Bound to be in style - The expedient of a carriage painter's daughter at Vallejo, Cal., to obtain striped stockings.
Idiotic freak of some young men at Los Angeles.
With open mouths and protruding tusks, they warn the intruder agents too near an approach.
An Old Man in San Francisco Becomes Enraged at a Young Lady who Teased Him and Flings Her from a Fourth story Balcony.
A wooden Dutchman, rather than no man at all, was what a sensible spinster argued when some practical jokers under took to scare her in Oakland, Cal.

“A noble life, to Truth and Virtue given,
Makes earth a Paradise scarce less than Heaven.
While one to Vice devoted and her ways,
Of earth makes hell and blackens all its days.”
Marlowe
Source:
Triplett, Frank. History, romance and philosophy of great American crimes and criminals: including the great typical crimes that have marked the various periods of American history from the foundation of the republic to the present day .... Hartford, Conn.: Park Pub. Co., 1885.



