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Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-18
trial before Judge Wade. has gone over

trial before Judge Wade. has gone over
until Tuesday morning at 10 O'Clock.
The case of the City Water company
ct al. We. Hubbell ct al, has been con-
tinued one week by Judge Wade, by
consent.
In the foreclosure suit of the Califor-
MIA Loan and Trust company vs.. James
Hommel, judgment was rendered for
the plaintiff by Judge Mckinley.
The case of Smith ct al. We. Mrs. Nell
lie A. Rhodes ct al. was argued, and
submitted to Judge Mckinley. The
plaintiffs allege that the Vineland irri.
CATION district illegally caused their
land, valued at $4,000, to be sold for nom
payment of an assessment of $14 65, and
that Rhodes afterwards fraudulentIy
conveyed the property to his wife, Mrs.
Nellie A. Rhodes.
In the case OF Alvarado VS.. Tonner,
foreclosure suit, judgment was rendered
for the plaintiff by Judge Shaw, and a
stay of execution OF 10 days granted.
A motion to modify an Injunction as
to the custody of child was denied by
Judge Shaw, in the case of E. w. Sar-
gent vs. Mrs. Grace 4. Sargent. The
child. a handsome girl of ID, will still re-
""iu IL oho Suobouy VI mIbs L dhCO, peuu-
ing the trial of the cause.
Judge Clark rendered decision in
favor OF the plaintiff in the foreclosure
suit of the Security Loan and Trust COM
pany VS.. 1. P. Welcome, for $3I45 90.
A judgment in favor of the plaintiff
Tor $l259 25 was rendered by Judge
Clark in the foreclosure suit of I. N.
Moore vs.. P. E. Webb ct al.
Fritz L. Savander, native of Sweden,
was admitted to citizenship by Judge
Van Dyke.
An information was filed by the dis
trict attorney against Frank Morgan,
charging him with having burglarized
the room of Stanley Lawrence, August
25th. He will be arraigned September
18th.
Judge Smith granted decree OF di-
vorce in the case of w. P. Meredith vs.
Mrs. Weltha P. Meredith.
Thomas Walsh, destitute minor, was
committed by Judge Smith to the Whit
tier refoim school for five years.
A decree of foreclosure was granted
by Judge Wade in the case of the Cali
fornia bank vs. J. Robarts ct al, on a
note for 5000.
Manuel Arballo was arrested on a
complaint charging him with threaten
ing to kill his wife, Mrs. Angela Ar
ballo. He was arraigned before Justice
Stanton, and in default of $1,000 bail,
was sent to Jail to await his examina-
tion, which was set for next SATURDAY..
September oath.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-18
New Suits Filed.

A petition was filed for the probate of
the will of Joseph H. Gray. The estate
is valued at $13, ,450 part of which is in
Los Angeles county and part in Mari
copa county, Arizona. The property in
Los Angeles county is valued at $500.
j. G. West, overseer of Azusa road
district, began suit against Emma j. and
John 7. Gordon, to have distractions
across Citrus avenue removed and $40
per day for each day the fences have not
been removed since notice was given.
Mrs. Conception A. White began suit
against John S. White for $50 per month
alimony. She claims that the defend
ant has not lived with her since Jan.
uary l, 1892. They were married jan
uary 5, 1874.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-18
The Monroe Case.

Yesterday morning, before Justice
Owens. the examination began of
George Monroe, who was charged with
obtaining $1,000 from Thomas Widd, a
deaf mute. The particulars of the tran
saction were given several days ago by
the HERALD. 1t is alleged that Monroe,
in addition to the busy time he had
with school warrants, found time to in
duce the deaf mute to 60 into partner
ship, and got away with his $1,000 by
impressing him with the magnitude of
his resources and plans for making
money quickly. The examination last
ed most of the day, and it was pecu-
liar one. As the prosecuting witness is
a deaf mute, an interpreter in the sign
language was necessary, and it took
about five minutes to ask and answer a
question. The examination was not
concluded yesterday.
Court Notes.
The James Lacey damage suit for
$40. 900 against George X. Porter, on
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-18

Free.
Call on Off & Vaughn, druggists, Fourth and
Spring streets, and get q sample of imported
almond meal for sunburn, freckles and tan.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-18

left the court room with pleased look
upon his face, as if he was glad that he
had finally completed the object upon
which his heart was set.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-18

Hot commercial Iuncn uaiiy at The tx
change. 22a south Sprfns rect. Mussei jutce.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-18

Have soft white hands that you will be proud
of. use Moline.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-28
ANTIQUITY OF THE TELEPHONE.
It's Principles Known in India for Thou
sands of Years.

