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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18
6trayed.-.@6 Rev ard.

From the corral ON Also street, Satur.
day night, March 18th, . brown mule,
branded Sc, and sorrel mare, branded
|. T The above reward will be paid for
their return to the corral.
mrl5.3t JOSEPH ESPETAILLUR.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18
Ts-.Losr-FouND.
situation Wanted,

By q competent girl, to do chamber.
work. take care OF children or assist with
housework. in city or country. Enquire
At No. Fort street. NILS
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18
Chickering Piano for Sale.

An Upright Chickerlng Piano, nearly
as good a. new, ts offered for sale at $3.50
little more than half the original price.
May be seen at Wangeman's Music
Store. iel8tf
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18
LAND FOR SALE.

.24O ACRES OF LAND in the Ran.
cho Las Cienegas. For inform atien ap.
ply TO JOHN kOBARTS, Rooms 8, and
5, Mohr Block, Los Angeles City.
mrlI.lm
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18
FOR sALE-FoR RENT.
FURNISHED ROOMS,

Pleasantly located and neatly furnished
TOILET, SINGLE OR EN- SUITE,
Corner Fort and franklin streets, one
block from Postod nee. d3itf
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18
For sale---Price 5000, Cash

A frst-class, Seven Octave, Rosewood
PIANO; double round corners, elegant.
ly carved, full finished.
Enquire of M KS. STONEMAN. San
Gabriel Mission. mr6.2W
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18

At the Central Pharmacy you
can obtain the famous electric
razor and Russian leather str0p.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18
Two Furnished Rooms,

With board, at MRS. WHITNEY's "Tru.
man House," on Sixth street, a few
doors west OF Olive street. .jl8tf
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18
Wanted.

By q young gentleman. q place In Or
chard and vtney ard or nursery. to learn (;
no salary desired; references given. Ad.
dress.J. H., Herald office, ml2-lw
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18
Situation Wanted.

BY man and wife; the woman is q
good cook and the man can make him
self generally useful about q place. EN- :
quire at the White House. mr8.1W
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18
FOR RENT.

n~Commodious suites Of unfurnished
apartments, with all modern conven.
fences. suitable for families; also, pleas
ant omces. at reasonable rates, IN the
BAKER BLOCK.
Inquire Of a: GRAVES. Rooms 3 and
4, Baker Block. ja6tf
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18

Secondhand clothing bought and
sold at No. 8 Also street.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18

Mothers, try the Manx Feeding
Bottle. Hein2eman & Ellis, agents.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18

See the Concolodor In his won
derful transmutation Of cOlors at
the dyeing and securing establish
ment, No. s Also street.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18
misses CrUWuer

Announce to the ladies that they
have opened q flrst-olass dress max.
ing establishment in the rear Of
Mrs. M. e. Parks millinery store.
Having had long experience In
Eastern cities they are prepared to
give such style and fashion as can
not be had elsewhere. Call early
and leave orders. No. Is Spring
street, City Of Paris building, Los
Angeles. Cal. m6 I'm
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18

tAVENIEO S6l'IG Il NJ Den 20, kSi1.
The MAYFZELD WATER Ell
EHA7OR, will make the Foulest
Well or Cistern SWEET, PURE
AND WHOLESOME, in ten days
or less time.
Il elevates water easier than any other
devise. It never freezes. It never ccrrodes.
II has no wooden tubes TO taint the water.
II Alls the bucket at the bottom Of the well
or cistern. 1t agitates the water by pass.
ing six gallons Of air through it per minute.
II 10 luces Wiglers. Water Lice and Water
Bugs to their proper elements. It viii
save is price once every year in dispensing
with the use Of nauseous drugs taken into
the system to remove the effect Of impure
water, by rendering the water pure, sweet
and wholesome.
A child eight years old can. with ease
draw water sufficient for the use Of large
amily out Of dfty-foot we'll. For further
information, address
BROWNING, POPE 4 co.
Indianapolis. Ind
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s 3 81
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18

