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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-12-19

with those small cowrie shells which are
still current as money in not few parts
of the East. A second craft is freighted
with tortoise shells and a third with
cocoanuts.
Were you to board the fourth bug
galow you would find plenty to admire,
for the mats that form her cargo-woven
out of rushes by the MaldIve ladies-are
very neat and prettily worked, and often
much more elaborate in pattern than one
would have expected.
Should you wish to be presented at
court, as many people are curiousiy
anxious to be who denounce all courts
as "haunts of effete luxury" you have
not far to 90. Easternmost of the group
lies the Isle of Male from which tne
Maldives take their name of "Male-Diva"
or Male Islands), a tiny kingdom of 1000
souls, mile long by half mile broad,
in which reigns the royal Tom Thumb,
who holds the rank of Sultan Of the
Maldive Isle. His Majesty is accessible
enough, and all that you have to do is
to send him gift of knife or hatchet,
and express your wish to 'lay your hon.
age at his sublime feet. D"
But you will find at his court mighty
little "effete luxury" of any kind. Con-
Quoted by native lord in waiting
(whose official dress appears to consist
chiefly of turban and a shirt you
march up to high mud wall and halt
before clumsy gate Of moldering
planks, aanl1ed by two small iron ship
guns. Within lies vast courtyard, at
the far end of which, in kind OF alcoye
rooted with palm leaves, squats on
reed mat stout, heavy old man, with
broad, unmeaning face, who IS no other
than the Sultan himself He will ask
you many strange questions about your
own country and people, politely express
his wonder that barbarian unbeliever
from the ends of the earth" should be so
civilized, and finally Gf he happens to be
pleased with YOU will pop into your
mouth with his own august fingers a
squeezed up pile of greasy rice from the
dish before him.-Brooklyn Citizen.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-12-19
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GENERAL SHERMAN is becoming harl Of
hearing.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN ciings TO the oil black
swallow-tail coat Of anse-beilum days.
JAY GOULD. it e said, IS ami has cen ac-
cumuating wealth at the rate Of Sl2'oJl'OW
a year.
THE wife Of ex-governor st. John, Of Kan
sas. is drawing large audiences III the west
as a lecturer.
THE widow Of the late Count Maurice E.
terhazy Of Austria, mas taken the veil as
Carmelite nun.
VoN MoLTKE's wife was an English girl,
Mary Burt. and the old man spends al hour
each day in meditation beside her tomb.
IT is said that United States Minister Reid
expeuds S27. 900 per annum for the rent OF
his house in Paris, which is $40, ,OOOmore than
his total salary.
GENERAL ScHoFIELD, CommAnier-in-
Chief OF Uncle Sans army receives salary
of $4,000 a year, ami his duties are
merely nominal.
ONE interesting fact in connection with
CYRUS Fields golden wedding, IN New ork
City. was that the entire bridal party Of
1s40 was present.
ex-senator THURMAN no longer uses
snuff. He found that the constant utlliaJlon
of his nose affected his eyes, and 50 he
weaned himself from the snuff box.
AusrIS CoRBIN, the railroad millionaire
and magnate, is bald-heldet, nervous man
of ffty-fve, who possesses indomltaole en-
ergy. Fifteen years ago he was unheard o.
THE Empress Augusta Victoria OF Ger
many is now in her thirty-hrst year. Saeis
three months older aud somewhat taller taan
the Emperor, but her hair and fresh com
plexion make her look younger.
IcE-PREsIDENr PROCTOR, Of the Singer
Sewing Machine Company, Is reported TO be
worth So. 600 900. He shared the inventors
noyertv with him and alterwari marie MS
daughter. Singers original capital was sol
which grew to be $50, ,OO,OO.
AUGUsr BELMoSI's entire estate, prac-
tically is left 70 the widow ami children IN
form OF trusts. Small bequests are made to
fine mariners and employees OF the nrm OF
AUGUST Belmont & Co. The hors-s are all
TO be sold.
DocroR Koch was born December ii,
1873 at { austhal, Germany, where ne nrst
attended school. From 1862 70 1856 ne
studied medicine at Goettingen; then, having
become a professor o. medicine, ne COM
menced his practice at Posen.
In the German army the Emperor Is
known as alarm Fritz" on account OF his
habit OF rousing the garrisons in ths middle
of the night. In the navy be IS known as
"Gondola Billy from "gondollng ABOUT
as they call It, anywhere and everywhere.
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Foreign.

