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Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-06-05

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Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-06-05

SACRAMENTO, Call, June 4--The
hearing in the matter oil the State Prison
Directors came up before Governor
Stonemnn and Judge Wallace this nJrn-
my After asr-eiu5 upol a p.an o.
c0nd lcting tle inquiry, an adjOutume It
was ordered uatil tJ-morrow IA Jrhing
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-02-07
Great Ice Bridge,

Those who visited Niagara Falls few
days ago, witnessed scene never before
known in the winter history of the
great cataract. One OF the best ice
bridges ever known formed in the
gorge Immediately below the falls a
week ago, and the high wind recently
drove the water down the lake into the
river. The water began rising ; the deep
and increasing rumbling indicated that
the pressure would disrupt the great
glacier. Soon the middle portion broke
away and moved maiestically down the
stream for about 500 yards, until the
mass in the narrower part of the gorge
below brought it to sudden stop with
a crash, which re-echoed from side to
side of the chasm. As far as the eye
could reach, the vast masses of ice we're
being crushed to atoms, while here and
there miniature volcanoes OF water and
ice spouted high into the air. By dark
the ice gorge extended from the foot Of
the falls to just below the railway sus
pension bridge, some two miles, and it
seemed to be sold from the bottom OF
the river to hight of more than fifty
feet above highwater mark.
During the night huge masses Of ice
went crashing over the cataract, and
were thrown high on either shore, and
at about midnight some two hundred
feet of the famous ciired railroad at
Prospect park were carried away, while
the stone observatory and dressing
rooms at the "Shadow of the Rock, 1"
between the loot of the railway and the
American fall, were crushed to pieces.
The house of John McCloy, ierryman,
on the Canada side, about rs feet above
the usual ice level, was partly over
turned and the occupants had narrow
escape. The little ferryboats were
crushed in their houses and several OF
the guys of the new suspension bridge
were torn from their foundations. The
damage will be several thousand dol.
lars, but the Prospect park company
are hard at work repairing the damage
to the railway, so that tourists can go
below. If all the ice bridges at the
falls during the past ten years were
piled on top of each other,it is said that
they would hardly equal the hight and
length of the one which now spans the
chaSm.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-02-07
Strange Fancy.

A doctor, speaking of the case Of John
E. Wilkinson, a driver of horse car in
Newark, N. j., who was taken i'll a
few days ago, said: 81 found that
the patient was alone in his bedroom,
and was barking, swapping, whining, and
paving like a dog. No one would go
near him, and 1 could not get into the
room through the door because bed.
stead was against it. went to window
and raised it. Wilkinson rushed at me,
barked, and tried to bite me. Fortu-
nately 1 am large and strong. l seized
him by the hair and held him while l
climbed through the window. 1 had to
put a straight JACKET on him. There
were all the symptoms of hvdrophobia,
except frothing at the mouth and chok-
ing when drinking. When I gave him
water he bit the dipper, but was able to
swallow the water without trouble.
II am sure the disease is not hydro
phobia, but acute Inflammation at the
base of the brain. When administering
chloroform I put the sponge on a
cane for safety. He had some bad
spells, but his condition was improved.
His friends insist that he has hydropho
bia. They say he was bitten by q dog
when he was young. My belief is that
he has been reading of hydrophobia,
and through mental weakness conceived
that he has the disease. His father died
insane. Wilkinson probably real of the
case of the boy down town who has
shown the same symptoms
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-02-07
Valuable Concession.

The statement has been made that
Gen. Chanzy's widow will receive from
the French government, in addition to a
pension, a grand bureau de tabac. Not
only is the growth and manufacture OF
tobacco under state control, but the sale
of it is equally so. Only certain num-
Der of shops for the retail of tobacco are
permitted, and they must be sufficiently
far apart from each other to make the
proprietorship of one substantially re &.
munerative. The bureaux de tabac in
France are bestowed upon servants in
reduced circumstances, and more fire.
quently still upon their widows. They
are, however, the cause of much intrigu-
ing, and the enemies OF the government
often discover, or think they discover,
q scandal in q tobacco shop. The sys.
tenn usually adopted by those who are so
fortunate as to obtain bureau dc abac
in a good situation is 10 employ others
to look after the business, while reserv-
ing to themselves the disposal of the
profits.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-02-07
FLOATING WIT

