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Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-09
The MOSQUITO.

Josh Billings lectured, the other
evening, in San Francisco and gave
the following definition of the Mos
quito:
"rhey have bug here" said Josh,
(which they call a mosquito. They
travel around very loose and seem to
know everybody. They bite with their
noses, and the bite feels like the back
tooth of hornet. Mosquitoes are like
some articles of commerce, the supply
exceeds the demand. They are born OF
poor but industrious parents, but have
in their veins some of the best blood
in the country. They are emblems OF
cheerfulness, for they sing as they toll.
We are told that there want anything
in vain, but l have thought that the
time spent in manufacturing mosqui.
toes may have been wasted, if tht
mosquito want. 1t is very easy to
kill mosquito--if you can; but il
striking at them you are very apt tt
strike the exact spOt-where the mos.
quito was. 1 have known Q singh,
mosquito to fight man and his wife
all night long and draw the first blood.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-09
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The Happy Man.

We never knew more than one man
who was perfectly satisfied with the
weather at all times and under all cir
cumstances. 1t was Chubb. In Sum-
mer, when the thermometer boiled up
among the nineties, Chubb would
come to the front door with perspira-
ton standing out all over his red face
until his head would look like rasp-
berry, and would look at the sky and
say, Splendid-perfectly splendid!
Noble weather for the poor and for the
ice companies and for the washer
women! They don't shake up any
such weather as this in Italy. Gimme
an umbrella, Harriet, while I sit out
yer on the step and enjoy it."
In Winter, when the mercury would
creep down fifteen degrees below zero,
and the cold was severe enough to
freeze the inside Of Vesuvius solid to
the center Of the globe, Chubb would
sit on the fence and exclaim, "By
lingo! did you ever see such weather
as this? I like the atmosphere that
freezes up yonr very marrer. 1t helps
the coal trade and keeps the snakes
quiet. Don't talk of Summer time to
me. Gimme cold, and give it to me
stifrw
When there was drought Chubb
used to meet us in the street and re-
mark, "No rain yet, l see. Magnifi-
cent, isn't it? l want my weather
dry. I want it with the dampness left
out. Moisture breeds fever and ague
and vets your clothes. If there's any,
thing despise, it's carrying an, UNI
brella. No rain for me if you please,
When it rained for a week and
ewamped the country, Chubb often
dropped in to see us and observe, ~
dunno how you feel about this rain,
but 1t always seems to me that the
heavens never drop no blessings but
when we have long wet spell. It
makes the corn jump and cleans the
sewers. wouldn't give a cent to live
in a land where there was no rain.
put me on the Nile and I'd die in a
week. Soak me through and through
to the inside of the undershirt, and
feel as if life was bright and beautiful,
and sorrer nothing but nonsense"
Chubb was almost happy in thun-
der storm. He would say, "Put me in
" ehuuuCl otoIui, tllu lcb Vic liSiltulut
play around me, and Pm at home. I'd
rather have one storm that ID tear the
inside out of the continent, than a
dozen of your little dribblin' waterin'
pot showers. If can't have a rippin'
and roarin' storm, 1 don't want none.n
One day Chubb was upon his roof,
fixing single, when a tornado struck
him, lifted him off. carried him quar-
ter Of a mile and dashed him with
such terrible force against fence that
his leg was broken. AS they carried
him home we met him, and asking
him how he felt, he opened his eyes
and languidly said, Immortal pow
ers! what storm that was! When it
does blow to suit the junior member
of the ChuEbs family, it blows hard.
I'd give both my legs if we could have
a squall like that every day. IL"
Then he tainted. 'f5t' @.fEs
We want Chubb elected President.
He is the only man in the universe
who don't growl at the weather, and
he ought to have glory and honor. f
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-09
Bound to Get Subscriber ANYWAY.

