Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-13
THOUGHTS, SELECT AND ORIGINAL.


for five cents a glass, and the prof
its of the beer dealers have been
considerably lessened in conse-
Quence.
The monster steamer Great Eas-
tern was recently sold under decree
of court in England for Il nominal
sum. Her cost ran into the millions.
She has the honor of being the larg-
est ship ahoat or that was ever
built in the known history of man,
Noah's ark not excepted.
The Victory, the war ship on
which Nelson fought and fell at
Trafalgar, is at Portsmouth, Eng
land, in a good state of preserya-
ton.
Prince Victor Napoleon has fall
len heir to $4,000, left by an adj
miring old madame who shone as
a belle in the glittering period of
the empire.
A man who has kept account OF
the number of kisses exchanged
with his wife since their union con-
sents to its publication as follows:
First year, $3.50 second year,
10000; third year, $3.50; fourth
year, 100; fifth year, .. He then
left of keeping the record.-Fort
Worth Texas Gazette.
A well regulated newspaper man
must have faith in his wood pile,
hope in a bright future, and chart
ty that reaches ont beyond delin-
ouent subscribers. Faith, hope,
and charity comprise the most diff
ficult tripartite alliance there is in
this world to keep up with.-Bak-
er City (Oregon) Sage Brush.
The four.year.old son of s. Car
rington, of Centralia, Iowa, was
romping with what was thought
to be a dog. 1t was a bear. After
discovery the bear started for the
woods, but Mr.. Darlington man.
aged to kill it.
While horseback riding, Owen
Roberts, of Mill Creek, Wis, filled
his pipe and began smoking. Sud
denly there was an explosion. and
Roberts lay in the road with a
damaged jaw. A small cartridge
was in the tobacco.
A Pennsylvania young lady was
feeble, and went to ElwoOd, y. j.,
as a last resort. There she was so
bitten all over by mosquitoes that
a painful illness followed. When
this disappeared she rapidly re-
covered from the former disease to
the enjoyment of perfect health.
A spark from a locomotive set
the wagon of Martin Burns on fire
as it stood on the Westminster
street bridge, st. Paul. The wag-
on, being covered with oil, burned
fiercely and set the horse on fire
and he ran away. Before getting
off the bridge he stumbled and tore
a lee off. Then the cart set the
bridge on fire. Burns's fourteen
year-old son was severely burned,
and the horse died.
A Newry, Me, farmer was at
tackled by bear while in the
mountains with yoke Of oxen. 1t
was stern chase between the
cattle and the bear. The farmer
! Jumped for the plug in the yoke,
and dangled there until the oxen
had carried him ont Of reach. The
bear tore the Oxel fearfully, but
could not reach the farmer.
Gen. Logan was born in Jackson
County, Ill.,, in 1896, and both his
parents were pure Irish. His faith
er was an Irish physician. There
are many Irishmen who are OF the
same swarthy, straight, black-hair-
ed, high cheek boned, Indian type
Of men as is Logan. There are
several of this type OF Irishmen
now residents of Troy. EX-MayOr
Carroll is one of these Indian-loOk-
ing Irishmen. The ancestors OF
the INDIAN Irishmen, as they are
sometimes called, were, it is as
serted, Phoenicians who visited
England and Ireland before the
Roman invasion, and there are
MANY of their descendants now llv-
ing in both countries. The Pheni-
clan type reasserts itself from time
to time in their descendants, it be.
ing only another evidence of the
truth of the proverb that blood
will telI.'-Troy Telegram.
An epidemic Of diphtheria IS
overrunning Saxton and the parts
of Huntingdon and Bedford coun-
ties, Pa, of which it is the centre,
the number of cases having great
" increased within the past few
DAYS. The Board of Health OF the
borough is adopting every means
of stamping out the disease. The
public schools have been closed,
and the churches and Sunday
schools will not be opened until the
danger subsidies. All the houses
are ouarantincd. There is the
most intense alarm, amounting al
most to a panic, among the people.