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Show rUBLISHED wos cross e non ah, too, when they got here the night before and did not find the otliee open until morning. Guess thev went w iihoiit grub, a good many orof them, until they got them there THEIR EYES OPENED, TIIE HOME SENTINEL. Xo ConfiI'liey Will HenoefortH Have of Cali- dence lu tlie l.ejjends fornia. It is true, says The San Francisco AT HERE AND THERE. ders cashed. Said an intelligent lodging-hous- e of majority the Mot more than o per cent, of that large Chronicle, of keeper: were so destitute, in because here came these who strangers the people a that of were they have been unruv opinion, the eheapne.-- s of the journey GEMS OF THOUGHT. state. The greater the of able to leaje their very good class, although many cir- numlKT of the jani time in them were in extremely moderate their and The gnate-- t pleasure I know is to spent bills promptly, Hut there were others it cumstances. acquainted with the country. getting good action by stealth anil havi ea-- t, slenderest, the intending of were vbo.-means A Lamb. good many returned found out bv accident. in a very unfamilies their still remain, out Tiring to a number these of and It is not genius so much as ability able to leave the land of promi-- e which, short time. that carries one through the battle ol to their amazement, has failed to offer A Bad Dollar. Street. life. .4. the delightful occupation of pickthem not Cnttleton, the grocer, knew that No woman is educated who is ing up $20 gold nieces in the streets. one was robbing his money drawsome ol equal to the successful management Hundreds of men have arrived in er. Naturally his suspicions fell upon tieket-ugea family. G'. It'. Lnrnnss. this city, said a the" negro porter. Steve proto old Steve, tail'. yesterday, without 20 cents Hope without action is a broken Cuttletou deterinnocence. Ills from tho rebate on tested Ve should always hope for things that their name, so, one night search him, mined to Elite,. their ticket, which they expected to colare possible or probable.--Jame- s was Steve time tin: ready to go about the railroad agent. They enfrom lect a human in finest One of the qualities home, the grocer approached him aud tered into the thing as the same kind said: of sense nice delicacy is that being would into a faro game on Steve, I must search you. which renders it impossible for him of men rates that luck. hoped Wlmt fur, boss? their They bore. ever to be an intruder or a You know what for. Conie; take would still he low at the time when they Taylor. to clothes and shake them. return, off themselves vour find obliged might sieve obeyed. Nothing was discovand they took the chance of cards the dealer. My opinion is that ered. Tho next day the grocer saw Learning, if rigli ly applied, makes a indusrailroad Steve hovering over the cash drawer. the companies did very wrong young man thinking attentive, sudso of rates ease the met That evening the grocer said: trious, confident and wary; and an old in ordering and" without any warning to the Steve, you are a thief. denly man hem ful and useful. It is an ornafor better been would have said so, sah? Wlio It public. ment m prosperity, a refuge in adversiIdo. the interests of California and more conOf Who tole yer so? ty, an entertainment at all times; it siderate toward their patrons.- adbe to are moderathere mind, I know it. Y'ou have Never course arguments and in solitude, cheers gives the other side. These peo- been robbing me for some time and on duced all in circumstances. wi'doni and tion were taking Wall, s' arch me, sail. ple knew the chance theytho J'tthiit r. railroads when thev started. But Keep on your clothes. I could never think well of a mans S'urcli me ef yer want to, sah. could alibi'd, in consideration of the adNever mind. Sav, whats the matintellectual or moral character if ho vertisement which their coming has was habitually unfaithful to his appoinl-ment- '. riven to this country, to take them back ter with your oiee? at the rates on which they brought Nothin.' Emmons. Y'es. there is something. them out. Open your Sum reserve is a debt to prudence, Some of them were rough custo- mouth. mers? I should say so. There was an Kain opeu it much, boss. Sorter ns free. lorn and simplicity of conversailo lockjaw. awful lot of hma. lank, lean, nature. tion is a debt to good got 1 tli'nik that I can assist you. The among them. Kansas City sent us some of her worst