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Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-17
Got a &75 Pearl with His Dinner.

Edward Malley was eating dinner at
Heublein's recently, and among the first
dishes served was oysters on the half
shell. He picked up one of the oysters
with his fork from the shell, and his eye
was attracted by white substance which
had been concealed under the oyster. 1t
was pearl of extraordinary size and ex-
ceptionally fine quality, although it was
entirely in the rough state. It was ex-
amined by several gentlemen who werc
present, and it was universally conceded
to be remarkable gem. Mr.. Mallev
placed its value at $75, and this estimate
was accepted as being none too high.
He proposes to have it finished up and
mounted. The oyster in which the gem
was found came from one of the local
dealers and was taken from a bed in the
Sound. New Haven Register.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-17
skin Grafting by Machinery.

Saturday morning, at the Massachu-
setts General hospital, a little instru-
ment, invented by DR.. Mixter, wonder
full in its simplicity, constructed so as
to separate quite large portions of epi-
dermis from the subcutaneous tissue,
was used for the first time.
The patient had been etherized, and had
undergone an operation for the removal
of cancerous growth from the left
breast, and the wound thus made was
quite an extensive one. The instrument
was applied to the anterior portion of
the right thigh, and three strips, about
an inch wide by six inches long, were
taken off and transplanted to the ex-
posed surface of the breast. The opera
ton of removing the skin and trans
planting it to its new quarters did not
occupy more than about six minutes.
A very few days will suffice to restore
the denuded surface of the thigh to its
normal condition, leaving few traces of
the reparatiye process to which it has
contributed, and, other things being
equal, the surface from which the can
cerous tumor has been excised will heal
over by first intention, thus saving the
patient from a prolonged and painful
period of convalescence. Of course, every
precaution is taken, by the use of steril-
izing processes and antiseptic solutions, to
render the operation thoroughly aseptic,
so that the chances of infammatory dis
turbances from bacterial sources are re-
JroaJ ~ +ha lou,act mi NJ iy,or,1o
The thickness of these delicate human
plasters probably does not exceed one
sixtieth of an inch, and the resulting
hemorrhage is not more than what one
sees on slight abrasion of the skin, OF
it may be compared to the sanguineous
oozing one gets from too earnest tonsorial
attention. Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-17
She Stopped Smiling.

A young lady, wearing stylish cos
tune in a jaunty manner, stepped off a
car at Madison avenue and Forty-third
street Wednesday. She suddenly had
occasion to get down on all fours in the
mud, and, settling over on her side, sank
broadside into the aristocratic Murray
Hill slush. A woman standing at the
edge of the curb near saw her prostrate
sister and smiled. While she was smil-
ing gust of wind blew off her little cap
and placed it in the center of a large,
deep puddle. Words fail to give an idea
of the misery of the jaunty maid. The
moral is obvious.-New York Continent.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-17
Suicides of Peers,

1t may be interesting to mention that
there are no fewer than twelve cases on
record during the present century of sui
eide among memberss of the peerage
These are Lord French, Lord London
derry, Lord Greaves, Lord James Beres-
ford, Lord Munster, Lord Congleton,
Lord Forth, Lord Cloncurry, Lord Wal
singham, Lord Delawarr, Lord Lyttle-
ton and Lord Shaftesbury. Besides these
DR.. Samuel Butcher, bishop of Meath,
took his own life in 1876, and the Dow
ager Lady Howe met similar tragic
end in the following year.-London Tit
Bits.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-17
Notice of Guardians Sale of Real
Estate.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN
~ pursuance of an order of the Superior
Court, Department 2: of the county OF Los An.
geles State of California, made on the 31st
day OF March, 1891, in the matter of the estate
and guardianship of William X. Greed, an in
sane person, the undersigned, guardian of the
person and estate of said insane person, will
sell, at private sale to the highest bidder for
cash, in gold coin of the United States, and sub
ject to confirmation thereof by said Superior
Cpurt. on Saturday, the I'd day Of May, 1891, at
Fulton block in the city and county of Los
Angeles, all the right, title, interest and estate
of said insane person in and to all that certain
lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and
being in the city and county of Los Angeles,
State of California and particularly described
as follows:
of Grand avenue formerly Charity street, forty
two feet and nine inches southerly from the
southeasterly corner of Eighth andGrand avenue
streets, and running thence forty-two feet and
nine inches southerly along the easterly line OF
Grand avenue to point.
Thence running one hundred and sixty-fve
feet easterly parallel with the southern line OF
Eighth street to point.
Thence running northerly forty-two feet and
nine inches parallel with the eastern boundary
line of Grand avenue to point.
Thence westerly one hundred and siXty-five
feet parallel with the southern boundary line
of Eighth st.eet to the place of beginning, and
being part OF lots number nineteen and
twenty Il 8 and 20l in block number fifty-four
(54) of the Huber Tract according to the official
survey OF said Huber Tract recorded 26th of
October, 872, in book 2, at page $50 of Miscel
laneous Records of the Recorders office of said
county of Los Angeles, and being the same prop
erty described in the inventory of said estate as
"forty- three feet lot on Charity street, between
Eighth and Ninth streets"
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE.
Cash in gold coin upon confirmation thereof
by said Superior Court.
Bids or offers may be made at any time after
the first publication of this notice and before
the making of the sale. All bids or offers must
be in writing and left at the office of Jones &
Carlton, 3 and Fulton block, in said city of
Los Angeles, or delivered to the undersigned
personally.
Dated April 8, 1891,
Guardian OF the person and estate OF said
insane person. 4-lO-zt
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-17
A ushand,S Mistake

