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Show CALIFORNIA SPELLING. ! Bob Burdette. the preacher humorist cf Los Angeles, tells a story of a rich contractor from the East who was sojourning so-journing in California and who had great difficulty in twisting the Spanish Span-ish names of places around his Hibernian Hiber-nian tongue. In speaking of San Jose, Mojave, Vallejo and other towns which he had visited he gave the literal J instead in-stead of H. Mr. Burdette tried to explain, ex-plain, but was Interrupted by the Irishman, Irish-man, who exclaimed, explosively: "Ye have a fine climate out here, and ye have flowers an' fruit galore, but blast the eountry, say I, where they spell hickory with a j:" Cleveland Plain-dealer. |