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Show PACIFIC COAST SEWS. CALIFORNIA. Lis Angeles is craiy ath--ut borax. 'J in; cj'jzootic Las qi to SiD L'ieto. Grad alley is haviDg trouble iib ita waicr works. Sacramento wants a branch pruoD bunt l cere, and thinks it can tU u easily. AourruoruLt hii tcn shot at Sutter lake. It wul bo stuffed and tent to Aai?iz. Lus Abfci.!fc6 ttadtemeD Lave taken to rubbing C.oh other instead of their cuitoojei.. Petroleum, alias Ventura county ?jrup, tint oozes from the rocks of th j EurrouDdiDf? bills in aaiall quaotiues. Xhe htue Indians of Sao Diego are proficient on the Jew;harp. This proves that they are descendants oi one of the "iost tribe:'." Tie Napa valley was visited by a heavy frost on Thursday night. The farmers say the grape crop is entirely ruined this year. ijacrameoto recently tried to get up a coursing match, but the dogs had ot so oied to the ways of the humans of that eeotian that they would do nothing but fight. Prospectors from the lately discovered discov-ered borax deposits, near Desert dprings station, on the road to Owen river, report locations made for miles. The borax is found in spots and varying vary-ing in thickness. The deposits on the State raoge, 200 miles northeasterly in 8 an Bernardino county, are even more extensive. Vats frr reducing the borax and oi her appliances have been ordered, order-ed, and crusts of borax are taken out and piled, resembling hay ricks, for reduction re-duction or shipmen!. HbCVADA. The Carson Mint ia doing a yery heavy business. The Gold Hillites are enjoyiog California Cali-fornia strawberries without cream. Virginia city complains because little whirlwinds scatter "about a barrel bar-rel of dust" in the faces of pedes-tiiao?. pedes-tiiao?. Nevada waots her lakes stocked with black basf. Don't put in pike or pickerel, or in ten years there won't be a trout in the State, and in place of a g-ime and delicious fish, there will be only the logy, muddy -fleshed pick-ere'. pick-ere'. James Crawford, of the Vivian mill, on the Carson river, was reoently treated to t free ride by getting entangled en-tangled in the machinery of the mill and being whirled round a shaft about fifty or sixty times. Strange to Bay he was not seriously injured. A ghost iu Virginia city rings bells and put out lights in a faro-room. The "call-be tl" has no wire connected with it, and is tUDg by drawing its clapper back. Ia the gas-light, with no one near, and twenty persons watohing.the hammer is seen to be drawn slowly back and the bell ruu. The gay gambol gam-bol iers don't understand it, and when that bell rings it takes two of them to stand up OBEGOS. An Oregon man baa captured a puie white grouse. Charles E. Smith of Portland is going to represent Oregon at the Vienna Vien-na Exposition The measles and whooping cough aresiill occupying the attention of Oregon Or-egon children. An Oregon reporter has spent $812,-25 $812,-25 learning to play billiards, and can't run over twelve now. Clothes-line thieve abound in Rose-burg, Rose-burg, and the inhabitants are now a shiftless set. An Oregon editor relieves his pent-up pent-up bosom by calling an opposition quill driver "a snarling cur, a coarse boor and dirty blackguard," and now his mind is easier. If no further frosts occur the peach orop east of the Cascades will be better than average the ooming season. |