anaheim-gazette 1897-04-01

CALIFORNIA WINES. The largest vintage ever produced in California, including sweet and dry wines, amounted to nearly 23,000,000 gallons, the sweet wines being 20 per cent of this crop. Since this vintage notable reductions have been made in the yield of all the counties by various diseases, principally the phylloxera and other diseases, while but few additional vineyards have gone into bearing to make up for the loss. It may, therefore, be safely prophesied that the most favorable season possible this year could not yield over a total of 15,000,000 gallons. Deduct 3,000,000 gallons as the likely yield of sweets in a favorable season, and he have the possible dry-wine crop of 1897. The requirements of the market is now, as shown by the last year's exports, over 16,000,000 gallons, besides the Coast trade, which consumes 6,000,000 gallons, making a total of 22,000,000 gallons required to supply the demand. The wine situation in California is a peculiar one and calls for special consideration. That situation may be here briefly stated. As compared with the wine output of France, thus of California is but a drop in the bucket. The French wine crop of 1896 is officially stated as amounting to 1,179,364,960 gallons. California produces wines of choice, good and ordinary quality and character. Nearly all of the first mentioned class reaches the consumer under a foreign label and is imbued under the impression that it is an imported wine. The fair and ordinary grades are sold for what they are—California wines. Hence all the wines of this State are known to the uninformed person as only ordinary or fair. The name of the State is never connected with wines of any excellence and consequently, California wines as a whole suffer an unjust penalty. A well informed writer in the Pacific Wine and Spirit Review, answering the statement of an irresponsible party that the existing duty of 30 cents on wine is sufficient protection, says: Let us see: The producer here can only obtain 18 cents, wholesale, for his wines, which is barely sufficient to meet his expenses and pay the interest on his mortgage. Now the merchant's expense in maturing, handling and finishing ready for market is 3 cents, freight 5 cents, package 5 cents, brokerage 2½ cents and 3¼ cents for the investment—a total of 37 cents in Yew York and 39¼ cents at other points. This is so near the price of imported wines, especially of the compounds which the French govern- OXYGEN AS A HEALER. A Record of Several Valuable English Experiments. During the Zulu war Dr. George Stoker, who served during the campaign as an army surgeon, had an opportunity of observing the method in which the natives treated their wounded comrades. He noticed that they carried them to the highest point attainable, and there exposed the wounds to the purest air and the action of pure water. This simple remedy was swift and sure, the worst cases yielding rapidly under its influence, doubtless the healthy state of the blood and the abstemious lives led by the natives having a good deal to do with the matter. Dr. Stoker was led to believe that the oxygen cure might be applied to ulcers, burns and wounds of a similar nature, and on his return to this country he made several experiments on such cases, and the more he saw of it the firmer was his belief in his discovery. Bacteria consist of two kinds—the harmful micro-organisms and those necessary to the system, in order that the mechanism of the body may be carried on satisfactorily. Before the discovery of antiseptic surgery the risk which was run wherever a raw surface was exposed to the air was enormous, but with the introduction of antiseptics into the treatment the danger was reduced to a minimum. Iodoform has always been the special medium for use in the case of ulcers, and it is not a pleasant one, but it tended to hold the bacteria at bay. Now, however, it has been noticed that in cases where oxygen has been applied and where the wound is healing the progress was marked by the presence of common organisms and that if a relapse occurred the bacteria disappeared, so that one is led to the conclusion that a certain number of these living organisms are necessary in the formation of new and healthy flesh. It was decided to enter upon a wider field of operations and test this experiment further—for it must be borne in mind that as yet it is only an experiment—and accordingly a committee of ladies and gentlemen, under the presidency of Baroness Burdett-Coutts, undertook to establish a hospital at 35 St. George's square, S.W. The hospital is small, but if funds were forthcoming a larger house could be secured. The oxygen used is said to be first generated in an iron funnel, and thence it is pumped into india rubber bags, according to the strength required. The part affected is molasses Going Out. "The old fashioned molasses is rapidly disappearing as an article of commerce," said a prominent grocer, "and in place have come a number of sinners which are more costly and by no means satisfactory, especially to the less ones, who delight, as we did when were young, in having "'lasses on bread.' Most of the molasses goose distilleries, where it is made rum, for which, notwithstanding efforts of our temperance workers' demand is constantly on the increase especially in the New England state and for the export trade. The regular drinker of rum will take no other life in its place if he can help it. It is to reach the spot more directly than other dram. The dark brown sugar have also disappeared, and they never likely to return, owing to methods of boiling and the manufacture Granulated