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The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
How to Boil m Egg.

Not one cook in fifty, nor housekeeper |either, knows how to boil an egg. And yet most people think they know this simple matter. They will tell you to drop it into boiling water and let it re- 'main three minutes, and to be sure the water is boiling. Here is where the mis- bake is made. An, egg so prepared is
 indigestible and hardly fit for a well person, let alone one who is sick, to eat.
 The moment it is plunged into boiling
 water the white hardens and toughens.
 To boil an egg properly put it in 8 yes
 bel, cover with cold water, place over Ehe fire and the second the water begins
 10 boil your egg is done. The white is as
 lelicate as a jelly and as easily digested
 hnd nutritious, as it should be. Try it..
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
The F1v Too Bie a FooI.

Put fly on window and up he goes toward the top; he can't be made to walk downward. A St. Louis inventor hit upon an idea. Why not use that habit against them? Forthwith he made window screen divided in half. The upper half Tapped over the lower, with an inch of space between. As soon as fly would light on the screen he would proceed to travel upward, and would thus walk straight out of doors. On reaching the top of the lower half he would be outside. Not being able to walk down he had no way to return to the room By this means a room can be quickly cleared of flies, which always seek the light.
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
The Juioiost watermelons.

am often asked why watermelons are so exceptionally delicious when eaten on the ground they grow on. The reason is this: When grower wants to treat his friends he selects melon with 8 very thin skin. These are always the most delicious and they are always to be found in watermelon patch, but they won't stand a long railway journey and have to be kept for local consumption. Most farmers prefer the tougher and thicker skinned variety, because these stand weather variations better and will travel as comfortably as pig-iron. The thin skinned melons are of Spanish introduce tion and are much prized in districts where the extreme heat brings them to perfection.-St Louis Globe.
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
Keeping MIX Without Ice.

Housekeepers who cannot afford ice during the summer meet their greatest difficulty in trying to keep milk. That they can easily overcome by canning it as they do fruits. These should first be thoroughly washed, then boiled or baked in the oven for half an hour longer. This should be done before the milk arrives. As soon as it comes, put it into the jars and tightly screw down the lids. Place them in a steamer over cold water, which should be heated gradually. Keep the jars steaming for not less than an hour, then screw the lids down and make them air tight. If this process is rightly con- ducted the milk in the jars ought to keep unchanged for at least a week. It is also freed from all disease germs, as @ carrier of which it is notorious
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
Hot Water Relieves Thirst.

It is mistake to suppose that cold drinks are necessary to relieve thirst. Very cold drinks, as rule, increase the feverish condition of the mouth and stomach, and so create thirst. Experi- ence shows it to be a fact that hot drinks relieve thirst and ''cool off 7 the body when it is in an abnormally heated con- dition better than ice-cold drinks. It is far better and safer to avoid the free use of drinks below sixty degrees; ID fact. a higher temperature is to be preferred i; and those who are much troubled with thirst will do well to try the advantages to be derived from hot drinks, instead of cold fluids to which they have been accustomed. Hot drinks also have the advantage of aiding digestion, instead of causing debility of the stomach and bowels
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
The First kisa.

She came to meet me by the sunlit stream. The large, low orb turning her hair to gold, bunch of dusky violets in the fold Screening her throat, white as an angels dream. would have claimed my first kiss then and
 there,
 Had not hidden blue-btrd trilled, " Beware" She came again, when the cool breasted night Was tricked with silver by tho broad, white moon.
 I heard my heart say "soon, ah sweet, how
 soon Thy lips and mine shall blend!" But so the
 light
 Fell on her brow and eyes of amethyst, She seemed too pure, too holy to be kissed. Again, when sun and moon had left the skies Unto the stars, those lamps to guide young
 love,
 Shy as a hawk, more gentle than dove, My sweetheart came and looked into my eyes And murmured words of love- Then, ere
 knew,
 My lips were fed on roses sweet with dew.
 Charles Henry Luders, in N. Y. Ledger.
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
The Color of Front.

