Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-07-13

Sunbeams.

Phyra Bhashakavawongee, an
envoy from the King of Siam, ar
rived in London last month.
The convicts in the Northamp-
ton, Mass, prison publish week
ly paper in manuscript, called In
n0cents at Home.
The temperance people OF Spring
field, Mass, undertook to sup
ply free lemonade to all who wanted
it in that city on the Fourth of
July. The beverage was to be dis
pensed from street stands.
Chicago has Bald Mems Socie-
ty. A requisite for membership is
bare spot on top of the head not
less than four square inches in ex-
tent. The object of the organiza-
ton ia to discover a cure for bald
ness. The President has not a hair
on his head, and was elected for
that reason.
The importation of crockery has
decreased by about one-half in the
last ten years. English manufact-
urers have concluded that the
American market is rapidly clos
ing to them, and English capital is
being employed in the establish
ment of new factories in this coun.
try.
The Ogden (Utab) Freeman says
that during Jay Gould's recent trip
iu the West a band of desperate
train robbers posted themselves
along the upgarded plains on the
line Of the Union Pacific Railroad
with the idea of catching him as he
passed through to Ogden. The rob-
bers proposed to take him into the
British possessions and there keep
him until he should pay an i'm
mense ransom. Gould heard of the
plot, literally rewarded his inform
ant, and made his escape.
Prior to 1872 the Erie Railroad
paid annually for new rails, and
repairs to rails, $3.50 mile. Since
then the road has been laid with
steel rails, and the repairs thereby
SO reduced that the annual expense
OH that account amounts now to
but $253 per mile. Ga the entire
road this aft rds a saving of ST. $780,
600. The Railroad Gazette es-
Inmates that the substitution of
steel rails effects a clear saving to
the railroad of this country of $l9,.
600, COO. The extensive use of steel
rails began in 1872. at which time
nearly eleven per cent. of the rails
were replaced yearly, while in 1878
only 81 per cent. had to be relaid.
The story from Queensland as to
animals being made unconscious
by a newly-discovered drug and re-
stored to consciousness weeks later
proves to be hoax. An English
paper points out that the story is
nothing more than a recnaufee of
u paper in Ch0n1ber's Journal for
March 4. 1876. The Leeds Mercury
says that a medical gentleman at
Sudbury, near Derby, gives his
pigs chloroform when he runs short
of food for them, and the pigs re-
main unconscious for periods rang
ing from a week to ten days; aiid
strange to say, so far from losing
flesh, exhibit marked improve
ment when they recover from the
effects of the an@,thetic.
In the Hall of the Honorable
Society of the Middle Temple in
London hangs a celebrated picture
of King Charles l painted by Van
dyke. The other day recently
admitted student ofthe law was pill
oting some country cousin through
the wonders OF his inn. In the
course of the excursion he halted
before the painting and enlarged
eloQuently upon its inestimable
value. Fired by their admiration,
he left familiar ground, and in
CT eased the establishment by in
forming them that the picture was
priced all the more by the bench
ers because 1t had been presented to
them by Queen Elizabeth herself.
The young man received his educa-
tion at wellknown public school.
A woman, known among her ac-
quaintances as the Princess of Zan-
z,bar, lately made charge in
Berlin court against her servent for
drunkenness and disorderly con-
duct. She is a niece of the Sultan
of Zanzibar, S2 years Of age, and
bears no traces of African birth
beyond her crisp black hair and
black eyes. Having fallen in love
in early life with Mr. Reute, the
Dutch Consul at Zanzibar, she be-
came a Christian and married him.
Her family dlsowned her for the
act, and she accompanied her hus-
band to Berlin, where he soon died,
leaving her without means of sup
port. She has since gained liveli-
hood by giving lessons in Arabic to
diplomatic and consular aspirants
and others.
There are now living six mar
6chales de France: Nine. la Mar
echale Suchet, dutchess d. Albut.
era, the dOyenne of her class. She
has been widow since 1927 and
lives in a magnificent hotel next to
the British Embassy in the
Faubourg st. Honore. The garden
of her hotel, which was given her
by her uncle the King of Spain, in
1908, goes through to the Avenue
Gabrielle; Nine la Marechale Reg
nault de Saint-Jean d. Angely:
Nine. la Marechale PelIssier, Duch-
ess de Malakoff; Nine. la MARKETABLE
Mel; Nine la Marechale de Mac
Mahon, Dutchess de Magenta,
sister OF the Due de Castries; and
finally, Nine. la MaTechaie Con-
robert, who was Miss Macdonald
and is the youngest Marechale of
France.