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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24

LNOR saloon MEADOW sT.-NEAR LARI-
Il MER ave-. lot 42x15o good 2-story frame
cellar, natural gas, hot and cold water, elegant
drainage, shade trees in 'front.' etc. about 10 min
utes' walk from either line Of cable cars or East
Liberty station: only g. 300. THOS. LIG9ETT,
No. 14f Fourth ave. aul7-75-wssu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
Boarders and Lodgers.

"ANTED - SUMMER BOARDERS THE
w Summerville, at st. Clair, is beautifully
situated on the st. Clair river. For particulars
address q. y. STONE, st. Clair, Mich. au2O-4s
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14
Stanley and the African slave-Trade.

Probably no man has ever excelled
Stanley in his wise treatment OF the
Africans. He seems to have q natural
instinct OF the best way to manage THESE
people, who combine great chlldlshness
with natural ferocity. Stanley is hrm
but kind, considerate and generous;
The natives know that he is strong, and
they have faith in his honesty and
truth. He has managed the savages
with wonderful skill. The slaye-traders
hate and fer him, and many people
have thought that if he were ever sur
prised and cut off in Africa 1T would be
by the malice of these bad men, who
fear for their trade. Stlnley, like Liv-
ingstone, saw enough of the horrors OF
the slave trade to be in deadly earnest
to do all that lay in his power to stop 1t.
Tippoo lib, the Arab trader, has long
be n a slave-dealer, though he has pre-
tended to give up that horrible traffic
since he has been associated with STAN
ley. Very likely, if he ever got chance
to go into the slave-trade again, without
being found out. he would do it. And,
if Stanley stood in his way, some men
think Tippoo lib would not hesitate to
even kill Stanley, and so be rid of him.
Tippoo lib is now very great man IN
Central Africa. He is enormously ricll,
and he can raise force of many thou
sands of men whenever he has occasion
to call for them.
1t is singular that it should now be
thought necessary to send search ex-
petition for Stanley. after all that he
has done in that direction himself. But
Leopold, King of the Belgians, and
others, devoted friends of Stanley, pro
pose to do this very thing, unless news
Of the White Pashs.'s safety comes to us.
ST. Nicholas.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14
The Puff Adder.

Professor Drummond, in his book on
Tropical Africa, says of one of the
curious reptiles of Africa: One of the
most beautiful and ornate of all the
tropical reptiles is the puff-adder. This
animal, the bite of which is certain
death, is from three to five feet long,
and disproportionately thick, being in
some parts almost as thick as the lower
part of the thigh. The whole body is
ornamented with strange devices in
green, yellow and black, and lying in
museum its glitering coils certainly
form most striking object Eut in ma
ture the puff-adder has very different
background. 1t is essentially n forest
animal, its true habitat being
among the fallen leaves in the deep
shade of the trees by the banks of
streams. Now, in such a position, at
the distance of foot or two, its appear
anee so exact y resembles the forest bed
as to be almost indistinguishable from
it. | was once Just throwing myself
down under tree to rest when, STOPPING
to clear the spot, l noticed a peculiar
pattern among the leaves. L started
back in horror TO find puff-adder OF the
largest size, its thick back only visible,
and its fangs within few inches of my
face as | stopped. 1t was lying con
cealed among fallen leaves so like itself
that, but for the exceptional caution
which in African travel becomes habit,
/ should certainly have sat down upon
it, and to sit down upon puff-adder is
10 sit down for the last time. / think
this coloration in the puff-adder is more
than that of warning, and that this semi
somnolent attitude is not always the |
mere attitude of repose. This reptile |
lay lengthwise, concealed, al. but a few
inches, among the withered leaves.
Now the popularity of the puii.adder is
that it strikes backward. Lying on the
ground, therefore, it commands, rs it |
we're, its whole rear, and the moment |
any part is touched, the head doubles |
backward with inconceivable swiftness,
and the poison fangs close upon their |
victim. The pufi-adder in this way
forms a sort of horrid trap set in the
woods, which may be altogether upper
ceived till it shuts with sudden spring
upon its prey.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14
Mimicry in Nature.