Give me three grains Of corn mother,
Give me three grains of corn;
It will keep the lit le life have
Till the coming Of the morn.
I am dying Of hunger and cold. mother,
Tam dying Of hunger and cold;
And half the agony Of such death
My lips have never told.
It knaws at my heart like q wolf, mother
Like wolf that is fierce for blood;
All the livelong day and the night beside
. Knawing for lack Of food.
I dreamed Of broad in my Sleep mother
And oh | it was heaven to see,
And woke with eager and famished lips
But there was no bread for me.
How could look to you. mother,
How could look to you
For broad 70 give to your stsrving boy
When you wsFe starving tocs
r~.x ~ - isnias 4 youz shsh.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-18


pie, Of all with whom the northern
invaders fought. were the only ones
who after two centuries OF warfare
drove them finally from their coun-
try and freed their lana.
Thus We hnd that love OF liberty
10 the birthright Of an Irishman,
and Notwithstanding . thousand
years of oppression iu his native
land - Notwithstanding that his
land has been taken from him by
superior force, his form Of gov
erDment subverted, his children
sold into slavery and his race for
centuries obliged to live and suffer
for the support Of those who
hold themselves to be his
master, he has remained true to
bis religion and the principles of
liberty which he Inherited from q
brave and loyal ancestry.
When we look backward hut q
few years and review the history OF
this republic. we nnd living In our
midst race Of people dark In color
and held 40 slaves. They were
bought and sold and made an ar.
ticle of merchandise, but they were
valuable to their masters as the
horse was valuable. They we're In
the main, cared for kindly, as
aside from motives Of humanity,
physical health and comfort was q
necessity to those who proAted by
their labor, and they were allowed
60 worship God In the manner
which to their simple natures was
most attractive. But the princI-
plee Of our Government were op
posed % slavery even In lts nild-
~ and mooe Altfactlve form, and
though W tound tt hefo au lnetl-
|tellen = ~ 4eSh Sh9f eoantsy Epe
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-07
The Queen and the Poor Peasant.

The accident of royal notice and pat
rOnage has often lifted worthy persons
and families of humble birth into refine
ment and places of distinction. An ad-
venture pointing to such result is re-
lated in this recent story of the Queen
of Italy.
1t appears that, as she was driving to
the royal wood of Ihcalo the coachman
mistook the road, and one of the gentle
men asked a countryman the way. The
man, seeing the fine carriage and horses,
and the servants livery, and all the gay
company, thought he was being fooled.
&" As if YOU did not know T. he said, with
a big grin. The Queen laughed, and
assured him that they were lost Then
only did the Countryman condescend to
point out the way, after which he walked
off as if fearing TO be laughed at again.
Give him 20 francs for his trouble"
said the Queen to one of her escort, who,
going after the countryman, said to him:
Here, my man, is little present from
the Queen of Italy, who thanks you.
"1he Queen !" cried the cOuntryman,
returning to the carriage. " Forgive
me that | did not know thee. But had
rever seen thee before. Thou art as
beautiful as n MAJ lose. God bless
IIee. Anu lllt NtACfN Ciis
Now the countryman, who had once
seen the Queen. wanted to see her pretty
face again, and the following day he
presented himself at the palace.
"I know her, you know" he added,
mvsteriously. % spoke to her yester-
day, and [ want to speak to her again.
Thinking he had to do with madman,
the porter was about to have the poor
fellow arrested, when the very gentleman
who had given him the 20 francs ap-
peared, and, recognizing the man, told
him to wait. He informed the Queen of
his presence. Bring him here, by all
means" was her answer.
When the man was, for the second
time. before the Queen, he said Yes,
It's thou. 1 thought L had seen fairy.
Thou art just an angel. I did not tell
thee Yesterday that l had two little ones
without mother Wilt thou be their
mother ?'
"That will, " said the Queen.
"Then there's the 30 francs thou
gavest me yesterday. thank thee. but
/ want no money" And he went away,
CRYING and smiling like a child.
The Queen has adopted the two little
ones. and they are in an institution un-
der her special patronage.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-07
Trees Witt History.

