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Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23

Ask your druggist for Eucaloline if you are
troubled with catarrb
Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23
LOST AND FOUND.

~-~---~A----~---~-~--~---
r OST-A COACH DOG. ANSWERS TO
IL name of Rosie. Leave at the Bureau Sa-
loon, 4O8 N. Main, and receive liberal re-
ward. 5-23 1t
Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23

EOUND-IN PASADENA, A PAIR OF GOLD
II spectacles Owner can have by paying for
this adv. by calling on A. THORUS, 755 Illi-
nois st., Pasadena. 5-2S 2t.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23
SPECIAL NOTICE.

EMOVAL NOTICE THE PARTISAN
III Steam Dying and Cleaning Works, formerly
carried on at 264 s. Main ST., has been removed
to No. 274 5. Main ST., four doors south of the
old stand. 5-13-1m
Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23

Messrs. e. w. Jones, G. M. Wells and
Supervisor Cook held a meeting yesterday
to audit the accounts of the orange car
nival. The following is an approxima-
ton of the result of their work:
Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23
MEETINGS.

COUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNCIL, NO
y 728, Royal Arcanum--Meets second and
fourth Friday evenings Of each month, at K.o
p. Hall, No. 1l815 s.. Spring street; visitin
brothers cordially invited s. K. LEWIS
Box 1175. Secretary
Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23

ENOR RENT-FURNISHED HOUSE. 2916
IL s. Main ST., containing rooms and bath,
June l. 5-15 15t
Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23

DR. G. STEVENS & SONS, lot N. SPRING
~ ST. Schumacher block, rooms 1a and 10;
to $40; hours, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., Sundays, 8 a.
m. to D. m. je26-n
Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23
DENTISTS.

nR. G. KNEPPER, DENTIST. No. 126 w.
~ First ST., old Wilson block. 4-30 If
Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23
FOR RENT-HoUsEs.


I,OR RENT-VERY CENTRAL 3-ROOM
Il house, neat, convenient. 212lS Boyd st.
5-22 st
Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23

IT W. WELLS, COR. SPRING AND FIRST
LIZ sts., Wilson block; take elevator; teeth
filed and extracted without pain; gold crowns
and bridge work speciality. Room SO. matt
DR. TOLHURsT, DENTIST, 1851 N. SPRING
~ St. rooms 2 and z. Painless extracting
Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23
RUsINEss OHANCEs.

NyANTED-A PARTY WITH $500 CASH
w capital to invest in well paying built up
business in this city. Address, A. x, Box 20,
this office 5-21-3t
Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23

A DAMS BROS, DENTISTS, REMOVED TO
IA POS n Main street, opposite Temple block
Painless filing and extracting. Crowns So up
best sets teeth, So to $40. Rooms 1, 2, 8. 4, 5
and 6. 1-17-tf
Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23

nR. CHAs. DE szIGErHY HAS REMOVED
~ his office and residence to 653 s. Hill ST.
corner Seventh, Office hours, 9-10 am, Pa
and 7-8 p. M Telephone 1886 3-3l If
Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23
FIVE CENTS A line
wANTED-MTsCELLANEOUs


WANTED-GOO CHEAP ONE HORSE
w wagon for cash today. Room 10, No. 115
w First st. 5-231t
Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23

HUMPHREY, 5O7 s. SPRING ST. SELLS
IL all kinds of goods on weekly payments of
soc. 4-29 I'm
Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-23
For SALE.

COR SALE-CARRIAGES, BUGGIE5 AND
Il wagons bought. sold and exchanged, or ad-
vances made until sold. 1913 San Pedro st.
near First 5-53m
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27

Pathological critics have observed
that the words translated as soap in
the Old Testament and in Bohn's
Pliny mean properly alkali, and that
the ancients generally used only me-
chanical abstergeuts, such as bran and
fine sand. Perfumed ointments. how
ever, were considered an indispensable
requisite of every civilized household,
though they have now gone as strange
ly out of fashion a' the incense of the
Mediterranean nations. The Greeks
and Romans used q special ointment
often mixed with mineral dyes, for the
hair, and another for purposes of
general Injunction and, after return
ing from a journey, even travellers of
moderate means took bath. followed
by an all-over rubbing down with
vegetable oils. Black hair-dyes were
priced by The tow-headed Visigoths.
while the Roman ladies coveted the
golden locks of the trans-Alpine bar
barians. Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
SELLING FEMALE SLkVES.
Thirty to Fifty Dollars Paid Fer Young
Annamcse Women.

