anaheim-gazette 1882-02-18

ANAHEIM VOL. XII. WEEKLY GAZETTE Established 1870. For Terms, see Fourth Page. Dr. Reginald A. Fergusson Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery of the Queen's University, Ireland; Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London; Late Senior Resident-Surgeon, Resident-Physician and Assistant Pathologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary; and lately Resident in the Rotunda Hospital (for diseases of women only) Dublin. HAVING PURCHASED FROM DR. JAMES ELLIS the Anaheim Sanatorium and Drug Store may be consulted on all Medical and Surgical cases. Diseases of Women and Children a specialty. Office hours from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m., and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. DR E. L. COWAN, Dentist, Has opened an office in the upper part of Mrs. Meta's building, Los Angeles street. Anaheim having had twenty years experience, he can speak with confidence of his work. It is made of prince lavery low. He will be found in his office every day between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. IF YOU WANT TO GET RID OF SQUIRRELS AND GOPHERS USE CARBON BI-SULPHIDE Everybody who has used it recommends it as the ONLY SURE EXTERMINATOR Of this vermin. For sale by A. LANGENBERGER, Dealer in Groceries, Hardware, Paints, Oils and Crockery. MILLINERY MRS. WALLACE AND SISTER beg to announce to the people of Anaheim and vicinity that they have received a new and large assortment of winter styles of HATS, RIBBONS, FLOWERS And general millinery, to which they invite the attention of Ladies and respectfully ask them to inspect the DR E. L. COWAN, Dentist, Has opened an office in the upper part of Mrs. Metz's building, Los Angeles street, Anaheim. Having twenty years experience, he can speak with confidence of his work. It is a scale of prices very low. He will be found in his office every day between the hours of 8 A.M. and 5 P.M. GEO. B. SHAFFER, NOTARY PUBLIC. OFFICE - BANK OF ANAHEIM. THEODORE LYNILL, Attorney at Law. ANAHEIM, CAL. Office in Planter's Hotel Building. MONEY TO LOAN.—Ruling rate 10 per cent. ROBT. W. SCOTT. ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Commissioner of lands for Arizona Territory. Kroger's Block, Anaheim, Cal. VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law, SANTA ANA, CAL. Office in Dibbles' brick building, nearly opposite the Postoffice. Office hours from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. M. L. WICKS. Attorney-at-Law. Rooms 96 and 97 Temple Block. LOS ANGELES. RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC. GAETTE OFFICE. H. J. STEVENSON, Deputy U. S. Land and Mineral Surveyor. OFFICE: Room No 4, Downey Block. LOS ANGELES, - CAL. L. GUNTHER. Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker. Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER. BOOT AND SHOE MAKER MILLINERY MRS. WALLACE AND SISTER beg to announce to the people of Anaheim and vicinity that they have received a new and large assortment of winter styles of HATS, RIBBONS, FLOWERS And general millinery, to which they invite the attention of Ladies and respectfully ask them to inspect the stock before purchasing elsewhere. Millinery Parlors in Metz Building, Center Street, Anaheim n123m City Stables, Corner of Los Angeles and Center Sts. ANAHEIM. L. F. Lewis. -- Proprietor. THESE STABLES ARE THE BEST VENTILATED and most commissions in the town, and special attention will be paid to Barring and Grooming horses. The charge in all cases will be reasonable. Single and Double Teams Furnished at short notice and careful drivers, familiar with the country, supplied when required. The patrolage of the public is respectfully solicited. BLACKSMITHING AND WAGONMAKING! Removal. MR. H.A. STOUGH DESIRES TO INFORM THE public that he has removed his blacksmith shop on Lemont Street Nermly occupied by H. M. Meriemott, and respectfully solicits the continued jareage of his many customers. One part of the shop is occupied by Mr. T. C. GANON. Wagonmaker, who is prepared to do all kinds of wooers in a thorough manner and at cheap rates. Meersa Strough and Gammon are jointly agents for The Osborn Farm Machinery. Consisting of Mowers, Reapers, Self-Binders, etc., also agent for the Stillebaker and other celebrated FARM WAGONS. D. E. MILES, Warehouseman and Commission Merchant. Highest Cash Price Paid for Wheat, Barley, Corn, Rye, Potatoes, And all Country Produce. Cash advances made on all consignments of Grain and Wool. The perfect apple tree of is here given is a specimen juicy, old-fashioned Vander was selected with care by me and transplanted to a sunny near his home in Crawfords virgin forest had just been fortile soil amid which its rails and throughout its career it fully watered by the over ample roofs. The law of spiral growth ed, has been beautifully written individual tree. The aware that the leaves on ever definite arrangement on the is highly complex in pines simple