class, as well grocer bent Steve's head over tin: counsome of her best, and tho latter ter and placed his thumb under the Tho Railroad to the Yosemite. as not take umbrage because tho negro's jaw. Silver rattled on the should valHeretofore a trip to the Yosemite is told about the former. Why, counter. truth Spit out some more. ley lias been a pretty expensive busiKaiti ilo it, boss, fur (hit's all. sir, I am satisfied that some of the men ness, both as regards cash and time. and women who came from the large Spit again, I tell you. cities of the Mississippi valleys were With a private eonvev ane.s and a campFive nickels fell from Steves mouth. and sent to get rid Come again. ing outfit ones expenditures of cash virtually paupers, continental cities as the of juthem, Clar ter goodness, boss, I kaiut spit to might ho kept within bounds, but of ship their poor, halt, blind, no mo. to tho famous alley by andEurope make a erazv to New York in the steerage. Go ahead, I tell you. the regulation stages, and to put up at I know of two instances in which they cent piece fell out. A twenty-liv- e the regulation inns on tho excursion, confessed that the mayor of Chicago Once more, said the grocer. Come lias required a better filled purse than procured their tickets, and the prospect again. Wy, he added, as a '20 a most Californians can boast of these was held out to them of earning piece rolled on tlie counter, youiegot month here almost immediately. Both a mouth like a find is to curious rather days. Indeed, it t lie were women, but not Now, boss, dats all. Hope I mer out how few of tho people who live such as I would like to employ to wait die dead if it ain't. within, say, one hundred miles of the vn ion my family. They were old and Try just one more time. valley have ever been in it. All around broken down, and evidently bail before boss, Swar dar nin no me are people who have lived in this been a burden upon the public. Come again, or Ill break You must June witnessed some neighborhood for from ten to twenty scenes during the rush of jaw. strange Out rattled a dollar. There, years, and not one in threescore of travel? his on Steve, hold the releasing grocer, seen the spectacle which them has ever An enraged crowd threatened one you may go, now. draws hundreds of eager visitors across morning to carry our otliee by storm, Ain gwine ter discharge me, is Oceans and continents. Of course, this aud I tell you things looked a little yer? abstinence on the part of tho foothiller squallv for a moment. We had to.send Of course, I am. Go on away. is not altogether duo to tho question of for a policeman to protect us, and he Wlmt, discharge me jes fur dat little stationed himself Imre, close to the caper? of As time or either expense money. counter. You see, it happened in this Go on, or Ill have you arrested. a general tiling ho could bundle lus way: The great part of the crowd Did u know yer wuz so ongratefnl, family into a wagon, throw in a few were Missourians, and the Kansas City sah. Been wuckin like er siahe fur otliee is next door. Their tickets read cooking utensils and a stock of grub, yer an ills is all do thanks I git. Ef week's make to and the that demand for the rebate must be yerll jp keep me I swar I wont neber a excursion made on the day of arrival, before 8 tech yer money no mo. valley without adding a cent to his or- oclock in the evening. They arrived I dont want you. No, and of habits cost are his living, dinary here about 6 oclock and found the next me er rickermend ter Wall, not of that constantly energetic char- door otliee closed, and supposed, of some whiteginman. to it a trick was that beat them acter that indicates a high valuation of course, I wont do that, either. Get out of lime. No, the foothiller does not goto out of their money. 'Then someone here. All the YoMunite simply because it is not told them that the adjoining otliee and sah. An all ilis, he ours were one and they muttered right, as he moved away, wuz all in him to take an interest in such mat- rushed in here. establishment, discussThey angrily on ercount o dat ole trade dollar wlmt ters. If there were a very fat hanged the matter with us, ami refused to aint much ercount, nohow. Iladn to be seen there, that woul I indeed he believe our statement that we were not crowded dat in my inouf my voice but n for responsible for the tickets issued by the wouliluter scenery temptation, Arkan-sagin rue erway. whose line commenced they Leave