anaheim-gazette 1883-01-13

ANAHEIM VOL. XIII. WEEKLY GAZETTE IF YOU WANT TO GET RID OF SQUIRRELS AND GOPHERS USE CARBON BI-SULPHIDE ONLY SURE EXTERMINATOR DR. JAMES ELLIS OFFICE AND DRUG STORE IN THE BUILDING East of Gazette office DR E L COWAN, Dentist, Has opened an office in the upper part of Mrs Metz's building, Los Angeles Street Anaheim. Having had twenty years experience, he can speak with confidence of his work. If a sale of price is very low, He will be found in his office every day between the hours of 8 AM and 6 PM. GEO. B. SHAFFER, NOTARY PUBLIC. OFFICE BANK OF ANAHEIM RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC. GAZETTE OFFICE THEIR Envelopes w Anesthesia The first stee The first air The first luce Mohammed The first iron The first baln Coaches were The first stee The first hori The Francis 1224. The first st 1807. The entire b 1488. Ships were t Gold was fu 1848. The first tel 1608. Christianity 1549. The first wa in 1477. First saw m in 1819. First almah bach in 1460. The first ne ed in 1632. Percussion Army in 1830. GEO. B. SHAFFER, NOTARY PUBLIC. OFFICE: BANK OF ANAHEIM. RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC. GAITER OFFICE. H.C. KELOGG, Surveyor and Civil Engineer. PARTIES DESIRING TO CONSULT ME PERSONALLY WILL FIND ME AT THE RESIDENCE OF B. H. KELOGG. ADDRESS: Anaheim P.O. 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. CONSULDER OF DEEDS FOR ARIZONA TERRitory. ANAHEIM, CAL. VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law. SANTA ANA, CAL. Office in Dibbles brick building, nearly opposite the Post Office. Office hours from 10 a.m to 8 p.m. M. L. WICKS, Attorney-at-Law. BOOKS 86 and 87 TOURIST BOOK. LOS ANGELES. JOHN MANSFIELD MANSFIELD & CHENEY, Attorneys-at-Law. Volumes 99, 100 and 51; Temple Block. Will practice all the Courts. MONEY TO LOAN. Apply to E.W.SCOTT, Attorney at Law. L.GUNTHER, Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker. Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Center Street. City Stables, Center Street (Opposite Kroeger's Block), ANAHEIM. L.F.Lewis., Proprietor. THESE STABLES ARE THE BEST VENTILATED and most commensious in the town, and special at teathtime will be paid to Boarding 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 patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. 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. Sacks and Twine At lowest market prices. Operator 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. B. DREYFUS & CO. Growers and Dealers in California Wines and Grape Brandy. 630 to 642 Braunang Street, San Francisco; 45 Broadway New York. Planters' Hotel, ANAHEIM, CAL. L. GUNTHER, Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker. Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Center 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 Tubs made to order. Honey barrels for sale cheap. F & J. BACKS. Importers, Manufacturers and Dealers in Furniture, Bedding, Paper Hangings, Picture Frames, etc. UNDERTAKERS. Agents for the Howe, Elmore and Victor Sewing Machines. Los Angeles Street.: Anaheim. JOHN HANNA, Real Estate Agent. Live Stock Bought and Sold on Commission. ANAHEIM. ANAHEIM BAKERY. WM. MEEK, - Proprietor. A FIRST-CLASS STOCK OF BAKER'S GOODS always on hand. Cakes for parties or weddings made to order. The patronage of the public is so selted. Land for Sale. 20 ACRES OF LAND FORTY RODS WEST OF the Anaheim depot. Finest vineyard land in the valley. Apply to Real Estate Agent, Anaheim. B. DREY COUCH Growers and Dealers in California Wines and Grape Brandy. 630 to 642 Brannan Street, San Francisco; 45 Broadway New York Planters' Hotel, ANAHEIM, CAL. J. E. STACKPOLE, - Manager. THIS POPULAR HOTEL ESTABLISHED IN 1808, has just been thoroughly renovated throughout, and is now in such condition as to secure for guests the Very Best Accommodations. The Table will always be supplied with all the Delicacies to be obtained in the Market. An elegant Billiard Hall and Reading Room for amusement of Guests. The Bar supplied with only the best of Wines, Liquors & Cigars. FREE COACH to the House from all trams KIDNEY-WORT THE CREAT CURE FOR R·H·E·U·M·A·T·I·S·M As it is for all the painful diseases of the KIDNEYS, LIVER AND BOWELS. It cleanses the system of the acid poison that causes the dreadful suffering which only the victims of Rheumatism can realize. THOUSANDS OF CASES of the worst forms of this terrible disease have been quickly relieved, and in short time PERFECTLY CURED. FRICK, $1. LIQUID OR DRY, SOLD BY BRUCCINI. 