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Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-24

No. 10 Court street, room 8. SatisfactiC
guaranteed. Reasonable prices.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-24

Star Bacon
ANS at Seymour q johnson Co..
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-24

Try Elgin brand condensed milk.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-24

superior to All-Elgin condensed milk.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-24

DR. @. z. OLACIUs HAS REMOVED HIS
u ofdce from rs N. Spring to Al s. Spring st.
usl aAd skin diseases, chronic diseases In gen.
erSi. s24tf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-24

Insist on having Elgin condensed milk
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-24

Insist ON having Elgin condensed milk.
e. F. N mO0rehOuse,
Jobber. carpenter, 116 South Spring. Tele-
phone BAL.
First.class Mercantile Lunch at
John Embry's, Al South Fort street.
Paint Your Floor
With Senour's Floor Paint. 1t dries over night
For sale by ]. NJ. Blackburn, Ill 8. Main
street,
Notary Public and 90 commissioner
For New York and Arixons, g. A. Dobineon
ia South Fort street. Twelve years expert
ence.
Highly NutritiOus-"Elgin" condensed
milk.
Use German Family" soap.
Unequalled-Ejgin brand condensed milk.
Try pride OF the Family" soap.
Unsurpassed-Elgin brand condensed
milk.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-24

First.claBs Mercantile Lunch q
John Embrys, Al South Fort street.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-24

n ". BURLEIGH. M. D., 121 s. SPRING ST.
W. Specialties, diseases of women (medicsl
and surgical). Chronic diseases of stomach
and bowels. o3 TT
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-24

DR. JOHN W. REESE, NO. IN N SPRING
IL st. Room % Schumacher block. Office
hours: to 10 q. m, to p. m, Ito 8 p, m.
Residence No. 1881 W. First st. o15tf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-24

DR. WEST HUGHES, FORMER RESIDENT
~ Surgeon to the New York Hospital. rs N.
Spring st. Hours, to iG, 2 to 5. Tel. No. ,O26.
S2Atf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-24
PHI YSlClANS.

n P. BAGG, M. D., ROOMS 1, 2 AND 3.
". Los Angeles National Bank Building, Los
Angeles, Cal Telephone 485. oc1 tt
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-24

e. F. N mOOreh0use,
bber, carpenter, 116 South Spring. Tele
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-10-12
HUMOROUS.

-Editor.-':Fow was It you did not
nowlodge tl.o receipt Of that check
We sent you tue other dayP" Poet
because, you neglected to iuclose
stamp. Puck.
-Countryman-"Who are they put
ting that statue up forP" Citizen
That's tho statue Of James Brown
Smith" 'Did he do any thing great
or wise while he livedP" Yes, he
petd for that statue before he died"
~ married for love, Dick, and I've
had about enough Of 1t! What did you
marry fOrP" "Well, ye SEQ, I'm an
artist; l married Jenny for her fig
uro." THAT'S only natural" mo,
" George. 'twssn't naturall Mostly
art Life. .--a-
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28
Fight Between an Eagle and a Ferret


A fishing party came to Mount Vernon,
Va, from the Capital recently, and, after
viewing the Washington estate and Sc
curing fragment OF the famous cherry
tree, part OF which is still on sale, went
several miles down the river to tempt
the fnny tribe. The atmosphere was so
calm, and the water so smooth that
scarcely ripple was visible upon its
surface, except when stirred by an occa-
sional passing boat. The sun was not
shining, but the weather was fair and
the day in every way delightful The
fishing was excellent. yellow perch and
Pike were received iii abundance, two
splendid cells also being obtained
Toward evening when the piscatorial
sport was about to be abandoned for the
day and camp struck for the night, an
eagle was noticed approaching, bearing
in its talons a burden that apparently
worried 1t. When over the fishermen
the birds eye weakened, and drop of
blood was noticed 10 fnll on the canvas.
A moment later the eagle hegan rapidly
descending and soon fell to the
ground. fastening 20 the spot the bird
was found dying, yet firmly grasping in
his powerful talons a large sized ferret,
as its prey. The animal was fighting
frantically for freedom, and had killed
its captor in the battle. The eagle had
evidently stolen march upon its cum
ming victim, but had greatly mistaken
its game. The ferret was held in such
manner as to infiict upon it no vital in
jury. Its head being enti- ely at liberty,
it had lacerated its captor in terrible
manner, and at length killed il. The
eagle was a monster, measuring four and
a half feet from tip to tip. The ferret
was promptly slaughtered by the fisher
men. The pair VIII be mounted in their
warike attitude.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28
Pcrilous Trip of an Eloping Girl.

