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FOLLY AND FLOWERS.

The tribute of flowers ON mortuary or
nuptia1 occasions is SO common and profuse
that they smother sentiment often out of
sight and are actually offensive to good
taste. A sentiment is touched by either
event, and flowers are the embodiment OF
grief or JOY The modest and beautiful
bouquet that was deemed sufficient in
former times is superseded by floral displays
rivalling Horticultural exhibition, and in
congruous piles of devices, hardly regarded
and perhaps not known save in the reports
of the gentlemen of the press, crowd the
mourners or the mated with such profusion
that II becomes q puzzle what to do with
them. 1t is the fashion to do il, and florists
are taxed to produce original pieces, not SO
much to express respectful or more tender
grief but for the sake of getting up some
thing new. At funerals Is this excess most
manifest, and whole carriages are at timer
devoted to bearing to the grave the various
Tyres, baskets, pillows, broken shafts gates
liar and what not, that are but half seen
through the mourner's tears, and subject to
the curious, who speculate ON their cost and
criticise their construction or appropriate
ness. Tho latter criticism often obtains
where designs are sent TINT have little or no
relevancy in their meaning as was the case
some time since, where spectator said, re-
garding the floral tributes for one who had
led life that would not have met the APP
proval Of the angels why, the designs
were elegant, aud among the rest was
beautiful gate ajar that was very graceful
modest old lady, who had heard the eulo.
gfum of the flowers, and knew the party
honored, replied: Which gate 9"-B Boston
Letter IN The Hartford Post.
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NO. 674
ALASKA GLACIERS.

1t ~as nearly sunset when we began to
oear the Muir glacier, and the day was
nearly ended when tho cliff was reached
and we had anchored near the frowninR
precipice. The shades of evening had gath
cred about the islands passed during the
day and half hid from sight the lower
ranges and the trnckless forests, but the
Fairweather peaks were visible still and
glowed with ghostly light in the isolated
hight like banks of phosphorus hung above
the trees. Around us foated icy fragments,
grinding against each other, or floating,
solitary and majestic, down the watery way
The scene was grand past all conception.
wild and beautiful, and silencing all, with
admiration. No other wonder of nature
equals this glacier of untold age, as it
moves silently yet irresistibly down from
its birthplace to the sea, crying as it comes,
the very embodiment of strength, the de-
stroyer of oil life. All the glaciers of Swift
erland might be combined and together
they would not equal this of Glacier Bay.
Set it crawling over the valleys guarded by
Mont Blanc, and it would crush the country
beneath its weight and leave wilderness
behind. And yet in Alaska long and broad
and wild, il is mere fissure-a single
stream among the many San Francisco
Chronicle. 49,
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WEALTHY TRINITY CHURCH.
Impressive and Bcnutifuf Services Con-
Quoted in IL Regularly.


Trinity Church is three miles from the
centre of fashion. Its neighborhood is one
of commercial pursuits, and the compare
lively few jewellers in Its parish are in q
large majority Catholics. Indeed, Trinity
may be said to be without a congregation,
for the members rs a rule worship in its up
town chapel but tho possession Of many
millions in real estate keeps the corporation
solid, and services arc deliberately solem-
nized in the historic old edifice. The house
is crowded every Sunday, too, though it
cannot be said that the assemblages are al
all devout. Music exercises tho charm
which brings thousands to the church. The
pastor, Morgan Dix, son of shoot-him-on-the
spot Dix, rarely officiates here, but devotes
himself to the chapel congregation. Tho
ceremonies in the parent house are purely
vociferous. Tint is to say, nobody without
pleasingly musical voice Is permitted to
take part in them. A printed programme
of the exercises is posted on Sunday morn
ing in the entry. Not only are the anthems,
tho organ and the other music features
therein mentioned, theatrical fashion, but
the several ministers at the altar are named
like the actors in q comedy. The latter are
chosen chiefly for their good voices, and
connected with the church is special vocal
training school for its assistant rectors.
Those who excel in chanting and intoning
are starred p" in, the Sunday performances.
The result is that no more impressive Epis-
Il 4. ~ n.
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hkoolNo IN CHINA.

