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Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-19
Topics Of the Day.

THE fishery question, on the Allan
tic seabord, has given rise to
many high-handed outrages, which
nearly led our government, recently,
into retaliatory measures. Taking
the stormy seas, and difficulties which
the Atlantic fisherman encounters, in
the pursuit of his occupation, it il
but appropriate that some attention
should be called to the fisheries of
the Pacific. From San Diego north to
the Straits Of Behring are some of the
best fishing grounds of the world.
Herring, mackerel, cod, whale pro-
ducts, and a large variety of other
commercial fish are to be found in
great abundance. The Pacific ocean
is always, as it's name implies, peace
full. Its most terrific storms are mod
crate in comparison with the grim
frowns Of the Atlantic, which
the hardy fishermen encounter
off the coasts of Northeastern
America. There are countless small
harbors for fishing fleets, and, above
all, the United States here, reigns su-
preme, and there would be no posi-
bility of any international difficulty
arising out Of the fishery question on
this side Of the Continent. The fish
cry interests of the Pacific Ocean are
illimitable. They only need develop
ment to be of more consequence from
q monetary point of view than ever
was the gold taken from the mines of
the Sierra's. There are great and ever
growing markets to supply. China,
Japan, Australia, South America and
the Islands of the Pacific are marts
where fishery products are always in
demand. No wintry blast or armed
cutter of another power need ever de-
ter the fisherman here from plying his
vocation the year round.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-19

THERE is growing impression
among the American youth that the
only gentlemanly way of earning a
livelihood is either in a professional or
clerical position. Now this is griev-
GUS mistake. There is not one in ten
Thousand who arrive at prominence
in professional life, and not one in a
thousand who succeed. In business
life the ratio is greater, but it requires
years of experience, earned at high
cost, to establish prosperous and
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-06-06
How To Train a Canary Bird.

Did you ever try to tame canary
bird and teach il simple tricks, such as
perching on your finger or taking seed
from your palm? II you possess a bird
suppose you maze the attempt. If YOU
are very gentle and patient and the
bird is young you will succeed. Golden
Days gives the following advice on the
subject:
Place the cage on a table near you;
after little conference with the bird,
introduce a finger between the wires,
near the favorite perch, holding it
there patiently, yourself occupied with
book or paper the while. Presently, as
1t shows no disposition to harm him, he
cautiously goes up to examine it. Then
he pecKs TO ascertain its quality; maybe
he fights il. That IS well; he no longer
fears 1t. Pay him with a little bird
food; put him away. Next day Try
him again. He may go farther and
light on It, or lie may be several days
getting thus familiar. Be patient
Once this step is attained, vary the
programme by introducing the finger
in other spots. lie Will soon light on
it at any point or angle. Then try the
door, at first thrustiug the finger under
It Next time fasten it open, blockad-
ing egreSs with the rest of the hand as
one finger extends within. When he
perches on it, draw him forth little;
next time, tempt him to the perch out
side little, and SO on. In short
time, you have but to open the cage,
door, uplift finger, and he Is sure TO
fly to IT; and he may thus be called to
any part of the room TO rest on the
familiar perch. Most birds learn this
familiarity IN a few days, yet there are
those who Will be two or four weeks
about il.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-06-06