4th. Dry can be sent by mail. WELLS, RICHARDSON & Co., Barlington Vt. KIDNEY-WORT Maps of Los Angeles County for sale at the Gazette office for 50 cents. WEEKLY EIM GA ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1880 ANT HERS LPHIDE MATOR BERGER. ware, Crockery. les, ger's Block), prictor. VENTILATED and special at booming horses Teams Their First Appearance. Envelopes were first used in 1839. Anesthesia was discovered in 1844. The first steel pen was made in 1830. The first air pump was made in 1654. The first lucifer match was made in 1793. Mohammed was born at Mecca about 570. The first iron steamship was built in 1830. The first balloon ascent was made in 1793. Coaches were first used in England in 1569. The first steel plate was discovered in 1830. The first horse railroad was built in 1826-27. The Franciscans arrived in England in 1224. The first steamboat plied the Hudson in 1807. The entire Hebrew Bible was printed in 1488. Ships were first "copper bottomed" in 1783. Gold was first discovered in California in 1848. The first telescope was used in England in 1608. Christianity was introduced into Japan in 1549. The first watches were made at Nuremburg in 1477. First saw maker's anvil brought to America in 1819. First almanac printed by Geo. Von Furbach in 1460. The first newspaper advertisement appeared in 1652. Percussion arms were used in the U.S. Army in 1830. Fruit Packing. The canneries of this State connected with the Packer's Exchange, put up last year fruit and vegetables as follows: Pounds. Apricots ... 3,087,740 Asparagus ... 115,050 Beans ... 86,109 White cherries ... 543,458 Dark cherries ... 288,689 Currants ... 475,321 Gooseberries ... 102,418 Grapes, Muscats ... 923,588 Grapes, Isabellas ... 24,337 Peaches ... 2,763,781 Bartlett pears ... 2,246,484 Peas ... 1,006,524 Damsons ... 187,816 Egg plums ... 294,892 Golden drop plums ... 141,014 Blue plums ... 153,569 Prunes ... 151,390 Gages ... 518,088 Raspberries ... 60,132 Strawberries ... 11,943 Tomatoes ... 5,844,031 Quinces ... 246,613 Blackberries ... 412,798 Apples ... 1,418,210 Total ... 21,136,935 This includes the work of all the principal canneries of the State. Of the 21,000,000 pounds packed, 7,500,000 pounds, or nearly one-half, is composed of apricots, peaches, pears and apples, while over one-fourth of the pack is composed of tomatoes - 5,200,000 pounds. KISSING the BLARNEY STONE [Rev W. W. Boyd in the Universe] Who has not heard of the famous Blarney Stone— Which he who kisses Never misses To grow eloquent? You will find this at Blarney Castle, five miles from Cork. The ride is an exceedingly pleasant one on the north bank of the river with lovely views all the way. The spot where the castle stands is one of exceeding wildness and singular beauty. Green pastures lead to the lake—a fine expanse of water about a quarter of a mile from the castle. Every step is hallowed by a legend. It is implicitly believed that the last Earl of Clancarty, who inhabited the castle, committed the keeping of his gold, and silver plate to the deepest waters of the lake, and that it will never be recovered till a Maid Carty be again Lord of Blarney. Enchanted cows on midsummer nights dispute the pasture with those of the present possessor, and many an earthly bull has been worsted in the gontest. As to fairies, these rings are upon the grass from early summer to the last week in harvest. The main attraction of the Castle, however, is the Blarney Stone, which is supposed to endow whoever kisses it "with the sweet persuasive, wheeled eloquence" so perceptible in the language of the Cork people. Who has been dipped in the Shannon new lacks that "civil courage" which makes Irishman at ease in all places and under The first telescope was used in England in 1608. Christianity was introduced into Japan in 1549. The first watches were made at Nurenburg in 1477. First saw maker's anvil brought to America in 1819. First almanac printed by Geo. Von Furbach in 1460. The first newspaper advertisement appeared in 1652. Percussion arms were used in the U.S. Army in 1830. The first use of a locomotive in this country was in 1829. Omnibuses were first introduced in New York in 1830. Kerosene was first used for lighting purposes in 1826. The first copper cent was coined in New Haven in 1687. The first glass factory in the United States was built in 1789. The first printing press in the United States was worked in 