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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-30
Norway Farms and Farm Houses.

The portion Of the Rauna valley, which
is level enough to be cultivated, is very fertile,
and many fine farms CT small extent are
passed; the people, toe, seem more prosper
GUS than in some other regions. Everywhere
hay making is going on, tor the weather is
delightful, the first good hay season that Nor
way has, had for tour years, and hay is an i'm
portant product. Sometimes you see wires,
almost like telegraph wires, stretching from
the fields below far up to the slopes; above.
They are used to slide the hay down from the
mountain pastures there for nothing must
be lost in this thrifty land. There are no
large barns like ours, but groups OF small
ones, sometimes dozen together, overlooked
by one large gard OF farmhouse.
l may as well pause here to describe these
guards, for their architecture is, believe,
peculiar to Norway. Owing to the great
abundance OF small timber and the scarcity
OF sawmills, almost all the houses and barns
are built of squared logs. The barns and
common huts need only one length OF such
logs for their walls; but farmhouse is con-
structed of several lengths with partitions
also OF logs, whose ends project, dividing the
front OF the house into several parts in a
quite picturesque manner. The basement is
formed OF piled up fiat stones with one large
door. Upon this basement the structure of
logs is erected, leaving a convenient shelf ali
round the house. The chimney is likewise
built of fiat stones. The Whole is covered#ith
boards with raised edge. wnichis then filed
in solidly with earth and finished Off with turf,
on which grass aud flowers, sometimes even
bushes, soon grow. So attached are the
country people to ts4is form OF building that
even handsome boarded houses are sometimes
rooted with turf and have the front divided
by large prominent posts, representing the
primitive log ends.-Norway Cor. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-30
How the World is Fed.

Given the oldest and best informed man
in the trade" said an experienced New York
salesman in the grocery business cannot
begin to tell you anything about the
wonderful extent of the traffic in food.
Figures don't seem to express the
thing so that anybody can realize how
enormous the business is. Now every
body knows that corn makes only small
part of what anybody eats. mean by that,
nobody eats corn enough to make it a princi-
pal article of diet. Yet there is one estab-
lishment in Maryland-a corn factory, they
call it-where there are 100, 400, 900 cans of
corn week put up and sold. Now consider
that this is only one establishment out of
hundreds in this country, and thousands in
the world, where food is put up in cans.
Then, think that corn is only one small item
of food even among the canned goods And
then remember that canned goods are merely
a fraction of the food supply, and you will be
ready to acknowledge that the food indus
tries are too great to be readily grasped by
the Imagination. More than three-ffths OF
all the workers of the world are engaged
wholly in raising or handling food Herald
of Health,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-30
Deposit of the Great Rivers.


The average discharge from the Missouri
into the Mississippi is estimated at ITO cubic
feet per second. This would be 500, 900 cubic
yards per day, and 1o0, 100000 of cubic yards
per year. At food stage the sediment has
reached the enormous amount CT 100000
of cubic yards in one day. This would make
a bank twenty-three miles long and 100
square yards across, and 1000 miles OF such
levee in year. When the united rivers
pour into the gulf the output of soil annually
is twice the above amount. The meaning of
such figures it is impossible to measure. One.
hundred and fifty cubic miles of the contj7
nent tumbled annually into the sea by one
water shed. The wear and waste OF culti-
vatable soil is enormous. But the great prob
lem for man is how to control the mud laden
waters SO that they shall not destroy ruth
lessly on the way to their discharge.
Democrat
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-30

Tt is possible in France to insure the life
Of q child one day old,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-30

SUPERB LIyEkYI-I desire TO announce TO my
y friends and the public generally, that have
now one of the most complete and thoroughly
equipped LIVERY STABLES in or out of Virginia.
Fast and stylish teams single double: First
rate stdde-horses; Carriages. which for comfort
aud elegance cannot be surpassed with careful
and polite drivers be secured at all times, day
nght at reasonable prices
Baggage delivered or called for at any point in
the city. ana carefully handlad
am prepa' ed to offer SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS to
travelling men Horses boarded BY The day. week.
Or month at :aasooabe rates. and the very best at
tenfion Guaranteed.
will give my personal attention and assistance
to any one leaving horses at stable, to sell them
to the best adv ntdge
Give me a call and You shall not go away dlsap-
ointed ALEX HAkMANs
marlS StauntOn. Va
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-30
New Device for Advertising.

