Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-26


situation and to devise some means of for
warding the cause. Very respectfully
submitted on behalf of the Board of Di
rectors, M. r. HIeGINs,
Secretary.
A warrant for 500 was ordered drawn
in favor OF w. H. Riggs, for repairs or
the San Fernando-avenue bridge.
At the request of District Attorney F
P. Kelly, Hon. Stephen M. White was
associated with him to sue the bonds
men of Ell Hammond on the first bond
Briefs.
Four men recently killed 1000 geese
on Noman island, Colusa county, Cali
fornia, when their ammunition gave
out.
The loan collection of paintings exhi-
bited at the Hebrew Institute fair. which
opened in New York the other evening,
is worth 81 100000.
General Grants old farm, just out Of
st. Louis, has been sold, but the log
house built by him in 1857 will be re-
moved and preserved as relic.
A Minnesota schoolma'am, reported
devoured by wolves, comes up smiling a
week after her bones were picked, and
explains that she simply took a weeks
vacation to get married in, says the De-
troit Free Press.
A California paper relates that after
the recent rainstorm many people of An
gels Camp, Cslaveras county, got money
enough for their Thanksgiving dinners
by picking up gold in the streets and in
the shallow streams.
In Germantown lives noble Nimrod
who shot for one OF his female friends a
crow, and from the day she received it,
stuffed and mounted, she has been fol-
lowed by misfortune. She finally gave
it away and the spell was removed.
Another girl who moves in the ''set"
religiously carries an umbrella of antique
design, and she says it is her mascot.
The Lewiston Journal says the
woman who bought paper of needles
when she was married and set up house
keeping, and forty years after had used
only half of them, may have been a
relative of an Aroostook man who
moved to Massachusetts, while ago.
He sent back the other day for his cap,
which is forty-four years old, and which
he bad left behind. He said he felt
lonesome without it.
Edison's phonograph has found new
application at the Milwaukee College,
where it will be used as an assistant in
teaching the French and other foreign
languages. The phonograph, of course,
never gets tired, and can be made to re-
peat the same sentence or the same
word hundreds of times. In giving
lesson the teacher reads it before the
phonograph, at the same time address,
ing the pupils, and the lesson is repro
duced whenever wanted.
The extensive cultivation of the can
aigre plant, which is found growing with
out cultivation or irrigation in many por-
tions of New Mexico is contemplated.
The tubers produced by this plant yield
large percentage of tannin, superior to
that extracted from hemlock bark, and
not inferior to the oak bark product.
This plant, like the mesquite, thrives in
the driest seasons and in soil where ap.
parently there is very little moisture.
After maturity the tubers dry in the
ground, and often remain for years with
out decaying. The properties of this
plant, like the soap weed, the root of
which is used by the natives instead of
soap, have been known to the natives Of
New Mexico for years. The properties
of the soap weed are only just beginning
to be known to Americans. While the
Mexicsns have used the bruised roots of
this plant for toilet and laundry pur-
poses for years without attempting to get
it in more convenient form, enterpris-
ing Americans have succeeded in ex-
tracing the useful part, and variety of
toilet preparations having the Mexican
amole or soap weed as basis are on the
market.