and deal. Dextcrity in over shutting
and shifting the cut are the two things
that modern gamblers cultivate In all
their leisure hours. and with these ac-
complishments, and GOODNESS and nerve,
little else is required.
"Card playing as profession is on
the decline, is it not?"
"Oh, bless your soulI yes" McCleI-
Ian answered with a sigh. at began
to dwindle when the big river boats
stopped running, and to-day there are
not more than five or six really first
class men travelling over country max
ing living out OF the paste boards.
did any of the old time card play
ers accumulate much money!"
"Well, they made a great deal and
then threw it way both hands, and
usually died poor and miserable. 1 can
scarcely recall an exception. Cal
Somers. who must have made and
spent a quarter of a million, died in
the poorhouse at Salt Lake City; Jake
Henderson was shot In a brawl near
Mobile, and we took up collection to
bury him; he used TO charter steam
boats to get on a drunk with his
friends. John Waters. Leonard Wells
and Charles II. Roy were all high
rollers in their day, and thought moth
ing of passing a 10 dollar piece TO the
darkey who blacked their boots. They
all died broke, and Roy, who had been
perfect prince in his prime, is thought
to have actually starved. He became
a very much broken-down old man,
and when he was finally found dead in
his room-a miserable den-there were
some little pieces of bread in his wash
basin, and the supposition was that he
put them there to soften before eating.
His stomach was entirely empty"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-06-06
Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Henry Wilson used to tell a good
story about Ralph Waldo Emerson's
attempt to "live like other folks.''
Stopping while this tit was Oh him at
country tavern where he was to lect-
ure, instead of retiring TO medicate and
freeze in his own cold and cheerless
room, he manfully sat in the barroom
like the rest of mankind.
He endured the tobacco smoke as
well as he could, and watched, no
doubt with curiosity as lively as NJ.
du Chaillu's on his first visit to a can
nibal feast among the Fans, the actions
of the men who ''sat around" he
saw one after another walk up to the
bar and demand and swallow a glass of
whlskey; and, true to his determination
to be for once like other men, the great
philosopher-so the tale goes on-at
last rose, and no doubt with a certain
degree of diflidence, but no doubt also
with a sufficlency of courage in his
port and countenance, advanced to the
bar, and in a voice mOdulated as nearly
as he could after those he had just
heard, demanded a ''whiskey skin"
The barkeeper, a man of high princi-
pie, looked into the philosophers
face for a moment and then said :
~ on do not want whiskey, you want
ginger pop" and accordingly admins
tered that mild and harmless stimu-
liant.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-06-06
Origin of Earrings.

by the way, talking of earrings,
puts me in mind of an eastern legend
which 1 heard a short time ago about
their origin. When Hagar ran away
to escape the wrath of Abrams wife,
so the story goes. SaIai vowed that If
her handmade ever returned she would
cause her to be mutilated, thinking
thus 10 destroy her beauty snd prevent
her causing any further domestic infe-
liclty. Time. however, had the effect
of so cooling Sarai's wrath that when
Hagar came back and pleaded with her
she decided to forego her vengeance
and restored her ex-handmaid to favor
But an oath was not to be trifled with,
and as Sarai had solemnly vowed to
mutilate Hagar she was in quandary
to know how TO do this without iniur-
ing her or marring her fair face. Fin
ally she hit upon the expedient of
piercing a small hole in each of Hagar's
ears, and it is said that Abram, to off
set TIE pretty haudmaId's punishment,
presented her with two beautiful jewels
TO suspend from the holes. Her ap-
pearance thus adorned excited the ad-
mIration of the other women of the
tribe that the wearing of earrings soon
became general among them.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-06-06
The Fire Service in Moscow.

The same precautions against fire are
taken In Moscow and ST. Petersburg
to-day that were in use a century ago.
Scores of fire towers are everywhere
seen. They run up about rs to 1G0
feet, are built like a lighthouse, with
winding stairway, and have platform
all around at the top, where the watch
man patrols day and night. If fire
is discovered signal is given and the
fire department turns out. 1t was only
recently that st. Petersburg, the capI-
tai, with hundreds OF millions of gov
eminent property, secured a steam fire
engine, and that is poor, old-fashioned
affair. The hand-engine does service
there yet, and in most other cities of
the empire.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-06-06
a Giant Natural Barometer.

No need OF the weather bureau az
Naples, for the huge volcano. Mount
Vesuvius, serves as giant barometer
and thermometer of the city. The
direction in which the smoke from the
crater blows announces unerringly a
coming change of weather "a hours
beforehand. The direction of the
smoke also indicates the coming or the
hot and depressing sirocco, when the
perfect repose of the populace is almost
imperative. Also when the neighbor-
Ing island OF Capri is of dark blue
color, and long, low. regular waves roll
In from the Bocca Piccols, these are
sure premonitory symptoms of the COM
ing slrocco.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-06-06
Two Fishers

One morning when Spring was in her teens
a morn TO poets wishing,
All tinted in dehcate pinks and green's
Miss Ressie and l went fishing.
l in my rough and easy clothes,
With my face at the sunshine's mercy;
She with her hat tipped down to her nose
And her nose tipped rice rerSd.
' with my rod and reel and hooks,
And n hamper for Iunching recesses;
She with the bait of her comely looks
And the seine of her golden tressesL
20 We sat down on the sunny dixie
Where the white pond lilies teeter,
And went fishing like quaint old Ike,
And she like Simon Peter.
All the noon I lay in the light of her eyes,
And dreamiugly watched and waited,
But the fish were cunning and would not
rise,
Aud the batter alone was baited.
Aud when the time for departure came,
The bag was tat \ founder;
Eut Bessie hal neatly hooked her game
a hundrr,l-and-eigi,ty pousder.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-06-06
The Fall of An Apple.