1620. Glass windows were first introduced into England in the eighth century. The first steam engine on this continent was brought from England in 1753. The first complete sewing machine was patented by Elias Howe, Jr., in 1846. The first Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge was organized in 1698. The first attempt to manufacture pins in this country was made soon after the war of 1812. The first prayer book of Edward VI came into use by authority of Parliament on Whitsunday, 1549. The first temperance society in this country was organized in Saratoga county, N.Y., in March, 1808. The first coach in Scotland was brought thither in 1651, when Queen Mary came from France. It belonged to Alexander Lord Scotton. The first daily newspaper appeared in 1702. The first newspaper printed in the United States was published in Boston on Sept. 25, 1790. The manufacture of porcelain was introduced into the province of Hezin, Japan, from China in 1513, and Hezin ware still bears Chinese marks. The first society for the exclusive purpose of circulating the Bible was organized in 1805, under the name of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The first telegraphic instrument was successfully operated by S. F. B. Morse, the inventor, in 1835, though its utility was not demonstrated to the world until 1842. The first Union flag was unfurled on the 1st of January, 1776, over the camp of Cambridge. It had thirteen stripes of white and red, and retained the English cross in one corner. When Capt. Cook first visited Tahiti, the natives were using nails of wood, bone, shell and stone. When they saw iron nails they fancied them to be shoots of some very hard material. This includes the work of all the principal canneries of the State. Of the 21,000,000 pounds packed, 7,500,000 pounds, or nearly one half, is composed of apricots, peaches, pears and apples, while over one-fourth of the pack is composed of tomatoes - 5,200,000 pounds. Useful as well as Ornamental. ASHLAND, Dec. 29. Mrs. Ringenary is a German woman, residing at Locust Gap, a coal town near the line of Schuylkill county. A few years ago she worked with her husband in the mines and assisted him in drilling and blasting out coal, making a full hand and receiving her share of pay for her labors. She soon purchased a strong horse and truck wagon, and now is hauling coal and supplying the local trade of the town. This Amazon is not lacking in musical talent. The violin is her preference, and frequently during the past summer she exhibited her skill with the ancient instrument by assisting in orchestral music for picnics and parties. She is about 35 years of age, of medium height, muscular, and has a face that is rather pretty than otherwise. A woman at Kingston, New Mexico, gets praise for erecting a log cabin without help. She cut the logs, hauled them, made the shingles for the roof and put the structure together. She has a husband, who takes care of the children. A Heavy Defalcation. NASHVILLE, January 5. The Legislative Committee appointed to investigate the office of State Treasurer met this morning. The Treasurer has been out of the city for two days, and his clerk was not prepared to make a statement of accounts. The committee report a deficit in the Treasury of $400,000, and after consultation with the bondmen of the Treasurer recommend the suspension of the business of his office for the present. The missing funds are supposed to have been lost in speculation, or loaned to personal friends engaged in speculation in bonds and stocks. Treasurer Polk left Nashville on Wednesday last. He was heard of at Milan, Tenn., from which point he wrote back that he would return on Sunday. His family here do not know of his whereabouts. He was a nephew of the late President Polk. He has a large family, and occupied a high social position in this city and State. Will Alcohol Cure Catarrh? The Rev. William H. Bergfels of Newark thinks he has discovered a simple and certain cure for catarrh, which has long baffled medical science. Mr. Bergfels was pastor of the Baptist church at Lyons Farms, but in cows on midsummer nights dispute that the pasture with those of the present poorest person, and many an earthly bull has been worsened in the contest. As to fairies, these rings are upon the grass from early summers to the last week in harvest. The main attraction of the Castle, however, is the Blarney Stone, which is supposed to endow whoever kisses it "with the sweet persuasive