The San Francisco call., 1897-08-16

III uuik. IniS sta Dlilty Is oepenoeHt upoh
the heat insulation provid ed, and 10 per
feet this matter OF heat insulation is the
aim of scientists and electricians inter-
ested in this new means OF energy storage.
SNAPSHOTS ALONG THE COAST.
The meanest editor in the world is found.
1t is Mr.. Ziegentuss of Fresno. Hear him:
"Ligh thing struck brewery the other day.
But let Stockton cheer up. Lightning never
str kes twice in the same place.
The Trinity Journa, wakes unduly jubilant
over the "Biue Ja!" mine from which the
1000 nugget was gathered. 1t should recol-
lect that up In the Klondike ncighborhood be-
fore long there will be many blue jay.
The San Mateo Leader observes that fencing
has become fad. But really, with al due re-
spect 10 Dame Fashion, it must be conceded
that fencing derives some of its popularity
from its usefulness barrier between
grain Itch and the neighboring hog.
Twas ever thus As her reward for turning
her pockets inside out and scattering nuggets
all over the place Trinity County receives
from the Haywartis Jou ma the title of Cali
fornia K!ondike." The ingratitude of man
sometimes assumes forms which contain not
even the element OF picturesqueness.
In the Albuquerque Citizen Is found the IN
structiye announcement that Boston has been
flooded with counterfeit pennies" The
spirit of enlightenment in Boston which gives
to the needless penny value meriting coun-
forfeiture suggests the notion that the wild
and woody West is not yet as bad as 1t might
be.
The Richmond Banner processes to know of
H. I'd Haa
less some ob.iging contemporary will now
come forth with the discovery of bright par
ticular genius who has contriyed an instru-
ment capable of removing them from the trap
without getting them mixed up in the trap
per's clothes or lost up his sleeve.
AT Folsom the other day man named Berry
experienced the mischance OF being hanged.
vi his personal disposition under that severe
ordeal, it is related in the Sacramento Bee
that he went to the other world with smile
on his lips, and on the same day Fresno
paper states that a man named Berry, with
smile on his lips, arrived in Fresno.
1.-THE young man who is single and don't go
to the mines is missing golden opportunity,
not only to make himself rich. but also to
make room on the dry-goofs boxes for some
one else to whittle sticks while That Mug
act is OF from the Yukon-it Is pub. ished at
p acerville, this State, and is one of those
things which glitter. but are not gold.
Because the Vallejo NeWs expressed yearn-
ing thirst to know what a certain public Of
fetal did to earn $500 year, it was accused
oil calling the Ger tain public official thief
1t would be serious thing indeed to place
that construction upon a simple desire for in
formation in which everybody who is not
pubic Official shares with reference to every.
body who is.
The Dixon Tribune notes that "Uncle
Jimmy" McGaughey, said to be the Oldest liv-
ing survivor OF the Mexican war, is living at
Lawrenceburg, KY, and attributes his long
lie 10 the fact that he has chewed tobacco
since he was 10 years old. Evidently the
experience OF unusual age has not been of
much advantage to the thinker of "Uncle
Jimmy" McGaughey.
A paragraph quoted by the San Diego linton
from Mazatlan paper discloses the spectacle
OF an American over in that celestial land
contracting for $50 Cinnamon to come and
work in the mines of Sonora, where, he is
good enough to aver, they are needed Letus
not argue with him upon the necessity OF Chi
namen in this country, but rather upon the
unnecessary of himself.
The local weekly which made the passing
remark that there seems to be desire on the
part OF the School Directors to give the chill
dren change in the mi after of books probably
intended to say that there seems to be desire
on the part OF the School Directors to give
the children an opportunity to spend In books
what change they already had. We always
sympathize with paper that has been made
the victim OF typographical error.
In summing up the fitness of James How
ard Bridge to be ed tor of the Orsrtand
Monthly, the Contra Costa Gazette points out
that the gentieman's best-known work was a
story entitled "A Fortnight in Heaven" AS
1t was about two weeks ago that Mr.. Bridge
entered the office which Rounsevelle Wild
man had just vacated, no is probably now in
position TO write story in reference to q
fortnight in an altogether different place.
The Ns,cs of San Mateo relates that two
small boys from San Francisco the other day
arrived in that town professediy on tour to
"see the world on their own hook" After
dihgent fishing into San Mateo vegetable gar
dens along the road, they arrived at the CON-
mon experience Of discovering that they
hadn't hooked the wor at all and couldn't
see it on their own hook or on any ones else.
They returned home and fell TO viewing stars.
Under the thoughtful caption OF "Fresh
Literary Note" the Colusa Gazette proceeds to
Danish thought entirely and usher In bright
mirth b gravely announcing that W. c. Nor
row ''is said TO b, San Francisco journalist!
In California letterdom doubt about w. c.
Morrow's profession or anything else in his
pubic life argues the unsure child to be in
need of governess- Either that, or (what
would be infinitely more TO the purpose) a
careful direction into some other ield of use
iuIness. The season f,r plowing, for example,
is not inconvenisntly distant
The Daily Repeillc OF New Whatcom is dumb
with admiration at the cheerful air which
Joaquin Miller puts on as he sails toward the
Kiondike regions; but Joaquin is still in the
cheerful stage OF being on the way--like a
small boy sucking sugar-coated pill. Wait
until he finds his breath pattering in pro-
cession of icicles upon his shirtfront and his
cure for snake bites freezing into brown ice
ere be can raise II TO his lips. Then Gf he die
not OF snake bitel he may live to enter tain the
New Whacom editor with another kind of
emotion that resem bles cheer about as much
as funeral rese m bles q cakewalk.
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