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Show once between the FRANCISCO. jAN ..w iiirrTrlke a Stransor Ju irlnktns-RnUw- ami S tlie I hlnese- ,V el and fHnv",)nutnt . of One dihfiiu says: J to l,e familiar with the ! ha C oJf California to obt'lP . charac-re of the pious ,0,, 'I $- ,f 5t ar,. 11! ny t, first-clas- as well as their early settlers, -W, The geographical liomen-"- t 'Wi, the state, indicates Loth. 'hU' and lift v names n 0!1e hundred e m ' counties, places, nioun- 'Ky ; towns, water have of ers. ami bodies e a, or San of prefixes is which of ; t t!. English llFiJ;. ; pioneers Spanish These ura state crp.' .lie present capital of the Pt sacra- means which t 9to, ft.' f , f. 1 .! ,: Witt., o, w 11'. k H'Ul 'b IiOj. dan;. Jo '0 'J! fa;!.-d- , ' 0 Hu a I f., . irvt-- 'd 5u iDV'ijj W Tfax inir !i deal-- , U!f largely in ineongru-.1- 1 rlst'U at hosepB, tv yfJf. v i tlif! ttaej pi A fct, ffiair. isjl-- of: e Pe : r iw. ev orofi-- c of It;, buvt, t ? 'au ti il U ft ut 1 r a Ik f lf,T ok tm;- V Mfist arroc: n d, and frtuous highly-to-b- e existed com-iiiabi- ts before the days iuK telegraphs, telephones, and 't V. f, mv observation goes the Cali- very much like the American T .ssN-ipvalley. lie is equally jgeil, equally as broad-mintlecultured, equally as liberal, i. generous, and not more so. Jvrbial customs of having the fing on the outside, dividing iriist, and staking a partner his luck are no more common sn they tire elsewhere. That as . 11 : V f 'benefits and detriments which thing brought, I have no doubt. uitive .state of society which feted caused people to be more iit upon each other than they . The exigencies of the pre-inoof living and of making I pe ere such that it was not tm--i for him who was prosperous ay to bo empty-hande- d aice, therefore, induced one wlio f ca't his bread upon the waters Stas well awrare that he might st the future, and the prospect Bg it when needed was greatly by keeping up the custom of farted hospitality and open-- 1 generosity which then prevail-f-lahowever, they take the T in in another than a biblical ir fie til pr t c of list cep ist de IliPe --find e. tlrur ate t t in do! iiip'i a Li. jrei ICIil fV hn r m t iiv the able-bodi- tramp ok ite fb iur t ;s fa: in: iy to an tir ar bfT- - nj U i-- i er i is and treated here as the same siince that ho has proved himself I the older states. I arse there are various difler- customs and habits prevailing. $e tiitlerences exist in all parts uited States and aro not more here than elsewhere. Forin-tlier- e ai is but very little paper circulation, and it is an ituli-0- f a tender foot to see a adisplay much of it. While regarded as inconvenient in here the contrary idea f I am becoming used to it, but g since I tendered a coin to a fir conductor thinking it was a and was not made awmrc of the St I had oflerod him a $5 gold intil he said he could not make bge. I apprehend that this currency is not caused by ulit of its genuine character, but Jy the result of custom long con-- , for specie circulated in Califor-rin- g the war when it was only a nltable commodity in the states file Rocky mountains. 'Baking up passenger trains on lifornia roads the cars are grad-fron nt to rear. Instead of hav-drawing room and palace cars tear, as is usual in the east, these fa placed next behind the bagful express ears, and behind the come the s day being followed by the sec-- d s coaches. The very Cason for this and I should think arrangement on equally applies iroads is, that the rear ears catch at of all the cars ahead of them. fining across the continent this II arrangement of cars was not on our train until we reached ? X. JL( where all the cars were cd on the train. Thus passeng-Meepehad to change as well as crs. It was explained that tin s is made in the interest of hy- and, therefore, for the health onifort of the passengers, it bound that the. long trip across got r.' in so filthy a condition that it to change them at least cars first-clas- third-clas- rs a-s-ary I :i l.eavv cum, We even li;ul tin tin.