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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-04-05
ODD ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE

In Venice ladies wear glass bonnets anu
Paris has caught the craze.
There is an immense garden in China that
embraces an area Of $1,000 square miles.
It is all meadow land and is filled with
lakes, ponds and canals.
There are houses still standing in Nurem-
burg. Bavaria, that were built in 1880
London was the first city to use coal.
It is estimated that the amount OF
water precipitated on this globe annually
in the form of rain, snow, etc., is 29,O00
cubic miles.
The last few weeks have been trying
ones for the birds, even the hardest. A
Brewer, Me-, man reports a pathetic sight
that came under his observation. Noticing
partly covered by a snow drift, the corpse
of a frozen dove, he went to it and to his
surprise he found under each outspread
wing an English sparrow, both frozen.
A curious industry in some of the pro-
vinces of China is the manufacture Of mock
money for offering to the dead. The pieces
are only half the size of the real coins,
but the dead are supposed not to know the
difference. The dummy coins are made out
of tin, hammered to the thinness of
paper, and stamped out to the size re-
quired.
The eagle first appeared on the seal of the
United States in a design submitted to
congress by William Barton of Philadel-
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-04-05
PoULTICE STARTS A FIRE
Celluloid Bathtub Ignites House and
a Record Is Made

Fire insurance companies have all
sorts OF experiences and their officers can
tell many curious stories. One of the
qdeerest fires fell within the business of
the Connecticut Insurance company of
this city recently.
A house was set on fire by bathtub
and the tub was set on fire by a poultice.
man in western city was suffering
from bad cold and his wife, at the doc
tors orders, prepared a poultice for his
chest When she started to put it on it
proved to be too hot. Accordingly she
took it to the bathroom and set it into a
bathtub to cool. This happened to be a
fine tub lined with celluloid, which served
as sort of enamel. The heat of the poul-
tice started the celluloid a-going and the
burning tub set things going generally.
The department was called out and the
house was we'll wet down, for which the
company had to pay. This, so far as is
known, is the first instance on record
where a poultice kindled bathtub.-
Hartford Courant.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-04-05
When Books Cost Fortunes

Books were of course introduced to the
North Of Europe by Christianity. The for.
nation Of libraries, the collecting of manu-
scripts In large quantities was not uncom.
mon among the Roman patricians. Mar.
Gus Varro called forth the praises OF
Cicero for having had painted in his books
the portraits of more than 700 celebra sed
persons. These portraits were miniatures
heading the works of the authors. or per.
haps histories of the persons thus COM
memorated in portraiture. Seneca speaks
of books ornamented with figures, but the
earliest extant pieces of caligraphy sc
enriched are not older than the fourth OF
fifth centuries. being a Terence and q
Virgil in the Vatican library.
These libraries were composed of books
in two forms: the volumes or scroll, sue.
cession Of pages on a long panoramic shee,
of papyrus unwound by one hand and
wound up again by the other as the reader
proceeded and the codex liber, or series
Of pages bound together at the back, ant
tied round by cord. The volume was kept
in case, and the vellum books on shelves
some Of the literary men Of that day having
them in quantities approaching to the mum
Der Of printed works now accumulated by
private individuals.-"HalfH Hour Lectures
on Art" by William Scott Bell.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-04-05
Pigeons to Carry War Dispatches

