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Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17
He wished She Was a Centipede.

A party was given in st. Louis to
which was invited noble but bashful
cowboy.
He was good looking fellow, and one
of the young ladies present kindly took
an interest in him and tried to make him
feel at ease. He fell desperately in love
at once, and the hostess, noticing this,
encouraged him all she could. In leav-
ing the house the young lady who had
taken friendly interest in the cowboy
forgot her overshoes and the hostess told
the young Lochinvar from the plains
that he might return them to the girl if
he wished.
The herder leaped at the chance, and
presented himself in due time at the
young lady's house. She was surprised
to see him, but greeted. him cordially.
"You forgot your overshoes last night"
said he awkwardly, handing her the
package. eg s.3.
She thanked him and opened it. why,
there's only one overshoe here" she ex-
claimed.
eyes, miss said the blushing vaquero
earnestly, 'Tll bring around the other
one tomorrow, and l only wish, miss,
that you were centipede. > st. Louis
Republic.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17
ects displayed upon the various tables.

jects displayed upon the various tables.
As all, or nearly all, the visitors took
advantage of the opportunity thus az
fordeds them Of seeing samples OF the
products OF this the most fruitful sec
ton Of Southern California, the large
hall in which the exhibit is displayed
was comfortably crowded between the
hours of and 5 O'Clock, by throngs OF
ladies and gentlemen, who .evinced
great interest in the display. In
the crowd were the visiting legislators
who were being piloted by Heryey Lind.
ley, and altogether beauty, wealth and
talent were we'll represented on the
floor. Assistant Secretary Virgins ably
seconded President Wells' effort to en-
tertain the guests and in social, in
formal way everybody had a good time.
In consequence Of the rain yesterday
the reception committee OF the chamber
of commerce were prevented from taking
the eastern visitors out driving, but
they wish to repeat the invitation and
if the weather is favorable will drive
them out today. The citizens having
carriages they wish to place at the dis
posal OF the visitors, are asked to send
them to the Nadeau, Hollenbeck or
Westminster hotels, or the chamber of
commerce rooms at 2 O'Clock this after
nOOil
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17
Characteristic Autographs.

Count Enzenberg, the Hessian charge
d. affaires in France, had one hobby-the
collecting Of autographs of famous men.
On one Of the pages Of the Hessians al
bum the statesman Guizot had written:
"All through my long career I have
learned to forgive much and often, but
to forget nothing" a
The sentiment is not Christian one,
nor is it notable for it's worldly wisdom.
1t is strange that Guizot, who was pro-
fessed Christian and reputed tobe world
ly wise, should have written it. His
rival Theirs must have noticed the in
consistency, for underneath it he wrote:
"a little shortness Of memory cannot
detract from the sincerity OF. forgive
ness." M
Bismarck, while Prussian ambassador
at Paris, being asked to write something
on the same page, wrote: 3
/. "As for myself, existence has taught
me to forget many things, and to get
myself forgiven for great many more. 81
Youths Companion. AFet
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17
Early Minstrel shows.

1t was in the early fifties that minstrel
shows first became so popular in the
States, and in 1857 Jack Raynor, who
used to be middleman and bass singer
for E. P. Christie when his troupe
played in old Mechanics hall, at No. 472
Broadway, eJew York, started the FIRST
Christie minstrels in London. Raynor
is one of the few old timers still alive,
and he lives in Paterson, N, j., to-day.
Another Of the old leaders to the front is
Dick Hooley, who used TO be with
Campbell's for years and afterward run
minstrel theatre of his own in Brook
,lyn. What's he doing now, d'you say?
Why, it's the same Dick Hooley, Of
Hooley's theatre, Chicago, today, and
the same Cool White that was middle
man and stage manager Of the Hooley
Opera house of the war times, Is mana.
ger of Hooley's theatre today u. w.
AcAndrews in Chicago Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17
Photography Applied to Surveying

