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Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-17
Press Opinion ..

Tuesday, October, s, was the thirteenth
birthday OF the Los Angeles HERALD
On this occasion, the HERALD put on q
nice, new dress, and now if it would
only "turn its coat" it's apparel would
be in the height of fashion and taste
San Francisco Daily Report.
The Los Angeles DAILY HERALD is out
in new form and dress and is much i'm.
proved. There are eight pages of seven
columns each-ffty-s in all. Politically
it is miserably bad sheet. but in point
of enterprise it is deserving Of liberal en-.
Pasadena Star.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-17

Waiter girl to commercial traveler)-
There's roast beef and roast duck. Com.
mcrcial traveller - Canvas-back duck !?
Waiter girl-Yes. Commercial traveller
(faostiously) y)-Is it shirred down the
front with lace cuffs turned back oyer
the sleeves, Marys Waiter girl-The
same. Commercial traveler--I will try
some of it, I guess. Waiter girl Very
wsII, sir; will you have it with or with
out? Commercial traveller = With or
without whati Waiter girl-Buttons.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-17
Dedication at Wilmington.

The new Roman Catholic Church at VIII
mington will be solemnly dedicated by
at II A. M. The morning train for Whining.
ton wi leave Los Angeles at $40 O'Clock.
The return train, by courtesy of Sup arin-
tendent Hewitt will leave Wilmington ct
AL.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-17

NERvE-LIFE AND vI0OR restored In
men and women by using Gilmore's Aro
matte Wine. For sale by H. D. Godfrey
Nadeau Block.
Ladies' who are troubled with cramps and
nervousness should drink Damiana 1itters.
Il II pleasant TO take.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-17
50 DOZEN

50 DOZEN
Gentlemen's unlaundried white shirts will
be closed out at 40o. each. Full reinforced
on fine muslin, with linen bosoms, bands
and cuffs. full line of assorted sizes, and
worth 62l<c. so dozen at zoe. each.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-17
Is DOZEN

Gentlemen's regular made British and fancy
oolored Hose will be closed out at 1211c per
pair; worth 25c, 25 dozen to be sold at 25c.
per pair.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-17
Bond Department.

We take this method of informing the
public that we have added to our Safe De.
post and Banking Business
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-17
BOND DEPARTMENT,

In which we will list, buy and sell all first
class Bonds, Stocks aud Mortgages, both
LOCAL, and FOREIGN. In selling we shall
offer only such bonds as our own money
would purchase for personal investment
readily convertible into cash at any time
within slight fraction OF price paid, II not
at premium.
We have excellent and reliable Eastern
first. class securities. bearing ,od rates OF
interest for long and short time investment,
and will be glad to quote prices.
will furnish q list OF Choice Bonds we
We invite the listing with us for sale all
first class Local Bonds. Mortgages aud Se-
ourities o13tf
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
ENDLESS TIME.
A Faint Idea of the Antiquity OF the
Earth.

Geological discoveries give US faint
idea of the antiquity of this earth of
ours. Mr.. LANG takes the coal meas
ures as giving the best idea of the enor-
nous intervals of time required Tor geo.
logical changes. These are made up of
seams of coal resting as a rule on q
bed of clay known as the under-clay,
and covered by bed of sandstone or
shale. From eighty to one hundred OF
these alternating layers have been found
in South Wales and Nova Scotia. the
total thickness of the coal measures is in
some cases as much as 1900 feet. Each
seam means forest growth. gradual SUBJ
sidence covering with deposits, and this
is traceable over and over again. TAX
ing an actual Observation-Disclosures of H.
600 feet, Prof. Huxley calculates that
the time represented by the coal forma-
ton alone would be 5000. 900 of years.
Mr.. LANG says: but this takes no ac-
count of the long periods during which
no accumulation takes place 1T
the localities in question, and OF
the long phases which must have ensued
between each movement of elevation
and submergence, and especially be-
tween the disappearance of an old and
appearance OF an almost entirely new
epoch, with different forms of animal
and vegetable life. We may be certain
also that we are far from knowing the
total thickness of strata which will he
disclosed when the whole surface of the
earth comes to be explored. All we can
say is that we have fragmentary pages
left in the geological record for, at the
very least, 100, 1000, 900 of years, and that
probably the lost pages are quite As nu-
merous as those of which We have IN
imperfect knowledge. Sir Charles Lyell.
the highest authority on the subject. is
inclined to estimate the minimum of ge-
illogical time at 100000 900 of years,
and few geologiSts will say that his esti-
mate appears excessive" But he points
out that: Long as is the record of ge-
illogical time, it is only that of one short
chapter IN the volume of the history of
the universe. '-DenOrPst' N0nthlY.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

