The California Of To-day

and Itonthly offers tbe following plcusant en-and-ink portr.iit of the Pacific-sloper of the period : " The representativo Cali'ornian is an ass. He is so absurdly thinskinned thntnoone must poke at him with auy thiiig harshor than a feather dus:er, or ho will go into a conniption diroctly. Not only must yóu praise his climate, his soil, his crops, and his dog, aut you must ininutcly and elaborately disparago the dog, erop, soil and climate of evory one else. If you do not he will choke you in his congenial fog, pelt you with a fruitful clod, brain you witn a mammouth sugar-beot, aad bito your body with his dog."