wheedling eloquence" so perceptible in the language of the Cork people. Who has been dipped in the Shannon new lacks that "civil courage" which makes an Irishman at ease in all places and under circumstances; and so he who has kissed the Blarney Stone never wants a fluent and persuasive tongue to gain his ends. I imagine that some of our local politicians have secretly visited Blarney Castle during the last summer. When or how the stone obtained its enviable reputation it is difficult to determine the exact position among the ruins of the castle is also a matter of doubt. The "original stone," as it is called, which bore an inscription with the late 1446, now illegible is fastened by two iron bars to a projector outtress at the top of the castle, eighty-nine feet from the ground, and several feet below the level of the wall of the buttress and to kiss it one must firmly grasp the body and project his body over the walls downward. It is no easy thing to do, as requires courage and strength. Judge of my surprise to find in the very act of kissing the Blarney Stone, a distinguished physician and his family from St. Louis. He had his boys over the buttress and thus helped them to reach the stone, and was just able to try it himself, when I came upon him. have no doubt that his practice will be greatly increased after his return from his grimage! I need not say, what you already know, that there was no need of my tempting the feat, as my ancestors for several generations had access to Blarney Castle. Ostrich Farming. Riverside Press and Horticulturist. It is not generally known in this valley that there is to be an ostrich farm in S Bernardino county within the next five months. Sidney Cook, of Boston, is one of the projectors of this enterprise. His parer is now in South Africa, where he gone to secure fifty ostriches with which stock the farm. The location is not as determined upon, but Mr. Cook desires get as near Riverside as possible. It probable that the birds will be here and located within the next six months. The birds cost about $1,000 each; hence requires some capital to get a start in their business; but as the feathers are very valuable there is said to be a good profit in their business. It takes four years for the young chicks to mature, but in the meantime they yield feathers each year. A Funny Incident. The first telegraphic instrument was successfully operated by S. F. B. Morse, the inventor, in 1835, though its utility was not demonstrated to the world until 1842. The first Union flag was unfurled on the 1st of January, 1776, over the camp of Cambridge. It had thirteen stripes of white and red, and retained the English cross in one corner. When Capt. Cook first visited Tahiti, the natives were using nails of wood, bone, shell and stone. When they saw iron nails they fancied them to be shoots of some very hard wood, and, desirous of securing such a valuable commodity, they planted them in their gardens. An English workingman, just past the middle age, found that his pipe, which for many years had been a great comfort to him, was beginning to seriously affect his nerves. Before giving it up, however, he determined to find out if there was no way by which he might continue to smoke without feeling its effects to an injurious extent. He accordingly wrote to a medical journal, and was recommended to fill the bowl of the pipe one-third full of table salt and press the tobacco hard down upon it, as in ordinary smoking. The result was very satisfactory. During the process of smoking the salt solidifies, while remaining porous, and when the hardened lump is removed at the end of a day's smoking it is found to have absorbed so much of the oil of tobacco as to be deeply colored. The salt should be renewed daily. Charles F. Freeman, who sacrificed his child in a religious frenzy at Pocasset, Mass., three years ago, and is now in a lunatic asylum, is regarded as having recovered his reason, and is likely soon to be released. "The child's life was lost," he says, "through ignorance and superstition. Knowledge and science have saved mine and restored my reason. I intend to be guided by reason through the rest of my life." Female children are sold from the establishment for foundlings at Canton at seventy-five cents each. Their future may be imagined. This commerce is not approved of by the Government, it is said, but no means have been taken to crush it out. Sarah Bernhardt has by her "Feodora" recovered her place in