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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06

A contrivance made by James S.
Savage, of Boston, is an invention de.
signed to render bal,ot-stufing impossi.
bic, and is known as the Patent Ballot
Box" The box is a very simple one,
and works rs follows; The ballot is put
in at the top, through n small slit, and
then passes between two rollers, on tho
largest of which is u canceling stamp.
After tho ballot is Cancelled it falls into
the bottom of the box, the receptacle OF
the ballots. The ballot is drawn be.
tween the rcllers by the turning oil q
crank, and when tits turned a bell rings
10 call attention to the fact that the box
Is in operation. A register is attached,
which shows correctly the number Of
ballots that have passed into the box
The ballots can be removed from the
box at any time while voting is in pro-
gress and be counted; but when any are
taken out the canceling stamp is
changed, so that every lot removed from
the box will bear a different stamp. II
two or more ballots are put in at once
only one is cancelled, and the register
will indicate that only one ballot has
been cast. The number Of votes cast
must agree with the number indicated
by the register, and if they do not agree
IL shows that fraudulent votes have
been cast.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06
About Parrots.

Parrots arc so very disagreeable to
most people who count themselves well
regulated that these probably have no
idea how many Of the squawking birds
are imported into the country Tor sale.
Thousands are disposed Of annually, and
the demand is said TO be growing. in
The large cities like New York, Phila-
delphia, Baltimore and New Orleans
they find a ready market, and also in
many of the minor towns. They are far
greater favorites with foreigners, as a
rule, than they are with Americans.
The best, or least bad, parrots are
brought hitler from the Windward or
Southern Caribbee Islands. They are
larger, harder and more intelligent than
those from any other district in this
hemisphere, and stand very well COM
mercially. They build their nests in
the royal palmetto tree, finding or dig
cling a hole there after the manner Of the
woodpeoker, and so ensconcing them
selves that II is necessary often ~ cut the
tree down in orderto capture the young.
These are put into cages, fed on pal
niche, guave and banana for n few
months, when they will eat anything
The breeding time is May; there are
rarely more than three TO the nest, and
they reach their full growth in eight
months. Almost any parrot can learn
to talk when young if placed where ii
can hear talking, for its power of imitl-
ton is instructive. 1t seldom forgets
what it has once been taught, a pecu.
liarity which makes a parrot that has
been instructed in profanity a very un.
desirable companion for a pious family.
Indeed, its love of the improper and in
terdicted seems to be so inbred that some
people have thought it endowed with
human attributes. One Of IFS traits is
its monogamousness. said TO be found in
ali of the three hundred or more varie.
ties, which renders it anything but a
iavOrite in Utah. The parrot is indigo
nous to warm parts of America, Asia,
Africa and Australia. The only clearly
ascertained species within the boun
daries of the republic is the Carolina
parrot. A good talker of any sort is
commonly quoted here at five dollars.
retail rate. The gray parrot, native tc
West Africa, is most remarkable fol
d~ocility and power OF articulation. Ii
breeds readily in captivity, and will live
to seventy and eighty years of age.
Many marvellous stories are told of its
loquacity, which always ZONES from
repetition of words and sentences pre-.
v%iously acquired. The notion that the
parrot ever supplies any new words, Of
has any understanding of them, is, OF
course, absurd. Large sums have been
paid for gifted takers of this variety
but why any body will part with money
except to get rid of a parrot, is not cleai
10 the normal mind.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06
A Coming Comet.

The astronomer royal of England in
forms the Washington astronomers
that a comet has been seen from the OBJ
servatory at Cape Town, South Africa.
The question naturally arises whether
this is the great comet whose appear
ance was announced by DR.. Gould of the
Cordoba observatory in South America.
The fact that Cordoba and Cape Town
are both in the southern hemisphere,
and in nearly the same latitude, is an
argument in favor of that suppositio1;
but, ON the other hand, there seems to
be an irreconcilable variance in the ac-
count ofthe comets motions. DR.. Gould
described his comet as moving north
ward, while Gill, the South African OBJ
server, reports that the comet lie sees is
moving southwark. Neither of these
comets, If there be two, has yet been
seen from any American observatory.
We are yet ignorant whether the COM
ing comet is merely telescope, like hat
of last year, or one Of Those stupendous
naked-eye fellows that in the ages OF
superstition were dreaded as portending
great wars. The belief in the bellicose
significance of comets is not yet ex-
tinguished. Probably the majority Oh
~uneducated persons regarded the comet
of 1911 as a forerunner of the wal OF
1912 in this country, and of the three
tremendous closing struggles by which
Europe finally shook off the grip OF
Napoleon. The great comet of IS43 was
near enough to the Mexican war to be
regarded by the superstitious as a celes.
tial prognostication and who does not
remember how direful appeared the un-
paralleled comet of 1853, in the days
when the possibility of civil war was on
every tongueP The comet of 1861, nearly
as huge as its predecessor, seemed to the
superstitious a second sign Of the great
tratricidal struggle. So the comet of
1875 did not fail to find believers who
connected it with the rumblings of com.
ing war in the East, and when, two or
three years later, RussiSs army marched
upon Constantinople, such believers
were assured that the prophecy of the
comet had come true. This superstition
will probably always linger in the hui
man mind, and, should the comet that
s now visible in the southern heavens
sweep into its perihelion passage around
the SUI with u train of light stretching
half war across the sky, there will net
be wanting persons to point at the nov
a%ugmenting armament of the greet
powers of Europe, and to predict a great
clash of arms. In this they will have
the support of the astrologers. In an
astrological almanac published in Lon
don, and Of great authority among its
patrons, there is a pictorial prophecy for
the year 1880, in which q helmeted
woman, armed with a sword, domi-
mates over a field filed with tramping
armies. The publisher prudently post
pones the letter-press explanation Of
this formidable picture to next years
almanac.
In the meantime, those of us who are
not superstitious may expect the comet
with equanimity, and fearlessly hope
that it belongs to the largest and most
brilliant species.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06