Husbands too often permit wives, and parents
their childrdn, to suffer from headache, dizzi-
ness, neuralgia, seeplessness, fits, nervousness,
when by the use of DR.. Miles Restorative Ner-
vine such serious results could easily be pre-
vented Druggists everywhere say it gives uni
versal satisfaction, and has an immense sale.
Woodwork & Co, of Fort Wayne, Ind; Snow. &
Co., of Syracuse, N. Y; j, G.. Wolf Hillsdale,
Mich, and hundreds of others say sit is the
greatest seller they ever knew" 1t contains no
opiates. Trial bottles and fine book on Nervous
Diseases free, at all druggists.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-17
Excitement in a Belgian Town.

It is promised that it will not be long
before a certain small town in Belgium
is lighted by electricity. 1t appears that
thirty years ago the municipality entered
into contract with the local gas com
pany for the public lighting of the town.
It was agreed that the price should be
dxed at 5000 per annum, the contract
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-17
Effects of the Indian Climate.

Among the 600 men composing the
First battalion of the Scottish Borderers
(the old Twenty-ffth), which will arrive
from Burmah in week OF two, there
are only six who went out with the regi-
ment to India in 1875. These are the
sergeant major, a sergeant and four
members of the band.-London Tit Bits.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-17
A Hard Winter in Maine,

The present winter has been severe on
country parsons in Maine. One preacher
in Knox county, after working hard all
the evening breaking through the drifts,
arrived in sight of the church just in
time to see the lights blown out. The
people had given him up and gone home.
Boston Journal,
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-17
Only One Thing Left to Do.

elbow did you stand the ordeal of lis
tening to DR.. Prosys lecturer"
"Stand it? Why, man, couldn't even
sit it. skipped it in about five min.
utes. ."-Munsey's Weekly.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-17
Commercial Lunch

Will be served by the Eintracht, 163 N. Spring
street, from IL to every day. Kitchen is
under ladies' management.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-17

Eastern Produce Co., 1913 East First st.
Best eastern hams, lie and 1870; bacon,
10c, lie and 12c; pork, 10c; lard, &c.
Creamery butter, 25c and SOC. Best roll
butter always on hand.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-17
NORTH RED0NDo!
A Home by the Seaside!
Fertile Farms Where Cool BreezeS Blow !
Superb


stland
the
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Room kbock,c EADs doBechPO
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-23
BROUGHT HIM DOWN.
Determined Young Woman Conquers
the Terror of the School.