Parisian playgoers' hearts. A grand success. The Rev. William H. Bergfels of Newark thinks he has discovered a simple and certain cure for catarrh, which has long baffled medical science. Mr. Bergfels was pastor of the Baptist church at Lyons Farms, but in 1872 he was compelled to give up preaching on account of a severe catarrhal affection. He is a member of the Newark Nickel Plating Company, and one evening after using, in his business, a laquer composed of alcohol, he found that his disease was not so bad. He then put alcohol into an inhaler and breathed the vapor arising from it. He did this for a month, night and morning, and was greatly relieved of the catarrhal trouble. A few months after he was cured, and he is now again pastor of the Lyons Farms church. His family find that the vapor from alcohol also prevents colds. Mr. Bergfels desires to have the cause of his cure made known. Cheap Fare From France. Immigration to this State from abroad has received another encouragement by the reduction of passage from Havre, France, to San Francisco. The following communication has been received by the Immigration Association of the city from the Central Pacific Railroad office: We take pleasure in informing you that we are now prepared to furnish orders for emigrant passengers to San Francisco, Cal., from Havre, France, via New Orleans and San Antonio and El Paso, Texas, at a rate of $65. Tickets furnished on these orders will be good for steerage passage by steamers from Havre to New Orleans, and for third-class passage by Southern Pacific Railroad from New Orleans to San Francisco. Bird's eye maple is used for firewood in Michigan, and sold for $160 a thousand in Liverpool. Explicit directions for every use are given with the Diamond Dyes. For dyeing Mosses, Grasses, Eggs, Ivory, Hair, etc. A Funny Incident. A Washington telegram says: "This was a funny scene in the House yesterday. A bill was taken up for a street railroad Washington, with an important amendment tacked on. The House, being weary about to pass it when Neal of Ohio, who lived in the barber chair, heard of it. He bought from the chair, wiping the latter from his face with a towel, and forgetting to coat bounced into the arena, demanding Speaker's attention. When he had done this, he ran back for his coat, which he placed on, minus his collar and necktie. Was embarrassed, but in dead earnestness for once at least commanded the attention the House and got the amendment rejected." BALTIMORE, January 6. Last Sunday afternoon at the Catholic cathedral, Mrs. Lizzie McDonald, for eleven years a Sixty-fifth Charity in Mobile, Chicago, Milwaukee and elsewhere, was married to Patricia Moore, of Washington, by permission of Bishop She left by consent five years after recovering from an attack of love first sight, and did not return to the sixty-fifth hood. The question "How long is it necessary keep children away from school after infectious disease?" was answered some time since by the Academy of Medicine, Patricia With scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles small-pox, isolation is to be maintained forty days. Chicken-pox and mumps their contagious power after twenty days. During the year 1862 830,000,000 gallons of beer were consumed in Germany; making the average number of gallons drank by an individual about twenty. GAZETTE. JANUARY 13, 1883. NO. 14 THE BLARNEY STONE W. Boyd in the Universe! not heard of the famous Blarney which he who kisses never misses grow eloquent? and this at Blarney Castle, five park. The ride is an exceedingly on the north bank of the river. views all the way. The spot stands is one of exceeding singular beauty. Green pass to the lake—a fine expanse of a quarter of a mile from the step is hallowed by a legend. My believed that the last Karl of no inhabited the castle, comcepting of his gold, and silver deepest waters of the lake, and never be recovered till a Macon Lord of Blarney. Enchant-idsummer nights dispute the with those of the present posmany an earthly bull has been contest. As to fairies, their in the grass from early summer seek in harvest. attraction of the Castle, how-Blarney Stone, which is supposed never kisses it "with the sweet, shedding eloquence" so perceptilanguage of the Cork people. He then dipped in the Shannon never civil courage" which makes an ease in all places and under all A Human Ostrich. The hospitals of Italy are resolved not to be outdone if they can help it by those of Paris, and they