An unmistakable sign of the thorough
ness of the preparations for war with
Spain, it is claimed by naval officers, is the
placing by Secretary of the Navy Long
of large order for quilts for the Key
West naval station. These quilts were de-
signed by Prof. Marion of the United
States naval academy and are for use in
connection with messenger pigeon SER
vice to be at once established at Key West.
The quilts are to be attached to tlSe BIRDS
and are to contain messages. The pigeons
are to be put on the ships of Admiral
Sicard's squadron and established in a cote
at the naval station, SO that they can be
used to carry messages back and forth
to the ships when they are at sea off the
coast of Cuba.
These birds, as has already been estab-
lished by experiments, can carry messages
faster than the speedest dispatch vessel
One carried q message recently from the
battleship Texas to a shore station, dis
lance of more than 400 miles.
The ships on duty in the Gulf of Mexico
and the Caribbean sea will by this means
be brought into Geographic communca-
ton with Washington through the naval
station at Key West. The carrier pigeons
would enable ships on blocade and scouting
duty to keep their stations, report move
ments of the enemy and follow him up
Without such messengers, ships might be
compelled to leave their stations and run
for port in order to communicate important
newe.
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phia in 1882. The device was adopted June
Goth of that year.
The statue of George Washington is one
Of the objects Of interest at the capital Of
Venezuela.
A municipal council in FRANCE has or
dered its proceedings to be reported BY
photograph.
1t is said the huge guns OF modern navies
can be fired only about seventy-fve times
when they become worn out.
The island where Dreyfus is imprisoned
is called Devils island" but 1t is not
named on the maps. It is the smallest and
most northern of the three Isles du Salut,
situated about twelve miles from Cayenne
and eight miles from the mainland Of
French Guiana.
When a great nobleman Of the time Of
the Pharaohs gave feast his guests ar
rived at midday in chariots and palan-
quins, were met at the doors by slaves,
their hands and feet wore washed In per-
fumed water in golden vessels, and theia
heads anointed with ointment.
The immense traffic on the great system
of canals which traverses the Chinese
empire could be so Increased and expedited
by the use of steam tugs or launches that
| the authorities are said to be considering
| favorably the plan Of charging the
canals and introducing steam power.
Near the Caspian sea there are several
eternal fires" so called by the natives
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are going to heaven, but whether you are
doing your best to make heaven here.
When one will not rise to principle-ee
tries to bend the principle down to him.
God alone can be served filially; all other
masters must be served in slavery.
The greatest crime of which man car
be capable is to debauch his own convic-
lions.
We need also to pray, "Forgive us our
righteousness, for it is the so-called right
eousness of mankind that killed Jesus and
yet obstructs Him.
No amount of politeness, education or
religiosity can keep a selfish heart utterly
concealed; you cannot carry asafoetida in
your inside pocket and not be found out.
1t Is better to flee from the temple than
to pollute it.
1t is not so easy to explain religion as to
explain it away.
Evil is never dangerous until 1t seems to
be good
A corporation is a contrivance by which
to get profits and escape responsibility.
If traditional theology be true the direct
ors in some corporations will have to spend
the week days in hell and the Sunday with
their families in heaven.
The commercial conscience is the mod
ernized Tetzelism.
The open sinner in only an alien from
God; the hypocrite is Gods enemy.-Rev
Frank Crane.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-04-05
Militia Subject to Call

Noticing comments in your paper as to
whether the militia could be called into SER
vice by the president, and the time they
would be compelled to serve, will cite you
Title 16. Revised Statutes of the United
States, Sections 1643 and 1913, which say:
Section 1642 Whenever the United
States are invadd, or are in immediate dam
ger of invasion, from any foreign nation
or Indian tribe, or rebellion against the
authority of the United States, it shall be
lawful for the president to call such num-
Der of militia of the state or states most
convenient to the place Of danger or scene
Of action as he may deem necessary to re-
pei such invasion or suppress such rebel
lion, and to issue his orders for that pur-
pose to such officers Of the militia as he
may think proper.
"Sec. 164S. Whenever the president calls
forth the militia. of the states to be en-
ployed in the service of the United States
he may specify In his call the period for
which service shall be required, not ex-
ceeding nine months, and the militia SO
called shall be mustered in and continue
to serve during tn terms SO specified, un-
less sooner discharged by command Of the
presidential Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
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MICHIGAN PREPARES
Special Bills for the Increase of the
National Guard

