The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-04


John Bull isn't in it.
AS long as work on Balboa avenue keeps
moving we are making municipal progress
of gratifying kind.
If any man knows sure way to bring
about rain, the farmers will be glad to
communicate with him.
The Senators deliberate over the tariff,
but the importers do not. The one may
mean business, but the others are doing 1t.
The Greeks are now undoubtedly will
ing to trade all the sympathy they
have in all Europe for one good major
general.
The determination of the three En-
perors to maintain the existing conditions
in South Africa as well as in the Levant
is what makes the lion growl.
The crusade for pure food is now the
concern of the whole State and let US
hope will be carried forward everywhere
as vigorously as it has been in San Fran
cisco.
The Cubans and the Spaniards are quar-
reing over the question whether Pinar
del Rio has been pacifed, with a vindic-
tiveness which threatens to lead to G fight
the first time they meet.
Among the applicants for Office under
this administration is son of Samuel J.
Randall. he was not an early Republican
in the ranks, but he has shown up pretty
pronto at the pie counter.
The New York Legislature claims the
legislative record by passing 100 bills in
two hours but it may have been that the
quality of the bills was so light that it was
no trick at all to carry them.
The announcement that the King of
Siam will not visit us this year is not
wholly matter of regret. 1t will be better
10 bring him over some time when we have
carnival and need him as a drawing
card.
The revised DingIey bill promises to be
a great deal better for Western interests
than the original measure, so while some
people may grumble about the delay of
the Senators, we have nothing to kick
about,
The weather bureau is boasting at Wash
ington of having done good work in the
Mississippi Valley by telling the people
how fast the river was rising and when
the flood could be expected to reach a
given point.
1t is announced that after seven years of
persistent effort Mary Lydia Leggett has
induced Harvard to partially" open to
her the door of its divinity school, but as
it seems she has got in the door might as
well have been wide open. At any rate
the chances are she will soon N axe it so or
tear it down.
Philadelphia is not at all disturbed by
the taunts of outsiders at her slowness in
completing the Washington monument,
and complacently through the Enquirer of
that city says that when com pleted it will
be magnificent enough to make the Father
of His Country wish that he had waited to
see it himself.
Boston having gorilla, asserts through
the mouths of her naturalists that it is
the first live gorilla ever brought to this
continent, and now it would seem that
several circuses and quite a number of
Boston for libel or stand suspected of de-
ceiving ali innocent and too credulous
public.
1t is asserted that takers in New York
did great business during the celebration
attending the dedication of the Grant
mausoleum by selling bricks as souvenirs
of the occasion. They claimed that the
bricks were obtained from the vault where
the body of the hero had rested until the
great tomb was finished, and no ordinary
gold-brick swindle was more successful in
the way Of raising funds.
man accused in New York court of
beating his wife pleaded in justification
that she was addicted to ''cabin-hunting,
and when the amazed magistrate asked
what that meant he explained that it was
habit of going round to nelghboring
houses and filling up on mixed ale." We
have therefore new vice and new WORD
for it and our manners and our language
are to that extent enriched.
According to the New York Press gam
bling among fashionable women in that
city has become more like a rage than a
fad. 1t says: There are private roulette
wheels in this city for which fabulous
prices are said to have been paid-wheels
of silver and gold, ivory, pearl. tortoise
shell, cut glass. And roulette parties are
becoming com moner than poker parties f"
From all of which it is evident that New
York's richness is getting decidedly
gamey and is very close 10 the spelling
point.