anaheim-gazette 1889-05-16

VOLUME XIX. LODGE MEETINGS. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 207, F.A.A.M., regular meetings on the Monday preceding the full moon in each month are cordially invited to attend PHILIP DAVIS, W. M. HARRER, Secretary. MAVERN HILL POST, NO. 131, G. A. R. Moore at I.O. O. P. Hall, Los Angeles street, every fourth Saturday of each month. E. BARK, P.C. McDOWELL, Adjutant. HER CHOSEN FRIENDS MEET THE FIRST and third Saturday evenings in each month at 8 Old Fallows' Hall. WM. M. McFADDEN, Commellor. Whirre, Secretary. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 129, I.O. O. P. REGU meetings every Tuesday evening. Visiting always welcome. J. H. BULLARD, N. G. HARKER, Secretary. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 85, A.O.U.W. MEETS on the first and fourth Friday of every J. HELMSEN, M. W. GRINESHAW, Secretary. OPHEUS LODGE, NO. 237, I.O.O.P., MEETS Thursday at 9 p.m. at Old Fallows' Hall. ROBERT HENZEL, M. O. NEVELCROO, Secretary. PROFESSIONAL CARES. J.H.BELLARD,A.B.M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Residence, corner Hermine and Chartres streets, near Planters' Hotel. OFFICE HOURS: 9:00 a.m.; 12 to 1:30, and 6 to 7:30 p.m. RICHARD MELROSE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office Block, Anaheim. Will be in his office at 47 Temple Block, Los Angeles every day and Friday. Special attention given to PROBATE matters. JOHN C. PELTON, J.K. ARCHITECT. MISCELLANEOUS. HIPPOLYTE CAHEN DEALER IN. General Merchandise Keeps Always on Hand the Best of GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, HARDWARE, TINWARE, STATIONERY, AGATEV WOODENWARE, Boots and Shoes. Men's Furnishing Goes IF I sell my Stock of Dry Goods and Ladies', Miner' and Children's Booms at Coast for Cash. Corner Center and Los Angeles St., Anaheim, Cal. ANAHEIM EVERGREEN NURSERI The oldest established in Los Angeles c Timothy Carroll, - Proprietor From Three to Four Million Trees and Plants for SANTA BARBARA SOFT-SHELL AND ENGLISH WAKE WHITE AND BROWN SMYRNA AND ADRIATIC ORANGES AND ALL VARIETIES OF FRUIT AND ORNAMAL TREES AND SHIPS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Residence, corner Hermins and Chartres streets, near Planters' Hotel. OFFICE HOURS: 12 to 1:30, and 6 to 7:20 p.m. RICHARD MELKOSE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office Block, Anaheim. Will be in his office at 42 Temple Block, Los Angeles every day and Friday. ATTENTION GIVEN TO PROBATE matters. JOHN C. PELTON, JR. ARCHITECT. Block No. 14 W. First Street, bet. Spring and Main, LOS ANGELES, Cal. JE BURTON, ARCHITECT. West Second Street, Los Angeles, Cal. Rooms 27 & 28 Newell Block. S. D. WOOD, ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER, ANAHEIM. CHARLES PAMPERL, Dealer In. HARDWARE, CROCKERY, and HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Los Angeles street, Anaheim. W M HARKER FADDLE AND HARNESS MAKER, ANAHEIM. L. OUNTHER, PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Alele and Los Angeles streets. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. ANAheim Making and repairing at the lowest cash price. All prices promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. SHAUMANN & BOETTCHER, BLACKSMITHS AND WAGONMAKERS. CENTER ST., Anaheim. Kinds of jobbing done at reasonable rates and satisfaction guaranteed. New work a specialty. PLANTERS' HOTEL BARBER-SHOP. First-Class Style. BATHS, - 25 Cts. PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL. A PRANTZ, Prop., opp. P. O., Center St. J. S. WEBER, Center street, Anaheim, dealer in STOVES, TINWARE AGATEWARE, Pumps, Pipes and Brass Goods Pumping done according to the San Francisco Sanitary Plumbing Law, to keep your house healthy and free from smell. Agent for Quick-Meat Gasoline Stove. The oldest established in Los Angeles c Timothy Carroll, - Proprie From Three to Four Million Trees and Plants for E.SANTA BARBARA SOFT-SHELL AND ENGLISH WAWHITE AND BROWN SMYRNA AND ADRIATICORANGES AND ALL VARIETIES OF FRUIT AND ORNAL TREES AND SHRUBS. Cypress, Blue-Gum, Pine and Pepper Tree All in thrifty and first-class condition A cordial invitation is extended to all to visit the nursery inspect stock and prices. PRICE LISTS ON APPLICATION F. CRIST, MERCHANT TAILE Just received a complete assortment of Spring Goods of latest styles and fabric which the attention of the citizens of Anaheim and vicinity is directed. Suits to order from $25 Pants to order from $6 An invitation is cordially extended public to call and examine this stock. FRED CRISI H. D. POLHEMUS, REAL ESTATE AGEN Postoffice Block, Anaheim, Cal Walnut orchards and Orange Groves in full bearing. Improved lands in irrigating district and artesian-water below five acres upwards. Prices extremely low. Terms easy. Correspondence Solicited. FAIRVIEW STORE. PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL. A. PRANTZ, Prop., opp. P. O., Center 8t J. S. WEBER, Center street, Kirksheim, dealer in STOVES, TINWARE AGATEWARE, Pumps, Pipes and Brass Goods Pumping done according to the San Francisco San tary Plumbing Law, to keep your house healthy and free from smel.. Agent for Quick-Meat, Gasoline Stove. Also agent for the HALIDAY WINDMILL, The best in use. HARRY REISBECK. Boating. Parties visiting the Landing should not fall to and themselves of the pleasures of a boat ride. I have fourteen first-class boats, which will be rented at reasonable prices. House