sugar is of the same condition, as far as saccharine qualities concerned, as loaf, cut loaf, cubed crushed and differs from them on that its crystals do not cohere. Therefore it is constantly stirred during the process of crystallization. The lime brown sugars taste sweeter than white, for the reason that there is molasses in them." "Housekeepers have difficulty days in finding coarse, dark sugar which are always preferred for putting up sweet pickles, making jam and similar uses. As they cannot brown sugar any more it may be for them to remember that they simulate brown sugar by adding a spoonful of molasses to each quarta a pound of the white granulated sugar. This combination does as well in household recipes that call for b sugar as the article itself, and be it saves them a great deal of hunting brown sugar, which, as said before disappeared from the market." —Washington Star. This Setter Hunts Fröga. "Talk about your dog stories," a prominent sporting man told me day. "I saw something out at Oak lake which beat anything I ever seen. I was out there hunting sniper saw a man riding around on horseback and in front of him was circling Irish setter. As the fellow did not any gun, my curiosity was aroused know what he was doing, but I posed he was simply breaking his In a few minutes I saw him ride..." In a very few years the vineyards will be destroyed by the phylloxera. In the meantime, there will be less home competition, and by the aid of a 50 cent duty the producer would be enabled to obtain 25 cents for his wines, reduce his mortgage, and rehabilitate his vineyard with phylloxera resistance stocks. He would be stimulated to plant the best varieties, to obtain reputation and get prices for his fine wines that would compensate him for his trouble; whereas, that market now being closed against him, he frequently only cares to plant the coarest grapes to get the greatest quantity, regardless of quality. Thirty cents duty is not sufficient protection. The existing tariff duty is not what it appears to be. The present schedule admits dry wines up to 14 degrees of alcoholic strength at 30 cents per gallon. Natural table wine, as produced by American growers, only shows an average strength of 114 degrees, while reliable statistics on natural dry wines in Europe indicate considerably less. Therefore, a 14 per cent imported dry wine is not a natural product, and may be stretched, by and addition of water in this country, to 114 per cent, and still remain merchantable. Hence proportionate duty on this class of wine is only 25 cents per gallon, and not 30 cents. On alcoholic wines—port, sherry, etc., the specific duty is 50 cents per gallon for wines up to 24 per cent alcoholic strength. The general trade accepts that 19 per cent is a merchantable standard for such fortified wines. Admitting that a 24 per cent imported wine may be thus reduced to 19 per cent, the actual duty on this class of wine is only about 40 cents per gallon, and not 50 cents. The government admits, under these liberal regulations, an amount of alcohol free of duty that in other form would be subject to $1.80 per gallon. (Fifty degrees absolute.) A specific duty on wine, therefore, with a minimum rate, should not be less than the alcoholic contents thereof stipulated as maximum, would have to pay under the schedule of spiritous liquors. Thus a 14 per cent dry wine, or under, would, at the present tariff of $1.80 for spirits, yield 50 cents, and a 24 per cent fortified wine, or under, about 66 cents per gallon, as a specific duty. Our tariff laws might rather favor the importation of natural wines in glass, and should discourage shipments of fortified concoctions used for blending and stretching in this country. If at any time there should be a competition from the eastern fabricator, it will be the duty of the National Wine Growers' Association, in combination with other societies and associations in It was decided to enter upon a wider field of operations and test this experiment further—for it must be borne in mind that as yet it is only an experiment—and accordingly a committee of ladies and gentlemen, under the presidency of Baroness Burdett-Counts, undertook to establish a hospital at 35 St. George's square, S.W. The hospital is small, but if funds were forthcoming a larger house could be secured. The oxygen used is said to be first generated in an iron funnel, and thence it is pumped into india rubber bags, according to the strength required. The part affected is then inclosed in a wooden box with a glass lid and cased round with oilskin. A tube communicates with the box and the bag, and in this way the oxygen is introduced into the box. Other apparatuses are contrived for the back, head and other parts of the body. The first effect is the cessation of pain, and the healing properties are quickly discerned. One case of an ulcer of 40 years' standing had yielded to the treatment in three weeks, another of 18 years in an equally short time, and many others had a similar tale to tell. Not one of the least of the virtues of the oxygen is its deodorizing power. It has also been tried on cases of baldness, with the result that the hair grew rapidly and in a short time was in a normal condition. To what length the curative properties of oxygen may be carried remains to be proved, but it has at least one advantage, that of extreme economy, for, beyond the cost of the oxygen, which it is said, comes to about 2½ pence for 24 hours, there is no expense for dressings or medicines.