Go to the sea-shore and observe the
grasshoppers among the beach grass.
They fly up at your approach, whiz off
a rod or so, and alight. { an you see
theml They are colored so nearly like
the sands they live upon that detection
of one Mt rest is almost impossible.
On yonder grassy bluff, stones throw
away, you will find none of them, but
other kinds equally, or almost equally,
lost 10 sight by their surroundings.
What chance of life for either if they
suddenly changed places They would
be 50 conspicuous that every passing
bird or other insectivorous creature
would sight them. OF course, these pro-
tective colors have been gained by
slow steps. Every grasshopper that
found its preferred food among the
sands was liable to be eaten. In the
long run Just those would be eaten
which were most easily seen. One
which varied in coloring in never so
small a degree, so as to be less easily
seen than his brother, would live to
rerDetuate his kind, and his brother
come to an untimely end; the progeny
would show the fortunate variation, and
be more likely to be spared to transmit
in increased volume the probability of
the happy coloring. Given, then,
brood of grasshoppers that find their
preferred food in sandy spots, and un-
less other and more powerful forces act
npon them Is must result, from their La
bility to be eaten by creatures fond of
grasshoppers, that in time they will re-
semble in coloring the sand on which
they live; it is impossible that they
should not. Any creature not specially
protected 10y nauseousness, or habit, or
special device OF some sort, must in the
very nature of things, if it is to live at
all, have some other protection, and
that afforded by color or pattern is by
lar the most common. The world is
made up OF eaters and eaten, Of devices
10 catch and devices to avoid being
caught. Atlantic Monthly.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14

THE Kreus Zeitung prints letter from
Togoland, Africa, saying that slave
traders are turning their ROME to the
Togo coast and that in December slave
caravan arrived at LONE from Sagala.
This is ON the old slave coast of West
Africa, north of the Gulf of Guinea. At
tention has been so strongly drawn to
the horrors of the slave trade in West
and Central Africa that the revival of
the evil in West Africa has hardly been
noticed. In the British territory Of
Sierra Leone n while ago, n chief living
outside the district swept down upon
the southern part of the country, and
took 200 women and 200 men prisoners.
They were dragged off to slavery. and,
though they are all British sub ects,
nothing has been done to rescue them.
The opponents Of British cooperation
with the Germans in the east coast slave
blockade assert that Great Britain had
better abolish slavery in her own terri
tory before she seeks work in that line
in other regions.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14
How Ball-players Throw SkiIIfuIly.

Harry Wright, the veteran manager
of the Philadelphia Club, tells how a
ball player with bad throwing arm can
remedy the defect. The fact that Big
Sam Thompson, recently signed by the
Philadelphia Club, has bad shoulder,
causes the old man of baseball TO ex-
press himself as follows: "Thompson's
trouble was entirely in the shoulder.
His arm muscles or elbow joint never
bothered him. He can, if he chooses,
learn TO throw without using his shoul-
der quite so severely as is natural for
him. The correct way to throw is to start
the bail at the height of the ear, but
after man has had trouble with any of
his throwing muscles he can often
change his style of throwing with bene-
fit. Take Jack Rowe for an example.
He can rot throw naturally, and vet he
plays a very good short-stop by snap
ping the ball with peculiar wrist mo-
ton. Mester throws in n similar fash.
ion. When l first tried to play base
ball | could not throw twenty yards, and
yet could bowl very effectively. i had
famed my shoulder with cricket PLAYING.
l knew that | must learn to throw if I
wanted to play baseball, so put in n
whole winter praciicing. l was then
living at Hoboken, and every day [
would go down to the river and throw
stones for an hour or so. had to snap
my arm and wrist something as Rowe
does, AMI at first could not tell where
the stone was going to land. l would
throw an old bottle or piece of wool out
into the stream and practice at that
Before spring conid hit the mark noar-
ly every time, and could throw a bali
seventy yards without difficulty. Gin
cihnatt Inquirer.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14
Asparagus,