-aninclination to snr.ivral ' took-throuI.e Mi-- r dd.',"' tin l:ne. for t ame through, and Stephens ami otlnr leading men read the New York and Philadelphia edition long liefore the publishers issued it in live little volumes. If literature could run the blockade it goes without saying that anything could. Of course there is another side to tlie picture. The country districts were drained of their men, horses, mules, '1 Tin war made Us rich, said a n ton tourist the other day. but the of business in the confederacy' must Lave Uen unfavorable from tir-- t to last, as the currency was all the time Boscou-htio- From his standpoint depreciating. the Boston man was right, but our currency did not prevent many of our people from making fortunes. During the four years of the war business was on a boom all over the south. Our merchants caught the sjieeulativs fever very early. n came just in time to keep the drygoods men from laying in their spring stocks, but they did the best that 2ould be done. They sent their agents ill through Tennessee and Kentucky md Bought out the entire stocks of hundreds of country stores. Many Tennessee merchants refugeed with their goods during the first year of the war to the interior southern cities, so that the bloeka ie found us pretty well supplied. A depreciated currency does not hurt trade. It is offset by the continual rise in the price of merchandise. In those days it was out of the question to have any seeing mark affixed to goods. Brices roce too rapidly for that. Clerks were instructed to raise their figures about once a week, sometimes lumping up 10 per cent, and sometimes as high as 50 per cent. Customers living in cities and towns took all this as a matter of course. They found confederate money easy to get and spent it liberally. Country people, however, were emphatic in their protests. Money was scarce with them, and as many of their breadwinners were in the army they had a un-'tal- dc Scee-sio- 11. gh hrowu-p:qKr-cover- anu produce. The farmers and the women were not speculators. They felt the evils of war long the contending armies were in the neighborhood. This slate of affairs reacted tlie upon army in the field. Our soldiers and farmers had to stand or fall together, and both were involved in the general wreck. The speculators had their turn later. Atlanta Constitution. TRAVELING IN PERSIA. He Found Out There wss a group of striking palntl ers at the corner of Michigan avenue and Griswold street, when a farmer with his whip in hand came up and queried: Is this a strike? es, sir, replied one of the men. I hat seems to be the trouble all over the country just now? Well, sir. replied an oldi-- h mart with many spots of paint on hi- - vest, the trouble is there are too many men in the country. All bosh, Jim!" exclaimed a young man who was cleaning his nails with a I tell you the whole thing comes about from the efforts of a few to build up an aristocracy. Well, you mu-- t be green." sneered a third one. This crisis was precipitated upon us as a combined eflbrt ol capitalists to drain us of our lifeputty-knif- e, blood. le lianged'. exclaimed a fourth as lie came to the front. Any man with brains knows that the trouble started with Jay Gould. Ho wants to own the United States." Did I ever see so many fools together? sarcastically remarked tlie laid of the group. The trouble is all caused by politicians, who want to wind W'e won't be us around their fingers. wound; lienee this excitement. Then thats the trouble, cli? queried the farmer. Yes, sir, that's the trouble, answered the five together, each ono speaking for liis own theory. Glad to know it. Much obleegod, n gentlemen. I knew it must be or other, and Im glad I found Bttroil Free Press. ouL Life-bloo- d eating-house- s. sun-thi- d bar-keep- er dis-pap- er A Speculators flourished here During the h ar. How the ontoJ. r.iti tor ut vice-preside- nt - Ik e pl.ed t!, favlv-decorate- y, pjr the south. anti-Chine- se to-da- y. e in One curious circumstance about the journey, however, was the fact that we s The whisky were obliged to journey by night. The is not as good here as we are accustomgreat heat made it impossible to travel ed to in St. Louis, and the beer I have in leisia in the middle of the day dursampled is vile. Dunks are two for a ing the greater part of the year. Our Lor a single drink a tender quarter. departure was therefore so timed that of 10 or 15 emits seems satisfactory' in we could have the benefit of the full cither case; but if a coin of larger demoon. Once on the road, and winding nomination be tendered the change that through narrow lanes at a moderate is made shows that 15 cents have been walk, we were able to observe what an taken out. The custom was and ttio imposing procession w e made. At the is a sell to for a drink bit head rode the ;i!ioilar, or equerry, theory 121 cents and since the disappearance mounted on a white Miirazee Arab stalof tb.e convenient Mexican coin of lion. Two gentlemen followed, and former times the odd 21 cents goes or next to them came several ladies on the tachiruvan