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Show A MA.1IJIO " II ORANGE. San Franci-eo is a wonder prudueim: community. Yesterday we were slmwu an orange grown in the Chinese Joss House, on Pine St., which out-oranges all the oranees we have yet inter iewed. It is inclined to be pear-shaped, ami its height is o' inches. Around its waist the circumference is 15 ; inches niea-ured lengthwise the circumference is 17 inches. The question naturally arises and we submit it to the serious consideration of the Alias mathematical mathemati-cal sharp if an orange could attain these diaiensions in a heathen temple, what would have been its dimensions had it grown beneath the droppings of a Christian sauctuary? '. Chronicle. |