s'Talking about advertising schemes" said
a well known boot and shoe merchant in the
heart of the city, II have more of them sub
mitted to me in day than | can consider
ately weigh in six months. But, say, the
latest thing out for adoption was sprung on
me the other day, and no doubt some ven
turesome chap will adopt it some time.
When he does therell be a how'll A man
walked in here not long ago and introduced
himself as so-and-so, accompanying his card
with the assurance that he had just the thing
was in search OLA novel advertising de-
vice. He wanted to sell me the exclusive use
of it instanter. And truly it was great! A
veritable automatic printing press concealed
in the sole of boot! 1t consisted of q pair
of mems size foot gear, with wooden soles of
light construction. Describing the sole of
the foot, where the stitches usually appear
on an ordinary boot, was a line of bristles
about the width of a thread seam, or a
little wider. These were fastened to small
tube inlaid into the SOLE The tube came out
OF the back and ran up the leg to small re
servoir attached to q circle OF metal at the
top. The reservoir was to be filled with ink,
or colored fluid of some sort, and was in
tended to supply the small tube and eventu-
ally fill the bristle or brush lines.
1.-The scheme was, as he represented it. to
put on the boots after he had inscribed an
adj for my house in bristles inside of the
lines describing the sole, then walk down
Michigan boulevard and other aristocratic
avenues having stone sidewalks. Dent you
see, every step taksn would leave an imprint
on the flags, and lasting advertisement re-
manned to confront the pcpulace. His idea
was to do the walking at night when his
tracks would not he noticed until daylight
revealed them. The only reason did net go
into the scheme with him was that feared
our high toned citizens would come down on
me for damages. When / suggested this the
inventor left to consult lawyer as to his
liability in the matter, and / am awaiting his
report. Stencils and like devices have been
used in the past for this purpose, but this
beats anything have ever heard Of. What do
you think OF it.,-Chicago Herald.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-30

DICHARD S. KER.
H ATTORNEY AT LAW, q
Office with WHITE & GORDON.
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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-30

A person hears of almost everything get
ting lost, but he seldom hears of the loss of a
roof of a building. Three weeks ago the con-
tractors for the iron roof of the new public
ssbuilding in process of erection in Augusta
were notified that the roof had been shipped
z by rail Since then no tidings of the wander
ling roof have beenreceived, although diligent
search has been made for it. There are four.
teen Augustus in the United States, and if
any one of them has an iron roof which does
not belong to it, it will please return it at
once and be suitably rewarded.-Portland
{Me.) Argus.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-30
pnetrg,
Such Is Life.

The big fish dimes at leisure,
pr the smaller fry.
And the minnow eats with pleasure, -,
The poor unconscious fly.
The miser skins his nelghbor,
And the neighbor skins The poor,
And the poor man, doomed to labor,
Spurns the beggar from his door.
And thus the world is preying
The strong up N the weak
Despite the precious saying:
1.-The earth is for the meek"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-30

CONNECTIONS.
Train No 40 connects al Harpers Ferry with
Fast Limited Express lraln- leaving al 4:2S IN !,
irving at cincinnati at 745 m. 81. Louis at $50
D m. and Chicago at 6:40p M
With train leaving at 1913 p m arriving at
Pittsbur. al 6: ~ m a lSO with rain leaving at
l1:30 D. m arriving at CT, cinnati a; $40 p nj 1t.
Louis at zoe a m and hicago at $40 a nj
Connects at WevertOn with train arriving at
Hagersrown at $3.50 D m and at WASHINGTON june
ton with train arriving at Frederick at 4:55 D. m
B & o Palace Sleeping cars run through to
Pittsburg. incinnati. It Louis. Columbus and
above points without change of cars
For tickets and further Information apply TO B.
80 Agents, or to
Q e OUD8DW. Travlg Pass. Ct
Stanton. Va.
CHAS. SCULL.
General Passenger Agent
~ N GLEN NTS,
Genera Manager.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-30
Hnx,r MonntopouS'

just think what monotonous worldful OF
human beings we should be if we We're all
handsome Post-Express.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-30

Sir William Thompson considers Edison's
discovery OF the photograph ''one of the
greatest in the practical application Ok
SCIENCE eyer usds.n
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-30

The editor of Die Bevoelkerung Germany
estimates the population of the world to be
1.434, 100000. M. Levasseur French) puts it
at ,4S3, 900, difference of 100000. .ss
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-08
VERMONT rs PLAINLY FOR BLAINE.

