The San Francisco call., 1897-06-22

an Eastern cyclone than by California
temblor.
The Queen made Austin a laureate, but
she could not make him poet, and the
results are disastrous.
Com mptrolIer Bowler for once IN his life
is to do popular thing. He is going to
send in his resignation.
The jubilee ode of the new poet-laureate
is calculated to sadden the festivities and
set every body weeping because Tennyson
is dead.
The rain in the interior has done a little
damage and much good, and we may
count it among the forces which tend to
prosperity.
Another electrician has seen the Kelley
motor and says 1t won't work, but KeeI.y
continues to work it well enough to get
living out OF it.
As Mr.. Debs says "The free-silver move
ment has spent its force,' we mar infer
that he regards Mr.. Bryan's movements
as being acuated solely by the force of
circumstances.
It is difficult feat to drag long tariff
bill through the Senate without getting it
into snarl, but Allison and Aldrich can
do it if anybody can and it looks now as
if they would succeed.
After all this is but a little world where
all the people are neighbors and initiate
one another. They are talking of Pingree
in Europe and Budapest has started
municipal potato patches.
A Connecticut woman has Just cele-
brated the hundredth anniversary of her
birthday by riding bicycle, thus showing
that the old girl can be a new woman if
she wishes and has wheel handy.
The aristocrats from all parts of the
world who have gone to London to see The
Queen may be no sardines at home, but
London has packed them as if they were
and charged them big money for it.
1t is said there are no vacancies in the
army for any of the graduates from West
Point this year, but perhaps the boys can
console themselves with the reflection
that "they also serve who only stand and
wait"
1t was said a little while ago that the
Kaiser dictated the movements of the Sui
tan, but We are now told that he is urging
the evacuation of Thessaly. By and by
we will be informed that he is pravinp
for it.
The old theory that the glory OF a great
actor perishes with his body and leaves
nothing behind is not altogether true. for
now sixty-six years after her death a noble
monument has just been unveiled to Mrs.
Sarah Siddons.
July L is expected to mark something
like the beginning of new era in Paris.
as on that day there will be started SER
vice OF 500 motorcycles for public use. They
are to run throughout the city and the
suburbs and the fare is to be one franc.
The story that a Texas farmer found
$4,000 buried beneath the ground at a SPOT
to which he was directed by the appari-
tion of woman with CHASTITY wound in
her right side" was evidently intended as
a ghost story, but it sounds like a fairy
tale.
There are about as many candidates for
jubilee honors in Great Britain as there
are for offices in America after Presiden-
tial election, and in the one case as in the
other the Der of pies is by no means
equal to the number of men with appe-
tites.
1t is announced that as result of plac-
ing heavy duty on Mexican onyx work
has begun in the onyx mines of Arizona,
and we have thus ope more illustration
of how the new tariff will help American
industry in the development OF American
resources.
The prospects are that the phrase.
''polariscope Indications" will remain in
our language to signify signs OF dubious
transactions long after the sugar debate
has been so far forgotten that curious
people will wonder where the phrase
came from.
Mark Twain is not in need of pecuniary
assistance, but he has announced that he
would rather have a relief fund than q
monument So any one who has a relief
fund on hand may as well send it to him
and spare him the necessity of writing
syndicate humor.
IL is reported that an effort has been
made in Havana to restore peace between
the Spanisrds and the Cubans by getting
them to unite III making war against the
United States, and this may be one of
those so-called Spanish reforms we have
been hearing so much about