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Year: 1875

China newspapers inform up that the
late Emperor died Of the smallpox; 1t
was at one time thought that he was re.
covering, and arrangements had been
made for grand festival in honor of the
Goddess Of small pox, when a quantity
of paper. offerings were to be burned in
front of the palace, An imperial decree
relative to the Enperor's illness was
published in the Peking Gazette of the
18th of December, in which it was set
forth that Whereas. on the happy oc-
curence Of visitation of small pox
which has this mouth beiallen us. we
have been sought in unison by the
Prince of Tun and his colleagues TO un-
dergo restorative attention in unds-
turbed tranquility Of mind, in
deep apprehension, however, lest any
neglect be entaied in the absence of at.
tention to affairs, we have addressed re-
iterated supplications to their majesties
The Expresses Dowager, eotreating that,
in consideration of the fact that cur per-
son is for the time being under restora-
tive treatment, they will dcign to sniter
the submission of the representations from
departments Of the government in the cap
ital or the provinces to their perusal and
decision" As the disease appeared on
the very day of the transit Of Venus, the
Chinese attribute it TO that eyent-say-
ing that a small pox scar, not a star pass
ed over the face of the sun.
Year: 1875

Great crowds visited the Joss house
yesterday and got glimpse of Johns
theology. The din of gongs, inside
and outside, must have been frightful
even to the paper devil which they
have erected in the corner, but as long
as the Cinnamon were satisfied liberal.
minded newspaper men will not COM
plain. It is quite creditable to the
Chinese that they have spent about
5000 in erecting and beautifying
their temple, and even sent to China
for a priest. The funds were raised in
the Christian way, by. subscription,
showing that John is Becoming civil
lized fast. The priests worked hard


they chanted and prayed, bowed and
scattered incense in the most indus.
trious manner, and then went into a
private room aud took q quiet slum-
Der under the soothing Influence of
opium. Last evening there was rep
etition of the service of the day, only
the illuminations made the scene
more brilliant. Tonight will be the
last of the annual festival, and will no
doubt be the most interesting night.
All who wish to go will be welcomed
anu courteOusly treated.
Year: 1875

Every fowl has two small organs near
the extremity of the body called the Ova-
ria. They are filled with elastic tissue,
and feel under the finger like sponge
The eggs are started here, and those
which will mature year, or two or three
years hence are in embryo. One is forced
up, is seized by the strOna, which is seven
teen inches long, and passed rapidly
through. When the eggs leave the Ovary
it consists of yolk only, but in its passage
through that short canal the yolk is sur
rounded by enough albumen to perfect
the chick. The white of the egg has in it
all that nature requires for making bones,
muscles, blood vessels, connecting tissues.
skin and feathers.


just before the egg leaves the body, this
canal has the power of secreting lime for
the shell. This shows how valuable the
egg is as nutriment, and also what de-
mands are made for rich food by hen
that lays an egg daily. Besides what she
requires for her sustenance, che is called
upon to secrete the material for the body
of an entire chick, and also retains for the
little creature sufficient TO last many hours
after it leaves the shell. 1t shows also
that hen cannot make albumen so rapid
ly except out of albuminOus food, such as
wheat, meat and small animals.


1t is not true that there is certain num-
Der Of eggs, and that this number exhaus-
ted, no more can be expected but it Is
true that the secretions lessen as old age
comes on, and latterly the hen fails to
have sufficient force to carry forward the
process. The practical bearing of this Is
that we must see that the fowl Is always
well kept. The way to have good laying
pullets is to quicken the circulation and
strengthen the system by liberal nutri-
ment. The yolk is food for the hrst three
or four days. Careful housewives make a
mistake by attempting TO feed them be-
fore the expiration of this time. Let the
mother bird have charge and success will
be certain, for she knows better than any
man can what the chick requires. s.-PouL-
trv Rsuie.c.
Year: 1875

