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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-08-09
DR.. J. 8. Griffin,

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Once Hours-a to IL A. NJ, TO and to
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= Rssidenoe-East side Of Main street, below
First. MKT
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-08-09
w. r. SPENCE.
PRACTICAL PLUMBER

Iate Of Riverside. is now located II No. a South
Spring street. In rear Of 2. & Browns hardware
store. Prepared 10 Do al kinda Of arst-els~s
plumbing. malti
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-03
How They Conquer.

It is often matter of interesting in
quiry how performer conquers an an
dience. To this it may be replied that
John Philip Kemble rendered Hamlet
in such solemn majesty that it won ad
miration. Garrick on the other hand
mastered the sympathies of the public
by the intensity of Lear's misfortunes.
Mrs. Siddons enchanted every one by
stately dignity combined with her power
over the emotional nature. Cooke had
so much natural mischief that he made
an inimitable lago. Kean was master
of the passions and electrified the au-
dience by displays of this character.
Forests greater power was his fine
figure and tremendous voice, which
indeed rendered him often u
mere ranter Booth, like Kemble,
gives us the dreamy, meditative
Hamlet in all the fullness of dignity
awakened to indignation. Miss Cush-
man had a strong magnetic power,
which made her very ugliness fascinat-
ing. Coming down to other performers,
it has been said that Mary Anderson
attracts audiences by peculiar ease of
BhpbcSS VI Noioe, "Aiic hhhio D"'eh
ports power is in her fine personal
appearance. Rose Eytinge works upon
the sympathies. Maggie Mtchell's
forte is youthful vivacity. while it is
said of Clara Morris that she has tears
in her voice. Hence she finds no diff
Guilty in making the audience weep.
Kate Claxton. on the other hand, is
always burned ont, or else in some
other danger of the fire king. and this,
of course, renders her an object of Curl
osity The dramatic stars thus differ
in glory to a degree that often sur
prises
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-03
Monster Grapes.

Eastward over the hills lies Mon
full estates that stretches down the four
mile slope from the mountains to the
sea. Montecito was the home of that
wonderful old grapevine that was ex-
hibited at the Centennial. The old
grapevine was 81 years old at
the tine it was cut down and sent east
for exhibition. Its trunk was fifteen
inches in diameter, and it produced
five and six tons of the common Mis-
souri, grapes each season. The Span
ish family who owned the old vine
had the arbor for Il dancing floor, and
high revels used to be held I'M
der the great canopy of leaves.
A family of good Ohio people have
succeeded to the ownership of this his
toric place, and consider it no advan-
tage to have score of curious people
coming there every week to take a
look at the other great grape vine that
now ranks as the largest vine in the
state.
The present prize grape vine grew
from cutting from the famous old
vine, and was set out twenty-seven years
ago. Already its trunk is twelve inches
in diameter, and it spreads thick can
opy of leaves over an arbor sixty feet
square. One drives under it with a
carriage, and looking up like fox in
the fable, sees immense purple clus-
ters of the sourest grapes he is ever
likely to taste. The little girl who
brought chair for us to stand on could
hardly hold the heavy clusters. We
picked and passed some to her, and
after looking at the countless four and
five-pound punches that hung all over
the arbor, we believed the story of their
gathering three tons of grapes from
this one vine last year.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-03
On the Lookout for Ghosts.


The English Ghost Hunters league,
which has been investigating all the
ghosts and haunted houses which come
within ite knowledge, and have abso-
lu,elv ota:ng to show for two years
Labor, IS becoming discouraged. 1t now
prints card asking ill people with
sup, natural ada RS about them or She.r
no 1898 to como forward. rrorlifing AS
a. indncement that noting Will in
any case bo printed or published WITH
or without names, excep, With the fuil
consent OF tic persons concerned
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-03

