The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-05-01
NOTES OF THE DAY

Fessenden, N. D., has 800 inhabitants ana
four newspapers.
eleven German cities own and manage
lighting plants of their own, while several
others are getting ready for municipal own.
ership.
A writer declares that 100000 men now 90
the work, with the aid Of machinery, which
needed 16, 900 900 persons to do a few years
ago.
The oldest house in Pennsylvania mas
been badly damaged by fire in Chester. It
was built in 1868 and was long used as q
tavern, and later as a playhouse.
Litigation over hearse at Bar Harbors
after a years continuance, was brought ia
and end by an agreement between the par
ties that the hearse be sold and the pro-
ceeds devoted to paying costs and lawyers
fees.
The encampment Of the Iowa Grand
| Army of the Republic, which will be held
at Sioux City in June, promises to be one
| of the largest and most interesting meets
| ings of the kind ever held in the state
| Proprietors of White Mountain hotels, i'm
| New Hampshire, are joyfully looking fors
ward to a prosperous summer in the view
| that wars alarms will send thither many
visitors who heretofore have passed the
heated term at the seaside resorts.
| One of the good Kansans found in looking
over his accounts that he had never sent
| a church subscription paper to subscriber
who had paid fifty cents for it thirty year4
ago. and he forwarded the sum, with Inc
| terest at 10 per cent to the mans widow.
| At Mississippi City, Miss, where the sher-
| iff is also tax collector, thieves pried open
the window of the sheriff's bedroom on
the night of the day he made his tax collec-
lions and with a tishnet caught his trou-
sers, and pulling them to the window,
rifed the pockets. The sherlH slept WITH
a light in his room.
Dubuque is one of the twelve cities In the
United States designated as kite flying
station by an order of the weather bureau
at Washington. Within few weeks kites
with meteorological instruments attached.
will be seen soaring high overhead, mile
| or more in midair.
A miner on the edge of the Mohave des-
| ert, California, having struck good rock,
| but no water or wood for mill power, put
up windmill, with which he hoists desert
sand which flows onto water" wheel,
which turns his mill, and Is hoisted again
and again.
| The Irish-American organizations OF
Philadelphia and the surrounding towns
--nect to have at least % 900 paraders in
procession in the Quaker city on May
memory Of the men and the deeds Of
179s. Later they will erect a monument
| to the Irish patriots, If their present intens
lions are carried out
Evidences of the prehistoric peoples who
inhabited the valleys of the ella and the
Salt rivers are continually coming to light.
and enough testimony has been found to
reveal the fact that in these valleys once
dwelt a mighty and prosperous people,
numbering not less than 100000 100000
certainly, and probably reaching 100000.
yelasquez's third centenary, which comes
next year, is to be celebrated by the
Madrid academy by the erection OF tho
painters statue in front of the National
museum of painting. Hard times prevent
the academy, however, from Offering prizes
| for competing plans. The only reward will
be the honor Of having the approved plan
| selected.