Ann2mcSe Women.
The French authorities in Tonquin
have, it is claimed, adopted extreme
repressive measures in connection with
the clandestine trade in young Anna
mese women between Tonquin ports,
Hong Kong, Canton and Hainan.
which has reached serious proportions
within the past eighteen months, says
the New York Advertiser.
The Chinese authorities are acting
in concert with the French, and are
beheading kidnapers and slave traders
as soon as they are deported fro"
French into Chinese territory. Large
numbers of the young women who are
struggled over the Tonquin-C China
frontiers are, it is said on good author
ity the property of pirates who swoor
down on villages in the interior OF th"
country, loot the houses and carry O
large numbers of eligible young WON
en-, whom they deliberately sell .
Chinese desperadoes, to be either TAX
en- overland to the big cities in the
Province of Yuanan, and there sold at
from $50 to $50 each-according to
the wouan's build and general appear
ance-or Struggled in junks and Steam
ers to Pakhoi Hainan or to Canton vie
Hong Kong.
Until the French succeed in thor
oughly distinguishing piracy, which is
now 50 rampant on the Red River
there can be but little hope of a ces5a-
ton of one of the worst phases of the
slave trade, which is virtually being
carried on at our very doors, and
seems likely to become as great a pub
lie scandal as the ubiquitous traffic in
human beings which Stanley's ally,
TippOo lib, conducted in Africa with
so much pecuniary benefit to himself
and abject misery to his Inflated vic
tins.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
The BOY Travellers Adventures.

Ernest Morris, who died recently,
was known as the boy traveller"
While yet in his teens he decided to
visit the wilds OF the Amazon basin,
and when he returned with all sorts Of
nicely preserved specimens illustrating
different branches Of natural history
and ethnology, his sto,y was told in
all the newspapers as showing what a
determined and intelligent lad could
do. His experience 1900 or 1000
miles up the great valley whetted his
ambition to enga &c in other adventures
in the same region, and in the course
Of time he male a number of voyages
to the Amazon basin.
Sometimes he would bury himself
for months in the great forests, where
he saw no white people, and lived
among the savages of those regions
who took a liking to him. Morris
knew very well the taste of monkey
stew. and, like the natives among
whom he wandered, he more than
once appeased his hunger with meal
of snake meat which he declared to
be not at all disagreeable. He was
evidently abe to suppress his imarin-
alton, and could eat without a qualm
any thing that would appease his
hunger.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
LARGEST OF HERONRIES.
An Important OrnithologicaI Discovery
Near vAIIev Forge


a very important discovery from an
ornithological standpoint was made re-
Gently by DR.. William E. Hughes, the
well known ornithologist OF this city,
says the Philadelphia Press, who is
now with Lieutenant Pearys expedi-
ton to Greenland and the Arctic seas.
DR.. Hughes has found the largest her
onry existing within the knowledge
of any scientist, in Valley Hills place
near Valley Forge, Chester copnty. 1t
is certainly much larger than any
heronry ever discovered in this coun-
try, and DR.. Hughes says no book on
ORTHODOXY that he has been able to
pecuse, gives a heronry of so many
nests.
In 1888, DR.. Hughes was on little
scientific expedition through Chester
county. When he passed through
Valley Hills he discovered on the trees
OF a small copse about 100 heron nests.
The nests were rather imperfect, and
it could be seen that the birds had just
begun to settle there.
In April last DR.. Hughes, accom-
panied by DR.. McCadden, a taxider-
mist Of the city. determined to visit
the interesting copse at Valley Hill to
see how the heron5 were coming along.
Much to his surprise he found the
trees literally covered with nests. Mr..
McCadden assisted him in counting the
homes of the birds and found they
numbered over 600. In the following
month DR.. Hughes returned to the her.
onry and found that the many eggs he
had seen on his April visit had Matched
and the young herons were there IN
great quantity.
AS far as Dr. Hughes has been able
to ascertain, the greatest number Of
nests found in any heronry in this
country and given in Ornithological
books has been less than 100. 1t was
at Blue Rock Berks county. He has
therefore made special study of the
Valley Hills heronry and will soon
write paper on it,
! 1t appears that during the sojourn
of these birds at Valley Hill between
April and September they are subject
ed to much discomfort. DR.. Hughes
/ lounu InaG turkey VultufeS eat the
young, while crows pick the eggs.
The trees are also all covered with the
lime of the herons. The immense
number of the birds causes their
chattering to be very noisome, con-
tinualy and can be heard distinctly a
quarter of a mile away. The herony
has consequently been of great an
noyance to the farmers in the vicinity.
Dr. Hughes says these herons be-
long to the ''Biack Cap" species, so
called from their black heads. They
are very large. Many Of them. he
says, stand a foot in height. They
are beautiful birds and possess some
very strange features. He has taken
a number Of photographs of the birds
nests and the locality.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
A High Horse,