in the apple tree, to a leaf and pass it from one the same direction, and around the stem before reated exactly above the first of the second leaf from the two-fifths of a circle; thereance between the second ad so on to the sixth, which the first. This is what generating spiral. The leaf is the builder hangs out its inch or two the air for breath and ausn in the dew and the rain, o sult of its vegetable chemical place in the subst From the heart of each leaf the fiber of the wood, whi ing and knitting together o and when the leaves shrive cords remain as their mon kin has said, "Behold prolonged in arch and aish the valleys, the fringes of noan, the comfort of all the glory of the earth, monuments of those poor faintly past us to die." It is evident that, unless edure of mature be in sow each twig, branch, and be structure of the trunk its to this law of spiral dev fabric being reared after t by the first five leaves. And thus it is, in th hold up as an example capable of becoming have favored a symmetrical development. Hence spirals from the ground t except where they lose t knotted together. Five buttressed roots, ameter, mark the emerge the ground. The circum immediately above them is made of five distinct of a rope, twisted around at the height of six feet and exactly over each strand puts forth a of the tree, midway, is Surveyor, Office: Room No 4, Downey Block, LOS ANGELES, CAL. L. GUNTHER. Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Los Angeles Street. Making and Repairing at the Lowest cash price. All orders promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE. Pipes, Barrels and kegs on hand at all times. Tanks and Tube made to order. Honev Barrels for sale cheap. F. & J. BACKS. Importers, Manufacturers and Dealers in Furniture, Bedding, Paper Hangings, Picture Frames, etc. UNDERTAKERS. Agents for the Howe, Eldredge and Victor Sewing Machines. Los Angeles Street.: Anaheim. JOHN HANNA, Real Estate Agent. Live Stock Bought and Sold on Commission. ANAHEIM. MONEY TO LOAN. Apply to R. W SCOTT, Attorney at Law HEADQUARTERS FOR CHRISTMAS CARDS and HOLIDAY GOODS AT J. A. VALDER'S Picture Store, 42 Spring St., Los Angeles, Cal. Merchant. Highest Cash Price Paid for Wheat, Barley, Corn, Rye, Potatoes, And all Country Produce. Cash advances made on all consignments of Grain and Wool. Sacks and Twine At lowest market prices. Office opposite Railroad Depot, Anaheim, Cal. A. E. WHITE. E. A. WHITE BLACKSMITHING AND Wagonmaking! All Work Warranted. Prices as low as the lowest. Center Street, Anaheim. Henry Huden, BLACKSMITH AND WAGONMAKER, LOS ANGELES ST., ANAHEIM. All kinds of jobbing promptly done. New Spring or Farm Wagons. Buggies and Carriages made to order in any desired style. All my work is guaranteed. I respectfully ask the patronage of the public decal. German School. GERMAN, FRENCH, ALL SCHOOL STUDIES, Bookkeeping, Gymnastics, Callisthenies and Pencing taught Mathematics a specialty. Young ladies and gentlemen prepared for teacher's examination or for admittance into the higher institutions of learning. A. T. JULIUS VOIGT. THIS PAPER may be found on file at Gen. P. Rowell & Co.'s Newspaper Advertising Bureau (3 Service St.) where advertising contracts may be made for it in NEW YORK. A PERFECT APPLE TREE. BY H. C. MOKEY. The apple tree has long been a favorite. That ancient botanist, Solomon, mentions it as conspicuous for beauty "among the trees of the wood," and other oriental writers have named it along with the graceful palm and noble citron. Apples have been cultivated on the soil of Great Britain ever since the time of the Roman invasion; and it is said that there are now known to be as many as 2,000 varieties, some of which are successfully grown as far South as New Zealand, while others thrive as far North as the 65th degree of latitude. The fruit is universally appreciated, and each variety has its admirers, from the globular, aromatic pippin, down to the painted Siberian crab. And yet, among all the thousands of trees now growing, how rarely do you see one that is shaped and symmetrical! The perfect apple tree of which an account is here given is a specimen of the hearty, juicy, old-fashioned Vandeveer pippin. It was selected with care by my father, in 1838, and transplanted to a sunny, sheltered spot, near his home in Crawfordsville, Ind. The virgin forest had just been removed from the fertile soil amid which its roots were placed; and throughout its career it has been plentifully watered by the overflow from two ample roofs. The law of spiral growth, so often distorting beautifully wrought out in this SPOOPENDYKE. How the Head of the Family Strugged with Oysters in the Shell. [Brooklyn Eagle] "My dear," queried Mr. Spoopendyke, "did you put these oysters on the cellar floor with the round shells down, as I told you?" "I did most of 'em," replied Mrs. Spoopendyke. "Some of 'em wouldn't stay that way. They turned right over." "Must have been extraordinary intelligent oysters," mattered