The Clifton clarion., 1886-05-12

swarming from the shores of the
 Mediterranean; and intersprini,led
 with them their lighter Aryan kins folk from Northern Europe and
 the British Isles and an occasional American family driven hence by disaster and poverty. Occasionally you meet with one of the early set
 tiers of the state, to whom this DOT
 tion of the city Is replete with
 recollection and romance, unheed ing the cry Of the growing city, "Move on; south or west, as 1t may
 best please you;" remaining firm
 and stubborn on the liitle piece of earth to which he has attached his transplanted affections. Affections ruth!essly torn from his New Eng
 land CT York State village, by the golden promises of the Sierras, and long dormant in the hurry and fret and eager activity of the inning days, awakening at length to new action during the calm which followed the cessation of placer diggings, and throwing out tendriIs grasping each spot around which busy thonnht heaped it's associations. H2sr Clay street, and VI sJack- son and Ts till San Francisco - chance not to haV1
 during the last two e
 The word Frisco carrl
 liar force with it, and to oDS)
 ated is keynote to the histl
 and residence of him who utters, it. By San Franciscans and the residents about the Bay,as well as the travelling public of California in general, the term is never or seldom used, and IS heard only from the mouths of strangers from the east, who wish to show a fa- miliarity with the city, and feel ing of ease and at home, which they fondly but incorrectly sup pose the word implies, or at times from an early miner, who for years has lived in some remote and out of the way place, and by some chance accident drifted back to the city by the gate Living in retrospection ho takes up the past where he left it quarter of cen tury ago, with attendant local pe- cularities Of thought and speech. Here, as elsewhere, children come with poverty; butin spite of cheer less homes and mean fare, though often reared in filth and feyerish surroundings. and mainly spring ing from an olive hued stock, ttey hare the ruddy blooming complex ion,-due doubtless to inc damp cool summer and the constant af- ternoon sea breeze-which has been claimed as the right alone of the Anglo-Saxon and health.
 In journalism San Francisco, presents varied field, printing more papers, in proportion to the size of the city, dailies, weeklies and mcnthlies included, than any other city in America; and of these. besides the numerous publications in Eng fish, there are journals pub lished in various languages for the benefit of the different foreign populations of Germans, French, Spanish, Italians, Portuguese, Swiss, Scandinayians and Chinese.
 There are four Chinese papers published in San Francisco, the sanctum sanctorum of one of which, the Weekly Occidental, is sued by Hong Fong S O., from their editorial rooms on Washing ton street below Dupont, the wri- ter once upon a time invaded
 Climbing a dilapidated staircase and following the hall short distance, you turn to the right and enter low -ceiled, inside room, which with Celestial economy is divided in to several apartments, answering the various purposes of office, printing room. and sleep ing rooms, with a door at one end | opening into gloom and mystery.
 The editor, Kun Shoo by name, a young Chinese, of smiling feat ures and CastillIan politeness greets you cordially in good Eng fish, with an expressive command | of the idiom of the language, but i with slight accent, suggestive of |