Show his life would ronn good grenada for a tom topics captain richard S floyd who has been more or less con in the settling up of the lick estate in california and who was mainly instrumental in the purchase of the huge telescope at the observatory has had a career so remarkably checkered that he would be a find for eren the most imaginative novelist though not quite twenty when the war broke out he like many another southern lad plunged at once into the fray he was not permitted however to indulge very long in bis fighting impulses for he waa captured and spent several months in the prism at fort douglas here he met a fellow prisoner edward grayson a lad nearly his own age whose mother and father the celebrated ornithologist andrew J grayson were living in Maz atlan mexico thither upon their deliverance the two lads took their way and met the came welcome that the Gray sons offered many more southerners during that troublous time floyd waa anite bappe in Maz atlan lie was treated like a son of the house and when he left for california was equipped by his host with everything requisite for his comfort arrived in san francisco be found it impossible to obtain employment and one day wander ing about the docks determined to try bis luck as a stevedore his pluck and interested old ben then in the zenith of his fortunes and he sent him to sea it was not many years before floyd was captain of a mail steamer fortune favored him once more by inspiring a very rich girl with an overwhelming affection for him this was alias cora lyons daughter of judge lyons a surly old man with a heart for DO one ex capt bis daughter bhe was not beautiful then nor have years im probed her she being very dark and somewhat heavy of feature she was brought up by a negro mammy and has never overcome the pronunciation she acquired from bor nurse with bi marriage captain floyd began his career as a man of leisure at least no cares enthrall him but the cares of a public roan and those of their magnificent estate on alear lake where they have acres upon acrea under ornamental cultivation the surrounding country being very wild there airs floyd can in bulge her passion for eho otine in which attainment he has had but iwo rivals in san francisco society young alra toland and mrs howard coit such an enthusiast is ebe that she has been known to spend hours in the same uncomfortable position on the limb of a tree watching for the deer on their morning way to ahe nearest lick |