The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches A Page from a Californian Almanac t the instance of several friends who feel a boding anxiety to know beforehand what sort of phenomena we may expect the elements to exhibit during the next month or two, and who have lost all confidence in the various patent medicine almanacs, because of the unaccountable reticence of those works concerning the extraordinary event of the 8th inst. An expression of profound melancholy will be observable upon most countenances.
Countenances grow more melancholy.
It would be absurd to look in for it. The general depression of spirits increased. Such is the nature of winds. Mild, balmy earthquakes. Abstain from smiling, or indulgence in humorous conversation, or exasperating jokes.