anaheim-gazette 1887-03-12

WEEKLY GAZETTE. Published every Saturday. Established 1870. Richard Melrose EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year $2.00 Three months OFFICE: No P.O. Box, Center Street, Anabla TRANSIENT ADVERTISING: ST JACOBS OIL TRADE MARK GERMAN REMEDY For Pain RED STAR TOUGH CURE Free from opiates, Lomics and Poison. SAFE. SURE. PROMPT. 25 Cts. WIZARD OIL SUNRISE. The east is blooming; Yes, a rose, Vast as the prairie, soft as a kiss, Sweet as the protection of a woman is, Rises and reaches, and widens and grows, Large and immenses, up from the sea. And out of the sea, as a blooming tree. Richer and richer so higher and higher, Deeper and deeper it takes its rise, Brighter and brighter it reaches through, The space of heaven and the place of stars, Till all is rich as a rose can be, And my rose leaves fall into billows of fire. Then beans reach upward as arms from the sea; Then lilies and arrows are aimed at me, Then lilies and strangles and sparse and bars Are braided and shaved and stitched on the sea; An around and about me, tower and spire, Start from the bulls like tongues of fire. —Joseph Miller. Needed Advice for Some Librarians. Let the public library be considered by its librarians as a hospital for crippled minds, quite as much as an aid to those persons who already understand and appreciate it. There need not be fewer catalogue cards with their sparse and grugling notes than near the catalogues, and among the readers, there ought to be active and helpful librarians whose sole duty should be to furnish oral notes and advice in extenso. Two of the main uses of the policeman are to direct the stranger and help the feeble. The great retail stores have their floor walkers who point you to the elevator or low counter with insistent unction. Railroad corporations have discovered that index signboards and intricate time tables are riddles to many persons of more than ordinary intelligence and have therefore supplemented these devices in large depots with an oral information train who succeeds in adjusting the passenger service of the road for the purpose of winters of individuals, and not merely to the presumptive wants of that abstraction," the patron." But where, in our American public libraries, is there a like officer, whose chief duties are to set right a perverted reader; to direct a lost reader through a crowd of 100,000 books to the friend he is seeking; to tell all the connections to be made, and all the delays to be endured on him "Royal Road to Learning"—E. H. Woodruff in Boston Traveler. French Scheme of Taxation. The French taxation scheme is a curious thing to an American. Everything is taxed, and this taxation is both direct and indirect. There is a house tax paid in proportion to the rental. The privilege of working at a trade or a profession is taxed. There is a land tax; and there is a tariff on articles imported from abroad. There is also the Ourail tax, which makes every article brought into a city pay a duty, and there are revenue stamps for bills, checks and receipts. If a French WIZARD OIL CONCERTS Hamlin's Wizard Oil. Neuralia, Toothache, Headache, Earache, Catarrh, Group, Sore Throat, Lame Dark Skin Joints: Contracted Cords, RHEUMATISM, Sprains, Bumps, Burns, Fever Sores, Wounds, Old Sores, Chilllains, Frost Bites, Sore Nipples, Caked Breasts, and All Acheo and Pains. German Wine Pump. JUST RECEIVED A NEW DOT OF THESE CLAIMS BOALED FROM WHICH HAVE BEEN NO SOURCE BY WINE MAY TO THE BEST PUMP MADE FOR THEIR BUSINESS. FOR SALE CLEAR BY THEO. KEISER ANAHEIM GESICNE WHITE RYE WHISKY FOR MEDICAL USE Just Received from Kentucky by A. KRUG. City Stables, Center Street ( opposite Kroeger's Block) ANAHEIM. French Scheme of Taxation. The French taxation scheme is a curious thing to an American. Everything is taxed, and the taxation is both direct and indirect. There is a house tax paid in proportion to the rental. The privilege of working at a trade or a profession is taxed. There is a land tax, and there is a tariff on articles imported from abroad. There is also the Outlaw tax, which makes every article brought into a city pay a duty, and there are revenue stamps for bills, cheques and receipts. If a French farmer brings a dozen eggs into Paris he must pay a tax upon them at the entrance to the city, and if his wife carries in a pound of butter she pays a percentage upon it before it can be sold. Funeral matters are taxed, and the government makes all of the tobacco made in the country. It is very poor tobacco, too, and the prices show that its revenue from this source must be very large. The government of Paris also does the