Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-21
TOWN TALK.
What People Say on Variety OF
Subjects.

What People Say on a Variety OF
Subjects.
Mai. J. j. Donnell General Raw
lins and myself are going tonight to the
Soldiers home at the request of the
veterans to give them talk. 1t is a
big post, you know, and we like to re.
vive the memories of the scenes through
which we have passed. I don't believe
in using the q. A. r. to get offices with,
and don't go to the meetings very often,
but | cannot forget. 1t is all one post
at the Soldiers home, and this meeting
is regular campfire.
Receiver l. H. Polk, of the Southern
California motor railroad: How do l
like being receiver? It's hard work.
Yes, know they say that have been
doing well with the road, but it has
been awful hard work. The road is still
in my hands, and am operating it right
along. We have paid off every cent
OF its debts, and there is about
$20,0 to the good; even after my fees
have been paid. don't know how
long l will be continued. No, am not
particularly anxious for the receivership
to be abolished.
George M. Holton: can't go to the
races every day. went yesterday, and
saw the pfettiest race ever witnessed
in Los Angeles. think they will find
it difficult to beat that race during the
rest of the meeting.
Capt. A. M. Thornton, treasurer
Soldiers home: No, these are G. A. r..
buttons on my coat. We don't wear
uniforms regularly at the home, though
- II - hn OF
always to wear them. A great many
Improvements are being made; our new
dam will enable us to store plenty OF
water.
L. Bryson: Did it ever occur to you
that no one can be found these days who
lost in the races. Imet scores of people
last night about town, all with huge
smiles on their faces, and all proclaim
ing that they had done up the sports.
remember one fellow who called out
for all hands to take drink, because he
had won $142. Four men took beer and
it took him fifteen minutes to fish a
quarter out of his vest pocket. %
Rudolph Stuettig, restaurateur: The
snuff habit is diving out, except among
the young ladies of Louisiana, who, how
ever, have an eccentric use for 1t. You
say you nave uOblCcQ tuaI dlW ways OACl
nv snuff-box to my friends. l am a
relic OF bygone days in that respect, and
am getting to feel lonesome. Have a
pinch? 49,
William Metzger, butcher: Do you
know that butchers are very small eat
ers2 Yes, l weigh. about 200, but
don't eat as much as the historic tailor,
of whom it takes nine to make man.
am in the butcher shop all day, and
am sure that we absorb considerable
nourishment from the atmosphere in
which we live. The smell Of butcher
shop is due in my opinion to the parti-
cles of tissue supported by the air, and
very nutritive in their quality.
John w. Young, tobacconist: The
most remarkable thing in my expert
ence is the popularity which "stogies"
are gaining here. OF course you know
what a "stogy" is. They are cigars
rolled up of natural leaf tobacco in
Wheeling, West Virginia, and Pitts
burg, Pa, and are very strong. Where
they are made they are called "tobies,"
and are smoked by everybody from a
newsboy to a millionaire. They have
the undeniable advantage, that they con-
sist OF tobacco, and nothing but tobacco.