—British Sanitary Record. Her Idea of Humor. How delightful they are, those people who don't understand a joke, to whom the point in an anecdote is a delusion and a snare! Miss P. is a clever woman and an excellent teacher. But the solid sciences are more in her particular line than anything which savors of the article called fancy. Some years ago one of the children's magazines printed an amusing little jingle about a young lady at an archery party who became so alarmed at the promiscuous flight of the arrows that, in order to be perfectly safe from harm, she seated herself directly in front of the target. Some days ago Miss P. was reading aloud from a bound volume of the magazine to some of her younger pupils. She read this jingle and coughed over it till tears came. "Well, well, well!" said dear Miss P. "How true to life that is! I know hundreds of young people who are just foolish enough to bring their stools and sit down in that very spot."—Philadelphia Press. He Has a Reason. "He really doesn't want to be famous?" "That's what he says." "Do you believe it?" "Well, yes. I know him pretty well, and I know it's a matter of conscience with him." "I don't believe I quite follow you." "Why, he wouldn't like to feel that he was even indirectly responsible for all the lies that are sure to be told about a famous man after his death."—Chicago Post. This Setter Hunts Frögs. "Talk about your dog stories," a prominent sporting man told me day. "I saw something out at O lake which beat anything I ever of. I was out there hunting sniper saw a man riding around on horseback and in front of him was circling Irish setter. As the fellow did not any gun, my curiosity was around know what he was doing, but I posed he was simply breaking his In a few minutes I saw him ride where the dog was on a dead stand the horseman proceeded to jab his was carrying down into the grass and bringing it up, took something the end of it. My curiosity was great than ever, and, circling around, I up with the horseman and asked what he was doing. "Hunting frogs," was the reply. "What is the dog doing?" said "Hunting frogs," was the last answer. "You don't mean to tell me the dog will set the frogs, do you?" "I don't mean anything else." A few more questions and answers are brought out the fact that the dog seen his master hunting around grass for frogs and spearing them had of his own accord taken up the locating the green beauties. He thoroughly trained hunter of and he soon became very expert eating frogs, so his owner informed and my observations of his moves confirmed the statements."—O Bee. This Man Could Split Hairs. Lucius Poole, whose den in S field street, Boston, is famous antiquarians, can do more wonders with a sheet of paper than one else in America—perhaps world. Not only can he do vetallis splice and inlay, but he can split is the most difficult achievement whole art of book patching. Mr. will take a leaf from any of the magazines and slice it three through its entire length and thereby making four sheets install each one, each of just one-quarter thickness of the original. Splitting hard work beside a job like that. One of Mr. Poole's tricks is to imperfect picture from a page and insert one in its stead so defently only the closest scrutiny will do that a fiber has been disturbed. And is to "plant" a photograph on that book so that one cannot tell was not printed there originally. When Mr. Poole is asked to teach he performs his feats, he says: "O just by work partly natural and acquired. It would take a year plain the details."—New York Post. A Gymnastic Pig. A Kentucky pig has suddenly oped a genius for gymnastics as ginereing which eclipse the previous achievements of his race eminent pig was recently placed owner in a pasture surrounded high wall and ornamented by elf festooned with wild grapevines walls, however could not confine bold and vagrant spirit. Select tree standing near the western wall the pasture, he carefully bit loo WASHINGTON, March 25.—According to advices received at the State Department, presumably from General Lee, there will soon follow a big withdrawal of Spanish force from Cuba in order to satisfy the constant demands for additional troops for service in the Philippine Islands, where the present force is said to be inadequate to cope with the insurrectionists. These advices say that General Weyler has been directed to dispatch 10,000 of his best soldiers to Spain, where they will afterwards be transported to the Spanish possessions in the Philippine group. The demand for troops there is said to have been so incessant that the Cortes has been compelled to weaken its Cuban forces in order to meet the demand. There are said to be no troops at home that can be spared for duty abroad, and the army in Cuba is the only source of supply left for it to draw upon. General Weyler, according to reports received here, has protested against the withdrawal of any part of his force, but orders from the home government are believed to be imperative and must be obeyed. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. New Jewelry Store. G. R ber, who formerly lived here, has opened a new jewelry store in the Drewfus building, two doors west of this office, where a first-class stock of jewelry, watches and clocks will be kept on hand. Regarding done, and satisfaction guaranteed. A share of the public patronage is solicited. He Has a Reason. "He really doesn't want to be famous?" "That's what he says." "Do you believe it?" "Well, yes. I know him pretty well, and I know it's a matter of conscience with him." "I don't believe I quite follow you." "Why, he wouldn't like to feel that he was even indirectly responsible for all the lies that are sure to be told about a famous man after his death."