company by and that ort of tiling Traveler. One man harangued journey. it for "them tourists aud city fel- their them and would, I believe, have led A Gallic Genius. ler-. i and Lngli-.ldouks and lords them into mischief but for the policeThe laws and such. In the California towns, man. regulating the transmission however, there are thousands of people Ninny persons, destitute of money, of mail between countries embraced in who would gladly visit the valley if the have come here recently trying to beg a the postal union have heretofore excost could lie brought down to a rea- passage back, and hundreds have ap- cluded packages exceeding eighteen to Mr. Goodman for a rebate upon sonable standard. This is what tho plied the lately established rates. What be- inches, or forty live centimeters, in railway might to effect. It ought even comes of them when they are refused? length, but will hereafter admit packto bring down expenses to the travel I know that some of them beg. ages of about twenty-seve- n inches, or Another ticket agent related numer- seventy centimeters, in length. The from the east, or at least make it possible for many more eastern folks who ous anecdotes to illustrate the meager-nes- s way the change came about is explained of the of some of the in a circular just received at the e happen to he in California to add the tourists whopocketbooks were drawn here by the from the superintendent of forof list, to their "done. valley places A decently dressed worailroad war. mails. A French publisher, wishNo doubt cheap exourson trains will man, he said, was standing on the eign ing to send to his subscribers fashion be run from the town along the line of deck of the ferry-bowhile crossing plates, about seventy centimeters in the Southern laeilie road, with which from Oakland. Her bonnet was whip- length, was told that they could not ped oil' by a playful gust and carried be received in the foreign mail. Seekthe Yosemite branch connects at a staover to Goat Island. To judge by thp ing to keep his engagements with his tion called Berentla (Antelope), seven manner in which she related the'inei-den- t patrons, f however, he cast about for miles north of .Madera, where is now tho afterward, I should think that she some way to relieve his difficulty, and starting place of tin Yosemite coaches. must. have turned very pale when the knowing that packages not exceeding It is not expected that the road will reality of the disaster dawned upon her. forty-fiv- e or eighteen centimeters, n went to a milliner not inches, in length would be received, lr finished in time for use during the She from the Palace hotel and bought a hit upon the season about to open, but t went live far following expedient: By new bonnet, but on demanding the making a paper box in the shape of :i In will be miles running order in a price found that she had not money cube, having each of the lines of its month or less time, and as the stages enough to pay for it. Then she o llcred squares centimeters in just forty-liv- e will start from the end of her rebate order as security for the length he could place his fashion plate of and course it was refused, being roll within the box. the roll the line these will be a saving of fifty hill, being miles on the round trip. Such a sav- payable only to her in person. She placed diagonally touching the bottom over here in a great flurry to act and came top of tho box. A great number ing means a good deal to anyone who hi r rebate and to relate the story of iler of paper boxes eighteen inches square knows what it is to tide through the misfortunes. 1 hope and trust that to cram tho French mailsummer heal and dust clouds of tins she got at last that lovely bonnet of her threatening bags to bursting, the government choice. Nan Joaquin valley, when.' the, Maae to take the It is related that some of the keepers ride is short mod. 1 or this season the instead of the boxes, askrolls used to ing the other countries in the union to terminus of the railway will be at a of the larger lodging-house- s send a coach regularly to the ticket of- receive these rolls, until an internastation to be known, I believe, by the fices With their lodgers who desired to tional congress can change the laws pleasant name of Raymond, although receive their rebate. The reason of to us foothillets it will continue to be this was that their tickets were accept- relating to the length of parcels. The change contemplated, and which the 'Wild-ca- t Hunch. so called because a ed as security for the first, nights Initial Stales office lias after the delayed arrival of now sanctioned, foreign mail former occupant wan believed to have the permits of mailing the merlaml train. rolls that can be contained in pursued the economical practice of feedcubes, A set? exclaimed the sides of which do not exceed forty-liv- e ing the inmates of his house on the a youthful clerk in a ticket olliee. Bet centimeters or eighteen inches in meat of the wild-cu- t or h Cor. Sew yer life some of 'em wos. Anil they length. St. Louis Republican. Times. - VANT1, UTAIL new-come- rs d-- a e well-know- ut n -- a.