Movers. N. L. GALBRAITH & CO., SANTA ANA, CAL., P. O. Box 232. FARMERS' HEALING LINIMENT WONDERFUL AND SURE IN ITS HEALING powers. Sample bottles have been distributed in Anaheim and vicinity by D. W. Fish. Persona who received them and desire more of the liniment will find it for sale at Dr. Higgins' drugstore in Anaheim, the sample bottles free to those wishing to try it. D. W. FISH, Cor. Byram and 11th St., Los Angeles. CITY MEAT MARKET GO TO Bentz & Steadman, For Fresh Meats, Corned Duck, Pickled Pork, Chicken Lard and Smoked Meat. The "Lilly Ham and Bacon out to Order." Highest Market Prices Paid for Fat Stock, Eggs and Poultry. CENTER ST... ANAMFIM Anaheim Bakery P. MIRTLE, PROP. Fresh Bread, Pies and Oakes Every Day. Delivery Wages Hikes Daily Trips. The Peninsula of the Public Nospecifically selected. Walnut orchards and Orange Groves in full bearing. improved lands in irrigating district and artesian-water belfive acres upwards. Prices extremely low. Terms easy. Correspondence Solicited: FAIRVIEW STORE. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT I take pleasure in announcing that prepared to meet the wants of the public an assortment of Boots, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, Dry G GROCERIES AND GENERAL MERCHANDIS I sell every article on its merits. Call and see for yourself, STORE ON BROADWAY, One-half mile west Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, near Fair M. H. CHEESEMAN SALE! SALE! SA! AT — A. T. WALLOP CLEARANCE SALE! I AM KEEPING UP WITH THE TIMES. SELLING OF MY LARGE STOCK OF DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, FANCY ARTICLES, LADIES' UNDERWEAR, HATS, AND SHOES, ETC., TO DO ONLY AN Exclusive : Grocery : Tr — COME AND GET — GOOD BARGAINS: REDUCED PRICE Times are hard and I will tell them for each or ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1839. CAHEN, Orchardise the Best of HARDWARE, ERY, AGATEWARE, OILS, Furnishing Goods. E I M NURSERIES! Los Angeles county Proprietor. es and Plants for Sale! ND ENGLISH WALNUTS, A AND ADRIATIC FIGS, OFFRUIT AND ORNAMEN- The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. Items of news and correspondence on all line subjects are solicited by the editor. Be brief, and write directly to the point. All communications must be signed by the author, not for publication, but for the information of the editor. England's Poets. Perhaps I may now be permitted to remitulate the list of a dozen English poets, whom I ventured to quote as the most infamous immortals of British poetry, says Edmund Goose of Oxford in the Forum for April. They are Chancor, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Gray, Burne, Wordworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats. It will be noticed that there are thirteen names here, and my reviewers have not failed to remind me that it is notoriously difficult to count the stars. The fact is that Gray, the real thirteenth, was an afterthought, and I will admit that, although Gray is the author of what is, perhaps, the most imposing single short poem in the language, and although AGRICULTURAL NOTES. The Best Sugar Industry. A four-day age the telegraph brought a report of an interview with Chase Spahnakdin, in which he stated his firm. Franconia company would soon be ready to build two large bunk sugar lumberies in this State, much to and $200,000. This news opened the eyes of many of our citizens to the possibility of the best sugar industry. A further holding of its importance may be gained from a personal paper by A. H. Almy, in the Popular Sunday Month for May, on "Growth of the Best Sugar Industry." For people probably an amateur that more than half of the world's annual supply of sugar is now derived from the heat-tank. Yet it is almost none than twenty years since this industry began to assume prominence and to be felt on an appreciable factor in the market. It is just about a mere of years ago that Germany, finding her hands were under a thousand years of tillage without rotation till crops, and unable to produce grain in competition with the rich pearls of America, established a system of excess data to indicate the farmer to enter into the growing of beans upon a larger male, and gave him to cannot capital into the construction of factories for the manufacture of heat sugar. These new conditions resulted in an enormous increase of sugar production. The German farmer gathered from 20 to 25 times of bread from an acre, each ton yielding from one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds of sugar, giving him three times the profit he had previously derived from the cultivation of grain, and leaving the land better prepared to receive the annual plant in its rotation with the beet. During the last decade great discoveries have been made in the cultivation of the root, and in the methods for the extraction of the sugar. In the early experiments, in the days of the first Napoleon, the extraction was only 1 per cent. Last year the average extraction under the new process was 13 per cent. Other countries in continental Europe, stimulated by the example of Germany have no time of vigour in new forms of our people. A B. If any can have to make the product time to visit Rhine Smith. He attained numbered and fortunate homes in that main man for his thirsty question of fresh water on the land and bearing varieties in it even every garden vegetable he raises all the everything