=. - -.
In China begging y regular business,
bsggars being born into the profession and
bringing up their children to it. In every
large city there u = vast association OF men
dteants, to which every one who begs for
living must belong. At the head is one
styled the Beggar King. His authority is
absolute, and 70 him the others are amen
able. The society has code Of rules, and
BY this every begear has right. according
to custom, TO atand at the door of q dwelling
and howl, sing, knock or make any other
noise he pisasss until the occupants give
him some cash. Then he Is obliged to de-
sist and can apply at the same place no
more that day. No two are allowed to beg
together at the same place, yet they are so
numerous that few dot,s are free from their
clamorings long at time. The proprietors
Of large establishments who desirs to save
themselves from the annoyance of the con-
tinual visitations do 80 by paying o certain
sam at once TO the king, who causes writ
ten statement to that effect to be pasted by
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STOCK SPECULATORS.
How They Generally Begin and Fail and
Few Succeed. I

=" Frequently the men who do not look
bright-looking man will get the report Of q
railroad and study it carefully and then
begin to speculate with the stock. Now
he's not the successful speculator. There's
no system. No science In speculation. II
requires knowledge, to be sure. That gem
orally has to be bought and paid for. The
man who studies the crops and knows how
many thousand bushels of corn and oats
are produced throughout the country and
studies the fluctuations Of different stocks
Is what is called good speculator."
Beginners generally buy hundred
shares of some stock ON margin" said
Charles Wray, of the firm of Fell, Wray q
Go. " II they make money on their first
venture they become reckless and buy stocks
promiseuously and, as rule, come out at
the little end of the horn. The novice on
the street generally makes his first invest
ment through hearing of some lucky hit
friend has made. OF course he never hears
of the friends losses. The friend never
tells about them. It's only when he makes
a hundred or two that he tells his friends
and that generally results in some one Of
them making an investment.
"About the men who are wrecked through
speculation, the stories are exaggerated
very greatly. There are failures in every
business. The only difference between the
specnlator who loses and the storekeeper
who fails is that the speculator loses his
pile quicker. What the speculator loses
eventually goes into the Golfers Of the big
operators like vanderbilt and Gould. The
man who takes the quick profit makes the
money. The man who holds on, hoping
for bigger raise, loses, as q rule, in the
end remember q grocery clerk who was
discharged from large Wholesale house in
this city. He had 81 800 and went right
on the street and begun selling Northern
Pacific preferred short He kept II up for
six or seven months and then stopped short,
worth nearly 100000. Not long ago he
went abroad to sec the world.
He'll come back again after he's spent
say 25,00On went on the broker, and
hell be back on the street. Nine chances
oub OF ten neil lose al mes maue. Inc
great wise man is he who knows when to
stop. But know of hardly any instances
where men let we'll enough alone.
g Gamblers who win at cards invariably
lose at stock specializing, and yet they are
nervy as rule. know of many instances
where large pots won at poker found their
way q few hours later to Third street and
that was the last the gambler would see of
the money. Some gamblers are successful,
but not many.
Politicians are great spectators, but,
taken as whole, they're not successful.
Several well-known leaders have made big
strikes on Third street, but they didn't
stop They went ahead the next day and
left it all, and little more. There are not
many men on the street now who do nothing
but speculate in stocks. Nearly all the
Spectators are merchants and business
men who want 10 make a little something
outside. philadelphia Times.
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mot at ALL" said Mr.. Coyte. "Tht
Gattawoochee Indian viii was destroyed
long ago and Mr.. Perkins never made an.
other. The heir to all the property is the
next of kin, his nephew, John Perkins,
Public opinion changed as quickly as only
public opinion can do, when this piece Of
news became bruited abroad.
Everybody discovered all of sudden that
they had always sympathized with the dear
young couple-that John Perkins was
noble fellow, and his wife Meta one of III.
salt of the earth.
And Mrs. Briggs came humbly to the red
brick mansion on the hill to see Meta, and
beg her to intercede with her husband in
their behalf. Ll~t
About the mortgage" said she, " that
Deacon Perkins had ON our farm. It's over
due, and Briggs hasn't been as regular with
the interest as could have wished but
do hope, Meta. he won't be hard with us !"
1t was bitter pill for Mrs. Briggs to
swallow, but Meta did not exult over her
fallen foe. EsE
"Of course he will not be hard with you,
Cousin Briggs" said she, kindly. Are we
not relations? And now you must sit down
md have cup Of tea with us, and John
will send the box-wagon down for your bus.
band to come and spend the evening"
The tears came into Mrs. Briggs eyes.
II do feel sort o faint" said she. 81
never slept none last night, thinkin' what
would become of as If the old home was
look away. But I'm all right now, Meta,
thanks to your 8
And she said, when she got home to her
freside
II ever Goals Of fire was heaped on a
human head, Meta Perkins heaped 'em on
mine this dayl"
She's good GAL" said Farmer Briggs
-" good gal !"--Hslea Forrest Grapes.
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A WANT SUPPLIED.
A True Story of the War That SURPRISES
Many Old Fictious.