A Determined Young Woman Conquers
the Terror of the School
Twas driving along highway in Woods
County, o., with a man who was selling
farming machines to farmers, and about
two o'clock in the afternoon we came
to a district school-house. The school
ma'am and about twenty scholars
stood under an elm tree, about forty
feet high, near the house, and in the
topmost branches of the tree was boy
about fourteen years old.
ANY thing wrong here?" asked my
friend, as we halted before the door.
''Budd Hawkins says he won't and the
teacher says he must" called a little
girl.
The teacher herself then came for
ward. She was plain-looking girl of
about twenty, with mouth showing
great frmness, and, with some embar-
sassment, she explained:
Its the terror of the school. He re-
fused to mind, and | STATED to whip
nim. He broke away and ran out and
climbed the tree. I've been up about
twenty feet, but had to give it up and
come down"
Yer can't conquer mel" shouted the
boy.
''Budd, order you to come down."
Il won't!''
II have sent for an axe, and here it
someS," she said, as she turned to US.
Hell come down with the tree if rot
before"
We offered to use the axe, but she de-
elined the offer with thanks, and, step
ping to the tree, she swung the imple-
ment around and buried the blade in the
wood.
You dasntr' shouted Budd from the
top.
I'll doit or resign?' she answered, as
she struck several blows.
At the end of three minutes the tree
began to totter and Budd to yell in
alarm, and a few seconds later it fell
with crash. l thought the boy was
badly hurt, if not killed, and was re-
lieved as the school-ma' am sprang for
ward, yarked him out of the branches,
and while applying a CAD with one hand
she pulled him into the school-house
with the other, saying:
''Now, Budd awkins, you've got 20
do some Of the awfullest begging ever
heard of in the State OF Ohio, or won't
leave enough hide on you for a flea to
bite"
He was hard at it when we drove on.
N " Snn
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-23
WEBSTER REVISED.
A Handbook of Financial Definitions (,
Beginners.


A Handbook of Financial Definitions for
beginners.
Bood!o-What other man steal from
their employers.
Perquisites-What you can obtain
from yours without being found out.
Misunderstanding vulgar games like
poker for fve-dollar limit.
Transactions-Dea in futures with
out a limit.
Embezzler-One who steals less than
a hundred thousand dollars.
Bold financier-A gentleman who
prefers to reside in Canada on his en-
ployer'S millions rather than live in the
United States on his own hundreds.
Cheating-When othors get tho best
of you in a bargain.
Good financial management-When
you get the best of others in bargain.
Fools-Those who let others interfere
in their business.
Men Of sound judgment-Those who
let you manage their business.
A soulless corporation-The rich COM
pany in which you are not interested.
A beneticent cooperative scheme-The
rich company in which you are the prin-
cipal stakeholder.
Rash speculation-When men lose in
stocks.
Able financiering-When men win in
stocks.
Villainous ring-The scheme you are
not in.
Mutual protective association-The
scheme you are in.
A poor devil-One who has done one
mean thing that didn't succeed and has
been found out.
A vising man-One who has done sew
eral hundred mean things that did sue
coed whether found out or not.-Aris-
tine Anderson, in Judge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-23
SPANISH DANCING GIRLS.
The Fandango as the Countess de Otero
Interprcts 1t.


Spain is Il nation of dancers. All
Spaniards. it may be said, are born
dancing, and there would seem to be no
need for apologizing for them on that
account.
AS rule they are good dancers. be-
cause what we love to do we generally
do well. The proverb tells us that: "A
pair of light shoes is not all that is
needed for dancing" and | have found
it to be true. The fandango is the oldest
national dance of Spain, especially in
the district of Andalusia. This dance
interprets what may be called Il passion
ate love song. The opening is mild
bit of music. 1t is danced in couples in
what is called threefour time. The
musical accompaniment is a guitar and
Il tambOurine, and caStanetS are used to
keep time. 1t is Il wildly voluptuous
and exciting dance, and it seems to be
appreciated by New York audiences, if
| can Judge from their applause.
In the fandango as ! dance it the
movements are designed to interpret
love-making between u couple. There
are coy glances on the part of the
woman and smiles from the man, ad-
vanccs and retreats, feminine coquetries
and masculine supplication, and the
eventful triumph of the man.
Such dance affords large scope for
intelligent pantomime and romantic
acting. The free, eXtcmporaneOus char
acter of this dance has led to abuses at
times, and in Spain the Church has
sought to suppress it. But when danced
as it should be there is no hint of i'm
modesty about it.
Nearly all dancing in Spain is accom-
panied by singing-sometimes an i'm
promptu melody, but more often some
song handed down for generations, and
in which all the dane VS. can join.
Everybody should know how to dance.
With ST 'Sh girls dancing comes as
naturally - eating.-Countess Carolina
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-23

\ noble of high standing in st. Peters
burg made bet tEat by advertising the
merest nonsense he could get money
sent him from all parts of the Empire.
lie inserted an advertisement in the
papers that for the sum of one ruble he
would forward the sender a powder
which, if put in lukewarm water, would
breed dozen of chicks. Rubles were
sent to him by the thousands. lie won
the bet, but he had to pay an equivalent
in returning the ruble to the senders
and giving them a piece of advice. This
story is circulated in the Russian papers
by way of justifying the strict vigilance
Of the censor over every line of adver-
Using as well as of reading matter that
goes to press. Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-23
SHAWHAN's SUPERB STABLE.
The Folly of Wealthy San Franciscan
Who Flew Too High.