eating 1885,, 3os.1s. appropriated by Congress
for reimbursement to certain States and
Territories for expenses in repelling inva-
sions and suppressing Indian hostilities" In
transmitting this money, Governor Crawford
informed me that the appropriation by Con-
gress did not include payment for any Of
the Price raid claims. On receiving
these drafts 1 delivered them to the state
Treasurer, taking his receipt therefor. Chap
ter 160, laws of 1881, enacts that upon the
receipt Of any money by the State Treasurer
from the United States, in payment of the
claims OF the State. for which bonds have
been issued. il shall be the duty OF the State
Treasurer TO place the amount or amounts
so received to the credit of the sinking
fund, for the final redemption of the State
bonds so issued, save and except such sum
as NAV be appropriated for tie payment of
$S32 yOs l3 so received was "appropriated for
the payment of Price-raid claims" the state
Treasurer placed S28S50u covering the bonds
issued nnder the provisions OF chapter 20,
laws OF 1866, chapter "a, laws of 1865.
chapters 6, : and ., laws of 1889, and chapter
lib laws OF 1873. to 1.-The credit of the sinking
fund" The balance of the amoEnt, 49,,
SOS IL, was placed in the general revenue
fund. 1t was known prior to the ad journ-
meDt of your last session that Congress had
appropriated the sum of 1852 t9lS. 10 to pay GER
tain claims OF the State, and in the estimate
made OF the amount of tax necessary to pro-
vide revenue for the fiscal years ending June
30. 1856, and June 30. lSS7. this fact was consid-
cred, while the requirements of chapter 100
laws Of ISL, seem to have been overlooked.
1t will be necessary, therefore, to transfer
the amount placed in the sinking fund. uu-
der the provisions of chapter 100, laws OF
JSSl, to the general revenue fund. And in
making this transfer would recommend the
repeal of the Jaw referred to. Only S273.OO)
OF the outstanding bonds of the State are
now he'd by individuals or corporations, and
SI7. 00) OF these, falling due IN July next are
already provided for in the tax ievics made
The following statement shows the amount
OF State bonds outstanding. the years when
b he fffg, IrlR
State funds or by individuals and corpora
lions:
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
THE FIRST INSTANCE.
The Dramatic End of a Bonb-Proof and
Antf-Explosiye Goat.

Antf-ExpIoslve Ooats
A grocer up Michigan avenue has
had pet goat hanging around his
back yard for the last two or three
years. The animal was of no particu-
lar use, except to eat up spoiled
oranges, lemons and eggs, and to ter
rify such small boys as came into the
alley to read dime novels or play mar
bles; but the grocer had 4 certain affec-
zion for him, and refused several offers
TO let him go for cash. The other day the
grocer purchased a four-gallon jar of
broken honey, and this was placed in
the back end of the store. At noon
time, when the only clerk was in the
front, the goat softly entered by the
back way and went for the sweet. 1t
was the first and finest honey he had
ever tasted. For long time he thought
he couldn't get enough of it, but as he
gradually worked to the bottom of the
jar he gradually filled up, and he
backed of and cried quits when there
was vet gallon left.
Some people are strangely affected
by honey. So are some goats. 1t
wasn't fifteen minutes before this chap
began to roll his eyes and hump himself
in a curious fashion. His antics finally
crowded the back yard with visitors,
aud doctor who came with them VEN
tured the opinion that it was a case of
goat collie. For an hour or more Old
Whiskers butted everything from an
oyster can to a woodshed, and he
turned cart-wheels and hand-springs
until the boys were put to shame. They
had him and dosed him, and they sent
all around to borrow 4 stomach pump,
but, as one of the crowd observed, 1.-The
honey had become so identified with
his system" that he couldn't be saved.
He plunged into a snow bank. kicked
half dozen old bottles across the yard
and was dead-the first instance known
in the history of Detroit where any
earthly thing has been able to get the
better of a goat. They have heretofore
been supposed to be copper-bolted,
bomb-proOf and anti-explOsive and to
live forever.-DetrOn Free Press.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

Incendia-ism.

