Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-13
Intems of interest.

Miss Willie Withers, daughter Of ex-
senator Withers, Of Virginia, can handle
a shot. gun with an accuracy Of aim that
exceeds that Of many pretentious sports
men, and many birds are brought down
on the wing by her seldom erring sight.
The French government, in compli-
ance with the advice OF the commanding
general Of Algeria, has put q stop to the
return OF troops from Tunis. The entire
effective force Of France In Tunis Is
10000 men, and these are oficered by
Frenchmen.
Within three years the exports Of
grain from New Zealand have doubled;
and, though the area under cultivation
Is not yet large enough to considerable
figure In the worlds food supply, 1t Is
worth while TO notice the fact that rail
road sow being built will open up o
grain belt Of over "A, 900, 900 acres.
II is reported from New Haven that
the Winchester Arms Company, Of that
city, the Union Metallic Cartridge Com
pany, OF Bridgeport, and large cart
ridge company In Lowell have com
bined, land will in future act together
as syndicate, controlling the cartridge
manufacturing industry Of the country y
Herr Krupp's great establishment at
Essen has its own water and gas works.
It contains 25,000 gas burners in addi-
tion TO the electric lamps. II has its
own chemical laboratory, Photographic
and photographic establishments and
printing and binding shops. There are
about fifty miles Of telephone wires and
thirty-five telegraph stations belonging
to the works.
For broad guage, lucid view Of the
result of the last election in the United
States, just absorb this from the London
Times Of recent date "ln Massa.
chusetts heavy vote was polled. Mr..
George ID. Robinson, Republican, has
probably $1,000 majority over Gen; But
Ter, the present Governor Of Pennsyl.
vania. The Democrats also elect the
majority Of the Legislature for Virginia,
thus securing the return of one of their
party as United States Senator in the
place of Mr.. Mason"
Alternating strips OF red and white
arranged in waved or undulating lines
is the latest novelty in prepared wood
for fine fioorings, wainscoting and fancy
ceilings. IL is an entirely new thing,
and has not yet been put upon the
market. Tho section exhibited recently
in New York consisted of regularly
tongued aud grooved strips OF cherry and
maple, and not unimportant feature ol
the invention is that, owing to an in
genious way of producing it from the
log, ii can be made at no higher cost
than that of ordinary hard wood floor.
ing.
Fourteen delegates from the trades
organizations OF Paris to the Boston ex.
position have arrived in New York. The
trades of the delegates are as follows;
Damelinat is worker in bronze; Balm
is a house painter; Reuter-, com.
positor; Saint Martin, a blacksmith;
Herbinet. designer; Rieffel, a shoe.
maker; Bagnieris, carpet weaver; Van
hove, cabinet maker; De La Sale, a
carriage maker; Ribaufer, n tinsmith;
Cambomoreil, a stonecutter; Brebant,
an optician; Letailleur, a worker in iron,
and Dumay, a mechanician.
The fortress of Bacninh is situated on
the high road to China at the extremity
Of plain fifteen miles wide, which
H iuachco tfoht tnt contrhi pruucu VI tue
eed River near Hanoi to the Thai, ,Bing,
which is attacked to the Red River by
numerous canals. This plain is traversed
by the high road already mentioned,
which extends throughout the entire
length OF Indo- China, from Saigon to the
Chinese frontier, nearly thousand miles.
At the east Of this grand route is a canal,
called the Song Chi, uniting the two
rivers. The stragetic Importance of Bae-
ninh arises from the fact that 1t COM
mands the northern part Of Tonquin and
is the key to the principal land entrance
to China on the south. As the shore
route and the entrance to China by way
Of the Red River are already closed, the
one by the French fleet and the other by
the garrison at Hanoi, the importance Of
Baeninh becomes apparent.