Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-02-17
News and Other Notes.

instruction in field and garden work
is to be given in the rural schools Of
Russia.
| Pineapple-growing Is becoming one of
the most important and profitable indus
tries of Florida.
A bad temper always manages to act
on the theory that two wrongs will some
how make II all right.
1t is worth thousand pounds q year
to have the habit Of looking on the
bright side of things. = DR.. John
son. ~
| The fixtures of Kate Fields Dress As
ISOLATION in New York, which cost
$40, 900. sold the Other day at auction
| for $4,000.
In memory of her son, Mrs. Mary
Young Of Fall River, Mass, offers to give
$40O. 900 TO erect, equip and support o
high school.
| The great-grandson of the author of
Robinson Cruso" is in INDECENT circum-
stances, and penny subscription is to be
started for his relief.
An American residing in Birmingham,
England, thinks grapes grown in the
United States would find ready sale in
Great Britain at good prices.
| When woman wants to get rid of
her husband for an hour she sends him
up stairs to get something from the
pockets OF one Of her dresses.
| When the ten children from Sitting
Bulls tribe arrive at Carlisle there will
be 800 pupils at the Indian school at
that place, representing twenty-nine diff
ferent tribes.
The state of Illinois is in luck. Its
State debt is reduced to- S23, 600, and
the treasury contains over 1900, 600
surplus. The state taxes are to be ma
terially reduced.
The act Of the Legislature Of New
York taxing steamship companies one
dollar for every alien passenger landed
has been decided invalid by tine United
States Supreme Court
A woman of Tuscuinbin, Ala, was
struck by lightning and found upon re-
covery that her hair, once beautiful
brown, had been instahtaneously turned
to a snow white color.
Alaska's mines produced $24O, 600
worth of gold last year, against yield
Of SIS, 900 in 1881. She may come to
the front as a gold field, but as yet the
strikes are not amazing in their rich
ness.
Water for domestic uses is so scarce in
Augusta, Me-, that many families are
having ice in large blocks hauled from
the river TO their doors, and melting the
ice for drinking, washing and culinary
purposes.
Parish, a Nez Perce5 Indian, died AZ
Corvallis, Montana, recently. He was
reputed to be the wealthiest redskin in
the Bitter Root country, and left some
$751; 900 in greenbacks, l., addition to
large number Of horses.
Mr.. Boucicauit says: Egypt was
fatal to Assyria; to the Hebrews; to st.
George, who was hanged for looting,
and to Napoleon. II Is the graveyard Of
the world, and England has gone there
to steal a lot for quiet family vault"
According to DR.. Quesneville. water
has been kept in potable condition for
more than three years by adding to it
half a grain of salicylic acid. This
treatment Is especially recommended for
water carried by expeditions to warm
climates.
New YORK, Feb. l2.--It is the belief
in well informed circles that the settle.
ment of the Mutual Union matter, the
Elevated muddle and large buying of
Jersey Central by Mr.. Vanderbilt fore.
shadows developments which will have
marked effect upon prices.
| There is story current that the Due
d'Aumale said to friend in 1869 that
the Empire would fall and be followed
by Republic, adding: "a day may
come when shall be nominated to be
President, and I shall astonish the world
by the loyalty with which l shall carry
out the commission intrusted to me-"
On April IS, 1850, there broke over
Dublin storm such as is predicted will
occur here in March. The morning was
fine, but about r. M. the mercury fell
rapidly, though the sun was shining. A
little later hurricane unparalleled in
the latitude set in. By the official sur
vey Of four districts out of six, 294, 302
panes were broken and the damage in
glass alone exceeded $l35, 900.
julius Lehman, who conducted q
travelling store at the Northern Pacific
front, is missing. He left behind him
debts TO the amount Of $l4, 900 to &c.
900, good share Of which is owing to
economical men on the work, who de-
posted their savings with him. He
went eastward from Weeksville, and is
supposed now to have reached New
York. A reward of 81 200, dead or
als o. 10 rffara1 fnr hin
An enormous quantity of water passes
through the roots OF plants. An English
Iexperimenter has ascertained that for
every pound OF mineral matter assim-
Hated by plant an average Of 1000
pounds OF water Is absorbed. At the
French Agricultural Observatory of
lMontsouris, il was found that, in rich
soil, 727 pounds OF water passed through
the roots Of wheat plants for every
lpound OF grin produc,i, while in very
poor soil, 2,1J3 pounds passed through
the wheat roots for each pound Of grain.
A girl sixteen years Of age, living in
Ulster county, N. Y, has undergone o
successful operation for the complete
closure Of the mouth of twelve years
standing, with ADMISSIONS Of the cheeks,
the result of salvation in childhood.
Most of the time she has been unable to
open her mouth even to eat, food being
forced through an opening left by the
absence Of teeth on either side OF the
jaw. Since the operation the girl can
open her mouth and speak plainly. and
faith is expressed in her final recovery.
The Paducah, KY, City Council has
passed resolution requesting the SEN
ators and Congressman from that State
to take steps to have the government re-
munerate those citizens whose property
was destroyed in Paducah on the goth
day of March, 1854, by order of Colonel
y. q. Hicks, then in command of the
United States troops at that post. The
property in question consisted of houses
J and other buildings which had been used
on the day previous to their destruction
by Confederate sharpshooters as shelter
while attacking the Federal fort.
The gradual emancipation of the
slaves in Brazil has not only permitted
the country to prepare itself for the
adoption Of free labor, but its influence
marked. From 1854 to 1872 the average
. yearly number of immigrants was under
1900. In 1872 q law was passed in favor
l of gradual emancipation, and frsm thai
date to 1879 the immigrants averaged
l very nearly $4,000 annually - almost
| three times the average before the en-.
actment. The next two years showed
nearly the same results; but then 9
notable increase was observed, ant
from the LIST of January to the 3lst o.
December, 1881, 39,7s4 immigrant,
landed in Brazil.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Feb. l2.-Seven
ty-fve years ago yesterday the burning