he harps on surplus to his clothing, etc., his favorite hunt, his largest tables the mall market. He two or three put forth Everything has secret is thatEvery and in the best tended stock trouble or or flourish or gash perity. The play. He imitates art turn up.Farm of South visit from all it is not for a The A Los Angeles county Proprietor. and Plants for Sale! AND ENGLISH WALNUTS, A AND ADRIATIC FIGS, OFFRUIT AND ORNAMENclass condition. APPLICATION. ANT TALEOR. plete assortment of styles and fabrics, to citizens of Anaheim $25 up. $6 up. cordially extended the this stock. FRED CRIST. HEMUS, TE AGENT. Anaheim, Cal. ies in full bearing. Also unand artesian-water belt. From ly low. Terms easy. Solicited. STORE. England's Poets. Perhaps I may now be permitted to remtaliate the list of a dozen English poets, whom I ventured to quote as the manifest immortals of British poets, says Edmund Gomez of Oxford in the Forum for April. They are Chancer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pepe, Gray, Burna, Wordworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats. It will be noticed that there are thirteen names here, and my reviewers have not failed to remind me that it is notoriously difficult to count the stars. The fact is that Gray, the real thirteenth, was an afterthought, and I will admit that, although Gray is the author of what is, perhaps, the most imposing single short poem in the language, and although he has charm, skill and distinction to a marvelous degree, his originality, his force of production was so rigidly limited that he may scarcely be admitted to the first rank. No doubt the explosive force which eggs a very great writer on to constant expression was inking in the case of Gray, and I yield him—a tender babe, and the only one of my interesting family which I will consent to throw to the wolves. The rest are inviolable and I will defend them to the last. The New York Sporting Times, published every Sunday, is the brightest and most complete baseball paper published in America. Each number contains a complete history of baseball from ocean to ocean, and no one that is interested in the popular American game should be without a copy. With each issue there appears portraits of the leading ballplayers, managers and athletes. Price: 5 cents per copy, and can be bought from any news dealer or from the Sporting Times, 73 Park Row, New York City. LOST IN THE STORM. One of our local editors clipped from a leading magazine extracts from a vivid description of a western blizzard which we have taken the liberty to publish and at the same time suggest to H. H. Warner & Co., the proprietors of the celebrated Warner’s Safe Curse, the feasibility of taking therefrom an extract for the introduction of one of their telling advertisements. The following is the description: "At the close of a dark day in January a solitary horseman wends his way across the open prairie in one of our western territories. He passes at long intervals the lone cabin of the hardy frontiersman. Two or three old settlers, of whom he has inquired the way, have warned him that a storm is approaching, and one of them with true western hospitality, urges him to find shelter in his cabin for the night. But he declines the proffered kindness and urges his tired horses forward. The sky grows suddenly dark. He decides to seek shelter. The storm increases in its fury. The rider dismounts to warm his fast chilling limbs. Can scarcely breathe. Blindness comes on. Drowning steals over him. The end is near. He is lost in the blizzard." There is no doubt that the terror which seizes the bewildered traveler is similar to that which overcomes one when he learns that he is suffering from an advanced Kidney Disease, and is informed that he is in the last stages of Bright’s disease. At first he is informed that he has a slight kidney affection. Later he begins to feel tired. Slight headache. Fickle appetite. Failure of the syngent. Cramp in the call of the Leggable Wakefulness. Distressing nervousness. Rheumatic and neuralgic pains. Occasionally pain in the back. Scanty, dark colored fluids, with scaling sensation. Gradual failure of strength. Of the best-sugar industry in this State Mr. Almy says: "During the past year large capital has been attracted toward the development of the sugar-beet industry in the United States on the Pacific Coast. Although that section of the country, with its peculiar surroundings, does not generally present the meteorological and climatic conditions necessary to secure the best results in the cultivation of the best-root for sugar-making purposes, yet a factory was started last October, with equipment and machinery capable of reducing 350 tons of beets per diem, and has proved a great financial success. A full supply of beets, cultivated by the wheat-growers of California, kept the works fully employed, and a boom was given to the town of Watsonville. The factory consumes seven tons of lime daily in the chemical processes of extracting the sugar, which is distributed proata to the grower of beets-free, and can be returned to the soil. Besides, the farmers averaged over $80 per acre for their beet products, while the recent report of the Agricultural "Bureau estimates the returns from the total production of the five principal crops—corn, rye, barley and wheat—in the United States—to less than $12 per acre as an average." The seems to be no doubt that California