—Chicago Post. Hopeful. The dry goods merchant was explaining the situation to the new drummer he had just employed. "Your predecessor," he said, "has gotten his business all tangled up, and if you take his place you will have a difficult task getting order out of chaos." "I don't know who Chaos is," cheerfully replied the drummer, "but I bet I'll sell him a bill of goods if I have to hang on to him a week."—Detroit Free Press. If we were to choose the most appropriate symbol of the fleeting, the evanescent, the perishable, the decaying, the here today and gone tomorrow, perhaps it would be a pair of boy's boots. The pressure of atmosphere on a man's body is nearly 14½ tons. Southern Pacific Local Time Table. Southern Pacific Railroad Time Table.—Trains pass Anaheim as follows: To Los Angeles Lv., From Los Angeles, Daily ... 7:34 am Daily ... 9:45 am Daily ex. Sun 10:58 am Dally ex. Sun 3:24 pm Daily ... 4:25 pm Dally ... 6:01 pm Daily trains connect at Miraflores with train for Tustin, and at Studebaker with Whittier trains. In effect March 2d, 1897. Street cars connect with all trains. LOS ALAMITOS TRAINS Leave for— 9:48 a.m. Sugar Factory Arrive from— 7:32 a.m. 6:03 p.m. 4:25 p.m. E W. McCollum has a full line of '97 Bicycles and Bicycle Supplies. He will sell you any make of Bicycle that you want, from $12 to $100. Wheels to rent. All kinds of repairing done. Thoroughbred Jersey Bull. For sale, of high grade stock and milk and butter strain. Past two months old. May be seen at ranch of L. B. Bescley, Fullerton. Trees For Sale. U L Shaffer, near Orange, has 5 000 nursery soft shell walnut trees, and 10 000 seed-bed orange trees for sale. Address U. L Shaffer, Orange. A Gymnastic Pig. A Kentucky pig has suddenly oped a genius for gymnastics and gineering which collapse the previous achievements of his race eminent pig was recently placed owner in a pasture surrounded high wall and ornamented by elm festooned with wild grapevines walls, however, could not confine bold and vagrant spirit. Select tree standing near the western wall the pasture, he carefully bit lower end of a stout grapevine, was attached by its tendrils to on a tree, and taking this rope in his mouth, swung him the air until he gathered an inch which sent him entirely over the land and landed him in the nextThough often recaptured, he has stantly repeated this extraordinarily and his intelligent owner, instilling down his elm trees to make his pig's wandering propensity cided to educate him for the business.—St. Louis Globe-DemandPrimitive Wales. It is an interesting fact, and showing how little have been the changes wrought in agricultural that a well defined Roman road to this day in the very heart of rindod and, with a few breaks, traced to the outskirts of Magos ple of miles away. Dry stove wood delivered at $6 p.movtf O. R. Luedke has placed an order of the best sets of Optician's Trial market which will be here thirty days. He will then be fully paid to examine your eyes scientifically and write the proper glasses for all fractions. Save your orders for H. L. Talbot cutter, Santa Ana, shop on North street; or write him at Santa Ana. Dr. Coffin, the dentist, in his office Metz block on Monday and Tuesday week. Tree Planting And caring for orchards by the year work guaranteed to give satisfactory reasonable. Apply to George H. Anaheim Before buying your new Carriage Buggy or Harness, call at Jacobson Santa Ana, and you will save money guaranteed. Agents for the Ed Bain wagon. Molasses Going Out. The old fashioned molasses is rapidly appearing as an article of commerce," said a prominent grocer, "and in its haze come a number of sirups, which are more costly and by no means satisfactory, especially to the little who delight, as we did when we young, in having "lasses on their". Most of the molasses goes into distilleries, where it is made into for which, notwithstanding the laws of our temperance workers, the land is constantly on the increase, especially in the New England states for the export trade. The regular order of rum will take no other liquor place if he can help it. It seems much the spot more directly than any dram. The dark brown sugars also disappeared, and they are likely to return, owing to the foods of boiling and the manufacture of molasses. Sugar is of the same composition, as far as saccharine qualities are termed, as loaf, cut loaf, cube and cured and differs from them only in its crystals do not cohere. This cause it is constantly stirred during process of crystallization. The lighter sugar taste sweeter than the darker, for the reason that there is some less in them. Housekeepers have difficulty these in finding coarse, dark sugars, which are always preferred for use in making up sweet pickles, making cakes similar uses. As they cannot get in sugar any more it may be well them to remember that they caninate brown sugar by adding a teaful of molasses to each quarter of the white granulated sugar. Combination does as well in all hold recipes that call for brown sugar as the article itself, and, besides, gives them a great deal of hunting for sugar, which, as said before, has appeared from the market."