The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03
VAGARlES OF THE NAVY.

1 | . new navy which must be puzzle to the andsman. One of these is the immediate ne cessty for repairs which springs into existence with the launching of each ship, excepting, of course and l gladly, the Californian product. It would seem as II a ship was hardly than skeleton on which to hang an elongated series of repairs If the de- partment decides to dispatch brand-new vessel to some foreign port there to be impressive, there is always preliminary delay while repairs are made
 Is 1t possible that the young ladies who break bot 1 ties over the prov of each ship added to the navy too much force in the process? Perhaps it would | be safer not to break the bottle but to uncorl it quietly and let the contents escape without subject Ing the craft to violence Recently the Brooklyn col llded with zephyr and dash of spray and was ready for the drydock Not long before that the Texas had subbed her nmble toe in trying to prance overland We confess to lack of sympathy with the Texas. It should have stayed out in the wet Now the 1ndianas boilers have been leaking No particu- lars have been received, and specifications of the right of the lndianas boilers spring leak have not been received. We assume, however, the expectation that ship costing millions shall be equipped with boilers more robust than inspire the cough of the donkey engine which acclaims along the water front as 1t hoists coal from the hold is not unreasonable 
 Since seven-year-od girl of Santa Monica has uou oi Hyu oPHODld caused by the bite or dOg the opportunity IS again here for science to declare that there IS no such malady. Science seldom neglects chance to do ths and to chde in convincing tech meal terms the careless people who die of it. Of course the claim will be made again that hydrophobia IS imagination, but little child with an imagination developed to the fatal point must indeed have pos sessed active mind
 Justice Richardson of Los Angeles County has either been sadly msrepresented or he is the most Vacuous ass who ever misconstrued law It was he who would have turned loose two men who accord ing to the evidence thus far made public were guilty Of wanton and peculiarly cruel murder. If Richard son has an excuse for his conduc. the people would be glad to hear it, and in the absence of they would be delighted to hear of his resignation.
 Yesterday afternoon the Examiner buetined as rews considerable information which readers of The Gall had had the privilege of seeing in the morning However much such enterprise is to be admired we feel that common journalistic courtesy would have prompted the yellow sheet to give us credit
 Explanation is made that the original of Sherlock Holmes was Scotland Yard detective. It is inn possible to accept this without feeling of disap- continent It had been hoped that the original was simply composite San Francisco sleuth
 If the wife of young Hanna succeed in leaving the family, as IS her ambition, she will stamp herself as bright woman. It is seldom that the Hanna family gets left
 There are criminals for whom hanging is too good, and one of these is the scoundre who is literally Snatchinp Chicago schoo1orte h,IdL.,ded