Surveyors are becoming more and
more indebted to photography for the
way in which it facilitates and improves
their work. For reconnaissance the cam
era offers some pleasant features. The
public is always anxious to know what
an engineer is doing with transit,
but if he has map Of the country and
an aneroid in his pocket, so that, by
fences OF otherwise, he can tell pretty
nearly where he is, he is only an anna
teur artist, making views of scenery,
and the farmer is not suspicious that he
wants to run railroad through his corn
crib. Such pictures as may thus be Sc
cured, understandingly used, may help
to decide where line will probably be
best, SO far as the general features Of
the country are concerned.
Progress is the order of the day. It
is not long since the engineer who used
a camera to take occasional or semi
occasional records of the progress of his
work was looked upon as putting on airs.
Now, however, the blue print and the
camera come in very handily, so much
so that it is not the engineer who uses
them, but rather the one who does not,
who is the exception. The engineer is
not likely to dispense just now with his
transit, but he who avails himself Of
such help as photography can give him.
especially in such work as making close
Typographical surveys, will have very
great advantage over him who does not
New York Commercial Advertiser
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17
PEASANT WOMEN IN JAPAN.
They Arc Much the Same Today as Thei,
Ancestors Were Centuries Aro.

They Arc Much the Same Today as Their
Ancestors We're Centuries Ago.
The peasant woman, clad summer and
winter in the same dress Of blue cotton,
and hardly distinguishable afar from
her husband, who wears his hair in a
knot like hers and is clad in robe of
the same color-the peasant woman who
is daily seen bowling over her toll in the
tea fields or in the liquid mud of the rice
swales, protected by rough hat ON days
when the sun burns, and having her
head completely enveloped when the
north wind blows by dreadful muffler,
always blue, that only leaves the almond
eyes to view-the small and funny peas
ant woman OF Japan, wherever she may
be sought for, even in most remote dis
tricts of the interior, is incontestably
much more refined than our peasant
woman of the west. She has pretty
hands and pretty delicate feet; mere
touch would suffice to transform her into
one of those ladies that are painted on
vases Or transparent screens, and there
would be little left to teach her of man
nered graces, of affectations of all sorts.
She almost always cultivates a pretty
garden around her ancient cottage of
wood, whose interior, garnished with
white mats, is scrupulously clean. Her
household utensils, her little cups, her
little pots, her little dishes, instead of
being, as with us, of common earthen-
ware daubed with brilliant flowers, are
of transparent porcelain decorated with
those light and fine paintings that bear
witness of themselves to long heredity
of art. She arranges with original taste
the altar of her humble ancestors. Final
ly, she knows how to arrange in her own
vases, with the least spray of verdure,
slender bouquets that the most artistic
among our women would hardly be ca
pable of composing.
She may possibly be more honest than
her sister of the cities and her life may
be more regular-from our European
point of view, of course; she is also more
reserved with strangers, more timid,
with a sort of mistrust and dislike of the
intruders, notwithstanding her amiable
welcome and her smiles. .ea
In the villages of the interior, far from
the recent railroads and from all modern
importations, in places where the mil
lenary immobility of the land has not
been disturbed, the peasant woman has
probably changed but little from what
must have been, several centuries ago,
her most remote ancestor, whose soul,
vanished in time, has even ceased to
hover over the family altar. At the bar.
barrie periods of our western history when
our mothers still preserved something Of
the grand and wild rudeness Of primi-
tive times, there lived doubtless yonder,
ip those isles at the east of the ancient
world, these same little peasant women,
so polite and SO mincing, and also these
same little ladies Of the cities, SO civil
lied, with their. adorable courtesies. =
Pierre Lott in Harper's.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17
Homesick for Earthouakes.

II see there was an earthquake in
California yesterday" said an old Cali
fornian. THAT sounds good-like old
times. 1t makes me honesick. The
west coast has been getting too blamed
stylish since it got railroads, and good
shaking up will do it good. set it right,
remind it of old times. Why, when |
first went out there in the spring of 80
we thought no more of having the roof
ratified down over our heads nights than
Boston folks think of wading around
in slush and mush up to their
knees. This doesn't seem to have been
much OF shake, yet it was bigger one
than California has had for more than
twenty years. The last big one was the
year that the first railroad was finished
across the continent. That big shake
came as if California was shaking hands
with old times and the days of emigrant
trains. There have been nothing much
but little quivers since that time-nOth-
ing wholesome, nothing worth counting,
nothing to make a man stop and think
OF his soul. 1, tell you. back
in the old days earthquakes took
the place of missionaries. They were
just as effectual and it didn't
SSSS' ssAAJ eA-AAA6 w cuPPOAe Cn. " by :,
I've seen gang of men getting ready to
have little sociable orgy OIL chilly
night, when, whizz the mountains
would begin to teeter, the ground would
60 loose under your feet; If there was
any glass around it would shiver and
fall. Then the men would look white
round the gills; some of 'em would
complain OF being dead sick to the pits
OF the stomach, and if there was any
thing drunk that night it had water in
it, and there would be considerable
more quiet to the game, if it
came off at all. There was little
shake when / was out in Cali
fornia, on one of those excursions here a
few years ago, but it was a poor, third
rate, good-for-nothing little culver
didn't even shake down any plaster.
Folks didn't even use to plaster their
houses. They boarded 'em up or sealed
'em with cloth and let it 90 at that.
But it.seerns that yesterday there was
grand shaking up, and plaster crumbled
and fell. Good Lord! wish I'd been
there. I'd give good deal to see the
mountains teeter and feel the ground 60
the way it used to in the spring Of 80"
--[BOston Transcript.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17
His FIRST stump speech.