There is as much difference between the
management of different stock raiserS con


cerning their modes of feeding and pro-
tecting their animals in cold weather as
there is in the management of the soil they
cultivate. One man will endeavor TO keep
his stock on the smallest possible allow
ance of feed, while his neighbOr will adopt
the opposite practice and coax every one
TO consume little more than is actually
needed. 1t would seem that some farmers
can never learn that it will not pay to keep
young animals poorly, If they (the farm
ers) were to live to the age of the patriarch
Methusaleh. They appear to consider il
an impossible practice to have their stock,
either young or old, maintain a thrifty
condition until the end of the foddering
season, while many other stock growers
will rejoice in the satisfaction of seeing
every animal as plump and thrifty during
all the winter as they were when the graz
ing season terminated. Although young
animals cannot be expected to gain during
the fOddering season as rapidly rs when
they subsist on luxuriant grass, still they
should be fed so generously that they will
lose none of the fat and flesh which was
stored up during the grazing season. In
order to do this it is not necessary to feed
VI gram vi lllCdi, az
though a small allowance per head. il
properly protected from the piercing
cold and pelting storms. will enhance
the value of the animal much more than
the market value of the grain consumed.
When calf is half starved the first winter
of its life he will become crooked in the
back, his bones will project, his excellent
points will be shriveled up, and he cannot
be rendered as valuable at the age of four
years as he would be at three if he were
kept in thrifty condition from early calf
hood until the fully developed and SYM
metrical bullock is in superb condition for
the slaughter-house. A great many farm
ers starve their calves, young steers and
bullocks during the foddering season,
so that all the fat accumulated during the
grazing season is consumed to aid in main


tanning proper degree of animal heat.


In order to produce the most valuable
animals of any kind, it is important to
commence when the calf, the colt, the
lamb, or the pig is only day or two old
If the young animal is managed in such a
manner that he is &c stunted'' in growth
and development, no system of feeding
afterwards will ever make him as large,
beautiful, and symmetrical as If proper
supply of nourishing food had been given
while he was young and of tender age. II
ii is desirable to rear horse that will be
strong, beautifully developed in every re-
spect assuming the breed to be all correct),
the colt must be kept in thrifty condition
from year to year. The object cannot be
attained if the young animal is kept On an
allowance of food so scanty that he will
become spring-poor" before tne fodder
ing season is half passed.-N. Y. Herald.
Year: 1875

France had to pay two hundred and
twenty millions sterling. But what does
this mean? The annual interest of the
indemnity may be taken at ten millions
sterling, and if the war had been closed by
an engagement on the part of France to
pay an annual tribute of ten millions to
the Emperor of Germany, no one would
have thought the newly-impOSed burden
above the powers of the vanquished ma
tion. The taxation under the empire had
been heavy, the losses of capital through
the district cooperation the war had been
considerable. but the resources of French
men were sill capable of bearing an addi-
ton to the national expenditure which
might be established at an eight or ninth
added to the taxation heretofore sustained.
The indemnity was not paid in the form
Of tribute but it will be instructive to
contemplate the way in which Prince Bis
mark might have dealt with such an annu-
ity if he had consented to receive it. He
might have come to the ENglish creditors
who had lent money to Germany during
the war, and have offered to ALLEVIATE TO
them proportional part of the French an
nuity in consideration of their foregoing
their claims. He might have assigned
other portions to German citizens who had
subscribed to war loans in liquidation of
their claims on the imperial treasury.
He might have offered to French citizens
holding the securities of other countries
to exchange for these securities a portion
of the obligations of their own country at
the market rates of equivalent prices. BY
means like these the Prince Chancellor
might have disposed of the greater part ct
the hypothetical annuity of ten millions,
distributing it about the world, without
using a single thaler or franc in coin, to
complete the transaction. And, in truth,
what was done was in its essential features
the process we have described. The
French nation did not grant the German
empire an annuity of ten millions, but it
offered it for sale in the European markets,
the prices to be paid in installments, and
when we follow up the processes by which
the purchase money was collected from
the cyndicate bankers in Paris, London,
Berlin, Amsterdam and Frankfort. and
transferred to the German Treasury, we
find that at least tive-sixths of the whole
was accounted for by series of debit and
credit entries, envolving no actual trans
feI of coin. The feat was triumph OF
banking. 1t showed how the use of money
NAV be ecOnOmiZed, and, as it seems that
this is a truth not as yet appreciated in
place of business like Liverpool, it may be
worth while to dwell upon it; but it is an
entire fallacy to suppose that the French
Government was able to collect two hum
dred and twenty millions, or even a quar-
ter of it, in cOin.-LondOR Times.
Year: 1875

