Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-12
PACIFIC SLOPE ECHOES.

Diqoinq in the mud flats near Vallejo for
clans proves to be quite profitable occu-
nation lust now among the unemployed,
some of them making from g 80 to 50 and
So day.
The acreage in all kinds of agricultural
products is unusually large this year, and
the promise of an extraordinary harvest
is very Aattering. Nevada Transcript,
March 10th.
During Monday nights wind-storm
Chinaman named Sing Pang, living at Will
low Valley, was killed, while asleep in his
bed, by a large tree that was blown over
and crushed through the roof of his cabin.
A few days ago Bert Squires brought
into town some mammoth petrified bones,
found in the mountains east Of Orange
They looked very like sections OF whales
spinal column How came they IN the
mountains II santa Ana Herald.
One nightlast week at the station midway
between Ward and Osceola, kept by Mrs.
Connors, wildcat got In his work on the
chicken roost and reveled in chickens for
an hour or two, getting away with thirty
eight of the rasorial birds before he was
disturbed in his work OF destruction.
The Tulare Times thinks the counties OF
Kern, Tulare and Fresno ought to have
fair ground, and proposes THAT q good
site, convenient to Visaha, be secured, and
the citizens OF those counties be invited to
join and form joint stock company, pur-
chase desirable property and Mt it up for a
district fair ground and race track.
We have frequently been called upon to
make mention of curiosities in the animal,
vegetable and mineral kingdoms, but the
experience Of the past is completely out
done by wonderful freak Of congelation
which is vouched for by John McGonigal,
who for many years past has been mining
on the north fork of Feather river, and IS
known in this community as man OF I'M
doubted veracity His story is that during
the hail-storm Of Wednesday, he quit work
and went to his cabin, located a short dis
tance from the claim. Surprised at the
fierceness Of the storm he stood in the
door and watched the hail patter on the
rocks, when, much to his establishment,
something fell with fearful crash within
few feet of the door, completely covering
him with gravel, dirt and slush. After
wiping his eyes and cleaning them of the
mud, John again approached the door and
discovered large mass of ice, oval in
shape, which he estimates weighed about
two hundred and fifty pounds. It was
about three feet in diameter through
the center, and almost ten feet in circum-
ference, measuring lengthways. Mr.. Nc
Gonigal called the attention of some other
miners to the extraordinary phenomenon,
and with their picks the immense body was
broken to pieces, the hailstone, if it may
be so called, proving solid. We are at a
loss to account for this indeed monstrous
formation of ice, unless it be on the n.y.
pothesis that in mountainous regions hail
is but seldom seen, and then when the up
per and lower portions of the atmosphere
are in condition of unstable equilibrium.
In fact, Professor Reye, of the Berlin Uni
versity, in an able article lately published
IN the Popular Science Monthly, says: eve
are indeed warranted in the general state
ment that as snowhakes ares mallest when
formed slowly at very low temperatures
near the freezing point, SO hailstones are
largest when formed most rapidly, and
have in general as their origin large snow
fakes or snowballs. "5[Oroville Mercury,
March 9Th.