Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-04-06

cioLSCo Vi othCi iiuio obu passing
them to baskets without danger Of
being bruised. A ladder twelve
feet high is attached to pair of
light wheels, with long handle
projecting out behind and two arms
in front. The ladder can be placed
at different angles and is firmly
held in position wherever desired,
as soon as the arms are dropped on
the ground. The limbs are brought
within reach by means of pole
hook and the fruit is dropped into
large cloth hopper Immediately
behind the ladder, and passing
down its neck into basket. The
The advantages Of this invention
can at once be seen, both in the
time saved in placing the ladder in
position, and the impossibiIity Of
bruising the fruit in picking, which
is of great importance where il is
shipped long distances. Mr.. Titus
has applied for pateht for his new
invention.
1t is reported that party Of
hoodlums, who loaf ut the conner
Of First and new Los Angeles
streets, are in the habit of making
insulting remarks to unprotected
females as they pass. Night before
last one of the reprobates caught a
girl about IL years old and tried to
force her to go with him, but her
or rsNsl ~ IA ,nln nf
tlemen to her aid. when the brute
fed. In her struggle with the fell
low the sleeve of her dress was torn
and, when rescued, she almost
went into commissions caused by
fear and exhaustion. Now that
the attention of the police has been
directed to the matter, it is TO be
hoped that they will not only dis
perse this gang of loafers, but all
others that they can find through
OUT the city.
We learn from the Prescott En-
terprise that Messrs. Thorne and
Mcbride, of that city, have just
opened the most palatlal saloon in
the Territory. Mr.. Mcbride, ia.
miliarly known as Archie, will be
remembered by Angelefios as Il
former proprietor of the Fashion
saloon in this city. From the fol-
lowing we should judge that the
tiger has a legal right to disport
himself openly in the Territory:
beyond is the faro room, 27x24
feet, on the north wall of which in
fresco decorations, are two figures of
Asia and Europe, and on the south
NEUROLOGICAL representation. The
ceilings are decorated in an equally
beautiful manner. The next is a
private club room, 1920 feet.
Eight bells connect the bar with
the different games and rooms, and
the entire arrangement gees to
make up perfect saloon"
The performance at Marxsen &
Schroeder's Stereopticon last night
was attended 10y Il fair audience.
The range of subjects selected is
quite interesting and the Oxy-Hy-
drogen process is notably success
full in bringing out the pictures.
These gentlemen are about to I'M
dertake tour of the United States
with theft Stereopticon. We be-
speak them the kindly attentions
of the press. A couple of hours
may be spent delightfully."- in view
ing the Vivid panQramas, enlivened
by striking-color effects, which
they cause to pass rapidly before.
the audience. Their gallery en-
braces many exquisite scenes from
Arizona and Southern California,
together with a reasonable repre-
sentatiOh of the cities and scenes
of STORED interest in the old and
new worlds.
Those of our people who have
the prosperity Of Los Angeles at
heart should proceed to piIejob work
into the HERALD STEAM PRINT
ING HOUSE and advertise ments
into the HERALD columns. This
is flippant, oii-hand way of re-
ferring to the matter, but we as
sure our merchants, business men
and persons who desire to sell any
thing, that we speak W ords of wis.,
uom. Your advertiser, IN dull
times, is the man who tides over a
patch of financial corduroy road.
There is more good sense in adver-
Using ia Los Angeles than else.
where for the reason that we have
large transient and migratory
population, and the acme of good
sense is attained in advertising in
the HERALD.
Professor Paul Schumacher, of
the Smithsonian Institute, has
been occupied since Monday in ex-
huming remains from the Indian
mounds on the Cerritos rancho, in
which work he will be en-
gagged about one month. He will
then go to Santa Catalina Island.
where he will probably spend u
couple of months with the same OBJ
ject, after which he will proceed to
Lower California, still with the pur-
pose of adding to to the Institutes
store of aboriginal remains and Gu
riOsities.
In addition to the appropriations
enumerated by us yesterday as hav-
ing been conceded by the Legisla-
ture to Los Angeles county, there
was one of $500 to the Free Dis
pensary. Altogether, this county
Jared exceptionally we'll. We sug-
gest, inverting the sentiment
found in Hamlet, Prince Of Den
mark, that it is a prac-