Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1889 — SAN FRANCISCO PRODUCES. [ARTICLE]

SAN FRANCISCO PRODUCES.

What Most Impressed a Travele* Were the Girls and tne Fleas. A traveler just returned from San Francisco, after a considerable ft&y in', that city, tells a Louisville Post man that what impressed him most were the girls and the fleas. Both are large in size and plentiful in numbers. ‘ ‘The women are the finest-looking specimens you ever saw,” says the young man. “They are well devel- £ oped, healthy and handsome. Qf’ course U was duly impressed. But next to them J think the fleis take up the largest share of attention. They have no mosquitoes in San Francisco,- but the -fleas—their name is idgion. Here in Louisville you frequently see ‘Rough on Rats’ advertised for sale. ■. But in yJSan Francisco it is ‘Rough on' I leas.’ ; You see the sign everywhere. It is a favorite poison for disconsolate servant girls to commit suicide with. I don’t wonder that desperate measures taken to get rid of the San Francisco flea. He is everywhere—in your clothes, in your bed, in the carpet, in the furniture. He is not a pleasant object to talk about, but in San Fran, cisco he is too prominent a featu ’o to be ignored. The flea is one of the principal objections to the glorious Of Califnry;fft ” ,