davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The herald., 1897-01-24

other times, and in one instance in par-
ticular, having child in her ho,Ise sick.
her own child. taking 1t from the house.
exposing 1t In the yard and leaving II
there for several hours, giving the reas
on therefor that 1t was not warm enough
in the house Tor the child, when as a
matter of fact 1t was warm there and
there was fire; refusing upon remon-
strances of individuals who observed the
act to take In the sick child: leaving it
there for several hours and finally TAX
ing 1t in at the instance of her husband.
and the child dying shortly thereafter;
that upon such acts upon the part of the
sister people who were acquainted and
tamillar with her, and laymen, predicate
the assertion that she was not of sound
mind and was irresponsible for her acts
THE CUSTODY OF THE CHILD.
Assuming that that man had had in
his possession for the days of Saturday,
Sunday and Monday the possession and
custody of the very child that he referred
to in making the sta tement to HIS wife
and that the child at the time he made
the sta temert was in a house only a few
rods distant from where he was, and
that under the authority of the court he
had a right to see it and have it's custody
al least ONE day In every week, and he
should commit the act of homicide that
1 have mentioned, will you state, doctor,
whether in your Judgment that person
knew the nature of the act that he COM
mitted, or was in a mental condition to
determine the difference between right
and wrong, with reference to the act?"
That was the question which the med
ical experts We're called upon to daily
with and answer. Upon cross-exa mna-
tion Deputy District Attorney McComas
unloaded almost as large a number of
hypotheticaL Incidents as are contained
in the question: put by the defense, and
received answers just as satisfactory for
the prosecution, doubtless, as were those
made by the experts to counsel for the
defense in sustaining his view of the
case.
On Monday arguments will begin.
Attorney Rush will open for the prose-
cution and will then be followed by
Frank Davis, s,who may be depended upon
to make a mas,terly address to the jury.
and Deputy District Attorney McComas
will close the arguments.
The herald., 1897-01-24

The following complaints in new suits
We're yesterday filed in the superior
court
NJ. Mccarthy VS.. Alice B. Liska ct all
A suit to recover $172.17, with 10 per cent
interest, SIS attorneys fee, etc, for street
assessment on certain property at An
geleno Heights.
James T. Hckram VS.. City of Los An
geles-A suit to quiet title to lot 10,
block c, of the Johnston tract.
Hannah A. Baldwin VS.. Alfred Day,
ST., ct ALA suit to recover $1,000 on a
note $500 attorney fee, costs, and decree
of sale.
NJ Mccarthy VS.. Alice B. Liska ct al
A suit to recover $94.94, with interest.
due for street assessment on property
at Angeleno Heights.
A. c. Palfrey VS.. Hattie M. Williams
ct ala suit to recover $1400 on note,
$40 attorneys fee, costs and decree of
sale against lots E, c ard !, block 107,
in the town of Long Beach.
c. IT. Buchanan VS.. James Castrucco
A suit to recover $4,000 and costs. On
November :, 1896, plaintiff was charged
in the police court with having disturb
ed the peace at First and Main streets.
at the instance of defendant. Plaintiff
was imprisoned for several hours, but
acquitted of the charge upon being
brought to trial. BY reason of his ar
rest plaintiff has suffered in his bust
ness. had his appointment as a deputy
Sheriff revoked, and has been injured in
name and reputation, for which he now
claims reparation.
John M. Becker VS.. James B. Sum
mons, Jr., ct ALA suit to recover $4,000
on note. 5000 attorneys fee, costs and
decree of foreclosure on lot 4, west one
half of No. 3. of the Champion tract, Of
the Rancho San Francisco.
The herald., 1897-01-24
erday from the office of the county

terday from the office of the county
clerk:
Paul r. Hazeltine, a native of Maine.
aged 80 years, and Mary F. Froelich. a
native of Illinois, aged q years, both res
idents OF Los Angeles.
William Dearden, jr., a native of Eng
land, aged "a years, and Nellie King, a
native of Iowa, aged q years, both res
idents of Los Angeles.
Henry c. II. Reuter-, a native of Ger
many, aged 30 years. and resident OF
Los Angeles. and Mary T. Brabandt, q
native of California, aged 2S years. and a
resident of Oakland.
The herald., 1897-01-24
SCHOOL APPORTIONMENT
Made of the State Money by the County
superintendent.

