Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-04-20
News and Other Notes.

In eighteen months the population OF
Ell Paso, Texas, has increased from 300
to $500.
The grazing lands Of southern Arizona
are attracting large numbers OF stock men
from Texas and Arizona. The pasture
is luxuriant during the entire year. =
Tucson Star.
The Atlanta Consultation thinks that
ms long as hotel walters set the fashion
in dress suits and negro minstrels in hats,
our society Young men can't go very far
wrong.
II costs only two dollars and forty
cents custom per shipment Of ore from
Sonora into the United States. Car loads
of rich metal is coming daily into Ari-
IONA and is turned into bullion by the
Benson smelter.
Leadville during the past five years has
produced 28,0000,000 ounces of silver,
10000 tons Of lead, and 10000 ounces
of gold, exclusive Of 100, 900 tons Of ore
shipped to other towns for treatment.
Tho Modesto (Stanislaus county, Her.
aid says that the late storm has not only
settled the question of good crops over
there this year, but gives healthy
promise for another year to come. The
ground is wet through.
A New York exchange says that there
''are SO, 900 women in New York who
support their husband; and yet those
worthless husbands do tho voting, and
their wives are Of not the slightest po-
litical account"
The annual expenditure in France for
the salaries Of her public school teachers
amounts to SIC, 000, 900, and the teachers
rarely receive over So week. The
Minister of Public Instruction has re-
fused to increase this amount.
II is estimated that 100, 900 persons in
the State OF Massachusetts, are depend
ent upon the fisherman for their support.
The total capital invested is $l4, 1884, $50,
and the total value Of the produce placed
upon the market is 81, l4l $50.
The Chihuahua Enterprise says. "As
an evidence of what Americans are doing
for and in Mexico, IL is fact that in the
extreme northwest state of that country,
chihuahua, alone, there are invested
$500, 900, 900 of American money, $685.
100000 of which is invested in mines.
Equally as large investments are being
made in other states of the republic, such
as Sonora, Monterey, Zacatecas, etc"
Over eighty three enterprising Ameri.
can citizens have within q month been
murdered by Apache Indians while
peacefully attending to their own bust.
ness, and but little feeling is manifested
about it. In the same time the world
has been excited over conspiracies and
dynamite plots to blow up the fast.
anchored isle of England, but not sin.
gle life has been lost. Can anybody ex-
plain this conundrum. --Kansas City
Journal.
A new wheat pest has been discovered
in Sonoma county. A farmer near Santa
Rosa has fify.acre field of Summer
wheat which is badly infested by the
bug, which develops into fly about the
size Of gnat, and considerably like it,
only it is of dark color. The wheat is
covered with the bug and larva, which
feed upon the blades, thus killing the
plant. Nothing Of the kind has been
seen in that locality before and the ma
ture of the new pest is not known.
A new invention is reported from
Turin. 1t consists in the application of
light-giving materials to printing ink, by
which print becomes luminous in the
dark, so that in future it will be possible
to read without the assistance of candle
or lamp. A new daily paper, it is said,
will soon be started in that city, upon
which the luminous ink will be used.
What nice thing for railway cars rum
ming out of large cities on winter even
ings. Everybody reading his paper and
lighting up the car at the same time.
The more papers the moro light.