is shortly to add to the numerous other product of her fertile soil that of sugar beets; in large quantities. There is no practical limit to the market for this product. Beets are exhausting of the soil, and must be grown in rotation with other crops, but that can easily be arranged, and the profit will be very much more profitable than any variety of grain, even when the seasons are most propitions for the latter crop. We believe that experiments are now being made with sugar beet seed in California, to test its adaptability to our soil. Our farmers and citizens generally who are interested in the prosperity of this section should keep this matter to the front, in order that another may be added to our already numerous resources. — Los Angeles Times. Orange Planting. Attention has already been called in these columns to the immei- ment impetus given to the planting of orange groves all over the State. In the face of the fact that many of the older orchards have been destroyed by the scale, it is, n .rertheless, true that not in any one, or even two years since the settlement of California has there been so large an area of land planted with oranges. The single county of San Bernardino already shows over 3,500 acres of new orchard, and the planting season is not yet over. The same remarkable increase is seen elsewhere and far more accurate than it is thought is there ing. Everything and in the best tended stock trouble or grouse perility. The play. He in others arms turn up. His farm of South visit from all it is not for me. It is stated terminating transmittable are in Australia offered by the effective mod- elation London Zoology says: W. Rodier Wales, has far ed sheet, con- far the best a termination o my attention various corri- colonies, wha age done by y Rodier statism at this about eight mule success." Rabbitts. It and neta are ture takeen are do out again un mode of oper as soon as numbers per tentions, and They also kill to be able to be when they la- worry the re is all strictly can readily be The ordinary Rodier pointe them For plains,more by thy trapper predominate being sufficiens are perpetual stock. The p so simple an will be widely disease that ma introduced,n posed to be in well instance a salai- The outlook never brighten have had a m agrificultural pur- if it had not th recent rains hath any of th e sta-ficial in their crop s that hare season’s rainfall to ontlying hath in good effi- tivity amount of water during those m prolific crops m money into th e case up th e stai- STORE. ENOUCEMENT nouncing that I am of the public with thing, Dry Goods, AL MERCHANDISE. and see for yourself, at my BROADWAY, broad Dept, near Fairview St. EESEMAN. ! SALE! MES. SELLING OFF ALL GOODS, NOTIONS AND DERWEAR, HATS, BOOTS ANERY : Trade. GET — REDUCED PRICES There is no doubt that the terror which seizes the bewildered traveler is similar to that which overcomes one when he learns that he is suffering from an advanced Kidney Disease, and is informed that he is in the last stages of Bright's disease. At first he is informed that he has a slight kidney affection. Later he begins to feel tired. Slight headache. Fickle appetite. Failure of the eyedight. Cramp in the call of the leg. Wakefulness. Distressing nervousness. Rheumatic and neuralgic pains. Occasionally pain in the back. Scanty, dark colored fluids, with soiling sensation. Gradual failure of strength. Any of the above symptoms signify Kidney Affection, but he is told that he is all right. His physician treats him for symptoms and calls it a disease, when in reality it is but a symptom of Kidney trouble. He may be treated for Rheumatic or Neuralgic pains, heart affection, or any other disease which he is most susceptible to. Finally the patient has putting under the eyes, slight bloating of the ankles and legs. His physician may inform him that it is but the accumulation of blood in his ankles for want of proper exercise. The bleat continues and reaches his body. Then he is informed he has dropped troubles, and is tapped once or twice. He notices it is difficult to breathe owing to irregular action of the heart, and finally is informed that he has a slight attack of Bright's Disease. Soon his friends are notified that his is an advanced case of Bright's Disease, and that he can live but a short time. His honorable and dignified physician asks for counsel. It is too late. Still he sticks to the old family physician, and the physician knows and has known from the beginning that the patient has been stricken with death for months, for he knows well that the profession acknowledge they have no remedies for the cause of Kidney Disease. At last the patient suffers—is unmerited—and dies from drooping tremble. Or perhaps the disease may not take the form of a drooping tremble, and the patient dies from apathy, pennsylvania or heart tremble. Or it may take the form of blood poisoning. In each form the end in the name. And yet he and his friends were warned by the proprietors of the established nursery known as Woman's Falls One, of the turking dangers of a slight Kidney infection. The newspaper here published this diagnosis. Collapse of fist have been printed at them dying from advanced Kidney Disease or Bright's Disease. This fist and plaster both with harrow but has been removed from their mouths. The plaster has now been removed from their mouths. Orange Planting. Attention has already been called in these