Mr. Spoopendyke, eyeing her with suspicion. "Didn't any of 'em stand up on end and ask for the morning paper, did they?" "You know what I mean," fluttered Mrs. Spoopendyke. "They tipped over sideways, and so I laid them on the flat shell." "That's right, grunted Mr. Spoopendyke. You want to give an oyster his own way, or you'll hurt his feelings. Suppose you bring me some of those gifted oysters and an oyster-knife, and we'll eat 'em." Mrs. Spoopendyke hurried away, and pattered back with the feast duly set out on a tea-waiter, which she set before Mr. Spoopendyke with a flourish. "Now," said she, drawing up her sewing chair, and roasting her elbows on her knees and her chin on her hands. "When you get all you want, you may open me some." Mr. Spoopendyke whirled the knife around his head and brought it down with a smashed bivalve between the tips of her thumb and forefinger. "Won't have him!" sniffed Mr. Spoopendyke, eyeing the broken shell and firing his defeated enemy into the grate. "If I can't go in the front door of an oyster, I'm not going down the scuttle! That all comes of laying 'em on the flat shell," he continued, suddenly recollecting that his wife was to blame for the whole business. Now you take the rest of 'em down and lay 'em as I told you to." "Yes, dear." "And another time you want any oysters, you sit around in the cellar, and when they open their mouths, you put sticks in. You hear?" "Yes, dear." And Mrs. Spoopendyke took the bivalves back, resolving that the next time they were in demand, they would crawl out of their shells and walk up-stairs arm in arm before she would have any hand in the mutilation of her poor, dear, suffering husband by bringing them up herself. A GREAT IRRIGATION SCHEME. California is interested in anything which is being done in irrigation enterprises everywhere, and not less in endeavors which promise to increase the world's wheat supply. We read in an English exchange that the India office is lending its sanction just The perfect apple tree of which an account is here given is a specimen of the hearty, juicy, old-fashioned Vandeveer pippin. It was selected with care by my father, in 1838, and transplanted to a sunny, sheltered spot, near his home in Crawfordsville, Ind. The virgin forest had just been removed from the fertile soil amid which its roots were placed; and throughout its career it has been plentifully watered by the overflow from two ample roofs. The law of spiral growth, so often distorted, has been beautifully wrought out in this individual tree. The reader is probably aware that the leaves on every tree follow a definite arrangement on the stem. The plan is highly complex in pines and cedars, but simple in the apple tree. Fasten a thread to a leaf and pass it from one to another, in the same direction, and it will go twice around the stem before reaching a leaf situated exactly above the first. The divergence of the second leaf from the first is 144°, or two-fifths of a circle; there is the same distance between the second and the third, and so on to the sixth, which is directly above the first. This is what is known as the generating spiral. The leaf is the builder of the tree. It hangs out its inch or two of oval green in the air for breath and sunshine, and drinks in the dew and the rain, conveying the result of its vegetable chemistry to a permanent place in the substance of the tree. From the heart of each leaf a cord goes into the fiber of the wood, which is only a binding and knitting together of many leaf cords, and when the leaves shrivel and fall, these cords remain as their monuments. As Ruskin has said, "Behold how fair, how far prolonged in arch and aisle, the avenues of the valleys, the fringes of the hills, the joy of man, the comfort of all living creatures, the glory of the earth, they are but the monuments of those poor leaves that flit faintly past us to die." It is evident that, unless the orderly procedure of nature be in some way disturbed, each twig, branch, and bough, and the very structure of the trunk itself, should conform to this law of spiral development, the entire fabric being reared after the plan marked out by the first five leaves. And thus it is, in the fine old tree here held up as an example of what a tree is capable of becoming. All its conditions have favored a symmetrical and uninterrupted development. Hence one can trace the spirals from the ground to the outmost bough, except where they lose themselves by being knotted together. Five buttressed roots, each one foot in diameter, mark the emergence of the tree from the ground. The circumference of the trunk immediately above them is nine feet; and it is made of five distinct strands, like those of a rope, twisted around each other, until at the height of six feet from the ground, and exactly over each corresponding root. Each strand puts forth a branch. The girth of the tree, midway, is eight feet; but just "That's right, grinned Mr. Spoopendyke." "You want to