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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-06-30

The education of Wilhelmine, the
eight-year- old princess of the Neither
lands, which is now going on, promises,
according to the New York Sun that
there will be sensible queen on the
Dutch throne one of these days. Ono
Amsterdam journal, giving an account
of the little princess bringing up,
proves the old king to be very sensible
man. Her mother is her Wincipal
teacher and spanks her when she needs
it. Queen Emma makes her practise
tho piano the requisite number of hours
and teaches her Craftsmanship. A lot
of teachers divide the honor of instruct.
ing her In reading, writing, mathcmat-
les, language, etc. Every one of them
is ordered to treat her as they would
any ether small girl of eight. They are
not allowed to address her as a royal
highncss, or even as princess, during
the hours of study, and arc authorized
to punish her as though she were q
child of the least important the kings
subjects The account gets some
what romantic, and it is feared unrelia-
bic, when it describes the princess as
playing on equal terms with street chill
dren and getting out of her mothers
sledge to join snowballing party on
the ice fields between the palace and the
Hague. 1t is certain, however, that re-
gal etiquette is n OF held in very high
esteem by the sensible old king, and
that the princess will probably enjoy a
larger share of common sense than ordi-
narily falls to those IN her rank.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-06-30
500 Tons Of Pills a Year.

''There are eleven and oue-half tons
of postage stamps sold at the New York
postoffice every year." remarked q
manufacturing chemist to New York
Mail and Express reporter. "Now
guess how many tons of pills are made
in this country every year."
"What have postage stamps to do
with pills2'
"Nothing whatever, save that each is
useful in its way. 1 only cited the post
office vend to give you an idea of the
great weight of small things when con-
sidered in bulk. Give it upa Well, as
nearly as can be figured, they will
amount to over SO tons year. A ton
week is q fair estimate. In England
alone there are 1000, 900, 900 consumed
every year. That reduced to tons would
make about 40. How many are used
in other countries it would be hard to
say, but the total estimate would not
come far from $50 tons. Say 500 tons
are used year by the entire world.
The habit of pill-taking is ancient. It
is the most convenient form for carry
ing and taking, and is the most popular.
Formerly they were made by hand.
Now they are produced by machinery.
There are a few manufacturers who
mako 1,000,00O pills a week. Big
business, isn't it9"
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-06-30
Two COYOTE Stories.

A farmer up in the Capay valley, CAL
ifornia has just made the champion
slaughter of coyotes. These animals are
great pest to the sheep owners, and,
though extremely hard to catch or kill,
make serious inroads upon the focks.
The sheep owners have offered a reward
of SEQ per coyote scalp, and Frank
Hambleton the farmer in question, has
Just pocketed in bounties $500, the re.
suit of one ingenious bit of work. He
had large straw stack on his farm
which had been standing for several
years. He noticed not long ago that a
good many holes had been made in it,
and that coyotes were quite numerous
around it at night. So one evening he
set fire to it and hid near by to watch
developments. The straw was so
damp from recent rains that the fire did
not get to the inside of the stack until
after dark AMI a good many Of the
beasts had smelled danger and escaped.
But as it was he raked out of the ashes
the carcasses of 40 coyotes, old aud
young that had been burned to death.
Another coyote story is from stock
man, who has on his cattle ranch pair
of superb staghounds which he brought
from Scotland, from their native kennel
at the foot of Ben Nevis. They are
wonderfully docile and intelligent, fleet
as the wind, and possess a marvellous
amount of strength and endurance.
The wolf they consider a foe worthy of
their skill, and whenever they find one
enter contest from which they soon
come off victorious. But they seem to
consider the coyote an animal so des-
picable as to be worth only the most
contemptuous notice. For one to ap-
pear within their sight is to bring swift
punishment upon itself. But the noble
hounds feel so much contempt for the
animal that they will not take its des-
ricable life. They always bite off its
tail close to the rump or pull it out by
the roots, and having thus set the mark
of their disdain upon Mr.. Coyote, they
let him 60 while they carry home the
tail as their trophy of the chase. To
such an extent have they carried on this
contemptuous warfare against the
coyote race that their owners ranch is
strewn with caudal appendages, and
bobtail coyotes are the rule---INew York
Sun.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-06-30
Che f0eeklp Alessenaer.
Published Weekly
AT
St M artinsviIIe, L a.
BY
EASTlN e. BIENvENu.
EASTIN e. BIENVENu.

