Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-02-22
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

The salary OF the King Vi 0au'V"
IS said to be twenty dollars
month.
II is understood of Roger q.
Mills that his heart still beats
warmly for the free traders OF
Europe.
General Harrison has completed
his Cabinet slate, and that too
without having consulted a single
Mugwump about it. The auda'
cious man
Il is definitely announced that
Private Secretary Lamont is to be
presideut of a street car company.
That will be a promotion with a
bell punch on it.
ST. Louis is on tip.tOe trying to
look across the next few months
and see a beautiful Missouri girl
crowned Empress of France-Em-
press Boulanger.
The supervisors Of Rappahan-
mock county at a recent meeting
abandoned their special road law
and adopted the general road law
of the Code of Virginia, to take
effect the lst OF July.
The patents on the Bell telephone
expire in 1898, after which time
anybody can make or use tele-
phones as they choose but in the
meantime various Improvements
can be made and patented.
A Mexican editor was sentenced
to eleven months imprisonment
last week, for crlticizlng the al
minlstration. If that rule were 10
be enforced in this country, we
should have to build more prisons.
Since the suicide of King Lud'
wig. the mad sovereign of Bavaria,
eleven persons have sought death
in the waters Of the picturesque
Lake Starnberg. This number IN
cludes two young men who killed
themselves in this way on Wednes-
day.
The falling of in the valentine
business may be due to Don DICK
inson's bad management of the pos.
tai service. To mail valentine on
18th ofFebruary and feel that there
Is no certainty OF its being delivered
before the 4th of July takes all the
sentiment and much of the timeli-
ness out of the whole affair.-Phit-
adelphia Press.
There is a water wheel in use at
Bowdoinham, Me-, which is proOa'
bly the only one of its kind in ex'
istence. 1t is p feet IN diameter,
with a foot of its rim out OF water
at high tide : the spokes are wide
and set dlagonally, like the vanes
ola windmill. II turns Is hours
of the day by tide power, running
one way with the flow, the other
with the ebb. With one foot fall
of the tide this wheels give about
fifty horse power.
John Elsmer, wealthy farmer
formerly a preacher, living In Wen
count,, W. Va, went home drunR
last FRIDAY night, beat his wife
for not having supper ready, anc
then, Selling a heavy poker h'
killed her. He also killed his two
daughters, aged respectively
twelve and seventeen, and the
hired gul. lie then set fire to the
house aud burned it down. lie
has been arrested. There is strong
talk Of lyncbing bin.
A careful effor. made Oy the Bos
ton CicH Serrice Record to estimate
the changes made in the civil ser
vice by the Cleveland adminls;ra
zion gives . Suggestive showing
From June 80, 1885, to June 80
1888, there were 37,5SS changes
made IN pOstmasterships, not III
cludiDg the new appointments OF
account of deaths. Adding thu
changes made for the four months
between June 80. 1888, and Novem
Der of tue same year, and the Rec
ord estimates that the percentag
of changes made by Cleveland pre-
vious to the day when the peop'
voted him out of Office was abOa
80 of the whole civil service. 1t
probable that the other 20 per cent
is almost wholly made up OF Office
hold,rs in the classified servic'
where appointments are protecte
by competitive examinations, an
of postmssters whose salary Is 70
small to tempt spoilsmen. Ihe'
figures show that larger numb'
of changes have been made
Cleveland than by any other pre-
idept since 1867, when the recoi
OF changes began. Their praye
fail consideration with all that the
imply is commended to the Wv
Service Reformers of 1884.