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Treatment Of Babies.

"A baby is very tender thing, peo-
pie say, but most o. them are far from
knowing how tender Imagine how
nervous You are in certain states when
recovering from illness, say, when the
fall Of book or the slam Of a door
makes you quiver and feel faint, as if
some one gave you d blow. That is
the way young baby feels at its best.
A puff Of wind win set it gasping, its
little breath blown quite away. A
noise makes it SILVER, change o i sum
mer air makes it death cold. A baby
is the most nervous Of beings, and the
fortunes it snfGers ia going to sleep and
being awakened By careless sounds
when. inst dropping Off are only
comparable to the experience Of an old
er person during an acute nervous
headache. Young babies ought to pass
the first months Of their lives in the
country. for IFS stiffness no less than its
fresh air. But whore silence is not to
be commanded, baby may be soothed
by folding soft napkin, wet in warm
ish water, lightly over the top Of its
head, its eyes and ears. 1t il thesbest
way to put nervous babies TO sleep. /
have tried it numbers Of times for
child 80 irritable that paragoric and
soothing syrup only made It more wide
awake. A fine towel would be wet and
laid over its head, the ends twisted
little tin II made kind Of skull cap,
and though baby sometimes fought |
against being blindfolded in this way, |
five minutes usually sent him off into
peaceful and blissful slumber. The
compress cooled che little foyerisla brain, |
deadened sound in bis ears. and shut
out everything chat took his attention,
50 that sleep took him unaware. Teeth
ing babies find this very comforting,
for their heads are always hot, and |
there Is fever beating in the arteries on
each side.
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THE HANDSOME, SWIFT
running
PRoPELIER RAMOS

win run regularly semi weekly from Iaka
Charles to Leesburg tCaleasieu pass) CARVING
the Urited States Mail. All down and uS
trips BY daylight. Accommodations for eiebs
passengers. Excellent inducements to hunting
and fishing pprtiee.
Fare for round trip tdown and up), $751; douD
or up only, So,
Leaves Lake Charles Mondays ana Tburs.
doyg at Q a. MI arrives at IeesbuFg same days
Leaves Leesburg Wednesdays and Saturday,
at Is Aim arrives at Lake Charles same DAYS
Schedule running time between bofh places
twelve bours; actual running time, murh B@.
THOS. q. BEYNOLDs. Master.
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"A colored preacher remarked. When
G0d made the fnat man He sei him up
agin de fence @ dry taWh0 noado az
fence q interrupted az eager listener.
Pnt dat man ont II exclaimed tha coll
cred preacher; @uch questions IA ant
oud destroy all de theology "a de
world
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"a lawyer once asked hotel keeper
Tie following question. 9If men
gives gou hundrad pounds to keep for
hims and dies, what De you do Do
son prav for him RI mo, air. replied
the landlord, III pray ior another just
liko him
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-02-11
Who Wrote Shakespeare.

Hamlet overheard Julius Caesar tell
King Lear, on the Twelfth Night after
the Tempest, that Antony and Cleopa-
ira had told Coriolanas that Two Gem
tlemen of Verona were the authors of
Shakespeare's plays. Lear said "You
may take it AS You Like 1t, but don't
believe it-for / heard Romeo and
Juliet say Loves Labor was Lost when
Trolius and Cressida stole the Comedy
of Errors and sold it to the Merchant of
Venice for forty bottles of old Bourbon
aud a package ofpoker checks. Timon
of Athens and Cymbeline were parties
to the theft; and, after drinking Measure
with the Merry Wives of Windsor, told
King John all about it," Richard III
a competent critic" said Bacon
couldn't write even Winters Tale,
and Henry VIII says that settles it. So,
why make so Much Ado About Moth
ing Otheilo was busy dealing FIVE
cent game Of faro to the w, V and VI
Henrys; and the only remark made by
them was an occasional s'tsrindle, don't
turn! hold on" and few other forcible
remarks of a cursory nature; and, as
Richard II was absent, Tanning the
Shrew, could get no further evidence
as to who wrote Shakespeare. But
Ais Well that Ends Well, Don't it.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-02-11
seuTHDoWN SHEEP.