The state school money has been ap-
portioned to the several districts by the
county superintendent of schools, Spur
geon v. Riley, as the second apportion-
ment for the school year ending June 80,
1897.
The apportionment has been made up
as follows:
To school districts having twenty or
The herald., 1897-01-24
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@

more census children $235 for each teach-
.er is apportioned.
To school districts having less than
twenty census children $135 is appor-
| toned
To districts having more than seventy
and fraction less than twenty census
| children 500 is apportioned for each CEN
| sus child, i'm said fraction.
To each district 1915 per capita Is ap-
port!ioned upon the average daily attend
ance Dor the school year ending June 80,
|
The herald., 1897-01-24
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

The following licenses were issued yes
The herald., 1897-01-24
COURT NOTES.

The trial of LemouX, the Covina liquor
seller. charged with selling without a
license. went over in the township court
yesterday until the S0th inst
Edwin Davidson, native of Norway,
was yesterday admitted to citizenship
by Judge Clark. and Charles E. Nor
berg, native of Sweden, by Judge Al
len
In the case of the German American
Savings Bank VS. Jordir ct al, being a
foreclosure suit on several notes aggre-
gatirig $5150, the cause was submitted on
briefs in department six yesterday.
The Eureka Oil company, by George
NJ Beach, the president, yesterday filed
its petition in insolvency. There are
leasehold interests valued at $4,000, en-
numbered by a claim of $616.50, q pump
ing plant. valued at $3.50, encumberej
by chattel mortgage to the Machinery
Supply company The liabilities are
set at $2429.S9.
The herald., 1897-01-24

MAJOR ARIosTo McCR!MMON, Prominent Newspaper
Public Speaker
The herald., 1897-01-24
NEW SUITS FILEI

Total Observation-Disclosures. $217, ,561 2I
The herald., 1897-01-24
Your Happiness Is Precious

If the millions of unhappy suf-
ferers could unite their pleading
voices into one great cry of anguish
the echoes of that laundering vol.
ume of misery would touch this
worlds happiness with shadow of
sorrow that would make us all akin.
Unhappiness is the lot of the
ordinary invalid, and as the dis
ease becomes more chronic and
help seems farther and farther
away, the poor sufferer sinks into
chronic gloom. Doctor after
doctor has failed to give relief, why
shouldn't the human heart grow
faint and helplessf Disappoint-
ment IS most bitter to a chronic suf-
ferer who has mustered up courage
and hope for last trial of some in
competent physician.
While there is life there should
be hope, because one doctor or a
dozen doctors failed, that has no.
thing to do with the doctors you
haven't tried. Medicine is pro-
gressive and each year adds to our
store of knowle 1ge. This is the day
of specialism in medicine and suf-
ferers who desire to be cured must
seek specialist who is making a
their class of disease sole study
and cure. This crying need was an
essential factor in the formation and
establishment of the expert staff of
English and German Expert Special
lists Institute.
The wonderful success that has
rewarded the labors of these special
lists during the two years they have
been established here, is abundant
proof, "that in union there is
strength" that "United we stand
and divided we fall" A staff of
skilled specialists is your only hope
for relief from chronic diseases.
You can consult them free of charge.
Come before it's too late.
The herald., 1897-01-24
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 25c
The herald., 1897-01-24

"Where have you been?" she in
quired.
Witness failed to catch his answer,
but heard his companion retort:
mo, you have not; you've been with
some woman. with some -"
The herald., 1897-01-24

All prices of wallpaper greatly reduced.
A. A. Eckstrom. 324 South Spring street.
The age-herald., 1897-10-03
FAIRY FLIES OF
 INFINITESIMAL SIZE.

psocid. an insect much like a common aphis, but very active and shy, having decided objection to being watched But all good things come to those who know how to wait,' and wait he must for hours, days. months, and years, be- fore the life history of single species Is made out.
 "The Stenopscocus lays it's eggs on the leaves of various scrubs and trees. l have found them on lime, oak, syca- more. hawthorn and ivy. They are laid in patches of ten to twenty, the fe- male psocid carefully weaving a silken covering to endeavor to protect them from the attacks of enemies; but alas! who would imagine fairy fly to be an enemy?
 yet Its microscopic size enables it to pass unnoticed, and also permits its passing beneath the silken screen, and, once there. woe betide the psocid's eggs! for the busy fairy taps one with her clubbed antennae. mounts to the sum- init, and then lets down the ovipositor until the barbed tip touches the sur face of the fresh-laid egg.
 Now. by carefully focusing a good magnifier. we observe the fairy taking a firm hold of the surface of the egg
The age-herald., 1897-10-03

