Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-19
Foreign

The city council of Chemnitz, noszassa.
no legal power to regulate the nricas -
ilucles OF food. In the present case If
mas adopted the following plan In order
10 combat the glazing INEQUALITIES IN
rates: Every butcher is now forced Ia
puohcly DISPLAY placard on which his
prices for each sort of meat and for each
separate grade Of any sort are c,ssrI,,
indicated. Penalties are prescribed foy
noncompliance. In this way it is hoped
Ihat the public will quickly become
aware of the variations and soon begin
10 discriminate between fair and unfair
Traders strong demand made upon
was refused.
The investigation of this question IN
the nelghboring city of Dresden. where
over A,lO0,0OO is expended monthly for
meat IN Its various forms, led to results
much the same as at Chemnitz 1t was
FOUND that butchers were now paying
Sioo'Voo less per month for hogs than was
the case short time ago. The dimint,-
ton in the retail price of pork nrodl,cts
amounted however, to but $4,000 per
month. Attempts on the part of butchers
10 oier as an excuse that general rum
nlng expenses were now higher and that
the public now demands the choicer cuts
anu that there is hence no market for
INFERIOR grades, were shown to be without
4 basis
| In this connection the growing use Of
| the flesh of dogs as an article Of food is
worthy OF note. The number of dog car
casses submitted to official INSPECTION
now amounts annually to about $500 In the
German empire. Saxony alone renorts
1000, and of these $40 fall to the share
of Chemnitz and the section administra
tvel" connected with it, Horsehesb Is
now a standard article of food consume
ton in Germany. About $1,000 carcasses
annually are inspected for this purpose.
IS
international marriages. according to
Edmond Kelly. counsel for the Countess
Bon1 de Castellane in her divorce suit
IN Paris, are fated TO extinction in the
long run, because, while not always
formulated against the will Of the flesh
they re invariably against the blood"
In his recent address to the Students
club of the New York Univo -sitv Law
School, Mr.. Kelly dwelt upon the fact
that no matter how admirably the con-
trace parties are suited, international
marriages are to be deplored
Races will not MIX he said: there
lies the fault. 1t is neither considered
proper nor wise for opposites, so-callsd.
to wed, and are opposites in race any
less liable to dismal married existence
than are opposites in temperament or
disposition? This question will not down,
and the time will undoubtedly come when
it will be carefully weighed when t-icns
of this kind are contemplated"
&
China is menaced with a new peril. Her
railroads have begun to pay. Not since
mummies were burned for fuel on the
Nile railway has the orient been so seri-
ously invaded. Henceforth it is farewell
to the idyllic peace of the Chinese rural
ism If the sons of heaven had refused
to ride behind the profane iron horse OF
the foreign devils, they might have de-
Tended their land from innovation to the
last. Now there is nothing for it but to
submit to having their rice fields cut up
by the steel rails. But one peculiar op
portunity remains for them to save the
credit of their country-by making their
railroads picturesque. If they succeed in
doing this, they can be written down
once more as having achieved a complete
novelty. The train should furnish
brand-new motive for that patiently
elaborated oriental art--bamboo passenger
coaches, decorated with choice panel
paintings, pagodas turned to account as
switch towers and locomotive designs,
symbolic of the national dragon having
its tail twisted by a European power.
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II is announced that there is shortly to
be published book of Herbert Spencer's
Life and Letters" by his friend DR..
Duncan The book is intended to give
narrative of Spencer's life, based
largely on his correspondence, which was
with euch persons as George Eliot, Glad
stone, J. S. Mill and Tennyson II will
In no way be a repetition of the Auto
biography" and 1t is said that 1t will
throw light on "the economical and
sympathetic side OF his character" An
other interesting biographical work is
the life of Ian Maclaren which is In
preparation. His son, Mr.. Frederick
Watson, makes a special appeal to the
public for the loan of Ian Maclaren's
letters, stating that very little in the
nature of photographed matter was
left and therefore collection Of his let
tiers is necessary If the book is to be
success.
NJ. Simyan, under secretary of state for
posts and telegraphs, has introduced a
novel reform in his departments This Is
a letter telegram by means OF which
person unable to post letter in time at
night can send Geographic dispatch AT
the rate of centime a word which viii
be delivered by the first postal delivery
in the morning. The minimum cost Is set
at so centimes. OF course the use Of the
letter telegram Is confined TO cities having
night telegraphic service.