Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-14

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iron rods. The man was giving prac-
| teal demonstration of the efficacy of his
salve by inficting burns upon his hands
and then applying the remedy. He
would draw out of the fire one of the red
hot iron rods, carefully remove the ashes
from it and then explain that he pro
posed to burn his hand with it, after
which he would put some of his salve ON
the burn. Now, said he, this iron
makes a very wicked burn because it is
so small. will raise blister and then
you can see how the salve works. The
crowd watched him curiously and saw
him touch the mon to his flesh and then
apply the salve, all without evincing a
single sign of pain. The MANS hand
had the appearance of having been burn
ed repeatedly"
IT has been demonstrated in Vaca
Valley, CAL, that peach stones will
make as good fire for household pur-
poses as the best kind of coal in the
market. The fruitgrowers. instead of,
rs heretofore, throwing the pits away,
dispose of the stones at the present time
at the rate of SO ton. A sack of the
stones will weigh about eighty pounds,
and will last as long as an equal number
of pounds of coal, and give greater in
tensity of heat. At many of the orchards
in the valley may be seen great stacks of
peach and apricot stones, which will
eventually find their way to San Fran
cisco and other places to be sold for fuel.
The apricot stone does not burn as read
lily as the peach, and will not command
as good price. The fruitraisers will
undoubtedly be pleased to learn that
they now have another source of reven-
lie open to them. A large number of
peaches are dried during the season for
shipment. As soon as the owners find
they have a market for the stones,
greater number of pounds will be dried.
ONE of the most remarkable engineer
ing feats appears to have been achieved
in China, in the face of extraordinary
physical difficulties, namely, the sue
cessful stretching of steel wire cable
of seven strands across the river Lun-
ann, this feat having been accomplished
by the Danish engineer Delinde, assist
ed only by unsl1illed native labor. The
cable extends between two points, Mt a
distance of nearly 400 feet apart, the
height of the first support being about
450 feet above the present level of the
river, and the second about TAO feet.
The cable in question is said to be the
longest in the world, with a single ex-
eeption, namely, the cable across the
Kistna, measuring some 800 feet.
There are also two cables across the
Ganges of 1000 and $3.50 feet respect
lively.
one of the churches in Louisville. A re-
vival was in progress, and among those
who went up to confess his sins was
Henry Osterly, young man whose life
had not been noted for Christian-like
deeds. He had been connected with |
the Fire Department, and was n most |
worker atfires. Several mem
bers Of the church were around the
young sinner, giving him words of COM
fort and encouraging him in the step he |
was about to take. At that moment |
n fire alarm struck. The young man
sprang suddenly from his kneeling pos
ture, rushed from the house at the top |
of his speed, and hurried to the scene of |
the fire. He has not been to church |
since.
THE eight families, occupying four
story tenement house in East Seventy |
fifth street, New York, were saved from
being asphyxiated by sagacious old |
black cat, which is the joint property of
a family named May, living ON the
ground floor. The cat detected that the |
gas was escaping from a leak in the
pipe, and crawled into the bed of Mary
May, seventeen-year-old member of |
the May family, waking her by pulling
Mt the bed-clothes. Mary realized the
danger at once, and called her mother,
who aroused the rest of the house with
Two members of the May
family, were nearly suffocated before be-
ing rescued, and had to be taken to the
hospital.
4 DISPATCH from Freehold, n. j.,
says that Mr. Carson J. Emmons, res
dent of that place, was the owner of a
peculiarly intelligent pig, which he has
ust now sacrificed for the scientific pur-
pose of discovering how much larger the
brain of the animal was than that OF the
and comparatively stupid occu-
pant of his pen. When the pigs head
vas examined it was found that there
we're hardly any brains in it at all, or
ather that the brain-pan was entirely
IMPLY. The Freehold doctors are said
o have been Thunderstorm upon the
discovery Of this fact, as, indeed, they
nay well have been. Il
EVERY city of Spanish America has a
of its own, where Sunday after
loon sports are enacted under the SUI
,eryision of licensed contractor. The
contractor of Morelia, in the Mexican
'tate of Michoacan, was recently fined
or repeatedly disappointing his au-
Hence by the use of aged and underfed
thus making the exhibition too
anne to furnish fair equivalent for the
ugh rates of the gate-money. The
entence adds that the manager of the
unday festivities will forfeit his license !
v any further neglect in the selection
t full-sized and vigorous balls.
THE oldest railroad employee in ,