ing delicacy of this fairy fly. The pos- terior wings are abnormal-mere bris- tles-and yet they are of immense ser- vice when hooked into the anterior ones.
 Since my first seeing the oviposition of a fairy fly I have dissected many struck eggs, and in less than a minute had the germ Qaid by the fairy fiy) un- der my microscope. and watched 1t grow. and the cells divide again and ag1in in such a marvellous manner that have been lost in wonderment or sim ply overcome. Flesh and blood Is not strong enough to carry on such watch ings too long, but the fascination is so great that time after time have l watched the mysterious changes taking place-various organs being formed un- der my eyes-the active larva gradually losing all Its activity until it appears in pupal form, and then new limbs and or gans seem to be evolved from nothing at all.
The age-herald., 1897-10-03

hot or cold water at will. These baths are so popular and so useful that the authorities do not propose. in the peo- ple's baths which remain to be built, to add tub baths to the shower baths such as are now in use.
 In all Of the important cities of Great Britain there are innumerable bath houses, those in London, oe course, be- ing more varied and extensive than in the other towns. Liverpool was, how ever. the first city to establish a pub lie bath-house. it's Corporation in 1794 purchasing for $20.000 a private swim ming bath and spending $5.000 more on Improvements
 In London more than S3.000 GOO has been spent by the different parishes on bath buildings and fittings, some of them costing as much as $250, ,000. In all there are upwards of forty of these baths. and last year one of them was patronized by nearly 100000 bathers, an average of more than 500 day.
 It must be understood that none of these public baths are free. They are all self-supporting, but the charges are merely nominal. ranging from two to twelve cents, according to the style of bath.
The age-herald., 1897-10-03
London Paris, Berlin and Vienna Far In Advance of
 the Large Towns Here
NEW YORK STARTS A CAMPAIGN OF CLEANLINESS.
Health Officials of the Greater City Plan To Build Large Bath Houses With Modern Equipments In the Small Parks Germany's System Superior To That of Other
 Continental Cities

most extensive of it's kind in South Ger many, and one of the most elaborate on the continent. It was built by stock company. whose shares were taken by prominent citizens, and to- wards whose capital considerable sums were contributed by the king and queen or Wurtemburg, the City of Stuttgart and the Society for the Welfare of the Working Classes. The establishment contains swimming bath for men IS feet by Al feet, and connected with 1t are 2o4 dressing cabins. There is wo- mems swimming bath 60 feet by 30 feet. with 300 dressing cabins.
 One of the most noticeable features of the bath question in Germany is the in- stitution of workmen's baths by large employers of labor. A list of nearly 200 or these are said to have been estab- lished prior to 1896. By far the greater number of these were chiefly furnished With fixtures for furnishing hot and cold shower baths at the bather's pleas- ure The most striking feature of the list, perhaps, is the variety of indus
 tries 1t represents, viz, Government
 shops under the control of the military
 and naval authorities, respectively:
 shops and stations belonging to rail- | roads under State control, city gas and
 water-worEs. mines. furnaces and smelling works, breweries. paper mills, manufacturers of chemicals and dye stuffs, cotton mills, potteries, machine shops, shipping companies, etc. These are scattered all over the country. Gen erally no charge Is made to the work men using the baths provided for them in the workshops and factories. In some cases they are allowed to bathe during
 working hours. Baths are also pro-
 vided extensively in the public schools and barracks.
 Paris, usually the most progressive in | all things pertaining to It's municipal | welfare, is behind other continental cit | ies in the matter of public baths. al- ! though floating swimming baths in the
 Seine. belonging to private parties. are fairly numerous. Latterly several bath ing establishments termed ''piscines"
The age-herald., 1897-10-03

mad seen struck in October until the following year, when, as the warm days of April arrived. I carefully examined them, until one eventful day observed one of the eggs had tiny hole in it. On placing 1t under the microscope. saw a pair of mandibles busily at work nibbling away the egg shell, until at last the hole was large enough to admit of the head being thrust through. Af- ter many efforts the antennae were freed, followed by the first pair of legs; then, with this additional leverage at command, the thorax was lifted out, the second pair of legs and part of the wings following. and after much ap- parently painful effort the third and last pair of legs was withdrawn, en- abling the fairy to walk out. and to free those most exquisitely delicate wings without a hitch.
 'Now. taking firm grip on the empty egg-shell, the fairy went through
The age-herald., 1897-10-03