John ChriSty, n wealthy farmer, re-
siding amile north of Munfordville, Ky,
near the banks Of Green River, has q
pretty eighteen-year-old daughter, Lu.
ella. Sandford Greer, young tiller of
the soil, dwelling near by, but ON the
other side Of the stream, loved Luella
and she loved him, but old man Christy
was opposed TO the match. He said that
Greer was not able to take care of wife,
and so his negative was emphatic Sand
ford and Lucia arranged TO elope, and
set the day for making the venture.
Luella is stropg-armed Kentucky girl,
and can row boat rs well as n man.
5andford did not dare venture on Mr..
Christy's side OF the river, and it was
agreed that Luella should pull across in
her fathers slllT to the opposite bank,
where her lover would meet her with
horses, and they would 60 to Munford-
vile. Owing TO the heavy rains, the
river rose rapidly, and became such a
torrent that it was dangerous for a beat
pulled by a single person, Young Greer
was unable to get word across for his
sweetheart not to venture, and the girl,
not daunted by the danger, started out TO
keep the appointment. Beiorche boat
was onc-tlurd the way across her lover
appeared on the opposite bank with two
horses, while her father, with a pistol,
reached the one she had Just left. He
had missed his daughter, and suspect
ing that she had intended TO elope, fol-
lowed her, swearing that he would kill
young Greer When no saw the girl on
The water he shouted to her to come
bacl, or she would be drowned, but she
padded boldly on for the opposite shore,
the force of the current sending her in
. diagonal direction. The angry father
was powerless. He had no other boat,
and he could do nothing but watch his
daughter either lose her life or reach tho
man she loved. But the girl pulled
with n strong and firm hand, and, al
though her boat several times came near
being overturned by the rushing cur
rent, she reached the bank where her
lover was waiting. Then they mounted
the horses, went to town, and were mar
ried. Chicago Herald.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28

years at half-past ten the other night.
John Galtman, a railroad coal-chute man,
was walking on the Fort Worth and Den
yer track, when train came along and he
stepped over to the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas track. The engine coming
up, ran him down and completely sew
cred his head from his body and cut off
one foot Galtman leaves wife and
two children living in San Diego, Cal.
1t is related of engine 153 that six
months ago it was ordered to be taken
from the Eastern to the Western Divis-
ion of the Texas and Pacific to do an
hours work. Before the hour had ex-
pircd it had killed n brakeman. 1t
has killed locomotive engineer
named Bond, a commercial traveller from
Memphis, locomotive fireman named
Thellman, and civil engineer. Three
months ago the cylinder head burst and
scalded the engineer, and it has only
been out of the shop two weeks. Rail
road men have superstitious fear OF
this locomotive.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28

One of them would PROSTATE himsel
before or upon it and wTithe about II
well simulated agony, beat his heac
mon the ground and in every possible
manner counterfeit grief that woule
mislead the most skeptlcal and sus
pieious.
They usually chose as a fit and con
venient spot for the commission OF the
murder, the quiet of a Jungle, in whose
dark recesses the body was hastily
buried, after ri9ing it Of every nova
BILE article. A grave, or more strictly
speaking, a deep hole, was hastily ex-
cavated, and then the corpse, after be-
ing horribly mutilated, was cast into 1t.
head downward. Ii was gashed IN many
places to prevent swelling, and thus
raising n mound OF causing cracks IN
the earth. which might attract beasts or
birds of prey, or perhaps reveal the
crime to some casual traveller passing IN
the vicinity. On some occasions the
legs were disjointed at the knees and
hips and turned backward upon the
body, but this was seldom resorted to
except when, from fear of discovery, the
murderers were compelled to dig hole
that in their haste was either too small
or too shallow.
The reasons given by these fiends for
mutilating and burying the bodies in
the manner described is as follows:
A certain goddess named Kali, their
patron saint, and to whom they paid the
greatest alteration, used TO relieve them
of the trouble of interring the corpses by
eating them-thus preventing any
after discovery. One day, however,
after making way, in the usual manner
with traveller, his body was left I'M
buried, and the Phansigars retired from
the scene TO allow Kali TO enjoy her
ghoulish feast in solitude. One OF their
without giving a second
thought, looked behind him and discoy-
cred her feasting upon the body. She
was furious at this act of presumption,
and registered a vow that never again
should morsel of human body offered
by the ''stranglers' cross her lips. In
addition TO this she withdrew her divine
protection from them, and despite their
earnest and pitiful appeals, refused to
them. Nevertheless, as a
slight equivalent for this priceless boon,
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28

