The San Francisco call., 1897-01-25


. b27 MONTGOMERY street, corner Clay; open until
80 O'Clock.
8ss Hayes street; open until $3.50 O'Clock.
616 Larkin street: open until 30 o'clock.
SW, corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open
until O'Clock.
2618 Mission street; open until O'Clock.
1877 Ninth street; open until O'Clock.
1905 Polk street; open until $50 O'Clock.
OAKLAND OFFICE:
eOs Broadway.
EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and 32 "a Park Row, New York City.
DAVID NJ. FoLTZ, Eastern Manager.
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
1t is reported that Olney will find fine
law practice awaiting him in Boston, and
the country, of course, Will be willing fol
him to stay with it.
AS it is now said that William Waldorf
Astor has the gout it would seem his
claims to be considered British aristo-
crat can no longer be disputed.
Olney has publicly congratulated Sher-
man on his coming succession to the State
Department, and on the sly he is perhaps
congratulating himself on getting out.
Senator Hill says he wishes no political
obituary, which is not only equivalent to
saying he doesn't believe he is dead, but is
fairly good proof that he is liye enough to
kick.
Whether the Legislature is TO make the
session as a whole long or short is doubt.
full, but il is cutting the daily sessions in
both houses short enough to serve fol
plug cut.
1t is said that over 25 per cent of the
registered voters of Connecticut are bi-
cycIers, but this is not the only reason oi
the power of the machine in politics in
that State.
Sam Jones says he never in all his life
saw place where sin is so respectable as
it is in Boston, and now Boston is in doubt
whether to regard the saying as a compIi-
ment or a slur.
a Judge in Maine has declared the law
OF that State does not recognize hypno-
tism, and now it is a question for debat-
ing society whether Maine is ahead of the
time or behind it.
Two years ago the Legislatures all over
the Union were fighting the theater hat
and now they are fighting the trusts.
Anything goes that promises to give the
world a show for its money.
Victoria has reigned for sixty years, but
she is so much younger than Gladstone
that she is afraid to abdicate less some one
should cite the case as an evidence that
woman is not the equal of man.
1t is now said that it cost Richard
Croker nearly $1,000000 to race his horses
in England and get acquainted with roy
atty, so it seems that while Wales may
have become common in some things he
still keeps up the price.
The new rule of the State Department
forbidding our EN- bassadors abroad from
making speeches on questions that divide
political parties at home is being generally
commended, but the friends of Bayard so
right along saying nothing.
"
1t is prosposed in England to make the
celebration of the sixtieth year of the
Queens reign a season of gifts to the poor
and of providing parks for small towns
and villages so the people will have good
reason to enjoy the occasion.
The city assessor of New Haven has
raised the assessment of Yale for taxation
purposes from less than $4,000 to more
than $400, 200. AS consequence culture
and the Yale spirit have taken the war
To-
The Chicago Health Commissioners have
declared the water supply of that city to
be unfit for children to drink and have
shut it off from the public schools, but as
the children will have to drink it at home
it is hard to see where the benefit comes in.
Some prying investigator has discovered
that the uniform of a colonel on the Gov
ernor's staff costs 500 IN Massachusetts
and twice as much in Vermont. and now
there is a hubbub in the far East that
would stife the noise of any racket Kan
sas ever made.
One of the notable features OF the expo
sition to be held in Turin next year is to
be an exhibition of the rise and progress
Ot GOulC anu IL dQmlS5lOu Is permit
ted to the comic weeklies of this country
the exposition can be made to include the
decline and fall as well.
AS a result of the construction of large
ocean steamers, it has been found neces-
sary to dredge the Thames to allow their
entrance to the docks at London. By and
by ships may be so big that they will have
to do their docking on the ocean beach,
and any town inside harbor Will be out
side the channels of trade.
Since Governor Leedy OF Kansas replied
to Eastern attacks on his State by saying
Kansas has room enough in her schools
for all her children while the rich Eastern
cities have not, the cultured critics have
dropped the subject of education and re-
turned to their solemn and serious dis
courses on Western whiskers.
In default of any industry at which con-
vicis can be kept busy under the present
law, New York officials are discussing
the advisability of putting them through
a military drill every day. The move
ment it will be seen has the possibility OF
proceeding so far eventually as TO turn