Why is a fellow with bad cold in the
head like Niagara falls ?-Because he's
catarrh racked.
Tomato red is the fashionable shade
of hair. Some people can't bear it, while
others can. Tin can.
A woman may do many questionable
things during her lifetime, but when it
comes to her wedding she always stands
up for the rite.
In Maine they are finding diamond
pins in the old oak trees. The hotel
clerk of New England appears to have
attended picnics at very early period.
A Philadelphia paper says that coffee
is failure in Ceylon. This is travelling
q long way to get an item which could
have been furnished by any Philadelphia
boarding house.
81 wonder why my head comes up
out of the wafer first instead of my feet?"
said Jones to Thomas while both were
bathing.-"Well, the lightest always
comes up first" said Thomas.
A young girl was telling friend that
she had beau.-"Oh," said the friend,
81 guess that's all yarn w-"Well,
perhaps, it is, seeing that I can wind
him round my finger" allowed the first
speaker.
Pittsburgh has new steam hammer,
which can strike blow of $4,000
pounds. 1t is consoling to a man to
know that there is something in the
world that can go down as hard as he
does when his feet get on q coal-hole
cover.
A conductor carelessly carried his
bell-punch home and allowed his child
ren to play with it. The next day the
company informed him that he was
9,9OO,999 fares short. He has offered to
leave them the children in pawn until
he made up the money.
Carving isn't fun. A young man was
invited to carve a turkey at dinner,
recently, and before the knife was fin
ally taken from him he had upset q
glass of water, wrenched his shoulder,
shot the bird across the table into a
lady's lap, aud nearly jabbed a mans
eye out, and 1t wasn't q tough bird
either.
The lady of the house having received
the packages from the grocer's, orders
the servant to weigh them. "There
should ba twenty pounds OF sugar in
this y she says as she gives her one
parcel. "Tnat's funny sort OF grocer
you have!" says the girl. "Why? Is
there more than twenty pounds p "No,
ma'am, but there is twenty pounds" !"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-02-07
SSOaDy Sam.o

The late Samuel Wilberforce, bishop
of Winchester, for good part of his
life was known as "Soapy Sam," and an
attempt has been made to ascertain the
origin of the term with somewhat
doubtful success. His brother, the late
Archdeacon Wilberforce, used to say
that "Sam" was always washing his
hands, and got the name from that fact.
The late Lord Westbury held the opin.
ion that "Soapy," as applied to a dis.
tipguished preate of the Church of
England, must be understood in the
sense of something smooth, glib, unctu
GUS or oleaginous in personal manner
or mood of mind. Another explanation
is traced to the symbolic letters, s. o.
A. p, carved high up on the wall of
Cuddesdon college, Oxford, which
Bishop Wilberforce was instrumental
il founding, and understood as the mi
tials of Sam Oxon and Alfred Pott, the
first principal of the college. This is
the opinion of the bishops bioarapher
and son. But the term "Soapy Sam"
was applied to him long before 1858,
when the foundations of Cuddeston
college were laid, and is best traced to
the washing Of his hands in boyhood,
and to his cleverness and tact in later
days in managing difficult matters in
church and state. Bishop Wilberforce
was not alone in having tag to his
name. The second William Pitt was
frequently termed "the heaven-born
minister" and in the outset Of his career
was humorously called "the angry boy"
Char es James Fox, to the end of his
political lite, was called "Black
Charley" Lord Palmerston went by
the nickname of "Pam." and in his
early days, in the fashionable world, by
that OF Cupid" Sir Watkins Williams
Wynn and his brother Charles were
nicknamed Bubble and Squeak" be-
cause the former had an impediment in
his speech and the latter high treble
voice. Even King James I was called
the British Solomon in sport, though
he appropriated the title in ear2est.
Charles Dickens figured as "Boz" long
before he was known in his own right,
pseudonym which was given in his
family to one OF his baby brothers, after
Moses in the "Vicar Of Wakefield"
Moses being pronounced, through the
nose, "Boses," and then shortened to
"Boz." So Thackeray's great illustra-
tor, Hoblot Browne, who is just dead,
was known the world over as "Phiz."
A name must be short to stick, and
when Sydney Smith attempted to fasten
the term, Head of the Patent Chris
tians Of Clapham," to William Wilber,
force, the father of the late bishop, it
failed to adhere because it was too long,
while the witty canon, by curious
nemesis, has passed down to posterity
as "Joke" Smith. Boston Herald.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-02-07
A Patient Citizen.

One day post office official happened
to be passing through a government
office with which he was not connected.
There he saw man standing before the
fire reading newspaper Hours after
wards, returning the same way, he was
shocked to find the same man, legs ex-
tended, before the same fire, still buried
in the columns of a Newspaper. "Halto,
SIR cried the indignant head of the
department, "what are you doing"
Cant you see what I am doing?' was
the answer. "Sir, came through this
office four hours ago, and found you
reading the paper; 1 return, and you
are still wasting your time in the same
manner" Very true; you have stated
the case to nicety." The head OF the
department fired up. What is your
name, sir?' he said. "Well, l don't
know that my name is any affair of yours
what is your name?' ''Sir, would
have you know that I am the soand so
of the post. office" "Indeed Well, l
am very glad to hear it. / am, sir,
simply one of the public, who has been
kept waiting here four hours for an an
swer to a simple question, and l shall be
much obliged ii you will use your infu.
ence to get me attended to-"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-02-07

ELY'S CREAM
BALM efectually
,leanses the nasnal
Passages Of Catarr-
nal virus, causing
nna'thv secretions,
..lays -.IAAtlonma,
protects the mem
brane from addi
t!onal colds, COM
pletely heals the
sores and restores
he sense OF taste
and smell. Bene-
fetal results are
realized by a few
applications. A
thorough treatment
will cure Catarrh ,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-02-07
Took, VT, WEDNESDAY,, FEBRUARY 7, 1883.
it these last long months, I will try and
bear IL lika a ncnD

it these last long months, I will try and
bear it like man"
Still there was silence, and still the
doctor kept his face turned away from
the girl beside him.
There was little futter of paper, q
little hesitation, then the girl stretched
out her Land, and Just touched his. In
an instant he turned, the light Of q
great Joy on his face, took both the lit,
tie hands in his, bent his head till the
heavy beard nearly touched her fair
hair, and said, softly, "Is this to be my
wife p
The only answer was the lifting of the
dark, tear filed eyes to his-but the
passionately-whispered "My darling,
as his lips touched the white cheek,
showed that it was a satisfactory one.
There is one man living who appreci.
ates rag carpets, for to this day DR..
Cluness AYERS that all the carpets that
ever were woven have little value com.
pared with the one on which Mrs.
Winterne was working that July day
and he invariably speaks of it as "that
blessed rag carpet"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-02-07

The blade OF the sword OF the gigantic
statue of "Germania," to be placed at
Niederwald, near the Rhine, weighs a
ton. The total amount OF metal in the
statue is forty-tive tons. On tho tip OF
one of the fingers of the left hand rests
the imperial crown of Germany, and the
torso is clothed with loose chain armor,
formed Of large links. A figure of the
Moselle, eighty feet high, will stand at
the foot of the pedestal, opposite the
figure Of the Rhine. Different portions
of this bronze colossus and its attend.
ant groups are being cast in Berlin,
Dresden, Nuremburg, Leuschammer
and other places.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-02-07

Mr.. Blest was 80 and Miss Runnion
was IS. He proposed marriage, and she
consented, with the provision that he
should take her to the adjacent village
of Byron, Wis, to buy toilette outfit.
He gladly did this, though she made
shopping very costly to him. When all
the purchases had been packed in three
trunks, and sent to the railroad station,
she had them checked for Chicago in
stead Of home, and went away with
them, leaving her aged lover to find out
that she had made o fool OF him.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-02-07
Dear Hands,

Roughened and worn with ceasoless toll and
care,
No periumed grace, no dainty skill had
those;
They earned for winter hands jeweled
ease,
And kept the scars unlovely for their share.
Patient and slow, they had the will to bear
The worlds whole burdens, but no power to
seize
The flying joys of liie the gifts that please,
Tho gold and gems that Others find SO lair.
Dear hands, where bridal jewel never shone,
Whereon no lovers kiss was ever pressed,
Crossed in unwonted quiet on the breast,
see, through tears, your glory newly won,
The golden circlet Of a iles work well done,
Set with the shining pearl OF perfect rest.
--.dtlantic Monthiy.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-02-07