LANSING, Mich, April 5.-Two bills are
now being prepareGin the office of the ad-
jutant general which will be introduced in
the state legislature as soon as the gov
ernor, by special message brings it within
the scope of that body to legislate on sub
jects other than those which were named
in his call for special session.
The first bill will provide for an appro-
priation of 100000 to place the state on a
war footing, and it will be similar in terms
to the law of 1861, by Which an appropria-
ton of 81 100000 was made for war purposes
The bill will provide for the issue of bonds
for term not exceeding 20 years, PROBABLY
Is per cent to be issued as the money is re
quired.
The second bill provides for increasing
the membership of the Michigan Nationa
guard to $50 men per company, the present
law limiting the membership to 80 men, anG
three commissioned officers. The gov.
ernor will, it is understood, pave the way
for the action of the legislature upon these
bills by special message to be read wher
the next legislature convenes tonight. Ar.
rangements have been made for the equip.
ment of the state naval reserves, the mum
Der to be increased to 3O0
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-04-05
FIGHT WITH A RACCOON
ENCOUNTER TAKES PLACE IN A
ST. LOUIS SALOON
Frank Beared, the Bartender, Has a
Terrific Battle With Wild
Beast

st. Louis.-Pistol shots, crashing glass
and strange cries awolse the neighborhood
of Twelfth street and Washington avenue
at BIS o'clock yesterday morning. Long
drawn walls, unlike anything ever before
heard by the thrilled listeners, rose from
a low cultural to a wavering crescendo
and died out slowly like the last cries Of n
wounded and almost exhausted being. Shot
after shot and repeated crashes occurred
before Officers Finan and Bunting reached
the place on the run from Fifteenth street
and Washington avenue. They hurried
into the Klondike saloon with drawn re-
volvers.
Crouched on an ice box, with smoking
pistol in one hand and a club in the other,
was Frank Beared, the bartender, his face
and fingers smeared and his hair clotted
with blood. His clothing was torn to shreds.
On the bar about to spring to the ice box
was a wild raccoon, that had been cap
tured in the woods and imprisoned in a cage
In the saloon until liberated by accident an
hour before. 1t was frightful battle that
the man and beast had fought.
For Gods sake, kill it.! I can't!" yelled
Beared.
At that moment the animal, with furi
GUS snarl, dashed against the upper part Of
the ice box. 1t still had all the pent-uI
power and anger a raccoon shows wher
bounced upon by dogs. The policemen's
revolvers rang out and they rushed upor
the animal with their clubs. Its additional
danger only increased it's frenzy, and i
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ANOTHER PURCHASE
NEGOTIATIONS FOR POSSESSION
OF SANTANA BAY
It Is Reported That the United
States Has Secured Control Of
San Domingo

NEW YORK, April At is stated here
that the United States is considering the
purchase or lease of SANTANA bay, in San
Domingo. SANTANA bay is in the Mona
channel, between Porto Rico and San Do.
mingo. 1t is a land-locked bay, five miles
long, with a narrow mouth, which could be
fortified and easily defended. There are
one or two islands in the bay which would
make excellent coaling stations Assistant
Secretary Roosevelt is said to favor the
plan.
The islands in SANTANA bay are controlled
by syndicate of which Smith M. Weed
is the head. Mr.. Weed is now in Washing
ton, carrying on negotiations.
Com. Crowinshield of the navy was re.
Gently sent to San Domingo to inspect the
position.
A dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser
from San Domingo says that the United
States has secured control of the harbor
and that coal is arriving in large guam
titles.
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sprang upon Bunting's chest and knocAeu
him down. It's keen claws ripped his coat
omen as he arose, and the shooting was re-
newed. Fifteen shots were fred' seven VI
which pierced the enraged animais pouy
before it showed signs of relinquishing'''e
uneoual combat Then the policemen
Drained it with their clubs.
Beared was wounded in dozen places.
The fight began shortly after the beast
got out of it's cage. 1t appeared tractaoie
enough until Beared attempted to drive II
from behind the bar. The interior OF the
saloon was a wreck when the fight ended.
over $1OO worth of glass was destroyed;
chairs and tables were overturned anu
there were blood stains everywhere.
Beared was so badly lacerated that ne
feared blood poisoning, and an antlsepuc
treatment was at once begun. He 1ainteo
from loss of blood when taken from the Ice
box, and was taken to his room over the
ca1OOO
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-04-05
REFUSED PROMOTION
Thought That He Was the Victim of a
Joke

