Los Angeles Herald, Volume 39, Number 86, 5 January 1893 — LA CRESCENTA. [ARTICLE]

LA CRESCENTA.

A Typical Southern California New Year's Dinner. La Crescenta, Jan. 4. —The new year waa most auspiciously begun by a wedding ceremony performed on New Year's day at the residence of Prof. W. C. White, by the professor himself, who is also a minister —the high contracting parties being Mrs. Bailey of Loa Angeles and Mr. L. J. Adams of the same place. Mr. Adams has recently bought a place in La Crescenta, where he intends to make his future home. Mrs. Adams is a friend of Mra. E. Dunham. One of the most enjoyable dinners ever partaken of in this place was given by Mr. and Mrs. Ignace Scherb on New Year's day to a number of invited guests, who gathered about their hospitable board to a most elaborate and appetizing spread. Mr. and Mrs. Scherb are an inimitable host and hostess, as all who have ever enjoyed their hospitality will agree, and this was no exception to the general rule, but instead was a crowning event. The afternoon was spent in pleasant intercourse and music, part of the time out of doors—all wearing boutonniers of English violets. It was tbe most perfect day imaginable, the thermometer standing at summer heat, and with the doors and windows open, it waa impossible to believe it winter. Mr. Sam Merrill, jr, of Stanford University, made Mr. and Mrs. H. C. White. a short visit during Christmas week, leaving on Saturday last. He starts for India on the 4th of January to join his father and mother in Calcutta. Mr. Victor Scherb of Los Angeles spent New Year's with his uncle, Mr. Ignace Scherb. Mra. Woodard of Woodland, Cal., ia a gueat of her sister, Mrs. Eugene Gould, at The Castle. Misß Hadaesah Thomas has returned from her holiday vacation spent at her home in Los Angeles, to tbe stern realities of life, re-opening her school on Tuesday. Mrs. Treat is intending to erect a house at once upon her 10-acre place above the hotel. The fine large reservoir just abovo the town site, which Dr. Briggs has had constructed, is now nearing completion, the etone work is all done and the interior is now being cemented ; it is 40x50 feet Equare and 12 feet deep. It ia intended to store what water now goes to waste from overflow at tbe standpipe. Miles' Nerve and Liver Fills. Act on a new principle—regulating the liver, stomach and bowels through the nerves. A new discovery. Dr. Miles' pills speedily cure bi lousness, bad taste, torpid liver, piles, constipation. Unequaled for men, women and children. Smallest, mildest, surestl 50 doses 25 rents Bamp.es free, C, H. Hance, 177 North Spring

500 canary birds and cagea tor Christmas presents, at No. 124 West Fourth street.

A Sand Tree of Prussia. We are accustomed to regard sand as utterly barren, Liv t ha plants native tothe coast sands of Prussia, have been enumerated by naturalist*, whose estimates vary from ITI U> iSil varieties. Of these one of the most available is the Arundo armaria (marram), which thrives only In sand and in the salt air of the bearfi. This in time serves to prepare the soil for larger plants. —Popular Sfif-iK-,. Monthly. The Kaiiihovv as a Siphon, lv ninny coin,tries I he rainbow is spoken of us being a f-'reat bent pump or siphon tube, dfiawing water front tlie earlh by ruechairlcal means. In parts of Russia, iv the Don country, anil also in Moscow anil vicinity, it is known by a name which is equivalent to "the bent water pipe." — Pittsburg Dispatch. Cordiality and simplicity are more apt to win regard than istentation. It is true that one cannot expect friendship ail nt once; it'lias a beginning tmd a growth. But the growth is stronger and more natural when the beginning is 'mafia with liltle formality. Knrly in the war General Joseph E. Hooker got the sobWquct "Fighting Joe," which lie hated heartily, . 1 the man who was spoiling for a "scrap ' lould earn it easily by alluding to the doughty general's title in his presence. In 1364 a London priest preached against the fashion of trains, which, he said, "trailing behind a woman raise a dust as high as the altar/ In early firearms guns were made by hand ami with great care from one strip bent, round a mandril and edges welded. San Miguel church, erected at Saute Fe, N. M . in la stated to be ihe oldest church in t ii ia count ry.