English travellers and officers in
India who have managed. through
favoritsm with the priests. to gain
access to some of the half-ruined
temples of PAM. city about 200 miles
from Madras. have learned that the
principles of the telephone have been
known in that country for thousands
of years. In the city of PAM there are
two temples about mile apart. In
the interior Oh the ground floor of each
there is small circular room guarded
day and night from natives as well as
strangers. These rooms are supposed
to be the abiding places of govern
ing spirits" but in reality are the
termini of Il telephone line which is
laid under ground from one building
to the other.
The Superstitious natives regard
these little circular rooms with the
greatest awe, because they have had
demonstrated to them on various oc-
casions the power of these ''governing
spirits" TO communicate with the other
temple. When this miracle is being
performed the natives are required to
make their offerings in one building
anu make known tnelF WISHES anu ue-
sires. Then. upon Immediately repair
ing to the other temple. they are in
formed of all they have said and done.
To US that is all easy enough. but to
the superstitious native of India it is
proof that the priests are supernatural
beings.
Those who have visited these tele-
phone connected temples say that the
transmitters are of wood. and that
they are about the size of the head of
il -four barrel. The wire is said to be
neither steel, copper. nor brass, but of
substance closely resembling the latter
metal. Old worm-eaten transmitters,
said to be 1000 years old, have been
shown those fortunate enough to gain
admission to these temples.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-28
THE INTELLIGENT OSTRICH.
He Exercises Much Discrimination in the
Care of His Rising Family.

Americans in general must be in
possession of vast fund Of varied, ac-
curate and Northumberland ignor-
ance about ostriches. This is the con-
clusiOn reached by a reporter after an
hours conversation with professional
ostrich farmer. The gentleman is Mr..
H. G. Reid, who paid $l2 900 and gave
five years hard work to acquire what
he knows. He is Scotchman of edu-
cation and Intelligence aud has rare
faculty of making people take an in
tereSt in what interests him. He has
spent several months in teaching Cali
fornians how TO get a little profit out
of ostrich farming, and it was his ex-
perience in California that led him to
give the data for this article.
After paying his respects to the un-
scientific practices of he California
ostrich fanciers, Mr.. Reid gave some
interesting data about the habits of the
birds. He has small respect for the
intellectual endOwments of the os-
trich. The ratio of the paroquet's
brain to his entire bulk is as TO As
that of the eagle as l TO 80 and that of
the ostrich as l TO l. 200 -" said Mr.
Reid. 80 one doesn't expect him to a.
tain to any sublime heights of culture
And yet to watch the male and female
ostrich about the nest is to conceive
the greatest respect for their propaga-
tive instinct. The ostrich egg, from
the time it is laid until incub baton is
complete, requires daily attention.
The idea that it is Matched in the sand
by the heat of the sun is nonsense.
That notion comes of the fact that the
bird, being very timid. runs away on
the approach of any creature it con-
ceives to be a foe, and before going
usually rakes the sand up around and
over the nest to retain the heat which
the eggs have received from its body.
| and the discovery of such deserted
nests nearly Matched out has further
siren gthened the fallacv
But the fact is that the ostrich egg
requires turning daily during incub a-
ton, which lasts forty-two days. re-
quires slight moisture, which it re-
ceives from contact with the bird 5
body, and requires ventilation. which
the bird provides for by standing over
| the nest and turning its body about to
shade the eggs from the sun. A grad
| ual decrease in the temperature of the
eggs is also imperative. For the first
two weeks it is 104 deg Fahrenheit; for
the third week. 102 deg; fourth, 100
deg; fifth, 50 deg; sixth, So deg. This
is provided by nature in the steadily
falling temperature of the birds body.
due to the receipt of less nourishment
than d other times. and in the incuba-
tor it must be looked after by careful
attendants. Now, does anybody sup
pose that all these conditions can be
met by simply heaping the eggs with
| sand? Yet the ostrich watches all
| these points.
The male, by the way, does most
| of the hatching-sitting on the nest
| sixteen hours out of the twenty-four-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-28
HRIRPINS.
Articles That Cost from Nothing to Five
Hundred Dollars Apiece.
this way.

