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Southland Times, Issue 649, 27 March 1867, Page 2

Entebpbise ts Caiifobnia.— A company lias been formed in California for the purpose of digging a tunnel in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and through it conveying the clear waters of Lake Tahoe to the channel of a stream, and so ! across the valley to San Erancisco. It is designed thus to supply a dozen interior towns as well as the large city with delicious water 6f great purity, provide the miners with waterforcarrying on their work during the dry season, and irrigate thousands of acres of land that are now unproductive. The difficulty of the undertaking will be comprehended when it is remembered that the lake is fifteen hundred feet higher than any body: of water on earth ever navigated by a steamboat. Col. A. H. Von Schmidt is the engineer by whom the undertaking is to be executed. Domeseic Servants in New Yobk.— A lady told me the other day, amid much laughter, that she was about engaging a new. waitress^ and that the negotiation, although somewhat protracted and intricate, had. 1 proceeded ; very smoothly until she said, "I give, an evening every week, but I allow no followers in the house," when the young woman rising with ,dignity — they always sit unasked— said, "That settles the question," and swept out of the room. I knew of a gentleman who undertook todo a lttle of the rough work in the engagement of a cook, before he sent her to his wife. He underwent his cross examination as to the style of his house, the conveniences of the kitchen, the hours of the family, and the number of servants, with exemplary meekness, until the woman asked, "How many children have you got?" "I have five," he answered: " but I'll put two or three of them out of the way, if you insist upon it," and turning on his heel, meddled no more with women's matters. But servants will go a short distance in the country in the summer — that is, they will then change city life for villa life or watering place life. But they won't stop after the first of October. With them as with those I first mentioned, the object of life seems to be as much of luxury and gaiety as they can get — dainty eating and drinking, fine clothes, fine houses to live in, and fine people for society. —New York Correspondent of the " Spectator." The London subscriptions for Quebeo amounts to £18,000, and £16,000 is already rendered ftyailftbl?' b fteleg»ftj>b, - :.