Botanists assign various dates to the
birth o; the giant trees of California,
or sequoias, as they are called. 1t has
been claimed that the ycw lives a thou
sand years, and even this ,agc was
thought to be incredibly great; but to
the colossal patriarchs of the Califor-
MAN forests must be assigned an age far
exceeding a thousand years. Among
the various estimates of their age tho
least is /, 500 years, and the probability
is that even this figure is much too small,
some placing it at 5000 years.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-06-30
A Great Shot.

First Nimrod-"Who are going on
the hunting partyp
Second Nimrod-"Well, Sam Peter
son is going along"
"Who is Sam Petersonr'
'What, you don't know Sam Peter
son! Why, he is a celebrated shot
Every time he goes out hunting he pep
pers some Of his frienda"-[Siftings.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-06-30
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS

D
this country is used in the arts =.
it in shearing sheep.
Astronomer Proctor says tb,
farther side of the moon-the ia. +
the eye of man has n,ver LOOKED Is
is desolate and frigid like the Il
When vessels or timber sink n b
deptsh in the ocean, the pressuu
great that the water is by this
forced into the pores, and the Wa.
comes too heavy to rise again.
Observations on the part of A, j
number of scientists prove that
quakes are more frequent at ths },
of full moon and change Of {
moon than at other times and alm
frequent when the moon is nearer /
earth.
In the opinion of some CONN.,
judges, Photographic processes n, {
supplant etchings as means Of M.
duction. This has already gone N
that in Paris several clever etcheu
taken up work upon photogravun
similar plates.
The greatest elevation which hu i
attained by man is 81, feet-Sl
seven miles-this height having y
reached during a balloon ascent t,
by Glaisher. At this tremendou /!
lance above the earth's surface ubrj
exertion is found to be almost i'm,
sible, owing to the great rarefacia
the atmosphere.
In a new and curious experinsr,
disk of iron, with spindle throua
SO that it can be spun like a ton ii
tracted by the poles of a magnet V
at rest or moving slowly, but b.
PEELED by the magnet when SPIN
with sufficient velocity. The ressl
of the induced currents exceed,
magnetic attraction.
During the sinking of large pits !
wells in Nevada, stratas of rock !
were cut through in which were "a,
imbedded perfectly preserved 1
which are doubtless thousands Of M
old, as the salt field occupies what ,
once the bottom of a large lake, and
such fish are now to DO found in /
of the modern Nevada lakes.
Variations in the size of rain On
are dependent upon the differences
the height from which they have I'll
and to the amount of atmospheric
turbance present at the time. II fl
from great height, the drops 81.
gradual division into smaller and sri
er parts, until they are converted mi
mist. In calm weather, with the CID
near the earth's surface, the drop,
large and heavy.
A curious speculation has been nj
concerning what would happen v
the earth's rotation to cease. The sg
torial diameter being twenty
miles more than the polar diana
the earth would present an equata,
zone Of solid ground miles high sk
sea-level, the water being all dn'
to the poles. This land zone wos
then be like our Arctic regions, I
would be banded by ring of pen
nent ice and snow.
Tho construction of perfect pen'
lum has been accomplished, it IS
nounced, by suspending a lead shot
a single fibre of cocoon silk in vacr
produced by means of a Sprengel pun
The shot, one-sixteenth of an inch Ia
ameter, weighs one-third of gram
suspended by a two-foot fibre, an
placed in a tube three quarters Of
inch internal diameter. 1t has .
Irrational range of one-fourth inch
each side of mid-position, the vacu
being equivalent to one-tenth d
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-06-30

Oatmeal in water is said to be one Of the
best drinks in the world for a workingman,
especially in warm weather. 1t is nutritive,
satisfying and agreeable to the stomach. It
costs but little, and the small outlay is repaid
in the form Of increased ability to peform
labor either physical or mental
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-06-30
A Illuminating Pc iti0n.

Visitor Ito convict: What are y
in for, my friendf'
Convict: "Bank bur iary, sir"
Visitor: 81 suppose gu find ~
present position vesy Iliiliatingr
Convict: aye very. When
march to meals, 81 IN always 80
wiched in between two alderp'
boodlers."-[Nev York Epoch
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-06-30
When the Cows Come Home.