-i-de ng - slab-side- d -t vi-- it lifty-ce- ground-squirre- new-come- nt l, rs u-.- - w -- post-offic- at well-know- -- valley-boun- d seventv-eentime- Ts-lon- g lmnary-lookin- Jork n. g -t Where the vi..,, and Alcohol The alarming increase ! mental disorders, habitual use of stimulanf' ics has resulted in a eorrl crease of private st year, says The A'( p Express. Though giv,,a sive title of retreats lHai-c-s Vernon is to be linked tc Washiiiaton by iron rails. Atlanta claims tube the third largest snuff market in the world. A New Y ork clergy man refused tc officiate at an evening funeral. Mrs. Clarissa Kavnioml, of YVilton, Conn., is in the lOoth year of her age. The Boston postuffice yields the government an annual net revenue of ovei Mount retre-la- ia,; these places really t..; Railroad company nor less than madhou ' tients are placed under iw will not employ men who are over H lance. They flourish in of ears y age. but pay better whtI1 triets, In Lowell. Mass., there are four irl.uiid.otO. The lennsx lvania - bun-dre- d liquor saloons and only bakeries. The Italian merchants in San Francisco have organized an Italian chamber of commerce. A proposed light between a dog and is agitating the sporting popucoon a lation of Louisville. Coal-Oi- l Johnny or a crank claimCoal-Ohas turned he to Johnny, ing up in lhiladelphia. More than six thousand applications for liquor licenses are on tile in tho lhiladi'lphia courts. About ten million shad, artfieially hatched, have been placed in Georgia streams during the pa--t year. twenty-fou-r il metropolis. New Jer. these homes, where tile " from New Y'ork, ware, and Man laud findrl-- " enn-fi- nectieut and Rhode Liaujs'eonimoilations to NnvEa' while Nebraska is the lu'victims of dineased minds in. - - The south is as jet conn,, provided in this particular 7 a noticeable fact that this; country sends as many m;. " New Jersey institutions as Although all classes of plu' milted to these reformat majority of them are treated',, alcoholism. Opium andm.r ers come next .on the L;;. hopelessly inane receive at all. The voun ttl nient coach-whip snake measuring six A wlio lias town, hjSf, feet and three inches in length was re- excess, goes to indulged fore,' Europe Ga. killed in Dickens, cently Europe in his case, howtv Moonshine whisky distilleries are re- times a retreat, where her'-ported to be cropping out in all the his tongue hanging out of for one drop of mountainous parts of Pennsylvania. The New Y'ork legislature has just re- is time for him to return fria' abroad. This usually tak. pealed the last of the old slave laws, weeks. from books the left standing on There a iv as nianwr. confirmed drunkards ing A Scranton. Pa., man who snatclmd as there are said a liv ciaut1' a newspaper from a newsboy without If a little judgment is -j paying for it is in the Lackawanna counbe cured, and that, too, no ty jail for petit larceny. Sweet lemons are a favorite Mexican ly. They imagine that fieri their favorite stimulant, dainty. They are the shape, color and ble they will get it. 8 size of the lemons of commerce, but use the padded cell. The are sweeter than the banana. is brought iu suffering wuh t. A bucket of waiter thrown overboard ium tremens. After Inr;. contained nearly one million shad of bromide of potassium lnv y the thirty million the fish commission down tlie poor fellows thrown into the padded ol is now planting in the Delaware. The Virginia organized militia con- - moans and groans, for dan. in despair. Oftentimes the white companies, ninetains thirty-fou- r beats hs head agaimthhc teen colored companies, three batteries his frenzy. Such treatment.