Marriage is very matter-of-fact affair.
There is little poetry in it; and all ex-
perience shows that IL is better TO get rid
of nonsense before committing matrE
mOny."


beg to differ. All experience does not
show any such thing. Ii nonsense means
here, as it seems to mean, all those things
that make the poetry of life, say the more
you have of it the better.


A marriage that can properly be styled
q natter-Of-fsct one promises no happiness
for TIE man, and misery unutterable for
the woman, if she has soul.


What! Because thing is real, must ID
be commonplace? The light of love illu-
mines the homeliest duties; and because
there must be eating, and drinking and
sleeping, and earning bread and butter in
its years, marriage need not be a matter
of-fact arrangement--a coarse sort of bar
gain, in which the wife becomes house
keeper, and the husband banker. Better
that there should be no marrying It all /;
for what shall they DO in those hours oil
trouble and pain which come TO all of us.
when every heart Graves sympathy, and
when none can give it so well as the
lover whose love has endured through
many ars?


When two people of opposite sex, tenn
perament and habits resolve to live tOgeth-
er for the rest of their lives, there is need
of sentiment between them. There is ne
cessity for little of that romance that
makes people better and more beautiful
than they really are, if in time they would
not hate each other.


NO-if you have no other part in life
that is not commonplace and matter-et-
fact, forbid that home life should sink to
this. Have a thousand songs without
words" for every day. NOurish your
most delicate sentiments and weave them
with the hours as they glide by. Don't
have all your poetry in the bookcase, and
all your music in the piano.


The woman who is happy wife need
not long to be courted again. There is
no need-she is won nor are many COM
pliments necessary. Mutual-devOtiOn is
an ever-appreciated compliment. Yet do
not forget those old days which drew you
to each other Be lovers alway. Many
people are; and those t0ho to0e are safe.
The meeting and parting kiss. the kind
look, the appreciative word-never forget
these. Never let marriage degenerate into
the commonplace. So surely as you do,
worse will follow; for the husband and
wife who have no tender sentiment
toward each other will become foes
Maru KVle Dallas.
Year: 1875

"Gatherup the fragments, that nothing be


lost"


The grace of God in the heart of
man is tender plant in a strange, I'M
kindly soil, and therefore, cannot we'll
prosper and grow without much care
and pains, and that of q skilful hand
and which hath the power of cherish
ing 1t.


Our brightest moments are those
which frequently arise to us from the
bosom of care and anxiety; the gems
that sparkle upon the dark ground.


When men grow virtuous in their
old age; they are merely making n
sacrifice to God of the DEVILS leaving's.


Some one has said of a fine and hon.
orable old age, that it was the child
hood of immortality.


Mistrust of self is good, so long as it
is the ground work of confidence in
God; but if it should ever lead you to
being discouraged, disturbed, vexed
or melancholy, then reject it as the
greatest possible temptation.


Here is an utterance that has the
sunbeam in it: "The Lords mercies
are new every morning."