columns to the imminent impetus given to the planting of orange groves all ever the State. In the face of the fact that many of the older orchards have been destroyed by the scale, it is, n .rertheless, true that not in any one, or even two years since the settlement of California has there been so large an area of land planted with oranges. The single county of San Bernardino already shows over 3,500 acres of new orchard, and the planting season is not yet over. The same remarkable increase is seen elsewhere, and for every acre of orchard destroyed it is no exaggeration to say that at least five acres have been planted. Attention has been called, however, to one fact which is deserving of notice. That is that fully nine-tenths of the planting so far done has been of but one variety—the Riverside naval. This is due of course to the fact that the price received for that variety of orange will average from 75 to 100 per cent more than is paid for any other bedded or seedling variety. No wholesale planting of the one variety, however, would seem to partake a little of the undesirability that attends the process familiarly known as putting all the stones in one host. There is the possibility that if this wholesale planting of a single variety shall continue the market will some day be overstocked with that particular kind, or at least so fully stocked that the price may be depreciated to less than is paid for other kinds. Certainly there would seem to be good ground for a little judicious variety in this direction. The history of the numerous "orange" that have at one time or another swept over the farming and fruit-growing communities of the whole country ought to move as a warning against the general adoption of any our particular line of business, or product, however tempting the prospect may be at the outset. While there is no apparent probability that the production of oranges in this state will ever be overthreaten it is in the part of prudence to plant such a variety that possible antitragism may be guarded against. New News of Pressurity. Orange growers in this station may at last hearbeen family. In this issue of The Herald may be found an article on the latest news regarding little parish, a species of what is popularly known as the ladyling. There is no longer the hunch room to doubt that little Australian louse is the natural fear of the cottony-cushion scale. The new parasite destroys the mule by thorning and multiplying more rapidly. In this issue it is furnished with a very voracious seed which will enable it to spread rapidly from tree and from ground to entail all its members. The pest long has no means of killing all its members; all its members will kill off any part of its population by feeding on them. The Handwritten Notes eveil of the over from the fact everybody to do mature work on reach the bed; there is that their pet they put forth lost ground. On this principle many dormant lain neglected tinned. We fit up this rewiring up of new indies old ones neglect. Even next fall and again on the house we should have prices; but we gross in legitimate fact of this house our city and added. It will city, and attract share in our property will follow it greatly add to give a permanent in the countryside. Chris James of Orland, hum yard which once also which for this month per prairie states that he high as four to would bring to picking the hull prince for blanks a good example of this. This is an off year because some large yield of maize returns for irrigation by farmers in our countryside. The Handwritten Notes NOTES. A Mural Washroom Houses If any one in California wants to know how to make a living and lay up money on the product of ten acres, he should spare the time to visit the beautiful Little Home of D. Ritual Smith out on the west side of town. He settled there six years ago in the half-mandarine and went to work to make a corn-farmable house. If ever a man succeeded in that man, we will find this phase this week for the first time in two years and new his theories of farming demonstrated. Every species of fruit tree, not two and thrush of rains on the coast is growing, flourishing and bearing splendid crops of the best varieties in existence. Between the trees he has every specia and variety of the best garden vegetables growing at the time. But he takes care of his ground and it grows ricker all the time. While he runs nearly everything he cuts, he always hits a large spring to sell, which pays for his groceries, clothing, etc., and leaves a bank account in his favor hands. He hurries are the finest, his larger fruit the best and his vegetable the most that come to the finest Ana market. He keeps a fine cow, a horse and two or three hundred chickens. All are put to the best use and made profitable. Everything he touches proper. The only secret is that he works. He neglects nothing. Everything is attended to promptly and in the best possible manner. No half-tended stock, no sick chickens, no woods, no trouble or clouds, no fits of despondency flourish or grow on his rack. All is sunshine, hard but agreeable work and prosperity. The secret is he works while others play. He improves each shining hear while others sit around and wait for something to turn up. His ten-acre reach is the model farm of Southern California, and is worth a visit from all who visit the valley. Lastly, it is not for sale. —Santa Ana Standard. The Australian Rabbit