Every one knows the story or Sir
Isaac Newton and the falling apple.
which was quite as common An occur
renee as the swinging of lamp, for
apples had fallen since the creation,
but no one took TO rejecting upon SO
ordinary a matter. Newton opened
the eyes of his mind as he saw the apple
descend, and WANDERED from the orch
ard to vast fields of science. The great
central law OF the unlverse-gravIta-
tlon-was caught from observing one
of the most trivial OF events, and the
name OF the discoverer has become iD-
mortal.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-06-06

what should be done with me. You
can take me TO the Italian consul or the
police station L will go with you now,
or you can come for me at any time.
You will find me ready" 1t was to no
purpose that informed him / should
never reveal his secret while believed
that he was alive. 1t did not cheer
HIM up when i told him that my pres.
ent convictions were that the guilty
had suffered for their crimes in the
way they should, and that with them
the matter should end. I advised him
to go back to his work and to make
what he could out of this sad life and
dark world. / do not think that he
profited much by the advice I gave
him. Perhaps he followed it about as
closely as the author OF IL has, so i
should not complain about its being
thrown away. 1 saw him few times
after this, but L believe l never ex-
changed any words with him. He
never followed me any more at night
upon the streets and never showed any
inclination to enter into conversation.
L once thought that would consult
the death record with a view of dis
covering his name, but recollecting
that he stated he lived under an as
sumed name L saw that the search
would be useless.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-06-06

Scientists say there is no plant that
does not serve as food for some animal;
but the only article used as food from
the mineral kingdom is common salt.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1888-10-20
HOSIERY

200 doz Ladies solid and fancy colored Hose
200 Misses and Childrens ....".... ..........5c
Large Ladies full regular Ingram Hose 15 worth
1se " 25c ........5Oc
Large stock OF Ladies' Misses and Chldns Wool and Cashmere
Hose at half value,
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1888-10-20
COMFORTS & BLANKETS.
NOTIONS e FANCY GOODS

Large stock of Ladies fancy Handkerche at. &c each
@" hemstiched Handkerchieis at......."."5c
Good quality Pins full COUNT papers fol-.
Ladies' Misses and Childrens Linen Collars &c
Bows tine Cashmere Polo Caps .oC ..".-oc
Extra fine quality buttons Kid Goves 5Oc worth slOO
" " Bed Sets .lou worm ouV
Good quality Marseile Quilts at."..". .9e
" Silk Web Suspenders at .. .''..'.2oc " oVc "a
Heavy Merino Under Shirts worm QUO
All wool Red Flannel Unders.Shs .......5Oc " LOO
Large Stock Of Mems Top Shirts from 25c up
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1888-10-20
COR SETS.
CLOTHING.

CLUTE1xNE q.
Largest and Cheapest Stock in the State.
Boys heavy Suits age to years cheap at $500
CassimeresSus .."..."....2OO " . 400
Fine quality worsted Suiirom to 70 years $50 500
Youths heavy all wool Suits age Is to IS worth s. 90
Cashmere Suits 6 g $3.50 worth 5000 to 100
Corkcew Suits to 81 90 worth S0O
Mems Suits all sizes at.. oV o. oo SoU coO
..... worth $1,000
English Corkscrew " 1900
large Of souse Bros fine tailor made Clothing
low prces
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-12-28
A Convenient CaIen dar,