In one grove ia California are $50
frees nome measuriiig less than six feet
in diameter.
maonificent white oak stands In the
Quaker burying ground in Salem. n. j.
IN is more than eco years old. and is re-
markable for its. Plitude of shape. In
one direction its Sfanches have a spread
of'112 feet.
The tallest trees in the world are in
Australia. A fallen tree in Gippsland
measured 1876 feet from the root to the
highest point of the branches. Another
standing in the BInenong district in
Victoria is estimated TO be 400 feet from
playground to the tip
The largest chestnut tree in the coun-
try is growing oi tlle farm of Solomon
Merkie, at Berks. Pa, and is nearly forty
feet in cireilmfssh Zee at the base The
top of the nee s reaches without danger
10y steps that afe4fasfened between the
limbs. 1t is estlmated that this tree
contains about se1ateen cords of wood.
1t still yields aboIt three bushels of
chestnuts annually.
A russet apple tree IN Skowhegan Me. :,
was planted IN 1861 In its branches a
playhouse for children has been built
Tor a half a century or more. The tree
Is seven feet from the ground to the
branches, five in number, all of which
are very large and average thirty five
feet IN length, covering space of
ground sixty three feet IN diameter. 1t
is more than -four and one-half feet III
diameter, and has yielded an average of
thirty bushels Of apples each year. a
sprout from this apple tree stands thirty
two feet from the parent stem, but IS
forty-eight years younger.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-07

Hazlitt says that, from the beginning
of the world to the time of HeirOcles,
in the early Christian days, mankind had
perpetrated only about twenty-One
Jokes. During nearly 5000 years the
world had only these twenty-one sayings
to laugh at A new Joke was made on
the average every $50 years. From the
time of Heirocles to the present day
the number of jocose sayings has IN
creased from tWenty-one to pretty near
lv 81 200, 900, an enormous proportion
of this vast aggregate, however, consist
ing of some modification or combination
of the original twenty-one. A really
good anecdote has kind of immortality
of its own. 1t is reproduced in every
known cline and tongue. 1t is pub
lished IN a German paper as a part of the
biography of Bismarck; then translated
into English, and connected with Dis
raeli, and then reproduced IN America,
and attributed to some of our own great
statesmen. We have read stories about
Mr.. Moody which originated with the
priesthood in the time of the Crusaders,
and some of the sharpest things which
Sidney Smith is supposed to have
created, but which probably borrowed
from the third or fourth century, are
told in connection with Mr.. Spurgeon
or Mr.. Beecher. However, we laugh at
it all the same, and the fact that 1t has
been repeated during the last eighteen
or twenty generations doesn't hurt it
any more than it hurts a tiddle-string to
be used in great many concerts and
for very different tunes.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-07
The Origin of 4" Ta.ta.''

For several years American paragra
pliers have been using the old Southern
expression, eta ia, " as a term of hufnor-
Gus farewell, thus giving it a meaning
entirely. different from that it started out
in life with and how 1t ever came to be
applied in that way is a little surprising
TO any one to the Southern "manner
born, andespecially to any one familiar
with the idiens of xSe, South of ante
bellum days. NJ
No one who was ever petted, loved
and spoiled by kind old black 'smam-
my can ever forget that "ta-ta.2 in
baby dialect. is<s thank you" or. TO give
an exact definition from our unwritten
vocabulary, fhanky." They can never
forget mamphy's coaMngly reproying
tones, nor her tchurc1y, when, in coz
Eecting aoaie. .ehidish forgetfulness, the
omission of Thanks for somt--S-ss--fft "a
vor, the gift of an apple, or perhaps
stalk of sugar cane, she would say,
"HOney, where's yo' manners? Whyn't
90 say ta- ia 2" For a more valuable
present her words would have been:
Tell the lady you're much Obleeged,
or "obliged," if she happened to be
little careful in her pronunciation, as
many house servants awere; but for all
trihing gifts "ta-ta was the popular
term for the very little folks. OF course
IA the children grew larger this pet way
of expressing thanks was laid aside with
their baby clothes: and the "churchy"
that nanny had taught them-a funny
substitute for bow, consisting only IN
a sudden bending of the knees, which
caused a comical dip down and up-was
put away with the ingling rhymes of
early childhood.
"Ta-ta'" belongs exclusively to the
little ones it is as peculiarly their own
as are "catty cats and ''tlfis little pig
went to market" and all those other
wonderful things belonging to child life.
To the great world "ta-ta Is nothing
but a ludicfous expression but to many
/ OF us there Is something half touching,
/ half comical in the quaint old words
/ that bring back so wildly the days
when we planted raisiu seeds, rode stick
horses, believed in giants, knew that the
fairies were hiding in the ferns and that
| pots of gold were awaiting us at the end
/ of the rainbow.-PleaSal1t RiderhOOd.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-07
PLANNING Work.

