| Show KEEPING A DIARY it a man roan keps no diary the path crumbles away behind him as bis his teet feet leave it iland and days daya gone hiie by ai are e but little more than a blank black froken broken by a few diston di ted shadows hla hia life lire ia is all conf confine inea i within the be imus of today to day who does ot know how imperfect a thing mem mein bryja ry is it not merely forgets for gets gele it misleads things I 1 in do not merely larde bade away preserving as they fade their own lineaments linea ments eo so long as they can be seen they change their aspect they change their they turn to something quite puite different from the fact in the picture of the past which memory unaided by any ady written record re ord sets seta before us the perspective is entirely wrong how capriciously ly some bome events seem quite recent which hl it the he diary bows sows s aws are really faraway oar far away and how bow ow unaccountably many things look far away which in ti tiute uth are not left many weeks behind af A man might almost awell mellnot not dot have lived at all as entirely t forget that be he has lived and entirely forget what be he did on those departed days but I 1 think that almost every person would feel a great interest in erest in looking back day by day uron upon ur on what he did or thought that day twelvemonths twelve months that day three or five years the trouble of writing the diary is very small A few lines a few words worda written at the time suffices when hen you look at them to bring all what the yankees ca 1 I the eur tur round soundings roun dings ingall of that season before ou ott many little things come up again which you know q quite bite 1 well you never would have thought of again but for your glance at those words and still which you feel you would be sorry to have forgotten there must be a richness abou about the life of a person who keeps a diary unknown to other men and a million more little links and ties must bind him bim to trie ane members of his hia family circe birc e and to all among whom he lives life to him looking back is not a bare line liar stinging t gether his bis pe itic identity timit it is surrounded intertwined ad entangle entangled with thousands and thousands of a sl incidents which give it beauty kindliness reality some folks life is like an oak eak straight and varnished useful but hard ant bare other mens life and such buch may yours anil mine kindly kiridly reader ever be ia is like that oak wh ahn n it was not a stick but a branch and waven leaf enveloped and mith with A ith lots of little twigs govi go boving ving ing out of it upon the summer tree and yet more precious than the power of the diary to call up again a host of little circumstances and facts is its power to brine bring back the indescribable but keeny felt atmosphere tm sphere of those departed days the old time comes over you it is not merely a a collection an aggregate of facts that comes back it is something far more excellent than that it t is the soul of days long ago it is the dear auld lang syne byne 1 itself I 1 the perfume oe of hawthorne baw thorne hedges is there the breath of 0 breezes that fanned our gray hair when it made sunny curls often smoothed down by bf bands that are gone pone the sunshine on the grass where these old fingers made daisv daisy chains and snatches of music compared with w which ich anything you hear bear at the opera is ex armely poor therefore keep you a diary my friend london magazine tie tle THE tir OL OLD D GIANTS or OF california there were giants once on this coast all the denials denial t f savans bavans and doubter doubters tandl tandi notwithstanding ll 11 ig not less than four well known ca cabes cases a es have been noted of the discovery or of the remains of the giant californians of the sierra nevadas nevada to wit first a skull bone was found in trinity county in 1856 second there were found in tuolumne county in a thigh bone and skull of a man twelve feet high third there were jacksonville in southern oregon in may alay a pair of human jaw davv bones an e of the immense breadth of seven an e of seven ancher inches and d lo 10 fourth rth there were discovered in 1762 I 1 near the t mission of ignacio de Kadak Kada kaman arnan ainan in labit latitude ude twenty eight degrees decrees north on the pacific coast of lower california the verte bud bras skull ribs etc of a man eleven feet in bight which were found bv b y one of the old jesuit J e 8 uit priests these accounts with several others on the human fossils of california and mexico alexica as disinterred by the gold miners with their wonder forkim working water machinery may be found in the ignot notes es on the indians of california y now in the course of publication in the farmer Farine of san francisco Franci francl Fco sch soch remains ma ins of the ancient races ought ou bt to be pre served the skull or other remains rema ins of a giant plant aee fee 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