was next in orstays according to circumstances. donkeys; bad time. Sharpers Who Got Left. der to is one hat do with the Chinese carrying the invalid of the party. In the cities active young men who There is a sharpers game which has This is a curious vehicle, peculiar to of the features of the great labor ques- had been on $:50 or $40 a been clerking played for the last hundred years, Persia and Turkey. It is a covered tion with which the people of this coun- month set business for themsehY's as the turning point is avarice the and npiu try have to deal, and which has not yet as soon as they saw the dawn of fiusli litter borne betweii two mules, ami forty-nin- e times where it works game windows. doors and presented itself prominently in the east. times. They made money. It was not contains sliding once. fails Two set out a few sharpers comfortable is rendered It is reasonably It a difficult problem. Since the conto buy with judgment. All on weeks to a necessary it Wayne Counago play on which a person can vention at Sacramento, held some three had to do was to buy .something, by mattresses, came along of One them farmer. they lie at full length. The tachtravan of ty weeks since, at which it was resolved to in fact the farm. one to and wanted anyth ng, and it soon turned to the buy day is sometimes handsomely wealthy organize and carry on a.systematic boy- gold; that is, to confederate money. As the tarnier wanted to sell it was of is made mention and decorated, kings cott against the Chinese and those who This sudden prosperity ruined many a of Persia using it many centuries ago. quite easy to strike a bargain. Tho employ or deal with them, good fellow. I recollect one clerk, a this conveyance is more price was to be $t,000 in cash, and tho leagues have been formed all over the model young man, a straitlaced chap, But generally man handed over $250 to bind the barheavily constructed than is necessary, state. These leagues are organized as who threw of summer his in the Within two days a second stranjob up if they meant business. Agitators from 1861 atul owing to the difficulty of finding wood gain. In into came speculation. plunged along and wanted the farm, wluch at once light and strong in ger the parent society visit the local two he was a bloated bondholder. wanted it so bad that lie couldnt lie years march of a tachtraPersia. 'The leagues, speeches to encourage the His carriage and coachman fairly glitHe found indications oi still. stand van is ntcessarily tediously slow, but it members was made, and money is col- tered. One of his investnatural coal, speculative gas and coal oil, and he the lected to carry on the work. 1 heard ments was a wife, and she exhibited bis is announced for a long distance by to was give $G,500 for the place. strings of jangling bells carried by the 'J he willing an address delivered by one of these ag- diamonds to He idea of course, that tho farmwas, splendid advantage. mules, which do not, itators which, no doubt, set forth the was too sick of bis first sale awful be to be caught napping, would er sharp howevef, seem to appreciate the wealth main points urged by the supporters of and when tlie war ended h had man off. It would the seek to and buy money ornament lavished upon the boycott. The speaker was intro- enough to satisfy anv reasonable man. and weight of the man $1,500 to rehim to oiler pay Chi level roads the tachtravan duced byr Air. John W. Breckinridge, a Then came bad luck. His wife died. them. lease him. is a real luxury; but when there is a of the His diamonds and son of the late The second stranger was only out of equipage disapascent or descent combined with United States, and his audience of when tlie first one turned up lie lost at every turn, and a steep sight is peared. not bad roails this form of locomotion about three hundred was mostly labor- few him His mouth watered over the I saw the when for years ago, only very trying to the mules, but is again. but not for long. The farmer ing men, who appeared to be in hearty last time, he was a slovenly also a severe strain on the rider, both prospect, accord with the movement. saloon. that lie had been offered in a third-rat- e explained on account of the exertion requisite in and added: More than one man in Atlanta made more, $2,500 his position and the nervous preserving I But dont care for money. The Divorce and Intermediate Hus- millions out of government contracts. strain caused by watching the frequent is manufacand $4,000 enough for me. and its all Speculators, tradesmen, bands. peril cf