—Washington Star. This Setter Hunts Frigs. Talk about your dog stories," said prominent sporting man the other "I saw something out at Cutoff which beat anything I ever heard I was out there hunting snipe and a man riding around on horseback in front of him was circling an setter. As the fellow did not have gun, my curiosity was aroused to see what he was doing, but I suphe he was simply breaking his dog few minutes I saw him ride up to NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT. It Was Provided by a St. Louis Man For His Wife's Feminine Friends. A wealthy St. Louisan living in the vicinity of Lafayette park provided a novel form of entertainment for his wife's guests one evening, says the St. Louis Republic. The hostess was extremely anxious to provide something original for the edification of a score of guests whom she intended to call together for an informal evening. Her husband promised to provide such novelty and took a boon companion into his confidence to that end. They had not exchanged ideas 30 consecutive seconds before they hit upon the device of converting the elegant parlors into a gambling house pro tem. A faro bank, a roulette wheel and poker and keno lay outs were easily procurable, as the conferees well knew, and that part of the programme was soon settled. The friend suggested as a pretty epilogue the introduction of a pair of bulldogs, guaranteed to reduce each other to mince meat in three rounds. This rather staggered the ambitions host, but his friend is a ward politician, and with the eloquence he always keeps on draft soon convinced the other that the evening would be a failure without those bulldogs. The evening arrived, and with it came the guests. The ladies were prettily shocked at sight of the gambling paraphernalia, but became accustomed to it in an astonishingly short time and shared in the games with becoming vim. It was when the yellow bulldogs made their unexpected entrance that the horror of the fair guests proved genuine. The beasts yelped and growled and showed other peculiarly canine symptoms of "spoiling for a fight." Thereupon the ladies sought refuge on the piano and card tables and chairs, conducting their retreat as from a mouse. Notwithstanding excited feminine protestations, the friend who had been consulted as to a novelty in entertainment unleashed the dogs. It was an exciting climax to an "original" evening. The dogs feasted for five minutes on choice bits of each other's anatomy. The ladies screamed and the friend who was consulted exulted in the success of his novelty. When he was quite convinced—and it took a considerable time to convince him—that the ladies' desire for gore had been fully gratified, he doused the dogs into a convenient tub of water and separated them. A FIDDLER WANTED. HE WAS FAMED AND AT DANCE MUSIC DID VERY WELL. Fun and Frolic In a Washout on the Oregon Short Line—Millionaires and Immigrants Attend a Dance and Experience a Musical Surprise. On St. Patrick's day, 1894, five through trains, bound both to the eastward and westward of the Oregon Short Line of the Union Pacific, were tied up at Glenns Ferry, Ida. They had been caught between two serious washouts, one at Pocatello and the other at Indian Creek, three days before, and had to wait at Glenns Ferry for track repairs along the line before they could proceed. Glenns Ferry is a bleak little railroad and sheep herders' town of 300 or 400 inhabitants, situate on a sagebrush bluff overlooking the unspeakably dark and dreary Snake river. The five stalled trains carried 600 passengers of as miscellaneous a character as could be gotten together at a carefully selected congress of types. There were emigrants and millionaires; soldiers on the move; dainty women in palace cars and women bound for Creede and Cripple Creek in day coaches; miners who killed time during the wait in shooting magpies circling over the Snake river; Shoshone Indians traveling to the limits of their reservation; well behaved and quiet people, noisy and tumultuous people. But all were stuck alike, and they made the best of it. Lines of social demarcation were for the time erased. All hands mingled easily on the little station platform and in the little station waiting room. The supply of food on the dining cars gave out the first day of the hitch, and everybody was fed, and well fed, too, in the station eating room. They sat down at the tables in relays and patiently awaited their turns. The railroad employees and their wives were to give a dance at the little town hall on St. Patrick's night. The switchman who had been customarily employed to fiddle for them had been switched to another division. In a quandary, the dance committee toured the trains and station to ascertain if any of the stalled passengers happened to be carrying a violin and was capable of producing music on it. In one of the sleeping cars they came across an artistic looking man, with very long hair, a scarific oligomnian countenance and This Setter Hunts Frgs. Talk about your dog stories," said prominent sporting man the other "I saw something out at Cutoff which beat anything I ever heard I was out there hunting snipe and a man riding around on horseback in front of him was circling an setter. As the fellow did not have gun, my curiosity was aroused to what he was doing, but I supplied he was simply breaking his dog few minutes I saw him ride up to see the dog was on a dead stand, and horseman proceeded to jab a pole he carrying down into the ground, bringing it up, took something off end of it. My curiosity was greater ever, and, circling around, I came with the horseman and asked him if he was doing. "Hunting frogs," was the reply. "What is the dog doing?" said L. "Hunting frogs," was the laconic over. You don't mean to tell me that dog will set the frogs, do you? "I don't mean anything else." A few more questions and answers right out the fact that the dog had his master hunting around in the frog for frogs and spearing them and of his own accord taken up the task locating the green beauties. He was thoroughly trained hunter of birds, the soon became very expert in loosing frogs, so his