner are they hatched than thew rise
up and deny the allegation.
Ex-senator ingalls, has appealed to the
Republicans OF every county in Kansas to
give instructions on the senatorship to
their representatives in the Legislature
and II his scheme works he won't be
statesman out of a job much longer.
The report of the State Liquor Commits
sioner of South Carolina states that from
February 1 to December 81, 1895, the total
sales amounted to $l,076, 1868, from which
counties and towns derived a net profit of
Sl06,131 and the State $133, 467. 1t will be
seen therefore that whatever the system
may be in other respects it has proven a
fairly profitable one as a matter OF busi-
ness.