Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-09-17

just after the Fair, will please be
present at the Horticultural Pavil.
ion next Monday afternoon at 8
O'Clock. Mr.. s. H. Slaught has
rented the Pavilion for this pur.
pose and will be on hand with q
full list of Authors, a programme
of tableaux and description OF dress
required. He will contract to fur
nish costumes by the quantity at a
very low rate. The charitable So
cieties ore requested to cooperate.
The young mems Spanish-Amer'
lean ball last evening proved to be
a very delightful affair. Through.
out the entire evening mirth and
and merriment ran riot and every
body enjoyed themselves to the
fullest possible extent. Miss Carrie
Prudhomme, Miss Rita Lugo, Miss
r. Gasien, Miss Carrillo, and many
Others, whose names lack of space
forbids us to mention, presented q
handsome and tasteful appearance
In the ballroom. The various COM
mittees proved to be adopts at the
business, and as consequence
everything passed off pleasantly.
The following Committees have
been appointed for the Carnival
Ball to be held at the Horticultural
Pavilion on the evening Of Oct. 9Th,
1880. Committee of Reception
Col r 8 Baker, de Barth Shorb,
H X w Bent, J g Downey, J J
Ayers, f Crank, A w Potts, Col
Chaplin, ID Lynch, r r Haines,
Conrad Jacoby, Frank Gibson, DR.
w Lindley. Committee of Decora-
tion-A M Thornton, r r Haines,
M G Jones. J f Crank, S H Slaught.
Committee of Awards-G Wiley
Wells, J j Ayers, A III Judson, L
Lazarus,jDr o H Cougar, J s Craw-
ford, I J Caystile. Floor Committee
F J Gilmore, P Hirschfeld, s b
Dewey, ] HI Binford, S Locke, M
q Jones, w A Spalding, ] II
Barclay. Grand Marshal-Jno q
Wheeler.
Coroner Nadeau yesterday held
au inquest on the body of Hector
De Lamarque, a Frenchman, who
suicide by shooting
in the right temple. The
rash act was committed in the gar
den of George Hudson, on WASH
ington street, at whose place De
Lamarque arrived on Wednesday
from San Juan CapistranO, where
he had been living for a couple of
months. The deceased had been
suffering for some time from neu-
ralgia, and at times threatened to
end the intense pains from which
he was suffering by suicide. Yester-
day morning he went out into the
garden and in few minutes after,
Mr.. Hudson was startled by hear
ing the report OF pistol. He at
once FASTENED in the direction
from which the report came and,
about 100 yards from the house,
near a willow hedge, found La
marque breathing his last. The
jury returned verdict in accord
ance with the above facts. The de-
ceased was a native of Meziere,
France, aged about fifty years, and
had resided in California about
seven years. 1t Is said that he was
q man of birth and well educated.
He leaves no relatives in Califor-
mia.
Scientific men throughout the
world have long puzzled them
selves over the problem as to
whether men are physically grow
ing larger or smaller, as the gener-
ations succeed each other. The
most popular belief has always
been that people continually grow
"weaker and wiser" as time rolls
on. The latest phase Of this ques-
ton has been the effect of the CHI
matte influences of America upon
the Anglo-Ssxon race, many
savants, both in Europe and this
having even reached the
that those influences
are adverse to a full development
of the Anglo Saxon physique; and
that our race, If left to themselves
in America, and not replenished
by the constant importing of Eu.
ropean immigration, would even
tual1y either "run out"
altogether - become extinct II
or be transferred into the original
type of the North American In
dams. But our gigantic friend,
Captain Bates, of Coles circus,
holds the opposite opinion. He is
very intelligent, and in CONVEX
sation with a HERALD representa-.
tive he said that he had made
the subject a careful study for ten
years, in all parts of the world, in
every possible way, and he has be-
come fully convinced that people
are growing larger physically not
only all over Europe, but through
out America as well. He says he
could not find, in all the old castles
he has visited, a suit of armor he
could squeeze into.