Colonel Bradley b. Smalley OF Vermont Collector at
Burlington, and secretary OF the Democratic National
Committee is in city. The Colonel has not yet sue
ceedel in making the corps OF Democratic officials In Yer
sodly Democratic because one Republican remains
as sort awful example, but he hopes to get him out
due time. In speaking Of Vermont politics the Colonel
said: The Republican Convention the other day was
a Blaine convention all 1 think Blaine VIII DO
nominated. think defeat him, but II we are 10
be- defeated prefer Blaine President any other Re-
publican There IS no question the Vermont dele
gates being Blaine, especially IL they carry out the
expressions OF the convention where Blaines name was
checred at eyeyy mCntOn'
Who is to be your next Governor
IL will probably be w. r. Dillingham;, OF waterbury
That is the Republican slate at present."
Then the younger element Of the party is in possession
OF the machinery r.
Well, the boys are having something to say"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-08
NEW STYLES BoOTs AND SHOES

The outer appearance of A. Alexanders well known
and popular shoe store the northwest corner Oh
sixth-ave. and Twenty thrd-st, is apt to deceive
stranger as to the size of the establishment but when
he enters his impression IS soon corrected The store
which is Deep occupies the whole Of Nos. 375 and
377 sixthave except the ground floor of the latter
Next month Mr. Alexander will have completed thirty
one years in the shoe business. He has forty EN-
pIoyes who yesterday attending to the wants
of throngs of customers. Mr.. Alexander offers no
cheap goods, ais stock ranging from medium to thu
finest of foot gear almost all Of it being made specially
to his order.
Mr.. Alexander exhibits all sorts OF novelties IN
mems and womens riding boots, Dongola slippers with
quaint turned-up toe shoes Of kid Of calf OF patent
leather styles Of ladies' slippers, the AdonS,
Ruddygorc DOrsay, Mgnon, Gray suede tdesl-,
space forbids mentioning more The sale OF ladies'
over CATERS drab, blue and gray, has been greater
already this season than up 10 midsummer IN pre-
years. Mr. Alexander says there j. noticeaOlo
tendency this season TO fancy cOlors IN l9ues. low
shoes but that Of toe anu helsh' VI hoci
not pronounced AZ formerly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-08
Mr. SAsUELs FoRFEIrS HIS BOND.

Moses Strauss manufacturer Of tailors' trimmings
at No sos Broadway, who was honorably discharged
In the court of Special Sessions on Thursday on a
charge Of consprng to defraud some insurance COM
panies by helping Jacob Sandes 10 set fire to his
tailor store at No GAG Bowery, came to Essex
Market Court yesterday with Louis stenthal, OF NO
1874 Clnton-st., to give evidence against Samuels,
who is charged with forgery OF Mr. STRAUSS name TO
q $500 check with which he paid debt to MI stein
thai. When the case called samuels did not
answer TO his name and Nathan Cohen, OF No. W
BaxteI-st, his bondsman, was called upon to pro
Once him. lie admitted that he did not know where
SauueIs was and the bond OF 81 900 was declared
forfeited. Lawyer Hummci, who appeared for MI
steinthal Immediately procured bench warrant
and Detective Heidelberg set out in search OF
sanuels At HE house, at Attorney and GlaDu SIS,
6amuels had not been seen since FrdaH ana thc
officer concluded that be had fed from the CITY. -
samuel's DISAPPEARANCE wa pr!Dauy due 10 ,he
discriminating confessions wruns nom MN by MI
Hllnne in his examination IN tho stIads cast
In that examination, anxious was SaAueis 10
secure the conviction Of Mr. strauss, mat ne con,
feSsed having TO his store two years ago anu
having collected $4,000 from the Insurance com
names Assistant Hire Marshal FRANK was On manu-
this morning 10 confron, samuels with ne crime oi
arson, bu. his appearance necessarily uI,II,u
fuf1 her action IN the matter Detective IieIueiDeS
Is confident that he will have sahuels Ia t"eHH-
four hours.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-08
IMPROVEMENT At NIAGARA FALLS.
WORK DONE AT THE QUARTERLY MEETING OF
THE RESERVATION COMMISSION.