TOO Strange Not to BIO True" wrote
Lady Fullerton, when she desired title foi
her novel which should distinctly express
her ideas on tho subject of improbnbility.
Too Absurd Not to Have Happened
might be the watchword of the humorist,
who knows very well that the incongruities
of daily life nrc far moro remarkable
than anything he is likely to invent. used
to think that Cornelius O'Dowd's story Of
the enthusiastic old lady who sent an enor-
nous pin-cushion to Garibaldi in prison
was delightful piece of nonsense that must
aave emanated straight from the writer's
brain. dare say DOW that she really did
send it and pair of sik-covered toilet bot
Ties 10 match.
Some time ago CHANGED in conversation
to allude to one Of the charities practised
during the civil war by few ladies in Phila.
dolphin who were in tho habit of sending
food and clothing to the Southern prisoners
ut Fort Delaware. Those were DAYS when
the most simple necessaries of life had risen
to IN enormous value, and the shoes, stock
ings and dannels, to say nothing Of tobacco,
pickles and jellies, all cost more than II was
pleasant to contemplate. Thanks to the un-
'ailing courtesy and kindness Of the FEEDER.
al officers, these offerings, though sent by
Southern sympathizers, were always safely
delivered to sick and wounded prisoners.
who watched for them with a grateful
eagerness that well repaid the trouble and
cost. Speaking of these things, lady
who had listened with great attention now
claimed for herself similar work OF mercy
=" But we used to send our boxes to our
own soldiers at Libby prison." she said,
with q gentle assumption of superior
patriotism that could not sufficiently adj
mire, though doubling greatly whether Il
had ever been worth their while to risk
their goods on such perilous and uncer.
tam journey. Why remember" she
went on, chow we used to spend hours and
hours making pocket pin-cushions."
Pocket pin-cushions !" repeated faint
y.
Yes" she said, with tender and truly
feminine sympathy for distress. 1.-THE
poor fellows had not even place TO put
their pins" rs Tsf
l answered nothing. Garibaldi and hi,
tribute melted into insignificance befor.
this thoughtful charity. Those who recollect
the condition Of our captured soldiers, the
starved and ragged prisoners of starved
and ragged enemy-those who remember
them when released, who heard their state
ments, or who even saw the highly-sensa-
tional photographs of gaunt ard haggard
skeletons that circulated freely through the
country--can perhaps appreciate the grim
ness of the joke-ft for the pages of
Deaths Jest Book "---that these feyered
desperate, dying men =" had no place to put
their pins. "-Lppincotrs Magazine.
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POETRY.