with ms back to the door. sat the thing,
shade, spectre, or whatever you choose
to call it.
"This was climax beyond bearing.
At the sight of it, Osborne flung down
japanned candlestick, cleared flights of
stairs as with seven-leagued boots.
rushed through passages, annihilated
Mrs Tompkins, and at last breathed
freely when once more in the crowded
street That night he tried to sleep at
a nti2hboring hotel not successfully,
as may be supposed. The next morn
ing, with infinite misgivings, he made
up his mind to so to his chamber as
usual. On his arrival there, he found
the house full of hustle and confusion.
During the night. a hugh beam, sup.
porting the roof, had given away. and
coming down with n great crash had
dashed his bedstead into dozen frag-
ments. Had he slept there as usual he
would have been as one of the frag-
ments"
After that" added Rayton. "Os-
borne changed his lodgings"
mo man could do otherwise" said l.
But what does Osborne say to the
story now, after all these years? How
did he look when he told it?"
well" replied my friend, "he al
ways was queer, as you know, and odd
in his manner-but that day at the
club he was queerer and paler than
ever. He told the story once, but
would never tell it again; some of the
fellows in the smoking-room quizzed
him numerically. But, all the same,
in spite of quizzing they believed the
story-and Osborne sticks to every
word of it. Smith, the joker, chaffed
him one day about it, but he got such a
look from Osborne,-who at the same
time knocked his hat off-that he never
tried chatting again
And you, Rayton, asked, what
do You say?"
MY dear fellow, what can say? l
heard him tell the story; it was difficult
not to believe it when you looked at
such face, and, besides that, in o.
borne's case, there was something like a
reason for an interference of something
more than human power, providence,
or what you will. 1t saved mans
life"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-03
A PRELUDE.

A hundred buds into blossoms grew
The blight killed some ere the night wind
blew; "a
Some fingered and gained an ill-repute, "
One only grew to the perfect fruit.
A hundred seeds from the branches fell;
How many were lost l cannot tell.
Some rooted and throve for while-ah me,
One only grew to the perfect tree.
l send thee a hundred songs Of mine;
And little care for the ninety and nine,
Q friend of my youth; bless my art
For the one that will flourish within thy
heart
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-03
"ABBY CRIED AND JACK CRIED"
How n Carrier EsOy Fell in Love with
a Lift Q Whitehead.

1t has been going on for a year past.
Jack is carrier for one of the dailies,
and his circuit takes in house on
Scott street. One day last spring a
baby crowed at him from an open door
on that street, and Jack tossed an apple
into the hall. The next day the baby
was Watching for him, and after three
or four days the boy made bold to slip
up the steps and pat the little chap on
the head and leave the stick of candy
he had purchased two miles away. As
time went ON Jack came to know that
the baby was fatherless, and that
its mother was pale-faced and hardly
able to drag about. 1t was weeks
before she spoke to him, but the
baby took to Jack right away and was
always ready for his coming. After the
first week it was always clean-faced, but
it was q good while before Jack reused
up the courage to give him kiss and
to ask for one in return. After tina, it
was plain sailing, and the neighbors
became interested. ltwas queer enough
that boy like Jack, having his own
way to make and roughing it until he
had become suspicious and hard-hearted,
should catch on to little whitehead,
and be more than big brother to
him, but that was what happened.
And something more. One day he
brought up q quarter of pound OF tea
and LEFT it where the mother would find
it, and this was followed by other par
cells and articles. One day he missed
the baby, and crept into the hall to tisd
that he had cried himself to sleep, and
that the mother was i'll and helpless.
Jack reused up the neighbors, and
whatever was eaten in that house for
two weeks was purchased with Jacks
money. The mother could only thank
him and weep. She could not speak
ten words of English.
A fortnight ago Jack missed baby
again, and again he found the mother
i'll. Friends were with her this time
and she did not suffer for care. Aweell
ago there was Grape on the door as the
carrier went his round, and baby had
been carried off by neighbor. When
Jack came around next day the mother
had been buried and people We're watch
ing to tell him that the house was
to be vacated and baby was TO
go to q distant city. He had been
brought back to bid the carrier good
by, and the poor and lowly people drew
off with tears in their eyes, and Jack sat
on the door steps and took baby in his
lap and smoothed his white head and
kissed his red cheeks. Baby chung
around his neck and seemed to realize
that he was to lose friend, and, as
one who stood by expressed it;
The baby cried and jack cried, and
the won1n put their aprons up and
sobbed like children. When they
tinall- took the child away Jacks heart
was big enough to break, and throwing
his arms around the little child for the
last time he turned and ran away and
never looked back"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-03