who Flew Too High.
About fifteen years ago in San Fran
cisco. Il Spectator in mining stocks
''Struck it rich" and began the erection
OF Il costly stable on the very summit of
fashionable Mob hill. intending to build
a splendid house when he struck it IL
little richer" The lot was one OF the
largest and best on the hill. and all
about were the homes of the suddenly
made rich, who were irrcverently called
'nobs." and thus the loca ty came to
be christened by its suggestive name.
The spectators hamc was Shawhan,
and he meant to outshine every other
mob on the hill. He is said to have
spent on his stable over 500, 600, and it
looked like IA splendid house. There
was in it great marble drinking trough
into which the water ran from the
mouth of "a marble lion that had been
sculptured in Italy expressly for Shaw
han. In front of the trough was plate
glass mirror as large as the side of a
small house. The floor of the hay-loft
was of inlaid wood and plastered all
over the interior walls of the buildings
were shields and armorial bearings.
Shawhan was from Kentucky and with
characteristic pride traced his ancestry
back to enough great people in England
and America to make a biographical
dictionary an Indispensable article in
the household Of every acquaintance.
After the stable was finished Shaw
hans speculations were not so profta-
BILE as he had hoped, and, pending 4 rise
in the market, he and his family lived
in rented house near the costly stable.
His ventures all proved unsuccessful
and within comparatively short period
he had lost his last dollar in the stock
market. The lot and stable on Mob
hill went with the rest of his suddenly
acquired fortune, and for long time
after people who We're ignorant of the
history of the stable would audibly
wonder in passing by it, why doesn't
somebody live in that splendid hOuse?"
Chicago Times.
Doctor, is there no remedy for
gout?" 20, yes You shouldn't have
drank so much wine the last thirty years
or so,"-philadelphia Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-23
" The Brand of Cain. ~

According to the most ancient Oriental
traditions Adam was created with a
beard. and to this day the beard is re-
garded throughout the East as sacred
thing, and as the outward and visible
sign of true man. The most solemn
and binding of oaths among the Asiatics
are sworn by their beard, and rudcfy to
touch or grasp the latter is the most
deadly of all insults 1t is likewise a
matter of Oriental tradition that when
the Almighty determined to brand Cain
as the murderer of his brother Abel he
marked him among his fellow-men by
depriving him of his mustache. AL
though these legends do not appear in
any portion of the Bible, yet they seem
TO be accepted as true and authentic by
many of the male sex IN Europe, and an
Importance is attached to the question
of boards in general, .lnd of mustaches
in particular, which is difficult to uader
stand in this country.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-23
SILENCE REWARDED.
How Policeman Got Ten Dollars for a
Small Job.

Small Job.
but yer can't tell how I got that"
said one of the "finest," exhibiting a
crisp ten-dollar bill, and grin of salts
faction that stretched his capacious
mouth almost from ear to ear.
Wherever l have lived have always
made it rule to cultivate the police
men on the beat. This man and l were
on good terms, and l knew that he had
good story to tell me. l congratu-
lated him on his good luck. but pro-
fessed my utter inability to even sur
mise how it happened.
Faith, thin. it's fur holdin' me
tongue about trif1in' little job did
fur foine jintleman that lives on me
beat, so it is"
saw that the secret was so sore a
burden to him that he would have to
relieve himself of it.
"Shure," he continued, "if tell it to
some won, l kin hold me tongue about
it better aftherward. No won loikes to
have pace OF good luck dropped right
down OF his faat an not shpake won
word about it to livin' soul.
"Well, thin, it wass a passin' the
corner of the shtrate that me foine jim
tleman lives on late last night, won
derin' whittier Tim Doolan had remim-
bered me instructions consarnin' where
to lave the bottle of whisky, when l
shpied him-not Tim, but the jintleman
-lanin' against lamp-post.
Pat says he.
"'Yis,' says l.
"'Theres burglar in me house, says
he.
The deuce says 1.
'Lastewise,' says he, I'm not shure
that it's a burglar; but if it amt a
burglar l want yer to foind out what
it is
Faith says I, I'D as lave tackle
the djvil himself as burglar, SO I'm
the man fur ye.
well, wint wild the jintleman to his
house, and inside the hall door was his
lady, white as a shate, an not drissed
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-23