Hairpins vary in price from a few
n. Y. Recorder. Perhaps the hairpin
is the most useful all-around article of
feminine wear. 1t serves not only the
purpose for which it was designed. but
also as glove buttOner shoe buttoner,
cuf-fastener, and even breast-pin.
A distinguished West Virginian. who
frequently visited New York. discov-
cred an entirely new use for the hair
pin. He converts it into file for the
preservation of newspaper clippings.
His method Is to twist the hairU;n into
a hook, sink one end into the wall or
window-sill, and file clippings on the
end that is free. He never buys hair
pains. but obtains an ample supply
from the pavements. where they are
daily shed in thousands from the gold
en-, red, black, brown, and gray tresses
of New York women.
The cheapest hairpins are thinly
lacquered wires bent into suitable
shape. They are made by the million
for little or nothing. and the manu-
facturers' prices would fill every wom-
an with sense of outrage at the prof
its made by retailers. Small. thin,
kinky hairpins are Il modern improve
ment on the straight, old-fashioned
variety, bat even they are made for a
trifle per gross. The costIier hairpins
are not so varionsly serviceabe as the
cheap ones.
They are made of gold. silver, and
tortoise she'll, sometimes oruamented
with precious stones and rich work
manship. Tortoise shell in the rough
is worth from S. to IS a pound. The
finest is from the belly of the tortoise
That yields the amber-colored she'll
from which the costliest pins and
combs are made. Small pins, all of
tortoise shell. cost 81 so to 81 Larger
ones cost from 81 to 50. Fine mbe,
shell-pins, with gold tops, cost from S.
10 $50. After these come the ieweed
pins. They may be of almost anv
price. Simple ones cost from $50 to
$50. More elaborate ones, with pearls
and diamonds. may cost from 500 to
5000.
The sheliworkers of this town are an
extremely skillful and artistic body of
men. They carve and weld the she'll in
fashion to astonish one not acquainted
with their art. They are well-paid
work men. and the value of their labor
is seen in the difference of prices be-
tween the plain shell-pins and those
enriched with their elaborate carving.
Most Of these men are kept actively
employed by the large jewelers..
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-28
"The Way We Do in America"

The gentleman who tells this story
is Il preacher, and as ne got it conf
dent!allv from man who was there
names are suppressed:
III was in Paris. The scene was at
a private banquet Distinguished men
from several countries were present.
The necks of quantity of bottles had
been broken. 1t is the custom in
Paris, so my friend informed me. for
the man who responds to toast to
break his glass in SO doing so that the
toast can never again be drunk out of
the goblet. The fragments are thrown
into the punch bowl. The hour was
getting late. An American editor
whose name is weil-known all over his
own country, was responding to the
last toast Of the evening. In closing
he not only broke his goblet. hut
smashed the punch bowl and all the
glassware on the table. and then broke
up tie mirrors. AS he completed his
work of destruction he mounted the
table. and said in loud voice, That S
the way we do in America. ~ Chicago
Tribune
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-28
Fading.

In a small town of northern Yer
mont the inhabitants are noted for their
early marriages. An unmarried Young
woman who has passed her 25th birth
day is universally regarded as an "old
maid and a young man who has
reached the same age in an unwedded
state is pronounced a confirmed
bachelor, and the young people them
selves appear to accept the current
opinion.
One handsome young fellow. rs
years old, was great trial to his
mother busting, energetic farmers
wife. As she .lamented to summer
boarder, lit did seem as if Hiram was
possessed to stay single" no matter
what she could say.
AN faint likely" she would add.
fretfully, that any girl will be takin'
up with him after year or two, when
he's settled down an beginnin' to look
old!'
Hiram himself was not given to
sentiment, and furthermore was quite
unconscious of his own attractions
He showed the summer boarder some
dreadful photographs Of himself. which
had been taken the previous winter to
please his mother, and remarked grave
ly:
Mother was set onh iyn' EN-, an
only waited to see if wa nj likely to
get any better lookin'. But come last
winter | see | was be ginnin' to fade. so
l had 'em took right away!'
The contrast between the speakers
youthful appearance and bis words
was almost too much for his nearer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-28
Celebrities in Yellowstone Park