Chief Ripley is bothered to distraction
day and night by policemen who want pro-
motion. 1t is a relief to him to find sat-
isfied man. So he was highly elated the
other day to run across patrolman who
did not want to be made sergeant and in
fact rfused point blank an offer of promo
ton. Entirely too good to be true, the
thing turned out to be mistake. 1t should
be said before going further that Operator
Joe Dargan at Desplaines street is some
what of joker in an innocent way.
About three weeks ago Chief Ripley
found he needed a regular desk sergeant
at Warren avenue station. The man on
duty was patrolman acting in the higher
capacity. The chief decided to promote
the man, and so called him to the telephone,
when this conversation ensued:
"This is the chieef. Do you want to 60
on regularly as sergeant there?"
I'm busy now, call me up again."
'What's that?"
Haven't time to talk now, ring up
again."
At this the Warren avenue man put Ill
his phone, and the chief had to ring again
"Here, this is Chief Ripley. Don't You
want to be promoted to the regular desk
sergeantcy?"
"Darnaticn told you was busy DOM
bother me-"
Again the hanging up Of the Warren
avenue receiver, and again the ringing by
the chief.
Look here, tell you am Chief Ripley
and I am offering you this promotion Il
you want It,"
''Well, don't want it, then. I'm busy
now"
Here, call Lieutenant Stanton to tbs
phone
The Lieutenant came. recognized tbs
chiefs voice. and turned to the officer fol
explanations:
why I thought 1t was Joe Dargar
'joshing' me-" said that official-and Their
he grabbed at the proffered promotion
Chicago Chronicle.
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THE AMERICANS IN CUBA
Are Notified to Be Prepared to Leave the Island
Today and Vessels Are Sent to Pros
vide Transportation


would be tomorrow Their small
the
believes inevitable United Natanza
Il
the
. to
to
however much for Cuban residents OF the city,
80 Q q .
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where natural gas issues from tho ground
and has been on fire for ages.
oh, Well, He Wasn't a spaniard

The case Of Jozue Perla, dark-visaged
artist, against the Third-avenue Railroad
company was tried in Part two of the city
court yesterday. Perla said he had Been
struck by one Of the defendants cars.
Counsellor Mayer didn't know just how
strong defense he could make, but, believ-
Ing from the PLAINTIFFS name and appear
ance that he was Spaniard, the lawyer
decided to go in and put up the best de-
tense possible. On the cross-examination
1t came out that Perla was Russian, not
a Spaniard. On learning this, counsel for
defense conferred with plaintiffs co1lsel
and then said to the court:
"Your honor, this case is settled. We
thought plaintiff was Spaniard and we
were not going to pay him cent But so
long as he is Russian we will SETTLE"
Cease settled said the court
The plaintiff looked surprise, but his law
yer told him that 1t was all right, and
jurors, counsel and plaintiff went away
happy.-New York Sun.
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GAINESVILLE, Ohio.-Mr. and Mrs. Will
liam Harkins celebrated the fiftieth ami
versary of their wedding at their farm near
this city few weeks ago. A grand
daughter was married the same day, and
Mrs. Harkins brought forth the remaining
portion of the wedding cake which had
been made by her own hands fifty years
before.
She was cutting the cake into pieces for
souvenirs for the young couple when her
knife struck a hard bit. Then, as the
cake which had been so we'll preserved for
fifty years dropped apart, a glittering dia-
mond fell to the floor.
Mrs Harkins fell in a faint as remem-
brance of the diamond lost from her ring
fifty years before returned. 1t was her en-
gagement ring, and the stone had disap-
peared from the setting on the day she
made the cake.
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HIPS Bible Glass

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, April 4-Ben-
jamin r. Hill, the Oakland wife murderer
who Is to be executed here Wednesday
unless Governor Budd interferes, passed
his second day in the condemned cell to-
day. Hill does not show any fear, and most
of his time is occupied in reading his Bbla
Ever since Hill was sent here he has de-
voted his time to his Bible, and while con-
fined in murderers' row he organized a
Bible class, composed only of men con-
demned to die
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teen of the sweetened disks and walked

teen of the sweetened disks and walked
jauntily out of the place.
The puffs used in this contest weigh over
an ounce apiece, twelve making about q
pound. The forty-eight, therefore, weigh
ed fully four pounds, and the sixteen
cookies from one-half to three-fourths of G
pound additional. But their weight gives
no idea of the indigestibilty of such a
mass. Disinterested onlookers at the
match contemplated interference toward
the close, believing that young Tricklei
was actually committing suicide
Several predicted that he would be dead
the next morning, but on the contrary, he
appeared bright and early to get his
'bracer" of cream puffs The association
is arranging to hold another contest in the
near future when George will be given
ample opportunity to reach his limit, if, in
deed he has any
A challenge has been issued to the cream
puff eaters of the world to send their best
men against Trickler, neither race, age,
weight nor color being barred.
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Will Irrigate Beets