The boxes seemed to be filed with
sort of gray lean, but presently a green
film appeared upon the surface and
swelled like mass of rising dough, till
it divulged into multitude of yellow
ish-green sprouts. The boxes wereA
then handed around. The vegetable
sprouts We're apparently some sort of
legumina, perhaps Chinese garden peas,
but the substratum was less easy to de-
fine. 1t was of a pale chocolate color.
viscid, and about the consistency of
half-melted tallow. To say that the
germs grew visibly would be an exag-
geration: but in the lapse of ten minutes
their growth from one-third to three
fourths of an inch could be ascertained
by actual measurement That their
progress WAS not due to mechanical
expansive force could be implied from
the circumstance that the leaf buds
unfolded rs well as uprose. II was
clearly case of vegetable develop
ment, accelerated by some unknown
stimulant.
"ro say the truth, / am myself unable
to explain it" the professor replied to
another leading question; but from
the hints of my adopts can imply that
much, that the solution of the riddle
would throw new light upon the secret
Of creation
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-03
The Children Named the Town.

A pioneer who once owned the land
on which the town of Mice stands, tells
how the place received its peculiar
name. Il had a wife once" says the
pioneer, land | loved her dearly. Her
name was Maria; but the children, not
being able to pronounce it, called her
Mo and finally the neighbors got to
calling her Mo When the county
seat was located, and called it Milo
after my dear wife. who had died-the
surveyor thought that final e would
make the name look better; and so the
name is spelled Mice"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-03
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DIVERSIONS OF CLUB LIFE.
Betting Games without Cards Played
In Windows without Tables.

There Is probably no club that has
not its own peculiar game of chance.
Some of them are very queer and
unique. They always take precedence
of such common games as poker, euchre.
pin-p or odd and even, because they
can be played without cards and with
out attracting attention. One of these
games was instituted in the Union club,
in New York. 1t was called ''nigger up
and niger down" Those who would
play it sat in the club bow-window.
Four men were complement. The
game was regulated by the number of
colored citizens that walked up and
down the street. One player would
take the pavement up on one side, an
other down on the same side, third up
on the other side and q fourth down. III
a colored person passes by during the
progress of the game it is like winning !
hand at poker. Up or down on either
side counts for some one player and he
rakes in the pot.
mania among New York club men that
colored professions have been turned
from their routes and paid literally to
pass certain club windows in certain
directions. On one occasion n club man
paid S25 to the colored knights who
were about to turn out to pass north
ward by the window. Another club
man unearthed the plot and doubled
the bonus for the same procession to go
by the same window in southerly di-
rection. These two men began game
of "nigger up and niger down and
sat in the window six hours waiting for
that procession. Alas, unforeseen trouble
had developed about the finances,
and the knights did not turn out at all.
This illustrates the game. 1t may be
played by mere novice with perfect
success, provided enough colored peo-
pie pass by on his side of the street.
Another club game is 'crack-step,"
or "gutter-step" If there is a stretchs
of pavement which is laid with broad
stones instead of bricks it is customary
to bet upon the number of cracks a.
passer-by will step on. The number
must necessarily vary with the length
of the strides of the party passing,
making the game thereby an uncertain
one. If there is n gutter plate over "A
ing to some to bet on pedestrians step
ping On or over it. A curious fact is
that seven out of ten step on the plate
and it is necessary to give odds if you
are betting open.
Betting on corners which certain
passers-by may turn is also club pas
time. The color of passing horses is
sometimes made the subject of wagers
also, and betting on whether the collar
of the next man passing is standing or
rundown is cheerful diversion of the
same system. At the table fly-loo is
also an celebrating recreation for the
intellectual young men who find pleas
ure in such diversions. Each player
has lump of sugar before him, and if a
fly lights on lump the other players pay
the proprietor thereof the staked per-
centage. Such are some of the games
which beguile the monotony of life for
club men.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-03

A familiar punctuation Exercise" has
been copied from the school books, and
is now going the rounds as follows: AN
English country paper contains the fol-
ing curious instances of Misrepresentation
Lord Palmerston then entered on his
head, white hat upon his feet, large
but well polished boots upon his brow,
a dark cloud in his hand, his faithful
walking stick in his eye, menacing
glare saving nothing"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-03
a Financial Law.

