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Show A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE. Dennis MrN'abb was the porter in a mining company's ollire on California Califor-nia stieet. Dcitnia Hept out and dilated thing, kept the dibki in blut-I blut-I ting-pads, and in winter made that 'tire which is totally unnecessary iu 'our wonderful climate, but which everybody insi.-ls upon having about four months in tho year, jttct to remind re-mind them of tho states. Dennis felt very humble and lowly indeed, aa bis cidary was only $10 a wtek, and when the necretary who got i?1ia a mouth for putting his leet on bis dek and .writing notes from the "Poodle D.ig" r-cowled and wuntcd to know where . in the bottomless pit the N.'-W; B,-f,rt wan, Dennis leit very much overpowered overpow-ered and downtrodden indeed. Hut Dennis hat heard of Whiitiugluu and l-'rankiin and John McCullough, 'and other great men, and so be I worked patient:)' on, waaliing the , spittoons, taking run ud a? eminent ! notices, li-temng at the ho-ird-rnom key-holes aud biding bis tinni generally. gener-ally. 1'atieHce and frugality is iu i own reward, nnd one d .y 1 )ennis j heard tho president read a telegram from tho superintendent up ou the Ihde. They had struck pay-Mvk at j last. That night Dennis drilled round and eon fur red awhile with Mc-jCarthY, Mc-jCarthY, who kept the saloon at tiie I corner. Then he had a whimper or two with Hoolihan, wh-j had made a ; lew dollars running the hack stand. McNabb bad aloO Lonielhini; to nay to U'Klynn, the stevedore, of u eoofo dential nature. Tl:n next mornini: the secretary of the Yellow Cat tiold and Silver Mining company lound M. Nalih'a bmg.Mis in front ol hi.-inkrttand hi.-inkrttand and tho spittoons bemu cle'itud by ii Mongolian. H' l ire th. judicial could recover his breath a si n all Fenian proi-es.iion tilled in. There- had bei n a rorn r in Yel ow Cat that morning, nnd in le.-s than ten mi mi tea I lie o d h iard was vol. d tmt and tho meek MeN.ihh elected president, and wa bnpily t-ignnu: notices of a live dollar iisemeut on tbo "oul-iders." And now Mr. Dennis Me.Nabh rid.'rt laiigindly down (o the ollire in his coupe, ami in the evening be sits on a satin sola op at I lie ix pn md cut's Iioum-, with his Kreueh boots on the Sieniway Ornnd and a lo;r bit rigar in his mouth, while tho cx-l'.'rt daughter Mng "Liinian's Hall" in Italian smack, him with her fan and k:ivk: "You Irish nro mich naughlv, llekle men, but SO nice." .Vi,i l-'mnt i-n ,V ' l.'lttr. |