Word: sand
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...California and Nevada mining camps, fascinated by this feverish life, I chanced to hear of Bodie, "the latest strike," as they called it. Not far from Mono Lake, in the great desert that lies to the east of the Sierra Nevadas, and more than a hundred miles through the sand from the nearest base of supplies, some one had found a rich deposit of gold. At once miners, merchants, gamblers, and all the male and female floating population of the Nevada mining camps made a rush for the spot. In three months arose one of those mushroom mining towns, where...
...authorities to a communication signed '83, which we give in another column, with reference to the use of one of the cellars of Hollis as a mortar-trough. Wishing to ascertain for ourselves the facts of the case, we visited the cellar in question, and found it filled with sand, troughs, tools of all kinds, and, in the centre, an immense hogshead filled with foul looking water...
...apart from the annoyance caused to the occupants of the building in the manner described by the communicant, it would seem that the dampness necessarily engendered by damp sand, mortar and stagnant water, would be very detrimental to the health of those occupying the rooms over the cellar. This in itself calls for an immediate abatement of the nuisance...
French 5 will take up Geo. Sand's "La Mare au Diable" first...
...conducted in English, will require no committing to memory, and will not undertake the study of French grammar or composition. But a sufficient amount of French will be read during the year to secure to those who take the course ability to read the French of such authors as Sand, Cherbuliez, Dumas, Hugo or Daudet with comparative ease. Little if any preparation will be required in the course, but a regular attendance will be required to secure any satisfactory results. The course is given this year merely as an experiment; if it prove ordinarily successful and useful it will probably...