searcnfng analysis ava pronounces y
+" perfect.h and says IL Is all tile inventor
claims n 10 be, and moreover cannot DC
boiled out even in ammonia, IL permit
ating the fbers or threads ana oecom-
ing a part Ofthem: chat
An iron manufactures remarked tns
IL would prove incalculable In his trade
as preventing castings from becoming
rusty. In fact, every one present grem
ycryenthusiastic, Thoughts few seen
the experiment repeated a humber ol
times. and a silk merchant from Lyons,
France. wished TO make an immediate
arrangement "a use it in his house, nav
ing the raw silk treated before wearing.
AS a experiment glVSS
brown-stone used in building, when
had beer brought in from the street ~
one of the gentleman, was broken IN
two, weighed and one-half treated was
laid in the water for five minutes and
then weighed again. The piece treated
lad not %perceptibly increased IN
weight, while the other had gained
th~ree-iourths Of an ounce. This was
considered an important fact on account
of the growing objection to brown
stone, rs its absorption of water results
in its crumblIng away.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06

The work of the Swiss earthquake
commission will be watched with much
interest just now on account of the
great number Of earthquakes, some very
destructive, that have disturbed differ
ent parts Of the earth within the last few
months. The commission have dis
tricted Switzerland for the purposes Of
observation, and each district has a
chief observer assigned to it, whose bust.
ness 1t is to make the inhabitants serve
as his assistants by distributing among
them n pamphlet describing the phe.
nomena of earthquakes and the best
means Of observing them, and blana
forms containing n series of questions,
carefully prepared and intended to form
a skeleton history OF every earthquake
that is observed. Instruments for mea.
surfing the force, direction, duration and
so on, of all earthquake shocks, are to
be placed in the hands of skilled OBJ
servers Mt certain stations.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06
Endurance.


How much the heart may bear and yet no,
break,
How much the flesh may suffer aud not die
question much, il Any pain or ache
OF soul or body brings our end more nigh
D~eaihchooses his W time, till that is come
All evils may be borne.
Weshrink and shudder at the surgeons knife
Each nerve recoiling from the cruel steel
Whose edge seems searching for the quiy ering
liisi
Yet TO our sense the bitter pangs reveal
That still, although tbs trembling flesh be
torn.
This, also, can be borne.
We see a sorrow rising in our way,
And try to fee from the approaching III
We seek some small escape, we weep and
pray,
But when the blow falls, then our hearts
are still
Not that the pain is OF its sharpness shorn,
But think 1t can be borne.
we wind our lie about another hiei
We hold it closer, dearer than our own
Anon 1t iaints aud falls in deadly strife,
Leaving us stunned, and stricken and alone;
But, obi we do not die with those We mourn;
This, also, can be borne.
Behold, we live through all things, hmines
thirst,
Bereavement, pain, all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow; lilo inlicts its worst
On soul and body, but we cannot die,
Though we be sick and tired and faint ap0
worn;
Lo ali things oan be borne !
-EIlza6eh Akers .ALiea.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06
Diamond Gathering,

A correspondent describes how dia
monds are gathered in South Africa as
follows: After a mar buys his "claim, >
he first sinks his anchorage for the wires
for his buckets to upon; then his
uprights for the Jumpers" the wires
pass over these and are anchored on the
top, or the reef, as it is called. There
are two buckets with four wheels which
run on these wire ropes, or track-yOu
might call tia hoist line and n down
haul rope, attached to the bucket, com
pletes the hosting gear, with the exccp'
tion of the motive power, which may b.
steam, horse or Kafir. From my place
OF business one can see the buckets pass.
ing up and down from sunrise till sun
set each day. The buckets containing
the "diamondiverous" soil is carried to
the washing machine, which grind away
until all the heavy stones fall and work
down to The bottom, and diamonds be-
ing,the heaviest of all stones, they, OF
course, get down below everything.
Once or twice a week they have a
"wash-up," when the cylinder of the
machine is emptied and the "stuff" as
sorted and parceled according to size,
color and shape. The diamonds are
either sold in the local markets or sent
to England. They frequently sell for
better prices here than in England-that
is for small lots,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06
The BattIe Of the Cooks.

