Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-02-16
News and other Notes.

the benefit Of the sufferers from the
floods in Rheinland, realized $4,000
marks.
Vice. President Huntington OF the
| Central Pacific said there was no founda-
ton for the talk Of the union Of the
road with the Union Pacific.
Peter Cooper was 90 years old on Sat
urday. The event was quietly celebrated
| by dinner at his residence on Lexing-
ton avenue, at which about thirty guests
were present.
At the auction sale OF unclaimed par.
cells in Wells, Fargo & Cos Office at Pu-
eblo, Colo, Saturday. James Thompson
paid dollar for box. which proved TO
contain two gold bricks, worth over
81 900.
The Government bill for abolishing the
present corporation Of London excites
wide and deep interest, The 'city" OF
London will merely form certain mum.
Der OF wards in the metropolis, its an.
Gent rights being all swept away.
Owing TO an unprecedent demand for
copies OF Governor Buffers message to
the Legislature Of Massac husetts, and
the fact that the original supply has
been almost exhausted, Governor Butler
has ordered 1000 extra copies, to be
paid for out of his private funds.
A terrible disease has broken out in
the districts adjoining LockviIle. Jeffer.
son and Egypt, in Fairfield county,
Ohio, II is o species of itch or scratches,
and Is pronounced more violent than the
genuine seven.year article. IL has
assumed the form of plague, and
three schools have been dismissed.
Gladstone, in conversation with
Clemenccau at Cannes on Saturday,
stated that the curse of ireland had been
Capitalization. He said: ave are now
trying to make the humblest Irishman
understand that he 10 the governing
agency, and also that the Government
will be carried on for him and by him. F"
The outlook of crops generally
throughout Great Britain is gloomy in
the extreme. No part of the continent
of Europe, east or west, has escaped
rains aud foundations. The immediate
destruction Of property has been wide
spread, but it is /. insignificant as com
pared with the damaged prospects Of the
year.
The subscription for memorial to the
late Charles Darwin has awakened
much interest in Sweden. The English
committee has received contributions
from more than 400 persons in that
country, including oil sorts of people,
'from bishop to seamstress, and vary
ing in amount from two pence to five
pounds.
1t Is stated that contract has been
let by the Central Pacific Railroad peo
pie to build twenty-five miles OF the
branch railroad from Berenda toward
the Yosemite Valley. The road will fol
low up the Chowchilla, and the division
to be contracted for is to DO completed
by May LIST, in time to accommodate the
Yosemite travel this season.
Under the new postal regulations,
samples of flour, or other powdered sub
stances, are declared unavailable, except
when put up in transparent bags and
sewed SO that no particles can sift
through. The bags must be enclosed in
boxes or tubes made OF hard wood or
metal, with sliding, clasp, or screw lids,
and without sharp corners.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has
agreed to report for passage of bill
providing for the purchase from George
Washington Parke Gusts Lee of the en-
tire Arlington estate, comprising |, 100
acres near Washington City, including
the National Cemetery, at cost OF
$3.50, 600, the accrued taxes on the same,
amounting to $4,000, to be paid by
General Lee.
Though Gambetta was not believer
in Christianity, he was not willing to
deny the possibility of its doctrines be-
ing true. Some friends We're once de.
ploring, in his presence, the weakness or
treachery which induced the savant
Littre TO profess Christianity on his
death.bed. "Who can tell!' replied
Gambetta. perhaps Littre did
right after all. 1t is great toss.
up what lies ON the other side of the
grave.
An ingenious method of collecting
subscriptions for the sufferers by the
recent floods in Germany has been hit
upon by Berlin journal, which pro.
posed that on given evening the profits
of all games of chance throughout the
country should be handed over for relief
purposes by the winners. The sugges-
ton was widely adopted, and 80 much
money came in that two further even
ings have been set apart for the same
purpose.
A point in etiquette recently decided
lawsuit in queer way. A traveller on
German railway train attempted to eat
lunch while on the journey. While
putting piece of bologna sausage in his
mouth the train stopped suddenly,
causing his cheek to be badly cut on the
edge Of the knife, which he was using.
The man sued the company for dam
ages, but his claim was not sustained, on
the ground that it is a breach of Ell
quette to eat with knife.
The longest line of fence in the world
will be the wire fence extending from
the Indian Territory west across the
Texas Panhandle and thirty.fve miles
into New Mexico. Eighty five miles of
this fence is already under contract. Its
course will be in the line of the Cana
dian river, and its purpose is to stop the
drift of the Northern cattle. 1t is bold
enterprise, and it is believed will pay
large percentage on the investment.
The fence will be over 200 miles long.
1t is stated that very simple and neat
improvement has been effected in the
preparation OF the tin cans now so ex.
tensively used for preserved foods. The
body of the can has beveled rim, upon
the slope of which the cover is soldered.
When the cover is smartly tapped round
the edge it is expanded and the solder
joint broken by the wedge action of the
bevel. The can is thus opened without
injury to the lid, while the present in
convenient and even dangerous process
of cutting open these air-tight cases is
entirely avoided. The improvement in
wolves no additional cost, and the solder
is applied externally.
a novel proposal, says the Scientific
,1mericdR, has lately been laid before
the trustees of the Mammoth Cave, Ken.
lucky, and is now held under considera-
ton 10y them with some prospect of a
favorable answer. An enterprising
Frenehman, who has already had expe.
rienee in mushroom culture in the vi.
cmity of New York city, complains that
he finds no cellars sufficiently large fol
his increasing business, and also that the
conditions of temperature and moisture
are not uniform enough to insure the best
results, and therefore seriously offers tc
rent portion of the cave for the pur
pose OF raising such varieties of edibl,
fungi as may be found to best suited tc
the locality.
Action for Possession of Mare Island
The case of ID w Bouldin vs. Thoma,