Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-06
LOS ANGELES, FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 1879

Municipal Council request that a
barrel of ham and four barrels OF
pork, intended for his household
use, should be admitted free. Sew.
eral representatives of other coun-
tries have previously obtained
the favor, but on this occa-
sion the Council refused, considering
that such demands were unreason-
able.
DIR. Keyser, in paper read before
the Pennsylvania Medical Society,
said he had ascertained that three
and half per cent. of the train
hands on three of the railroads in
that State were color blind, being
unable to distinguish the colors of
the various signals, and fully eight
per cent. have eyesight more or less
defective in that respect. The ex-
aminations were made with color
ed glass, by daylight and gasIight.
The Prussian Government APP
pears determined to make sure that
the army shall not, like the French
soldiery, be permeated by the leav-
en- of democratic ideas. The troops
stationed In Berlin have been for
hidden to read the liberal news.
papers, and their quarters. are to be
searched at regular times for the
prohibited journals and for other
Objectionable publications. Severe
punishment is promised those with
whom such articles are found.
During the ten years of work
upon the Sutro Tunnel in Nevada,
the lives Of the operators have been
carefully guarded. and but five or
six deaths by accident have taken
place. During the boring of the
Hoosac Tunnel 1856 men were kill
ed, and the accidental deaths in
the st. Gothard Tunnel have aver
aged one a day, and In the Com
stock one week. The low rate of
accidents in cutting the Sutro is
attributed to the strict system un-
der which the work has been car
ried on. The contempt which is
bred of familiarity is the real cause
of most explosions.
In 1876 1,19S, 951 hcctolitres of
beer were brewed in Munich and
$50, 4b5 hectolitres were consumed
at cost of over Sc, 2l6, 955. The
population was then 10000, 80
that there was drunk per head 4S4
litres lover 100 gallons) at q cost
per head of $31 a year. The amount
somewhat fell off in 1877. The
consumption then was 95l, 297 hec-
tolitres at cost OF $6,064 500, and
as the population had Increased the
average fell to AL litres per head.
at cost of $27.50 year. These
amounts spent on beer are less, by
ST, 1868, 800, than the whole sum paid
for house rent in the city. The
Municipal Government and city
taxes only reach about tenth of
the beer money.
The blue glass mania, which has
now almost disappeared, was not
destitute of good results. 1t led to
o great deal of scientific study of
the influence of certain rays of light
on animals and vegetable life.
There is q paper on the subject in
the Complies Rendus by a French
experimenter. He found that the
blue rays are least necessary In
spring and winter; while the red
rays are more requisite to sustain
life and prevent too rapid
development. He notices the fact
that most leaf buds have brown or
reddish covering. Red glass, by
withdrawing the blue rays, sustains
while 1t enfeebles life; green glass,
by intercepting the red rays, caus-
es most plants to become weak and
ultimately to perish.
A curious controversy is going on
between the Archbishop of Canter-
bury and the Dean of Westminster.
The former issued q license to the
Archbishop of York empowering
him to consecrate the new Bishop
of Durham within the province of
the Metropolitical See of Canter-
bury, whereupou Dean Stanley
issued protest to the effect that,
tive do not intend to acknowledge
any Jurisdiction or authority of the
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury
over us, the said Dean and Chapter,
or over our said collegiate church,
but do claim TO assert that we are
Immediately subject to the Queens
Majesty, aud no other ecclesiastical
authority whatsoever, and that we
have granted the said collegiate
church to the Lord Archbishop of
York for the said conservation, in
pursuance of the mandate of her
Majesty the Queen"
In reference to the discovery Of
one of the three black pearls which
were stolen from the English crown
about $50 years ago, Berlin paper
says that last year n stability Dress
ed Jew called upon jeweller of
Pesth, Hungary, with the pearl in
question, asking its value. He
lid that he had tax en- it as security
for a loal, and was told that Bieder-
mann, Ahe jeweler of the court at
| Vienna, was the only dealer suffi-
GENTLY rich to purchase 1t. The
jew went Immediately to Bieder-
mann, who, on seeing the pearl,
sent for q police officer to arrest
him. He gave his name as Isaac
Roth, a pawnbroker Of Gross.
WARDEN. A nelghbor Of his named
| Gyuri was on the point Of having
his effects seized and sold for debt
of twenty forms, and asked Roth
to pay the debt and take the jewel
in pledge. Inquiries at Gross
WARDEN confirmed his story. Gyuri
had formerly been a favorite valet
of the deceased Count Louis
Batthyani who had given him a
scarf-pIn containing the pearl.
Gyuri. being afterward In need,
sold the gold mounting, but kept
the pearl, which he thought of little
value as u memento of the donor.
How 1t came into possession of
Batthyani Is unknown. 1t is
thought that he bought 1t of q deal
er In curiositles, without knowing