Talking of campaign speeches re-
minds me-" said Senator Graham, OF
Nashville, "of the first speech that Char
ley Fairbanks, of Indianapolis, ever
made. Fairbanks, you know, is a genial,
whole souled gentleman, with plenty of
jury eloquence, but at the time of which
l speak had no experience on the stump.
One day met him and he seemed con-
siderably worried.
Graham said he, 4 have been in
vited to address political meeting at
-, and you know / never. did any
thing of the kind in my life. / haven't
a bit of confidence in myself and am
afraid cannot hold the crowd. You
are up in this kind of thing and want
you to post me little
II never wanted to laugh so much in
my life, but Fairbanks woebegone
face told me palmer than words that he
was very much in earnest. So gave
him all the points could bring to mind.
remember that said that an auctioneer
always held his crowd by entertaining
it, and told him to imagine himself
an auctioneer. Well, he went to his
meeting, and everything went wrong.
He was placed so that strong wind
blew through the room, tossing his hail
over his face and giving him terrible
cold and sore throat.
'The brass band drowned half he said
and the small boy got in his deadly
work. met him a month or so later,
and he told me his experiences Every
time would feel myself giving way
he exclaimed. i would think of your in
structlons to imagine myself an auc
tioneer, and guess entertained them
for / made myself more of an auctionee1
than I did a political speaker But
Fairbanks is all over that now. There
is not a better or more effective speaker
in Indiana than he is. is."-Indianapolis
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17
THE LAW AND THE LADY.
HOW ONE MARRIAGE wAst DIS.
SOLVED TO MAKE ANOTHER.
A Domestic Tragedy at Santa Monica De
velops into Romance at Ventura and
a Wedding IN Los Angeles.

Mr.. and Mrs. l. @. Sheckles lived in a
state OF domestic beatitude at Santa
Monica until recently. They had a
comfortable home, an olive branch in the
shape OF a pretty little child, and all was
well with them, until the dark-eyed
stranger, always cited by fortune-tellers,
made his appearance in the person of
A. C.Dominguez of Ventura, who came
to Santa Monica ON pasear, and made
the acquaintance of the Sheckles. Do
minguez was very fetching young man,
and soon secured the regard OF Mr..
Sheckles, and lookup his abode with that
gentleman as his guest. Time passed
pleasantly, and at last it became neces-
sary for Dominguez to return to his
home in the rural districts of Ventura
Would not Mr.. and Mrs. Sheckles pay
him visit? He would insure
them pleasant time. Yes; they
would go; and at the Dominguez
ranch they all had very good time.
Particularly Mrs. Sheckles. She was go
happy and gay that Mr.. Sheckles at last
felt what he should have felt at first,
that his domestic peace was in danger,
and he proposed a return to Santa
Monica. But no, Mrs. Sheckles was not
ready and would not get ready, and if
her husband wanted to go home, why he
could 60 and welcome; as for her, she
would stay where she was. So Sheckles
packed up his grip and soon again ap-
peared at Santa Monica. Deliberation
and negotiations OF peace between the
parties, however, at last brought about
legal solution Of the difficulty.
The law, true to its principle
OF supplying remedy for every
thing, yesterday morning granted
Mr.. Sheckles decree of divorce from
his pretty wife, and the same law five
minutes later granted Mrs. Sheckles and
her lover, Mr.. Dominguez, permission to
wed, and by this time the law again has
blessed union which before existed in
defiance of the statute books and the
commandments. No greater example
of the great convenience afforded by the
law could be cited, not to mention other
points OF view.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17
SCHOOL BUSINESS.
PROCEEDINGS LAST NIGHT OF THE
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
The Report of the Committee on Sites and
Repairs-Three Teachers Appointed
Routine Business.