pawnbrokking of the city. The interest charged is from 9% to 12 per cent, and the plodges cannot be redeemed until one day after the money is paid back. With such taxation it is no wonder that France has an immense revenue, and that its expenditures are extravagant. Last year it estimated more than $30,000,000 were collected and spent, and I don't believe there is much lying awake among French politicians in thinking what shall be done with the surplus—Frank G. Carpenter in Cleveland Leader. The Porter's Wages. The company that I work for would make itself popular by paying its porters good wages instead of requiring the traveling public to pay us. There is a sliding scale of wages paid to porters. It all depends upon the run." A man running between St. Louis and Chicago, for itsSTANCE, is given say, $15 a month. He is sure of a fall car, and each passenger means to him twenty-five cents. Take a car on the Southern line, where the palace coaches are not patronized much, and you will find the porter getting from $10 to $50 a month, because that is all they have to depend upon. The company does not say that the price of a berth is $2.5 a night, but it is an awful small man that would fail to give the porter his quarters. I am sorry for the conductors. They can do a great deal for a passenger, but they are not allowed to accept gratuities, and their pay is never over $75 a month. I would rather be a porter any day than a conductor—Pullman Porter in Globe Democrat. How Do Probe His Fast. After Succi had completed his thirty days' fast, the Italian papers reported with great minuteness his efforts to recover his last weight. The first day he was rather cautious in his diet, limiting himself to three dishes; but on the second day, as one paper said, "it would have been difficult to count the number of meals." Large crowds assembled in front of the restaurant where he ate, and admired his appetite. It is, then, not surprising to hear that Succi's appearance is visibly improving. Color has returned to his face and his skin" is no longer drawn tightly over the bones. Immediately after taking the first cup of bourbon he grew very red in the face. Strangely enough, his head disl筷 so much in size during the last two weeks of his fast that his hat did not fit it out. The Mathieu. After the dinner brought the handed it to me, said "How much is it? Three thirty-five." How do you know? Because it says "That does not r". It up and see how r." I did so, and for $2.75 instead of $3 footing. "Of course," said knew it was wrong." I asked him if he was an intentional look of supreme disdain and explained: "ItIBLE piece of small s and they nearly all ceeds, as most pers total and pay t WHITE RYE WHISKY FOR MEDICAL USE Just Resolved from Kentucky by A. KRUG. City Stables, Center Street (Opposite Kroeger's Block) ANAHEIM. A. L. Lewis & Co. Proprietors. These stables are the best ventilated and most comfortable in the town and special atention will be made to them when required. The charge in all cases will be reasonable. Single and Double Teams Anaheim COOPERAGE. Puncheons, Barrels, Half Barrels, Small Kegs Made and Repaired. Cooperage in all Branches WILLIAM FISCHER. DR. TOUZEAU'S FRENCH SPECIFIC Will cure (with care) the worst cases in five to ten days, small but not infrequent, priced at $3. J. C. STEELE, Agent, 835 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. Electricity in a Gambling House. In a gambling house at Moscow it was found that electricity had been invoked to swindle innocent players. Immense sums having been lost, and the victims being certain that they had been robbed, but not being able to prove it, they laid the matter before the police. This led to an investigation, during which it was discovered that the walls and ceilings were covered with a certain kind of paper on which stars were stamped, and that among the stars on the ceiling many holes had been bored. In the room above, a man lying on the floor could see all the cards, and by means of wires connected with the shoes of the person who was cheating he could signal to him his opponent's "hands."—New York Graphic. The Modesty of Royalty. Queen Victoria is very strict in the matter of court etiquette. She even makes grammatical rules. She wishes to be referred to as Her Majesty, not as her Majesty. This is more modest than the requirement of Russian royalty, which has the names of the imperial family printed on the title page of the orthodox prayer books in big capitals while the name of God appears in small type.—The Argonaut. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child* she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. IT LOOKS LIKE COFFEE. But Proves to be Only a Wicked Imitation—something Else Interesting. "That is not coffee," said the reporter. "Who said it was?" replied the jolly, rosy cheeked grocer. "Are there any marks on it to indicate that it is coffee?" "No, not particularly; but it certainly looks like coffee and tastes entirely different." "Ah, you have hit the nail on the leans!" continued the grocer with a smile. "It would not do to let everyone know it, as it might shake people's confidence in their grocery store. That bag, a few beans from which you have just tasted, contains an limitation of coffee. It is nothing more than flour, and poor flour at that, which has been shaped like the coffee bean and baked brown. If you will take a genuine coffee bean in your hand and put it alongside the imitation, you can see that there is a difference in the color. The shape is also different, but this is nothing, as the various kinds of coffee vary in shape and size. The flavor of course, is not there, but the way the imitation is sold does not require its presence. The grocer is not a foolish man. He does not sell these flour beans for coffee. This would give the business away. But when trade is dull and the grocer must have something to occupy his mind, it is a pleasant recreation for him to mix a quantity of the flour beans with the genuine coffee. Then it cannot be easily detected. Only just enough of the flavorless bean is used to make a little profit. This is not quite one half." When the honest housewife who buys whole coffee so as to get it pure, grinds up this mixture and the odor steals out from the milk, her eyes snap and she laughs at the people who are foolish enough to buy the coffee which is ground at the store, and can be easily adulterated. The taste of this compound is not unpleasant and it will not injure anyone. Even the baby can take it with impunity. If the coffee were drank plain its weakness would be noticeable, but being usually taken with milk and sugar the frind is not detected. Years ago all the coffee was ground in the grocery, but adulteration was carried on so extensively that the practice was established of buying the whole bean. This led some inventive Yankee humanitarian, who believed that too much coffee is bad for the nerves, to bring out the flour bean. Here is something else interesting. See these beautiful samples of cloves and peppers. Imported? Well, no, not exactly. They are home made to suit the trade. They look good, but there is but little flavor to them. Some one thought it was a shame to waste the beautiful and nourishing coconut shell, and conceived the idea of heating it and then grinding it to a fine powder. This when artistically mixed with various kinds of oils makes a NEWS ITEMS. Paris is said to consume nearly fifty tons of snails in a season. New York City has 30,000 landlords, who connect $40,000,000 rent. A prospecting well at Royal Oak, (Mich.) will go down 3,000 feet. The first temperance regiment ever organized is in New York City. There are 405 members of Congress, but only 283 are connected with churches. Germany rigidly enforces a law prohibiting the use of tobacco by any one under eighteen. The cigars smoked in this country annually, if put end to end; would reach around the earth nine times. Every one of the six daughters of a grocer named Schlecht; in New York, is said to have eloped in turn. A furniture dealer states that in Chicago there are more than 100 houses whose furniture alone cost $25,000. A carload of 160 sheep, whose average weight was 137 pounds, was shipped from Jonesville, (Mich.) one day last week. The average age of European girls when they marry, according to a German statistician, is 26 years, white that of men is 28 years. There are 200 voters in the Big Horn, (D.T.) Basin, but Uncle Sam does not furnish them with mail service. They hire a man at $100 per month. Dr. Louis Jobert says no traveler has ever found a purely left-handed race, although there are some tribes which give preference to the left hand and a majority of whom are left-handed. In the Latin lands, where there is little flesh meat, Lent is not a hardship. The people get along very well there with shell fish, oils, nuts, fruits, vegetables, pastes, goats' milk and light wines. In Prussia more than one-half of the wealth of the country is owned by people whose yearly incomes range from $225 to $412, and $5 per cent. of the property is owned by those who are comparatively poor. To keep postage stamps in the pocket or coffee was ground in the grocery, but adulteration was carried on so extensively that the practice was established of