for company, though may be she was
arissed wall enough fur perlaceman.
In won hand she'd poker an in the
ither pistol.
"Well, she told me they'd come home
late from tho thayater, an iist before
she was goin' to bed she whit to the
kitchen to get somethin' an she couldn't
open the door, an she was shure she
hadn't locked the door whin she whit
out; an thin she heard noise, an thin
she knowed burglar had locked him.
self in, an she wouldn't let her husband
open the door 'cus he moight get shot
Faith says l to myself, it's not
much persuadin' he naded to lave the
door alone, or I'm no Judge of human
natur."
But the ladys words wuz moighty
comfortin' and made me feel bold as a
lion, for shure l knowed that burglars
don't lock themselves in kitchens, if !
haven't been long on the force.
"Well, they showed me the way up.
stairs-they lived in the third flat-an'
it's moighty careful they was, too, that
whit fust. An whin we got to the land
in they showed me the kitchin'.
81 tried the door an found it locked.
"'What shall do?' says !.
"'Tell him to come out says she.
Come out, yer BLACKBOARD" says 1.
"'Tell him you'll shoot ii he don't,
says she.
"I'll shoot if you don't, says I.
"Divil a wurd did the burglar say,
Gus, av course there wasn't no burglar
there, an it was all l could do to kape
me face straight.
"'Break open the door, says she.
"'All right, says l.
"Wall, put me shoulder asin it an
she an tho jintlemen kept moyin' back
ward until they couldn't git any further
without maxim a hole in the wall an
crawlin' through it.
~ boosted meself agin the door two
Or three times an thin the door wint
wild nip an crash, an the lady gave
a scream, an, by the piper that played
afore Moses, what do you think?"
told him that didn't know what to
think.
"Out jumped big black cat. Av
course she'd locked the door afore She
whit out an locked the haste in. But l
never cracked a schmiie an looked
solemn as an owl, an said it moight a
been burglar, an burglars was moighty
dangerous, an paple ought to Civ the
p'laceman chance to get fust whack at
EN- always.
well, the jintleman wint downstairs
wild me, loolSin' moighUy sheepish, an
whin we got to the bottom Pat says he
quiet like.
"'Yis, sir says I, dacent an respec-
full.
"'Do you know how to how'd yer
tongue?" says he.
by me sowl does that, says l, AN,
shure l niver says won word about
burglars when they turn out to be cats
Here's tin dollars says he, AN
moind ye kape quiet about it,
eff | shpaBe won word about it to
any Twin sowl,' says l, may me tongue
niver shpake won word agin.'
An that's how got tin dollars for
doin' trillin' job an sayin' nothin'
about tn. y. Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-23
The Advantages of Conversation.

The most agreeable way of getting in
formation is by conversation. If you
talk with well-informed person. who
can express clearly his IDEAS on any
subject in which you are interested. you
can ask questions, you can have ex-
plantations, you can go over the subject
until you thoroughly understand it, and
searching out in this way. in the mind
of another, thing which you earnestly
desire to know, you are more likely to
remember it, and to profit by it. This
is why Il competent teacher is better
than any textbook. Besides, talk in
spires both the speaker and the listener
the one becomes more eager to know,
and the other more eager to commune
cate.-Charles Dudley Warner, in ST.
Nicholas
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-23
The Original of Calico Printing.

Calico printing is believed not to have
been practised in Europe till the seven
teenth century. In what country the
art was first introduced, according to
Baines, is doubtful: AT the beginning
of the eighteenth century Augsburg,
where the manufacture of cotton had
prevailed long before its introduction
into England, was famous for its printed
linens and cottons; but even ON this it is
not easy to obtain any authentic infor-
nation of its introduction. That city
long supplied the manufacturers of Al
SAGE and Switzerland with colored
markers, dyers, etc, a proof of the
earlier establishment of the art in Augs-
burg, which has witnessed alike it's
birth anu decay."-Toletlo Blade.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-01-23

Mr.. Newlywel Finding his wife in
tears)-Why, my own precious, what's
the matter?
Mrs. Newlywed weeping piteously)
%, George, my heart will break. Mrs.
Cohen, the old-clothes woman, is down
stairs.
Mr.. Ncwlywed-Well, there is moth
ing SO very bad in that; is there?
Mrs. Newlywed-Gy-yes, but all your
clothes are too new to sell.-America.