give an oyster his own way, or you'll hurt his feelings. Suppose you bring me some of those gifted oysters and an oyster-knife, and we'll eat 'em." Mrs. Spoopendyke hurried away, and patterned back with the feast duly set out on a tea-waiter, which she set before Mr. Spoopendyke with a flourish. "Now," said she, drawing up her sewing chair, and resting her elbows on her knees and her chin on her hands. "When you get all you want, you may open me some." Mr. Spoopendyke whirled the knife around his head and brought it down with a sharp crack. Then he clipped away at the end for a moment, and jabbed at what he supposed was the opening. The knife shipped and ploughed the bark of his thumb. "Won't come open, won't ye!" he snorted, fetching it another kick, and jabbing away again. "Haven't completed your census who's out here working at ye, have ye?" and he brought it another whack. "Praps ye think I haven't fully made up my mind to inquire within, don't ye?" and he rammed the point of the knife at it, knocking the skin off his knuckle. "That isn't the way to open an oyster," suggested Mrs. Spoopendyke. "Look here," roared Mr. Spoopendyke, turning fiercely on his wife. "Have you got any private understanding with this oyster? Has the oyster considered in you the particular way in which he wants to be opened?" "No-o!" stammered Mrs. Spoopendyke. "Only I thought—" "This is no time for thought!" shouted Mr. Spoopendyke, tanging away at the edge of the shell. "This is the moment for battle, and if I've happened to catch the oyster during office hours, he's going to enter into relations with the undersigned. Come out, will ye!" he yelled, as the knife flew up his sleeve. "Maybe ye don't recognize the voice of Spoopendyke! Come out, ye ded gasted coward, before ye make an enemy of me for life!" and he belted away at the shell with the handle of the knife, and spattered mud like a dredging machine. "Let me get you a hammer to crack him with," recommended Mrs. Spoopendyke, hovering over her husband in great perturbation. "Don't want any hammer!" howled Mr. Spoopendyke, slamming around with his knife. "S'pese I'm going to use brute force on a dodged fish that I could swallow alive if I could only get him out of his house? Open your measly premises!" raved Mr. Spoopendyke, stabbing at the oyster vindictively, and slashing his shirt sleeve clear to the elbow. "Come forth and enjoy the society of Spoopendyke!" and the worthy gentleman foamed at the month as he sunk back in his chair and contemplated his stubborn foe with glaring eyes. "I'll tell you what to do!" exclaimed Mrs. Spoopendyke, radiant with a profound idea. "Crack him in the door!" "That's the scheme!" grinned Mr. Spoopendyke with horrible contortions of visage. A GREAT IRRIGATION SCHEME. California is interested in anything which is being done in irrigation enterprises everywhere, and not less in endeavors which promise to increase the world's wheat supply. We read in an English exchange that the India office is lending its sanction just now to an enormous scheme for the reclamation of the waste lands of the Punjah. The waters of the five rivers which give a name to that region, flow wastefully away to the sea, leaving a large tract of desert land, some of which was once fertile, to be the home of nothing and nobody. Those same rivers are sufficient to make that same desert blossom as a rose. The work of cutting canals, which would afford means both for navigation and irrigation, would be enormous; but so far is it thought feasible, that the India Office has undertaken to use the canals, paying tolls for its transit, and to buy the irrigating water, undertaking on its own account to collect the water rent from the natives. Engineering experts declare that the special work can easily be done, and reports have been made to the India Office which show that the land to be reclaimed has soil so rich in alluvial portion from the Himalayas, that we may reasonably anticipate the time when a great region, now suffering only from want of water, will become the great wheat-bearing territory of India. Some portions of the great doob which it is proposed to reclaim—a doub 50,-000 square miles in extent—have undoubtedly been both inhabited and highly fertile in their day. In some cases the canal is almost made, the unused bed of diverted rivers lying ready, so that the earlier portion of the great work will be comparatively easy. HOW TO MAKE PEPPERMINT DROPS. Take a convenient quantity of dry granulated sugar; place it in a pan having a lip from which the contents may be poured or dropped; add a very little water; just enough to make the sugar a stiff paste, two ounces of water to a pound of sugar being about the right proportion; set it over the fire and allow it to nearly boil; keeping it continually stirred; it must not actually come to a full boil; but must be removed from the fire just as the bubbles denoting the boiling point is reached begin to rise. Allow the sirup to cool a