STOCKTON, April 4.-Farmers in the
Vicinity of New Hope are irrigating their
lands and getting ready to plant sugar
beets for seasons crop on grain lands
that have failed. The seeding will COM
mence as soon as the ground is dry enough
again to work. Tracts on Grand, Ryer and
Brannan islands are being irrigated for
this purpose. In all it is expected that 5000
acres of beets will be grown in this county.
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Not an Almy Victim

SAN FRANCISCO, April DIR. w. F.
Balance of New Haven, Conn, who was
supposed to have gone down with the
wreck of the bark Almy, off the Golden
Gate, did not perish. Instead of starting
for Alaska on the AlIny, he sailed on the
schooner Thomas F. Negus, and the fact
of his safety was learned when that vessel
put into port for supplies last night.
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THE MADRID PRESS
Now Regards Rupture as Inevitable=- Sagastas Last
Resort the Vatican--Polo May Get His
Walking Papers Today

4specia to The Herald The newspap regard rup
continuance of Spanish rule in Cuba
the
against
/ 'front.' Washington government tomorrow
pato
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A Deadly Missile

VICTORIA, 3. c., April 4.-Martha Wolff,
la young woman well connected in Victoria,
has been arrested and charged with caus-
ing the death of Mrs. Charles Marsden by
throwing lamp at her several weeks ago.
Mrs. Marsden died yesterday from the
effects Of the burns she received at that
thine,
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Ordered to Alaska

SEATTLE. WASH, April 4.-The United
States gunboat Wheeling will leave here
tomorrow morning for Alaska. She has
on board the members of the government
geological survey parties bound for Haines'
Mission and Cooks Inlet, for the purpose
of making thorough exploration of Alas
ka. The Wheeling has orders to return to
Seattle by May 15.
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PARLIAMENT MIRRORED
Professional and Technical Descrip
ton Of Statesm ems Attire

The Tailor and Cutter sent special com.
missioner to the opening of parliament
The ceremony gave him the impression Of
funeral march, in its almost total abb
sencc OF color. The crowd of members
however, included one or two Just mer
from the taiior's point Of view. Sir Charles
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PULPIT EPIGRAM

God wants obedience, not obeisance.
The man who runs away from God has a
long way to go.
Some men are Christians in only the
same sense as they are Americans or
CaucasianS.
The religious question is not whether YOU
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A Babv burned

SACRAMENTO, April 1.-The 5-year-old
daughter of Antoine Jessie, Portuguese
|laborer, who lives at Oak Hill, near this
lcity, was burned to death shortly after
noon today, while playing with fire she
had built in the yard.
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The extraordinary precocity Of the chill
dren of India has called forth the astonish-
ment of a recent traveller, who says that
many of them are skilled workmen at an
age when children are usually learning the
alphabet.
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A polite and agreeable globe-trotter from
England, who was in Kansas City for a
few days last week. said he had never
struck town which had finer climate or
more interesting people that he found
there ---~3
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No Cause Given

SAN FRANCISCO, April 4.-Morrs Col
man, well-known halter, aged 60, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself through
the heart at the Hotel Alexandria this
morning. No cause is known for me sui
eide.
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knowledge of Metals

Four hundred years ago only seven
metals were lSnowp. Now there are fifty
cne-thirty OF which have been discovered
within the present century.
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Damages Repaired

VALPARAISO, April 4.-Thc steamer
City of Columbia, from New York for Sc
attic, before reported as having put in
here on February 14th, seriously damaged
by striking rock, proceeded on April "a.