The board Of education met in regular
session at the city hall last evening,
with Martin Marsh in the chair in the
absence Of President Shafer, and the full
board present.
The report OF the committee on sites
and repairs was read as follows
Recommend that the high school
alumni be allowed to hold meetings i'll
(. the high school auditorium.
Recommend that the Cotier system OF
ventilation, as applied in the Ann-street
school, be rejected, it being found un-
satisfactory after thorough trial.
In regard to the high school steps, the
committee reported that the contractor
refused to complete that part of the
work, as the contract, verbal one, did
not specify that he should furnish the
brick.
In regard to the latter matter, it was
decided that the board supply the brick
for the steps.
Mr.. Wilmer objected to furnishing a
ianitor for the use of the alumni at their
high school meetings, and the commit
tee was given further time on that item
of their report.
1t was moved and carried that the
matter OF laying d sidewalk at the Gates
street school be referred to the superin-
tendent of janitors, with power to act.
1t was moved and carried that the
Cotier system OF ventilation in the Ann
street school be abandoned.
The committee on teachers recon-
mended that Mr.. A. NJ. Sheldon, Miss
Carrie Blanford and Miss Carrie M.
Healy be appointed regular teachers.
Adopted.
The same committee also recommend
ed that the spring vacation be from the
9th to the 23d of March. Adopted.
1t was also recommended that class
OF the eighth grammar grade be estab-
lished in the high school. Adopted.
The finance committee recommended
the unemployment of the writing teach
er, Prof. Lawson. Adopted.
A number of bills, ,aggregating $1575. .26,
were reported from the finance commit
tee and ordered paid
The salary list for the present month
was approved. The teachers salaries
amount to $17 1925 and the ianitors' sal
aries to $1145.
Mr.. Wilmer moved that the building
committee 60 before the council and ask
that the ground to the west OF the high
school belonging TO the city and now
used as a cemetery, be dedicated for
school purposes. Carried.
Mr.. Davis brought up the matter OF
the resignation of Miss Cecilia Aull, and
moved that her place be declared vacant.
Mr.. Wilmer moved that Miss Aull be
given leave of absence for the re-
mainder of the year without pay.
AdionrnAd
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17
IDr. Daunhin,s Successor

The board Of directors Of the Louisiana State
I,ottery company met yesterday morning and
eiected MI. Paul Conrad president, vice Dr. M.
A. Dauphin. deceased.
Mr. Conrad has practically managed the
affairs OF this great corporation for the past five
OF SIX years He has been an attache of the
company in various capacities since 1870 and
has earned the good will, confidence and re-
spect OF all with whom be has come in CON
tact = ''7l /. y
Born in this city in the year 1910, he entered
the Confederate army soon after attaining to
manhood and his record as q soldier was as en-
vlable ana gallant as that oI any of Louisiana's
tinction to tlfe end of the war He was a
member of Capt Henry st. Paul Chasseurs =
and is one of but a few of the survivors 81 that
famous command. The company left New Or-i
leans April %, 1861. for Pensacola Thence
tthey ty went to Virginia, " and other companies be-
ing attached, st. Pauls Battalion was formed
Their first big fight was at Seven Pines, where
more than half the command were killed OF
WoundedCamong the former being young
he is ana always has been strictly speaking
man Of the people. OF genial and pleasant
aaisposltloh n ana possessing rare business quail
spons1ble position to which he has been
elected. He is an honest, upright and faithful
man wnose Moro Is as goHd az his
he, now presides, the interests of the stock
holders may be said to be in safe and careful
Numbers Of all classes of people called at the
lottery Office yesterday afternoon to conpratn-
late Mr.. Conrad on his election .f,17
Repuhlishing this notice from the New Or
leans Picayune the Mobile Register says:
To the above appreciative notice few
words may be added At the terribly hard
fought battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam), Paul
Conrad was desperately wounded, receiving a
canister shot in the left ST oulder which scraped
every rib in his body The ball entered Just
above the point of the shoulder blade and
passed perpendicularly down the back to the
waist, where it was found and cut out by the
surgeons, but not until eighteen hours had
passed after the wound was received. Though
the ball weighed not more than ten ounces, Mr.
Conrad said that after several hours had passed
he felt as If he had ten pound ball, a cannon
and carriage in his back, so great was the shock
his wound, he reioined his battalion and
served gallantly to the end of the war partici-
pat ng in all the great battles with the Army of
Northern Virginia.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17
HIS "FoRM" LOCKED UP.
Thirty Counted son the Work Of
Joshua A. Talbot.