An authority says that the color of a trout's back depends upon the color of
 the bottom of the river, but the trout which grow rapidly differ greatly in Espots ana color from those which grow slowly and thrive badly, and middle Jagged trout differs in color from an angel trout. Speaking generally, the young, lhealthy, fast-growing fish will have sil- livery sides, white belly and plenty of well defined spots. The poorly fed fish X will have few or no spots, a drab belly and muddy-yellow sides. The old trout | will be much the same in appearance, lonly more so and will be particularly Hank and large headed. This accounts flor those trout which have excess to salt water being brighter and more beautiful
 than others which do not. The variety and abundance of their food makes them sso. o."-American Angler
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
LUKE MASON ]!
 A THRILLING
 ROMANTIC STORY The Late Civil War. By JOHN R. MUslCK,
By JOHN R. MUslCK.'
CHAPTER XIV.

CHAPTER XIV.
 "KrLL HE, MAssA, AND DE SECRET oB YouB
 B1RF DIES."
 After the battle of Fort Donelson Gen. eral Grant, the hero of that fight. was temporarily removed from command. The only cause for removing him that has ever been given is that orders sent General Grant were never received, and of course he could not obey them, but took matters in his own hand and acted independently. The impartial student of history will very readily come to the conclusion that it was well for the cause of the Union that Gen. eral Grant never received those orders, for if he had, instead of pushing on and seizing Nashville and even Donelson, he would have had to lay at Fort Henry. West Point has made some good military men among the thousands turned out from that institution i: but General Grants common sense was of more value to his country than all his early military training.
 On the 17th of March, 1869, Grant was re- stored to command, and found the Union army in his district divided, one part being on the east side of the Tennessee at Savan- nah, while one part was at Crump's Land ing on the west bank four miles further up the river, while 8 third division was at Pittsburg Landing, which was still five miles further up the river.
 The loss of Forts Henry, Donelson and Nashville had greatly demoralized the Con- federates, and to once more bring the army into something like marching orders, Gen eral Sidney Johnston, one of the most efi- cient commanders in the Southern army, began concentrating all the available forces at Corinth. The wisdom of this action must be acknowledged by all military men. John ston had learned the kind of a man Grant was. Corinth was the junction of two of the most important railroads in the Missis- sippi valley-one connecting Memphis, and the other the Mississippi river with the East, and the other leading to all the cotton States of the South. Still another railroad connected Corinth with Jackson, in West Tennessee.
 Grant at once saw that if he obtained pos session of Corinth the enemy would have
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
THE ODELL w RITER.

NO0 will buy the ODELL TYPE WRITER OEU and CHECK PERFoRAToR, with T8 characters, and $15 for the SINGLE CASE ODELL, warranted to do better work than any machine made.
 It combines Simplicity and Durability, Speed, Ease of Operation, wears longer machine. Has DO ink ribbon to bother the operator. It is Neat, Substantial, nickel plated, perfect and adapted to all kinds of type writing. Like a printing press, it produces sharp, clean, legible manuscripts. Two to ten copies can be made at one writing. Any intelligent per son can become good operator in two days. We offer $1,00O to any operator who can elual the work of the DOUBLE CASE ODELL.
 Reliable agents and salesmen wanted. Special inducements to dealers.
 For Pamphlet giving inducements, etc., address
 Odell Type Writer Co.,. ,. RooKERY BUILDING, CHICAGO, ILL-
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
HOW IT TASTES AT FIRST.
Bad Boys First Experience With
 ChaxUinu, T,oI,aeos.