Asparagus is n hardy perennial plant,
that may be grown upon the same
ground for years without being renewed.
rather sandy loan. such ms is often
found upon the edge Of ponds or lakes
land formed by the washing of higher
grounds, aud known MS alluvial.
Ii asparagus is raised in small way
for home use, the soil may he prepared
for bed of it by trenching to depth
of two or three feet and mixing two or
three inches of well-rotted manure with
each layer ms it is turned over. If rlis-
ed on large scale for sale, the soil is
generally prepared by deep and
thorough pulyerizing by pillow and sub
soilcr.
Asparagus is propa9ated from seed,
which is sown IN the spring MS soon as
the soil can be worked. The soil should
be made very fine, and plenty of we'll
rotted manure worked into it. Sow the
seed in rows one foot apart, about an
inch IN the rows. Keep the plants free
from weeds, and carefully hoed. and
they will he ready TO transplant when q
year old. One pound of seed will pro-
ducc 5000 plants, and il set thick in
the bed it will take from $4,000 to 90
600 plants to the acre One OF the best
gardeners near New York City places
his plants in rows, six feet apart in the
rows. In this way he uses less than
1000 plants 10 the acre. The plants
should ba moved from the growing bed
to the permanent bed in the spring: the
sooner this is done the better. II for
home use make tho beds five feet wide
and have three rows in each bed-one
row in the middle of the bed and one
row foot from cach edge. Have the
plants nine inches apart in the rows.
If raised for sale make the rows three
feet apart, plants nino inches apart in
the rows. III on q farm where the
garden work is done with a horse. we
prefer q row or two on one edge
of the garden; then they viii not
interfere with the blowing or the
cultivating of tho vegetables in
rows, which we consider far the
cheaper aud better plan for farm gar
en-. In planting, Zig u trench six or
eight inches deep. place the plants in
position, nine inches apart, using care
to spread the roots properly. Have the 1
crown of the plant covered three inches. !
Keep the bed we'll raked until the
plants begin to show themselves above
ground. In this way the weeds can be
Kept down. After the plants appear
above ground, the weeds near them
must be "hand we'd" The rest of the
may be with hoe or plow.
as circumstance or fancy dictates.
Thorough cultivation now will have its
reward, as it did if pursued during the
year the plants wera in the seed bed.
Do not cut the asparagus the first OF
second season after planting; cut lightly
the third. Give the led an annual TOP
dressing of manure. Dig or pillow it in
before the plants begin to grow in the
spring. 1t will be well to cover the
plant during the winter with mulching
of some kind.
Away from the sea shore it is verv
beneficial to asparagus beds to give
hem dressing OF salt once a year
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14

In an experimental observation OF
thirty light boys of all classes of society
and of average health who had been
using tobacco for periods ranging from
two months to two years, twenty. seven
showed severe injury to the constitution
and insufficient growth; thirty-two show
ed the existence of irregularity of the
hearts action, dsordered stomachs,
coughs, and q craving for alcohol; thir-
teen had intermittency of the pulse, and
one had consumption. After they had
abandoned the use of tobacco, within
six months one half were free from all
their former symptoms, and the remain
der had recovered by the end of the
year.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14

SO famous have the South Carolina
cotton planters become all over the
world that they are now in demand in
foreign countries where cotton is plant
ed. Some time ago New York firm
wrote to A. J. Salinas & Son, Of Charles
ton, on behalf of firm in Russis, asking
Mr.. Salinas to engage capable and in
telligent planter at liberal salary TO GO
to Russia to plant cotton. Mr.. Salinas
made arrangements with John s. Scott,
of Mars Bluff, Marion County, one of
the most successful planters in the
State, who will sail from New York for
Moscow. Thence he will go to the
Caucasus where his special business will
be to superintend the natives in the
cultivation of cotton which is planted
there in large quantities. He will also
be sent to Central Asia to confer with
planters and dealers in that section.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14

LEVI d.. FUILEs, who lives at Cor
land, ILL.,, is probably rs well qualified
to discuss the success or failure of mar
riage as any man in the country. In the
last twenty five years he has been mar
ried seven times. He has received in
his life LOO answers to advertisements,
corresponded with $50 women, proposed
119 times, been accepted eighty five
times, rejected thirty-four times, receiv-
ed 400 photographs, had six blonde
wives and one brunette; one wife was
red-headed. He has two children. He
says he regards his present wife, whom
he got in response to persistent adver-
Using, as the best of the lot. He has
hopes of ending his days with her.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14

sprino only. Use from two 70 three
rounds per square yard; strew it upon
tbe surface ami the rains will dissolve 1t
and carry it down to the roots. Besides
tbe direct good done the asparagus, the
salt Is destructive to wire worms and
other insects that often trouble aspara-
gus. A spring top dressing oil suner,
phosphate of lime is very beneficial II
applied at the rate of 500 pounds to the
acre and hoed in. Don't cut asparagus
close. The middle Of May to June LIST,
according to the season, is q good Tune
to stop cutting. Farm, Ftetd ana o'0eN-
man.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14

