Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-05-31

District Attorney East of Bloom
ington, Ind. cowhided the lawyer
who, as chairman of a bar COM
mittee, had begun proceedings to
remove him from Office for drunk
enuess.
Lord Derby was recently asked
whether M. Washington, the Prime
Minister of France, was an En-.
glishman. "Yes," he said; "and the
Prime Minister of England is not
an Englishman."
The London Times says that
adequate provision has been made
by the thoughtful generosity of O
few Roman Catholic noblemen to
enable Cardinal Newman to main
tain the state befitting his dignity.
A new German Invention for
rendering boot soles flexible and
almost indestructible Is to mix a
water proof glue with ground quartz
and spread 1t on the soles. The
roughness of sole prevents slipping.
A five-year-old girl, lost In Min.
nesota woods, had the good sense
to hang bits of her dress on bushes
as she wandered, and these led to
her discovery, after she had lived
four days on berries and wild onions.
A boy at Chelsea, Mass, habitu-
ally amused him self by hanging
from the ties OF railroad bridge
while trains rolled above him.
One day he pulled himself up to see
how near a slow train had APP
preached, and his head was taken
Oft by the cowcatcher.
A committee of the Michigan
Legislature reports that among the
cruelties practised In the Kalama.
zoo Insane Asylum was the break
ing by an angry attendant OF a
PATIENTS jaw while he was strap.
ped down, and the scaldipg to death
OF another in bath tub.
At the first meeting of the new
Com mission for the Preservation Of
Historical Monuments in France,
which took place q little while ago,
the principal question considered
was the best means of preserving
and restoring the paintings in the
Palace OF the Popes at Avignon.
These paintings are italian works
OF the fourteenth century, and very
valuable in the history of art.
They are daily In danger of injury,
as the old palace Is now used as a
barracks for the French troops.
Mr.. Labouchere says that when
be was an attache at Washington
an Englishnan died in the State of
New York, and it became a ques-
tion whether the Legation at WASH
iugton or the Consulate at New
York ought to bury him. SO he,
or rather 1t, passed its time Jour-
neying between the two cities. "I
myself directed it,n he says, "a
dozen times to the Consulate. This
side up, with care.' Whether this
uneasy corpse is yet buried, or is
still lurking In the luggage vans of
an American railroad company,
know not.n
The most famous Madeira ever
known was the "lal4 pipe" which
was hshed up In that year from the
timbers of wrecked vessel In the
Scheldt, where 1t had lain thirty -si <
years. The greater portion was
purchased at an auction at Ant
werp by Louis XVIII. The King
presented his Consul at Antwerp
with several dozen, which he sold
to the Duke de Raguse. In 1858,
after the death Of his Duch ess, four
dozen remained in her cellar, which
were sold for over their weight in
gold to Baron Rothschild.
The O'Gorman Mahon, who has
just been returned for Glare, Ire.
land, is OF an ancient family In that
county. He was follower of
O'Connelps in 1929, when he was
returned for Clare, but quarrelled
with the Llberator, which kept