are beginning to announce to the world the living wonders of which they are the happy possessors. At Cremona, for instance, the object of interest is not a sleeping girl, or a fasting man, or a giant with twenty-inch feet who cannot walk, but a young man who has developed an attack of pleurisy by his peculiar liking for the diet which ostriches are supposed chiefly to affect. From the age of twelve this man of strange appetites has been feeding freely, and without any particular ill effects, upon pebbles, iron nails and knobs of glass. His capacity for swallowing and accommodating these objects within him was only developed by a considerable course of training, and it was not till he was about fifteen that the youth felt qualified to make public displays of his art. But, by diligent practice, he steadily improved. His most usual method was to take glass balls of a convenient size, well smoothed or polished, so that there should be no unpleasant friction as they passed down the throat and other internal passages. By degrees he became able to eat from fifteen to twenty pebbles a day, each weighing about three ounces and having a diameter of two and a half inches. Nails could not be quite so readily accommodated; and it was considered good practice to take a dozen or two of them measuring three inches in length and a third of an inch in diameter at the head. He has however, The Song of the Advertiser. From the Denver Tribune. I am an advertiser great! In letters bold and big and round The praises of my wares I sound Prosperity is my estate. The people come, The people go In one continuous, Surging flow— They buy my goods and come again, And I'm the happiest of men; And this the reason I relate— I am an advertiser great! There is a shop across the way Where ne'er is heard a human trend, Where trade is paralyzed and dead, With ne'er a customer a day. The people come, The people go, But never there, They do not know There's such a shop beneath the skies, Because he does not advertise; While I with pleasure contemplate That I'm an advertiser great. The secret of my fortune lies In one small fact, which I may state, Too many tradesmen learn too late— If I have goods I advertise! Then people come And people go In constant streams, For people know That he who has good wares to sell Will surely advertise them well; And proudly I reiterate, I am an advertiser great. PACIFIC COAST NEWS. with those of the present position many an earthly bull has been the contest. As to fairies, their on the grass from early summer week in harvest. Attraction of the Castle, how-Alney Stone, which is supposed never kisses it "with the sweet, shedding eloquence" so perceptible language of the Cork people. He then dipped in the Shannon never civil courage" which makes an issue in all places and under all ages; and so he who has kissed the stone never wants a fluent and perplexe to gain his ends. What some of our local politicians visited Blarney Castle during summer. Now the stone obtained its envision it is difficult to determine; mention among the ruins of the matter of doubt. The "orginal" it is called, which bore an inscription late 1446, now illegible, by two iron bars to a projecting top of the castle, eighty or ten feet ground, and several feet level of the wall of the buttress, one must firmly grasp the bars this body over the walls head. It is no easy thing to do, and age and strength. Judge of my mind in the very act of kissing Stone, a distinguished physician by from St. Louis. He had held the buttress and thus helped with the stone, and was just about himself, when I came upon him. I not that his practice will be great after his return from his pilgrimage not say, what you already there was no need of my attest, as my ancestors for seven years had access to Blarney Castle. Strich Farming. Side Press and Horticulturist. Generally known in this valley to be an ostrich farm in San County within the next few miles Cook, of Boston, is one of this enterprise. His part in South Africa, where he has five fifty ostriches with which to them. The location is not as yet captured, but Mr. Cook desires to Riverside as possible. It is not the birds will be here and loiter in the next six months. Cost about $1,000 each, hence it is the capital to get a start in this fact as the feathers are very valuable said to be a good profit in the last takes four years for the young nature, but in the meantime they earn each year. Funny Incident. Considerable attention