owner informed me, many observations of his movements formed the statements." — Omaha This Man Could Split Hairs. Marius Poole, whose den in Spring-street, Boston, is famous among aquarians, can do more wonderful logs with a sheet of paper than any else in America—perhaps in the old. Not only can he dovetail, skive, ice and inlay, but he can split. That the most difficult achievement in the art of book patching. Mr. Poole take a leaf from any of the current magazines and slice it three times through its entire length and width,eby making four sheets instead of each of just one-quarter the thickness of the original. Splitting hairs is much work beside a job like that. One of Mr. Poole's tricks is to cut an perfect picture from a page and then insert one in its stead so deftly that the closest scrutiny will discover a fiber has been disturbed. Another of "plant" a photograph on the page book so that one cannot tell that it not printed there originally. When Mr. Poole is asked to tell how performs his feats, he says: "Oh, it's by work, partly natural and partly injured. It would take a year to examine the details." — New York Press. A Gymnastic Pig. A Kentucky pig has suddenly developed which eclipse the proudest achievements of his race. This moment pig was recently placed by his owner in a pasture surrounded by a wall and ornamented by elm trees coined with wild grapevines. Theils, however, could not confine his head and vagrant spirit. Selecting a standing near the western wall of pasture, he carefully bit loose the hoof of a grapevine whichano and card tables and chairs, conducting their retreat as from a mouse. Notwithstanding excited feminine protestations, the friend who had been consulted as to a novelty in entertainment unleashed the dogs. It was an exciting climax to an "original" evening. The dogs feasted for five minutes on choice bits of each other's anatomy. The ladies screamed and the friend was consulted exulted in the success of his novelty. When he was quite convinced—and it took a considerable time to convince him—that the ladies' desire for gore had been fully gratified, he doused the dogs into a convenient tub of water and separated them. Animal Kindergartens. It will be noticed that all creatures which have large families, whether beasts or birds, have less trouble in rearing them than those which have only one or two young. Little pigs are weeks ahead of calves in intelligence, and the young partridge, with its dozen brothers and sisters, is far more teachable than the young eagle. There seems no doubt that the latter is taught to fly by its parents. A correspondent informs the writer that he has watched the old birds so engaged and the young eagles reluctantly following them to a height. Specialized education in animals begins late. The beaver kitten's training does not begin until the autumn of the year in which it was born. The old beavers, which have moved up tributary streams into the woods, or roamed to the larger lakes during summer, then return to inspect their dam and repair it for the winter. They then cut down a few trees, and dividing them into logs, roll them or tow them to the dam. The kittens meantime are put on to what in a workshop would be called a "soft job." They cut all the small branches and twigs into lengths and do their share of light transport service. In the mud patting and repairing of the dam the beaver kittens take their share, but there is little doubt that they do so because their elders are so engaged. It is a kindergarten of the best kind, because mud patting and stick cutting are a great joy and solace to old beavers as well as young ones, and so instruction, pleasure and business are all combined. Young otters, and probably also young water rats, have to be taught to go into the water. According to the observations of Mr. Hart, the late head keeper at the zoo, the young otters born there did not enter the water for weeks, and even then their mother had to "mind" them and fetch them out when she thought they had had enough of it. They swim naturally when once in the water, and this seems true of all animals. — London Spectator. Chivalrous Mr. Fields. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in her book, "Chapters From a Life," pays the following tribute to James T. Fields: "Mr. Fields was a man of marked chivalry of nature, and, at a time when it was not fashionable to help the movements for the elevation of women, his sympathy was distinct, fearless and faithful. In a few instances, we knew, and he knew, that this fact deprived him of the possession of certain public honors which would otherwise have been offered to him. He advocated the political advancement of our sex, coeducation and kindred movements without any of that apologetic murmur so common among the half-hearted or timid." The railroad employees and their wives were to give a dance at the little town hall on St. Patrick's night. The switchman who had been customarily employed to fiddle for them had been switched to another division. In a quandary, the dance committee toured the trains and station to ascertain if any of the stalled passengers happened to be carrying a violin and was capable of producing music on it. In one of the sleeping cars they came across an artistic looking man, with very long hair, a seraphic, oleaginous countenance and exceedingly baggy clothes. They were looking for a fiddler, they said. Did he know of any on the train? Well, he didn't know (in outrageously bad English); he played a little himself once in awhile, and had rather a fair fiddle with him. The long haired man accented the "fiddle" rather curiously. But the