The value Of the Southdown sheep
in America for the purpose of crossing
upon and improving our common sheep
is probably greater than for the pur-
pose of perpetuating the pure race
There are few focks of Southdowns
that are kept up to high standard
without renewed iinportations, but
there are many cases in which our
common sheep have been materially
improved by admixture with this blood.
Again, the Southdown is the basis
from which in England several cross
bred races of sheep have originally
sprung, and these races have been since
interbred, until q constant type has
prevailed, and permanent breed been
secured. Such is the erigion of the
Shropshire sheep, which is one of the
most hardy and profitable races in
England. The Hampshire and OK
ford Downs are also indebted to the
Southdowns for some of their good
qualities, and in fact it is as an im>
proven of other races, rather that as a
distinct race, that the Southdown
excels in this country. We need to
establish American breeds of sheep,
and to stop importing with view to
maintain the standard of the English
breeds. We need to do with other
sheep, what has been done with the
Merinos, establish an American race
that suits our climate and other circum,
stances better than any foreign race
can. To do this for mutton sheep, snd
for certain medium class of clothing
wool, the Southdown breed furnishes
an admirable groundwork, --Amsrican
AgricuAsrist.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-02-11
Protective Power Of Clothes.

Clothes protect the body, not by
keeping out the cold, but by keeping
heat in, or more correctly, by allowing
through their interstices such yentils-
ton that the nervous system my not be
sensible to extremes in changes of
temperature. If the first mentioned
effect where produced by garments,
then the material which is the most
impervious to air would be the warmest.
A kid glove, for example, lwould keep
the hands more comfortable than thick
wooden mittens. just the reverse, as is
we'll known in the case.
DR.. Pettenkofer states that equal
surfaces Of various materials are per
meated by air as follows, flannel being
taken as 100; Linen of medium fneness
5s, silk 40, buckskin So, tanned leather
!, channels feather 81,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-02-11
SHENANDOAH
HERALD
ADVERTISING RATES
GREAT YIELD OF MANaoIDs,

In the Agriculturist for April, 1878.
page 139, I gave an account of my WIS.,
it to the Earl of EWarrick's Sewage
Farm, near bennington. to which it
may be i'll teresting TO the reader TO re-
fer. In recent number of the ''Agri-
cultural Gazette" there is an account OF
the mangold crop Of this year. 1t &C.
cppied. twenty acres, partly Orange
Globe, and partly intermediate Globe
The crop was probably larger than has
ever before been grown. One acre was
measured, and the produce carefully
weighed, amounting to so tons each,
(about s675 bushels) The feld had
been in Italian rye grass in 1871 and
1872, and wheat in 1878. During the
past four years it has received no other
manure than the sewage, applied as de-
scribed in previous article. The rows
were twenty-tour inches apart, the
plants being thinned out to twelve in
ches. The Gazette says: 'sThe roots
are of very large size, and tons and tons
of them could be selected, which should
not exceed 100 roots per ton.
This crop indicates, as well as any,
thing can, the advantage ofthoroughly
high farming and good MATURING. with
the added improvement of irrigation.
Up our climate it would perhaps rarely
be practicable, to make profitable use
of town sewage for agricultural purpos-
es; but it is practicable to give thorough
cultivation, to manure heavily, and in
very many eases there are are facilities
for irrigation which are NEGLECTED, to the
great detrment of our crops. 1t may,
perhaps. not be possible, in many cases,
to achieve such remarkable success as
here described, but the fact that such a
growth of mangolds is possible, should
stimulate our dairy>farmers to the pro-
duction of very much larger crops, than
have thus far been known this side of
the neutrality-suspicious..
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-02-11

UxGRArEFuL.-This is what happen
ed the other night when it rained so,
and just before this last snow. Our in
formant thought it was too good to keep
but his heart wasn't too full for utter.
auce, and he told US all about it. 1t
runs something like this: Sitting chat
ting with Amanda Jane, his sweetheart,
they did not notice the fight of time
till three o'clock in the morning, when
he arose and proposed to walk home,
two miles distant. The rain was falling
fast, and that he might not get wet,
Amanda prevailed ON her lover TO re :
main and sleep with her brother, a sym
pathetic cherub OF three years, in the
morning, as he was departing, he reach
ed out his hand full length for fares
well grasp, and in a subdued voice he
said: amanda, darling, l thank you
for your hospitality. but / would have
been dryer to have gone home in the
rain.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-02-11
MEN WE DON'T WANT 70 MEET.