"And You won't pay me?'
"No, sir"
you acknowledge that you owe
me?"
Yes, sir, and I've got the money"
''Oh well, then, you needn't pay me.
] didn't think you had the money It's
when man amt got it that we want
him to pay. As long as you've CO. the
money keep it, but when you find your.
self without means remember that
must be paid
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-03

Dramatis Persona - Paterfamilias
and his only Hope" aged II. The
latter is busy at his lessons.)
Only Hope Suddenly looking up
from his books)-''Pa, who was Shy
lock ?"
Paterfamilias with look of surprise
and horror Great goodness, boy,
you attend church and Sunday school
every week aud don't know who Shy
lock was? Go and read your bible,
sirl'
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-03
Kentucky STYLE"

A new Kentucky fashion is for gem
tleman to enter a ballroom with his
arms bare to the shoulders, his shirt
open from where the suspenders cross
on his back 90 the third button of his
vest 10 front, with CHASTITY smile dis
playing his false 'ea.h. and his bald
head shining like billiard ball. The
object is to east sarcasm on certain
feminine fashions of the Bluegrass re-
gion.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-03

What, for instance, can be more i'm
proper and inharmonious than to cree.
building which is in no sense sug-
gestive of its uses? A dwelling house
should be so constructed that by no
possibility can it be mistaken for any.
thing else.
Professor Gather. OF Alabama, makes
bold to predc. that the coming winter
will be very cold and early, and pho
nomenal for its paroxysraal spells of
heat, succeeded by intense cold.p
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-29
slrElNG nrrrrR rREIGur RATES.
Az OKGANIZATioN OF TRADERS 10 SECURE JUS
IIcE IEOM InE LAIIKOAD rOOL.

Az oEcANIZATfoN or TRADERS 10 SECURE JUS
IICE FROM TIE RAILROAD POOL
The first regular meeting of the Ncw-l ork
Traders and Travellers Union was held ON Tuesday
in ibe comm ittee room of the Manhat an SAFE De-
post Company, at LcOnard-st. and Broadway.
Thus Union is a combination OF about scyrniy-lve
city merchants. who have formed themselves INTO
- stock company with capital OF
100000, which has been incorporated
The object OF the Union is Ia remedy
the DETERMINATIONS and arbitrary classihcations OF
the railroads against New-loik iUlght vest
ward bound. he iucorporators all tell the
same story Of diminished trade, les
seuel profits and general indignation. The
problem Is how to induce single roads or the
IooI To- carry freight, Of the same nature IN both
directions under constant classification, and at
au inya:iajlc rate Of 50 much per hundred pounds
prr mi lea aud 40 preference ~ TO cars and trans
portation TO any body. The permanent officers OF
The association are:
President Daniel g. Robbins Of the house Of McKosson
A I.sbDius. Wholesale drugnsts; vice-prosden robert
irrssnrer. Joseph IT. T. Marin. with William IL Lyon a
Co fancy goods; Board Of Directors, haruE J. CCOty
woodruff assistant treasurer, No. A. Chambors-st;
George IT, CLARK OF George II. Clark Co, 40 liDsr-
franklin II. K4bAei,cb OF Martin kalblcsch's sons,
chemicals; G. l.. Bemhem. Of August Bernheim Bauer,
dealers N. N leldins of Beding Brothers Co. silks;
Joseph !" Consdon mems furnishing goods Oscar T.
banker etc.
Almost all the stockholders were present and tho
bylaws we're adopted without dissent. Russell +.
]IOyt, Of j. :. JaifTay q Co.. was made manager
and Y. Cheney secretary, Ira w Stewart, auditor,
and Abel Crooks counsel. The Union is q close cor
pOration.
II il proposed 10 admit as subscribers, the stock
being absorbed, all those merchants who choose
10 joii. and pay from 500 TO 5000, and certain
amount each year. according 10 the wealth and
business of the concern Martin /. Cooley said
IL is our intention TO do the best for the customer
OF merchant that when sold bill OF goods
the get his goods home at fair rate Of
freight We don't propose 10 antagOnize any pool or
railway organizing for the sake OF aTrayng
ourselves against any corporation We sbal endeaVOr TO
have railroads side. IL IL certainly grievance
st Chicago jobbeTs get their stock from New-York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-29
WEaTCHRSTER COUNTY.