A Regret.
After and near the hills were set
With immorteiles and daisies.
High carnival the asters kept
To win our glowing praises
queen supreme, the golden rod
Reigned with unwonted splendor,
And Black-eyed Susan's haunting robes
Were bright as Fall could lend her
White blIndweed in the meadows grew,
And sumach leaves were turning;
We found the purple gentian flowers,
Though Summer suns were burning.
Stray crimson leaflets fioated down,
hint OF Autumn color,
Though clover wore Its Summer flush,
Or just tribe duIier.
The ffinsing fern hung DER the pool
From rocky heights, and undcr
Last years dead leaves the seeing eye
Found many mossy wonder.
Along the brook whose ripples fed
Thro' fiickering shine and shadow,
We passed, till all In light at last
We climbed the upland meadow.
o wondrous skies The heavens indeed
oGod, declare thy gioryi
And every wandering wind thas blows
Repeats the endless story.
o fair green hills o far-ofr hills,
Aglow with sunset shiningi
Ny eyes with unshed tears are f,lled,
My heart with vain repining.
No wandering wind, nor bird, nor bee
May bring me back my Summer;
The frost that touched the fields last night
Was Winters earliest conner.
Dorothy Ho,rovd.
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VICIOUS BOYS.
IdIencss the Great Cause Of Their Becom-
-a 4 ing had. 8eiroY

81 sis the number OF young criminals really
growing larger ~ asked reporter of Assist
ant District Attorney Breezy, Of Philadelphia,
to whom much of the business of prescott
ing criminals in the Quarter Sessions is en-
trusted. Decidedly" was the reply. 81
can't give you the figures off-hand, but
have observed q steady increase during the
time that have been in the District Attor-
ney's office. Really, every dockful Of pris-
oners brought here for trial contains five or
six youths from seventeen 10 twenty years
of age" i4t W hauli va
TO what do you ascribe this ?"
Chiefly to the abolishment of the system
of apprenticeship. Hardly any. Of these
boys have worked at trade. They have
been left without the restraining influence
of a master they work when they please at
such jobs as they may pick up, and remain
in idleness whenever the fancy strikes them.
Nobody can see better than prosecuting
officer that idleness is the mother Of mis-
chief, and pretty likely to get q boy into
jail. Then next to idlenessl as q maker Of
young criminals comes the habit that boys
Of certnin stripe have of travelling in
gangs. One naturally bad boy in a crowd
can influence the whole lot to evil. Many
of our young rogues, too, belong to the
criminal classes; they are the childrenof par
ents who have no moral sensibilities, and
naturally they have little moral feeling of
their own. Sending them to Jail for o few
months does not do them much good, and
many of them come back, In my expert
ence na lawyer have seen several Of them
grow from what are called merely bad boys
into confirmed criminals. a.as e
g What do you think Of the idea OF re-
formatory institution for young criminals 2"
80 g Il may be good one; that i . hard
question. Think that the best thing for
Young America as . whole would Be- . NJ
turn to the old systam Of learning trades
under sensible masters. There il nothing
so likely to keep your boy out of trouble ss
steady work"
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A SOLDIERS CAREER.
Sorety Wounded In Many Battles, lie Sur
wives 10 the Present Time.

In model home in Hastings, writhing on
bed of anguish, q hero liesd ying. Hisname
is General Charles Powell Adams, familiar
figure in st. Paul and the State of Minnesota
and known to fame through the military an
nnls of the country. The gallant Generals
case is hopeless from thirteen wounds re.
ceived in the war of the rebellion and the
blood poison which superyened after surgi
,al operations performed ON him. His life
might have been prolonged perhaps had he
consented to have limb amputated some
years since. Now the injured member is in
An advanced stage Of atrophy and requires
constant friction to inlay tho pain and to
prevent paralysis. 1871
General Adams has Ind checkered ex-
perience. or the ffty-four years of his life
a volume of romantic reality might BIO writ
ten. He is O native Of Pennsylvania. En-
teriDg the great war as q private no rose
foom the ranks TO breyet brigadier general,
General w. .. Hancock marking his shout
ders for the stars for meritorious conduct
on the field at Gettysburg, where he led 0
charge, received six wounds in body and
limb and was left for dead for seven days
and nights in loneliness and despair, with
his manned flesh fostering and his cries for
succor unavailing. Finally he was picked
up with sufficient vitality left to survive the
shock and to prevent the amputation of his
limb and, after treatment, 20 resume the
saddle and the sword and to survive other
wounds on other fields. In addition to
Gettysburg he participated prominently in
the battles of Malvern Hills, Antieiam and,
in fact. about all of the fierce fights in which
tho army Of the Potomac was engaged dur
ing the war. In all he received thirteen
bullets and buckshot in his body, which
have caused him many hours of anguish and
now threaten him with dissolution.
After the war his martial spirit was invok-
ed in successful campaign against the
Sioux, with vast area of territory to cover
in the dead of winter. 1t is said OF the
General that he with sixteen men bagged a
large band of Sioux by dashing into theii
camp, leaving his command with park Of
artillery planted within range, with orders
to fire upon the camp regardless Of their
presence If he failed In his designs. Many
instances of daring and fearless courage go
to mako up the military secorl OF General
Adams st. Paul Dag.
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SIcnpIess People.

