Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-08-24

4 Straw lumber at its FIRST trial as floor
ling III Chicago proved success.
ST. Louis is shipping considerable
quantities OF oleomargarine to Holland.
The New Workers, who are owners Of
/ 6, O00, 900 pounds Of butter, are not feel
Ming very strong-but the butter is.
Gold mines in the famous Wilderness.
ASpottsylvania county, Va, are being
worked, it is said, with profit.
I The export Of ostrich feathers from
the Cape last year was unprecedently
large. The prices obtained were enor-
nous.
The consumption Of ice in Berlin is
\reported to have reached ''alinost Amer
Lean proportions" and the new trade is
jRiving employment to hundreds of peo-
bon Manhattan Island 100, 900 children
IRE earning living. The youngest child
Employed US o bfead-winner ia four years
I'D, and her services are valued at 81
keek.
| The latest estimates Of the earth's pop
hation are as follows: Europe, 3l5,000,-
DO: America, 5000, 600; Africa, 205.-
bO'OO0; Australia, 4, ZOO, 900; Asia, $780,
\ 5000; total, ,443, 600, 900, Of which
Nt2S, 600, 900 are given to idolatry
tThe most spiteful man in the world
as committed suicide in Lower Silesia.
n left letter stating that his purpose
ps to deprive his heirs of thirty thalers
bich they would receive from benev-
I, Ont society Ia case his death were nat
I'll
bohn gelman, Of Lexington, Pa, was
Inning his ear with the butt end of a
l I'll stiff switch. A screen door was
4 bed suddenly against him, which
I tst the switch inside the ear. broke
orum. caused the most intensebuf-
q, and made Holman maniac.
telephone has been successfully
~ u France to communicate between
az Sel being towed and one towing.
Tb wire was carried along one Of the
!. liz -ers. and the circuit was completed
through the copper ON the bottom OF
the ships aud the water Conversation
was carried on distinctly.
Brussels has forbidden the manage
ment Of theaters to introduce fire or ex-
plosives in scenes without the permits
sion Of the authorities, and then only
under prescribed conditions When
firearms are used, the firing shall not be
in the direction of the spectators.
Bismarck is said to be suspicious and
fyrannicnl Of late towards all officials OF
state, and his disposition is becoming SO
inconvenient to all who have any COM
munication with him that it is believed
that If the Emperor dies before him the
crown prince will not hesitate to dis
miss him from office.
The London milliners are wild because
the Princess Of Wales appeared at the
Fisheries Exhibition with one Of those
severely simple and undecorated bonnets
which, after her, are called Princes
Bonnets." Such bonnets cannot beai
trimming, and hence the commotion
There Ia even talk OF protest, since Il
this style Of head-gear becomes fash
ionable the nilliners' trade will b
ruined.
The return OF the census taken OF
January |, 1883, which have Just beer
published, show that the empire o
Japan contained population Of SO,
700,ll0 made up of is, $685. 9S males
and 10, l0l, liz females. According to
the official census taken in 1875 thu
population was 32, 794, S97. Of whici
1878. sos were males and i6,06l, 10!
were females. The increase OF popula
fiou in aipht vears Is nearly 600. 600