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Show Tho Arabian arcbtuologists claim that they have discovered the grave of Eve, and state that she must bavo been about 300 feel tali. And yet Adam, poor mun, has been blamed for eating tbe apple when she requested re-quested him to. 1 PACIFIC COAST NEWS. j CALIFORNIA. I Tho conclusions of (be memorial of ' tLe neuate of California to congress on the Chimao )ueslion are: First, that I the United States government request j tliu i ouperalinn t;f Great Britain in urging upon the Chinese government the necessity for urohibiting absolutely thin trade in tin su and women under color of voluntary emigration. Sec ond, that congou pass a law limiting the Dumber of Cniuesi- to houllowid U lanl ut any port of the United Stater- to ten persons. At five minuCti past 8 cn Tuesday evening, in San Francisco, Mins Kate Lorrauce entered upon her attempt to walk one hundred miles in twenty-wight twenty-wight hours. At twenty-Beven minutes min-utes past 11 Wednesday night, being twenty-seven hours and twenty-two minutes alter the start, she desisted, with record ot sixty nine miles and 13-22'a of a mile. The feat overtaxed the physique of tho lady for the time being. A Chinese woman, of San Francisco was asaaulled by one of her countrymen, country-men, who plunged a knife into her breast and then ran oO, leaving the knife in tho wound. The Union Bunk of California baa been organized in San Francisco with a eapiul of $1,000,000, divided into 20.000 share. Wilhelm Frederick Schulte, a German Ger-man s-iloon keeper uged 53 years, committed suicide in San Francisco on Wednesday night bv shooting himself. him-self. The territorial pioneers will celebrate cele-brate the twenty-seventh anniversary ol the admission ol California into the union ol states 011 the evening of the 10th of oeplembcr. NEVADA. No wonder the the people of Nevada complain of hard times, when it is considered that the devastating devas-tating eircua has xwpnl nvr tho lunil tatiug eircua has swept over the land twiee during tbe present year. 1 be vtvlue of taxable- property in Humbolt county, so lar as assessed, in $2,20S,S2S. Mrs. M. T. VVilliania, a Virginia city lady, while swinging some little girls recently, had a narrow escape from a terrible death. Her light dress caught fire, probably from a cigar stump thrown on the ground, and in an instaut she was all ablaze. Two gentlemen, fortunately, hap pened to be passing, and on seeing her pulled off their coats, and wrapped her in them, threw her on the ground and smothered tbe fire. She was only slightly burned on one hand and about the legs, which ie & great wonder, as lior dress was burned right up to the waist. WY0MISQ. Tbe Cheyenne Leader is enlarged to au 8-column sheet. The largest individual lax-payera iu Laramie county are tbe Carey Brothers, who pay over $100,000. The Union Pacific railroad com-! pauy'a property in the county is i assessed at nearly $700,000. |