Valley City. N. D., has, it is said
one of the most extraordinary speci-
mems of horse flesh in existence. He
is a sorrel stands fully 10 hands, or 6
feet inches from floor to withers; his
legs are feet 6 inches before touching
the body, and a small broncho can
easily walk under him. A man feet
in height cant see over his back. even
when standing on tiptoe. "In length
he is fully Is feet, or II feet from tip
of nose to tip of tail. When standing
with his head as ordinarily checked
up a six-foot man, by standing on tip
toe can just touch the base of the ear.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
The Trick the Clock Played.

The clock in a workshop OF hard
ware store in Lewiston, Me-, stopped
at y o'clock one night. At nine
o'clock in the forenoon one OF the work
men. who had had a light breakfast
and was hungry, looked at the clock
and saw, to his delight that the hour
and the minute hands pointed to -.
Thinking it noon, he washed up, put
on his coat and started out for dinner
without a word to anyone. The rest
can be guessed. He reachedl home
just three hours before the dinner was
ready, and sorrowfully and slowly he
walked back to the shop.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
MOTHER LOVE.
Sad Story of the Sons Failure to Prove
WORTHY of Her,

A Sad Story of the Sons Failure to Prove
WORTHY of Her,
The loving devotion of mother to
her child is almost as enduring as the
heavens above and is not to be COM
pared with earthly things" says the
Fort Worth Gazette. This fact has
many times been exemplifed, and the
extreme hardships undergone by Mrs
Nancy SiXkiller, mother Of the two
Dunnawas boys who were hanged at
this place. was only another sub
Stimulating instance CT this assertion
After learning that the principal chief
had refused to pardon her boys or
commute the death sentence the old
lady was wild with grief and deter
mined to go to the chief in person and
make a last appeal to him fC' their
lives. The distance from Mrs. Six
killers home in Going Snake district
TO Chief Mayes residence on Grand
river is not less than ninety miles
Although an aged and feeble woman
of seventy years. she made this long
journey afoot and alone
And all in vain
Her pleadings with the stern old
chief came to naught, and the heart
broken mother WAS back at this place
the day before the hanging SO that she
might be with her doomed boys dur
ing their last hours on earth.
When she left her home Mrs Six
killer had on an Old pair of shoes. but
when she arrived in Tallequah her feet
were bare. torn and bleeding. and she
was in an utterly exhausted condition.
caused by her grief, hunger and
fatigue. She had wadeI creeks and
climbed mountains until her shoes
were completely worn from her feet
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
THE LYRE BIRD FAN.
A Novelty That Originated in Australia
and May Recome Fad.


A novel and handsome fan which
has attracted cons; 1el able attention
lately belongs to the coltralto. Mrs.
w. A. Green. Of New York, and is tho
result Of a desire to carry away with
her souvenir entirely typical of tho
country she is visiting, says the Town
and Country, published at Sydney, N.
S. w. The fan is OF Australian man
ufacture. and is formed Of full-sized
Tyre birds tail, supported by four
large ostrich feathers in gray. These
are held in place by silver cup.
beautifully mbossel in Tyre bird and
ostrich feather design. The handle il
of ivory, with silver shild containing
the monogram. The blending of the
two grays. in both the stiff and the
plant feathers is very beautiful and
the lighter silver trimmings complete
a most harmonious whole.
The idea that a Tyre bird fan would
be unique and original occurred to
Mrs. Green some months ago, and has
resulted most happily. The lady car
ried it at the last Darlington ball at
the government house where it ex-
cited much comment and was espec-
tally admired by Lady Darlington. who
ordered one Ike it with plume5 and
silver trimmings and upon her return
TO England presented it to the princess
of Wales
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27