The most convenient, valuable, and
novel business, table, or desk calendar
for 1889, is the Columbia Bicycle Calen-
dar and Stand issued by the Pope Mig.
Co., of Boston. Mass, The calendar
proper is in the form of pad of 365
leaves, one for each day. Tho leaves
are 5Hx2% inches, q portion of each is
lsft blank for memoranda, and as the
leaves are sswed at the ends, any en-.
tire leaf. as we'll as the memorandum
blank, can be exposed whenever desired.
The pad rests upon a portable stand,
and when placed upon the desk or
writing table tho entire surface of the
date leaf liz brought directly before the
eye, furnishing date aud memoranda
impossible to be overlooked. The up
pressed pulp, with "Columbia" in
raised letters at the top. the whole
handsomely gilded, and practically in
destruotible. A departure 10 made this
year, III that & portion OF the quotations
pertain to iypewriting and stenography,
With occasional reference to the new
Becker typewriter made by the Pope
Mfg. Co. The reading matter in no
way interferes with the calendar, and
the information contained on the leaves
would. if placed in book type, make a
fair sized volume.t
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-12-28

nearly one thousand employees of the
Southern Pacific Company working in
many different capacities have lately
been dismissed from tho company's SER
vice. This Wholesale discharge work
has been going on in quiet way for
nearly month, and the dismissals in
the past fortnight have been very nu-
merous. A great many trackmsn have
been dropped from tho payroll as we'll
as large numbers of brakemen,s switch
men, watchmen, and warehousemen.
The order of dismissal has not spared
the car repairers either, and they have
been "let out" wherever they could be
spared. Some of the assistant agents
at stations Of the company in various
parts Of the State, Nevada and Arizona
are sufferers, as the order hns gone
abroad to all parts of the company's
system. Report says that the order is
the result Of desire on the part OF the
company to cut down expenses, but
General Superintendent Fillmore told
Chronicle reporter yesterday that it was
made merely because of the sickness
of business at this season. The COM
papy hopes that business will improve
in the Spring, in which case they will
then employ as large a number of men
az ever. Mr.. Fillmore remarked that
the number discharged was about 800.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-12-28
So uio. from tho Alta.

Ha! revenge. Senator Quay can't
sleep for the toothache.
Uncle Sam did not find Canada in his
Christmas stocking.
By the way, is it not time to have
failure in the Delaware peach crop of
1889?
Judge Tree, the new Minister to st.
Petersburg. wall DO blown down by the
March wind.
The voice of the people is the voice
of God, to tho winning party. To the
other fellow it usually sounds like
fraud.
Mr.. Upshsw. OF Astoria, Oregon, is
related to both Harrison and Morton.
He would sell lis chance for big pre-
MUM.
Judge Hornblower, of SON Francisco,
is quoted in the Chicago papers as
advocating tho whipping post for wife
beats rs.
The Boston P ilot tries to steer Ben
Butler into the British Mission. Ben
would make sensation in strabismic
diplomacy. 49," ~
Bismarck has been made doctor of
divinity. In France tho belief is that
he is doctor of that divinity chat shapes
our ends rough.
just as the Pennsylvania oil fields are
reported failing, oil bubbles up in New
Mexico. You cant beat America. This
is the modern grease.
Colonel John E. Joyce has written ga
Checkered Life" He formerly pl ayed
checkers with his nose in st. Louis for
completely in the whisky frauds.
People are freezing to death in the
New York billiards.. Here the button
hole bouquets are riptning ont Of doors,
and Spring lamb and green peas are in
the market.
The Hartford Courant hattsrs the
London Tunes by calling it 1.-THE high.
sst earthly authority on ali Subjects
Well, now, We guess not. What does
the Times know about poker?
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-12-28
Ruby valley Items.

Editor INDEPENDENT:-I shall send 0
few items for your paper al it has been
some time since you have had anything
from our valley.
We are having fne weather In this
part of the country for this time of the
year. There is plenty Of snow in the
mountains but none in this valley.
Mr.. William Myers has about recov-
cred from mis- recent illness, and is now
able to be up and around.
Mr.. II. Goes little deugbtsr is 70.
ported dangerously i'll, and several
other children in the valley are suffer
ing with Group.
Dir. short has just returned from
Long Valley and snys the cattle will
suffer this Winter for the want Of food.
We have two OF the finest lady riders
in this valley that the country affords,
to wit: Mrs. 8. A. StClair and Miss
Ella Conner. They are both exverts in
equestrian exercise which both seem to
enjoy very much.
We had Quaker meeting in the val
ley on Christmas, but no dance nor any
thing Of Importance.
FA1H PLAY.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-12-28

Wednesdays Reno Gazette closes an
article on tho recent train robbery at
Clipper Gap as follows:
A special to the Gazette this after
noon says: The country is being
secured for the robbers who plundsred
the overland train Monday night, but
no trace of them is discovered yet.
Wells, Fargo 4 Co.'s representatives re-
port the loss at $56,0OO. The robbers
refused to take coin package contain
ing $40, 500, saying it WAS too heavy to
carry.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-12-28
star valley IteIns.