Religion begins in the family. One
of the holiest sanctuaries on earth is
home. The family alter is more ven-
cradle than any alter in the cathe-
dral. The education of the soul for
eternity begins at the fireside. The
principle of love, which is to be car
ried through the universe, is first un-
folded in the family.
Year: 1875

Look on the bright side. 1t is the
right side. The times may be hard, but
it will make them no easier to wear
a gloomy and sad countenance. 1t is
the sunshine, and not the cloud, that
ma kes the flower. The sky is blue
ten times where it is black once. You
have troubles-so have others. None
are free from them. Troubles give
sinew and tone to life-fortitude and
courage to man. That would be a
dull sea, and the sailors would never
get skill, where there was moth
ing to disturb the surface of the ocean.
What though thugs look a little
dark, the land will turn, and night
will end in broad day. There is
more virtue in a sunbeam than in q
whole hemisphere of cloud and gloom.
Methodist.
Year: 1875

No man is gentleman who, with
out provocation, would treat with in
civility the humblest of his species.
1t is vulgarity for which no accom-
plishment of dress or address can ever
atone. Show us the man who desires
to make every one around him happy,
and whose greatest solicitude is never
to give cause of offense to any one,
and we will show you a gentleman by
nature and by practice, though he
may never have worn a suit of broad
cloth nor ever heard ola lexicon. We
are proud to say for the honor of our
species there are men in every throb
of whose heart there is a solicitude for
the welfare of mankind, and whose
every breath is perfumed with kind
ness.


A Virginia negro stole doll, and,
while protesting his innocence of the
theft, he unwittingly pres sed it as he
endeavored to hide it more completely
under his shirt. The doll gave loud
squeak, and the little negro, who new
er heard of crying dolls before, turned
almost white and thought a miracle
had been wrought in his case.
Year: 1875

Let those deplore their doom
Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn;
But lofty souls can losk beyond the thmb,
Can smile at fate, and wonder how they
mourn,
Shall Spring TO these sad scenes no more re-
turn?
Is yonder wave the suns eternal bed?
Soon shall the orient with new lustre burn,
And Spring shall soon her vital influence
shed,
Again attune the grove, again adorn the
mead.


-Rentfie.
Year: 1875

When in port, whether belonging to either of
the United Kingdoms to the United States,
closed mail is transferred from one vessel TO anoth
err without any expense to the office of the country
where the transfer is made, such transfer shall not
be subject to any charge by one Office against the
other.
Year: 1875

The postal accounts between the respective
offices which, according to Article 10, are to be set
tied separately between Sweden and the United


States, shall be stated quarterly and transmitted
and verified speedily practicable; ard the bal


ance found due shall be paid to the creditor office,
either by exchange on London, or at the debtor
Office as the creditor office may desire.


The rule for the conversion of the moneys of the
respective countries shall be established by COM
mon agreement between the respective offices.
Year: 1875

The present convention shall go into ef
feet Immediately on the exchange of ratifi-
cations, and it shall remain in full force
for ten years. If neither of the contract
ing parties shall give notice to the other
six months previous of its intention to
terminate the same, it shall further remain
in force until twelve months after either of
the contracting parties shall have given
notice to the other of such intention.
Year: 1875

A PROFITABLE WIFE, have been mar
ried twenty-five years. The first four years
before was married I began farming with
two hundred and fifty acres, in the Blue Grass
region, Kentucky. 1 handled cattle, hogs,
sheep and horses principally the first two
named-and lived, thought, tolerably eco
nomically; spent none Of my money for to-
bacco in any way; neither betting cent or
dissipating in any way, and yet at the end OF
four years l had little or no money. l then
married young lady Of eighteen years of
age-who had never done any housework or
work of any kind except to make portion Of
her own clothes. She had never made
shirt, drawers, pants or waistcoat, or even
sewed stitch on coat and yet before we
had been married year she had made for me
every one of the articles of clothing named,
and knit numbers Of pairs of socks for me
yes, and mended divers articles for me, not
excepting an old hat or two. She had also
made butter, sold eggs, Chickens and other
fowls, and vegetables to the amount of near
six hundred dollars in cash, at the end of the
year, whereas, during the four years that |
was single I had never sold five cents worth
besides making me purely happy and content.
ed with my home And so far as to making
of money, we have made money clear of ex-
penses ever since we have undertaken the
farm, and she has made three hundred and
fifty to five hundred dollars every year except
one, during the time, selling butter, eggs, and
marketing of different kinds. My yearly ex-
penses of fine clothing, etc., before was mar
ried were more than my yearly expenses were
after l was married combined with the ex-
pense of my wife and children and our farm
has increased from two hundred and fifty to
five hundred acres and I believe that if I
had not married, it never would have increas-
ed but little if any; and l have never been
absent from home six nights, when my wife
was at home, since we we're married, and her
cheeks kiss as sweetly to me as they did the
morning after I was married.
Year: 1875