When her majesty, the empress OF
Japan drives out, no one is permitted
to look at her from the windows or
chinks in the doors or any part of the
house. but must sit down by the side
of the street through which she passes.
Each person must dOtf hat or cap us
she passes, except the women in Eu-
ropean dress, whose heads may remain
covered, No one may speak or follow
the carriage, and no noise of any kind
is allowed i'll the streets through which
she passes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
MONKEYS as Coin Testers.

It is said that the great apes of Siam
are in request among the Siamese
merchants as cashiers in their count
ing houses, Vast quantities of base
coins are known to be in circulation in
Siam. and, according to advices
from that scorched-up little Oriental
kingdom, no living human being can
discriminate between the good and
bad coinage with as much accuracy as
these apes. These monkey cashiers
possess the faculty of distinguishing
the rude Siamese counterfeits in such
an extraordinary degree that no train
ed banker can compete with them in
their unique avocation. In plying his
trade the ape cashier meditatively puts
each coin presented to him in his
mouth and tests it with grave deliber-
alton. From two to five seconds is all
the time this Intelligent animal re-
quires in making up his decision. If
the coin is all right it is carefully de-
posted in the proper receptacle; if
base it is thrown violently to the floor,
while the coin tester makes known his
displeasure at being presented with
the counterfeit by giving vent to much
angry chattering. Saturday Evening
Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
THE LEGEND OF NEW RIVER.
How Water Came in the Desert After o
Childs Prayer.

Il
In the early fifties party of emil
grants on their way TO the gold fields
of California by the southern route, via
ella River, crossed the Colorado by
the ferry left by Graham in 1913 and
''struck out on the desert for the land
of promise. " says a Pioneer Of 1S49 in
the Hartford COurant The trail was
well defined by abandoned wagons and
the bones of horses, mules and human
beings. Struggling through the yield
ing sand, the thermometer at 120 de-
grees, wheels falling apart, animals
dying from heat and thirst they on the
second night out halted some ten miles
from Cookies Well, with the water
in their kegs exhausted. Tradition
states that little ten-year-old girl was
heard praying, in one of the wagons.
for water. 1t states that in her child
like faith she said; 20 good Heaven
ly Father, | know that | have been a
very naughty, naughty girl but oh!
dear, am so very thirsty and mamma
papa and the baby all want to drink so
much. Do, good God. give us water.
and will never never be naughty
again"
The gaunt, half-starved, desperate
men gathered around the wagons, dis
cussing how and what movement to
make to save their lives and their dear
ones, with no thought of gold now,
and listened to the humble petition.
One voiced the rest and said May
God grant it," Soon the voice of the
little child in cheerful accent, sounded
clear in silent night. 20 mother
mother, get me water; oh, can hear
it running; oh, do get some for baby
and me-" They thought her delirious
from her sufferings, when suddenly
babel of sounds broke forth from the
oxen and mules, all frantic and en-
deavoring to break loose from the
wagon poles. A rustling noise called
their attention to a slight depression
near the wagons, and on investigating
the cause they found water gushing up
out of the sand, sweet, clear, but
warm. Their sufferings were over
and they reached the mines better and
wiser for this interposition, as they
firmly believed. of divine Providence.
This spring continued to flow, run
ming due North for twenty miles; then
was lost in the sand. In places it was
two miles wide and from four to
twenty feet deep. When immigration
; in 1851 moved by the isthmus and the
Northern route the miraculous water
disappeared as its mission was accom-
plished and its divine work done But
| the memory Of the new river" that
was caused by sand bar below Yuma,
will long be remembered by survivors
of the thousands benefited by it in
| 1S50-51.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27

prisoners, these women, drew away frons
her with strange looks on their faces.
is tibet true?" asked the magistrate
suspecting that the prisoner was fabri-
eating touching story to procure her
discharge.
By way of reply Minnie Berry tossed,
letter across the Justices desk. A Toronto
postmark was on the envelope. The letter
corroborated the girls story.
I'll discharge you," said the magis-
trate. Il myself failed to reach the bed
side of my mother before she died. You
can 60" The girl left the courtroom
weeping as though her heart would break
The justice fined the others IS each
Their companion misfortune made them
thoughtful and they made no attempt to
escape paying their fines.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27

