Year: 1876

over and gone" is not yet to be sung
in our land. We have had some of
the most tremendous rain and hail
storms of the season during
the last week, and it looks as if
more were already in preparation.
The death rates during the whole
season have been one-fifth more than
ever before, and unless the popula-
ton has increased to the same ex-
tent, which of course it has not, We
have had indubitable proof that a
bad, wet season has been productive
of death byond precedent.


Nothing noteworthy has occurred
but the beginning of Lent, when the
roses blossomed out in the churches
Notwithstanding Ash Wednesday,
and naught in the external appear
ance of the ladies except the ashes
seems to have been forgotten, The
new theater, this week to be opened,
will help out the church-goers to get
through with Lent without balls and
parties, and the business in that line
seems to be very lucrative.


Mrs. Scott-Siddons appeared At the
California and was at first greatly
criticized, but she seems to have
worn off the first bad impression,
which would seem harder to do than
il proves to have been, and now she
is standing about as she did before
her arrival. Her voice is nasal, her
manners somewhat peculiar, and al
together the first impression has to
be gotten rid of before she can be
received with pleasure; this must be
the reason for the great change of
opinion.


Baldwin's new theater is a very
fine affair. 1t is said to accommo-
date two thousand people, and its
arrangements are very artistic. \
hotel is included in the same build
ing. 1t is situated on the corner of
Market and Powell SITS, and its ex-
ternal appearance is somewhat grace
Iuk-bSttCI at d4tN iaac IMAM t'iS Po'i
old Palace, which begins to look Il
kind of monastery now that its fine
freshness has departed. 1t never can
sink into insigniticance, poor old
thing, but it must stand, unless an
earthquake destroys it, AS CALIFORNIA; 5
representative of folly.


The net receipts Of the Centen-
NAL ball were s6.45o. quite good
sum for these poor times. aud a
credit to the ladies who represent
this portion of the world in the
national anniversary. The certiti-
Gates Of stock will arrive in two or
three weeks, when the picture frame
dealers expect to be deluged with
orders for frames to contain them,
to convey them to posterity in a
sufficiently decorous manner. The
Centennial fair is looked upon here
as q sort of worlds advertisement
to be, and the ladies of America, not
wishing to be outdone. are doing
their best to prove to the world the
American female is not quite so
worthless specimen of the genus
"femme" as she is SO often repre-
sented. The money from California
goes to assist the erection of build
ings for the female department,
which are said to be very artistic.
Can't Nevada do something, not in
the way of silver. but in the way Of
feminine brass, il it needs be. to
get up something to show her in
terest.


The chief newspaper gossip seems
to hinge on Mrs. Jones baby. Now,
Jones Is Q common name, exceed
ingly common. 1t is not unlikely
that q Jones baby is born every
day in the year-not impossible
every hour in the day; but not this
Jones, by no means. This Jones
represents wealth, and this baby is
Jones last representative. 1t does
not follow that Jones is not very
nice man. nor the baby q very nice
baby, because the father is rich; but
then it does follow that something
about it must show how rich he is,
and 80 the baby has q crib. q won
.drops crib. the fame of which has
gone all over the United States by
this time, through newspaper cor
respondents. and has reached US
in California now. if not before
Nevada. 1t is not said the crib is
from q solid block of silver, but rs
Senator John P. Jones has q mine
or two. it would not be surprising
but all We do know is that it's q
wonderful crib; more wonderful
than all the other wonders
OF the most wonderful palatial resi-.
.dence Of one Of the most wonder
fully rich man in Nevada. But won
derfal to relate, the baby is not the
biggest one yet born into the world
in fact, il is quite little one, which
has already sunk into insignificance
in the minds of the astonished be-
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