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The herald., 1894-11-25
AROUND THE CITY HALL
CITY TAXES WILL BECOME DE-
LINQUENT TOMORROW.
Petitions for Grade and Sidewalk
Street improvements to Be
Made-New Street Work
Accepted.

City taxes will become delina uent to-
morrow afternoon at O'Clock. The COL
lections up to O'Clock last night
amounted to over sS50,OOO This lie en-
increase OF over $25. 900 above the col
lections OF last year during the came
period, beginning September 10 and
ending November %.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
The city engineer has furnished the
city attorney description of the prop
erty for the opening of Lake Shore ave.
nue. from Bellevue avenue north. which
10 on the west side of Echo park. 1t is
proposed to condemn an S0-ioot strip Of
land at this point and make q street
from it. All these lots run from Bel.
mont avenue to the park, and are very
long. consequently no great hardship
would be worked upon the owners there.
of by the condemnation.
The engineer has also furnished the
city attorney with description and the
proposed widening of Central avenue at
the northeast corner of Eighth street.
1t is proposed to cut Off this corner
OWAhS w y JS6 IA i1'knsh ouOCts
The grading, graveling and curbing OF
Michigan avenue, from Pennsylysnia
avenue to Saratoga street. is now
completed and the city engineer is now
engaged In making the assessment map.
Street Superintendent Wilson formally
accepted the work yesterday.
TWO PETITIONS.
Eight property owners on Seventeenth
street, from Figueros to Rush streets,
presented petition to the city council
yesterday for q FIVE foot sidewalk on
both sides of Seventeenth street between
the points named.
William Niles filed petition asking
that the grade of Twentieth street, be.
tween Maple avenue and Trinity street,
be esta blished.
THE MILK INVESTIGATION.
Health Officer Powers spent couple
| of days last week at the Compton
cheese factory, where he went to watch
the process of cheese making, see the
| quality of milk used and to learn
things in connection with his tests oil
i milk used in this city. DR.. Powers
/, says the quality of milk used in cheese
making at that place is far superior tc
that furnished by the dairies of this
city. When he concludes his investi-
cations on Los Angeles milk, lively
report is expected before the board O.
health.
MIR. wERNER's FUNERAL.
The funeral of the late Engineer
Phillip Werner will be held today at
pm. The interment will take place al
Evergreen cemetery. Members OF the
city engineers Office and the street
superintendent's Office will attend the
| obaequies in body.
The herald., 1894-11-25

For a good table wine order our Sonoma
Ziniandel at SOC per gal. T. Vache & Co.,
Commercial and Alameda. Tel. 500.
The herald., 1894-11-25

II you have rooms to rent try the
HERALD want columns" They bring
results.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-08-23

Notice to Invet0rs.

There was never time in the history OF
our country when the demand for Inventions
and Improvements in The arts and SCIENCES
generally was SO great as now. The con-
vcncnces Of mankind in the factory and
work shop, the household, on the farm, and
in Official life, require continual accessions
to the appurtenances and implements to each
in order TO sage labor, time ard expense
The political change in the administration
of government does not affect the progress
OF the American inventor, who beng on the
alert, and ready to perceive the existing
deficiencies, does not permit the affairs Of
government to deter him from quickly con.
ceiy,rg the remedy to overcome existing
discrepancies. Too great care cannot be
exercised in choosing a competent and skill
application for patent Valuable interests
haye been lost and destroyed in mnunerable
instances hy the employment of incompe-
tent counsel ard especially IS this advice
applicable to those who adop, the mo pat
cnt, no pay system. Inventors who entrust
their business I" this class Of attorneys do
SO mt imminent risk, rs the breadth and
strength Of the patent is never considered in
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and obtain the fee then due. THE PRESS
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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-08-23
The National Game.