The long expected storm has come,
not enough of snow to make good sleigh
ing, but prospects are good for more.
and it is quite cold up here.
Nearly all the farmers are now feed
ing their stock, and gathering what few
remain outside All are we'll supplied
with hay for what stock they have.
Christmas passed quietly by. We
had no Christmas tree, as heretofore,
only = social party ct the school house
for the young folks to enjoy the tune
aud wish each other merry Christ
mas.
l.. w. st. Clair met with an accident
Monday, while trying to shoot coyote.
The gun hung ere, and when it did go
the stock gave him severe hit on the
shoulder.
Mrs. Samuel Riddle also met with a
very severe accident this week, having
slipped on the ice and broke her leg.
also hurting her hip badly. There bo.
lag no doctor at Elko, one was tele-
graphed for at Ogden. since which
have been unable to learn more Of the
case, but hope it is not as bad as re-
ported.
Coyotes are unusually plentiful. and
they make frequent raids on our barn.
Uard fovyI.l a nj a "a anooaaafV1l Zoo
Two ear loads OF wheat will leave
Dseth for Reno this week, yet we send
abroad for -four.
We now have an express Office nj
Deeth, also a pew and commodious de.
pot the old one being used for storage
OF freight. Still the "boom" cont nues
/, and tho place steadily grows.
ESQ UeH.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-12-28
Masonic Installation.

A special meeting Of Eko Lodge, No.
10, F. & A. NJ. was held at Masonic
Hall last night when the following Of
fcers for the ensuing year were duly
installed:
G. w. Grover, w. NJ; G. H. Hale,
8. W., J. F. Triplett, j. w James
Clark. Treasurer; W. T. Smith, s. D.;
James Russell, J. D.; A. w. Fuller and
Walter Chase, Stewards; J. Alexander,
Tyler.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-12-28
A. o. D. w. Hal.

Humboldt Lodge, No. 90, A. o. u. W.
will give grand New Years Ball on
Tuesday evening, January LIST. The
we'll known popularity Of tho entertain
msnts given by this Order is a sufi-
cient guaranty that the coming ball will
be an interesting and pleasant social
event which will be largely attended by
lovers of the art Terpsichorean.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-12-28

there are any more young ladies in
California who are anxious to secure de-
sirable husbands, let them come over
and take school in Elko county.
The list of presents received by Mr..
and Mrs. Plunkett is the most extensive,
perhaps, ever published in Elko county,
and embraces many beautiful and ex-
pensiye articles both for the dining
room and parlor.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-12-28
lndurated Fibre Ware.

The attention OF the public is directed
to my new stock of Tubs, Buckets, Ba-
sins, etc., manufactured from Indurated
Wood Fibre, pressed out in one piece,
without seams or hoops. It 10 light
and durable, will not shrink or swell,
will not faint any kind OF liquid
and bids fair to supercede tin md wood
en- ware. Call and examine it.
6-S. II. CHASE.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-12-28

Interior from the Pacific slope. and will
confine himself to the consideration Of
the relative merits Of John F. Swift, of
California, aud John. n. Mitchell, Of
Oregon. Although word comes from
Indianapolis that the friends of NJ. h :.
Estee are pressing the Napa mans
claims, none of the California Congress
sional delegation seem to think his
chance equal to that of Swift.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-12-28
Live and Lct Live.

Those who desire fresh Groceries and
Provisions, as well as glassware, Queens
ware, etc. shonld not fail to examine
my stock and prices before purchasing
"a penny saved is az good as penny
earned" and JOG can save money by
purchasing goods vt home. carry u
large stock Of reasonable goods and
will cell at Live and Let Live prices.
1873. 81. CHASE.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-12-28
30 PER GENT. REDUCTION.

Tho election is over and in order to
keep stsp with the march Of reduced
prices We have determined TO make II 20
per cent. reduction in the subscription
price of the INDEPENDENT to nlI who pay
in advance. Hereafter the WEkRtY
dependent will be 81 and the DAILY
INDEPENDENT SO year, postage paid,
Invariably in advance.