New-York tribune., 1900-05-29
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

A citizen OF San Francisco In Washington says:
San Francisco has been working under It's
charter since January s. and it has not yet
swered the expectations of those who voted for it.
This is due largely to the fact that the expenses
of the city government are far in excess of what
they were formerly. and 1t is anticipated that the
tax rate will be greatly increased. Conditions may
improve later, when the stiffness of new machin-
cry wears off and the government begins to run
smoothly. At present there is much complaint.
San Francisco is usually a Republican city but
the Democratic candidate for Mayor Jimmy Phe-
Ian, the first to agitate for the new charter
and he carried into office by the popularity
of the measure he advocated DR.. O'Donnen, our
perennial office seeker still continues to afford us
the usual annual amusement of running for Coroner
as an Independent candidate He spends great
deal of money and makes great many speeches
and may eventually, by sheer persistence, secure
what he has sought for so many years The Pa
cihc Coast is unit for expansion We expect great
things commercially from the acquisition of the
Philippines and the opening of the Orient trade"
1T is a base slander to say that. the average
woman woman is stingy" she exclaimed She may not
othsr WAYS be sns rspe6 Is s%s surely n
She feared TT trap but she could not refrain from
with secrets he answered.-(Chicago Post.
The Washington correspondent of THE Chicago
Record tells of hoax of which the stamp col
lectors of Europe We're the victims some time ago
A man who had of the largest and most vaua-
BILE collections of stamps in the world died. with a
paragraph in his will bequeathng it to the first
person who should be found to genuine ex-
ample of certain stamp. and In case no one
possessing such stamp should appear within a
term of ten years the entire collection was to go
to the British Museum The announcement which
was widely published. created a great sensation
among stamp hends, but 1T turned out that the de-
ceased was the owner of the only genuine specimen
of the stamp he described in the world. Just what
his motive was in making such stipulat ton In his
will has been question Of controversy ever since
but the collection is In the British Museum
and the people in charge of 1t think that he simply
desired to stimulate interest in the stamp business
Wears Wife-I haven't seen you at church for
Rustic-Noa. l amt been lately. But don't go
nowheres else. L assure ye!-(Punch.
THE Mexican HERALD appears TO think that Ger
many may be disturbing factor in the Western
Hemisphere. THE growth of population In Eu-
rope" 1t says. "the immense vitality. energy and
audacity of that great and intelligent nation the
German. not to speak of any other Continental
European nation. grounds for assuming that the
tranquility of New World politics will remain
undisturbed In the at hand century. And 1t
surely behooves American statesmen 10 make
friends of Latin America, to take down tariff bars
and thus show practically that they want pro-
mote genuine Pan-Americanism. The high tariff
provincialism OF the United States is not going
make ardent friends of the Latin American peo-
pies IT PRESIDENT Mchlnley Is reelected he VIII
have chance such other American states
man has had weld the nations of the Americas
into one vast league for the common defence"
woman employed. at Yorkshire factory took
her iveyear-old boy to the hospital and asked the
surgeon to look at his hand BY some freak OF
nature his finger and thumb had interlocked,
Ing him great pain at times.
"Why didn't you come here earlier. my good
Womau2' asked the surgeon, in a tone OF sharp
rePrimand The little chap has evidently been
suffering from this extraordinary defect since the
day OF bis birth. IL you had brought him
after he was born l might have done something
for him. but very much fear l cannot now
The woman. aware that she was sadly TO blame.
but oath to take the full responsibility fmHediat tey
turned upon her unfortunate offspring.
Dost "a hear what the gentleman says Tommy
she cried. "Tha ought TO ave mentioned Z hve
years sim. Oih've patience VT folk at suffer
an say nowt"-(Spare Moments.