Even in housework the brain may save
the body great deal of labor. / wom-
an who plans her work beforehand al
ways accomplishes a great deal more
than her less-methodical sister, and with
less fatigue to herself. Before she rises
in the morning her breakfast is thor
oughly planned, and the order in which
the different details are to be carried ont
IS quite decided upon. 1t makes all
work easier to have it thus planned be
forehand, and many a weary woman
might secure mary bright half hours to
herself every week if she would but in
augurate the system. 1t is Just like
packing a trunk-you know how easy it
is for one skilled in the business to put
in a third more than one who piles things
in "just as it happens" It is always
such pleasure to look back on we'll
packed day and zee Just what has been
done. People whose days are full Of
idleness and ease. do not have a monop-
oily of happiness by any means. Those
who have nothing to DO except TO make
themselves comfortable are generally
peevish and discontented. Work has
manifold advantages; and the woman
who has led a busy life cannot be con
tent to rest in idlen. IS.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-07
A Horse Audience.

A Prussian officer relates that shortly
after the retaking of Orleans by the
Germans he happened 10, be passing
through deserted street, and on COM
ing in front of what had formerly been
one of the most popular Cafe Chantants
of the town, but which was now sup
posed to be closed, he heard the deep,
vibrant tones of grand piano, played
upon, apparently, by some master hand.
There was also heard in the intervals
trampling as of many feet, betokeninz
large audience. Curious to know how
srlch thing could happen so soon after
the confusion into which the town had
been thrown by the recent battle, he
entered and found seated on the music
stool Prussian train soldier, while all
around him in the vast audience hall
which had been brilliantly lighted up
for the occasion-and pressing close mp
to the platform, were his charges,
great troop of horses, that filed the
house and stood with pointed ears and
erect heads eagerly listening to the mu-
sic
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-07
A Sacred Gold Mine.

In the eleventh and twelfth verses of
the second chapter of Genesis viii be
found the following important informa-
ton
"The name of the first is Pison that
is it which comPasseth the whole land
of Havilah, whete there is gold, and the
gold of that land Is COOL"
The Chicago Inter- ocean states with
apparent seriousness that a company of
London gentlemen, who have neither
followed Ingersoll nor the scientists into
their loose BiOle notions, have organ-
lied themselves into a company to test
the truth of the above sacred assurance.
and that the stock of the HaviIah -
gold mine has actually been placed on
the London market, the proprietors an
nouncing it TO be the richest in the
world. and the passage from Genesis is
quoted as proof of it from an inspired
cO11roa
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-07
He Had a Bad Memory.

There is a poker-club in Yonkers
which meets on Sundays. They call it
the Sunday-school club. and that's
where they tell their families they go on
Sunday afternoon. By invitation, Stimp
Joined last Sundays session. His wife
was little skeptical about his going to
Sunday-school club, and Monday morn
ing questioned him little. "What did
you do there?" cob they read the
scriptures and discussed them. Did
you pay any attention to what was said"
''Of course" What did they read
about 2" 1.-The Hebrew children. "
"How many Hebrew children p " Do
You know the coffee is too weak p No.
How many Hebrew children ?" Stimp
had the cup to his lips and he kept it
there, irving TO remember if there were
not three score and ten, when one of the
little girls answered, ''Threer T. ''Three !"
echoed Stimp. ''What became of
them" '' almost forget, but | believe
that Isaac was eaten by ram at the
flaming bush Daniel was cast into the
lions belly and Jonah raised gourds in
the whales dem" That settled the
matter. Stimp's wife knows that he did
not go to Sunday-school. Butt refuses
to tell her what became of that $40 he
had on Saturday. y.-E'rchange.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-07
Cause for Gratitude.

Uncle Nose met Aunt Sally on Aus
tin avenue. As she wore down-in the
mouth expression, Gncle Moses asked
her:
what ails er,eAunt Sally? Is yer
worryin' bekase Marse Roberts am
posed to de union OBJ church and state,
and ter President Garfield gettin' well?"
"Tain't dat ar"
"What am de tr1lblc. den ?"
De truble am, Uncle Nose, wild my
ole man. He am gettin more crosscr
ebery day. has done my lebel bes',
but he am gettin' wusser and Wusser
ebery day. Oars DO chance for him to
prove enyhow."
81 knows yer ole man berry well, and
say yer has cause to be thankful.
How so, Uncle Nose ?"
Bekase he can't get no wusser den
he am already. He am de meanest Mig
ger in Austin.
And then Aunt Sally whacked old
Nose oyer the head with her umbrella.
-IeTds Siftings.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-07
Don't Cross a Bridge Until You
Come to IT."