UNLESS unforeseen obstacles are en-
countered within few months after the
beginning Of the next fiscal year July
y, contracts viii have been let FOR the
construction of new war vessels which
will in the aggregate increase the ton
mage of the navy by nearly $1,000 tons.
Although the majority of the new vessels
will be small craft compared with the
monster ironclads of Europe, they will
embody in their construction the latest
improved ideas, and, with their high
speed and heavy armament, will be very
formidable ships Of war.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28

THERE is a prevalent impression that
the great central plains of the West are
arid because they are without trees
that absence of forests is what makes
them dry. But science has taken hold
of the problem, and Major J. w. Powell,
Director of the Geological Survey, in a
letter to the Kansas City Times, explains
that the exact contrary is true-that the
plains are not arid because they are
trcless, but that they are treeless because
they are arid. He says that forests do
not probably increase the rainfall any
where, not even on the oft-qnoted Pyre-
necs, but that they regulate it so that
there are fewer storms. In a region
that is parched, he says, fires get head
way and destroy the trees, while humid
ity tends 10 protect forests. Ho lays
down an apothcgm 1.-THE dricr the
climate, the smaller the forests the
wetter the climate, tho greater the
forests" Major Powell goes on to say
that rain is not produced by electricity,
and :" to explain atmospheric changes
by athibuting them TO electricity is like
explaining the origin of fire by the light
it produces, or the explosion of powder
in cannon by attributing it TO the roar
heard in the distance Arid plains, he
asserts, will bear forests without arti-
fetal irrigation if protected from fires (;
they can thus be protected only when
the territory is populated, and it can
be thus populated only by the irriga-
ton of the meadows and valleys between
the hills where the forests will grow.
So the problem is to be solved at last
by practical irrigation, which is to re
deem the alkaline desert, and make il
luxuriant, habitable, and even attrac-
tive.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28

THE famous Barker will case has been
settled at Dover, N. II. Mr.. Barker
who was worth over $l,000,000, stipu-
lated in his will that his son Hiram
should receive 1000 a year for life, pro
vided that he did not become intoxi-
Gated; that in ten years he might draw
$3.50, 900, and the same amount every
succeeding ten years; but that in case
any time he became intoxicated he
should lose all. The son contested the
will on the ground that his father was
unduly preiudiced against him on the
question Of drinking, and that he was
not of sound mind. The jury returned
a verdict sustaining the will.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28

THE Army and Macy journal prints a
letter from naval officer, who suggests
that the ancients, who knew the value
of oiling troubled waters, learned this
method from observing the sea birds.
All fish-eating birds, cape pigeons, pet
rels, and the like, eject oil from the
mouth when captured. In the South
Atlantic and South Pacific the writer
had witnessed sea birds floating in
spaces of comparatively quiot water
when the sea around was rough. The
unusual smoothncss of the water was ev-
identity due to considerable quantities
Of oil deposited by the birds.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28

THE meeting of National and State
Railroad Commissioners at Washington,
in urging action toward doing away with
the link and pin coupler on freight ears,
brought out some astonishing statistics
showing the danger OF the continuance.
In Iowa where the law compclls the re-
porting of accidents, 2,424 mon have
been killed or manned by accidents in
the use of the pin coupler and hand
brake in ten years, and this on from
5000 to 5000 miles of road, while such
casualties on the 10000 miles of road
in the whole country are recloned at
5000 a year. Most OF the accidents are
due to the coupler, and indeed it is ne
cessary to see coupling done with 1t
bnt once to realize the very hazardous
nature of the operation.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28
More Free Fireworks