little; stirring all the time; add strong essence of peppermint to suit taste; and drop on tin; or sheets of smooth white paper. The dropping is performed by tilting the vessel slightly, so that the contents will slowly run out, and with a small piece of stiff wire the drops may be stroked off on to the tins or paper. They should then be kept in a warm place for a few hours to dry. If desired, a little ted development. Hence one can trace the spirals from the ground to the outmost bough, except where they lose themselves by being knotted together. Five buttressed roots, each one foot in diameter, mark the emergence of the tree from the ground. The circumference of the trunk immediately above them is nine feet; and it is made of five distinct strands, like those of a rope, twisted around each other, until at the height of six feet from the ground, and exactly over each corresponding root, each strand puts forth a branch. The girth of the tree, midway, is eight feet; but just below the whorl of branches it increases to nine again. The branches, five in number and arranged in a spiral, measure at the point of divergence respectively, three feet, three feet and six inches, three feet and eight inches, four feet, and four feet six inches. The height of the entire tree is about forty feet. The diameter of its canopy from north to south is forty-three feet, and from east to west it is forty-five feet. It should be added that this patriarchal apple tree enjoys a green and fruitful old age; being still a prolific bearer, although it has stood where it now is for forty-four years, and is probably as much as forty-six years old. A Novel Street Car. The Accommodation Car Company of Chicago has begun operations, with a capital stock of $1,000,000. The object of the company is to build and equip a thousand cars and put them upon the streets of Chicago. The car is the patent of Mr. Prosser, and as regards present appearance is a queer, oglesome looking craft, which carries its track along with it, and to all intents and purposes is designed to traverse any and all lines of streets. The car, which is of the ordinary kind, is mounted, in the middle, upon a truck which sits on four wheels, each of about one foot in diameter. These wheels run around the inside of two steel tires, each ten feet in diameter, and which rest upon the ground and are only held to the car by a set of wheel clamps. The car is designed to carry fifty people, and the owners claim the more it holds the easier it runs. It will be stopped in the usual manner, and two horses will be required to pull it. The owners say they intend putting the cars upon the principal streets of the city and placing the cash fare at four cents, and selling thirty rides for one dollar. alive if I could only get him out of his house? Open your measly premises!" raved Mr. Spoopendyke, stabbing at: the oyster vindictively, and slinging his shirt sleeve clear to the elbow. "Come forth and enjoy the society of Spoopendyke!" and the worthy gentleman foamed at the mouth as he sank back in his chair and contemplated his stubborn foe with glaring eyes. "I'll tell you what to do!" exclaimed Mrs. Spoopendyke, radiant with a profound idea. "Crack him in the door!" "That's the scheme!" grinned Mr. Spoopendyke, with horrible contortions of visage. "Fetch me the door. Set that door right before me on a plate. The oyster is going to stay here. If you think this oyster is going to enjoy any change of climate until he strikes the tropics of Spoopendyke, you don't know the domestic habits of shell fish. Loose your hold!" squealed Mr. Spoopendyke, returning to the charge, and fetching the bivalve a prodigious whack. "Come into the outer world, where all is gay and beautiful. Come out and let me introduce you to my wife;" and Mr. Spoopendyke laid the oyster on the arm of his chair, and slugged him remorselessly. "Wait!" squealed Mrs. Spoopendyke, "here one with his mouth open!" and she poised cautiously at a gaping oyster who had evidently taken down the shutters to see what the row was about. "Don't care a dod gasted nickle with a hole in it!" protested Mr. Spoopendyke, thoroughly impatient. "Here's one that's going to open his mouth, or the resurrection will find him still wrestling with the ostensible head of this family. Ow!" and Mr. Spoopendyke having rammed the knife into the palm of his hand, slammed the oyster against the chimney-piece, where it was shattered, and danced around the room, wriggling with wrath and agony. "Never mind the oysters, dear," cried Mrs. Spoopendyke, following him around and trying to disengage his wounded hand from his armpit. "Who's minding 'em!" roared Mr. Spoopendyke, standing on one leg and bending up double. "I tell ye that when I start to inflict discipline on a narrow minded oyster that won't either accept an invitation or send regrets, he's going to mind me! Where's the oyster? Show me the oyster! Arraign the oyster!" "Upon my word, you've opened him," giggled