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Show A LADY DESCRIBES SAN FRAN CISCO. San Francisco, April 13. A letter appeared last Sunday in nno of Denver's journals, setting forth tho many advantages of California, but especially the amazing cheapness of living. It ia one ol the insane eUusious that give people erroneous opinions, make them dissatisfied with their homes, and, perhaps, induce thsra to remove to this country, where there are already hundreds and tbouanuds of iu fieri ng, even starving, victims, who cannot get away, it is an everyday ociurrence to hrt solicited in ih streets tor lunch tickt-ts, by gr-ntlm!i!y looking men. Too writer of said li;iter arvcrts that; he can get "an elnjiit dinntr for twenty-five rent-." (To have been entirely Californian he should have srtid "two bit.") Opinions difisr as r3 to what is an eleirant dinner. This I kuow, that a good aleak in a Becond-clrtsu Becond-clrtsu restaurant coats from twrnty-five twrnty-five to thirty irvfn cents. In a first-clasa first-clasa one litty crnls Butter is con-sidered con-sidered ehmp this cprin; at thirty cent. Oranges, which the afore-tuentinnfd afore-tuentinnfd wriu r quotes ;it irom ten Lo twenty ceu's a d'jzm, are vended a'oiilthe strrtats for twenty- csnts, and nre not fit to eat, being Ihoso picked from the lre-s green, ko that Uk uihers may have au opportunity to ripen. Good oranges Cost seventy-, fivtf routs to one dollar n dozen. Strawberries, tnateluss and sour, have just, appeared; pii.:e tiReun and twenty cents a Hinall box. K, very-thing very-thing tdse in proportion. For the ine of a horse and bugyy, that in Denver would cost $2 50, here coats ?o. I have heuu told so often of these cheap places, I have tried to find them. I do find the places menlioiud, but the real priced disagree dis-agree with the supposed ones to the exWnt of buy pur ceut. I have never seen so tnuca suiHrmg anywhere as here in San Francinco. As for the southern country the people are in a panic on account of the wholesale oosLruction of cattle aud sheep. This is the result of the pleasant winter so much boasted of. Tho approaching summer or dry season has bejun in a most unpromising way. For a month past the dust and sleet storms have bueu simply exasperating. The only thing that residents of California I'All hAUIronfara 11,. Thn.. U are inclined this way would better consider the matter well before emigrating. emi-grating. Ella Stocxton IIorton. Denver News. |