Mount Pelado, IN the Mexican IN
of ToIasco (some eighty miles soa.'.'il.
of Ve1a CRUZ. has become an ac'i'e 70 -
cano. and ON the night of JanaaE!. ~, T.
40 emitted n Storm Of flames that LIZ,
minated the horizon OF long -
coast-hills on the Gulf OF Hoiaa...rl
clear across the uplands OF the p5ii-.ir ord
of Yucatan. Cinder-drifts sliil - si
the atmosphere Of the neisipgissi,-,.55
and streams of a Spurious crimson I .;sr
possibly solution Of ferruglno,s5s ~. ~, 4,
have colored the waters OF the o 81 M
River for many miles. The h ,is5ir K
of Western Talasco are undonp'e.-.l5 sr
volcanic origin, but up to last De- h
only the abundance of hot spfllsr ,s,r
traved the activity of a subteii.1N'r
furnace.-Drakc's Magazine.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28

MANY thieves ply their businessa lmos.
exclusively at funerals. They come in
at the front door, explains New York
detective, with the clergy, tho bearers,
or any respectable people with whom
they may fall in. Once inside the
door, the whole house and everybody in
it are at the mercy Of their clever and
industrious fingers. It is an easy mat
ter for one Of them to slip upstairs and
rifle the chambers while the solemn
services are in progress. Servants are
easily persuaded that he is only the I'M
dertaker's man, and nobody else would
have sufficient assurance or cause of
suspicion to intercept him. Then the
crowded drawing room or hall offers the
adept pocket tempting harvest. /"
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28

The people of Holland are Just awak-
ening to the fact that that country IS
without any adequate military defense
against invasion by a hostile power. IT
seems that In 1876 there was a period of
alarm on this account and the Govern
ment tore down most of the forhifi ca
tons then in existence, with the view Of
replacing them with others better fitted
to withstand the improved appliances of
modern warfare. But there the work
stopped, and now the country is practi-
cally without defense save by opening
the bikes and flooding vast territory
a means fully as disastrous to the poo
pie as to any possible invading force.
Il is thought that Germany may have
designs ON the coast of Holland, which
could enable the former country to
carry out her several projects with great
er ease.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28
HOW no LIVE.

60 should we live that every hour
May die as dies the natural flower
A selfreviving thing Of power;
That every thought and every deed
May hold within itself the seed
OF future good and future need.
Lord Houghton.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28

"Some people haveque ideas about
ice, " says an official of an ice company
in the Kingston On. Y. Fireman. "They
imagine a cake of ice that viii weigh 800
pounds when it is housed will weigh as
much when it is taken out several
months after. They don't seem to real
ize that there is waste of 30 to 60 per
cent in ice in houses during season,
Then there are people who will not have
pure ice taken fEpm ponds, because it
bleaches and looks like snow ice. They
prefer river ice, which is not so pure and
clean. OF course this makes it better
for the ice companies, for crop can be
harvested from the Hudson River much
cheaper than it can from ponds which
are located long distances from the
houses"
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28

RUSSIAN statesmen, from Count Tolstoi
down, are aiding in the organization OF
societies for the prevention and suppress
sion of inebriety. Total abstinence, ex-
cept from light cider and kvass, an acid
drink with little alcohol, is the rule they
seek to establish for hard drinkers.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28

THE average age of President HarIi-
sons Cabinet is 81 years, while that of
Washington was 80 years-the youngest
of any of the Cabinets, Lincolns, was
So. Alexander Hamilton, Washington S
Secretary of the Treasury, who was APP
pointed at 80, was the youngest member
of any of the Cabinets, and Lewis Cass,
Buchanan's Secretary of State at rs,
the Oldest.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28

The Grand Army of Labor is new
organization recently started in Califor
mia. Its objects are declared to be "to
lend assistance TO any country that is
struggling for freedom from a monarch
ical form of government.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

SECRETARY of War Proctor, is Yer
mont's second Cabinet officer. jacob
Collamer, who was Postmaster General
in Willard Fillmore's Cabinet, was the
first.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28
THE THUGS OF INDIA
BY L. 7. PEALE.