TARRYTOwN.-Fritz Auer, a gardener Tor ex-
Judge William A. Beach, yesterday was taken be-
fore Justice Kendall on the charge of abandoning
his wife and six children. Mrs. Amer said that
Fritz had not only abandoned her, but hearing that
she had $40 part of which she and her little chill
dren had obtained by gathering wild flowers, he
went to her house with revolver, and by making
threats secured the money: The trial resulted In
the husband being required to return the $2O and
to pay his wife weekly allowance.
HAsTrNGs.-The body Of Miss Arabella Hazard,
the young " oman whose body was found last week,
was takon to Cincinnati yesterday by her cousin,
James NJ Weary He could not assign any reason
for her death except failing health.
CROTON.-A writ of assistance in the case or
the TaIrytown Savings Bank against William
Wilcox, was served yesterday by Deputy Sheriff
Verpanck, and the dcfe1nant was disposessed.
Wilcox had lived ON the place thIrty-fve years
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-29
BROOKLYN.

A Jubilee service was held yesterday in the
Roman Catholic Church of the Annunclatlon az
North Fifth and Seventh SITS, in honor OF the
twcnty-ifth anniversary of the ordination OF me
Rev. John Hauptman, and the twentieth OF ms
pastorate of the church. He was presented WIN
$500 after the services
The Board of Assessors will probably add about
1000 600 to the real estate valuation OF ths Guy
for purposes of taxation this year. their work oeIR
nearly concluded. The aggregate VALUATION VIII
be over $500 100000.
Edward Cowshan, age seventeen, assistant
steward of the steamer Therana, who was admitted
TO the Long Island College Hospital on MONDAY
was found to be suffering from varIolold on ue,-
day night and removed to the County small FOX
Hospital.
site for the new building in whicA, police
station and court room VIII be combined has O5eA
purchased IN Adams-st;, near Myrtle-aye,, Tor
$2O. 900. The erection of the building viii begin
about July l.
John Boland Of Fabush. and Rudolph Lore, OF
New-Lots, were fined $2J each yesterday Tor selling
impure milk.
Proceedings for absolute divorce have been
begun by John Jostram, of No. % south second
ST., against Mrs. Josephine Jostram. They were
married IN 1873.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-29
ANENGPAvING OF OLD NETWORK.

Theodore l. Hustled, Of IIustcd y IIaIcltinc has
presented t. the Produce Exchange an old
engraving of the lower end of Broadway, which was
made by &. Melbourne III 1897, whose ccrtincato
on the back says that it is a view of the Gov
cncr'S Hous at the lower end of Broad way and
part Of the non fence round the bOaldn green. city
al Ncv-Yoik or on the Battery an exact view
The most prominent feature is the old Government
House erected in 1890. Oh the site of the present
row OF what were once residences Of OF the old
knickerbockcr families. and are now used for
steamship Offices. The building Was of red brick,
with large portco in front supported by four
massive columns from the piazza, and with double
stairwaya. II was originally designed as a home
for General Washington then President of the
United states but the capital being removed it
was never occupied By him. 1t was afterward made
ton and John Jay occupied il until 1899. when it
became the Custom House, and was used as. such
till 1915, when il was taken down.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-29
WRESTLING IN THE GRAIN PIT.

The members of the Produce Exchange voted yes
terday not to close the Exchange on Saturday.
The annual election of officers of the Exchange
viii take place on Monday, June Q, and AT tho in
formal caucus held in the board room Mr.. Herrick,
the present president of the Exchange was rc-nom-
mated. Much interest was taken III the statement
of the visible grain supply. The figures recently
given out in Chicago placed the decrease in the
visible supply Mt 100000 bushels. These
Gqures were doubted by many persons who Thought
them much too large, and the general opinion was
that the decrease as shown by Mr.. Walkers figures,
would be less than million bushels. When the
statement was posted, however, il showed 1915
600 bushels decrease. Business in the pit was gem
orally duh and The only thing that enlivened il in
the course of the day was wrestling match be-
tween Daniel Dixon and Clifford StIllwell. Still
well was thrown in ] 1t minutes The report of the
trustees of the Gratuty Fund was made. 1t showed
n surplus of 1892, SOL 23. lhirty-eight deaths
have occurred IN the course of the year and $l07-
1853 has been paid in gratuIties