Sleepless people, says Heath and Home,
should court the sun. The very worst sopor-
ifc is laudanum, and the very best is sun
shine. Therefore it is plain that the poor
sleepers should pass as many hours Of the
day in the sunshine and as few in the shade
as possible. The injurious effect Of the
shade is very noticeable in plants growing
in secluded places and ladies who are ac-
customed to carry sun-shades. The invig-
Grating power of sunlight Is infinite, and he
whose skin is tawny seldom requires pill
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Tho Arctic regions are not without their
pleasures. The Esquimaux girls are very
pretty, danee, sing and do not care for ice
cream. Hot drinks and walrus blubber are
their peculiar vanities, and sealskin sacques
are sold at two iron hoops and tenpenny
nail Commercial Gazette.
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OF all sad words from tongue or pen,
The saddest of these, drunk again."
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-11
Gan a woman Is eep secret ?

A prominent physician asserts that a
woman can really be made quite i'll by
trying to keep n great secret; yet, with.
out wishing to cause any illness, but
rather to cure it, we have q secret to
impart, and that is, there is only one
thing that will dissolve the poisonous
Uric acid which exists in the blood of
Rheumatic and Gouty patients. OF
course you are at liberty to tell the se-
cret, which is called Salicylica. 1t
strikes directly at the cause of Rheu-
matism, Gout and Neuralgia.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-11
Tape Worm.

To those afflicted with this parasite a
sure cure. | will remove this parasite
in two hours and bring the head or no
charge, without causing any inconven-
fence or sickness. Persons so troubled
will do well to call at the Grand Central
Hotel room PC, where q great many
samples and testimonials from all parts
of the United States and Mexico may be
seen. Respectfully,
2wDec4 CHAs. A. WILLARD.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-11

F. Lindquist, merchant tailor, No. 20
Spring street, is himself practical cut
ter; and, having had ample experience
in San Francisco and Los Angeles,
knows how to meet the requirements of
his customers. He keeps a full supply
of the best cloths constantly on hand
and makes them up upon honor"
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-11
The Physician's Advice,

"What shall dog" old Aker cried,
"For this sharp anguish in my side,
"rhis dreadful rheumatism
"I've tried all sorts of physic vile,
(Which certainly have cost a pile.
"And still I've paroxysm. "
The doctor said: "My friend, eschew
"These noxious nostrums, or else you
"NNill be too weak to kill cur
"Give up old physic, try the new,
"The very thing that's reaut for You
"rhe mighty Salicylica"
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-11

For Sl00 / offer the very best specta-
cles in the city, with periscopic flint glass
and fine tempered steel frame. Rubber
framed eyeglasses DC pair. Look for
the street stand near the fountain, Tenn.
pie Block. ja5-lm
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-11

Go to Thorpe's Sample Rooms, corner
Court and Main streets, if you want a
pure article OF wines or liquors for the
Holidays. 1t is said, by good judges,
that he keeps the best in the city. The
bottle and gallon trade specially.
I'm, dec-l3
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-11
LOS ANGELES MARKETS.

Prices given below are for round lots, of stan.
dard quality. delivered at store or warehouse IN
this city. Small parcels. of qualities or extra
choice grades are not included. On the third
page Of this paper will be found resume Of
transactions on Change. with = review Of the
market each day