Post. It is stated that M. Pasteur's plan of exterminating the rabbits by inoculation with minor Mary for the purpose of rendering the or are kept more suitable for the cultivation of cotton, and during the period which has since elapsed the first part of the season has been completed. A district high—has been built upon the sloping Many hills in the Mary park, as a fixture of fifty stakes from the villages of Belfastland, and the vast quantities of water which are polluted in this manner are being distributed in the surrounding country by means of a network of dams and canals. It is absolutely expected that the continuance of the hands will be hindered throughout the current droughts. It appears that the Russians are intending to do their utmost to develop the entire lands in this district, as they are establishing a number of meteorological and other stations for the collection of information as to the temperature, moisture, and rainfall. Gary's Lab. Gary's was in many ways a malacoholy his name a writer in Morrillian's Magazine. His vitality was low, and much happiness as he enjoyed was of a languid kind. Physically and emotionally he was unaffected with realities, and this though he never felt the touch of some of the most crunching cysts that humanity maintains. He was never poor, he was never deprived, he had many devoted friends, but on the other hand he had a wrinkled and dismeddling constitution, he suffered from all sorts of prostrating complaints from imaginary insolence, vicious antipathy, and wistful sympathy. Pame such as rarely accorded to men came to him; he was accepted as without doubt the first living English poet; and he took no kind of pleasure in it. He was horrified to find himself a celebrity. He refused to be Poet Learnta. He refused honorary degree. When at Cambridge the young scholars are said to have left their dinners to see him as he passed in the street, it was a sincere pain to him. Cowper counterbalanced his fits of unstable malanholy by his hours of tranquil serenity over teacups and muffins and warm coal fires, with the curtains drawn close. Johnson enlivened his boding depression by tyrannizing over an adoring circle. The Australian Rabbit Post. It is stated that M. Pasteur's plan of exterminating the rabbits by inoculation with transmittable virus has proved to be a failure in Australia. The reward of $100,000 offered by the N.S.W. government for an effective mode of destroying the rodents is as yet unclaimed. Mr. P.L. Sclater, of the London Zoological Society, writing to Nature, says: W. Rodier, of Tambua, Cobar, New South Wales, has forwarded to his society a printed sheet, containing, as it appears to me, by far the best suggestion yet made for the extermination of rabbits—a subject to which attention has been repeatedly called by various correspondents in the Australian colonies, where, as is well known, the damage done by these animals is enormous. Mr. Rodier states that his plan has been in operation at this station in New South Wales for about eight months "with the utmost possible success," and has cleared the country of rabbits. It is a very simple plan. Ferrets and nets are used in the usual way to capture the rabbits, but while all the females taken are destroyed, the males are turned out again uninjured. The results of this mode of operation are that the male rabbits, as soon as they begin to predominate in numbers, persecute the female with their intentions, and prevent them from breeding. They also kill the young rabbits that happen to be born; and even, as Mr. Rodier asserts, when they largely predominate in numbers, "worry the remaining does to death." This is all strictly in accordance with what we can readily believe it to be likely to happen. The ordinary mode of trapping, as Mr. Rodier points out, is more likely to increase the number of rabbits than to diminish them. For reasons which he clearly explains, more buck rabbits are always killed by the trappers than does. Thus the does predominate in numbers, and, a few bucks being sufficient for a large number of does, are perpetually breeding and increasing the stock. The plan advocated by Mr. Rodier is so simple and easy that I cannot doubt it will be widely followed when known. No disease that might otherwise cause injury is introduced, no other noxious animal is proposed to be imported, but advantage is taken of the well-known natural laws which regulate the increase of life to effect in this instance a salutary decrease. Prosperity Assured. The outlook for this city and section was never brighter than it is at present. We have had a most propitious season, and the agricultural prospect could not be surpassed if it had not been made to our order. The recent rains have done no serious injury to any of the staple growths, but will be beneficial in their efforts upon that portion of our crops that had not full benefit of all the season's rainfall. What little harm was done to outlying hay will be more than made up in the good effects of the increased moisture that will reach the fruit trees and the vines during the warm, dry months of July, August and September, and in the increased amount of water we shall have for irrigation during those months. The returns from our prolific crops will bring a great deal of new money into the county that will go far to case up the stringency amongst the farmers, from imaginary molteness, violent antipathies, and wint