There's Chauncey Depew, he's
purity good one but he wants to do
all the talking himself, an you to do
all the laifin'." jay Gould, he's
a mysterious sort of Il cuSS. He don't
want to say nothn'. Some of us fellers
took him for n detective, but some of
the others allowed as he was an East
ern Bank President disguised. faint
been long since | took Gen. Schofeld
and his bride through the park, but
then | don't never pass no comments
on weddin' couples.
1--WE ketch a lot O. sky pilots, too, in
the park. | had Talmage wonce That
fellow must a been in the front O. the
line when thew were givin' out mouths.
But still he behaved hisself. and amt
agpin to say anything against him.
But us fellers had the mostest fun
when a Washington cove named Hall
went through the park. That was
about three years ago, when the Bee
hive geyser just broke loose. and ev-
erybody was hot fer SEEM the Bee
hive Wall, us drivers had heered
tell as how this Hall was puverful
smart at sermonizin'. so we all
piles up ter the chapel. | amt much
of a judge, but | think it was
about as ordinary picece O.
preachn' as ever | herd Never
heerd shout from the amen benches.
an not a soul got religion, an / don't
think much of a parson as can't stir
up more excitement than that So my
pal, Geyser Bob he was there. an
said he: i bet / know Teller as can
empty that whole room quicker than
coyute can kick All right, seq Land
! knowed there was goin' to ter be
some fun, but | was bit afraid that
Bob was a goin' to shoot. But he
didn't. He just yells in the door.
The Beehive is spoulin'! an inside Of
ten seconds there wasn't but six people
in the house besides the preacher, an
he seq quick as wink, fer | think he
wanted ter git out himself: Brethren.
think we better adjourn the meeting
ter see the Beehive. "-Phu delphia
Record
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-28
Rapid Work with the Brush.

In the window of a Broadway store
stands man who paints picture
about two feet and half long and two
feet wide in four inmates bv the
watch. He works rapidly but without
apparent haste. He places canvas in
position on an easel. His paints and
brushes are conveniently disposed upon
the easel and upon table near at
hand. With few quick sweeps of a
brush from side to side he covers the
upper and lower parts of the canvas
with solid brown. leaving the middle
for the moment untouched. Then as
he phys his brushes mountains and
hills and fields appear A few more
touches and lake comes into view.
So quickly that you scarcely follow his
movements he puts upon the canvas
masses of green. which somehow look
familiar, but you don't stop to think
about them; you see him now with
another brush painting upon the lake
boats whose sails are reflected on the
water. A touch of pink. a swish or
two with brush. ana the glow of sun
set suffuses the picture. Zip! Zip! birds
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-28
He Was a Peculiar Man.

We were sitting on the cotton-bales,
half a dozen of US, on the depot plat
form, at town in South Carolina,
when a native rode up and dismounted
from bis mule and joined the group.
He had a freeand-easy way with him.
and he was chewing plug tobacco Tor
all he was worth. He had scarcely
gol seated when he elected Il mouthful
OF Juice which struck the dusty and
wrlnkIed boot of another native about
SIX feet away.
"Scuse me. sah," said the splitter
as he saw what he had done.
The other looked at him, but made
no reply, and in about two minutes
the operation was repeated.
''Scuse me, sab. said the splitter. as
he looked up. but I'm leetle pecool-
lar. Never see a foot hanging out like
that without wanting to spit on it
The owner of the boot was half "
ing down, and he neither got up nor
had word to say. The other now be-
Lan to talk about the weather, but ere
he bad uttered twenty words he turned
his head and squirted for thar boot
again. His aim was wonderfully ac-
curate. and he calmly eXplalned:
"'Scuse me, sab. but I'm pecooliar
man. No offense, sab. but just nv
way"
We looked on in something like
amazement, but the owner of the boot
,Iidn't even protest, though he slowly
rose up from his recumbent position.
Tn" splitter went on to tell that cotton
would be no crop unless it rained
pretty soon. and pretty soon around
went his head and he fired another
charge at the boot aud said:
Scuse me, sab, but Pm a pecooliar
man. It's just my way, you know.
ami"
The owner of the boot suddenly
pulled a revolver and fired it point
blank at the others head. and as a big
white hat went flying with a bullet
hole in it. he Indignantly exclaimed:
Look a-yere. Steve Boyard, if yous
bin pearling yo'self over ben' the only
pecooliar man in this ere locality yous
walkin' in the wrong cow-path! 'Scuse
me sab, but I'm jest as pecooiar as
70 are, and if you spit on that butte
agin I'll show yo' that I'm even more
pecooliar than you ever dared be!''
Steven felt hurt in his feelings for II
time. but they soon shook hands and
then he turned his battery on the long.
black foot of negro seated on bar
rel of resin and peace reigDed SUI
nrpInp M OInI
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-28