This poem. says the Chicago Farmer
Voice appeared IN the Illustrated Christian
Weekly, August, $50. Il has been reprinte'
extensively. but inaccuratey. IL is repro
duced here with the sanction of the author
Mrs Agnes +. Mitchell, and the following i
corrected and revised copy. The poem
has been crediteVto an English writer, anC
was published some months ago in an Easter
paper, with the explanatory remark tina
the author was not known.l
With klingle, klangle, klingle,
Way down the dusky dingle,
The COWS are coming home;
Now sweet, and clear, and faint and low,
The airy tinklings come and so,
Like chimings from some far off tower,
Or gatherings of an April shower
That makes the daisies grow;
Rolling, ko-lang,
Rolling, ko-lang, kolinglelingle
Way down the darkening dingle
The cows come slowly home;
And old-time friends, and twilight plays
And starry nights, and sunny days,
Come trooping up the misty ways,
When the cows come home.
With jingle. jangle, jingle,
Soft tones that sweetly mingle,
The cows are coming home;
Malvine and PEARL and Florimel,
De Kamp, Redrose, and Gretchen Schell,
Queen Bess, and Sylph, and Spangled Sue
Across the fields hear her loo-oo
And clang her silver bell;
Go-ling, go-lang,
Cooling, go-lang, golinglelingle,
With faint. fair sounds that mingi
The cows come slowly home;
And mother-songs Of long gone years,
And baby joys, and childish tears,
And youthful hopes, and youthful fears,
When the cows come home.
With ringle, rangle, ringle.
By twos and threes and single,
The COWS are coming home;
Through violet air we see the town,
And the summer sun a slipping down:
The maple in the hazel glade,
Throws down the path longer shade,
And the hills are growing brown;
To-ring, to-rang,
To-ring, to-rang, to-ringlelngle,
By threes and tours and single
The cows come slowly home;
The same sweet sound of wordless psalm,
The same sweet June-day rest and calm,
The same sweet scent of bud and balm,
When the cows come home.
With tinkle, tankle, tinkle,
Through fern and periwinkle,
The cows are coming home;
A lettering in the checkered stream,
Where the sun-rays glance and CLEAN,
Clarine, Peachbloom, and Phoebe Phyllis,
Stand knee deep in the creamy lilies
In drowsy dream;
To-link, to-lank,
To-link, to-lank, tolinklelingle,
Ger the banks with butter-cups a-twinkle
The cows come slowly home;
And up through Memory's deep ravine
Come the brooks old song and its old-time
sheen,
And the crescent of the silver queen,
When the cows come home.
With klingle, klangle, klingle,.
With loo-oo, and moo-oo, and jingle,
The cows are coming home;
And over there on Merlin Hill
Hear the plaintive cry of the Whip-poor-
will;
The dew-drops lie on the tangled vines,
And over the poplars Venus shines,
And over the silent mill;
Rolling, ko-lang
Ko-ling, ko-lang, kolinglelingle,
With ting-a-ling and jingle
The cows come slowly home;
Let down the bars, let in the train
OF long-gone songs, and flowers, and rain,
For dear old times come back again
When the cows come home.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
Mites and Personals.

Mr.. J. r. Gott is expected to return
this morning from San Diego, where
he went Monday evening.
All of yesterdays Santa Fe trains
were on time, except the one from
San Diego, which was half an hour
late.
The Missouri Pacific and Texas and
Pacific excursion party arrived in this
city yesterday in three sections, with
80 coaches.
Mr.. w. D. Sandburn, Pacific Coast
Agent at San Francisco for the G. B.
& 0. Railroad, is in the city, on his
return from a months visit to the
East.
Mr.. John A. Sweet, Assistant to
Vice-President G. w. Smith, Of the
Santa Fe route, arrived in this city
last evening, accompanied by his
wife, and took rooms at the Nadeau.
The overland train via the Santa Fe
Company's road, due Tuesday even
ing at 9 O'Clock, did not arrive until
last night at 8 O'Clock, being twenty
four hours late.
Mr.. H. w. Vermilion, for a long
time claim clerk for the local freight
Office Of the Santa Fe Company, has
resigned, and will go East. Mr.. Ver-
million made a most efficient en-
ployee, and his friends all wish him
success where ever he goes.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19


to the Encino Rancho. The grade is
easier by that route md the distance
lees. It would be I standard gauge
road, but the grade would be $50 feet
to the mile in the cafion. However,
this would not injure the usefulness of
the road, rs the heavy loads would be
all this way. Sandstone and granite
are plentiful on the route, and it is
the nearest point where these two i'm
portant building materials can be had
in sufficient quantities to make it an
object to build railroad. The loca-
tions along the line are unsurpassed
for healthy residences, and the coun-
try has not an inflated value. These
are few of the reasons why road
through that section would pay from
the beginning of operations.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
THE SECOND WARD.
Cuddy's Successor as Council.
mHn.