Joshua A. Talbot.
On Sunday afternoon at, 3 O'Clock
there passed away at the Soldiers Home
at Santa Monica, one OF the best known
men in Southern California. This was
Joshua A. Talbot. He was born in
Baltimore in 1911, and was therefore in
the eightieth year of his age. His
people were at that time well known
printers of the city OF beautiful women,
and Joshua was brought up to the prac-
tice of the art preservative. At very
early age he developed a vein of romance
that never left him. While the down
was still soft on his cheek he fell in love
with the daughter OF one of
the old colonial families of Mary
land, and as they objected to what
seemed to them mesalliance,
young Talbot induced the blue-blooded
maiden to run away with him. They
lived together after their marriage until
the breaking out of the Mexican war in
1916. and although the heyday in the
blood might well have been somewhat
cool, Talbot left his wife and six chill
dren to 60 into the war. At its close he
came to California and found his way at
an early date to the southern end of the
state, where he resided almost con-
stantly up to the day of his death. 50,
Josh, as he was called, has worked in
nearly every Office in this end OF the
state. He also engaged in publish
ing papers on his own account
in some of the outlying towns.
He did a good deal of pros
.pecting for mines near San Bernardino.
which ne fendly imagined would make
him rich He took up iron ore claims,
as late as few years ago, and was never
tired of telling any one who would
listen Of what millionaire he was soon
to be. The old vein OF romance was al
ways running through his mind.
For some years enfeebled health and
the natural infirmities of extreme age
untitled him for active occupation, and
he spent his days at the County hospital.
A week ago he obtained permission to
enter the Soldiers Home, where he
died ON Sunday. So he counts his
thirty on his life work, and lays down
his stick for ever. Peace to "Uncle
Josh's'' ashes
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17
THE SUPERVISORS.
A Little Routine Business Transacted
Yesterday.

a A>AetAS 1NoutuC ouS1ueSS 4KaUSdCtCu
Yesterday.
AT the meeting OF the board OF super
visors yesterday, the following streets in
the knight tract, Alhambra, were or
dered vacated, in accordance with pc
tition: Mitchell avenue, Norbert street,
Herman avenue. Adams street, Storey
street and an alley.
Upon application Of the Los Angeles
county executive committee OF the
citrus fair, 1t was ordered that an ap-
preparation of not to exceed $400 be
made i'll aid Of that enterprise.
A petition was received from George
Compton ct al, asking that the route OF
the road from San Francisquite cafion to
Newhall be changed, ,and was taken under
advisement.
The petition of j. II. Martin ct AL,
asking for the opening of the Los Nietos
and Whittier county road, was denied.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17
No venomous Beetles.

OF more than 40, 900 species of beetles
widely diffused over the eartk's surface
not one is known to be venomous, or pos
sessed OF a sting. Butterflies and moths
have no mouths to eat with, only a pro-
boscis to extract sweet juices from flow
ers. Neither do they grow after assuln-
ing the winged state. When in the cat
erpillar state they. are voracious eaters.
A company of some species win strip a
whole tree within a single day.-St.
Louis Republic. 3e
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17
!. A .Arooted Recommendation.

The chorus 20 no ro, ri ri cadul gu
10" in Sir Walter Scott's poem "The Lul-
laby Of an Infant Chief" means, freely
translated, "Bye,. bye, lullaby, sleep till
the morn" The pronunciation is, "Ohoro,
erere, cawdlegulaw;" at least, SO say two
Scotch women, members of my house
hold, who are direct from the highlands
Of Scotland, and who daily speak the Gae.
lie in preference to the English language.
Cor. Boston Transcript.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17

It is not in color only that domestic
Gated cats differ widely. There is the
gloved cat Of Nubia. the Chinese cat
with ears turned down instead of up,
the twisted tail cat of Madagascar, the
short truncated tail cat of the Malay
Archipelago, and the entirely tailless
cat Of the Isle Of Man.
No Safer Remedy can be had for Coughs
and Colds, OF amp trouble of the Throat than
"nrowns bronchial Troches" Price % cts.
Bold only in hnxns s w s W s@
Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-17

There is paid out of the national treas
.ury $120, 900 annually to residents of
Canada, many Of whom have not seen
the United States since they were mus
tered out at Washington at the close of
the war.