e Bad Boys First Experience With
 Chewing Tobacco.
 The boy said it was peculiar kind of
 bacco, and was known as molasSes to- scco, because it was sweet. The other Hoys did not ask how he came to know NUS name or where he got it--boys never Lsk anything that it would be we'll for
 them to know-but they accepted his
 heory and his further sta+Snent that it Fas of mildness singulariy adapted to 8earners without misgiving. The boy Was himself chewing vigorously on 8 Barge quid, and launching the juice from bis lips, right and left, like grown per-
 pn, and my boy took as large bite as Dis benefactor bade him. He found 1t as Sweet as he had been told it was, and he Acknowledged the aptness of it's name
 If molasses tobacco. It seemed to him S} golden opportunity to acquire a noble Nlabit on easy terms.
 VI He let the quid rest in his cheek, as he Mad seen mon do, when he was not Brushing it between his teeth, and for Mpme moments he poled his plank up
 nd down the canal boat with 8 sense of
 fiumph that nothing marred.
 Then all of sudden he began to feel bale. The boat seemed to be going
 Hound and the sky wheeling overhead. The sun was lodging about very strange FRy. Drops Of sweat burst from the boys orehead !; he let go his pole and said he Thought he would go home. The fellow rho gave him the tobacco began to augh and the other fellows to mock, but my boy did not mind them. Some how, he did not know how, he got out of &he canal boat and started homeward, but at every step the ground rose as high as his knees before him, and then, when he got his foot high enough and began to put it down the ground was hot there.
 He was deathly sick as he reeled and on, and when he reached home |hnd showed himself, white and haggard, |to his frightened mother he had scarcely strength enough to gasp out confession |of his attempt to retrieve the family |honor by learning to chew tobacco. In |another moment nature came to his re- lief, and then he fell into a deep sleep which lasted the whole afternoon, so that it seemed to him the next day when he woke up, glad to find himself alive, if not so lively.
 Perhaps he had swallowed some of the poisonous juice of the tobacco; perhaps it had acted upon his brain without that. His father made no very close inquiry into the facts, and he did not forbid him the use of tobacco. 1t was not neces- sary 1; in that one little experience he had enough for whole life time. 1t shows that after all boy is not so hard to sat- isfy in everything .-Harper's Young Peo- rn1p
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
Hot Soup on Tap.

An automatic inventor has proposed 10 provide luncheon machine, running |rom twelve to one midday, and from Eve to six of an evening. This is to be (Or the benefit of Workmen in particu- lar, though needy poets and dramatists hay take advantage of 1t.
 For ten-cent piece inserted into the machine basin of soup will be deliver Rd, also a piece of bread. The soup lows from a tap for certain time, and may run to waste or be caught in a
 bowl at discretion; this article the pur-
 ihaser must bring to the aforesaid spout, Nj he may apply his lips to 1t. The in
 kentor does not desire gain. but to do an
 let of benevolence towards the poor.
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
THE WORLDS TELEeRAPHs.
Interesting Facts and Figures Gathered
 in Many Countries.

 Interesting Facts and Figures Gathered
 in Many Countries.
 Sixty-one per cent. of the telegraph lines of the world are owned and oper- Rted by the governments. Of the sum total of lines, those in the United States constitute more than 30 per cent Leav- ing this country out of consideration, about ss per cent. of the remainder is under control of governments; or, leav- ing the United States and Canada out, fully 95 per cent is owned by govern ments. There are at least 2,50o, 900 miles of wires in use in the world.
 Tariffs vary greatly. In North Amer ica the body of the message only is charged for; in other countries the ad- dress, or signature. or both are tolla- ble. In the United States the toll ranges from 25 cents to $1 for 10 words, according to the distance; in the Ar- genuine Republic it is 40 cents for 10 words; in Denmark and in Sweden and Norway, 13.4 cents for 10 words, and 13.4 cents for each additional word; in Ecuador, 50 cents for 10 words; in Egypt, 4S.6 cents for 10 words; in Ger many 1. 4 cents per word, the minimum being 14 cents per message; in the United Kingdom 6 pence for 12 wordss in the Cape Colonies, 1 shilling for 10 words, and 6 pence for each additional five words or part thereof; in Guatemala, 25 cents for 10 words, exclusive of the address; in Hon. duras, 25 cents for 10 Spanish wordss and double that amount for English words; in Italy, 20 cents for 15 words. and cent for each additional word; in Japan, cents per word, including the address and signature; in Portugal, 5 cents for the first word, and cent for each additional word; in Roumania, 1.56 cents per word; in Siam, from 35 cents to $S. 65 cents per word; in Switzerland, one- half cent per word; in Turkey, to 4 cents per word, and in Venezuela, 20 cents for 12 words. In New Zealand mes- sages are classified as urgent, ordinary, and delayed, the rates being respect lively shillings, shilling and six pence for 10 words, with halfpenny for each additional word.
 Tn mileage. relative number of offices, popular use of the telegraph and cost of sending message, we are not in ad- vance of leading countries. and we are even behind some of the inferior ones. Within the years 1870-s9 the increase in population in England has been 1s per cent, the increase in the number of let ters carried 70 per cent, and the in- crease in the number of telegrams 455 per cent In the United States in the same time the increase in population has been 50 per cent and the increase in the number of messages 3S0 per cent. In the ratio of increase of messages to increase of poptllation the English have beaten us three to one. Forum.
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
Fire Frorn Steam Pipes.