Cuddy's Successor as Council.
On next Monday the resignation
of T. J. Cuddy, as a member of the
Council from the second ward, will be
accepted, and that gentleman will be
inducted into the office of Chief of
Police. There is some little discus
sion as to who will succeed Mr.. Cuddy
in the Council. MIR. r. Bilderrain,
one of the proprietors of the st. Elmo
Hotel and the late efficient Assessor
Of this county, has permitted his
name to be used in this connection.
Mr.. Bilderrain is too we'll known to
need eulogy, and he will do good SER
vice for his ward and for the city.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
The mail Arrives.

A few moments before six O'Clock
Monday evening the long-delayed
Santa Fe overland train arrived, with
twelve coaches, two mail and three
baggage cars. 1t brought large
amount OF Eastern mail, which is the
first received via that road for seven
Gays. All day Tuesday the postoffice
employees were busy distributing it for
the public. The company's officials
now state that the track is clear from
"end to end," and the trains will
hereafter be run on schedule time.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
Jumped the Track.

Tuesday afternoon as the Santa
Monica train was approaching the
Commercial street depot, on its way
to Santa Monica, the locomotive struck
an obstruction which threw the for
ward trucks of the engine off the track.
Some time was lost in getting it on
again, when the train proceeded to
its destination.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
Passenger Traffic.

The Santa Fe officials report a great
rush of people to Inglewood and Re-
dondo Beach. and state that from
thirty to forty tickets are sold to Ingle-
wood alone each day. The travel to
Relondo is equally as great. With
the exception OF the above mentioned
places, local travel is rather dull than
otherwise.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
Associated Charities.

The Committee appointed at the
late interesting conference OF chari-
ties will be ready as appointed to
report at the St. Elmo Hotel
to-day at P. NJ. 1t is very i'm
portant that there full attendance of
representatives of the charities of the
city, that the report be fully discussed
and SO intelligently adopted as to
secure this worthy work good send
off among US.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
The AIhambra Hotel

is now open for the reception of
guests. The hotel is located at AL
hambra, seven miles from Los An
yeles, on the S. P. r. R. Parties
Wishing to engage board and rooms
tor the winter can do so by addressing
the manager, S. +. Perrigo.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
Frozen Poultry.

A carload of live poultry was
received by the Santa Fe Company
yesterday morning that came from
Iowa. A great number of chickens
were found dead when the coops
were taken out, and it is supposed
were frozen in transportation.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
Clear at Last.

The Southern Pacific Company
hauled train OF cars for the Santa Fe
Company in from Cotton yesterday
morning, after which they were
notified that the A, & P's road was in
condition, and that they would here
after use their own tracks.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
Excursion

To picturesque Carlton, the lively town,
Saturday January 21st. Round trip 81. 90
Lee McGown, Jr., 81 N. Spring street.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
Two New Engines.

The Southern Pacific Company has
just received two new and powerful
passenger engines from the shops at
Sacramento. They are mum hered 246
and 247. and are built with an extern
sion front and straight smoke stack.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19

Anyone wanting fine treatment and
the best Of everything should attend
the opening of R. G. Pearson's saloon,
corner Main and Temple, this even
inO
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
Arrowhead Hot Snrinrs.

No fog or frost; best accommodations.
Mud, mineral and vapor baths. Forenoon
train to San Bernardino; stage to Springs.
Physician, P. o. and telephone. Address
Manager"
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
NOTICE.

THE LOS ANGELES CITY WATER co.
viii strictly enforce the following rule The
O'clock A. NJ. and and o'clock N. For
violation of the above regulation the water
will be shut Off and fine of two dollars Will
be charged before water will be turroE IN
agadnl jsn1.u
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
Buy a Lot

while you can at special low price in a
fine tract with cement sidewalk, pure water
and streets graded. GEO. 3. PRATT,
40 N. Spring street.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
lCoNTNGI SOUTH. GOING NORTH.