is being drawn by statisticians to the great rate of increase both of the population and emigration throughout Germany. The population of Prussia increased between 1816 and 1874 from 10,350,000 to 19,200,000, while up to steadily improved. His most usual method was to take glass balls of a convenient size, well smoothed or polished, so that there should be no unpleasant friction as they passed down the throat and other internal passages. By degrees he became able to eat from fifteen to twenty pebbles a day, each weighing about three ounces and having a diameter of two and a half inches. Nails could not be quite so readily accommodated; and it was considered good practice to take a dozen or two of them measuring three inches in length and a third of an inch in diameter at the head. He has, however, when in good form, and supplied with plenty of thick soup to wash them down, been known to do twenty-five such nails at a sitting; and these performances are said to have been attested to the satisfaction of Dr. Coson, the Chief of the Cremona Hospital, and other medical men. On the whole, it is, perhaps, less surprising that he should now be suffering from pleurisy than that he should not have been earlier attacked by a still more troublesome form of malady-London Truth. The Pecan Tree. At the last meeting of the State Horticultural Society, Dr. J. Strentzel recommended that the pecan tree be extensively planted. He said that the tree was remarkably well adapted to the soil and climate of California. It was valuable not only on account of the beauty of its growth, the value of the wood as a hard wood, and the excellence and market value of the nut it bears, but that it is a tree that is entirely free from parasitic insects. In a single county of Texas the value of the pecan crop last year was between $50,-000 and $60,000. The speaker advised that persons who proposed to plant should not go to the nurseries to obtain young trees, but get good fresh nuts from nut dealers, and plant them. They can be had for from 17 to 20 cents per pound—the very best for 20 cents. Plant the nut first in a box of damp sand, and in March or April following transplant. The tree begins to bear in about ten years. With regard to the walnut, it had a rapid growth, but, especially in the case of the English walnut, the shoots which grow five or six feet in a year, will be sunburnt on one side, and gradually die. Besides this, the trees do not come to full bearing until they are fifteen or sixteen years of age. Mr. Jessup suggested that every farmer should put out a row or two of pecan trees entirely around their farms. They will serve as a protection against the winds, and also be a source of wealth to the farmer. They also are good as shade trees. The wife of fasting Dr. Tanner has lately taken up her abode in France, having obtained a divorce from her eccentric husband under the following circumstances: Dr. Tanner, it appears, is peculiarly addicted to extraordinary fancies, and some time since he thought that he had found out that the human character becomes modified according to the food taken by the individual, and especially in relation to the vegetables consumed. Carrots, he avers, make peopleidgety and sly; turnips produce extreme Funny Incident. Aington telegram says: "There is scene in the House yesterday taken up for a street railroad in with an important amendment The House, being weary, was it when Neal of Ohio, who was over chair, heard of it. He bounced chair, wiping the lather from a towel, and forgetting his into the arena, demanding the attention. When he had done back for his coat, which he pulls his collar and necktie. He passed, but in dead earnest, and least commanded the attention of and got the amendment rejected." January 6. Last Sunday after the Catholic cathedral, Miss Donald, for eleven years a Sister from Mobile, Chicago, Milwaukee there, was married to Patrick Washington, by permission of the left by consent five years ago, arriving from an attack of love at and did not return to the sister. How long is it necessary to leave away from school after an increase?" was answered some time later Academy of Medicine, Paris. But fever, diphtheria, measles and isolation is to be maintained for Chicken-pox and mumps lose vigorous power after twenty-five gallons consumed in Germany, making the number of gallons drank by each about twenty. Mr. Jessup suggested that every farmer should put out a row or two of pecan trees entirely around