In an article on the danger of fire from steam pipes, in German paper, it is said that after wood has remained a long time in contact with steam, hot water or hot air pipes the surface be- comes carbonized, and during warm weather the charcoal absorbs moisture i; when again heated the moisture is driven of, leaving a vacuum into which the fresh air current, circulating around the pipes, rapidly penetrates and imparts it's oxy gen to the charcoal, causing 2 gradual heating and eventually combustion.
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
Braathed Under Water.

A French traveller recently ventured through a mountainous district of Cor sica without escort or any means of pro- tection, and in crossing particular rough and craggy region. found himself pursued by band Of brigandS.
 As the traveller had some money on his person, and feared that besides being robbed he would be held in captivity for ransom, even if he were not put to death, he took to flight.
 Knowing little of the country, he soon stumbled upon the border of a lake in the mountains. There was no path around it; it was impossible to swim across and the brigands were behind him, ethough he was hidden from them as yet
 Eniaa- -Eaeks, R Whatever he did must be done in an instant. He hastily cut with his knife one of the long hollow reeds that grew on the shore of the lake. Then he stop ped up his ears and nostrils with wet clay from the margin, took the reed in his mouth and waded out into deep water, where he remained submerged, with upturned face, just allowing the upper end of the reed to project above the surface.
 On came the brigands, following the travellers tracks to the waters edge. But what had become of him? Had he flown across? Certainly he could not nave SWuln. 1l0T0 WaS uO Obu0I Way Ol escape and the surface had by this time stilled to perfect calm.
 The brigands remained waiting on the shore for some time, but no sign of the traveller appeared. They concluded at last that he was sorcerer, who had caused himself to vanish into the air.
 Then they disappeared and the French man, who had been under water all the time, breathing through his tube, came out. He managed to keep under cover, and make his way to Ajaccio, and there he declared that he had been under water four hours.-N. Y. Morning Jorunal.
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
4 Small Pair.

Mrs. Jack Potts-I'm worried to death about my husband. He's just about worn who is evidently so far gone that he can't even move himself in bed, for Jack keeps muttering in his sleep, I'll raise you, old man."-Westborough Tribune.
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11
Too late, alas, too late.

dealer charged it's weight In gold For bits of ice so small and cold, But after he died he cried in pain: 'What wouldn't give for that Ice again"
 -Philadelphia Times Census Enumerator (to head of house) )-..Are you married or unmar- risd, sir?" Head of the house Mar ried.n Enumerator Ia little Iaterl-- Have you wife?" Head-( (astonish- ed)-..Yes." Enumerator - sEr-male or .female?" Head (now thoroughly aroused )-''That. sir, is one of the ques- tions I am not going to answer. ."-Lowell Citizen
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11

eyes. He leaned for moment against tree for support, and when he next looked at the negro he had picked up his gun and was coolly walking away.
 Luke returned to his command and with what prisoners they had captured they re- turned to their, quarters near Shiloh Church. He deemed 1t best to tell nothing of his adventure with Blackhawk and Sneed, for it seemed to be one link in the dark mystery of his own life.
The weekly examiner., 1890-10-11

stPat, is this true that hear?'' "An what's that, yer honer?'
 9Th at you are going to marry again" 9Th ats so, yer honor"
 But your first wife has only been dead a week"
 s.Sure she's as dead now as she iver will be, yer or."-Pick-M Me-Up.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-24
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE.

