The San Francisco call., 1897-05-31


Philadelphia boasts that during the
time the President was her guest to at
tend the dedication of the Washington
monument not single office-seeker got
near him; 80 it seems We must put the
Quaker City down as pretty fly town.
Eastern authorities on divorce laws
assert that the divorce recently obtained
by Mrs. Langtry is valid in this State and
in New Hampshire, but nowhere else; so
if the Lily wishes to marry again she
must either patronize US or take to the
snowdrifts
The st. Louis Giobe-DemOcrat estim ates
that the rush of imports makes delay in
passing the tariff cost the country about
81, ,000, 900 day, and yet it will hardly be
denied that it will be better 20 pay even
that amount and get good tariff than to
rush things and get bad one.
Pennsylvania Is discussing the advisa-
bility of adopting asphyxiation as means
OF inficting the legal death penalty, and
some advocates of the plan propose to
have the subject considered by the Ma
tional Medical Society with the view of
having it adopted throughout the Union.
The national debt of Greece amounts to
about $66 per capita, and her bonds are
selling in London a hardly more than 10
cents on the dollar, so it is not to be
wondered that Turkey prefers to take even
such risky real estate as Thessaly by way
oflndemnity rather than to accept chances
OF obtaining money.
From all sections of the country comes
the cheering news: Great Improvement
in business" The whole Union is affected
by the upward tendency, and as soon as
the new tariff has been enacted we may
look for an industrial advance which will
soon take US back to the normal prosperity
OF protection times.
Experiments recently made in Missouri
show that much larger loads can be hauled
with wheels having siz-inch tires than
with those having standard tires. On
macadam roads the same power would
haul 25 per cent more; on gravel roads 80
per cent more; on dirt roads, dry and
hard. 80 per cent more.
Now that the Mississippi foods have re-
ceded 1T has been found that the damage.
instead of reaching 500, 000, 900, as was at
one time announced, will hardly exceed
$l5,0oO,OOO Even this sum, however, is
too large to be borne lightly, and active
measures should be taken by the Govern.
ment to guard against similar loss in
future.
A Chicago clergy man is quoted as saw.
ing: ALREADY Chicago's influence is on
the wane, and the exodus OF the men who
have been identified with its progress has
set in" 1t would be interesting to know
where the progressive fellows are emigrat-
ing. None of them are CO ming here, and
there are nc signs of them in New York,
Philadelphia or Boston.
The Pennsylvania Commissioner of
Forestry says that during the year 1896
upward OF 17S. CPS acres of forest land were
burned over in that Glate, and it was not
bad year for forest fires, either. The
value of the timber destroyed cannot be
well g timated, but since the destruction
is so vast in single State that OF the
whole Union must be enormous.
Lady Granville is quoted as having said
recently that in her younger days no one
in London society ever mentioned their
poverty or their digestion, as these things
were considered unfit for polite converse
ton, but now, she adds. they have become
the principal topics of conversation. High
society, it seems. is becoming very much
like the average. Poverty is every where,
and as for digestion. there isn't any.
The declaration of John Waramaker
that new party is needed in this country
attracted good deal of attention in the
East and provoked degree of criticism
which has led the orator to explain that
he did not mean new party throughout,
nor new administration, ad but only a new
Senate at Washington ana new set of