The San Francisco call., 1897-04-30
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Greece has begun sparrinG for wind.
The European stock exchanges continue
to bet on the Turk.
Eastern fruit has been badly nipped by
the frost and California fruit will have TO
fill big gap his season.
1t took doctor to cure the Kentucky
spasm and he was enterprising enough to
take the Senatorship for his fee.
The Spanish officers are getting out of
Cuba, not SO much to escape the sickly
season as to get rid of too much Weyler
Every man who invests a dollar and
tries his best by industry to make two dol
lars out of it is an advance agent of pros
perlty and helps 20 get it started.
With Carlisle and Blackburn out of the
Senate Kentucky may rightly consider
herself al the beginning of q new era and
proceed 10 count on better things.
Greater New York may be good, and
even excellently good, but that there is
finer aspiration for municipalities is made
evident by a movement 10 bring about
what is called Better Boston,"
According to the latest reports from
KENTUCKY, General Cassius NJ. Clay, al
though nearly IS years old, is as vigorous
as the average man of so, and the slip of
girl whom he married two or three years
ago has developed into splendid type OF
womanhood.
The Boston Journal has had interviews
with all the New England delegation in
Congress and has learned from them that
they do not expect the tariff bill to be
adopted before July l, while one OF them,
Congressman Walker, declared the date
would more likely be October l.
Waiter Besant is trying to start boom
for general observance of Shakespeares
birthday as a public holiday throughout
the Englishspeaking world, but it looks
too much like another effort to elevate the
stage to make much of an impression on
an over-wearied American public.
A treaty OF friendship and commerce
has been signed between Germany and
Orange Free State, and as a consequence
new element has been infused into the
South African situation which may make
British diplomacy in that part of the
word take second thought and revise
some Of its plans.
Reports from New York assert that nine
tenths OF the fruit crop along the Hudson
has been destroyed and similar damage
is fear d in Delaware and New Jersey.
Reports from other States are almost as
bad and il looks as if fruit would be luz
ury in many parts of this country where it
has hitherto been plentiful.
The absence of ex-President Harrison
from the Grant cere monial has occasioned
good deal of comment in the East, and
was certainly of nature to cause some
surprise. However excellent may have
been his business at home he would
have been engaged in sbetter If he had
taken part in the National honor to his
old commander.
tISome idea of the rush Of people to OBJ
tain office may be gathered from the re-
Gently announced fact that the mum Der of
candidates ior such positions in the civil
service of New York has been so great
that the "eligible list" now contains the
n q m ac nf hn IT,:
one State and for State Offices only. The
National rush must have millions in it.
The recent celebration OF "Patriots
day" in Boston was marked by reunion
OF veterans OF the British army who are
now living in that neig borhood. The re-
union seems to have been pleas ant one
and the assembly on that day was justi-
fed in the minds of their American
friends by the fact that many of the veter-
ans had served this country we'll on the
bait e field of the Civil War
The new loan bill which has Just been
recommended to the Council by the Mavor
of Boston includes an item OF $3.50, 900 for
the Health Department, and it is ex-
planned that the money is to be used for
the erection of public conveniences on a
comprehensive scale in all sections of the
city. This will be new development in
American municipalities, but it is one
that is much needed. All i'm provement OF
the kind was recon mended in this City
by Mayor Sutro, and now that Boston is
about 10 lead the way we may follow her
example some day.
Information has been given to the
Treasury Department at Washington that
30O Chinese arr on their way to this coun-
Try and expect to be able TO enter on the
plea that they have been engaged for the
Chinese exhibit at the Nashville expo.i-
ton. Fortunately we have a Pacific
Coast man in the Cabinet and the admin
istration will not permit this particular
dodge TO be worked as successfully as it
has been. The new corners will find them
selves headed off on their arrival here and
the only benefit they will get from their
expedition will be such as accrues to
health from an ocean voyage in the steer
age.