The chamber Of commerce yesterday
appointed delegates to the Southern Pa
ciic railroad convention to be held at
st Louis on the twenty-third Of No
vember next. The list is a good one,


s1ch as cannot fail to meet the approval
Of the public. They are gentlemen who
will labor in and for the interests OF
Memphis aud see taat this is made
one Of the terminal, if not the principal
terminal point Of the great highway.
The south is emitted to sll the local sd-
vsntages which the : Juthern Pacific rail,
road can confer upon her railroad sys.
tem, her cities and her State. These
aivaniages cannot inure to her unless
The soUthern Pacific railroad be given I,
snare in the management and q south
Year: 1875

that we want is that the taxes paid for
school purposes shall be 80 applied that
every man can avail himself of them for
his children without violating his con-
science. We merely call attention to the
present phenomena connected with the
system to show that Catholics are reason
able in rejecting it for themselves. 1t is
based on an utter fallacy-the right
or fitness of government to control edu-
cation. 1t may be we'll enough for
government to furnish means to all for
education, bat that is totally different
thing from controlling it, and the two
ought not to be confounded as they
constantly are.


Parents are the proper and only authoIi-
ty to control the education of their child
rem. 1t is for them to select the preceptor
to whose skill they will commit the mental
culture of their offspring, and to whose in
fuence they will entrust the formation of
their manners and morals. They will be
sure not to choose the teacher for their
own personal purposes but purely and
wholly for the advantage of the child
Parental instinct iDsures that. Whenever
the government through it's political agents
can claim greater affection for the child.
rem, purer and more unseIfish interest in
their welfare, then we will say let it select
their teachers and control their education
Year: 1875

We regret to hear that the Asylum of the
Little Sisters of the Poor, corner of Laharpe
and johnson streets, Third District, was
seriously damaged by the storm Friday night,
18th. The roof of the upper gallery was lifted
off it's pillars and would have been torn away,
had not the fastenings of the zinc with which
it was covered, given way. The zinc sheets
were blown far into the rear of the premises.
The amount of damage to the building is es-
timated at 81 900, which is quite a large sum
to the Little Sisters as their means are very
limited and they have one hundred and forty
old men and women to feed and clothe.
Year: 1875

fHaaff u f-.liI


DE IT RESOLVED, BY THE COMMON
- Council Of the City of Los Angeles as fol-
lows: 3i4Iatu t4iN} 10y ##titf WV
SECTION l. That the assessments hereinaf


ter set forth are hereby declared to be the as
sessments properly chargeable to and collect
able from the several owners Of the properly
respectively hereinafter described for and OF,
account of the construction Of a sewer FROM
Short street to New High street, to Turner
street, and thence along Turner street to the
intersection of said sewer with the Main and
Arcadia street sewer on Main street. and for
the branch Of the proposed sewer cOmmenc-
Ing on New High street In front of the prop
erty Of DIR. Bush and running thence along
New High street Northerly to the Intersection
ofTurner and New High streets. q ~.
Sec 2. The Clerk Of the Common Council
is hereby directed to enter a statentn mt OF his
assessment in the Docket of City Liens, ac-
cording to law and give notice of the levy oil
said assessments by publication OF the same
for ten days in English In the Los Angeles
DAILY HERALD and for ten days in Spanish in


sEc 8. The following Is the list of the as
sessments hereinbefore referred to; that IS to
say. IL.