D lie was once out on jaunt in the
township Of White Oak, Ingram coun-
ty, sticking to every farmer until he
got his name and money, and it so
happened that he came to a house
where death had called few hours
before. The farmers wife was laid
out, and the husbandman and his
children were grieving over her loss
when the editor knocked at the dooS
"What's up? ?" inquired the editor,
as he saw the farmers solemn counte-
nance before him. ~-
my wife is dead" replied the
farmer.
"Is that so ?" unused the editor a
little disappointed. "Did she die
easy ?"
Dropped off like a lamb.n
"Did she say anything ?"
/ r"Not a wOrd-just went right to
sleep like"
II didn't know continued the
editor, a sad look on his face, "but
what she might have requested you to
subscribe for the Cascade, which you
know is the best paper i'm the county.
If you want it I'll take your name
right IN, and under the circumstances
| won't charge you cent for the
obituary notice w'
The farmer hung off for while. but
before the editor went away he had
two additional dollars in his pocket,
| ana had written out an obituary no.
lice for publication in the next issue,
| winch the bereaved husband pro-
n0unced "a mighty smart piece."--
| Detroit Free Press.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-09
What is the Alden Process I?

AS with the new fruit-curing process
upon which the business is prosecuted
by the company successfully operating
in Alameda county, a field of profit
able industry is opening for California,
the desire of many fruit-growers to
know something of the character of
this process is thus met by answer in
the Rural Press.
"The Alden product is often con-
founded with ordinary dried fruit and
thought to be merely prepared in a
novel manner. That such is not the
case would seem to be conclusively
shown by the commanding advance
held by it in the market over common
dried fruit. But when the nature of
the process is considered for moment,
the difference becomes evident. If the
two were identical the Alden would
still take the lead from it's perfect uni
formity and cleanliness, resulting from
the peculiar form of apparatus used.
When fruits are dried in the open air,
they are liable to attacks Of insects,
and at all times contaminated by dust
and stray refuse carried by the wind,
and are besides darkened by the par
Wal ucCOLl pOSlulOl CduScu ny Uuc llSuI
and dry heat. In other modes of dry
ing, the fruit is invariably very dark
and tough. The Alden fruit, on the
contrary, is subject to the following
conditions: rapid circulation of air,
accurately adapted and graduated heat,
and considerable humidity. The pro-
cess is an evaporation in moist air, in
the presence Of heat, thus directly imi-
tating nature in the organic process of
ripening, the whole being so quickly
accomplished that there is no time for
the slightest decay to set in. The pro-
duct is not at all discolored, and pre-
serves intact the fresh flavor and text
ure of the original article. Thus much
was learned from theoretical consider
lions and examination of the various
Alden products which are on exhibit
ton at the office of the company, 4O2
Montgomery street, room 5, where
visitors can at all times judge for them
selves of the merits Of the process, and
have it thoroughly explained.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-09
A Narrow Escape.

A girl eleven years old, living at ST.
Joseph, Mo-, recently had q very mar
row escape from being buried alive.
She was girl of remarkable acute
ness of mind, but had been in bad
health for some months, and has often
said that she could see the forms of
persons long dead. A few days ago
she told her mother that she could see
her dead sister, but, while describing
her, she sank away and seemed to die.
The body was prepared for burial, and
zept thirty-six hours. On the way to
he grave the mother heard cries COM
.ng from the hearse. The procession
stopped in the street, and the coffin
)eing opened the child was found to
De alive. She had torn the death
'obcs almost entirely Off in her strug-
,les. She was taken out and bathed
in vinegar, and has since been as well
as she was before her apparent death.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-09
California immigration Of 1849.

The whole number of passengers who
arrived at the port Of San Francisco,
from the 3lst of March, l849, to the LIST
January 1850, as derived from the re-
cords compiled by ]. A. Coolidge, Sec
rotary of the Merchants Exchange,
was 30,675. This number does not in
clude the crews and officers of vessels,
who deserted their posts. OF the whole
number given, II, 237 came in vessels
from Atlantic ports Of the United
States, Ella Cape Horn; 6,743 crossed
the Isthmus of Darien; over $500 en-
barked at the ports of San Bias and
Mazatlan; and the others came from
various parts of the globe. The num-
Der who came overland and arrived in
the autumn can never be told, but it
probably exceeded that by the seatwo-
fold; all f1ocking to the new Ell Dora
do, whose valleys were described as
'perfect paradise, and whose rivers
were literally choked with gOld.n
(Frenaonfs Expedition, third edition,
preface Few came with the expec-
tation of making permanent homes in
California. They came burning with
a thirst for adventure and the accumu-
lation of sudden wealth. The "Cali-
fornia fever' spread with the fatality
and rapidity of true epidemic. Young
men of ardentand enthusiastic temper
ament fell its first victims. Those who
were foot-free, and possessed of the
means to obtain an outfit, set forth,
alone or in companies, by such routes
as seemed to them most practicable.
Arriving in California, they were ex-
posed to all the hardships of a camp
life, without the discipline Of an army
or the comforts and care which COM
missary provides. The partial organi-
cations with which most of them start
ed from home, fell in pieces as soon as
they touched the auriferous soil. Each
man was thrown upon his own re-
sources, inexperienced in hardship and
ignorant of the dangers by which he
was surrounded. Disappointed in his
hopes and detected in spirits, he fell
victim to disease in climate the most
salubrious in the world. When the
warm suns of Spring had again dried
up the rains and covered the virgin
fields with a carpet of flowers, one-fifth
vers, scurvy and bowel complaint had
done their work. (New York Journal
of Medicine, November, 1871 The
overland men suffered greater mortal
ity than those who came by sea from
their longer privation of wholesome
supplies abandoned on the road.
Nearly all were anxious to return,
whether successful or not; but few
were willing to go by the way they
came. So the Isthmus route was
over-crowded, and others were opened
that offered a prospect Of a speedy pas
sage to their homes; any danger being
deemed light that offered them an es-
cape from the Asiatic cholera, which
was paving the path through the sea
to Panama with the bones of their
dead.--[Dr. ]. d. b. Stillman, in
Overland for April.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-09
MAP OF OUR BACK COUNTRY.

