THE fact is leaking out gradually that a most infamous imposition is being practiced upon the California market by eastern pork-packers. A reliable gentleman, who recently returned from a visit to the States, informs us that he saw hogs near Chicago, that were dying of hog-cholera, slaughtered and shipped to this State. He avers that it is customary in a large portion of that country, to slaughter as soon as this sickness makes its appearance, and rush the meat off to the Pacific Slope, and in many cases the animals were dying when the butcher took hold! In addition to this loathsome article, meat has recently been found and condemned that was full of that dangerous worm, the trichina. —Ventura Signal. SOME twenty-six years ago Richard Tregascus, well known in Silver City, Idaho, as “Uncle Dick,” had one of his feet cut by stepping on a broken glass. The doctor who attended him sewed up the wound, which healed in a few weeks, but caused him considerable pain at times, until finally it became unbearable. A few days ago he arrived here from Silver City, and had the foot examined by Dr. Bogman. Yesterday the doctor made an incision below the ankle and extracted a piece of glass about a fourth of an inch wide and perhaps three-eighths of an inch long from the foot, where it had been for twenty-six years. During that time the glass had shifted its position about six inches, working backward and upward from the toes to the ankle. —Winnemucca Silver State.