Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-11-30
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
SAN Francisco, Nov. 81.

on the deep waters was nothing to
trying to keep dry in leaky houses
during the past week. 1t has rained
from the sunny south till Boreas
has been invoked to change the
wind-quarters, SO that things may
dry up a little and damages be re-
paired. Boreas has done his best,
and a sunshine resulted from his
efforts. till by and by the south had
it again, and down came more
water to vivify the earth, delight
the hearts of miners, but make
wailing and grief among the thrifty
housewives, who had not had time
to dry the old rags that stopped up
the chinks, and help preserve the
carpets. What time it has been
for landlords. Have not they
cursed the builders, whose shoddy
work is now to be repaired, and
whose defects are being everywhere
made visible. Improbable work
too it seems, for nobody enjoys
patching, and the patchwork of tin,
asphaltum felt and shingles, has
had to undergo sundry overhaulings
before, whilst tight places were
made tighter, the leaky ones were
not discovered at all. SO be it.
Growing is good for the soul, and
as growing has ended for the time
with sunshine, we will say no more
about it.
The Carnival ball, the great event
of the season, has happily ended
no row, no murder, no anything.
We are such homeless set, we may
be trusted with dangerous weapons,
and no harm come from it. Nobody
was required to unmask, and in
tiiutS Ol tTedcueEOuS tuOut3ut anu
feelings, what mischief could be
done from this license. In some
parts of the East masquerading hos
been considered unlawful, but in
yirtuous California, among our
saints and angels, it is a lawful
pastime, safe to be INDUCED in.
Nobody knew anybody, and the
consequence was, it is safe to pre-
sumo, that nobody said or did a
thing they onght not to. In fact, it
was highly respectable to go to the
Carnival according to some peoples S
teaching and going to the Carnival
was freely INDUCED in. 1t was
success at least III numbers, sue
cessful as regards folly; how much
may come out of it hereafter to in
dividuals which may prove painful,
nobody knows, but for the com
mencement of intrignes and such
like guilty business, what favora-
BILE opportunity.
However, in our gambling, liquor
loving county, license of all sorts is
at premium, and it is hard to say
whether even "A Carnival Ball would
do much mischief. At all events,
nobody got into any open quarrel,
and the person to whom the Me-
chanics' Institute sold the privilege
of getting up the ball, probably made
money out of it, the place being
packed and comfortable dancing i'm
possible. The costumes were stereo-
typed attempts at being funny, his
torical, or anything else that per-
son fancied. The prizes were given
with an attempt at justice, but the
impossibility of suiting everybody
being long ago demonstrated, it is
not at all likely that many people
were.
Thanksgiving is over; but Thanks
giving in California can never be a
real Thanksgiving to New En-
glander. There is no snow to make
the thing possible; no grandmother
to sit in the corner and see her chill
.dren gather around her. Mince pies
don't even make respectable ap-
,pearanee, only few for immediate
use being baked at once, the weather
being too warm to prevent their
spelling. 1t is miserable kind of a
day in California always. People
look at one another as If they Won
'dered what it all meant, not half of
them at all understanding its origin.
"A few go to church, and whisky, not
sweet cider, is the beverage. Our
American attempts at holidays is
something pitiable. We don't know
how to play; we get old in our early
youth, and beyond making noise
and drinking, have no idea of enjoy
ment. The representative tire-cracker
would have to precede our steps into
Heaven to make us feel good time
coming, and tooting-horn or some-
thing similar to help us in the enjoy
ment OF that paradise, where, as in