WORK DONE AT THE QUARTERLY MEETING OF
THE RESERVATION COMMISSION.
Tho Commissioner Of the Niagara Reservation held
their quarterly meeting yesterday the office OF Andrew
missioners Il. Anderson, Sherman S. Rogers and
Andrew H. Green the secretary and H.
F. Gregory and the superintendent L. V. Welsh The
report of the superintendent stated that the receipts Of the
inclined railway had been much increased account OF the
ice bridge which had formed in January for the first
time since the establishment OF the reservation Tho
superintenden submitted bills for expenditures during tho
last quarter amounting 1919 "a and said that the receipts
OF the inclined railway had been 933 %.
A request received from George W. Wright that he
might have charge Of the Cave the Winds he offered
81 go the privilege for the year. This being the
highest bid, It accepted.
David f. Day wrote to the Commission behalf Of the
Horseshoe Steamboat Company which proposes to build
boat Of steel to the below the Falls the
Maid OF the Mist does 1t represented that an
other boat entirely controlled by Americans would
add TO the travel this point and there would be greater
safety passengers with boats than with only
OF accident would be ready to help the Other
The company asked for the privilege Of landing at the pier
at the foot OF the inclined railway and tying up the
there night and extend the pier that 1t might also
for tho Maid Of the Mist. The company willing
submit such restrictions the Board might impose
and pay compensation the Maid OF the Mist
After the communication had been read Mr. Day appeared
personally and explained his wishes and intentions
fully The request was granted and Mr.. Rogers was
authorized arrange the contract and also to revise IL
necessary, the contract Of the Maid Of the Mist
The most important matter discussed the protection
the south side OF Goat Island from erosion which Is
rapidly carrying IL away. resolved that the State
Engineer be asked Inspect the shore super
go Albany lay facts before the Legis
ature and ask for appropriation OF $4,000 work
necessary protect the island passed
the death Of william Dorshemer who was president Of
the Board and OF David Gray. OF Buffalo, was formerly
It's secretary and treasurer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-08
FI1R PRICES FOR FAIR SHOPPERS

which they can deal and be that they
jected to the rules Of trade OF any trust or combination
Such firm seems to be that OF lie Boutier Brothers.
Broadway and Fourteenthst which refuses 10 FIX its
prices or TO conduct It's for the benefit any one
except It's customers outside It's house Its Gus
toners however will find good many things arranged
their advantage silks and dress goods generally are
specially and there excellent display OF them
prices a. well as the goods altogether attractive
French silks OF light weight sold for 20 cents
which the ordinary price would be nearly al 25 There
good line OF India silks and American silks are offered
at which would be impossible for goods Of
quality that paid duty French satines and Scotch
gnehsms also make n good show.
Black hosiery l. offered such prices as 49, so and 65
and az these rates promises added
refund the money the goods found to b. exactly
represented The clerks in the department Of embrodees
and lsces kept exceedingly busy, and there Is large
stock OF goods. The upholstery is a compare.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-08
CARING FOB FRIENDLESS SEAMEN

THE EFFORTS THAT ARE MADE TO GIVE THEM
CHURCH HOME WHEN ON SHORE
The Society for Promotion Of the Gospel among sea-
men OF New-York as it is more commonly
known Port Society" dates back to 1919
when number gentlemen the house OF Jonathan
Little wealthy and prominent merchant ana Formed THIS
society charter granted TO 10 by the Legsiature
and in 1920 the organizers first edfce ever erect
ed land for The results were so encouraging
that regular church was formed in 1854, with nftyslx
members Since time 5000 have been enrolled
It's books after showing change OF heart Out OF THIS
number eleven within fifteen years have become
minister's seven them settling in the United States ana
the other four France, Iceland, China, and Italy
The socetys headquarters at Madison and Cathane
sts and hero three regular preaching services are he'd
every Sunday also daily morning and evening prayer
and song service always followed by Inquiry work There
IS also reading room elstocked With papers magazines
and materials writing letters which visited by large
numbers OF sailors daily Here may be found representa-
every nation on the EARTH engaged III read
ing writing conversation.
Besides the pastor the Rev. DR.. f. d. Murphy, who
has labored faithfully for twentyhee years the society
employees male and four female missionaries whose
duty it is 10 20 into boarding houses and on board tho
vessels in New-York and Brooklyn, inviting men to the
church and reading Last year over 5000 visits
were made to vessels and boarding houses while
over 600 meetings held There Is also connected
with the church the Marine Temperance Society with
70 900 members which Captain NJ r. Fisbie has been
the president fifty years It's Vcepresdent Is
Captain Richard Luce, OF Brooklyn.
The affairs Of this entre work are managed by board
OF twenty-five directors and its officers are: W. H. H.
Moore president; T. A. Brewer corresponding secretary;
" Dana Wells recording secretary; r. j. Dodge, treas
urer There is, therefore, outlay fo mere admnisra-
ton. Among its supporters arc Cornelius vanderbilt,
W. K vanderbilt Elliott f. Shepard Mrs. Russell Sage,
John D. Rockefeller, Robert Lenox Kennedy, Mrs W. f.
Dodge T. S. Auchincloss william AsoF, and many otheI
prominent citizens Of New-York and Brooklyn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-08
BITS OF LEGAL NEWS.