tnsIr minute size Is remembered.
 The fairy flies are without doubt among the many wonderful parisitic Hymenoptera. the most admirable m their exquisite structure, as we'll as in their habits and economy. All the spe- cies are egg parasites, and each spe- cies has it's peculiar taste. selecting with unerring instinct the right kind of egg generally that of an injurious insect in which the female lays one Of it's own eggs, which Tn due time matches or de- velcps into thing of life
 This tiny atom feeds upon the con tained fluids. and finds sufficient nutri- mert to bring it to full size. Then, be- ing matured. the fly bites out a round piece of the egg shell large enough to allow 1t to escape. and 1t. therefore. be- gins the battle with the outside world. full grown and as strong as 1t will ever be. Small as the wings of these mites
The age-herald., 1897-10-03

with the two~curved tips of each of her ex1Iisiteiy-formed toes! Next we note that pressure is being put upon the barbed ovipositor. The antennae are pressed firmly to the surface, and im- press the observer with the fact that some very serious business is in hand. Eleven minutes have passed without any sign of move. when just after eleven and quarter the ovipositor pos itively bumps through the she'll There is another serious pause, and then up go the clubbed antennae, and very care it slips back between the sheaths. The fairy turns round. and with saliva from her mouth. seals up the incision. An other egg is ascended. bored. and stored with an egg-and so on until the whole patch of twenty has been struck, and al, chance of any psocid emerging utterly ruined.
 T kept the first batch of eggs whla,
The age-herald., 1897-10-03

set, and least like a fairy
 ''The Gonatocerus is, perhaps as plen- tiful as any in England. IL is a con- stant visitor to my garden, though I have failed to discover its indus.
 ''The Alaptus minlnlus and fusculus have long been known to ne. The first named is not more than one-seventy- second of an inch long. with a sessile abdomen. Its wings are somewhat hatchet-shaped. with peculiar enlarge nents at the base of the inner margin. The lower wings have a crimped ap- pearance, arising from the maclSerel marking. This. and in fact all the fam fly, are to be found running up the glass In a greenhouse, especially on the window facing east. Alaptus fusculus is ore of the first to appear in spring It's peculiar jerky gait will at once re- veal Its Identity Of this species I have bred hundreds from the eggs Of .
The age-herald., 1897-10-03
Some Are One -Hundredth of An Inch Long;
 the MammOthS One- Thirtieth of -e An Inch.
HAVE MANY ENEMIES IN THE INSECT KINGDOM

< London.-Few people know, perhaps, that the world Is filled with legions of perfectly formed flies, so small that the naked eye can barely observe them in their rapid flights from place to place. Some of them are but one one-hun- dredth of an inch in length, while the mammothc of this fairy population are one-thirtieth of an inch long.
 The Dublin Museum has about the best collection of these midgets the world over, as 1t includes many varie- ties which may be plentiful enough, but are rarely discovered and captured by the most enterprising of naturalists. The difficulties of discerning these dwarfs of the fy-world in a garden. or field, can readily be imagined when
The age-herald., 1897-10-03


 her toilet. Not hair or spine escaped attention-each and every part of this microscopic marvel received the utmost attention; eye"y hair forming the lovely marginal fringe was brushed out and arranged n exact order. The wings were raised several times to fry them. and then away this atom of perfection flew.
 "The Mymar pulchel,ls is, without doubt, the most extraordinary of tha whole family. My first specimen T caught in a spiders web. It was very much held by viscid globules, but after many hours work appeared in Canada balsam splendid mount. No insect has exercised my power of thought more than this one; but its life history ne- mains a mystery still. though I ina I am ithin measurable distance of dis covering its indus. The male ana inc '-r,ale give good idea of the surp...-
The age-herald., 1897-10-03