TNHOMAS GORMLEY, PLAINTIFF VS.. FRANK
i w. Engels, Carrie NJ Engels, his wife, and
S. NJ. Perry, defendants:
Sherif7s Sale. No. 49, ,239.
Order of sale and decree of foreclosure and
sale.
decree of foreclosure and sale, issued out of the
Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles State
of California, on the 10th day of May, A. D. 1890,
in the above entitled action, wherein Thomas
Gormley, the above-named plaintiff, obtained a
Judgment and decree of foreclosure and sale
against Frank w. Engels, Carrie M. Engels
and S. NJ. Perry, defendants, on the 18th
s2,662 95 in lawful NOR ey OF the United States
which said decree was, on the 10th day OF May,
A. ID. 1890, recorded in judgment book II of
said Court, at page 2SS, am commanded to
sell all those certain lot, piece or parcel OF
land situate, lying and being in the city and
county of Los Angeles, state OF California, and
bounded and described as follows:
Lot number five ~ of the Dunkelberger
tract as per map recorded in book No. five (5),
page 552 of miscellaneous records of said
county
Public notice is hereby given, that on Mon
day, the 9th day of June, A. d. 1890, at II
o'clock M, of that day, in front of the. Court
House door of the County OF Los Angeles, on
Spring street, will, in obedience to said order
OF sale and decree of foreclosure and sale, sell
the above described property, or so much there
of as may be necessary to satisfy said Judgment
with interest and costs, etc, to the highest and
best bidder, for cash, lawful money OF the
| United States.
Dated this 10th day of Msy' " = lsso; sau,pRr
Sheriff of Los Angeles County.
By A. M. THosNToN, Under. Sheriff
Jones & Carlton, attorneys for plaintiff.
| ma17-sat-4t
Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-24
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Letters to Eastern Mayors-The Per
manent Exhibit.

Secretary Patton, of the chamber of
commerce, yesterday addressed letters to
the mayors of sixteen eastern cities
where public markets exist, asking for
information with regard to the success
of the plan, and for description and
explanation of it's workings.
The donations to the permanent ex-
hibit yesterday were as follows: ]. G..
McCallum, of Palm Spring ranch, San
Diego county, new apricots and figs; H.
J. Ketcham, of La Canada, French
prunes; M. w. Suinott, of Monte Vista,
Cahuenga valley, new sweet corn, first OF
the season; Percy Knott, OF Pasadena,
plums.
Flowers were donated by G. H. Schram,
Mr.. Smith, Mrs. Connell and Master
Graves.
Yesterday was the regular day fol
making shipments to California on
Wheels, and the following articles were
sent: One box of vegetables, from M
M. Cobb; one large pumpkin, from
Charles Epps, of Whittier; one box or
anges and lemons.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-24

now universally known medicine has
been advertised in the Graphic for four
or five years, but not until recently had
we any personal knowledge of it's won
derful efficacy, which has come about
through the prevailing influenza and
the stubborn cough that has so often at
tended it. In the writer's family this
medicine has on several occasions this
winter cured cough that baffied any
and all other remedies and the number
of families in Kimball and vicinity in
which this remedy has been used with
like effects attests to its value as a spe-
ciic for coughs and colds of every
nature. For sale by G. F. Heinzeman,
222 North Main street, and all leading
druggists.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-24
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

CUPERIOR COURT OF THE COUNTY OF
y Los Angeles, State of California.
In the matter of the estate CT S. c. Douglas,
deceased.
White Mortimer, administrator of the estate of
S. c. Douglas, deceased, to the creditors of and
all persons having claims, against said
deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers within four months after the first
publication of this notice to the said admins
traitor, at his Office in Temple block,on Main
Angeles, county and state Aforesaid, the same
being the place for the ransaCtion of the bust
ness OF said estate, in the county of Los Angeles,
state of California
G. WHITE MORTIMER,
Administrator of the estate of s. c. Douglas,
deceased
Dated at Los Angeles, May II, 1890, said
date being date of first publication of above.
ma17-s9t5t
Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-24
A Noteworthy Exception.


While the columns of the Graphic
are open to any and all unobjectionable
advertisements, yet it is quite impossssi-
BILE for us to speak knowingly OF the
merits of the various articles of mer-
chandise advertised. Particularly is this
true OF patent medicines. But there
are exceptions occasionally and note
worthy exception is the celebrated
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. This