Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-03-09
Yps Sugelss gerald.
Sunbeams.

During 1878 Puget Sound export
cd loo, 600 tons of coal aud 20o,uou,,,
900 feet of lumber, and employed
600 vessels.
Conservatives are reported to be
acquiring voting qualifications In
Midlothian, Scotland, In order TO
oppose Mr.. Gladstone.
Although women are now al
lowed to practice law in all the
courts of Ohio, not one Is permitted
to act as . notary public.
Z The rivalry between the Gray
and Bell telephones is likely to be
fought out in Boston, where each
company has begun a lawsuit to
compel the other to cease the use
Of the disputed invention.
An undersized burglar made the
blunder OF breaking into big
man's room In q Toledo hotel. The
big man awoke, saw that his pock-
cts were being rified, grasped the
understood burglar, and shook him
until he became q submissive cap
tive.
Cinnamon wear five buttons only
on their coats, that they may keep
In something to remind them OF
the i've principal moral virtues
which Confucius recommended.
These are jeu. humanity;y. justice;
IL. orderi tche. prudencei and stu.
reciitude.
The Shah of Persia, in recently
ordering that soldier should do
anything but his military duties,
has put an end to an ancient Gus
tom by which private soldiers, by
acting as butchers, money chang
ers, door-keepers, etc., have added
to their pay, which is only about
SO . year and three pounds of
wheat per day.
The willow Is fast becoming a
rival 90 the eucalyptus for its anti
mxlarial properties. In the region
OF Asia Minor about Ephesus, the
prevalence of malaria has steadily
diminished "a the tree has been In
troduced. Through the efforts of
Mr.. Van Lennep, Swedish Consul
at Smyrna, the willow is row ex-
tensively grown In districts which
were treeless twenty years ago.
Miss Delattre, daughter of u very
eminent engraver who worked with
Bartolozzi. (father of Nine. Ves-
tris), Cepriani, and other famous
persons, and died aged 80, died late
Iy at the age OF 95. She had been a
pet Of Angelica Kauffmann in her
. childhood, and, in turn, petted Ed
win Lanseer in his childhood. Her
sister superintended his earliest
drawing Lessons.
The gas wells of East Liverpool,
Ohio, furnish a continual supply
of light and heat to the town, and,
as the gas costs nothing, the street
lamps are never extinguished. 1t
Is used almost exclusively for fuel,
being conducted into the CRATES and
stoves by pipes. For twenty years
this has been going on and there
are no Indications that the supply
OF gas is givingout.
One-third of Chicago's popula-
tion Is German, and n nearly equal
proportion OF the public school
teaching is done in the German
language. The Board of Educa-
tion proposes to exclude all Ian"
guages except English. from
the schools, unleis taught simply
as accomplishments, and the Ger
mans are holding public meetings
in opposition to the measure.
The Rail,0ay Age puts the anuu-
al cost of working Pullman car,
including employees pay, at 81 900.
To defray the cost of maintaining
and running, let alone the profit,
an average of seven berths a night
must be kept up. The company
keep up the discipline of their SER
vaults by means of a staff of inspec-
tors, who report on the efficiency Of
the conductors, etc.
The mania for spending large
sums in forts and big guns still OBJ
tains in lily. Ths forts around
Spezia are now receiving a supply
Of oue-hundred-ton guns cast at
Turin, to be placed SO as to COM
mand the entrance of the vast har-
Dor. Spezia itself is a miserable
hole, not worth the powder and
shot intended to protect it, even if
It could be protected against any of
the larger European navies.
Baron Albert Grant, who failed
In London for nearly So 1000, has
family of ten daughters and two
sons. His wife is an unpreten-
tious woman, the daughter of a
London merchant. He has the
ambition of the late James Fisk, Jr.,
but he never INDUCED in theatrical
speculations for the sake of placing
some woman on the stage-a COM
mon form Of amusement among
successful London men.