Mrs. Spoopendyke, picking the continually stirred; it must not actually come to a full boil, but must be removed from the fire just as the bubbles denoting the boiling point is reached begin to rise. Allow the sirup to cool a little, stirring all the time; add strong essence of peppermint to suit the taste, and drop on tins, or sheets of smooth white paper. The dropping is performed by tilting the vessel slightly, so that the contents will slowly run out, and with a small piece of stiff wire the drops may be stroked off on to the tins or paper. They should then be kept in a warm place for a few hours to dry. If desired, a little red coloring may be added just previous to dropping, or a portion may be dropped in a plain white form, and the remainder colored. There is no reason why peppermint should alone be used with this form of candy, but confectioners usually confine themselves to this flavor. Any flavor may be added, and a great variety of palatable sweets made in the same manner. If desired these drops may be acidulated by the use of a little tartaric acid and flavored with lemon, pineapple, or banana. In the seasons of fruit, delicious drops may be made by substituting the juice of fresh fruits, as strawberry, raspberry, etc., for the water, and otherwise proceeding as directed.-Confectioner and Baker. Board of Supervisors. FRIDAY, Feb. 10. In the matter of issuing $3,000 bonds for Sycamore school district, on motion of Supervisor Egan, a resolution is hereby adopted ordering the issuing of $3,000 bonds for Sycamore district. On motion of Supervisor Hannon, water rates are hereby fixed the same as last year. On motion of Supervisor Egan, the rates of wharfage and tolls are fixed the same as last year, and the license is hereby fixed at $250 for the ensuing year. Adjourned until Monday, March 6th. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-The sub-Committee of the House Committee on Territories has agreed to report to the full Committee on Tuesday next in favor of the proposition to admit as a State all that portion of Dakato lying south of the fourth parallel of latitude. The northern portion is to constitute as now, the Territory of Dakota. The sub-Committee will prepare a substitute for the pending bill, providing for the necessary machinery of Government, etc. GAZETTE. AY 18, 1882. NO. 19 EVERYTHING. Thomas W. Wood, a native of Virginia, aged 57 years, suicided in San Francisco last week by taking strychuine. There are 512 suspects, (the name given to people connected with the present agitation) at present confined in the jails of Ireland. At San Bernardino last week John Jacob Anderson, aged 35, while out shooting, accidentally shot himself by taking his gun out of the wagon muzzle first, and died in about an hour. Wm. Smothers shot and killed two Chinamen on the street in Nevada City last week. There was no provocation, but it is thought that the murderer's mind was unsettled by the excessive use of opium. Measures are being taken to aid the people of Onaachita, Richland, Franklin, Caldwell, Winar, Grant, Jackson and Concordia Parishes, (Louisiana), who are reported in a suffering condition from the failure of crops. Some are said to be nearly starving. The St. Petersburg police have issued an order forbidding the appearance of any zooters or dancers on the stage of the theatres of the capital whose dresses have not previously been rendered incompustible by means of chlorate of lime. The same rule has been in force in Berlin for five years. A superior system of disfranchisement has been derived by the South Carolina Legislature. MOVING AN IMMENSE BUILDING. Engineering and Mining Journal. At a recent meeting of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia Howard Murphy, the Secretary, read a detailed description of the moving of the Hotel Pelham at Tremont and Boylston streets, Boston, for the purpose of widening Tremont street. This hotel is built of freestone and brick, ninety-six and sixty-nine feet frontage. The Boylston-street wall is supported on eight granite columns twelve feet high, three, and four feet square. There are a basement and seven stories above the sidewalk; height above tramway on which it was moved, ninety-eight feet; weight 5000 tons, exclusive of furniture, which was not disturbed during removal, nor were the occupants of the stores on the first floor and some of the rooms, the various pipe connections being kept up with flexible tubes. Careful experiments with models showed that, if the lower part of the building was firmly braced, there was no danger of shifting in the parts above. The general arrangements consisted of heavy and substantial stone and brick foundations for iron rails and rollers and the building was forced to its new position with fifty screws, two inches in diameter, one-half in pitch, operated by hand against timbers arranged to uniformly distribute the pressure against the building. Much care and ingenuity were displayed in the details of the