4000 children present, attended by their female and a few male escorts. Those who have never seen a similar gathering in Cali fornia.can hardly appreciate at once the physi cal beauty of the children <uid the taste dis played in their dress. The ladies need not be mentioned, inasmuch as San Francisco women are proverbial for their elegant and costly costumes. But the children presented a picture of health and sprightly beauty which I have never seen equalled elsewhere. In deed, it would not be possible to excel it in any other country, certainly not ia any other American city. 1 asked a medical man — a North Briton, by the way, ardently attached to his own countryfolks — how he accounted for the fact that the rising generation in this city was so conspicuously handsome. He said that the fact had often struck him, and he could only account for it by the race mixture which, in San Francisco more than elsewhere, had taken place. The pure Ameri can type, familiar in the Eastern Sfcateß, ia frequently met with, more so among women than among the male sex, and their nasal drawl 18 hardly compensated for by bright wit and charming manners. Butffebheir masculine counterparts have not a redeeming quality. " Boston lives on a five-cent piece," said a Western gentleman to me once ; and judging from specimen New Englanders I have met, I am inclined to believe it. A money-making Yankee is a most unloveable character. There is no meanness of which he is not capable ; no piece of sharp practice to which he will not resort. He lies awake of nights thinking hose he may get an advantage of someone, and is always " putting up jobs " to convey somebody else's money into his own pooket. The poorest of them would get up at day light and wear the soles off his boots to beat a man out of ten cents before break fast. This is not an exaggeration ; it is true. He is frugal and economical in his habits, and although by no means moral he manages to keep up appear ances. The Irish breed of New England Yankees are worse still. We have them here in strong force. They combine all the thrift of the Yankee with the insolent vapor ing of the original stock. 