THE Alabama Legislature, through
tho influence of the State w. @. I. o.,
has passed bill for the establishment
of night-schools in convict stations. Re-
markable success has attended the II in
PRODUCTION. After the opening of the
school at Platt's Mines, both the Presi-
dent of the Board of Inspectors and one
of the prison wardens expressed the
strongest approval of its influence, and
the company at the mines, realizing its
advantages to themselves, assumed tho
remuneration of teachers, and agreed to
erect school houses for both races.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14
Throwing a Cricket-Ball Fifty Miles.

1t was the famous old MARQUIS of
Queens6ury who was tie Jolly lord .
thtt had letter come distance Of f;ftv
miles inside of an hour before the in
yentioh OF steamboat or locomotive
This English lord fourished in tbe
latter part Of the last century. He in.
closed the letter in cricket hall 81
then stationing twenty expert cricketers
at certain distances apart, he had tbem
throw the ball from one TO ano,I ill.,
until the entire distance Tins trava ,r.sai
by the letter egualed fifty miles Tbs
ieat was easily accomplished within tbe
hour, and "Old @" gained great ,s,lin ao S,s
thereby Philadelphia Cal great eo'a'
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14
CeIlulOid's Composition

Most celluloid is made in irsss
roll of paper is slowly unwoina, 81 \
the same time is saturated VIZ. nj \
ture of five parts of sulphuIIilc ' ~
parts of nitric u i'll which falls "
paper in a fine spray. This cna. ss,
cellulose of the paper INTO In IN 4
tgun cottou). The excess o. n
having been expelled bg ples ~tg
paper is washed with plenty o. 0 a,
til all traces of acid have been a
1t is then reduced to a pulp, :n ma
on to a bleaching trough. u nloSa
cotton which gives it Its EN- Nm d
ture. Most of the water hl, nv, B
got rid of by means Of stl' io'tr
mixed with from twenty y ~ Il
cent. of its weight Of camphoF MA
mixture and grinding follows, ,,1 l 4
is spread out in thin siaoa rnhlt
sqeezed in a hydraulic press u gs1 1
are as diy as chips. linen ra9s
rolled in heated rollers, anu Am n,
in elastic sheets. They are a '-
point worked up into almcss ';sspI
ceivable form. In PARIS tisis !, csla,
almost completely furnished ..ld y Ne Ne 1
The curtains, the furniture, ~
knobs and even the mating W. rai
Of this material. To be sure, InnJ5ssd /
were ever carried there, i ~. III
room was never used. y H. orns
curiosity, and the man VINO ,,,,s nsl
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14

OLIVE culture in California is rapidly
assuming large proportions. There are
orchards there Of $4,000 trees, and
thousands more are being set annually.
In that sunny cline, the olive crop is as
absolutely sure as anything earthly can
be. 1t is gathered in December and
January, when help is plentiful, and
keeps remarkably well. The trees are
set thirty-fye feet apart, and as ten
years are required to bring them from
cuttings to the bearing point, grape
vines are set between them. At matn-
rity the average yield is $40 worth Of
fruit per year.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14

MANY of the animals native and Pc
culiar to this continent are becoming
extinct. The buffalo, less than twenty
years sgo, by its numerous herds stopped
a railroad train on the western plains.
1t is now so nearly extinct that it has
become a curiosity in menagcries. Five
years ago Western hunters announced
that the last great herd had disappeared.
A herd of elk once dispersed Caifor-
mia legislature, but this animal is now
very rare in that State, and is becoming
scarce all over the country. The beaver,
the moose, the cariboo, the antelope, the
mountain sheep are disappearing fast
before trappers and pot-hunt rs with
''railroad facilities The manatee, OF
Florida. will be extinct before the
American people generally know of its
existence. The Rocky Mountain goat is
already almost an extinct animal. The
grizzly bear is rarely found now where
once his tracks were abundant. The
elephant seal of our Western const is
actually extinct, and q recent report
from California mentions preparations
to "clean out the walrus" up in Alaska.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14
KENTUCKY ELOPEsFy,,
An American Cretna Co..
Retired Matrimonial A...'

