Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1882-04-25

MISS lda sweet mas Deen dpppinJeu
Pension Agent at Chicago. Shesmust
have come her last name over Arthur
very strongly.-Sae. Bee.
At house where they keep a
great deal of fancy work and keep a
white poodle, an innocent gentleman
asked: "Who knit the dog?"
. When friend asked reformed me-
briate the cause of his reformation, he
said Gas you are married you will
quite understand it when | say getting
tipsy made me see my mother-in-law
double. lie Figaro.
A son of the old sod in this city has
expanded in breadth and extended in
hight, because of the pride which swell
ed him when told at an Astronomical
lecture that one of the consultations in
the starry armament was called Organ
Sac. Bee.
An Austin young man was seen com
ing hurriedly out of business house
which he had entered to solicit employ
ment as a salesman. "Did the boss en-
gage you as a salesman ?" "No; hi
wanted me to travel, was the ambigu-
GUS reply.-Teras Sytings.
Just for the novelty of the thing, we
would like to hear of marriage in low
or even in middle life. 1t seems that
nearly every matrimonial connection OF
the present day is grandiloquently re-
ferred to as "a Wedding in High Life. "
Are none but aristocrats leaping into
the sea of matrimony?
H.C. c. Astwood is the fourth colored
man who has received q consular ap-
pointment under our Government, and he
has Just sailed for his station, Santa Do
mingo. He is dark, intelligent looking
mulatto, speaks pith fuency, and has
good command of language, his pro-
nounciation being purely Southern.
John Cronin committed suicide at
Paris, Ky. His body was denied burial
in the Roman Catholic Cemetery, in ac-
cordance with the law of that church.
The Cronins owned a lot, and in the
night they surreptitiously made the in
terment. Father Barry, the pastor,
autographed to his Bishop for instruc-
tions, and was ordered to exhume the
remains, which was done.
The first conveyance of real estate in
New York by John Jacob Astor is dated
August Ia, 1889, being two lots in the
Bowery Lane, for f250. The next was
for O lot in Little Dock street (now
Water street,, for $3.50. Aaron Burr,
from the time he moved to New York
city, in 1888, until his ruin, twenty -four
years later, purchased twenty four lots
of real estate, and made eighty sales.
When Mile. Rhea did Camille" in
Washington for the benefit of "Betty
and the baby, the Sergeant's wife and
youngster were in q box, and made
moiseue, who has an eye for effects,
presented herself there with the proceeds
of the entertainment. Mrs. Mason cried
The baby cried. The audience cried
Mademoiselle, the actress, cried. Then
she clasped the Sergeant's olive branch
to her bosom, and the applause rent the
scenery.
The result Of the great National Stee-
ple-chase, at Liverpool, which was won
by Lord Manners, riding himself his own
horse, has created a stir in aristocratic
London. The steeple-chase was over a
course of four and half miles, and Lord
Manners, after a severe competition,
brought his horse, Seaman, in first by a
short head, winning an amount equal to
O whole years income of the Archbishop
of Canterbury. The enormous odds of
f75,O00 to e., 500 had been taken.
1t is no easy matter as yet to compute
the damage occasioned to the sugar, cot
ton and rice lands by the Southern
Louisiana floods. 1t is very generally
conceded that there was before the pres
ent overflow such prospect for a crop
of sugar as has not been known since
the civil war. From $50, 200 to 300, 900
hogsheads was the calculation. The
Secretary of the Sugar Planters Asso-
citation has put the possible loss at 40,
600 hogsheads, while another authority
estimates it at $4,000.
"Templeton," the Boston correspon-
dent of the Hartford ''Courant, writing
of Mr.. Longfellow, says: "He was a
very benevolent man, whom the poor
will miss very much. He had inherited
wealth in his own right; his second wife
brought him comfortable fortune; he
had large income from his books. He
spent all this kindly-had an open heart
and open hand. He seemed to mellow
in his sympathies, ifpossible, as he grew
older. He never had an enemy in Bos-
ton. Of late years he had not detrac.
tor"
A great calamity has fallen on the sea
faring population of Brittany, in France
At all the ancient fishing towns south o.
Brest the inhabitants have for years OBJ
tanned their livelihood from the sardine
fishery. Suddenly, without any warn
ing, this industry is in danger of de-
struction. The men. 60 out in Their
boats as usual, but they return without