hemselves
Typographically.

Makeshifts of pioneer journalism have taxed the ingenuity of many a great
mind. Writing for the _Bookman_, J.M. Scanland tells the story of early
California newspapers. The first paper, the _Californian_, was published
at Monterey by Robert Semple, a Kentuckian, who acted as editor, and the
Rev. Walter Colton, a navy chaplain, who was then stationed at Monterey,
as typesetter and pressman. These two men brought out their first issue on
August 15, 1846. Semple went to the village of Yerba Buena (now called San
Francisco) a short time later, and during his absence Colton printed the
following paragraph:

Our Alphabet.--Our type is a Spanish font picked up here in
a cloister, and has no vv's [w] in it, as there is none in
the Spanish alphabet. I have sent to the Sandvvich Islands
for this letter; in the mean time vve must use tvvo v's. Our
paper at present is that used for vvrapping cigars; in due
time vve will have something better. Our object is to
establish a press in California, and this vve shall in all
probability be able to accomplish. The absence of my partner
for the last three months and my duties as alcalde here have
deprived our little paper of some of those attentions vvhich
I hope it vvill hereafter receive.

VVALTER COLTON.

ODDEST JAIL IN THE UNITED STATES.

IT IS CUT FROM THE SOLID ROCK.

Eternal Cliffs Form the Safe Walls That
Confine Convicts at Clifton, County
Seat of Graham County, Arizona.

Troglodytes of history have lived in their caves from choice. At Clifton,
Graham County, Arizona, are a number of unwilling troglodytes who are kept
within their rocky home by officers of the law. Clifton is one of the
centers of copper mining in Arizona. In one sense it may be inferred that
the queer jail has its advantages, for the temperature of that part of
Arizona frequently rises in summer as high as one hundred and twenty
degrees in the shade.

It comprises four large apartments, hewn in the side of a
hill of solid quartz rock. The entrance to the jail is
through a box-like vestibule, built of heavy masonry, and
having three sets of gates of steel bars.

Here and there, in the rocky walls, holes have been blasted
for windows, and in these apertures a series of massive bars
of steel have been fitted firmly in the rock.

The floor of the rock-bound jail is of cement, and the