The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22


there is hope the epidemic will not spread.
If John L. Sullivan thinks he will run
for Mayor of Boston he overestimates his
sprinting abilities. John couldn't even
walk.
The assassin of Canovas made no sign
of penitence, but neither did he ask any,
body to meet him in heaven; so let credit
be duly given.
The New York minister who says the
poor of that city need 81 900, 900 church
has in all probability not consulted with
the poor about it.
It may be the calamity howlers are
making as much noise as usual, only the
people cannot hear them by reason OF
the hum of industry and the hustle of
business.
The Eastern man who willed a fortune
to 6 dog and stipulated that after the death
OF the dog the money should go to the
testator's sister doubtless has placed the
life OF one worthy canine in jeopardy.
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A New York vaudeville company is
planning a trip to Dawson, and as it is
sure to meet frost the metropolis OF the
Klondike may as well prepare itself to
be denounced as jay town next spring.
Rudyard Kipling is so happy over being
the father of a wrinkled, pink-toeo son that
fair woman ought to forgive him for hav-
ing gcaled her a rag and bone and hank
of hair, especially as the hair may not be
hers.
There is no more eager rainbow chaser
in the world just now than the goIdbug
Democrat. Anything which will give him
even a seeming promise that another
political food will never come his way
will receive his worship.
There have been so many deaths lately
from the habit of falling from balloons as
to suggest to intelligence that people who
don't GO up in balloons don't fall out, and
whether people who do go up fall out or
not is very small matter.
1t is said that If the scientific and collie
giate schools OF Greater New York were
combined as one organization it would be-
the greatest university in the world, and by
wayof making London, Paris and Berlin
pale with envy there is talk of doing it.
L. is said that more than so 900 voters
in New York have signed petitions re-
questing Seth Low to run for Mayor, but
not until after the election will he ever
know bow many of them wish TO get him
in the field so as to have a chance to knife
MIN.
That the Kansas intellect is as fertile as
ever OF political expedients is made evil
dent by the fact that in one of the towns
of that State the Councilmen propose to
put tax on ministers in order to make
up deficiency in revenue caused by clos
ing the saloons.
Philadelphia, according to circular
issued by the Trades League of that city,
is the greatest manufacturing center in
America and "makes everything from a
watch to a locomotive" Upto date, how
ever, it has never succeeded in making
anything with a Chicago movement.
Boston is said to be flooded with coun-
terfeit one-cent pieces and as no man
could ever make much Of a fortune by
counterfeiting coins of such small value
IL seems the rascal who devised the fraud
must have been actuated by a sense of
penny-saving thrift rather than any thing
in the way of speculation.
II is stated that from the Southern iron
furnaces there have been shipped to
Europe during the first six months of this
year 10, 900 tons, while for the correspond
ing period OF last year only 5000 tons were
shipped. This is an excellent showing for
Southern mining, but it would be better
for the South if more of the iron were
manufactured at home.
The decline in the value and rentals of
land in England is said to have almost re.
duced to bankruptcy the ancient univer-
stiles of Oxford and Cam bridge. Some of
the holdings OF the colleges yield so little
the income does not suffice to pay the
tax on them, and the dons and digni-
taries are afraid they may have to go to
work for living or initiate the mobiles and
marry heiresses.
The Washington Post quotes man who
itdescribes as ''devoted personal friend
of Senator German" to the effect that the
Senator will not accept reelection even
If it were offered him, having made up
his mind two years ago TO retire at the
end of this term. This will deprive De-
mocracy of its ablest leaders in the Senate
and the party Will be Topping around