buying the whole bean. This led some inventive Yankee humanitarian, who believed that too much coffee is bad for the nerves, to bring out the flour bean. Here is something else interesting. See these beautiful samples of cloves and peppers. Imported? Well, no, not exactly. They are home made to suit the treble. They look good, but there is but little flavor to them. Some one thought it was a shame to waste the beautiful and nourishing coconut shell, and conceived the idea of heating it and then grinding it to a fine powder. This when artistically mixed with various kinds of oils makes a good spice for pies and other good things. It is a growing industry and well patronized. Some of this powdered shell, after being flavored and made into a starch paste, is passed through moulds into the shape of peppers and cloves. These, when mixed with a quantity of the genuine article, give about all the flavor that it is safe for a person to take, and the grocer does not lose anything, but goes on paying his pew rent and building rows of houses, the same as if there were a little cream in the cheese, a small quantity of sugar in the glucose, and a taint of butter in the oleomargarine."—New York Tribune Interview. Swimming by Instinct. In the titleless, sun warmed Mediterranean, in the coral bound lagoons of the Southern ocean, or by the grove clad banks of the Burmese rivers swimming becomes both a luxury and a second nature. Let those testify who remember the untrammeled urchins flinging themselves from the bows of boats in Malta harbor to dive for and secure the coins flung from the deck of some newly arrived vessel or disporting themselves day after day in the fetid, drain polluted waters of the Dockyard creek. Let travelers bear witness who, with possibly some humorous exaggeration, have told us how in Burmah toddling infants can swim at least as soon as they can walk, and how a mother, too busy for the time to look after her youngest born, will cheerfully and confidently place it in the river to amuse itself with its playmates, and when she has leisure will swim about among the gambling children until she has found her own and brought it to land. In such a case as this there can be but little teaching; swimming must come almost naturally—shall we say from hereditary instinct, developed by the constant calls made upon it, and transmitted from generation to generation—Chambers' Journal. The Mathematics of Walters. After the dinner was over the waiter brought the check. Mr. Watterson handed it to me, saying: "How much is it?" "Three thirty-five," said I. "How do you know?" asid he. "Because it says so on the check." "That does not matter," said he; "add it up and see how much it makes." "I did so, and found that the total was $2.75 instead of $3.35, as charged in the footing." "Of course," said Mr. Watterson. "I knew it was wrong; nine out of ten are wrong." I asked him if he thought the mistake was an intentional one. He gave me a look of supreme disgust at my ignorance, and exclaimed: "It is the most contemptible piece of small swindling in existence, and they nearly all do it, because it succeeds, as most persons simply glance at the total and pay the amount set down. In the Latin lands, where there is little flesh meat, Lent is not a hardship. The people get along very well there with shell fish, oils, nuts, fruits, vegetables, pastes, goats' milk and light wines. In Prussia more than one-half of the wealth of the country is owned by people whose yearly incomes range from $225 to $412, and $5 per cent. of the property is owned by those who are comparatively poor. To keep postage stamps in the pocket or memorandum book without sticking, a New Orleans postoffice clerk advises people to rub the stucky side over the hair two or three times. The oil of the hair costs the incitability and prevents it from sticking. A Mindreader's Feat. New York, March 5 — Washington Irving Bishop, the famous mind reader, gave a peculiar trying test of his power this afternoon at the Holman House, in the presence of members of the press and of thetheatrical profession, doctors, lawyers and others. He borrowed a brooch from Mrs. Frank Leslie, which he gave to a committee of tour gentlemen, previously chosen from the audience, telling them to conceal it anywhere within a table of the hotel. The committee drove off in a carriage, returning after half an hour's absence. Bissop was then blind-folded. This was done by tying cotton batting around his eyes, then a black bag was put over his head and fastened around his neck. A two-seated open carriage was waiting at the door, and in this Mr. Bishop and three members of the