TALDosTo, GA, January 21.-The Rocks,
point twenty-five miles northwest of this
place, is IN state of excitement which is
apt to result in the .lynching of three in
cendiaries if their capture is effected by the
posses now searching the country for them.
Last night the bridge across the Little River,
William Ryars gin house, a country school
house, the dwelling of the miller In charge
of DebarQuine's mill, ali clustered within
hundred yards of each other. were burned
BY fires which started simultaneously.
Three men were just on the point OF firing
Debarquine's mill when he discovered them
applying the match to the kerosene which
had been scattered over the floor.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
The Very Worst Kind.

The creature came in on pair of
flatboats and other rig to match. He
stared with a stare that conveyed n
sense of boredness and haughtiness
something like that which the fisher
man sees in the eyes of the departed
shad. His speech was ''aw-er-er--
aw."
Sympathetic old lady-POor soul; is
he maniac?
Conductor-Yes. the worst kind-an
Anglomaniac.-The Judge.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

BLAcK-They tell me your wife is quite q
whistler. White-She is; whistles most OF
the time. Black-And you allow it, Don't
it annoy You, White-It don't annoy me.
and, As for allowing it, encourage her in
it. Blerk-W hyi White-Because a woman
can't whistle and talk at the same time -
Lkic0qa Tribune
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
In the Hospitals.

Baltimore and Philadelphia hospital ply
sicians are prescribing the new proprietary
medicine, Red Star Cough Cure. 1t contains
neither morphia, opium, norany other injU
rious ingredients. The price is only p cents
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

THE more hat man can buy for two dol
lars the less bonnet woman can buy for
twenty, and yet some folks say this world
was siung together in perfect harmony
81. Paul Herald
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

NEVER speak unkindly of any one. There
may be a time when you may want to bor-
row dollar from your bitterest enemy
FhiiddelpAia Gail.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

A sTgEET-CAR brings the haughtiest man
down 20 a common level. Particularly if
it starts suddenly before the naughty one
Rjyer Herald
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

TEACHER to class-Where is the alimen-
tary canal located Boy on back sea-tI
forget whether it is in Indianapolis or in
Illinois.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

"YEs," said Fogg, in the street-car, sd
get up and give nv seat to one OF those
ladies il seats weren't so plaguey scarce
Boston Transcript.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

WHAT is that which is so brittle that il
you name it you are sure to break it. ST.
Ience.-N Y. Ledgsr.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

TIE clothes inavigation-A coat Of ice
-iH}dici, k;q CnH.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

PIXIES ToOTHACHE DROPS cure in minute, CSC
Glcnn'S Sulphur Soap heals and beauties. 25c.
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns Z Bunions.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

A PHILOSOPHER saws that the best way to
avoid getting into debt is to die young
BOsiOf. BHdget.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

ALTTOUGH another yenr has passed i.
won't count in the ages CT some women
Philadelphia Herald.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

THIS is the sort of weather when we
shouid tnnk Ulster county n would
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

The only Improvement made on thC
knife is the fork.-Ch;(OTl,ia NarsTiek.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompson'sEy Water Druggists it. &c.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

FrRENEN, as well as other people, like to
talk of their old flames
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

A sNow-PLow is like bad habit-A
good thing to cut adrift Bulletin.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

For removing dandruff and promoting the
growth of the hair, use Halls Hair Remover.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

A LAME excuse-The apology Of one.
legged man.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

wBAf is buttona-A small event that is
always coming on.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
Latest Market ReRsrts.

KANSAS CITY. Jan. 23.-The following are
the latest quotations Jelesrsphea FROM Cal
cago, New York and ST. Louis:
CHICAGO.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
OPTION.