Burns is the slugger of the Brooklyn>
beyond doubt.
st. Louis has the poorest batting
pitchers in the league.
Duffy OF Boston, is now at the head
OF the league batting list.
Philadelphia nov has more pitchers
than any club in the league.
Dople of the New Yorks has dovel-
oped into q great first bascman.
The new blood seems to have done
the Louisvllles world Of good.
The secret Of heavy hitting in the
western league is lively ball.
Cincinnati has won Just one game
from Cleveland at Cincinnati tins year
Tennep, the Boston backstop, wears a
regulation football crop of black hair.
Arson, of Chicago is actually leading
Brouthers Of Baltimore, in batting.
McAleer, of Cleveland, Is the urluck,
lest player in the lea que, AS he Is manned
every season.
In Tenny, Boston has unquestionably
secured fine catcher He throws left
handed, like Clements.
Eight teams with winning percent
ageot 500 or over is record never before
made in this country.
Farrell. Of New York, has caught in
more games this season than any other
man who wears the mask.
Treadway, Of Brooklyn, is the most
peculiar runner in the league. lie
doubles himself up and lopes.
Buckley, of Pttsburg, says that three
years Is the average Of left handed
players life in the big league.
The Brooklyn Washington series has
closed. Nine games belong to Brooklyn
and three to Washington.
A good ball player, thoroughly alive
to the interests of his club will always
run for ball no matter where it Is hit.
Only three clubs have succeeded IN
winning two games out Of three in Bal
timore this season Boston, PLiladel-
phia and Pittsburg.
Neither the Bostons nor the Fliladel.
phias have been shut out this year. The
pitcher who accomplishes the task
against either should have prize.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-08-23
Caught the Bullets.

Hermann, the magician, appeared
at the Metropolitan Opera House, New
York, Thursday night of last W eek
His principal feat was to be fired at by
file of United States soldiers VINO stood
on platform erectedm the auditorium.
As the soldiers fired their guLs, aimed
straight at him, the magician made two
or three grabs in the air and a moment
later five fattentd bullets fell from his
hand to a plate at his feet. The bul
let's and cartridges had been marked by
the audience before being fired, and
when the rifle balls were taken from
the plate they were found tocontain the
original marks.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-08-23
The Merry Side Of Life.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

always know when comp'ny's here,
can tell it any day,
For papa then calls mamma, "dear,'
And meyer calls her "say.'
One Of the most striking things you
can place IN a parlor is clock.
SHE Are YOU fond of corn on the
ear?
HE-I never had one there.
When a boy washes his face without
being told, his mother thinks that there
is something the matter with HIM.
YOUNG W1FE-Oh, ducky, the cake I
was making this afternoon fell.
YOUNG HUSBAND (anxiously)-Did it
break any thing?
Do you go through your husbands
pockets at night after he is asleep?asked
one lady Of another.
No, was the reply. John never comes
home while he has Il cent left.
What is that cash on Finders face :?
Oh, that is a mark of respect.
A mark of respect?
Yes, he 8 got more respect now for
the man that put it there than he had
before.
DR.. HoWLER How much Is it?
DR.. SCoWLER--One dollar.
d. U.-You know I'm druggist IN
Indianapolis and
D. S.-Oh, the price to you is three
cents.
A recent issue of a Minnesota paper
says farmer of that place raised l 900
bushels of pop corn last year and stored
it in a barn. The barn caught fire,
the corn began to pop and filled a ten
acre field. An old mare in neighbor-
ing field with defective eyesight saw the
corn, thought it was snow and lay down
and froze to death.
- S.
Il ~,
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The Art TOnsOrial
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The New York Musical Echo Is quite q
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ISS1 lsUNEN'TAL l..

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G. Ar NOTICE,

We take this oppoIiun y of informing our
subscribers that the new Commissioner of
Pensions has been appointed. He is an old
soldier, and we believe that, solCicrsand their
hers will receive justice at his hands, we
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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-05-05
VERY Ancient Jokes.

When Themistocles was trying to get
money out of the Andrians for the
Greece defense fund and told them that
the Athenians would come with two
great gods, persuasion and necessity,
the Andrians replied that the Athen-
ians were well off with two such ser
vicable gods, but they had two gods
who always dwell in their country
proverty and impossibility.
Cyrus bitter jest about the fishes to
the wretched Ionians, who had declined
his oyertures, and then after the taking
of Sardis wanted to come to terms. has
too much cruelty to be humorous.
Say" said the insulting victor, that
a piper, seeing fishes in the sea, were
too pipe to them thinking they will
come out TO the land, and when he was
disappointed of his hope took net and
inclosed a great multitude of the fishes
and drew them 10 land, and seeing
them Hopping about said 10 the fishes.
Cease dancing to me, since you would
not come out and dance when l
played. "-Westminister Review
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-05-05
4 cosRA.s NEsr o. Eoos.
Interesting Discovery of Batch of Eggs
In British India.