committee took seats. Bishop took the reins and drove off through the great crowd of people and vehicles, guiding the horses with remarkable dexterity, considering that he could not use his eyes. Just near the southeast corner of Grammercy Park he stopped the vehicle and alighted; the committee following. A large crowd had run after the carriage all the way from the Holman House, and Bishop had hard work making his way through the throng that locked about him. He crossed the street and proceeded along East Grammercy Park until he reached the entrance to the Grammercy Park Hotel, into which he turned without hesitation, walked into a room and placed his hand on a vase which rested on a table. He held his hand there for a few seconds and then requested that the vase be removed. His wish was complied with and he picked the brooch up from the table where it had been left by the committee. A Genial Restorative. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters are emphaticly a genial restorative. The change which this great botanist remedy produces in the disordered organization are always agreeably though surely progressive, never abrupt and violent. On this account it is admirably adapted to persons of delicate constitution and weak nerves, to whom the powerful... How do you know?" asked he. "Because it says so on the check." That does not matter," said he, "add it up and see how much it makes." I did so, and found that the total was $2.75 instead of $3.35, as charged in the footing. Of course," said Mr. Watterson. "I knew it was wrong; nine out of ten are wrong." I asked him if he thought the mistake was intentional one. He gave me a look of supreme disgust at my ignorance, and exclaimed: "It is the most contemptible piece of small swindling in existence, and they nearly all do it, because it succeeds, as most persons simply glance at the total and pay the amount set down. They never think of adding it up to see if it is correct. Green fellows like you are taken in as fast as they come along. There is no remedy for it. When you detect the swindle and call the attention of the waiter to the fraud, he apologizes for the error," and the matter stops there." — Louisville Courier-Journal. The Pope's Proposed Improvements. At a recent papal reception at the vatican, Leo XIII informed his visitors that he purposed continuing the improvements at the Lateran Basilica by restoring the ancient portico near the Sacristy, known as the Porticus Lateranensis, and he charged the architect, Vespignani, to follow most carefully the original lines in executing the work. The pope added that he hoped at a future time the ceiling of the Basilica would be restored to its original form. He also announced that on the anniversary of the dedication of the Basilica, the two splendid organs which are being built for it will be used for the first time. They contain 72 stops and 4,568 pipes. One will have three manuals, the other two. The space each will occupy will be 36 feet frontage by 32 feet 10 inches in height, and the same in depth. — Chicago Herald. There would not be so many long sermons if men were obliged to practice what they preach. — New Orleans Picayune. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sorea, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positive cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by A. Krug. A Genial Restorative. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters are emphatically a genial restorative. The change which this great botanic remedy produces in the disordered organization are always agreeably though surely progressive, never abrupt and violent. On this account it is admirably adapted to persons of delicate constitution and weak nerves, to whom the powerful mineral drugs are positively important. That it initiates these processes which result in re-establishment of healthful vigor is conspiently shown in cases where it is taken to overcome that fruitful cause of debility, indigestion, coupled as it usually is with biliousness and constipation. Thorough digestion, regular evacuation and abundant secretion, are results which promptly and invariably attend its systematic use. It is, besides, the best protective against malaria, and a first rate diuretic. He Had One Favor to Ask. "Prisoner at the bar," said the Judge, "is there anything you wish to say before sentence is passed upon you?" No, Judge, there is nothin' I care to say, but if you'll clear away the tables and chairs long enough for me to thrash my lawyer, you can give me a year or two entry. — Puck California Cat "R" Cure. 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