Portuguese nurse in Bellevue Hospital named Joseph
z. Sebastian 10 w lrds Island Lunatic Asylum
1857 and is there still. On the appli
cation Of counsel August p Wagner, Justice Barrett
in the Suprc,c Court, Chambers Yesterday glnted
order directing that the question in regard his sanity
be tried in the Supreme Court, Circuit The physicians
at the hospital say that Sebastian is violent
and imagncs that thor Is conspiracy against him.
lie says the doctors IN the hospital have placed him
I'm the asylum. in order rid OF him. He been
married twcafy-fv, years, aul his wife says she has
never an thin- To induce her to believe him to be
insane
Domcnico BenedettO says That he deposited s2GS some
tine ago with Aureli9 de Yulnno, a private banker
40 No. - ThompsOn-st he declares That the banker
has absconded and the furniture In his Office has
been carted away YuannOs wife does not know where
he Is and IL stated ne fifty Gepostors
thousand dollars. An attachment against his property
was granted by Justice Barrett yesterday at the suit
BenedettO
The schedules OF Garrett Ward stair builder at No.
eco West Twentycighth-st, in his assignment TO Cor
nelius Doremus show liabilities sl1,526 "a, nominal
assets s2S, GIL 90 and actual assets s10515 u.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-08
MANAGER GILLIG AS 4 SMUGGLER.
HE PAYS BIG FINE ON sMUGGLED JEWELS,
AND Will HAVE TO INnERGA 4

~ II
AND WILL HAVE TO UNDERGO A TRIAL
Henry F. Gillig the manager Of The American Eek.
change OF London and New-York receiving some hard
bruises some OF which may leave their marks A week
ago yesterday he showed that he sufficiently
OF foot the wrath and ists OF James
Gamble, and yesterday he unable escape the
clutches Of the law laid upon him by Special Agent
Aver He is the Custom House records as a
smuggler, who tried to deprive the Government
Of It's dues by bringing over concealed in his trunk
diamond necklace valued at about $1,000.
Mr.. Gig arrived here In January. and succeeded in
Guiding the vigilance the Custom Hous. officers but
IL is said I'm cups the other night he said more than
was wise for self protection Special Agent Aver
eventually found Manager Gig had disposed OF the
charming Jewels but the necklace seized from
its present possesSor the wife OF Broadway merchant
Rut Oh Friday Giilig taken before Collector
Magope lie at denied the charge, and upon being
hard pushed confessed and claimed immunity because OF
his intimacy with Senator IIswcy The Collector read
the law without relaxation Of muscle which declares
that any person who shall knowingly wllfuly. with
intent to deffaud revenue Of the United stacs.
smuece or eandestney bring In dutable goods is guilty
Of mlsdemeanor and upon conviction be fined $4,000
or irnnrisoned for time exceeding two years. or
both Then Manager Giilig pleaded for mercy and
pronsod TO present himself to the Collector yesterday
and nav the duty on the necklace equal 70 25 per cent OF
lts value He appeared by counsel Curtis Cromwell.
and the amount OF duty offered. and will paid
morning.
But the payment Of the duty does not guarantee
munIty against prosecution So after Manager Cling
has Maid tho duty q complaint will DE lodged with the
limited States Attorney and the defendant will have to
Is said that special Agent Aver has evil
dence OF other instances smuggling by Manager Gg