Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-02-16

other for the most part at right angles
The climate is very fine no extremes
of heat and cold thermometer varies
but little from 60 degrees during the
year. For four months it rains large
portion of the time. and if the almanac
does say fair you had better steal an
umbrella, for YOU vail want it. When
the rains are over. there Is no danger of
getting even sprinkle fer the remain
ing eight months. The wind has fac
ulty of blowing every day, and when the
sand is dry it is like Vermont snow con-
tinually drifting. In the outskirts, where
the sand is not covered with buildings
or pavements, are buildings half covered
with sand. | saw one street with sand
drift more than fifty feet in height No
one ever moves these drifts. but waits
for the wind to blow them away. There
is fascination about the place that
causes many to stay here that are not
needed. making business look a little
dull. with So many idlers in the streets,
yet the panic has had no effect this side
of the Rocky Mountains, except it has
been to reduce the price of such goods as
were imported. The laboring classes
are very much above that class in the
East. In the first place, they receive
larger pay and can live very much less.
| think family can live here as cheap
as on farm in Vermont, and next in
Importance, laborer can work the year
round. not being troubled by winters
cold or summers heat Here are two
men in the Gas works who have worked
year after year, and are now worth s75.-
900 each, apd still they can be seen
shoveling coal the same as they did when
they were not worth dollar. There are
many Of the laborers who are worth from
five to ten thousand dollars. All that is
necessary is for one to stick to something
and he is sure to win. Girls doing
Homework get twenty dollars month
and some even more and the result is
that many of the women have money in
the Savings Banks. There is just one
class of people who ought never to come
here-old maids-they are sure to get
married if they do, for they always say
they don't want to get married-how
many times they would have to say 10 :.
With all Of the wealth and prosperity,
! there are hundreds of dead broke-men
/ who have gone into stock speculations
at the wrong time. There is never a
right time to the inexperienced who have
seized some Of the splendid chances
to make pile. which always looks so
| easy. Men, women and children all deal
IN stocks. Last week the Ophier Stock
went up one thousand per cent One
man in this place. was nearly crazy be-
cause he made $4,000 on small CAPT.
tai. Now this stock is going down and
some one must lose. San Francisco has
one curiosity that no other city on the
continent has. Just without the harbo,
are two rocks in the Pacific, and or
| these rocks, braying aud barking, ar,
twenty or thirty genuine sea lions
They can be heard a mile or two. anC
are always in sight. The largest, nam
ed Gen. Grant. is always on the top o
the highest rock and is estimated t.
weigh twenty hundred pounds You cal
pick ripe strawberries and catch flea
the year round. Among the great thing
California boasts of are apples nine inch
es IN diameter eabbages nine feet il
diameter carrots eight feet long thi
need conforming, as editors say, an,
beets-not dead beats-that weigh tw
: hundred pounds, which beats all or a
Greeley says, cheats the devil" A. B. r