The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-09

fire and see miles of them from the WIN.
dow, why should I put on my fur over
coat and . macintosh in order to freeze
and cry out with assumed delight every
half mile while gradually get Pomona Of
the lungs7
Everything grows here that one can well
ask for except hard wood and coal. Coal
here mostly comes from British Columbia
and Australia
The seasons of which the savants tell as
are four-viz.. spring. summer, autumn
and winter-but they are not used here at
all. You have to keep calendar in order
to know whether it's Christmas or the
Fourth Of July. and though roses grow in
great masses wherever you put them, q
bearskin overcoat with the pockets full of
moth powder should not be over eight feet
away the year round.
at the hotel where You get fine pros
pect. You ask for one that the sun shines
on and in.
California will doubtless supply the
most beautiful and interesting exhibit of
any state at the worlds fair. shall not
60 TO the exposition, for / cannot bear the
humiliation of seeing North Carolina's
prise and wonderful beauty Of this states
exhibit. An entire orchard Of oranges in
bearing has been taken up bodily, and
with the trees carefully boxed and the
roots and soil complete will BE- reproduced
at Chicago.
North Carolina beats the world on ap-
pies. and the pokeberry ink grown there
is redder than any have ever before en-
countered. As the poet so truly and SO
graphically goes on to state:
Oh, how love to write upon the hotel letter
And chase thought with. nimbls. trenchant
To squeeze the berry of the poke judiciously
And jerk with Joy drop OF ink!
oh, what glorious thing 10 thought,
And what Joy to make . nation Think
In using the above and quoting from my
self give utterance to sentiment that
every one has experienced.
The Coronado Beach hotel, near San
Diego. is about the largest hotel at which
l ever put up SO much as / did when I
came away from the place. The surf is
heard beating with low San Diego boom
against the beach. This boom costs one
81 per day. Food, lodging and boom each
-: Still that is cheap for boom.
l remained three-quarters OF day At the
San Diego hotel and then resumed work.
l hate to be idle. The Coronado cost .
very large sum of money, but did not pay,
so creditor bought it for 100000, and
while he was thinking what he would do
. with it he was offered 81, 100000. He &C
copied 1t at once, as he already had another
hotel.
1t was full when I was there at living
rates. say ST to sos per day. The court
yard contains eighty acres of land, which
is very valuable, as people are constantly
setting up in the ighborhood-if they
can. The dining room is bounded as fol-
lows: Beginning At the southeast corner
at sideboard; thence running poles 2
chains and 3 links to q palm tree; thence
south IL poles chains and links to
fireplace; thence west Al degrees 8 poles 8
chains and 2 links; thence north 10 poles
l chain links to place Of beginning. In
valids are admitted if they will agree not
TO die in the house.
The way TO find the Coronado hotel on
landing in San Diego is to look first for the
opera house, where We appear. The fol-
lowing Is drawing of 1t from memory: