Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-04-19
News and Other Notes.

Twice as many men as women die of
pneumonia. LtHfLf
Great preparations are being made in
Denver for the meeting Of tho Grand
Army of the Republic in that city.
Attn recent wedding in Richmond the
bride ate SO much terrapin soup that the
wedding tour had to be abandoned.
Hanlan says; "Mr. Kennedy and I are
friends. but we are going to row square.
honest race, and the best man will win.
The latest suggestion of Democratic
Presidential ticket for 1884 is Samuel j.
Tilden, and Carter II. Harrison, the
Mayor of Chicago.
'Ten acres properly cultivated are
worth fifty half DONE" was wisely said
by the retiring President of the New
York State Agricultural Society at the
last annual meeting.
The Rev. DIR. Dix, OF Now York, il
yowling because women don't have
larger families, says a Louisville paper
and II suggests that MIR. Dix be sworn In
to tend baby for few years.
In view of the fact that the recent de.
cison Of New York court as to diyi-
bends on Sl5, 900 In Western Union
stock will embarrass innocent holders,
Jay Gould has determined to assume the
responsibility Of paying tho dividends
out OF his own fund.
The people OF Southern Arizona can
well afford TO invest $500, 900 In the
final determination of the Indian policy
thrust upon them. II will come back in
less than year Ia the increased pros
perty of the entire territory.
There would be more marrying in the
world If there were more girls like one
living near New Orleans. She has char.
tered steamer and Is TO be married on
board. After the ceremony the boat will
take all present up the Mississippi for a
protracted tour, of which she bears all
expenses.
There ia an earnest attempt making
to root out the terrible disease OF lep-
rosy from the Hawaiian Islands. Fifty
lepers have recently been removed from
Honolulu to the leper settlement at the
island of Molokai, to be separated from
their friends and families forever.
An examination OF the younger chill
dren of the public schools Of Boston,
made by DIR. Stanley Hall, showing that
Is per cent. of the number had no knowi-
edge of cow further than gained from
pictures. And yet they all pronounced
the word quite up to the Boston standard
---k-e.o.u-w.
Mr.. rockingham says in his article
on gambling in the North american
10 Far N.
bacco than for bread--for amusements
than for instruction--fo theatres than
for rches---actors, singers and dancers
receive ten times as much as teachers
and preachers.
In Turkey, where few years ago men
yoked their wives with oxen, the c,irri-
culum in some of the colleges for the
education OF women compares fayorably
with similar institutions in America. One
of the girls who was graduated from
Hsrpoot seminary is at present engaged
upon making a concordance of the Bible
in modern Armenian.
Senator Voorhees,, OF Indiana, is at
Hot Springs. Ark. He is serenaded
about twice week, and is having such
good time generally, that he will stay
there two or three weeks longer. Sena.
tor Camden and family, of West Vir.
giuia, are also at Hot Springs. with 7 900
others, the largest number OF visitors
that resort has had at any one time.
The Souther cotton mills are proving
greater menace to the New England
States than did the late unpleasantness.
Southern statesmen see that tho future
greatness of the cotton. growing States
will in great measure be in the manu-
facture OF her raw material at home.
Cobwebs will yet decorate the cotton
spindles of Massachusetts.