-lof artillery, and three troops of cavcruel, and tlie patient alry. are seriously injured. The A man known a3 Happy Jack Man-tostop a mails whisky and ' who died recently at Wooster, O., drunk may be very good a but it does not stand a pr,.; was credited with having shot Gen. GarTo suddenly stop) anytlimjt.u killnett, the first confederate general system has been long am.! ed in the war. most jiiiii The new friezo in the mayors room serious thing. The humane plan is to gradual in the Boston city hall has attracted attlie amount of a patient's stir tention froifi tho fact that in one corner til he can ilo wit bout it allogu is tlie American eagle and in the oilier accomplished, the a line representation of the Irish thrush Tlie ilruukanlisiiotf.it lie finds lie can exist eomferfi clasping a shamrock in its claws. Tlie San Francisco courts are to inout his glass. Neither is k be discharged. Unless his troduce the Chinese oath, which conislied system be built up, sa sists in the witness cutting off the head nl of a chicken as he repeats a formula after lie leaves the iiisfituti he entered, as bad before as promising to toll the truth, in the hope quires tonics until his siy of reforming Mongolian mendacity. caused by While a southern military company from the shock tlie alcohol. Morphine pat.e was in camp, recently, near Augusta, be fed on tins drug reai.b Ga., one of the privates made more doses should bo decreased jl. than his expenses by opening a barber- can be done by subshtut s: A shave ocuous white substance, so shop, where lie advertised in anil a egg for 10 cents. up the size of the dose This is time for anticipating the evils until finally the patient, r. of and the moth and other do- taking morphine, is tak.n; effective tona .. mestic insect season. Each of the doses of some iu a condition to leave large torpid llies which comes out from soon tiun. its hiding-plac- e in window-s-iM- i or book Women addicted to the f' case may fay two thousand eg sua- tlie hardest class of ; are it ge.sts an authority, and early extertreat. They are naturallymil'. mination of llies and insects is advised. than organized cately A Danbury man went to Brookfield, a nmeh longer timeiu. quires Conn., the other day, and called on a Unlike the men, however. family in the way of business. After once cured seldom has a rear he had gone a big black snake was found in the chair that had been occuConviiiceiiil pied by tne man from Danbury. Where man applied to the pr" tlie serpent came from, if not from the mercantile Louis St. visitors boots, is a conundrum. see that you advert The once prosperous steamboating siu business on the Cumberland river is to travel in Arkansaw," Y'es sir. W gradually going into decay. A coming I would like lo secure sale of steamboats similar to tho one know many Do (hat occurred in Florida, a few days ago saw? you I will be the last link in tho I know long and sucYes, sir. statecessful chain of business. The war i man in the lnee and railroads conduced to kill the vast prominent you j IIow long have steamboating traffic. Six months, so The city council of Dolores Hidalgo, What, and knew men? Guanajuata, proposes to lay out a garden in the central plaza of that town, Y'es, sir. IIow can you have ntf celebrated in Mexican history as tlie tanees so rapidly? birthplace of Mexican liberty. ran The Easy enough. I is garden to surround he statueof Cure ion towns. Hidalgo, to be erected there at the naAii. I see, now tional expense. Statues, fountains, and - - Arkansaw incredulity.ornamental work will be supplied. A queer freak of nature is owned by His Reason a fruit agent at Chattanooga, Tenn. That is a good cigar I wo bananas have grown together, said a lady to aSfU.in0, and while each retains its , perfect shape, It is, indeed, repu they can not be separated without cutvo, huge ting the peeling that incases them to- man as he pulled .,. gether. They are quite largo and both tlie ladys face. . ilonieS10, the same size. While other fruits Foreign or frequently grown together, bananas lady. . seldom do. A domestic cigar, but 11 hen the enterprising small hoodlum smoke anythingnot? And Give me a flower, why says: and is rethe lady. warded by the benevolent passcr-bmarried111' Oh, I am a with a fragrant blossom, he does not al Weekly. carefully preserve his gift with an apRustknr. said Mrs, of Yes, its preciation relining influence in his humble home. lie runs to the next begun a course in hor$ street, holds up his trophy, and calls teacher has already the out to the next passer-by- : Want a errarn aud sing from flower? 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