Map showing the geographical
and commercial position of Los
Angeles; the system of Trans
Continental Railroads on the Pa
cific Coast; the impassabl lie
ranges of mountains parallel to
the coast north and south of San
Gorgonio Pass-the only natural
pass i'm the mountains from
Lower California to Oregon;
showing also the largest and
richest mining region in the
world tributary to Los Angeles;
showing the proposed railroads
to the rich mines of Cerro Gordo
to Salt Lake; also the thirty
fifth and thirty-second parallel
routes and their junction at AL
burquerque, as proposed by Col
Scott. The names of the follow
ing important placesin the coun-
ty are omitted from the map for
want of space: Anaheim, popu-
lation, 1880; San Gabriel, 200;
Ell Monte, 100; Spadra, so; Gal
latin, 100; Santa Ana, so; West
minister, 80; Compton, so; San
Fernando, so; Florence, so; Tus-
tin City, so. These are each the
nucleus of rich farming section.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-11-20
Mortality In Poultry.

Ordinarily or 8 per cent. of adult
fowls will die of disease annually when
they are kept for profit and given stim-
ulating diet to make them lay as much
as possible. This is not surprising when
we reflect that our domestic fowls are in
a highly artificial condition. The pro-
duction of large numbers of eggs is un-
natural, being a habit induced by man,
and causes Il great strain on the consti-
tuition. The artificial supply of food in
unlimited allowance, with no necessity
for exercise on the part of the fowls, Is
another source of disease. In the wild
state every species of bird must work
for living and procure their food a lit.
tie at time. 1t may be observed, also,
that during the very part of the year
when food, perchance, is abundant,
the wild fowls are kept from laziness by
the necessity of feeding their young,
nature having fixed the breeding time in
the Hush season as regards forage.
Again, the structure of fowls is so
changed by ages of breeding that the
wings and legs and whole sets of mus.
cles connected Herewith are dwarfed BY
disease, while other portions Of the BODY
are made relatively larger, which impRirs
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-11-20
The NerVes---Rest and Quiet for the
Sick.