In British India.
Rather more than year ago the
fact was mentioned in a Bombay
paper that gentleman connected
with the Goa railway had shot
hamadryad (Ophiophagus elaps) on
its nest The awkward mouthful OF
a word is coming 20 be Familiarity
known as the name OF the giant
cobra, more common in Burmah than
in India, which grows to length OF
fourteen feet, Is as fierce as ii is
strong, and has the reputation Of
feeding principally upon other
snakes. Little, indeed, is known
about the incubation-w might
almost have said the alleged incuba.
tion-of snakes, and rarely, il ever.
has competent observer had the
good chance TO come upon serpent
in the very act Of sitting, henlike,
on its eggs. Only the bare fact was
published at the time. and fuller
account cannot fail TO be interesting.
The gentleman was Mr. Massey,
known In his district as an ardent
and successful shikari; aud he was
told by coolie. in the matter-of
course sort OF way usual with these
fatalist philosophers. that certain
path was impossible, as cobra had
erected padi, or throne, for itself
there. and warned off lntruders.
Here was a golden opportunity TO
settle the vexed question OF the
aggressiYeness OF yenomous snakes
Will cobra rush TO the attack il il
can get easily away? Europeans
commonly say no" bat natives
universally cite instances to the
contrary. some Of them plainly fabn-
lons, but others only waiting cor
robOration to be believed. Now
here in British India, or at least in
Portuguese India. was a giant OF the
tribe. known TO all the villagers to
have taken mp its station By the
roadside and 10 be ready 10 glide
down and rush like lightning al
man or beast, who approached. Mr..
Massey followed the coolie TO the
spot and was shown the monster
coiled up on top Of huge pile OF
dry leaves.
Without more ado he shot il, and
turning over the leaves found at the
bottom thirty.two eggs rather smaller
than "a hens and covered each with a
tough skin IN place OF shell These
were sent to the secretary Of the
Bombay natural history society: but
wanting the heat generated By the
close mass OF decaying leaves. they
did not hatch. Sometimes more than
one young one escapes from a snakes
egg out at the lowest computation
Mir Massey is to be congratulated on
Kidding his district Of thirty-;hree
deadly snakes.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-05-05

A. NJ. Lamb, market gardener in
PENNSYLVANIA, cleared 81, 500 on five
acres of cabbage and FIVE acres of
onions. The reason of this, he says
was because Salzer's seeds are so e2-
tremely early and wondrously pro
ductive. Lightning Cabbage and King
of the Earliest Onions he had in the
market three weeks ahead of any other
homegrown sorts, and consequently
received fancy prices Salzer sends IS
packages earliest vegetable seed, SUM
cient for family. for 81, postpaid.
IL You win Cut This out and Send It
With &c postage TO the John A. Salzer
Seed Co, La Crosse, Wis, you will re-
ceive their mammoth catalogue and n
trial package of Get There, Eli" the
sixteen-day radish. w
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-05-05
Talk About Your colo weathsr,

Talk about your cold weather, 81
said travelling man just from the
northwest; you ought to see it out
there once"
The crowd shiyered and pulled up
closer to the stove.
II had a friend up in North Dakota, -
he went on, ''who sent TO Ohio for a
Gordon setter last fall and expected to
have some fine hunting with him. In
January ] stopped over in his town one
day and went to his house to see him.
Going up the lawn / noticed one of the
best specimens of terra Gotta work ]
ever saw. 1t was dog standing near
the front door, and it was so natural
almost spoke TO him as | went inside.
After awhile spoke to my friend about
the specimen.
That's the finest terra cottt, dog
you've got out there / ever saw S, id /.
What terra Gotta dog?' said he, go.
ing to the window, from where point
ed out the dog TO him.
he looked at it minute or two in.
tently and started outside.
Terra Gotta nothing he exclaimed
that's my Gordon setter, frozen stiff
and hard detroit Free Press.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-05-05

is the mighty West, the land that "tickled
with hoe laughs a harTest;" the FL Dorado
Of the miner; the goal Of the agricultural
emigrant While IL teens with all the ele-
ments OF wealth and prosperity, some of the
faifest and most fruitful portions OF it bear
harvest OF malaria reaped ia its fullness
by those unprotected by a medicinal safe
guard. No one seeking or dwelling in a
malarial locality is safe from the scourge
without Hostetters stomach Bitters. Emil
grants. bear this in mind. Commercial
travellers soiourning in malarious regions
should carry a bottle OF the Bitters in the
traditional gripsack. Against the effects OF
exposure, mental or bodily oyerwork, damp
and unWholesome food or water, IL is an in
fallible defense. Constipation, rheumatism,
biliousness, dyspepsia nervousness and loss
OF strength are all remedied by this genial
restorative
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-05-05
Lack of Intsr.st

