Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-03-08
gus Auseles Aerald
Sunbeams.

A boy travelled from Quincy, ILL.,,
to Deadwood and back without
cent, yet rode all the way. AS
an able deadheed, be rivals q mem.
ber Of Congress.
The State National Bank of |
Raleigh, N. c., has chosen Mrs. M.
@. Williams Director and Presi.
dent, to take the place of her late
husband.
Leo XIII is an excellent scholar,
and lately produced one charming |
otsnza in Latin>lon the occasion OF
I well.knowH photographer visit
ing Rome to take pictures OF the
Curia.
MHfy Clemmer Gays that in
ceftain circle of Washington socie-
<ty the cry il, "The White House
Is too stupid for me. Wait till the |
Grants come back. Then We shall
. see elegance"
A fishing boat from Berck (Pas
de Calais )lately encountered anoth-
or boat driven about helplessly by
the winds. On boarding 1t the
crew found eight corpses stifiened
with cold.
The Russian Government has
offered special privileges to such
among the medical students as will
volunteer to offer their services to
medical men in the localities where
the plague prevails.
Mr.. Dane, of Indianapolis, pre-.
served for many years the pen with
which his grandfather wrote SER
mon on commercial honesty, and
now his son has used the same pen
in forging check.
According to DR.. Hepworth, the
Roman Catholic Church takes the
best care of its clergy. Ifa man
isn't good IN one position 1t puts
him in another. The next best Is
the Dutch Reformed.
Owing to the melting of mount
ain SHOWS and unusually heavy
rainfalls, the Lake of Geneva reach
ed a higher level last month than
1t has been known to attain at this
season in the forty-one years during
which its fluctuations have been
noticed.
The International Art Exhibition
at Munich will open on July 20, and
not on the first of that month as
originally proposed. The reason
assigned for this change is the de-
sire to secure the most recent works
of the French and Belgian schools
which will have made their appear
auce at the Paris Salon.
A huge stone, somewhat in the
shape and the dimensions of o num-
my case, which was roughly hewn
into the appearance OF O female
deity, probably an idol worshipped
fby the old pagan Inhabitants OF tn e
island, was recently discovered in
the Church OF Sninte Marie du
Castel, in the Isle of Guernsey.
The Organ der Militdr. Vissen-
schaftlichen Herein at Vienna con.
tains an interesting article by Major
Edmund Hofimeister on the STRAIT
egy of Moses and Joshua. The au-
thor takes the Biblical te KITS as they
stand, without paying attention to
the dealing of the modern and criti.
cal school with the Old Testament.
A map is appended to the Majors
essay.
Although La Salette is still tC
hold its ground, the alleged miracle
of Mettenbach in 1876 and 1878 has
Just been invalidated. The Bishop
of Ratisbon has issued a pastoral
forbidding any further pilgrimage:
to the spot. He has satisfied him.
self that the children who pretended
to have seen the Virgin concoctet
the story, and that the alleged cure;
wrought by the shrine can ne natu
rally accounted for.
Gen. Rosser, chief engineer o.
the Northern Pacific Railroad, ha;
taken advantage OF the thick ice or
the Missouri River to lay a railroad
track across, over which he Is trans
porting the heavy materials whicl
will be needed in the spring for th
~ g, - -rod wa,