The active drummer may be regarded
ns o commercial scenter.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-02-07
Rutland Business Cards.
BERWICK HOTEL,

G f RICHARDSON, Prop'r,
RUTLAND VERMONT
Heated Throughout by Seam.
Good Sample Rooms, Billiard Room aud
Livery Stable connected with the Hotel
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-02-07

Hay Fever, &c. Unequalled for colds tn the
head. Agreeable to use. Apply bv tina little
finger iuto the nosris. Will deliver by mail
SOC package postage stamps. Sold by
wholesale and retail druggists.
ELY'S CREAM BALM CO., Owego, N. Y,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-01-13
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
LATEST FoREloNNEws OF INTEREST
tn, Remarkable Suse.s OrEI-ls Booth a. ELAN.
hrIH Gsrmany-FIGttsrinE SOtIess Of the
Prsn-Ihs Floods Ia CsGtrAI ESrOps.
DtprteIAtIoA Of Crops Ia ireland.

BERLIN, January l2.-All the papers this
morning comment on Booths performance
Of "IIamlet last evening. The National
Zeitung eulogizes the actors careful study
and effects, and considers he does not
obtrude his American nationality. The
1dQtLiaH says the strange effect Of the
polyglot performance was soon removed
by the interest in the chief inpeBonRtion.
We soon found we were in the presence of
Of one OF the CHIEF masters oithe dramatic
art. His "llamlet" Is Of commanding
nobleuess, and will long be remembered.
The IiGVische Hriinng says the impeBona.
was full Of life and spirit. 1t exhibited by
turns deep pathos and finest irony. The
BOr~H Courier in similar strain says the
impersonation is u perfect living whole,
one part OF which appears 10 be the neces-
Eary compliment to the other. The BOrNH
Zeiiung says, in eloQuenCe and gesture
Booth stands on the BlIne level with Posi-
and Salvini, and perhaps HurpaSSes them
in the minute power Of suggestion.
The Crown prince Frederick William
inlimated bis intention TO come again 10
witness Booths performance.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-01-13
CABLE CLICKS,

The Car and Imperial family arrived al
residence in the AnnitChkoT Palace.
The British ship, Pride oi the Ocean,
from Hamburg for New York, is supposed
TO have been lost Off llarwiCk, Rs a boat
and other wreckage evidently belonging
to that vessel are washing ashore.
A parcel containing dynamite was post.
ed Ut the Limerick postoftiCc yesterday.
Not being addressed Il fortunately escaped
being stamped, whereby terrific explO.
sion was ayeEted. The police are inquiiiug
into the affair.
A boat has been found of the harhor oil
Cette, France, containing the dead bOdieSoi
four persons belonging the French coasting
steamer which was believed TO have foun.
dered in storm, There were - persons
on board the steamer.
In the l1eichstay yesterday the annual
motion OF the Social Democrats for the re.
peal OF repressive laws was rejected, after
a debate, in which Herr LeibkneCht was
sharply called 10 order for describing the
anti:SOcialist law az e1eCrable.
lord Duilerin has informed the Egyptian
ministry that in reply to their request
Great britain wlthdraws from the control
andsuggests theuppointnlen ola European
financial adviser, who will not interfere
with the public administration.
Italy has demanded from the Porte re,
dress for the alIrOnt to the servant Of the
Italian Consul st Tripoli, and the Italian
Ambassador ut ConStRntinople has been
instructed 10 make representations in re
gard TO certain false reports which caused
One Forte to demand the recall Of the Ital
ian Consul.
The remains Of GambCtta were removed
Yesterday from Pere Ia Chaise cemetery
Very few persons were present and NJ
demonstration was made. 4 special trair
with the body started for Nice 1T . o'clock
Several personal friends Of the deccaset
accompanied the remains which will reacl
Nice early to-day.
AT tho Coroner's inquest on the body o
one OF the Italian steerRge passengers los
by the accident 10 the City Of Brussels, tn
steward OF the steamer deposed that the
could easily have been saved had the,
Obeyed ordNrs, and they were lost through
an endeavor 10 Slve their baggage. A veI
dict OF found drowned" was rendered.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-01-13

