Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-06-13
THE HUMORS OF THE "SHAKE.
A Brief History With Circum stances Save
the Parrots by all means -Stespsd in Vice
But Attached to Prayer.

First for history of the late
earthquakes, before we devote our
selves to the emotional narrative
of the affair. At 10 o'clock, night
before last, General = Belisarius
Brisei1o, a gentleman who is some
six feet eight inches high, was
meandering around in the press
room of the HERALD Office. He ex-
perienced an unmistakable shake.
At 11:07-a little over an hour later
-Bruin, ferocious watch dog of
the HERALD office-was wakened
by quake which was so pro-
nounced that the ruction which
accompanied the advent of the
sheeted dead in the Roman streets,
with their squeaking and gibber-
ing, as detailed in Ha inlet, see emed
a small matter to it. Bruin, who
is only five months old, and who,
consequently, can't remember the
great Inyo shake of 1872, went one
sagacious eye on the phenomenon
and relapsed into a slumber which
would discount that of the Seven
Sleepers.
At 11:l8, however, came q shock
which fully aroused our Scotch
terrier. He showed signs of being
partially awake ami wholly dis
gusted. AS we have provided him,
however, with the most luxurious
padded chair in Los Angeles, he
soon relapsed into that blissful
slumber which seems an incident
Of puppydom which just verges on
dog hood.
But, really, night before last,
while respectable dogs aroused
them momently to witness this
natural phenomenon, vagabond
ours were excited. They howled
and whined.
At 2:30 A. NJ. a fourth shock was
experienced. AT 6:15 fifth. Both
the last were languid COM
pared to those We have recorded in
the HERALD of yesterday.
Now for the humors of the shake:
Probably nowhere in Los Angeles
did the comedy of the occurrence
develop itself more strikingly than
in Los Angeles street. In the lady
of easy virtue there is an element
of deep though latent piety. We
very rarely ever pass through this
street ourselves, but VIC learn that,
between the first and seco I'D
shocks, quite a goodly number of
female figures, in robes de mutt,
were to be seen in the middle of
this thoroughfare, on their marrow
bones. and praying most audibly.
By prayer sinful humanity is sup
posed to reach the throne of grace,
and we may charitably hope that
an entente cordiale was established
that night with heaven which will
have most salutary and reformato-
ry results.
During the night one lady, u
resident of Los Angeles street, was
encountered in what, in the broad
light of day, would have proved to
be u painfully retrenched costume.
In her hand she held a cage which
contained two parrots. Whatever
betided, these bright.plumaged
and most garrulous birds must be
saved!
The shock was sufficient to ring
the call-bells in the st. Charles
Hotel. 1t unlocked the kitchen
door of our friend Ned Huber. 1t
shook down the plastering in
flakes a half foot square on some
Angelefios. The shock and the
nausea were so great that at least
one lady inmate of the st. Charles
Hotel had to send for physician.
AS q consequence of the " shake"
quite number of our people were
quite sea, sick all day yesterday.
Fortunately we are able to dis
miss the incident without fatal
or even u serious casualty. Had
those shocks, however, instead of
lasting second, lasted ten Sec
onds, there would have been a
different result.
One thing is amazingly gratify-
ing about it all. We hadn't to
take, in the space of twenty-four
hours, the five hundred and sixty
shocks which distinguished Inyo
county in 1872.
Wilmington Crops.