The man who grunts and gasps as he
gobbles up his soup, and at every other
mouthful seems threatened with chok-
ing ft.
The man who, having by an acct,
dent been thrown once in your COM
pany, makes bold to bawl your name
out, and to shake your hand profusely
when you pass him in the street.
The man who artfully provokes you
to play game of billiards with him
and though he fsigns to be novice,
produces his OWE chalk.
The man vino can't sit at your table
on any get occasion without getting
on his legs to propose some stupid
toast.
The man who, thinking you are
musical, bores you with his notions on
the music of the future, of which you
know as little as the music of the
spheres.
The man who wears a white hat in
winter, and smokes pipe when walk
ing, and accosts you as sold fellow
just as you are hoping to make . good
impression on some well-dressed lady
friends.
The man who, knowing that your
doctor faces him at table, turns the
talk so as to set him talking doctors
shop.
The man who, with look of urgent
business, when you are in a hurry,
takes you by the button hole to tell you
a bad joke.
The man who, sitting just behind
You at the opera, destroys half your
enjoyment b. humming all the airs.
The man who makes remarks On
your personal adornment, asks you
where you buy your waist coats,
and what you paid for your dress :
boots.
The man who lards his talk with
little scraps of French and German
sfter his return from a Continental
tour.
The man who spoils your pleasure in
seeing a new play by applauding
in wrong places, and muttering in
stage whispers his comments on the
plot.
And to finish with, the man, who,
when you draw back slightly to appre-
ciate picture, cody comes and stands
in front of you, and then receding, also
treads upon your toes.-Pumch.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-02-11
Good News for those who Sailsthe!seas.

A new invention is likely to be of
great importance to all who have to
brave the dangers of the sea. This is
the American swimming apparatus Of
Mr.. Merriman, which has been quite re-
Gently exhibited on this side the ATTAIN
tic by Captain Paul Boyton. 1t is very
simple in construction, being nothing
more than a well planned dress, made
in two parts, which are united at the
waist. The material of which it is man
ufactured is chiefly india-rubber. The
dress consists of an inner and outer
skin; the space between these two skins
is divided into several chambers, and
into these chambers air is introduced
by means of tubes. The all, of course,
gives bouyancy to the dress; and when
the wearer has donned it, and inflated
the chambers, he will be able to SUPP
port in the water weight of 800 lbs.
in addition to his own weight.
The means If propulsion to be en-
ployed by the wearer is a double paddle
of wood, and should the wind be favor
able, he may take advantage of it by
using the paddle as mast for a small
sail. 1t should be noticed also that he
can assume either an erect or horizons
tai position, just as he pleases. When
erect the water line will be his waist
belt, so that he will have clear out.
look over the sea.
But this is not all. Some one pos
sessed of it might tind himself cast a.
drift-ship wrecked, let us say-many
days sail from land. In anticipation
of such misfortune, the swimming ap
paratus includes water tight bag to
be towed along by the means of a long
line. This bag is large enough to hold
a ten days supply Of provisions, small
bulls eye lamp, number of signal
lights, long sheath=knife, and an axe
which last named articles might serve
to protect oneself with, against any ins
quisitive or ferocious sea monsters.
Altogether, the costume and its ac-
compartments appear very perfect in
their way. We would not like to be
shipwrecked anywhere, and least of all
to find ourselves struggling in the stor
my ocean on dark night, and very far
from the nearest shore; but if the worst
must come, we hope we may have been
able to rig ourselves out in Mr.. Merri-
mans new dress, to fill our bag with
wholesome provisions, to secure our
paddle, and to light our lamp.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-02-11
THE RoYAL SCANDAL ABOUT GEO. ".