There was once man and woman
who planned to spend a day at friends
house, which was somG miles distant
from their own. So, one pleasant morn
ing, they started out to make the visit
but they had not gone far before the
woman remembered a bridge they had
to cross which was very old and unsafe,
and she began to worry about ii. "What
shall we do about the bridge ?" she said
to her husband. 90 shall never dare to
go over it, and we can't cross the river
any other way" cob" said the man.
81 forgot that bridge; it's bad place.
Suppose it should break through. We
should be drowned" "Or suppose you
should step on a rotten plank and break
your leg, what would become of me and
the baby ?" 81 don't know" said the
man, what would become of any of
us, for couldn't work, and we should
starve to death. So they went on wor-
cying till they got to the bridge. when
10 and behold since they had been there
last new bridge had been built and
they crossed over in safety, and found
they might as well have saved them
selves all their anxiety.
THERE are physicians with their signs
swinging idly in the wind, who know a
great deal more about theory, than they
do about praetics.-SteubenvilLe Her
aid
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-07
,Tovtbs in Old Nevada Mines.


keman who recently had occa-
splore the chambers, drifts and
cov,llF aof the old deserted Mexican and
Opbir mines says that fungi of every
imaginable kind have taken possession
of the old levels.
In these old mines, undisturbed for
wears. is seen a fungus world in which
are TO be seen counterfeit of almost
everything in our daylight world. Ow-
ing TO the warmth of the old levels and
to the presence in them of certain
amount of moisture, the timbers have
been made to grow some curious crops.
Some of the fungi in the old chambers
are several feet in height, and, being
snow white. resemble sheeted ghosts.
In places are what at little distance
appear to be white owls, and there are
replesentations of goats with long
boards. all as white as though carved in
the purest marble. The rank fungus
growth has almost closed some of the
drifts.
The fungi are of almost every imagin-
able variety. Some kinds hang down
from the timbers like great punches of
snow-white hair, and others are great
pulpy masses. These last generally rise
from the rocks, forming the floor of the
drifts. and seem to have grown from
something dropped or spilled on the
ground at the time work was in progress
years ago. These growths have in sew
eral places raised from the ground rocks
weighing from ten to fifty and even 100
pounds. Some of the rocks have thus
been lifted more than three feet.
In the higher levels, where the air is
comparatively dry, the fungi are less
massive in structure than below, and are
much firmer in texture. Some resemble
rams horns, as they grow in a spiral or
twisted shape, while others, four or five
feet IN length and about the thickness
of . broom-handle, hang from the cap
timbers like so many snakes suspended
by the tails. One kind, after sending
out stem of the thickness of pencil to
the length of a foot or two, appears to
blossom-at least, produces at the end a
dubious mass that has some resem-
blance TO a flower. In all the infinite
variety OF these underground fungi it Is
somewhat strange that not one was seen
at all like those growing upon the sur
face IN the light of day. Nothing in the
nature of toadstools or mushrooms was
found
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-07
Tender Love.

A touching story of tender love comes
to us from a town not many miles from
this place, but which must be, under the
circumstances. nameless. A beautiful
Young girl became engaged to a gallant
Union officer. At the close of the war
he went to California to seek bis fortune.
She ignored all advances from scores of
suitors and patiently waited his return,
feeling confidence in his keeping true to
her. So the years passed, aud even a
few gray hairs began to show themselves
among her brown tresses, while her
friends no longer pitied, but ridiculed
her for refusing all advances from other
desirable sources. Lately her fidelity
was rewarded The lover of her girl
hood has returned from California,
bronzed, bearded and millionaire, with
n wife aud twins. -EUonipg Wisconsin
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-10-07

In six weeks thereafter 1 officiated as
chest man at Jim's marriage As the
organist pealed forth the jubilant
strains of Mendelssohn. after the wears
benediction had been given, and Nelly,
radiant and beautiful, passed down the
aisle on her husbands arm, l could not
help rejoicing in the success of what is
now "No. 329-A Wedding March, y
though the faces in the picture as ex~
hibited are slightly disguised, aud Mr.
Josiah's vest has been shorn of certain
of its distinctive peculiarities.
That is the romance which, as | told
you at the outset, hangs round the pic
ture which in the Academy cata-
logue was numbered 1929 Wedding
March. - Chambers Journal