Two domestics, u cook and chamber
maid, got into n quarrel in Pittsburg.
From words they came to blows. In q
fit of supreme anger, the cook seized q
ladle of hot mush and threw it full in the
face of her antagonist, Five minutes
lat0r the owner Of the mansion,
aroused from his slumbers by thenoise,
rushed into the kitchen, and was liter
ally astounded by the scene that met
his view. Soft masses Of mush were
flying in all directions. The ceiling,
walls, carpet and various articles in the
apartment were copiously ornamented
with big chunks of the smoky com.
pound, and the irste domestioS, with
their hands madly mixed up in each
others hair, were plentifully bespat-
tered with it.. The battle had been a
hot one in more senses than one, and
after q while, when the combatants
had been separated, it was found that
each of them had been burned more or
less by the hot mixture. Smoking
Jumps of the stuff chung to their hair
and garments, and on the whole they
were in n pitiable plight. The proprie
tor did not stop to inquire into the cause
Of the trouble, but then and there dis
charged the females from his employ.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.

shi Notes.
The fashion of wearing powder in the
hair for evening toilet is to be revived.
The fez shape for ladies' indoor caps,
either for morning or evening wear, is
much used.
Two bouquets are now always sold
togethCr-One for the hair, the other for
the cOrsage.
Sleeveless habit corsages of velvet or
satin are worn over ball dresses of
tulle or gauze.
Spanish lace NANTES are very large
wide scarfs and in the shawl shapes
formerly worn.
Heliotrope and cream will be the
fashionable contrast of color for early
spring millinery.
Tinted pearl and enamel buttons have
eyes in the middle so deeply indented
that they are invisible.
Gray and purple are much used to.
gether in brocades and in the different
materials OF a costume.
Lilac flowers of two kinds and shades
are fastened together with a silver rib
bon for corsage bouquets.
The favorite fabric for summer coats
for small children is white cordurette,
/. G., fancifully figured corduroy.
Black tulle and black satin, bright
ened with jet, forms a number of the
toilets prepared for evening wear.
Pulled or plated plastrons take the
place Of waistcoats, but they are unbe-
coming to any but slender figures.
A great panache of two or three os-
trich feathers, placed far back on the
left side of the bonnet, is very stylish.
Light wooden and silk and wool ma
terials will be more fashionable for full
dress even in the summer than silk it.
self.
The high haring Valois collar, kept in
place with wire, is found among new
styles of neck garniture on the richest
toilets.
Ecru lace of the same shade as the
chudda cloths and French buntings
that they trim will be much used this
season.
Ecru of a darker and richer shade
than Of former seasons appear in most
of the latest importations of spring
dresses.
When a floral tablier is worn, the
couture and corsage bouquet flowers
must correspond with those sewn on
the tablier.
Ladies' morning and evening caps are
made of figured tinted foulards and
satins in preference to lace or tulle, and
the fez shape is preferred to all others.
A new idea in wool suits is the use of
cords and tassels arranged merely as
festoons or passed around the hips with
the ends hanging to the feet directly in
front or else on the left side.
Colors in hosiery correspond to
fashionable hues in dress goods. Favor
lite colors in plain and clicked hose are
gendarme blue, sapphire, garnet and old
gold. Roman stripes and tartan plaids
remain in favor for both women and
children,
Striped petticoat skirting has been
lately turned to n new use, and that is
for making neat plain bodices to match
the skirts, with a broad scarf twisted
round the hips and looped long at the
back. This material is warm and
thick, but answers very well for skating
and tennis dresses. The bodice is tight
fitting, without trimming, except bows
at the throat and wrists, and is made
after the style of the Jersey bodice. 1t
is either opened and neatly hooked up
halfway down the front, or up the
back, and is joined to the skirt under
meath the broad scarf, and just below
the hips.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06
american wives Of Foreign diplomats

