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WHILE I was knocking about among the 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...
...Arnold arboretum passed from the control of the trustees of Harvard College into the custody of Boston, Dec. 30th. The arboretum will be made a leading attraction of the new system of public parks. Boston has purchased Wood's Island, East Boston, over twenty acres in area, for a public park for $50,000. The plan contemplates a park-way one hundred feet wide from Bennington street to the park...
...Senate yesterday the bill to amend the act for repealing discriminating duties on goods produced east of the Cape of Good Hope was passed...
Twelve rooms in the east quadrangle of Hampton Court, the Royal Palace, fifteen miles from London, were damaged to the extent of $150,000 by fire yesterday...
...University of Michigan hopes to have a "crack" base-ball nine next spring, and to be able to send a team East in June...