Do YOU know how an electric cable is
made, which is to pass under the ocean
and carry message from one continent
to anotherr II there is but one wire it
IS IN the center of the cable, the wire
oelng clothed with thick coating of
gutta-percha, which is also covered with a
coat OF mail. There are three parts to
the nervous system: the brain, which is
the head center of the system; the spinal
cord, which is the trunk; and the nerves
themselves, which are the telegram
wires along which all sensations are com
municated to the brain. Each of these
nerves pervading the human frame is
itself bundle of fibers, and each fiber
consists of three parts the cover. like
the coat of mail to the telegraph cable:
case like the gutta-percha of the cable,
and minute central filament, or thread,
along which it is supposed the nervous
current, as the electricity in the cable,
passes. There is such an analogy be-
tween the electrical telegraphic appa-
ratus and the nervous action that we
may not be afraid to believe the mysteri
GUS agency which we call magnetism and
electricity, and of which we know only
lts ellects and nothing whatever of its
substance, Is also the agency by which
VIZ NANHIOl mas ptINdutu LOe nervous
system, made it the telegraphic apparatus
for the transmission of intelligence from
the outer world, through the senses. to
the brain, and then, by that link of
which no human philosophy has vet de-
tected sign, to the will, which the sew
eral muscles of the body instipctively
obey. So pervading are these tibers, and
so minute in their ramifcations, that
5,OOO OF them occupy but an inch of
space. They are more delicate and sus-
ceptlole than the finest spiders web that
breath OF air disturbs. Light sound
odors, or the softest touch-yes, thought
ltset-thrills these nerves and pours a
tlde or sensation into the great reservoir
the brain. In some conditions of the
body and the mind this nerve current is
Tar more sensitive than at others, lust as
the electrical current flows more freely
IN one state of the atmosphere than an
other. We are always nervous, if not in
paralysis. Especially when we are in
anxiety, trouble or sickness the nervous
system is peculiarly sensitive; every
little thing sets US into a tremor; sleep
refuses to come when we want it most,
and each one of these million strings is
athrill with sensiblity. Sometimes we
cannot bear the chair in which we sit
or the couch on which we lie to be
touched. We fret easily, refuse to be
reasoned with, become very childish.
petulant and exacting. AT such times
the patient tries the patience of nurses,
though the nurses are saints. Yet for all
that the sick must be undisturbed. Peace
Is their salvation. And the highest art
of the physician and the friend is to keep
the patient quiet, that nature, gently
aided by the skill of science and the
ministries of love, may work IL cure
- Iren@ns,n in ". Y. ObseLrer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-11-20
Japanese waxworks.


A CORRESPONDENT of the Cleveland
Herald writes of famous Buddhist tenn
pie in Japan, and says: "a description
of Asakusa would be incomplete without
allusion to the 'waxworks.' These are
in small building in the rear of the
temple. They are the work of an artist
who was deeply impressed with the at.
tributes of the gentle goddess of mercy,
and who sought to thus perpetuate the
memory of some remarkable Incidents in
her career. The groups are thirty-two
in number, and each one is a complete
story in itself. The work of the artist
has been wrought with wonderful fidel-
ity to nature. There is none of that
stiif, staring impassivity about his work
that generally marks the best efforts of
the kind. Some of the figures, as they
appear in the dim light, are so wonder.
fully life-like that one is half.inclined to
believe the spectacle bit Of masduer-
aiding, and in all of them the end of art
is attained, for art is altogether hidden
from view | especially recall the figure
OF woman who is represented as wor-
Shipping the image of Kuanon. Old and
bowed down with pain, she is hoppling
through the street when the car of the
goddess appears. The aged woman
drops her crutch and raises her palsied
hands toward the glorious image of
mercy with look of piteous plead
ing upon her shrunken face and
her lips seemingly haifmoving in
agonized entreaty. Each group has
its moral, impressing the beholder
with the beauty and sure reward
of kindness and sympathy, even toward
the lowest animal. In all Kuanon plavs
prominent part. Here kind-hearted
woman having purchased turtle from
one who is about to slay it, and having
set 1t free, is rewarded as the grateful
animal bears her drowning child safe to
her arms. In contrast with this is the
punishment of man who has cruelty
and unnecessarily killed a crab. KuanOn
appears to him, and at her command his
limbs are transformed to reptiles tail.
and as he stands transfxed with horror n
thousahd crabs sally forth and, crawling
over his helpless body, wound him to
death. The look of agony upon the
mans face as he raises his arms in futile
endeavor to drive off the simv. slow
moving creatures is literally horrible.
Another group combines the grotesoue
with the ludicrous in an amusing degree.
a laborer has been digging upon for
bidden ground, when suddenly wood
demon appears, and with distended laws
and cleaning teeth goes for Rusticus
in way the latter evidently despises.
The look of CONSERVATION upon the poor
fellows face at the appearance of this
very unexpected and somewhat unwel.
come surprise party is laughable indeed.
The demon himself is perfect prototype
of the Gentleman IN Black as the Old
books pictured him-with horns, tail and
hOOfs 11L0Je
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-11-20
Saw Teeth.

