Show RICHES FOUND IN ODD WAYS Experiences of Gold Seekers Make P Pages of Romance Read Like Very Ordinary Matter If every man who washed his own pants discovered a n a gold mine there thee would be a n slump in washerwomen But that is how bow the largest nugget ever ver found in California was turned out It was a n young oung joung Indian who was washing his clothes in a certain stream when this big lump of fortune came his way Who will say now that virtue virtue cleanliness cleanliness for choice does choice does not bring its own reward 7 The California Eldorado to which all aU the world rushed with one accord was vas first spotted by a man who went out early one morning to dig onions with a sheath knife and found gold adhering to the blade Talking of sheath knives they were the favorite means of f. f flicking out gold in the old Bendigo da days s The diggers diggers dig dig- gers used these knives for many things and wore them in their belts They used to dig in their claims out out bits of gold with the point Imagine taking 32 pounds' pounds weight of gold out of a hole in the earth before breakfast Yet such an nn experience I was common enough And nd a n gold mine In New Zealand was discovered by a man who picked up a stone to throw at a wood pigeon |