being hurled over a precipice. the old farm is worth. When you aro What did rich. it turers struck they At the head of the leading mule marchMany Americans are inclined to balance well mako think that in no country is divorce so do with their money? Some spent it in ed an Arab, Abdullah Ibn Ilessan. His reaily to pay the out the Some purchased pairs. readily and expeditiously obtained as in extravagant living. gait was that of a prince; he was six The purchaser offered to release him confederate others and slaves, bought and and other some in Arabia pertheirs. But feet in height, sparely built, but tho tunic reach- for $1,000 $700 $500 $500, Mohammedan lands a man can, it is bonds. Others still looked ahead and fectly erect. A camel's-hai- r He be released. to want crash. didnt farmer final These the for ed to the ankles. His head was muffled said, get rid of his wife on the slightest prepared and bargain-monehes turned their money into greenbacks, with a striped man tie, bound around hung to the pretext. Some Arabs, barely 40 years of sharpers the while it pair tobacco, town yet, got cotton, His chord. had gold, tlie forehead with a white old, have been known to have rave and gnash their teeth every time etc. One man owned a hunswarthy features were haggard, hut yet forty wives one for each year of their diamonds, think of the thickness of his skull. in After Atlanta. houses life and they seldom wed before 10 or dred dwelling handsome, and the dark orbs which they Free Press. Detroit had about he visit twenty flashed from under cavernous brows 17, or have more than one wife at a Shermans business successful man Another left. huswere marked by a proud and romantic time. By the Mussulmanic law a Larry Jerome and Senator band may put aside his wife without purchased thirty plantations, besides all melancholy, deepening into a glow of Hearst the Atlanta property lie could get. injured pride tinged with sadness when Senator any form or ceremony, merely by oral Logan has a peculiar way Of the men who accumulated wealth lie was refused a backsheesh, as if lie declaration and by repayment of a pora wealthy man to when introducing of her dowry. so rapidly and invested it so wisely how would reproach you for having disap- mention the number of millions liis tion, usually He may put her aside twice and take many held their grip on their fortunes? pointed the confidence lie had reposed friend is worth. This littleeccentricity her attain, even without her consent, Not one! It is a startling thing to put in your elevated generosity. What a made him tlie butt of a joke at nn look back over a standard is to an army was this son of but if lie repudiate her a third time she in cold type, but as I club the other evening. lie enfrom comparrose who men of the desert to our humbler train. He tered with Senator Hearst, of Califorcan bo reeoverered only after a fully long list consummated marriage with and divorce ative poverty to affiueuce during the gave to it such a bearing that lie seem- nia, and m introducing the new senator of a single one who ed to be tlie chief person in it, instead to Larry Jerome, of New 5 ork, said: from a second man. This involves war I cannot think circumstances comfortable is in r of a poor .earning 20 cents Allow me to introduce you to Senator some awkwardness and inconveniences. under the im- a was friend Boston of an ancient waste the My Glad twice When a Mohammedan, having day traversing Hearst, worth twenty millions. r by descent, and fath- to meet you, senator, said the genial dismissed his wife, wants her once pression that conseriptiou broke up our land men. Nothing of the kind. er of of the future. L. G, New Yorker. s Could you accommomore, he selects the oldest, feeblest and business the last the at Even confederacy The very IT. in induces can and thousand this evenCentury. find, he man live with Benjamin, date me poorest and storehim with a certain stun to discharge had a surplus of speculators Senator Hearst was surprised ing? on ac- How Italians Cure the Ear-Achthe legal requirements and release his keepers. Some were exempt and Logan was wratliy. He and Senaor of physical disability; A remedy, one unequaled indeed for tor Hearst left, but Logan returned age bride on the morrow. It happens occa- count some conducted a manufacturing busiis that in use among the later in the evening, and, approaching sionally, however, that the intermedito to attend detailed it, were and ness bathers at Viarcggio and Jerome, and sailors him what be meant by ary husband, after having entered into