of sympathy. Fame such as is rarely accorded to men came to him; he was accepted as without doubt the first of living English poets; and he took no kind of pleasure in it. He was horrified to find himself a celebrity. He refused to be Poet Learnaite. He refused honorary degree. When at Cambridge the young scholars are said to have left their dinners to see him as he passed on the street, it was a sincere pain to him. Cowper counterbalanced his fits of unstander melanoboly-by his hours of tranquil serenity over tenups and muffins and warm coal fire, with the curtains drawn close. Johnson enlivened his boding depression by tyrannizing over an adoring circle. But Gray's only compensations were his friends. Any one who knows Gray's letters to and about his young friend Bonnetetten, knows how close and warm it is possible for friendship to him. No biography is more simple than his. From Eaton he passed to Cambridge, which was practically his home for the rest of his life. He went as a young man on a long foreign tour of nearly three years with Horace Walpole, quarreled, and came back alone, both claiming to have been in the wrong; he traveled in England and Scotland a little; he lived a little in London and a good deal at Stoke Pogia, where he kept a perfect managerial of aged ants, and he died somewhat prematurely at the age of 50. He spent in all more than twenty years at Cambridge, the only event that interrupted his life there being his move from Peterhouse to Pembroke, across the road, in consequence of an offensive joke played on by some undergraduates, who, working on his meridid dread of fire, induced him by their cries to leave the window of his room by means of a rope ladder and descend into a tab of water placed ready for this purpose. The authoritative Peterhouse seem to have made no attempt to punish this wanton outrage or to have been anxious to keep him at their college. April's Bright Planet. Venna has no months, having no moon. The seasons are rapid, intense and dissimilar. The planet moves inclined on its axis at a much greater angle than the earth, and in place of 23 degrees the obliquity of the ecliptic attains 55 degrees, so that at the solitude, for example, the sun, which on earth reaches its furthest point from the equator to Calcutta and Havana in the northern hemisphere, and the Rio Jeneiro and the Transvaal in the southern hemisphere, advances beyond the latitudes of Edinburgh, Copenhagen and Moscow in the north and those of Cape Horn in the south. That is to say, there is no temperate zone on this planet, and in the countries which correspond to the terrestrial climes of Paris, London, Berlin, New York and Buenos Ayres must occur, in turn, abrupt changes from heat of torrid summer to the rigor of a glacial winter. The planet, Venna, is not therefore, the marvelous calm, angelic paradise we would be pleased to imagine her, judging from the deceitful aspect of the evening star viewed at a distance of 50,000-60,000-80 miles. On the contrary, she is a world less happily constructed than our own—viewed from a habitable standpoint—and on which human life must be subject to ruder ordals than those which assail terrestrial organisms from birth until death. The state of life on each globe being determined by the habitable conditions themselves, and varying, moreover, with these conditions according to climate and environment (the geological history of the earth has eloquently proved this), we may conclude that the inhabitants of the planet Venna are less delicately organized than ourselves, incapable of our finer notions, and, in all probability, our intellectual inferiors. Rude climates, abrupt transitions require, to resist them, solidly constructed organisms,and have had a most propitious season, and the agricultural prospect could not be surpassed if it had not been made to our order. The recent rains have done no serious injury to any of the staple growths, but will be beneficial in their efforts upon that portion of our crops that had not the full benefit of all the season's rainfall. What little harm was done to outlying hay will be more than made up in the good effects of the increased moisture that will reach the fruit trees and the vines during the warm, dry months of July, August and September, and in the increased amount of water we shall have for irrigation during those months. The returns from our prolific crops will bring a great deal of new money into the county that will go far to ease up the stringency amongst the farmers, and their relief will reach to all other classes of our people. A good will come out of the evil of the over-speculation of recent years, from the fact that the reaction has caused everybody to earnestly engage in the legitimate work of recuperation. When men reach the bed-rock of their resources, then it is that their energies are arrows and that they put forth strentuous efforts to recover the lost ground. A whole community working on this principle must necessarily develop many dormant resources that would have lain neglected if the speculative era had continued. We shall soon experience the benefits of this renewed energy in the opening up of new industries and the revivifying of the old ones that had suffered from our neglect. Everything points to the fact that next fall and winter will find ourention again on the high road to prosperity. We may not have—and it is not desirable that we should have—boom