The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-11-13
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The longest commercial distance at
which the long distance telephone Is
now operated is from Boston to st.
Louis, a distance of 1400 miles. The line
is more than twice as long as any Euro
pean telephone line.
The net earnings of 1873 railways up
to September LIST show gain of g. $780,
900 over the net earnings for the first
eight months of 1885, These figures do
not include the heavy cotton movement
which has taken place since September
The Byron society of London, which,
aside from it's literary mission, seeks
to continue Lord Byron's chivalrous Ia
of Turkey misrule, has pledged itself to
use every legitimate means to help the
Armenians.
Missouri weather prophets base their
representations of the heavy winter
ahead on the height of the ragweed
growing all about. The weeds are from
two to three feet high and an old adage
is recalled which says that snow will
fall as deep as the ragweeds are tall.
In spite of all the efforts of congress
and the war department to check de-
sertions from the army, the number of
assertions increases. During the fiscal
year. according the annual report of the
adjutant-general, 1885 enlisted men, or
one In nineteen, adopted that shameful
iiCthou vi SCtiIiS Out VI tiC SCI VICE.
A circular saw, 81 inches in diameter,
at Bucks mill, at Jacksonville. Fla.
flew into pieces while at full speed and
tut things up in way that shocked the
hands. Some of the fragments slit their
way through the roof; one piece cut a
6X12 timber in two, and another bi.
hurled against block of steel was weld
ed by the impact.
William Gray. aged 81. after several
1o we. tod 20 oil
Chestnut Hill, Ind. last week. While
the mourning relatives were awaiting
the arrival of the undertaken the sup
posed corpse sat upright, asked the
cause of the grief and in an uncomcerned
manner declared his intention to get
we'll and vote at the November election
Russian thistles, a patch of which have
f1ourished for some time near Whipple,
Ariz.. have overgrown well-trodden
paths there and made them impossible
either for men or animals. The thistles
of this plot are said to be the only ones
in Arizona. and the people urge that they
be exterminated before they become a
pest everywhere in the territory.
Bank clerks, like other mortals. make
mistakes. OF the packages of paper
money sent to the treasury last year for
redemption no small number did not
contain the amount marked upon them.
Strangely enough, the surplus amounts
exceeded the deficits. the former IN a
nominal total of 100000 aggregating
$500. while the latter came to only $4,000.
No Communipaw burgher of Washing
ton Irving's would complain that his
kind were without successors were he
to come upon Topeka's champion smo-
ker. who uses pipe with a bowl the
size of tumbler and stem as long as a
cane, at which he smokes for three hours
and half on one filling. It is said that
he can fill a good-sized hall with smoke
in thirty-nine minutes.
Members of congress can get anything
that has appeared in the Congresicra al
Record printed at the government office
in arv quantity they choose by paying
simply the cost to the government of
paper, ink and labor. ard vet almost
invaris bly, they find it cheaper to get the
work done by outside printers. who have
rent to pay and who do not eniov the
privilege of using the original plates.
Louis Stern. @ peddler, boarded Phil
adelphia street car. carrying a large
sack. The conductor collector Stern
fare and told him he would have to pay
: cents more for his intimate companion.
Stern refused to do so and was elected
from the car. He sued the company for
damages and has just been beaten in
| the courts. The street car magnates
| regard the verdict as an important one
! and are jubilant over 1t.