"Madame Eleonore is still able to use her old eyes to good effect, which gets over with the public, and Madame Adalbert dresses well enough to make up for the rest...I should certainly be the last one to abuse these good ladies, as some of them treated me with great kindness, and, I might say, generosity. Need I add that it was not because of my personal charm? To them I was only a dramatic critic who had to be won over and muzzled, and I suppose they succeeded well enough. I can't help smiling when I think of the glowing write-ups I used to give them in Monday's paper, far better ones than Parisian stars usually received. The hypocrisy of the press? Oh well, perhaps. But they are nice people."
..............................................................-Albert Benard de Russailh

Hotel Keeper

"I determined to set up a rival hotel. So I bought two boards from a precious pile belonging to a man who was building the second wooden house in town. With my own hands I chopped stakes, drove them into the ground, and set up my table. I bought provisions at a neighboring store, and when my husband came back at night he found, mid the weird light of the pine torches, twenty miners eating at my table. Each man as he rose put a dollar in my hand and said I might count him as a permanent customer. I called my hotel 'El Dorado.'"

From the first day it was well patronized, and I shortly after took my 
husband into partnership."......... -Luzena Stanley Wilson
 

Gamblers

"In one corner, a coarse-looking female might preside over a roulette-table, and, perhaps, in the central and crowded part of the room a Spanish or Mexican woman would be sitting at monte, with a cigarita in her lips, which she replaced every few moments by a fresh one. In a very few fortunate houses, neat, delicate, and sometimes beautiful French women were every evening to be seen in the orchestra. These houses, to the honor of the coarse crowd be it said, were always filled."......... -Eliza W. Farnham
 

Pie Maker

"I concluded to make some pies and see if I could sell them to the miners for their lunches, as there were about one hundred men on the creek, doing their own cooking - there were plenty of dried apples and dried pealed peaches from Chili, pressed in the shape of a cheese, to be had, so I bought fat salt pork and made lard, and my venture was a success. I sold fruit pies for one dollar and a quarter a piece, and mince pies for one dollar and fifty cents. I sometimes made and sold, a hundred in a day, and not even a stove to bake them in, but had two small dutch ovens."......... -Mary Jane Caples
 

Muleteer

"She is genuine Castilian, owns a train of mules and buys and loads them. We bought the flour she sent to Weaverville. I had a strong idea of offering myself...but Angelita told me she had a husband somewhere in the mines and she has a boy about five years old. So I didn't ask her.".........-Franklin Buck
 

Miner

"We saw last April, a French woman, standing in Angel's Creek, dipping and pouring water into the washer, which her husband was rocking. She wore short boots, white duck pantaloons, a red flannel shirt, with a black leather belt and a Panama hat. Day after day she could be seen working quietly and steadily, performing her share of the gold digging labor."
........................................................................ -San Francisco Daily Alta
 

Speculator

"I have before spoken of her....Her husband would give her no money to speculate with, so she sold some pieces of jewelry, which she didn't value particularly, & which cost her about twenty dollars at home, with this jewelry she purchased onions which she sold on arriving here for eighteen hundred dollars, quite a handsome sum, was it not?...She also brought some quinces & made quite a nice little profit on them.".........-John McCrackan
 

Victim

"As she began to make considerable money the bigger, if not better, half of this couple began to feel quite rich and went off on a drunk, and when his own money was spent he went to his wife for more, but she refused him, and he, in his drunken rage, picked up a gun near by and shot her dead."
.........................................................................................-William Manley
 

Intrepid Tourists

"I think if it is not too warm, it will be fine fun--sailing and riding the Donkeys--. Most of the conversation for the last few days has been about the Isthmus--and I really think some of the gentlemen dread it worse, than Mrs. Allen and myself."......... -Margaret De Witt

"Another insect which is rather troublesome, gets into your feet and lays its eggs. The Dr. and I have them in our toes-did not find it out until they had deposited their eggs in large quantities; the natives dug them out and put on the ashes of tobacco-nothing unpleasant in it, only the idea of having jiggers in your toes.".........-Mary Jane Megquier
 

Washerwoman

"Magnificent woman that, sir," he said, addressing my husband; "a wife of the right sort, she is. Why," he added, absolutely rising into eloquence as he spoke, "she earnt her old man," (said individual twenty-one years of age, perhaps) "nine hundred dollars in nine weeks, clear of all expenses, by washing! Such women ain't common, I tell you; if they were, a man might marry and make money by the operation.".........-Louisa Clapp