lie said, wrere so coast must all the it indeed and and some, along a gentleman lie introduced Leghorn, the covenant and received the money, that they were of that of old insulting influential A and of piece liis wealthy Italy. wife, especially part him to. refuses to relinquish asked linen is spread with melted beeswax if she be prett.v and rich. He demands above the law. Oli, did I insult him? It will be surmised that tlie south the purer the better and then rolled Jerome. I thought you wanted mo more money and extends his usufruct the luxuries of tightly into a cornucopia shape, the to touch him for some .cash when you until he secures it. Hence, men who was almost stripped of of the struggle. the close toward life small end of which is introduced into told me he was worth twenty millions. or divorce their wives for trifles once were tlie Adventurers mistake. is a This to not careful twice are comparatively patient's car as be lies down. The The loan requested would only be a the blockade. time The senarunning cornucopia should not ba less than drop in the ocean to him. divorce them the third time, since the all the laour five that inches, was even or long. cool his There society to nothing three, four, tor from Illinois retired intermediate fellow is an untoward felthe were over if laid then not are could nerves. dies willing they cloths Flannel buy low to manage. Intermediate husband heated brow and unstrung had no dudes in head ami face, the cornucopia is set is a matrimonial part we have not yet to pay the price. We Washington Post. but young men who wanted alight, and burns slowly as long as the those days, York New here. to play attempted A Western inau claims that he cau raise cya stylish rig had no difficulty in getting patient can bear it, until burned quite Commercial, at ill. 8o can almost any man, hy clones articles near the face, when it is remoxed from she will have to it No doubt many cf the Yankee-doejmply informing Ills wife that almost from - This came a gives .Burlingtone bonnet car. year ith the proceeding through matter smuggled If you would get the truth of this get along instead of from England and instant relief, and if the pain happens on Free Press. Tlie truth of the matter! I advise you What do yo suppose I France. Great Cirsar's Gho-- t Some of the wideawake to have been caused by the presence of eouhl begin at the botIf artesan xxill tom care about the truth of the matter? All I line, it side the of in the mistakes would be fexver ear, other the on brne and up brethern any foreign want is to have my prejudices hacked up. If took come away with the cornucopia. Lon- made. A'ufl Orlea is Picayune. schedule. double a They you can tell me who will do that for me Ill operated federal contracts, and ou the sly sup- - don Society. JJwton TUttix rod. thank you. first-clas- account forthc.se appellations 5a a the angelic nature of the in- - u. bwr apparently exhausted e id ir anil desiring an nppropri-jbe the what cjilled may for Ot of this great country they which : tie title of Los Angeles, jeraliv interpreted is the city j." Later immigrants follow ed d predeces-Ijireftxe;aple of their Spanish the English abbrevia-t- o the names of fifteen jjid also adopting angel as a gave ns Angel '$ cognomen and ranch, .Angels camp, Angel lm-iji le that the western sense of flush times con-ider- When the trains of the AtJhi-o- n & Topeka and those of the Southern Pacific reach the station tailed Tchichipa, which is north of the junction of those two roads, and when the trains on the Union Pacific reach Ogden, the names s of all passengers coming to San Lranci'co are taken for publication in the San Francisco papers. Thus the touri.-- t s coming i announced before his arrival, and if he stops at a hotel when he arrives his name is again printed. In a country of tourists this printing of the names of those coining as well as the hotel arrivals is very convenient. Generally, transient rates for board are equally as cheap in California as elsewhere. I got a better dinner at a restaurant for J'j cents than I could get in St. Louis for the same money. The food was well cooked and well served. lut a peculiarity I have noticed only in California restaurants is that a plate to eat from is not furnished, the guest being expected to eat his food from the dish upon which it is served. This custom is said to be very general here in Custom 'UlnaMlar nd the Mid-ip- pi Pacific. y, one-thir- d, up-eo- to-da- y. mule-drive- mule-drive- mule-drier- e. ear-ach- e, a.-k-ed -- m xx ! well-bore- sub-lan- ce |