There is vacancy in Jer.,..
Ind, for. some active yonna '., =.
doesn't care exactly for worE bH I4l
willing to ''hustle" when a' Sls W
quires. Mr.. William KRAFT $50. ~
monial agent SO we know '.' iain
habitants Of that little town AMI " a
lucky clippers, has retired from '',- +. y a Y
ness, and any one else i 4, ii ~
step in and take charge. H,
gives up the business not ~, 49,
finds it Improbable, but becanss s.i
some legacy lett him by rsl.s..
enable him to embark in Other ~.
1t has been the custom AZ NJ ~
to station himsef at the dol 4, !
ferry which plies between Ta1;.
and Jacksonville and kee, = l.a'
for young people who app.ars5
seeking a short cut to matrimonS |,
Kratz would step up, and takipg n
hat to the LAZY bow politely AZ u
the man q card bearing the ioIlovi,.
seription:
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14

Ii the United States there are over
two hundred Maternal, benevolent, so
cial, insurance, political, religious, tenn
perance and other secret orders. Fol-
lowing is the official membership of
some OF the more prominent American
organizations: Freemasons, C09, 600;
Odd Fellows, $50, 600; Grand Army of
the Republic, $50, 900; Knights of Pythi-
as, 2l0, 900; Good Templars, 200, 962; An
cient Order of United Workmen, 19l, $50;
Knights of Honor, l2I, 756; The Royal
Arcanum, $4,000; Improved Order of
Red Men. 64,000; American Legion of
Honor, 81 ,664; knights and Ladies of
Honor, 49, 200; Sons of Veterans, 1000;
Ancient Order of Fores;eis, IS, $50;
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14

ACCORDING to the Scientific american,
mechanics can give steel tools hard
ness like that of the diamond by plnng-
ing them when white hot into sealing
wax, repeating the operation until the
steel is too cold to enter the wax. The
tool should then be just touched with
oil OF turpentine.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14
Elastic Traces for Vehicles.

Every one has noticel that dray
horse is often obliged to use all his
weight and strength to start vehicle
which moves along easily enough when
once set in motion, and 1t is quite con
ceivable that springs in the harness
might make the work easier by distrib-
uting the movement of starting over
longer period of time. Acting on the
suggestion of NJ. Celler, chief engineer,
the directors Of the Eastern Railway Of
France began, six years ago, to harness
all the horses employed in shifting
freight cars at their Paris station with
traces made of chains having strong
spiral spring inserted in them. A large
number OF horses are employed in this
service at the station, and the effect of
the change has been very satisfactory.
A considerable gan has been made IN
the durability of the harness and the
regularity of the work, through the
diminntion of the number of chains
broken in the service, while the horses
have done their work better and with
less fatigue. The blow of the collar on
the shou ders at starting is far less vio-
lent and less injurious to the animal
than under the old system, and the
horses, finding that strong continued
pressure will effect as much as the jerk
which was formerly necessary, seem to
gain courage, and pull steadily and di-
rectly, inst al of wasting their strength
in intellectual plunges. During the six
years OF trial the directors of the com
pany have become so convinced of the
of the new mode OF harness. \
ing that it has been adopted in all por-
lions of the vast network of lines under
their control.-Scientifc american.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14

THE Secretary of War has approved
the plans for the building of Fort Sheri-
dan Military Post at Highwood, ILL.,,
as recommended by Capt. 9. p. Miller.
The cost of the building will exceed
$500, 00), and will be begun at once, the
officers quarters being the first to be
put under way. In all there will be
thirty-five buildings erected, and it will
be the finest military post in the United
States. 1t will front on Lake Michigan.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14

THE leading labor organizations all
over the country are making unusual
endeavors to secure the passage OF GER
tain labor measures by the various
State Legislatures. One of the things
especially desired is the passage of an
employers liability act modelled upon
the English law.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-14

A LADY teacher of music inserted her
professional card in one of the county
papers. 1t was seen by an old lover in
Chicago, who at once hunted her up, ex-
planned his absence of a quarter OF
century, and married her. ltpays to adj
yartisa