A Yankee with some gift for brag.
ging as well as for getting out of cor.
ner was talking TO an Englishman.
I'VE can lick you right smart" he said.
We've allus done IT, and can do IL
again. At Lexington, Concord, Sara.
toga, Bunker Hill an lots of those places
we jest gave you fits"
Yes" said the Englishman, 81 do
remdmber those places, but then there
was the battle of White Plains We
rather beat you there"
We'll, You did," admitted the Yam.
kee. ~ forgot sll.about that, j shouldn't
have thought of IL IL you hadn't "a
spoke of IL. But then, you see, at that
battle the Americans somehow didn't
seem TO take any interest in the fight. +"
Exchange.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-05-05
A Big Place.

A Colorado ranchman was paying his
first visit to New York, and the next
morning after his arrival his host took
him down 10 the Battery on the elevated
and thenproposed that they walk along
back up Broadway.
They kept walking along, showed and
hustled and crowded, the westener
talking when he could and his friend
watching him closely for impressions
After about mile of it the westerner
became tired Of it, but kept Flooding
along: After about an hour he took
his friend by the arm and stopped him.
Il say, Bill" he said, trying TO find
the vanishing point of the streets per-
spectiye, with weary look, II say, is
II town all the way to the Rocky noun
tains?n -Detroit Free Press.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-05-05

a celebrated French actor came
over TO England lie had studied
our language carefully His friends
were IA little anxious about his
powers 81 acquiring our difficult
pronunciation. but he said that he
felt confident that. well made up and
by gasiight. his accent would pass
muster But, alas. lie was overhope-
full The crucial evening arrived.
and he wanted at the most pathetic
moment 70 cxclaim. ia broken voiced
despair II shall die, ! shall die.
There is peace IN the grave But
his histrionic powers carried him
away and he forgot his carefully pre-
pared pronunciation. aud in heart
broken tones. he sobhed forth II
shall die, ! shalt die! There is
peas in the gravy And then ne
could not understand why all the
theater shouted with laughter
Lady's Pictorial
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-05-05
sLIvERs OF NEWS.

The deepest silver mines in America
are the Comstock, ZOO feet.
In Southern California there is an
immense mass Of hardened lava that
looks exactly like an inverted cup in
an enormous saucer.
A millionaire Of Vienna has left pro-
vision in his will for the constant il
Elimination Of the vault wherein he
now lies An electric light is to be
kept burning for a year and even the
coffin Is 10 be lighted in the interior
by electricity.
Captain McDougall the originator
of the whalebacll ships, predicts that
before the close OF the present century
the shipments from and To the head of
Lake Superior will amount to fully
20. OOO. 900 tons yearly, or more than
any other port Of the world.
The tower which is being erected by
the Russians on the highest point of
the Mount of Olives, at Jerusalem, is
already several stories high, and but
one more is TO be added. II is 10 he
So high that both the Mediterranean
and Dead seas can be seen from the
top.
Probably the only marble bridge in
the world is on the Marietta and
North Georgia railroad, in Whitfield,
county. Georgia. At the time of its
erection Southern marble, which now
ranks high for building purposes, was
supposed to be of little value, as it was
thought to be too hard.
At sale of rare books held in Lon
don recently John Brewton's "Briefc
and True Relation of the Discoverie of
the North Part of Virginia" which
was published in London in 1902, was
sold for the English equivalent of $685.,
and a copy of the earliest collection OF
Massachusetts laws for S5i5, Both
were bought for American collectors.
a sclf-recordiug target, designed to
Eprevent accidents at target practice,
is being successfully used at Plymouth,
England. THE face of the target is
composed of steel. and the whole sur
face of the 'bulls eye, the center
and the outer consists of steel rings,
which can be forced back on pressure,
When the bullet reaches the target the
ring on which IL strikes is driven back
ward. and is forced forward again by "a
spring, The backward motion of the
ring closes an electric circuit, actuat.
ing as nm indicator at the shooting
point, where the result of the shot can
thus be instantly SEEM