New York-One of the first labors of the officials of the Greater New York win be the establishment of number of bath houses for the poor in the con- gested districts, thus raising the city to the standard of the other great centres of population of the world.
 New York Is terribly behind-hand in this respect, and the same can be said of majority of other American cities, although few nave realized the sani- tary importance of public improve ments of this kind. None of them, how ever, approach the British and Conti- mental cities in the number and variety of bath-houses, and it Is the purpose of the Heal.b authorities here to make of New York the first city in the world the rank it will some day occupy as the first city in population.
 Sanitary experts the world over agree that nothing tends to keep down the rate of mortality so much as cleanli- ness in the slums. Just how clean the inhabitants of a certain district in New York are, can be gathered from the ~OO~t e~o SAACNA OJ StdliSilNS BdtliCAONt some months ago, that in a tenement locality sheltering over a quarter of a million persons there are but BOG bath rooms. Allowing twenty persons for each bathroom. and this is a liberal es- timate. the 6.012 who have proper bath ing facilities form but a tiny fraction of the whole.
 It is to obliterate this constant men ace to the public health that the bath houses are to be established. One scheme is to erect handsome buildings in the small parks scattered about the lower end of the city, and to fit them with the most modern equipments. A committee of officers of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor has gathered considerable information on the subject from the various Euro- pean capitals, and this shows that while England was the pioneer, the public baths of Germany are superior.
 This is notably the case in the cities of Berlin, Frankfort, Cologne and Stutt- gart. The Stuttgart bath is one of the
The age-herald., 1897-10-03

There is a large coinage cf good stories about Hannibal Hamlin up in Maine, and this is one of them: Tn his earlier days, at a certain cauers i,, iianhpuen.' tne only attend ,nts were nlInseI ana a citizen of large staturc. MT. l1amiln had some resolutions to pass Wnicn began by representing that they were presented to a "larse and respectable gathering Of yutera.
 Hold on,' cried the other man, eve can't pass that. for it ain-t true. Ii aint large and respectable caucua! There's only two Of ns.'' You kaen still,' brother commanded ths willy Hannibal. "k's all right, for you are large and am respectable. You just keep still" So the resolutions wee passed without further demur.
The age-herald., 1897-10-03

are, the upper and under surfaces are covered with minute hairs.
 Of the fairy flies, the genera numbers eleven, and the species thirty-flve, as follows: Ooctonus. four species; Gona- tocerus. five species: Alaptus, two spe- cies: Litus. one species: Eustochus, one species; Mymar, one species; Cosmoco- ma. eight species; Caraphractus, one species; Anaphes. seven species; Ana grus, four species; and Camptoptera, one species
 In describing the genera, Frederick Knock, F. l.. &, F. E. S.. the best in formed man on the subject In Europe, says:
 ''Of the Ooctonus genus I have not found very many specimens. It is thick
The age-herald., 1897-10-03

tab.ishment can accommodate 1,210 bathers at one time. Since 1887 Vienna has established no less than ten peo- ple's baths in different quarters of the city, and 1t is proposed to increase their number until every one of the nineteen wards of the city is provided with a peoples house, containing accom-
The age-herald., 1897-10-03

mediation for both males and females.
 One of the most noteworthy features of the Vienna baths Is that they not only contain no plunge baths whatever but that they consist solely of shower baths, which enable the bather to use
The age-herald., 1897-10-03

water. and for those who desire to take a cleanliness bath. only, are provided in considerable numbers. The success of these piscines is likely to lead to their multiplication by the municipality In the near future.
 Vienna Is another city well equipped with bathing establishments. About
The age-herald., 1897-10-03

Herbert E. Fowler, of Naugatuas, discovered one of natures valuable se- crets, and 1t was supposed that no one else in the world knew it, that no one else ever had known it. He found out how to electroplate upon wood, and there was every reason to suppose that his fortune was made. The pro- csss was not patented. He feared that some other inventive genius woulc succeed in stealing part of his secret and so modify it as to evadc suit under the patent laws.
 Fowler was negotiating with capi- talists in Chicago. They agreed to back him with sufficient money, but they insisted on his protecting them by patent. He had nearly made up his mind to do so, when death claimed him suddenly. He had confided in no one; 1t was supposed that his secret had died with him.
 But now comes E. R. Comm, Chi cage chemist and claims that he knows the secret. He had been working ex- actly on the lines of Fowler's experi- ments, judging from helittle that was revealed after the latters death. He had nc idea that any one else was fol- lowing that road, much less that an-, other inventor was in communication with capitalists In the very city in which he himself was working out ths. details of his invention.