Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1883 — PACIFIC COAST FABLES. [ARTICLE]

PACIFIC COAST FABLES.

The Digger Indians, of Placer, Nevada and El Dorado oonnties, are about to hold their annual conclave of mourning for their dead, in which the squaws plaster their heads with tar, and squaws, bucks and papooses indulge in a “heap big cly” that makes the eck-rabbit to seek ms lair, and tUb grizzly hunt till timber. Oveb in Yuba county, CaL, ex-Treasnrwr Be van and ex-Trustee Lipp drew their last year’s salary Jl,oooeaoh. They began to barter each other over their wealth, and agreed to flip heads or tails to see who shouldhavi both salaries. A mutual friend was called to see fair play, and. Bevan tossed np a dollar. Bevan won the mondy. This is said to be largest sum ever risked on the tern of a coin.

Buxt Edwabds was out hunting a horse last week, and when, iff a canon near Ross’ Hole his dog treed a black bean He was hi a quandary, as he had no gnu If ha left and went home for his gun his dbg Would follow and thus leave bruin to go in peace. Be he took his halter rope, tied the dog to tiie tree and rode hastily home sevexal miles, got his gun and returned The boys of the neighborhood are feasting ea bear-meat —Montana Independent. Et.ko, says the Winnemuoca Silver State. has a squaw who has an eye to business. She is the possessor of a papoose, and,reaUz> tag the extent of human curiosity, she ooncluded to make the child a source of revenue. She takes her jdaoe at the depot with her child carefully covered, and makes it the subject of a 10-cent shopv. Emigrants, in order to satisfy their curiosity, give her 10 cents to take a look at the Indian baby. In this manner she makes a good living. Jakes Clabx, of Virginia City, Nev., found a scorpion in a pile of waste rock. Ho thought it would be*a good idea to take the creature home and have some fun with hla oat At the first pass the scorpion planted its stinger in the end of the cat's nos* Pussy wanted no more scorpion. She went off and lay as though dead for about ten hour* Finally she came up, but was very groggy on her pins. Her hair stood the wrong wayjutd there was no speculation la her eyea When again brought faoe to face with tne scorpion she mfcde a big tail, and went up the tide es the house to a safe roost in the loft