and L have seen him hold his post Tor
twenty hours when the hen refused to
come and relieve him. Aud when the
hen leaves the nest before her turn
comes to seek food the male will at
once take her place, although she does
not show the same solicitude when by
any chance he deserts the eggs Aud.
strangely enough. though the ostrich
often resents the invasion of his corral
by strangers at other times than dur
ing incubation. be will allow any one
TO approach the nest while he is on
guard without taking the slightest Of
Tense.
1t is curiosity to watch him as
sist the hatching-out process. As soon
as he sees the break or toe sticking
through the she'll he will take the ewg
mp by the protruGing bill or foot, lift
it two or three feet and drop it on the
ground until it breaks. | have seen
Dim release two chicks at once hv
dropping one egg upon the other in
this way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-28
A Lucky Guess.

DR.. Mayo, the well-known author Of
'kaloolah," tells the following story,
says the Washington STIR: Some
years ago ne was acting as surgeon on
board the United States ship of-war
Cyane. The vessel was in mid-oceau,
when craft in full sail, but so low
down the horizon as to be scarcely Wis.,
IDLE with the naked eve, was described.
Trying to make out the stranger with
his spy-glass, the captain said:
Il wonder what that vessel can bep"
DR.. MAYO. who was one of group
OF officers about the captain spoke up
and said:
oh that's the Josiah Quincy of
Boston"
The captain turned, looked at the
doctor in an astoniShed sort of way,
and then proceeded once more to gaze
through his spy-glass, while the others
went below to the wardroom.
Il say, Doctor" said senior lieu
tenant, you'll find it's mistake to
guy our commander. He has no more
notion of humor than billygoat, and
he doesn't approve of jokes"
Dr. Mayo ouly smiled, but he felt a
ltbllS NouS siOphL IL hilhSCiIi lOl, VI
course he no more knew the name of
the vessel sighted than he did that of
the man in the moon.
An hour later the stranger was APP
preached almost within hailing dis
lance. She was bark-rigged and evil
IDENTITY loaded heavily with some kind
of merchandise. But as the Cyane
passed her she went off on a fresh
tack, and the captain could read her
name through his glass on her stern.
1t was Josiah Quincy of Boston,"
H and blazes" exclaimed the as
tonished commander. Then turning
to the doctor, he said: How on earth
could you knowP'
Merely by the cut Of her jlb, sir, ="
replied DR.. Mayo calmly, and he didn't
even admit in the wardroom that his
guess had been merely the first name
that came into his mind. Since that
time he has firmly believed that moth
ing is too strange to be referred to as
coincidence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-28

are nylng IN the distance. and sailing
low in the foreground is one that seems
to flap its wings and soar out over the
heads of the crowd on the sidewalk.
Bitf! biff! tree trunks join the masses
of green to the earth and branches ap
pear in the foliage. Trees, sure
enough; an Involuntary murmur of
applause follows the swift revealing
strokes. Now bit! and the gazers al
most hold their breaths, for it seemed
as though at last he had married the
picture; but he hasn't. He's on the
home stretch now. going faster than
ever. His brush flashes along the
hillside, rail fence runs down the
slope and ends at the waters EDGE.
The picture is finished. He lifts it
from the easel and puts it, while the
crowd applauds in a big gilt frame
that rests on another easel in the CEN
ter of the window. Time, four minutes.
" Z. San.