land sales and boom prices; but we shall have a solid, steady progress in legitimate pursuits. The good effect of this healthy condition of affairs upon our city and section cannot be over-estimated. It will make business lively in the city, and attract people here from abroad in our prosperity. The stability that will follow in all classes of business will greatly add to the growth of our city, and give a permanence to values, both here and in the country. Los Angeles Herald. Memory in Minneapolis. Chris Jumper, living three miles southwest of Orland, has a fine small orchard and vineyard which produces much fruit. He has one acre also of blackberries, the crop of which for this year he has just sold for 2 cents per pound on the bushes. Mr. Jumper states that he has gathered from this site as high as four tons of horticulture. This, at 2 cents, would bring $600, without the trouble of picking the horticure. Three cents in a low price for blackberries, but even at that price it leaves a good round profit. This is another example of the policy of mixed farming. This is an off year in grain, but where it is good it must be extremely good and afford a large yield of wheat on his acres to give him return on Mr. Jumper will realize from this one little area of blackberries. He is an current believer in the virtue of water for irrigation. His establishment and berry patch are maintained by a windfall that cost him $11. If none of our farms must be have a few barns in housing a few acres in main gardens and a few units in cultivation, the burden of a fall in the grain crop would not be so enormous with such farming. The Hamilton government decided about a change to agriculture policies within five miles of these towns of the neighboring counties. One of the younger scholars of the Rans School, at San Diego, named Sadie Margind, distinguished herself a few days ago by killing a mothman, which still very nearly stopped on, in the afternoon. The supplicant was only about five feet long, spotted two winters and a month when she did discover it, her presence of mind in putting an end to the pestmen's mistakenness in all probability saved some of the minor children from being bitten. Last week one of the logs of the school killed one of the minnows. They industriously came from areas all over Florida. On the contrary, she is a world less happily constructed than our own—viewed from a habitable standpoint—and on which human life must be subject to ruder ordals than those which smell terrestrial organisms from birth until death. The state of life on each globe being determined by the habitable conditions themselves, and varying, moreover, with these conditions according to climate and environment (the ecological history of the earth has eloquently proved this), we may conclude that the inhabitants of the planet Venus are less delicately organized than ourselves, incapable of our finer notions, and, in all probability, our intellectual inferioris. Inde climates, abrupt transitions, require to resist them, solidly constructed organisms, and without doubt less nervous sensibility, less fineness of sensation than the men and women of our temperate regions. From all points of view, the planet Venus is a less agreeable habitation than the terrestrial globe. It does not seem that the conditions can be as favorable for the development of civilization, analogous to that which has given successively, to the history of our humanity, Babylon, Thebes, Athens, Rome and Paris. The time passes too rapidly. There can be, it seems, but little stability. However, let us affirm nothing. Nature has as many unknown resources. — Damille Flammerion. A Faxed Perker. Out on a Yolo county ranch a few years ago a small band of hogs were confined in a lot fenced in with logs. In one part of the fence there was a hollow log, shaped something like a joint of stevepipes, one opening being inside and the other outside. One day an intelligent porker discovered this fact and thereafter went out and returned at his own pleasure. This owner of the ranch happened to witness the mode of agression of the hog one day and decided to put up a job on him. By allowing the log around a little he no contrived as to place both openings of the log inside the lot. In a few moments the hog ran up to his usual exit and passed through the log. Imagine his surprise when he walkiil out the other end of the log and found himself still inside the lot. He looked about him in a penned way, marshaded his ear and tried again. Some result. "Well, I'll be dangled," granted the hog. Agnes he run into the log and ran out again with the same result. He became wild with rags and damned through the log no affection and so fast that she began to immee from the cracks. Then he gave it up as a bad job, and so the owner of the hog says never want near the fence until the day of his death. One of the younger scholars of the Rans School, at San Diego, named Sadie Margind, distinguished herself a few days ago by killing a mothman, which still very nearly stopped on, in the afternoon. The supplicant was only about five feet long, spotted two winters and a month when she did discovery it, her presence of mind in putting an end to the pestmen's mistakenness in all probability saved some of their minor children from being bitten. Last week one of the logs of the school killed one of the minnows. They industriously came from areas all over Florida."