Whest-Jsn- ~ Whext-Feb $50 Whe1t-Feb 20
Mch.sJ May $50 Nay 81
CSrE-JGn -.--56sx Corn-Feo O1zlCo-l-Feb-. 81
Aee....Ss5fi MAJ. 3ssfl May 81
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
CHICAGO Januarv 90

% --J.
FLOUR-Dull and easier: Southern winter
wheat, Sz.4kJ4.S5; Wisconsin. $IO0Q4 IS;
Michigan, $4.JJG4.I5; soft spring wheat So 20
GJ4.OO; Minnesota bakers, S35J04.5O: patent,
S4.65E15 Us; low grades, s.. O0I3.0O; rye four
S3.3OlJ3.60; buckwheat -four S4OC6450
WEEAT-Higher; No = spring S014c.
CORN-Higher; cash. 651636ac; January
365:936%c; Nav 40I&Nf024c.
OATS-Steady and firm; cash, 2s929l4c; May,
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
NEW YORK. January %.

rough and mixed, $500
packing and shipping, $4.G5fi440; light,
at S3.S5GL4.O5; skips, S2.5gGlG.=5.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-06-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

An American livingin Kobe, Japan,
has engaged thirty very skillful Japa-
nese ivory-carvers to introduce the art
into this country.
The locomotive headlight, which
Is so universally employed on railway
engines in this country, is said to be
losing favor among experienced rail-
way men. They regard it as of little
or no utility, while its powerful illu-
mlnation tends to render indistinct the
colors of signal lights on the track
ahead.-N. Y. Examiner.
A youthful theological student, so
minute in stature that he ordinarily
can not make himself seen when
behind the pulpit desk, recently
preached near Exeter, N. H. An aged
woman sat in the front pew, and was
greatly concerned to see boy in place
of the expected minister. So she
slipped on tip-toe to the pulpit stairs
and beckoned to him, whispering
loudly: ''Come down, my boy; YOU
mustn't sit there; that's the place fol
the minister. "-SpringfeId (Mass.)
Republican.
Mrs. Elizabeth Chambers, of Mis-.
souri,, made her will in 1862, and be-
questhed her slaves to her children
equally. with the exception of one to
whom she gave her freedom. She
lived number of years afterward. but
steadily refused to recognize the results
of the war and her will was admitted
10 probate at st. Louis this week, Just
as it was originally written. But the
slaves which she desired to divide
among her children long since walked
off on their own account.-St Louis
Post.
Henry l.. Ebbecke, of Upper Naza-
reth township, Northampton County,
Pa, Is the owner of three horses, the
like OF which are seldom found. One
of the animals is thirty-eight years old,
another twenty-eight and the youngest
twenty-six, their combined ages making
a total of ninety-two years. They are
the only horses Mr. Ebbecke owns and
all three are in constant use on that
gentleman's farm. Even the oldest is
still able to do a solid days work, and
all promise to be good for some years
service still.-Philadelphia Press
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-06-26
a HOLY CITY.
STRANGE Sights on the Banks of the Ganges
at Benares.


at Benares.
The most remarkable part of the
spectacle presented by the river face OF
Benarcs is its population, resident and
immigrant. Throughout the length
of this northern shore, where the
flights of steps and the slopes of the
temples come down to the Ganges,.
is seen all day long an immense crowd
of devotees, of all ages, ranks and raj
ments, and of both sexes, bathing in
the sacred river or praying by its edge,
or washing their robes of pilgrimage,
or bringing their dead to be burned.
Imagine what an artistic effect results
from such a fringe of life and of color
between the steep multi-colored back.
ground of the steps and temples and
the shining waters of the stream.
Throngs of brown-skinned men and
women, of boys and girls, stand waist
deep along the bathing stations,
whispering their supplications and
pouring the holy liquid over neck and
breast and loosened black hair. Groups
of bright-clad women, led by their
Brahman gurus, come joyously down
the stairs from far-off towns and
jungles, to lay their scarlet, saffron,
green and rose-color saris aside with
the ghat-keepers, and wash their inno-
cent sins away in Gunga. igumbrellas
are everywhere erected in the sand OF
mud, inscribed with Ram, RAM" and
under them, shaded from the sun. fam.
lily parties sit and chatter. or pray in
silent accord, arrived, after immense
marches, to be laved in and saved by
Gunga. Sick people lie, wistful and
wan, on charpoys, brought to her bene-
ficent side, that they may hear the
ripple of the .sGreat Mother and feel
the healing wind blow from her waves:
while, at the foot of the burning Chats,
where the people who sell the ''death-
wood" are raking for white bones in
the heaps of hot ashes. and piling up
fuel and cow-dung for their next batch
of funeral pyres, lie three still figures
covered with white and red cloths. from
which protrude only the fixed, cold feet,
washed by the outer edge of the tide.
These are the dead of to-day, happy
thrice happy-to have passed to the
gate of Swarga, close to Gunga's good
waves. Their friends sit near, well
satisfied even amid their natural re-
grets; and, very soon, three blue curls
of smoke waited among the temple
roofs from three cracking fires upon
the platform of the Chat will tell where
those votaries have finished their pill.
grimage for once and all. Wonderful
is the fervor of belief among these
gentle, metaphysical Hindoo people,
George augustus Sata, in London Tete'
oraph.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-06-26
NOBLE SENTIMENTS.

DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Move
ment for the Preservation OF Birds.
assure you Of any hearty sympathy
with the members of the Audubon So
ciety in. their efforts to prevent the
waste of these beautiful, happy, limo.
cent and useful lives, on which we de-
pend for large share of our natural
enjoyment. / am myself more thar
tolerant of the somewhat intrusive in.
timacy of the English sparrow. Nc
other birds outside of the barnyard lei
me come so near them--not even the
pigeons. If may change the lines Of
Cowper little:
They are 80 well acquainted with man,
Their tameness 10 charming to me.
But still more am indebted to the
gulls and ducks, who during large
part of the year are daily visitors to
the estuary of the Charles, on which
look from my library windows. | wish
thew could be protected by law, and il
law can not or will not do it, that pub.
lie opinion. under the lead Of your so
cicty, would come between them and
their murderers. Not less, certainly,
do feel the shame of the wanton de.
struction of our singing birds to feed
the demands of a barbaric vanity. II
il would save them from destruction.
would say goodbye to the woodcoct
and sigh long farewell to the canvas
back Forrest and Stream
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-06-26
BAD DEBTS.
How the Uniformed Company Proposes TO
Collect Them.
lHornelIsville IN. W Letter.

Collect Them.
lHornellsville IN. ~ Letter.
"We intend to make life very pleasant
for the man who owes small bills around
this town that he is able to pay but WON'T
said w. II. Reynolds, manager of the
Uniformed Collection Company. "We are
In the field to collect accounts from just
such customers, and if there is one who
doesn't come down after we have turn ed
all our batteries on him, he's a man that
dynamite wouldn't rattle.
''The way the Uniformed Collection
Company works is this: Such persons as
desire our services become subscribers to
our plan, and pay a fee or bonus Of one
dollar. We furnish each subscriber with
blanks which he fills out and sends
to his delinquent debtors, with a
statement of their accounts. The
them to remit the amount, with the
declaration that if they do not their cases
will be turned over to Uniformed Collec-
ton Company. When the company re-
ceives case q collector is sent at once to
the debtor to solicit payment of the amount
due. If he still refuses to pay, we send an.
other collector, who wears a striking uni
form, with the word Collector in very
distinct letters on the band of his hat.
This collector visits the debtor three sue.
cessive days at his house or place Of BUSH
ness. If the third visit does not result in
obtaining the money, the collector wears a
hat on the band of which are the words:
Collector of Bad Debts.' His orders are
to call on the debtor daily and demand
payment of the claim or claims against
him. These calls soon attract the atten-
ton Of the neighbors and become the talk
of the town, 1t has got to be case
hardened old pensioner in the con-
fdence of his butcher and baker and
candle maker who can boldly face
more than half dozen calls from the gen.
tleman with the suggestive hatband, and
the consequence is that an arrangement
satisfactory to the creditor is always ef-
fected. We charge the creditor ten or fif-
teen per cent. of the amount collected, as
the case may be, and everybody is happy
but the man who has come down with the
skids. This method of collecting bad debts
is no experiment We have tried it in a
hundred different places and never lcst a
case yet. The system originated In Can
ada. We have had several collectors very
neatly done up by irate debtors, but our
men expect that. and assume all such risks
when they enter our employ. If collector
is disabled we put bigger man right on
in his place, and it has got to be very
sultry day when we let q man rest easy
while we've got bill against him."