The herald., 1896-02-06

luB III ulo EAST 10 QrlVbng the tourist and
people OF leisure In larger crowds TO South
ern California, with the result that all of
the principal hotels in Los Angeles and
vicinity are rapidly alIinG up, and several
large parties are on the way from the north
ana northwest. Recent arrivals from
Montana. Idaho, Nebraska, Minnesota and
Dakota report that since the heavy rains
and changeahle weather prevailing the
earlier part Of the winter it has rapidly be-
come colder, and old residents of these
states all predict q long and very hard
winter.
ID. b. Ramsden of Salt Lake City said
that the dewly admitted state would obey
re law rs TO polygamy, and that the pub
lie should not be deceived by the irrespops-
ibie utterances of some members of the
Mormon church. He said that there was
splendid future for Utah, both in ogricul-
ture and mines especially the latter, and
added that Mercur would soon be g close
rival to Johannesburg, and at no distant
date the richest mining center in the
world. Already over 1000 miners are en-
gagged in developing very rich prospects,
and the vicinity for many miles has been
taken up and claims located and filed,
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Prof. r. B. Maitland of San francisco
said: do not think that the new artificial
language Esperanto will, any more than
VoiApuk, supplant the chief languages now
spoken in the world, or that as long as
human conditions remain as they are. that
any one language will become universal at
least for some centuries. D'Eyssautier, q
Frenchman, Ia the chief advocate of Es.
peranto, whose author 10 q Russlan-Pole
named DR.. Zamenhoff of Warsaw. The
grammar OF the language may be learned
in an hour, and all its vocabulary in few
days.
Max Muller and Tolstoi write and speak
it with ease, but at present 1t Ia said to be
only known to about 10000 people In yari-
Gus parts of the world. The roots of Espe-
ranto are from the hest known OF modern
tongues-English, French and German
these Offering the least difficulty to stu
dents. AS root, indicative of the action
adopted. Now should one wish to make
q substantive and obtain the word "loye,"
in French "amour," one has but to add the
letter 10" thus obtaining the word "amo."
This is an absolute rule-to obtain sud-
stantive from given root add the letter "o."
Nothing is easier. The present. past and
future lenses Of verbs ere made BY placing
and "oa." respectively. My own opinion
is that a universal language is not chimeri-
cal, and that when that era comes the Ian
guage will be AnGlc-Saxon.
F. w, Horton, a Chicago stock broker.
eaid: Railway managers are bitterly COM
planning of the low transportation rates
but 1t is fact suggestive of the perma-
nence of railway profits, and hence of in
vestment returns that these rates relative
to the price of the commodity transported,
are higher than ever before. 1t will be
impossible for railway managers greatly to
increase their rates, SO long as the remark
able depression in agricultural commodi-
ties continues, and they may even count
themselves fortunate IT these circum-
stances. leading TO a renewal of agitation
for granger legislation, do not. ere long,
compel a reduction in transportation
charges. 1t ia q fact pregnant with mea IL
ing that the mercantile agencies which
compile statistics of mercantile failures.
show that in 1895, while there was
marked decrease in the number of failures
in New England, in the south and on the
Pacific coast, there was an increase in the
middle states, the west and the northwest.
A. B. Harrington, who was on the train
with ]. L. Sullivan when he met with his
accident, said: "The big fellow had been
drinking heavily for some days, and on
the train was Keeping up his spree. Sud-
denly he got up from his seat and went to
the rear platform Of the car, which swerved
as it rounded a sharp curve, and Sullivan
went flying into the ditch. alighting on his
head and hands. The train ran over a
mile before 1t stopped and backed to pick
I'D the senseless man. He seemed dead,
but after time revived in tho baggage car
by the exertions of Paddy Ryan, and at
Lafayette doctor bandaged his wounds.
Rapidly recovering, Sullivan got more
s~Iy Il rty n
but was finally induced to leave them alone
by the other passengers. The extranrdi-
nary physique OF the man was fully dem
onstrated in this accident. ANY ordinary
man would havo been killed on the spot"
Henry A. ST Roche, the little known but
exquisite painter on ivory aad glass, was
found in quie. retreat at Pasadena and a
pleasant conversation was had Mr.. st.
Roche comes of an ancient Huguenot
family, who settled in Boston IN 1893
originally, and then migrated westward,
one branch coming to California as early as
1884, and settling in the vicinity of Marys-
vile, but they years ago became extinct,
although old pioneers will remember them.
Mr.. ST. Roche was born in Fresno, and got
his first lessons in art from French lady
named Lemorcier, who herself was an
artist of no mean ability, took fancy to
the boy painter, who at that time was des-
perately poor. an orphan, and earning q
living by doing any work that came to
hand. He saved up the money necessary
to reach San Francisco, and there a kindly
American skipper of the black Ball line,
shipped him as cabin boy, hut allowed
the young fellow the use OF the cabin
for the purpose of study. He reached Lon
don and became a protege of Lord Leigh
ton, then only attaining fame, and whose
experiences in his boyhood we're not dis
similar from those of st. Roche. He re-
manned with Leighton for some time, and
then studied in Rome, Florence and other
art ceptcrs. For come years psst he has
been almost entirely engaged in painting
spending the winters in Southern Calisor-
MIA and returning to Europe in the sum-
mer. At present he is execu ing q commits
sion for the duke of Westminster for an
altar window, being engaged in making
sketches for the work. Mr.. st. Roche said
the remarkable beauty Of the women and
girls in Los Angeles and vicinity is very
helpful to him, and showed sketches of
fair danes and beautiful damsels sketched
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