and most effective method of enriching
the soil. Buckwheat Is the hest crop for
very poor soil, turning under two crops
in the year. The next year early clover
may be sown fertilized with dressing of
plaster if the crop is a luxuriant one
an early cutting of hay may be made.
When the seeds are partially ripe on the
second growth turn the clover under.
Southern COW peas. SO valued in the south
ern states as reDOvator of the
soil will not ripen their seeds IN the
north. but will make heavy crop of vines
of great value for turning under as green
manure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
A Fine Catch.

Last summer, when several we'll
known gentlemen visited Flint River,
in Georgia, for fishing, they set lines
for trout, batting the hooks with pieces
OF fish. When they went to examine
their lines they found that small
channel catfish had swallowed their
bait on one hook, while. in turn,
small trout had swallowed cat fish.
and that large eleven-pound trout
had swallowed the entire lot
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
Gired Solid shot Across Her Rows

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 22.-The
sealing schooner Matte Flyer arrived
last night, fifteen days from Land
Point, Alaska She was warned to
leave Behring sea and did SO The
cod-fshing schooner Arago was hailed
by the United States steamship Ma
ron. which tired blank shot across her
bows he Arago refused to stop and
solid shot was fired at her with effect,
making her heave to- AS the Arago
was not sealing vessel she was al
lowed to proceed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
Married Him After All.

An Antelone county, Neb., woman
secured a divorce at Neigh the other
day on the ground of harsh treatment.
bad temper, etc. The lady had but
one witness, and she was young wo-
man who had lived with the couple for
nine years. She gave evidence as to
the husbands bad disposition and IN
governable temper, and in less than "a
hours after the divorce was granted
against him appeared before Police
King and were made one for better or
for worse.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27

Some of the great crops are small COM
parpd with what seem of less Importance.
One hundred and twenty million bushels
of wheat In three sta es on the northwest
excites wonder as TO what the world will
do whit. and yet the butter bill of aver
age city families are larger than the -four
account. and the expense books of hotels
and boarding houses will show that the
butter consumed costs from 10 10 so per
cent. more than the bread. The farmers
of the northwest think wheat is king. but
the COW is queen, and is destined to be-
come every year more and more factor in
cur prosperity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
An American Kills His Fafher

PARIS. Aug. PA young man named
Ia on. of American extrlc ton. to-day
murdered his father under horrible
circumstances. The young MIN be-
came engaged in 4 quarrel wi his
father and pulling ont IA bowie knife
made fur. Gus attack on the old man,
ripping open his abdomen and stab
hing Linn in various other pIac s. &c
continued his fiCndi h work even after
the old man had fallen and he nalIy
disPa tvhed him hy cutting lis throat
Bacon WAS arreste and he re IS TO
give his motive for the awful deed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
ONE TOUCH OF NATURE.

A touch Of nature which made prisoner
and magistrate kin. crept into the wicked
routine of the armory police court this
morning. Among the inmates of a disOr-
DERBY house which was raided recently was
Minnie Berry, a comelv colored girl who
came into the DOCK crying bitterly.
This is something unusual" sad JUS
tice Lyon to the girl. You have been
arrested frequently. hut have Away borne
it with calmness. Why do you break down
today?"
II got letter from nv sister in Toron-
to this morning judge said the girl, her
voice breaking frequently in sobs. telling
me that my mother is dying. ! havn't
$. en- Der in three years, an | want to 60
there TO see her btf fore she dies"
1t this announcement the girls fellow
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
Steam PhaetOn.

A steam phaeton has appeared in
Paris resembling an ord inary phaeton.
It carries under the body of the car
riage boiler (which cannot explode.
with a funnel bent down and discharg-
ing smoke under the hack seat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
EXtOrtiCn.

Look at our whisk brooms-only
10 cents" said Schoeppenstedt from
the placard in the drug store window.
Then he called the proprietor to the
door and asked:
isn't that rather high price to
charge just for looking al your whisk
brooms?"