their farms. They will serve as a protection against the winds, and also be a source of wealth to the farmer. They also are good as shade trees. Considerable attention is being drawn by statisticians to the great rate of increase both of the population and emigration throughout Germany. The population of Prussia increased between 1816 and 1874 from 10,350,000 to 19,200,000, while up to 1875, inclusive, it had mounted up to 21,500,000, or 105 per cent. in sixty years' time. From 1875 to 1880 the population of all the German States has been increasing about 525,000 per annum. At the last census, in December, 1880, the number of inhabitants was 45,250,000, which, it maintained at the same rate, would be 60,000,000 in 1900. The increase, as compared with that of France, is very remarkable, the French population during the last five years showing an increase of only 389,000; while the increase of the German population during the same period was 2,000,000, the birth rate in the latter country being 3.01 per 100, whereas in France it is only 2.47. There is also this great difference between the two, that in France the increase has been almost entirely in the large towns, whereas in Germany the increase is general throughout the country as well as the towns. The number of emigrants that have left Germany during the last sixty years is over 3,500,000, of whom the greater part have taken their departure within the last thirty years, the United States having absorbed in 1881 no fewer than 248,323. Dr. Kappe estimates the amount taken away by each emigrant at not less than $113. There's a Limit to Everything. "There isn't that just too provoking for anything," exclaimed Mrs. Smiffkins throwing aside the paper with a look of angry disappointment. "It's always the way though; I never get interested in a newspaper article unless it ends up with 'Blank & Co.''s soft soap cure for billiousness or some other patient medicine advertisement." Now that sort of advertising is all wrong. Mrs. Smiffkins would never have been vexed had she read Dr. Swayne's ten line notice of his Ointment for skin diseases. Visiting Cards at the Gazette Office The wife of fasting Dr. Tanner has lately taken up her abode in France, having obtained a divorce from her eccentric husband under the following circumstances: Dr. Tanner, it appears, is peculiarly addicted to extraordinary fancies, and some time since he thought that he had found out that the human character becomes modified according to the food taken by the individual, and especially in relation to the vegetables consumed. Carrots, he avers, make people tidy and sly; turnips produce extreme amiability, while a prolonged diet of French beans induces great irritability of temper. The carrying out of this theory has brought great trouble into Dr. Tanner's home. He made a heavy wager on the question with some friends, and experimented on Mrs. Tanner with French beans, giving her to eat about three pounds of this vegetable daily. It is not altogether to be wondered at if, after such a regimen, Mrs. Tanner became rather more irritable than was perhaps contemplated, and threw a jug at Dr. Tanner's head. The doctor, however, gained his bet; and more thoroughly convinced than ever of the truth of his theory, put his wife on the turnip diet, so as to make her as amiable as she was before the French bean regimen. This time, however, the result was not so strictly in accordance with the theory. Mrs. Tanner objected to being any longer a subject for these vegetarian experiments, asked for a divorce, and, what is more singular, obtained it. Some Chicago parties have started in to compete with the Post-office in that city and also in St. Louis and Cincinnati, in the delivery of drop-letters. This company sells stamps of its own manufacture at $1 per 100 and has carriers for collecting letters stamped with them and delivering them to the proper addresses. Dealings are mainly with large business houses who have many circulars and printed notices to distribute, to whom the saving of one cent on each letter is something of an object. The carriers of the letters call on their patrons twice a day for the collection of such mail as they may have to send out. Sealed letters are not taken, and those found sealed are partly opened so as to bring them outside the sealed letter class of mail matter. The business has been going on in Chicago for three months, and as it is extended to other cities, must have been found profitable.