Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-11
Items OF Interest.

A Butler man in Springfield, Mass,
is wearing straw hat, which he is not
to change unth the General is elected
again.
The Quidneck Mills passed into the
POSSESSION OF Receiver Farnsworth last
week, in accordance with an order Of
Court, without trouble, Sprague declar-
ing that he could not fight the Court
II the deposits in New England saw
ings banks were divided among the en-
tire population, each person would re-
ceive $ll3.l7. In New York State the
proportion would be ssI .0s to each indi-
vidual.
The local pension list recently pub
lished at Watertown, N. ", showed
that several pensioners had been dead
for a year or more. and that woman
drew money in the name of her dead
mother.
Canadians are again planning for their
winter carnival. Designs for the Ice
Palace are already made and cold
weather is greeted with ectasy, especial
ly by the shopkeepers, whose fingers
tingle at the thought of crowds Of visi
tors.
The city Of Halle possesses one Of the
most interesting relics OF Luther-a cast
Of his face taken after death, in the
night between the 10th and 2lst of Feb
ruary, 1916, when his corpse, while on
the way from Eisleben to Wittemberg,
lay in the city church, now st. Mary's,
in Halle.
Vienna, exclusive OF its suburbs, con-
sumes daily 800 tons of bread, making
nearly 10000 tons per annum, which.
at the wholesale price of Is kreuzers
per kilogramme, represents daily value
of "a. 600 forms, and an annual con
sumption of round 10, 000, 900 Of forms,
which are equal to 50, 500, 900.
A young Philadelphian, writing from
Buffalo Park, Col, says: "At select
ball that attended last week the men
wore their cartridge belts with thirty
eight calibre, and danced around with
the girls quite unconcernedly." He adds:
Everybody goes armed, but If you
mind your business nobody molests you. :"
A singular suit has been begun by
Mrs, Charles Hutchinson, OF Cayuga,
N. ", against Mrs. Edwin Cowles the
wife of the editor of the Cleveland, Ohio,
Leader, claiming damages for ths aliena.
lion OF her husbands affections. The
plaintiff is the sister OF the defendants
husband. and the suit probably origi.
mates in some family difficulty.
Tive young men conmenced the san
making business at Philadelphia. They
bought lot of duck from Stephen Gi-
rard on credit, and friend had engaged
to indorse for them. Each caught roll
and was carrying it off, when Girard re.
marked, 'Had You not better get dray!'
NO, it is not far, and we can carry II
ourselves" "Tell your friend" said
Girard, che needn't iudorse your note.
| will take it without
The New York Times says that taxa
ton in that city bids fair to more than
keep pace with the advance in the value
oi property. The rate Of taxation the
present municipal year is 1927 ON 800,
aud next year it will be $3.50. 1t costs
the people OF that city s35, 900, 900
year to have their affairs misnanaged.
This is because the city is run for the
benefit of political rings rather than that
OF the people.
A rosy checked German girl arrived at
St. Louis the other day, all the way
from . little town in Westphalia, to meet
her aifianced, who had left her three
months ago to establish himself in Amer
ica before their marriage. She found
him, but not as she had dreamed She
found him in Jail charged with the mur.
der of one of her old schoolmates. The
murder was that Of last Friday night in
Clark avenue saloon, Ernest Kornhardt
being killed by his saloon partner, Henry
Spilker. The latter's marriage was to
have taken place this week, hut it will
probably be postponed now for time.
The girl believes in her lovers limo
cence. and will no doubt stick to him to
the end