San Francisco -- Mining stocks -- Thomas Starr King -- The Palace Hotel -- Foreigners in San Francisco -- Restaurant life in San Francisco -- The Cliff-House and Seal Rocks -- William C. Ralston -- Barbary Coast -- The Safe Deposit Company of San Francisco -- James Lick -- "Jack" -- The topography of San Francisco -- The elite -- The Bank of California -- The public libraries -- Sunday in San Francisco -- The Sumner Light Guard -- Emperor Norton -- The county jail and city prison -- The police force -- Theatres -- Mark Twain's innocence (at hom) -- California's historian -- The fire department -- Street railroads -- Saloons -- The press of San Francisco -- Gambling -- The subjects of the celestial kingdom -- The Chinese of San Francisco --

Chinatown -- Business habits of the Chinese -- A night stroll through Chinatown -- Tong Fan Goon Po (The Oriental, in English) -- The religion of the Chinese -- The six Chineses companies -- Mission work among the Chinese -- The "heathen Chinee" -- A.L. Bancroft & Co., Publishers -- The "Hoodlum" -- Bret Harte and the Overland Monthly -- The foundries -- Earthquakes -- Woodward's gardens -- A bonanza development -- Street preaching -- The night workers -- The hammam -- Suicide - insanity -- Golden Gate Park -- Street criers -- The cemeteries -- E.J. Baldwin's hotel and theatre -- The markets -- Divorces - sudden deaths -- Across the bay -- Government buildings -- The tribe of Israel -- Blackmailing and confidence games -- The palette and easel -- The camera obscura -- Pacific Mail Steamship Co. -- Charities -- San Francisco's fortifications --

Quacks

Hotels of San Francisco

The DeYoung brothers and the "Morning Chronicle"

California pioneers

The public schools

The American District Telegraph

The turf

Clubs

Kearny and Montgomery strets

The churches

Early reminiscences.