The San Francisco call., 1897-06-28


business is not moving, but he never
thinks of giving a hand to help push it
along.
1t is sad thing that the only feature of
all the Grand jubilee which remains is
Austins ode. and there is no way of get
ting rid of it.
The Senate may not be making as much
speed with the tariff as the country would
like, but it is breaking all previous records
in great shape.
As David Bennett Hill has recently de-
clared he is not pessimist we NAV infer
that he doesn't agree With the proposition
that Bryan mus: De renominated in 1900.
Boston has the finest library building
in America. but it seems she has no
money to buy new books, and the culture
of the city has to satisfy itself with archi-
lecture and cid novels.
The announcement that Cleveland is
writing a book which is not to be pub
Iished during his life leads TO the sus-
picion that he intends to hit some folks
without giving them chance to hit back.
Competent authorities declare there has
not been a time in many years when the
Republicans of Ohio were so united as
now, and the outlook for victory is as
bright as the dawn OF a new era of pros
perity.
The great naval parade at the jubilee is
a reminder that all the use made of
navies in these days is 10 display marine
pageants or carry dignitaries from one
country to another. They might as we'll
be armed to shoot fireworks.
One of the freaks of the time is the fact
that some New York paTers, considering
Gorman's chances of reelection to the
Senate to be very slim, are booming him
for the Speakership on the theory that If
he runs for the House he will surely be
elected.
In 1892. under the Mckinley tariff, our
trade with Brazil amounted TO S183, ,0OO,-
600, while this year it will hardly reach
$65 900, coo, and the figures furnish con-
vincing answer 10 the free-traders who as
sert thata protective tariff will iniure our
trade with South American countries.
Flying-ships have had their dav and
now Georgia newspaper reports that
number of people in that State have seen
flying through the air strange figure re-
sembiing a woman with long floating hair.
There need be no suspicion that Mrs,
Lease is making a Southern tour. She
has renOuuced politics.
1t has been discovered that the member
Of the South American commercial dele
cation now visiting the East, who has
been making most fuss about the tariff, is
an Englishman who has been living some
years at Buenos Ayres. This fact ex-
plains the mystery of his irritation as we'll
as the meaning of his talk.
Philadelphia has bcbbed up at Wash.
tngton with delegation requesting Con-
gress to pass at this session not only the
tarin bill, but the bankruptcy bill, an i'm
migration bill, Paris exposition bill and
measure providing for the appointment
OF a monetary commission. And yet
there are people who call Philadelphia
slow.
In school district near Stockton the
trustees thereof recently elected a teacher
by tossing UP q coin. The teacher used
TO be secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A in a
neighboring town, and it is said that his
friends were so solicitous of his feelings
in the delicate situation that they per-
mitted him to pretend ignorance of the
fact that he was gam bled into office. The
salary is $50 a month. The provident
young mans inability to discern is one Of
the phenomena that have arrested atten-
n hat arf of Z
A New York society writer saws the
fashionable woman of the period begins
the day with tea in her bedroom at 8:
then there is breakfast at $50; light re-
freshment at IL or II 30; luncheon, with
its complement of coffee, follows; then
comes afternoon tea, with sandwiches !;
dinner at 8; coffee at $50" II is an easy
inference from this that fashion has an
appetite which grows by what it feeds on,
but when do the fashionab bles with all this
eating find time to wash the dishes and
put away the things.
a recent report of the State Geologist OF
Indiana is said 10 forebode the failure OF
the natural gas fields of the State at no
distant day. A decrease in the pressure
OF the flow was first noticed in 1896 and it
is still diminishing, so that within n year
or two unless more economy in the use of
the gas is practiced that source of light
and tuel in Indiana will have to be aban-
doned. Nature ran big gas factory in
ages gone by, but she seems to have dis
continued 1t and when the supply on hand
Is exhausted there is no more forthcom.
ing unless mtn make it themselves