In describing tho (?eogfftpby ol California, Murk Twain anys :— “Thwoarv only two acrirfun* m the region around about Mono Luke— and aro tho breaking up ofono winter and tha beginning of tho next. Moro thnn oueo I liayeKeen u porfo^tly blistering morning open u} with tho thcrinoniotur at 90 degrees at 8 o’clock, and noon the snowfall 18 inehot tleop and that same indivldul thormo’mltr go down to I I degrees under abutU or, before 9 o'clock at night. Un dor favorable circumstances, it nnow« at least onco in every single month in the year, in the little vih luge of Mono. So uncertain is tho climate* in Hummer, that a lady who guos out viaitmg euo not hnpo to heprepared for all emergencies Ufih***she taken her fan under ono arm anil her anew ahoufl under tho other,”