Dispatches from the southern part OF
Illinois, cay that IN earthquake shock was
felt tall over that section Yesterday morning.
Atha ThomAs was elected Treasurer OF
Tennessee, yesterday, on the twenty second
ballot. lie is one oil the prominent laWyerS
Of the State.
The Northwestern Railroad proposes 10
discharge oil employees in lie running de-
partment under q years Of age in order TO
secure proficiency and prevent accidents
from heedleSnesS,
Efforts have ceased 10 compromise the
cases Of Samuel Ruth, cashier, and DR..
X. ]. s. Thompson, III accoRplice, charged
with the embeJylement Of Sl20, 900 belong.
ing to the Washington, Pa, Savings Bank.
The building on Beverly street, Boston,
occupied by David Smith, manufacturer OF
boilers and steam fittings, and GAmbley's
file cutting, moulding and pattern shops,
were damaged to the amount ol $4,000 by
fire ycsteday,
John u. Hoffman, a tailor. living ut No,
10 Cedar street, Cincinnati, fatally shot
his son Robert, aged twenty-five years, al
home yesterday morning. Hoffman was
drunk and had quarrel with his son the
night before. Yesterday morning he aSoet
early, hid behind a door III HE ION started
ont 10 EVrG, when he fired, the ball taking
effect in the abdomen. Five yearS agC
Hoffman killed another son, but was mo-
convicted. He has escaped,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-01-13

How nm Unsophistichicd Oid Man was
"DOnc Up" by brace OF TshRFpOrN.

How nm UusOphisticRIed Old Man Rns
"DOnc Up" by n Brace 0TshArnorN.
MASsIlOS, january IA new scheme to
take money from the packet OF unsuspcct-
ing travellers on railroads was developed to
a correspondent to-day by Mr. Clay,
an aged farmer from Illinois, and who, by
the way, is II son Of the first white woman
married in this county. lie is on visit
10 the scenes Of his childhood here, aud
laughingly tells how he "bOught corpse"
on the train hitherward. Shortly after
leaving Chicago q yonng man sat down be-
side him, and in the course Of conversation
found out that the old gentleman was tint
going on visit to a friend in FOslorin,
Ohio. The young man lived in FostoriA,
knew his friend, aud was just on his return
from Oregon, where he had been to settle
up the the estate OF brother who had
died, and he had the corpse in the
baggage car. After the train got into this
State q confederate Of the sorrow stricken
man, In the guiSe Of tine express agent, con.
fronted Mr.. Clay aud his new made friend,
stating to the latter that under the rules OF
the company he was compelled to collect
the forty dollars charges On the corpse be.
fore they reached Fostoria. That was un.
fortunate, as the kad.Uyed young man did
not have morley enough with him, but he
had II New York draft for $1,000 in his
trunk, which he wGs willing to give az 80
curity until he got to his destination. The
express agent said his trunk under other
baggage and could not be got ut, Perhaps
bis old friend would let him have that
amount until they got TO FOstOriN? ltwas
counted out and handed over, and at the
next station the train stopped the old gem
tlenan missed his afflicted friend and the
express agent, and strange to say, could
moi even lind the "stit" 10 sell to u mcdi'
cal college, and thus be partially reimburs'
ed for his lOgy,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-01-13

Clark Mills, the sculptor died yesterday.
He was native OF South Carolina.
The Senate Military Committee yCster'
day decided 70 report favorably LoGan'S
bill providing for tue increased efficiency
OF tho army.
The Senate Postol!ce Committee agreed
10 report the House bill providing for the
issuance Of postal notes for transmission in
mails in sums OF less than Gve doll am, for
which fee Of three cents IL TO be charged
for each note Issued.
The Judiciary Committee yesterday
tabled tho Knott resolution declaring the
Northern Pacific Railroad land grant Tor
ieited, The vote stood O ). The aillr'
native votes were all Republican and the
negative all Democrats but one.
The Representatives Of the several inter
ests involved IN the thrill revision are flock.
inn here IN greater numbers than ever. All
OF The hotels are doing brisk business
and while one large delegation Of Philadel'
phlAnE WA accommodated at the Ebbltt
mn night another was turned away. The
whisky lobby Is still here in force, work
inv 10 yet the bonded bill through the
House As the bill went through hum
ming under suspension ol rules last Si's
gion Il is believed that 1t wilt paEs nov
when Ialched,