The New York Graphic, following
up its article in relation the mysterious
book (reported by telegraph to have
discovered in Louisville, Ky.), for
which reward of $1,000 is offered
and which is said to contain an account
of the marriage of George ". to Mrs
Fitzherbert, and of the issue Of that
marriage, says:
Maria Fitzherbert was born in July,
1856, of an old Catholic family of
Hampshire, and was married success
lively to Edward Weld Of Dorset and
Thomas Fitzherbert of Stafford, being
left widow second time in 178t.-
Four years afterwards George w., then
Prince of Wales, and "the first gentle
man of Europe" first saw her, and in
December, 1875, they were privately
married by a clergyman of the Estab
lished Church in the presence Of wit
nesses. This union was not legally
valid for the English law prohibits a
marriage between subject and a
prince of the royal blood. The King
subsequently married Queen Caroline,
quarreled with her, and returned to
Mrs. Fitzherbert. His excuses COM
PEELED her to leave him, and she retired
to Brighton, where she outlived both
George ". and his successor, receiving
a large pension from the government
Such is the account given Of her in
ssThe American Cyclop@dia" and in
her eMemoirs," by the Hon. Charles
Langdale, (London, 1860 and the
continuation of part of the mothers
pension to the son is proof that the
present government recognizes the
validity of his claims as at least son
by morganasic marriage.
The case then stands thus: The
marriage, though not legally valid, is
we'll known to have been celebrated;
the marriage has never been legally
established, but should it now be legally
established no harm could come from
it. II follows that the lest book con-
tains something more than has conn
monty been supposed and something
that If generally known would work
very serious injury to somebody some
family OIL some interest that can afford
to pay largely for its suppression
Taken in connection with the suppress
ion Of part of the "Greville Memoirs"
at this time, with the publisher of the
lost book and the general suspicion, it
seems very evident that the royal
family and interests have important
matters here at stake.
A story having been published in
New York that the son of George ".
and Mrs. Fitzherbert had turned up
in that city in the person of Thomas
Baker, the composer, and leader of the
orchestra at Walack's Theatre, a re-
porter called on that gentleman and he
disavowed the distinction in the follow
ing language: "No, l am not the son
of George ", bat am one of the last
of the Hamiltons. 1t is owing to my
descent from the Duke OF Hamilton
that l obtained start in my profession
Il was placed in the Royal Academy
and subsequent considerations from
the British government. The Princess
Augusta, aunt Of the Queen, was my
foster mother. was brought up about
the cour. l have case in chancery
now, and am going over next summer
to see about it, But l hope people
won't thing l am going over to lay
claim to the succession. l am not the
son of George w."
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-02-11

DoN'r ScoLD.-For the sake of your
children don't do it. 1t is great mis-
fortune to have children reared in the
presence and under the influence of a
scold. The effect of the everlasting
complaing and fault-6nding of such
persons is to make the young who hear
it, unamiable, malicious, callous heart
ed, and they often learn to take pleas
ure in doing the very things for which
they receive ouch tongue lashings, As
they are always getting the blame of
wrong-doing, whether they do it or not
they think they might as well do wrong
as right. They lose all ambition to
strive for the favorable opinion of the
fault. finder, since they see they always
strive in vain. Thus a scold is not only
. naisance, but destroyer of the NOR
ais Of children. If these unsolved,
dreaded people could only see them
selves a. others see them, they would
fee to the mountains in very shame.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-02-11
BOW OYSTERS ARE BORN.

Our bivalve however, does not spawn
after the manner of moilusks generally.
1t is, in its own way, viyaparous. 1t
does not emit eggs; but, at the proper
time, sends forth its young alive. Tho
eggs are dislodged from the ovaries
and committed to the nursing care Of
the gill and mantle. At first each egg
seems to be inclosed in capsule. 1t
is of a yellowish color, but as incuba-
ton or development progresses, the
color changes. first TO gray, then to
brown, afterward to violet. This is
a sign that the time of eviction is at
hand for Nature now issues her writ
to that effect. And wonderful little
beings they are when the writ arrives
to yaqate the homestead, for whole
troops Of them can 60 gracefully. and
without jostling through the maziest
evolutions in that tiniest sphere-a
drop of water As cited by +. w.
Fellowes, in the American Naturalist,
says NJ. Davaine: Nothing is more
curious than 10 see, under the micro.
scope, these little mollusks travel in a
drop of water, in vast numbers, mu-
tually avoiding one another. crossing
each others track in every direction,
with wonderful rapidity, never touch-
ing and never meeting" The parent
oyster has, indeed, prodigiops family
to turn out upon the world. But when
this time does come, though winter be
near, her actions are summary, and the
wee BARNS are every one ordered from
home. They are spit forth, or elected
from the shell. Filled with water, the
valves are suddenly snapped together.
Every snap emits small whltish cloud.
Though little of the milky fluid be in
it, this whitish cloud is composed chief
ly of the tiny fry; for, individually,
they are almost invisible. Indeed,
who shall count the oysters offspring?
Science, by her own methods, has made
the computation and so she gives us
the astounding assurance that single
o, ster, during one spawning season,
ernits two million embryos!