AMONG the many
theories advanced con
corning the identity Of
the author of the
Whitechapel butcher
les is the peculiar one
that he is a Thug, OF
Phansigar; but the fall
lacy of such a notion
is clearly proven by
the following historic
nj facts:
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28

OF powerful ships carrying the heav-
lest guns Italy has some of the finest
ahoat. In effective fighting strength
she probably ranks third, England and
France taking precedence.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28

WHAT is known among railroad men
as the ''hoodooed" locomotive, No. 153, a
switch engine of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Road, killed its sixth man in two
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-11-16

drive back to the ferry. tie too
stormy a night to go blocking for Clara;
besides, she's thousands Of miles
away"
"Clarar' cried Mrs. Elliot Don't
speak Of Clara.-how dare YOU'D"
''She very nearly ruined me, my
dear. / threw away lots OF money on
her" said Mr.. Elliot, "but she is
looking up now. My dear, l know
you've been rummaging my pockets
and reading my letters for two years,
but l only found out what you sus-
pected when my mother told me that
you had asked her If l had ever known
lady named Clara before met you. +"
"Oh, Frank, don't try TO deceive
mel" sobbed Lizzie. II read the note
the woman left to-night-I--"
"Oh, / knew it," said Mr.. Elliot. "it
was fixed for you to read. wrote 1t
to myself, and my mother left it at the
door at dinnev-timo gave her a sig
nal from the window that she might
know you were coming downstairs, and
I've kept an eye on you've watched
you ever since you left the door. My
dear child, l never knew a Clara ir
my life; l never had doubtful love
affair even as boy. The note you
saw was about an oil we'll in which
had shares. She was tickle creature,
! admit, and made me anxious, but
since you were bound to be jesl.
GUS"
Carriage, SIR" said the driver.
"Mr Elliot lifted his shoeless wife
into the vehicle. And halfway homa
she vowed that she would never for
give him, but the other half she wept
upon his vest"
81 felt so helpless without my
Shoes" she declared, "that my spirit
was fairly broken"
But at all events she was never ieal.
Gus of Cara again. Preside Corr
panion.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-11-16
TWO IRISH GIANTS.
Interesting Details Concerning Thel
Height and Habits.

interesting Details Concerning TheIB
Height and Habits.
Probably the only giants of past days
concerning whom details of a thor.
oughly authentic character havo beer
preserved are Patrick Cotter, alias
Patrick Cotter O'Brien, and Charles
Byrne, both individuals hailing from
the sister island. There is preserved
in the museum of Trinity College
Dublin, the skeleton of third irish
man, named Magrath, whose case at
tanned some notoriety in consequence
OF DIR. Campbell's statement, in his
work entitled "A Philosophical Survey
OF Ireland" that Magrath's growth
was caused by Bishop Berkeley's ex-
pertinent Of feeding the lad. There
exists little or no foundation for
this statement, which probably arose
from the fact that Magrath,
having at the age of sixteen attained
stature of over six feet, and being
poorly fed, presented fit case for the
exercise of the kindly Bishops chart
ty. He accordingly caused Magrath
to receive q liberal diet for about a
month, this treatment restoring the
overgrown lad to health. At his death
Magrath measured seven feet eight
inches. In the British Magazine for
1888, the death of Charles Byrne, one
of the giants just mentioned, is duly
chronicled. From this source we learn
that Byrne measured exactly eight
feet in height in August, 1880; whilst
in 1882 his stature had gained two
inches, and when dead his full length
was eight feet four inches" His death,
sad to relate, is alleged to have been
caused by excessive drinking ito
which, says the writer in the British
Magazine, The was always addicted
but more particularly since his late
loss of all his property, which
he had simply invested in
q single bank-note of E70O.
In his last moments" continues tho
narrator, "he requested that his re.
mains be thrown into the sea, in order
that his bones might be removed far
out Of the reach of the chirurgical
fraternity; in consequence OF which,
we are further informed, 1.-The body
was put on board vessel, conveyed to
the Downs, and sunk in 20 fathoms OF
water" Byrne died, it is necessary to
add, in Cockspur street, Charing Cross.
at the age of twenty-five. The state.
ment that the remains of the giant
were buried at sea is quite erroneous,
since, after all, the "chirurgical fra
ternity," represented by the famous
John Hunter contrived after much
trouble and the payment of 4500 to
secure his body -Once Week.