arrangements. INMIGATION E. In any thing which enterprises every endeavors which world's wheat exchange that its sanction just came for the reclamation of the Punjab. The which give a name fully away to the cost of desert land, fertile, to be the body. Those same take that same desire work of cutting word means both for it would be enoright feasible, that undertaken to use the its transit, and to undertaking on its water rent from expert's declare can easily be done, made to the India the land to be re-run alluvial deposit we may reasonably en a great region, grant of water, will clearing territory of of the great doob elclaim—a doob 50, unt—have undoubt- and highly fertile cases the canal is alled of diverted riv- the earlier portion of comparatively easy. PEPPERMINT PS. Quantity of dry granu-pan having a lip may be poured or little water, just a stiff paste, two round of sugar being set it over the early boil, keeping it must not actually be removed the bubbles denotingched begin to rise. A little stirring all essence of peppermint drop on tins, or sheets. The dropping is the vessel slightly, so slowly run out, and stiff wire the drops to the tins or paper. kept in a warm place If desired, a little The St. Petersburg police have issued an order forbidding the appearance of any actors or dancers on the stage of the theatres of the capital whose dresses have not previously been rendered incompustible by means of chlorate of lime. The same rule has been in force in Berlin for five years. A superior system of disfranchisement has been devised by the South Carolina Legislature in its new election law, which requires the use of eight ballot boxes and prohibits the counting of any ballots put in the wrong box. As a large proportion of the negro voters are unable to read the mischief which such a law will work is plainly apparent. This is to be an interesting year in Illinois politics. Congressmen, half of the State Senators, all the State Representatives, a State Treasurer, a State Superintendent of Public Instruction and full county tickets will be elected in November; and the Legislature then elected will choose a successor to Senator David Davis. The failure of Mr. Thomas Hughes's Rugby colony is announced by the Rugbean, which says that the venture was "a nasce almost before the echoes of applause over its beginning had died away." The location of the settlement in the wild mountains of Tennessee was unfortunate, and the men who joined it were not of a kind tohew success out of a forest. A Bakersfield dispatch of the 10th says: The Board of Supervisors have been wrestling for two days with the water rates for this year. To-day they agreed on $2 25 per cubic foot per second for twenty-four hours as the maximum-rate for this year, as against $2 75 for last year. W. B. Carr was present, and had quite a wordy battle with Supervisor O'Hare, which he ended with the declaration. "I don't care what you fellows do. If the rate don't suit me I won't sell water to anybody." An Italian has invented a process for solidifying wine. From a small quantity of this extract may be obtained a bottle of generous wine of good taste and beautiful color. The object is to visual ships and supply armies. A chemist in Marseilles has found a chemical combination by which he can solidify and even crystallize brandy. The brandy in its new form looks like alum. It entirely loses its smell. The facility with which it can be transported is of course the main recommendation of the new invention. It is asserted that the nutritiousness of apples has never been properly appreciated and that they are far more nourishing than potatoes. Cornish workmen say that they can work better on baked apples than on potatoes. There is a dish in Cornwall called squab pie, made of mutton with slices of potato, apple and onion, and, strange as it kept up with flexible tubes. Careful experiments with models showed that, if the lower part of the building was firmly braced, there was no danger of shifting in the parts above. The general arrangements consisted of heavy and substantial stone and brick foundations for iron rails and rollers and the building was forced to its new position with fifty screws, two inches in diameter, one-half in pitch, operated by hand against timbers arranged to uniformly distribute the pressure against the building. Much care and ingenuity were displayed in the details of the arrangements. Two months and twenty days were occupied in preparation. The moving itself was begun on August 21st and finished on August 25th, but the actual time of moving was but thirteen hours and forty minutes. The greatest speed was two inches in four minutes. The hotel moved about one-eighth of an inch at each quarter-turn of the screws. The whole distance moved was thirteen feet ten inches. For the work 4351 days labor was required. The whole cost was $30,000. This is the largest building that has ever been removed, although larger ones have been raised, which