The San Francisco call., 1897-07-19

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no EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month |
for summer months-
What is needed now is an airship to the
Yukon.
We are promised the tariff this week,
sure pop.
People can now talk eIoquently of pros
perity because they feel it.
II The President doesn't come to Califor- |
mia to get the reception waiting for him
be will miss big thing.
The wise miner will take no chances on
the frozeu Yukon so long as he has sure |
thing in sunny California.
If We provide the Mission Park we are
promised the zoo for nothing. That looks |
like a good proposition TO take up.
The coming Barney Barnato OF the
Alaskan gold fields may be driving DON
key-cart somewhere this morning.
The miners strike in Ohio has led the |
Democrats to regret a little bit that they |
nominated mine-owner for Governor.
There is a widespread belief that the |
American public prefers an adulterated |
food that looks pretty to pure food that |
lacks style.
If any Minister to Nicaragua could pro-
mote the canal project we may be sure
Captain Merry will. He can be counted |
on to keep digging al it.
The whirligig of time may show US be-
fore long Bryan and Cleveland uniting
their voices to make a wild howl against |
international bimetallism.
The calamity howlers may be talking as |
much as usual, but as no one listens to |
them they are getting the credit of having |
shut up.
If all the stories from Alaska are true /
we shall have gold enough before long to |
gid the money question on both sides to |
the satisfaction of every body.
1t is announced that the last English |
beet-sugar factory has closed its doors
anc that industry in the British islands is !
dead, while the deserted buildings stand
as monuments to free trade.
That "abysmal fssure of immeasura bic
depth" of which the Ohio people are talk |
sounds like an attempt to describe the |
cave in the Democratic party.
The proposed new line of steamers to
Central and South America may not e1-
actly fill long felt want, out it will create
a want for it's services by developing a
trade that is capable OF vast expansion,
If 1t be true that Germany is to put a
prohibitive tariff on American bicycles
the wheelmen of that country might as
well keep out Of any cycle race at the
start, for they certainly won't be in it at
the finish.
If there are any men in this country
more eager than others to see the enact
ment of the tariff bill we may be sure they
are Congressmen sweltering in the heat
of Washington. Let Us not kick the fell
lows who are undergoing most OF the suf-
fering.
According to the New York Sun there
is no longer Democratic party in Ameri-
can politics. The Democrat of to-day
must vote either with the Republican
party or with the Populist party, and the
Sun which never at any time m ore brightly
shone for all. lures to the former course
and leads the way.
In his review of the condition of the
Southern States in the current number of
the North american Review, Mr. Mulhall
says that section of the Union needs
'more schools, more railways and more
banks" We are now waiting for the
philosopher to tell US of a section of the
world where more of these things are not
needed.
The high aristocratic style OF the sum-
mer residents at Newport seems to have
affected even the postoffice officials, for,
according TO the Boston Journal, when
you buy stamps in that town. pretty
girl wraps them in parafine paper and
puts them in little envelope. Thus you
avoid the necessity of picking them off
your vest pocket lining with knife.
From one of her generous citizens Phila-
delphia is to receive a bronze statue of
Benjamin Franklin to be placed on the
spot where the philosopher stood when
he sent up the kite that drew the light
ming from the skies. The location will, of
course, add to the interest in the monu-
ment, and Philadelphia is to be congratu
lated on the possession of a citizen who
knows not only how to do the proper
thing, but how to place it right.
1t is said that with the exception of a
gap of 600 miles in the Soudan Great
Britain has a telegraph service extending
from the Cape of Good Hope through |
Central Africa to Cairo. The gap may be