The San Francisco call., 1897-06-02

posed.
=. The mistake of Paddy Slavin was in get
ting into the ring with new man. He
should have stayed outside and challenged
Sullivan.
.It,is not easy to see what is going on in
the Levant, but. we can tell from the
sound of the wrangling that the concert
70. is stiuthere.
The South Carolina dispensary Law
seems TO have gone gimmering and Sen
ator Tillman will now have to turn hi:
pitehfork on the courts.
New York is by no means such an un.
pleasant place in the summer time as il
was in. bygone years, for it is now well
supplied with California fruit.
The hosepipe as a convict persuadel
seems thoroughly etficacious. There j:
nothing wilt cool down the heat Of angry
passion more quickly than to pour cold
water on it.
The American Protective Tariff League
estimates that delay in passing the tariff
bill costs the country about 50, 900 600 q
week. In this case time is not only money
but big NJ oney.
It is fortunate the vacation season i.
at hard, for now the business man can &c
fishing until the tariff debate is over, and
getrid Of that I'M patient feeling which is
so<wearing on q mans vocabulary.
The old idea that the Pacific Coast i,
more subject to earthquakes than any
other part Of the United States will now
: have TO be abandoned. 1t is the Atlantic
- sea board that is being shocked now.
Russia has as much right to keep re
spectacle Americans out OF her territory
as we have TO keep disreputable Russiani
out of ours. 1t is merely matter of Ma
tional taste and it is not worth while tc
dispute abouti:.
ANY commercial or industrial organiza
ton that asks the Senate TO act promptly
on the tariff bill should also ask that /
act right. We have many interests a
stake in the measure and we cannot afforc
TO sacrifice them for the sake of haste.
A French ply sician sees in the bicycle
a means of the regeneration of France
His argument is that the practice o
wheeling will make this generation o.
girls so robust they will be Iigorou,
mothers, and the Frenchman of the
future will be much better man than the
present.
Reports from all sections of the Unior
show that the observance of Memorial
day is losing nothing of loyalty or patriot
ism as the years pass. The celebration
appeals to sentiments which are deeply
rooted in the hearts of the people, anC
will, therefore, remain forever as one o
the solemn ceremonies of our Nationa
life. ...
Some goldfish placed in an ornamenta
pond near Buffalo managed to escape
few years ago, and it is now said their de
seendants are swarming in Niagara Rive
: in grear:num BeFs. Fortunately they d.
not seem to be. doing any harm like som,
other novelties introduced into the coun
try, and. the people along the river are
watching their development with grea
deal Of interest.
One of the swell clubs of Chicago re
Gently entertained itself by chasing ,
pronounced to be livelier than golf anC
=. safer than football. 1t has also futur,
before it.. From pigs to bulls is but ster
IN the line of development of Chicago
packers, and her aristocracy may as tn,
next move revive the bull-fght with .
creased bull as novelty.
-; While most of the States have finished
their legislation for the year, sent thei
law makers home, and have returned t.
derby business with cheerful minds
Illinois is stih. struggling with her Legis
Iature, and Chicago is holding mass NEE t.
ings TO. insist on decent legislation; so
with the reputation Of Chicago to con
slider on the one side and that of the Legis
lat re on the Other, the average Illinois
man doesn't know which way to look To-
business; and cheerfulness is not in him
Judging from the picture, the new high
school bullding which San Jose propose.
10 erect will merit place among tn,
notable editices to be cons tructed in Call,
fornia this year, and will be fine exam
pie of the school architecture OF our gen.
GRAFTON. IT is gratifying to see in this
structure another evidence that We are nc
longer content to use barns for school
houses but are giving TO these edifices the
best work our people can afford to pay
Tor. The time is coming When the schoo
and college buildings OF America will be
as noble in their architectural beauty az
the cathedrals and churches of Europe
during the middle ages.