railroad men were overjoyed. Would he play for them to dance with their wives and sweethearts? Certainly! Did he know dance music? Well, some. All of the stalled passengers were invited to the dance, and they all went. A good many of them could not get in. The baggily clothed fiddler turned up in good time. The pianist was waiting for him. So was the railroad dance committee, one of the members of which slipped $3 in one dollar bills into the fiddler's hand as payment in advance for the evening's work. It was smilingly accepted. The dance began. The fireman's wife, who played the piano, produced an old bethammed violin and piano tune book and turned to the lancers. She told the fiddler, at the end of the first dance, that he did pretty well, only he went too fast. Then there was a waltz. The fiddler was informed by his accompanist that he was getting along finely, and everybody in the room began to prick up his ears at the sweetness of the violin music, although the dances were common enough and tawdry enough. Another waltz—the "Beautiful Blue Danube." All of the dancers on the floor stopped dead at the first bar, and the travelers with cultivated musical ears moved close to the piano. The pianist ceased. She wished to listen. The violin music was miraculous. The player swayed from side to side as he phrased. He appeared to be oblivious of his surroundings. He improvised variations of inspiring tenderness. He out-Strauss-ed Strauss. His violin sang, throbbed with passion. When the last note died away, people in the hall appeared to be in a dream—all but one. "M. Ysaye," said Charley Fair, the son of the late United States Senator Fair, stopping from the throng," won't you play that lively, rattling thing you gave us at the Bohemian club in San Francisco other night? It's been running in my head ever since." M. Ysaye played Berlioz's "Pizzicato" as he perhaps never played it before—Washington Star. The Du Maurier Woman. In an article which late Mr. Du Maurier wrote some years ago for The Magazine of Art apropos of the typical "pretty woman" of his drawings, occursthe following quaint and characteristic passage: "I do hope the reader does not dislike her—that is, if he knows her—I am so fond of her myself, or rather A Gymnastic Pig. A Kentucky pig has suddenly developed a genius for gymnastics and enlightening which eclipse the proudest previous achievements of his race. This moment pig was recently placed by his owner in a pasture surrounded by a well wall and ornamented by elm trees decorated with wild grapevines. The animals, however, could not confine his mind and vagrant spirit. Selecting a standing near the western wall of the pasture, he carefully bit loose the end of a stout grapevine, which was attached by its tendrils to a limb tree, and, taking this improvised fence in his mouth, swung himself in the air until he gathered an impetus which sent him entirely over the wall and landed him in the next field. Though often recaptured, he has constantly repeated this extraordinary feat, and his intelligent owner, instead of sitting down his elm trees to restrain pig's wandering propensity, has decided to educate him for the trapeze business. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Primitive Wales. It is an interesting fact, and one showing how little have been the surface ranges wrought in agricultural Wales, at a well defined Roman road exists this day in the very heart of Llandudno and, with a few breaks, can be reached to the outskirts of Magos, a county of miles away. Early stove wood delivered at $6 per cord of C. Otto Rust. R. Luedke has placed an order for one of the best sets of Optician's Trial Cases in the market which will be here in about fifty days. He will then be fully prepared examine your eyes scientifically and prepare the proper glasses for all errors of motion. Save your orders for H. L. Talbot, marble cutter; Santa Ana, shop on North Main Street; or write him at Santa Ana. It Dr. Coffin, the dentist, in his office in the 12 block on Monday and Tuesday of each week. Tree Planting And caring for orchards by the year. All work guaranteed to give satisfaction. Terms reasonable. Apply to George H. Dunn, m11-lm. Before buying your new Carriage, your urgency or Harness, call at Jacobson Bros. Santa Ana, and you will save money. All work guaranteed. Agents for the celebration Bain wagon. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in her book, "Chapters From a Life," pays the following tribute to James T. Fields: Mr. Fields was a man of marked chivalry of nature, and, at a time when it was not fashionable to help the movements for the elevation of women, his sympathy was distinct, fearless and faithful. In a few instances, we knew, and he knew, that this fact deprived him of the possession of certain public honors which would otherwise have been offered to him. He advocated the political advancement of our sex, coeducation and kindred movements without any of that apologetic murmur so common among the half hearted or the timid. His fastidious and cultivated literary taste was sensitive to the position of women in letters. He was incapable of that literary snobbishness which undervalues a woman's work because it is a woman's. A certain publishing enterprise which threatened to treat of eminent men came to his notice. He quickly said: 'The time has gone by for that! Men and women! Men and women!' Growth of English. The growth of the English language during the present century has been without parallel in the history of any tongue. The commercial associations of the English and American people with all the nations of the earth have brought contributions from every clime to enrich our mother tongue, and the result is that there are words in common use in the English language from every known language on the face of the earth. Chesapeake Bay. Few people fully appreciate the great size of the Chesapeake bay. It is the largest indentation on the Atlantic coast, and it has often been called the Mediterranean of America. On its bosom the navies of the world could easily float. It is 200 miles long, and in some places it is 40 miles broad. It has an area of over 2,000 square miles, and it shoots off into great rivers with an aggregate length of thousands of miles.