The steamers Santa Rosa and Queen of Pa
cific leave San Pedro for San Diego on the
dates of their arrival from San Francisco
an ana on on Their trips between San Pedro and
Hartford (San Luis Obispo) only. The Eure-
ka and Los Angeles call at all way ports.
Cars TO connect with steamers leave 8. P.
R. +. depot, Los Angeles, rs follows: With
Santa Rosa and Queen of Pacific at $40
o'clock A. M. With Los Angeles and Eureka,
going north, at $50 o'clock P. M
S5F- For passage or freight as above or for
tickets to and from
An Important Points In Europe,
APPLY TO
III. MCCLELLAN, AGENT.
Office. No. Commercial ST., Los Angeles,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19

Impotency In man or woman cured by
5ilmore's Aromatic Wine @. +. Heinze
man, agent. Los Angeles.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19

You can be comfortable at the Long
Beach Hotel. One hour from Los Angeles.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
A Proposed Road.

There has been a proposition to
build railroad through Laurel Cafion
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19

Isaias w. Hellman, President, and Leander
G. Goodwin, Vice-President, of the Farmers
and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles, being
severally duly sworn, each for himself. says
the foregoing statement Is true, to the best
of his knowledge and belief
(Signed) IsAIAs W. HELLMAN,
President.
(Signed.) LEANDER G. GOODWIN,
Vice-President.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
seve, tn Gay of January, 1888.
tSigned) FREDERICK HARDNESS,
Seal. Notary Public.
STATEMENT OF THE PAID UP CAPITAL OF
THE FARMERS AND MERCHANTS BANK OF
Los ANGELES, Cal, December 81, 1857:
Amount of Capital
Paid mp in united
States Gold Coin ... $500, 100000
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, CO
County of Los Angeles %
Isaias W. Hellman, President, and Leander
C. Goodwin, Vice-President, OF the Farmers
and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles, Cal,
being severaIlv duly sworn, each for him
self, says the foregoing statement is true to
the best of his knowledge and belief.
(Signed) IsAIAs W. HELLMAN,
President.
(signed.) LEANDER c. GOODWIN,
Weep esident.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
seventh day of January, 1888.
(Signed,) FREDERICK HARKNEsS.
(SeaL) Notary Public.
ian9.1m
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19
6 ACRES at S3O0 Per Acre

Just outside of city limits, on Dummy
linenow in operation.
EIGHT LOTS
Near Temple street, close in, at from 5000
to $500 each. Terms, $3.50 cash; balance,
$25 per month.
FORTY LOTS
In DAILY Street Tract at $4O0 each. One
third cash. balance easy terms. These lots
are covered with orange trees, have cement
sidewalks, and on the Sixth and Spring
street car line.
Property bought and sold in all parts of
the city and country.
janS-1m M. p. SNYDER, -rss --~ss
10S West First Street.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-19

STATEMENT OF THE PAID UP CAPITAL OF
THE FARMERS AND MERCHANTS BANK OF
Los ANGELES Cal, December 81, 1887:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-06-27
wATEavILLE TO FAIRFIELD.
Distinguished Men Celebrate the
Opening of the Horse Railroad.
Especial to the Press. ]

loptcldl 10 lno ITeSS.I
WATERvILLE, June 26.-The opening of
the Waterville and Fairfield horse railroad
today was celebrated in fitting manner
The road is three miles one hundred and ten
rods in length from post Office to post office,
and was begun about month ago. The roll
ing stock consists of four cars as good as any
that can be found in Boston or New York,
and the horses number thirty. One trip an
hour each way is to be made and the fare
will be five cents for any distance
AT 4 o'clock this afternoon, the city gov
ernment of Waterville was given a ride to
Fairfield in car pulled by four horses and
returning the party was accompanied by the
Fairfield city fathers. In the evening there
was grand banquet given by the Horse
Railroad Company at the Elmwood Hotel,
eighty plates being laid. Among those in
vited were Hon. S. S. Marble, Hon. VIM. L.
Putnam, Hon. L. G. Burleigh, Messrs. Pay
son Tucker and Arthur Sewall, of the Maine
Central Railroad, the railroad commission
ers, prominent citizens of the two places and
eighteen gentlemen from Boston and Lynn,
Mass, including the president OF the road.
Mr.. Geo. w. Williams, of Boston; B. f.
Spinney and Daniel j. Lord of Lynn and Will
lard b. Ferguson, of Salem. The programme
of the post prandial exercises included the
following toasts:
The State of Mdine-Response by Hon. L. f.
Webb.
The President of the United States-Respopse
by Hon. S. S. Brown.
The city Of Watercille-Response by Hon.
Reuben Foster of Waterville.
The TOta of FoirJield-Response by Il. E.
McFadden, of Fairfield.
The road will be opened to the public to-
morrow