The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27

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DAVID NJ. .FoLTz, Eastern Manager.
TIE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
The SUMMER MUNThS.
Are you going 10 the country on n vacation II
colt is no trouble for rs TO forward THE CALL TO
your address. Do not let it miss you for you will
miss it. Orders given 10 the carrier or left at
business Office will receive prompt attention.
NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month
5or summer months.
It was good jubilee.
Even British brag is better than pes
simism.
Victoria should lay aside her crown and
take rest.
No calamity howler should be chosen to
deliver Fourth of July Grafton.
The lion has done his roaring, and it is
now the turn of the eagle to scream.
Take a rest during the summer and re-
fresh yourself for the business revival in
the fail.
been great, but that of America can dis
count it.
What would be the matter with a jubi-
lee for the Prince of Wales? Nobody has
been Prince of Wales as long as he has.
The Senate is rapidly getting through
the pages of the tariff and before long the
Government will be able to turn over a
new leaf.
The present age is rightly enough called
the Victorian era, for Victoria is the only
ruler who saw it in that has chance to
see it out.
1t has been certainly a peculiar June for
California, but it has been nevertheless a
better June here than in any other part OF
the country.
The habit which Ohio has had OF slip
ping the trolley, jumping the track and
gong Democratic in off years will not be
observed this time.
A patient world is apprised that Au brey
Beardsley has not, after ali, drawn his
last breath; but the world should not de-
spaiT-his breaths are not his pictures.
The report from the East that some of
the Four Hundred have been caught
cheating at golf is only another proof that
when society gets too high 1t begins to
get rank.
T9e man who contents himself with
talking for prosperity will not be much
better off than the man who croaks
against it. Only the man who works for
it will get 1t.
The latest Oklahoma boom story told to
illustrate the richness of the soil is that q
family living in a house with a sod floor
had TO NOW the grass off every evening in
order to find the baby.
The sale of bogus brandy under Cali
fornia brand will prove benefit in the
long run if it rouses our people to demand
change in the law which Will prevent
such frauds in the future
Prime Minister Laurier of Canada saws
AAS DOAiA A4iIOll 10 COll tent Win neT DOSltlOn
IN the empire at present. but when the
population reaches 10000, 900 there will be
a demand for direct representation in
Parliament or complete independence.
1t is said that during a recent visit OF
the Prince of Wales 10 the University of
Cam bridge the exuberant loyalty of the
students led them to such excesses that
The authorities were enabled to collect
$3.50 in fines for violation of rules. OF
course the Prince was cordially invited to
come again.
New York calculator basing his
estimates on the poultry statistics of the
last census, says the value of the eggs
laid by the hens of this country will paw
twice over the dividends on all our rail
road stocks and it would seem our rail-
road maguates should GO to raising eggs
instead of freights and fares.
The Rev. Hugh Johnson, acting chaplain
of the Senate, in the course of the morn
ing prayer recently thanked GOD for "the
glorious wave of prosperity now sweeping
over the land and the reporters noticed
that the phrase broke the Democrats all
up. ne prayer was All IlS0L, however,
for the wave of property is surely sweep
ing in and the preacher was only a little
bit premature.
The Partisan police, in rescuing a young
girl from strolling iuggler who was i'll
treating her. have uncovered a story as
good as anything in a dime novel The
girl is the dau ht ter of a noble family in
Belgium. During the absence of the
father the mother put the child out to
nurse without disclosing her rank. The
mother died suddenly and as the nurse
did not know where to take the chi she
sold it 20 beggar, who in turn sold it to
the juggler. The girl is said to be very
pretty, so the romance is complete in
every respect.
new orchard pest called the "pistol-
case bearer" is said to have destroyed 5000
trees in Pennsylvania and has now made
its appearance in New York. Professor
Slingerland of Cornell is reported to have
declared 1t to be the most destructive lease
bearer ever known. As it has been found
as far west as Nebraska our orchardists
had better begin 10 look out Tor it.
1t is one of the things which no one
wishes to find, but cannot afford to over
Iook.