The San Francisco call., 1897-04-17

streets; open till O'Clock.
OAKLAND OFFICE:
9JS Broadway
EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and 80, "a Park Row. New York City.
DAVID NJ. FoLTZ, Eastern Manager.
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
Along the Missouri and the Mississippi
in these days everything goes.
1t is mighty good town along the
Mississippi that can keep its head above
water in these days.
From the way the Levantine drama is
being played out it Is clear that good act
ing can never be expected from concert
company.
New York is to have a new custom
house, Philadelphia a new mint, Chicago
new postoffice and San Francisco a
new-deaI-perhaps.
While the powers are watching the
Macedonian frontier Colonel Vassos con-
tinues to occupy Crete and is beginning to
feel himself at home.
Dingley is the father of the tariff bill,
hut several Senators show a desire to be-
come its stepiather without showing an
equal desire to give it step farther in the
right direction.
There is growing belief that the cause
of Cuba would be more favored in the
Senate If Morgan would be silent for an
hour or two and give some other Senator
q chance to talk.
According to Tesla ''sleep is the cumu-
lative storage battery OF human energy"
and If this is so the House Of Representa-
tives just now is storing up enough energy
to run the Government pretty lively when
it starts to work i
The Greek Government should inform
The powers that the invasion OF Turkey
on her part like the blockade of Crete on
theirs is strictly pacific, and is intended
not as an act of war but as diplomatic
guarantee of good faith.
There was man IN Chicago whom the
people called "Hinky Dnk," but now he
has become an alderman and they call
HIM Honora BILE Michael McKenna, and
yet there are persons who think the aver
age Chicago man has no respect for offic
dignity.
Tne story that the 'log OF the Nav
flower" is TO be returned to thi. country
has undergone a revision. 1t seems there
is no such log. What is to be returned is
manuscript history of the pilgrims in
their New England home written by Gov.
ernor Bradford and covering a period of
twenty-eight years.
On April s the Chicago Times Herald
said: AT least ffty towns and villages
on the Mississippi have been submerged"
On April II the st. Louis Globe Democrat
said ''nearly a thousand towns on the
Mississippi are under water" The con-
trast between these two statements shows
how rapidly the river rose.
1t is reported that Count Castellane.
father OF the man who married Mis-, Anna
Gould, was recently seen 20 lose s44 600 at
baccarat without futtering a nerve, so it
seems that part of the fortune of the
late lamented Jay Gould has gone to a
family that can buck the tiger with as
much equanimity as he could fleece a
lamb.
The numb Der, the variety and the extent
OF the criticisms which have been pro-
nounced upon Congressman Bailey since
he announced that he would never wear a
swallow-tail coat drive US to the conclu-
sion that We really need Government
commission either TO regulate a mans
clothes or TO supervise another mau's
right 10 comment on them.
AS ii there were not already more than
enough English dictionaries in the world.
there is now in course of publication in
England work known as the New Eng
llsh Dictionary" which has got as far as
the letter h, and embraces over SO, 900
words, with 81 letters TO follow. 1t is evi-
dent that after while the language will
have words enough to cover any situation:
even that OF man who upsets his apple
cart.
Senator Hetfeld of Idaho is Quoted AZ
saying to a Washington reporter that
while he is pleased with the Eastern
cities be has seen, and particularly so
with Washington, he still considers San
Francisco to be the greatest of American
cities. The Senator, being Popnlist.
can hardly be called level-headed in poll
tics, but there can be no doubt that he is
one of the best judges of towns in this
country.
1t has been proposed that the Elkins
bill. providing differental duties on good.
imported in American ships, shall be
made part of the Dingley tariff. and the
proposition has found good deal of sup
port in the East. The two measures are
indeed closely related to one another, and
yet it will hardly be worth while to join
tn m at the risk of delaying and possibly
endangering the tariff Let US take one
step at time.
According to the programmes that have
been arranged so far the professions to be
held in New York on the dedication OF the
Grant monument and in London in ceIe-
bration OF the sixtieth year of the Queens
reign will present III striking contrasts
the characteristics OF the two people on
parade occasions. The New York dis play
will be much larger than the one in Lon
don, but it will not be so brilliant. The
British pageant will hardly occupy more
than an hour in passing given point but
the American procession will require more
than double that time.