Don't quarrel with emmy mans religion
yu kant prove thet yure own il right.
If hav got to lift log / want to take
holt ov it Just az | hav mind to, not az
emmy body else sez
No man kan du away with hiz pash.
uns; they were given US, not to eradi-
kate, but to control.
Philosophy teaches a man how to bear
with CRATE composure the trials ov 9th
ers, but often fails in a combat with liz
own.
Good LUX has ruined more men than
| bad lux ever haZ.
The most degrading punishment that
haz been discovered yet IL the toe of a
| thik boot
If yu kan call a man a liar with truth,
yu kan add to 1t almost emmy other krime
with impunity.
| Never go to emmy one for advice until
yu hav fully made up your mind what
| yu are going to do.
1t aint so mutch what men kant do
that makes them fall short of suckcess
az it IL what they wont do.
Aim hi, yung man; the same charge of
powder will carry the bell mutch farther
If the gun is elevated than it will if it is
depressed.
Menny a man haz cast the lead to find
the depths ov misery, but git down az
low as yu kan, yu will find others belo
Ju.
He who allwuss watches the suckcess
ov others and then hurries to drop hiz
hook into the same hole seldom bags
much fish.
1t IL time enuff to suffer martyrdom
when yu kant dodge it; but thare IL
plenty Nv folks who are allwuss hunting
for it, and who don't feel virtewous nor
happy unless they are bleeding at some
ov their pores.
He whom good lux nor bad LUX haz no
eflekt upon IL more than haff hero.
Energy and good LUX are twins, but
energy waz born fust.
hav seen people so nicely balanced
in their constitutions that they waz per.
tektly happy, and didn't kno it.
True luv kant be suckcessfully coun-
terrified, and it IL really one NV the
skarsest qualities NV the human harte.
Silence IL safe; for tho yu may be a
phool, nobody kan prove it.
Phools are allwuss the fust ones to pro-
claim it.
Thare are no ones who git so tired and
disgusted with themselfs as the law do.
Fame that yu kant make yure bred
and butter out Ov IL kussid poor in
vestment.
hav studied sumtime onto it and kant
tell yet whether the most blunders we
max Gums from the he'd or the harte.
Mans best friend and wust enemy haz
alwuss been himself
Those people who fish for others are
the most apt to be kaught themselfs-
Josh Billings, IN ". Y. WeekLU.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-11-20
The Financial Value Of Woman.

THE New York correspondent of the
Boston Times credits a prominent mu.
nicipal officer Of the former city with
having discovered a method of convert.
ing women into clean cash. The discov-
erer, it is alleged, has been specializing
in wives for some years past and has
come out of his speculations with a
handsome fortune. His first speculation
was with his first wife some years ago.
The physician having pronounced her to
be In consumption and informed him
she could not live through the winter he
went to an insurance office and took out
policy of $4,000 on her life. No ex.
animation was made, the company tax
ing his word for it that she was in robust
health. He then carried the policy to a
second office and on the strength of IL
got another $4,000, and thus kept on
repeating. the operation until his policies
reached the sum of 100000. His wife
died the following February, and, rather
than incur the displeasure of a man of
his power and influence, the companies
paid the amount without any protest.
lie then set about him for another spec
ulation, and finding a wealthy woman
many years his junior he laid siege to
her and married her. Her relatives be-
fore the marriage had demanded that he
should settle certain property upon her,
which he did, taking the precaution,
however to mortgage it for nearly all il
was worth. When the trick was discoy-
cred she left him, but meanwhile he had
made 100000 out of her. His third
speculation in wives netted him $3.50, 600
so that out of the three wives he has
cleared $3.50 900, and even now he is not
satisfied In the light Of such develop.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-11-20
Hanging the Heavy Villain.

The moral effect of the sensational
drama was perhaps never better illus.
trated than in theater at Cambridge
England, recently, where the perform.
ance wound up with II tragedy founded
upon local murder, the details of which
were mimicked with sickening precision.
The curtain fell after the murderer had
been brought to the scaffold, and with
rope dangling above his head had "im-
proved the occasion" The audience re.
fused to leave, and when the orchestra
played the national anthem it was re-
ceived with Kisses and clamor, and the
crowded audience remained in their
places. AT length the manager presented
himself and apologized for being unable
to crafty his patrons by actually hang
ing the actor who represented the mur.
derer unless with his own consent, which
he was hardly likely to give. The
gods" shouted furiously: "Bring him
out with the rope around his neck.h OF
course the demand was complied with,
and after more demonstrations of their
desire to see the representative of the
murderer actually hanged the crowded
audience slowly, and with manifest re.
luctance, left the house.