latter is a much simpler and less risky operation. The complete success of this undertaking is shown by the fact that cracks which existed in the walls prior to removal were not changed by the operation. Paper was pasted over them before commencing that any change might be seen. RELIABLE INSURANCE. The Resources of California has this to say of the insurance firm of Hutchinson & Manu, for which Richard Melrose is agent for Anaheim and vicinity: The extensive ramifications of their foreign insurance agencies have laid the most wealthy centers of the world under contribution to the safety and security of the chief portions of the Pacific Coast, under conditions mutually advantageous, for otherwise they would be of no value—but on terms which we should congratulate ourselves in having the privilege of accepting. To this firm is mainly and chiefly due the advantages and immunities we now enjoy, and, as their field of usefulness is still capable of great enlargement, they are most justly entitled to the support and encouragement of all interested in the prosperity of this coast. They are the representatives of insurance corporations in the Eastern States of our own country, in France, and in England, whose joint assets amount to the sum of $24,000,000 in round numbers, all of which is securely pledged as a safeguard against the disasters to which we, in common with all communities, are exposed, but against which, owing to this organization, we are as well protected as any part of the world. The ability with which this great trust is administered must be apparent to all who are capable of forming a judgment on the subject. The business of this firm exceeds that of many other local agencies combined, and its ramifications extend to all parts of the coast where mercan- It is asserted that the nutritiousness of apples has never been properly appreciated and that they are far more nourishing than potatoes. Cornish workmen say that they can work better on baked apples than on potatoes. There is a dish in Cornwall called squab pie, made of mutton with slices of potato, apple and onion, and, strange as it may seem to many, it is excellent. Cornwall is the county for meat pies, as the miners carry their dinners with them in that form. Under the head of "German Potatoes" a New York paper of the 9th instant says: "They grow small over there. A cargo of 3,775 bags of German potatoes that arrived by the ship Antoinette was sold yesterday. The lot comprised so many very small potatoes that some of the buyers remarked that the Germans must have thought we were starving, to expect us to buy such stuff. Some of them are hardly as large as marbles. Prices were very low, varying from 12 to 21 cents per bushel." The ravages of the phylloxera in France have induced the agriculturists of that country to look for another wine-producing plant, and M. Auguste Deleuil, member of the Agricultural Society of France, announces that this plant has at last been found. He says: "It is a variety of beetroot, unrivalled in the whole world for its incomparable qualities, which will in time replace all that we have lost in the vine. Beetroot produces alcohol of superior quality; why, then, should not its pulp, treated like the must of the grape, produce an equally luscious beverage? In fact, this has been done; the very sweet red beetroot produces by fermentation a wine quite as good as many of the sol-distant wines of our southern vineyards. It possesses the additional advantage of accommodating itself to all soils, and flourishes in most climates. With the view of popularizing this plant, the propagator places himself gratuitously at the disposition of agriculturists, to furnish them with the seeds they may require. Application can be made to M. Auguste Deleuil, Agronomie, a Gardanne, gros Marseille, France. There are many old vineyards of the common Mission grape in the State that it would pay well to graft into better and more profitable varieties. The best time for grafting the grape vine is, in average seasons, in the month of March, when the sap is flowing quite freely. The best mode of grafting is to dig the soil away from the root of the vine to be grafted, about six inches below the surface, and at a good straight place in the main stock saw it off again; then, with a wedge prepared for the purpose, split this stock, and having prepared the cutting or scion to be set in, by making the butt-end wedged-shaped, set it in the split so that the bark of the scion and the bark of the stock will join. Set one scion on each edge of the stock, so that when the wedge is taken out, the pressure of the stock will be about equal on each. Having palverized the soil removed well, shored it back about the roots and the graft, and the work is completed. The second season these grafts will bear, and probably produce a more valuable crop than the old vines ever did. One year only is lost, and a good and profitable vineyard is owned in place of an unprofitable one.