—Baltimore American. Dime Museum Fun. "Oh, that I could find the key to your obdurate heart!" sighed the living skeleton, gazing fondly at the fat lady. "I'll tell you right now that it ain't no skeleton key," said the fat lady in scorn, and the two headed girl performed a laughing duet in minor.—Indianapolis Journal. Many plants close their petals during rain or at the approach of night. Some never reopen, while others expand on the following morning or after the shower has passed and remain in bloom for several days. The Du Maurier Woman. In an article which the late Mr. Du Maurier wrote some years ago for The Magazine of Art apropos of the typical "pretty woman" of his drawings, occurs the following quaint and characteristic passage: "I do hope the reader does not dislike her—that is, if he knows her—I am so fond of her myself, or rather so fond of what I want her to be. She is my piece de resistance, and I have often heard her commended, and the praise of her has sounded sweet in mine ears and gone straight to my heart, for she has become to me as a daughter. She is rather tall, I admit, and a trifle stiff—but English women are tall and stiff just now—and she is rather too serious, but that is only because I find it so difficult with a mere stroke in black ink to indicate the enchanting little curved lines that go from the nose to the mouth corners, causing the cheeks to make a smile." THE DREADED CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURE. T.A.Slocum, M.C.,the Great Chem'ist and Scientist,'Will Send,Free,Three Bottles of His Newly Discovered Remedies to Sufferers. EDITOR GAZETTE —I have discovered a reliable cure for Consumption and all Bronchial, Throat and Lung Diseases, General Decline, Loss of Fleash and all Conditions of Wasting Away. By its timely use thousands of apparently hopeless cases have been cured. 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Calmar, we take this means of informing our friends and the public generally that we shall completely renovate the premises and continue the business at the old stand. Our table will be supplied with the best the market affords, and our rates will be the lowest. Our specialty is Short Order and OYSTERS IN EVERY STYLE. Meals served at all hours, from A.a.m. to 12 p.m. feb11-1m N. HART'S PLACE. DEALER IN.... FINE LIQUORS! AND... Choice Wines FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES, Fine Domestic and Imported Cigars. Hart's Building, Center St., Anaheim, Cal. ANAHEIM BREWERY! F. CONRAD, Proprietor. Lager Beer furnished by the Bottle or 5 or 10-gallon keg. ICE FOR SALE. 1 Cent Per Pound. T. J. F. BOEGE. Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Choice Wines, Liquors & Cigars Keeps always on hand a complete stock of the Finest Wines and Liquors. By the Keg, Oallon or Bottle. Orders by mail promptly attended to. Goods delivered free of charge. OPPOSITE S. P. DEPOT. ANAHEIM - CAL. 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The Agricultural Chemical Works, 901-907 Macy St., Los Angeles. THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT. IN TOWNIn Connection with the Boston Bakery. STEPHEN KISTLER, PROPRIETOR The finest stock of candies in town. Also a Soda Fountain and will serve ice cream soda. Wedding cakes, etc., a specialty. Clearance Sale Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Choice Wines, Liquors & Cigars Keeps always on hand a complete stock of the Finest Wines and Liquors. By the Keg, Oallon or Bottle. Orders by mail promptly attended to. Goods delivered free of charge. OPPOSITE S. P. DEPOT. ANAHEIM J.M.Griffith Company A CORPORATION LUMBER DEALERS Neer Railroad Depot, Anaheim, keep constantly on hand Doors, Blinds, Windows, Mountings, Posts, Shakes, Shingles, Lath, Half, Plaster of Paris. ANAHEIM GRIST MILLS OPERATING ON Wednesdays and Saturdays of each week Grain, Feed, Meal, Ete. of all varieties. Ocrn shelled and shipped. H. P. LARSEN. CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. Estimates given. 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Notice is hereby given by the undersigned executor of the Last Will and Testament of Arnold Staub, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers, within four months after the first publication of this notice, to the said executor, at the office of Richard Melrose, Center street, Anaheim, California, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate in the county of Orange. Dated this 6th day of February, A.D. 1897. C. O. RUST, Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Arnold Staub, deceased. Richard Metrose, Attorney for Executor. feb11-31 FRITZ RUHMANN'S Germania Halle. BACKS' NEW BUILDING LOS ANGELES STREET. KEeps constantly on hand a large and complete stock of fresh liquors, wines and Cigars. Cold beer always on draught. FRED MAURER DEALER IN... Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars Call In and See Me. Opp. S. P. depot. - - Anaheim White-wine Vinegar FOR SALE. 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