American Wives Of Foreign Diplomats
The number of American ladies who
are wives of gentlemen of the foreign
legations stationed here is frequently
the subject of comment, but it is not
generally known that there are several
other countrywomen occupying SINH
lar positions in St. Petersburg, in ad.
dition to the wives of the gentlemen of
our own legation there who may be
married. The wife ofthe German min
lister and his first secretary of legation at
the Russian capital are New Workers.;
n was Miss Jay, and the other Miss
Won Hoffman,. The wives of the Bel.
gian minister there and his secretary
are also American.
Mrs. Plunkett, formerly of Philadel-
phia, whose husband was secretary Of
the British legation here several years
ago, went with him from Washington
to st. Petersburg, where he occupies
the same position. Mrs. Grosvenor,
whose husband is also attached to the
British legation in the latter city, is the
daughter of Professor Wells Williams,
of Yale college. Her husband is a near
relative of Earl G~rosvenor, who is Wis
ting this country, and a son of Lord
Ebury, of England. 1t is known that
at every court of Europe American
ladies are well represented among the
wives Of Europeans of high POSITION
Washington Star.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06

The bells of st. Marks church, Pbila
delphia, were silenced by an injunction
obtained by annoyed neighbors, and the
court of appeals sustained the order.
The result of that case has led to move.
ments against church bells elsewhere.
In st. Louis a chime in the Congrega-
tional Church of the Pilgrims has been
attacked by two physicians Ii living close
by. These bells are struck every quarter
of an hour, the number of strokes mum.
boring l,ll6 a day, besides the tune
playing on Sundays and prayer-meeting
nights. The two physicians say, in ap-
plying for IN injunction, that the noise
is destructive of comfort and dangerous
to health. The church officers reply
that the chime is a fine one, and that the
co%nplainauts would not object if they
were not inidels, to whom any Chris
tian sound would be unpleasant.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06

In drilling a well near Chatfield,
Mimi, the men dug down fifteen feet
through the soil, then came to solid rock,
through which they drilled to the depth
oftwenty' five feet, when their drill came
in contact with an elm log fully one foot
through, which was in a good state Of
preservation. Passing through the log,
the men struck solid rock again and
drilled many feet before finding waterE
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06
Russian Churches Of Gold.

The magnificent church now being
completed in Moscow has n thick plating
of gold on its dome and cross. This
fashion of gliding church towers is
universal in Russia, and it has been ca
culated that enough gold is thus lying
idle to pay off the national debt. The
Isaac cathedral, in st. Petersburg, has q
plating of gold three-quarters Of an inch
thick over the whole of II dome as large
as that of St. Paul's in London. The
Church OF Our Lady Of Kazan has a
massive altar furniture OF solid silver.
During the great fire of Moscow, in
1912, the molten gold and silver were
seen flowing like water from the burn
ing churches, and the new addition to
them represents an outlay of fully
SIS 600 600.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06

An indianapolis, Ind, letter says:
A pair of side-lace kid shoes have been
made in this city for a Mrs. Gates, OF
Brown county, who is twenty-three
years old, weighs SAT pounds, and is
seven feet and two inches in height. The
shoes are number fifteen, just one foot
in length and between four and five
inches in width.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06

Within less than two years nineteen
persons have been put to death in Russia
Tor political oflenses.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06
ENNUPVVIIIuI VI oNF3V IHVV T
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use in cooking.
bsubsoil Flowing.

A. L. T., Somerset county, Me-, asks
our opinion concerning the practice Of
Bubsoil blowing. 1t is to be recon-
merded where the underlying soil ia
equal TO that on the surface. In the
case of a strong, deep, loamy soil, that
for years has been plowed but three or
four inches in depth, a large number OF
roots will be found two feet or moro
deep. These with a portion of the salts
contained in the lower soil can advan-
~tageously be brought to the surface.
Where the upper layer of soil has be-
come filled with vegetable matter, then
a mixture Of few inches of the under
soil, whether clay or loan of a sandy or
clayey nature, will have a beneficial eff
feet. On the other hand, if you propose
to subsoil in a location where there is
only sand or gravel to bring to the sur
face, then you will simply make the
poor exchange of a few inches of good
soil and fairly productive, for n worth
less and entirely barren soil. We have
In mind an amateur farmer who, having
read of the wonderful effects of subsoil-
ing, determined to test its merits and
plowed under a thin sod, bringing to
the surface only gravel. After the job
was completed his field appeared like a
new graveled road, though as IN agri-
cultural experiment it was a failure.
The soil, though thin, which lie had
turned under had taken ages TO accumu
late, and had produced fair crops Of
corn and barley. BY judicious manage
ment his land in its original condition
would have produced a fair crop of
grass. The material now on the surface,
worthless for present crops, would re-
quire hundreds Of cords Of manure to
iertilize. At the outset 1t would neither
produce buckwheat o clover. BY first
applying manure in liberal quantities,
then green manuring would aid In sup
plying the needed elements Of n fertile
soil. judgment is necessary in every
farm operation. No set of unvarying
rules will give remunerative results.
Before attempting subsoiling or even
very deep blowing, make sur that the
soil below the surface is worth bringing
up. In many cases, 1t would be better,
If IL were possible, 10 sink the subsoil
still deeper, instead of bringing it any
nearer the surface Boston O~nHivator.