QUEEN REGENT EMMA took the oath Of
Office in the presence Of all the members Of
the Dutch Parliament
In consequence Of the disputes that have
occurred between himself and his colleagues,
Signor Giolitti, Italian Minister Of Finance.
has rendered his resignation to the King.
TaE Duke Of Nassau, who by the death Of
William ILL., King Of the Netherlands, sue
ceeds 70 the throne Of the Grand Duchy Of
Luxemberg, has subscribed b the oath 10
maintain inviO ate the national independence
and territorial autonomy Of the Duchy.
BERLIN, Germany is suffering from an
epidemic Of fires. AMI il is believed that
gang of incendiaries is az work destroying
buildings for the sake OF the opportunity TO
Ilunder.
SIX children were crossing the ice at Tip
Ton, England, when it suddenly gave way
beneath them. In spite OF efforts made u
save them all six were drowned
A WEDDING procession was on its way
from the church az Clermont- -Ferrand
France when suddenly two shots were heard.
and both bride a3d bridegroom fell lifeless
TO the ground. The assassin escaped un-
detected.
WHILE the Canadian Government steamer
Newfield was off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia,
entering the harbor her powder magazine
suddenly exploded The deck was torn up
and hole blown through her side. Lamp
Trimmer Thomas McRae and three others
were instantly killed.
TIE Spanish expedition against the rebels
in the Caroline Islands took the fortified
position Of Ketani, en- the island Of Ponapi
During the attack one Spanish officer and
TWENTY-FIVE soldiers were killed and four
officers and forty-seyen men wounded.
TIE Italian Parliament was opene with
a speech by King Humbert.
MAgsHAL F. GILLow, alias A. c. Stew
art who was wanted by the Boston police
for forgery and other crimes, committed
suicide at Hubbarl's Cove. Nova Scotia, and
his wife also took her life at the same time.
Mr.. PARNELL received an enthusiastic
welcome TO Dublin, Ireland; b. seized the
Office Of United Ireland an1 elected the
acting editor: the paper will herea ter sup
port Parnel; the anti-Parnell manifesto was
made public.
THE man who Slot and killed bride aud
BRIDEGROOM at Clermont- ferrand, France,
just after the wedding procession had left
the church. subsequently co nmltted suicide
The murderer proves 20 have been rejected
suitor for the lady's mani.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY French cCnyicts
who recently escaped from Imprisonment at
Cayenne have starved 70 death IN the for
estS.
PROFESSOR BIELRorH, Of Berlin Ger
many. declares that the use OF the Koch
lymph has produced a marked effect in
cases OF leprosy.
THE Dutch Government has consented to
sign the general act OF the Brussels Anti
Slavery Conference.
DIR. WELrI was chosen President Of the
Swiss Republic.
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Washington.

COLONEL ]. F. BATES, Superintendent OF
the Free Delivery System OF the fosJonce
DanartmeDt. has voluntarily rendered 20
Postmaster-General Wanamaker his reslgna-
ton.
THE hearin, ON the New York City census
matter was endel before the Houss Suo-
COMMITTEES.
WASHINGTON MCLEAN, for many years
we'll known in journalism as the proprietor
of ths Cincinnati Enquirer, died at his resi-
dence in Washington in his seventy-fourtn
year.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY WINDOW,
In ordar 10 relieve the tight money Market
purchased s. 900, 900 worth OF four per cent.
Government bonds at prices ranging from
$l.22 to Sl.25.
THE Secretary Of the Treasury has trans
mitted to the House of Representatives an
estimate aggregating sS4, 10000 to supply
the pension deficiency.
HOUSE and Senate committees have de-
cided 70 pass no more General Pension bills
this year.
AT the request Of the Postofice Depart
nnent the Mexican authorities have agreed TO
prohibit any article relating to lotteries from
being sent to the United States.
] JAMES w. HATHAWAY Ndc tuoo0h y t-0
Republican caucus 10 be Postmaster or the
House Of Representatives.
S=cserARY WINDOW announced THAI no
more four per cent. Government boads
would be accepted.
A CONFERENCE OF Republican Senators
appointed a committee on financial lesisla-
ton.
BY a decision rendered by the Treasury
Department bicycles are he'd not 70 be the
personal effects Of persons arriving IN this
country
The President has nominated Naval Con-
structor Theodore ID. Wilson 70 be chief Ok
the Bureau OF Construction AMI Repair and
chief constructor OF the Navy with the rel
atve rank OF Commodore.
The Government now proposes to melt
up the dimes, quarters and half dollars IN
the Treasury aud issue silver certificates
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He kept his word.

Engaged, Mary1 Is it really set
tied thingl" said Mrs. sadley. "Oh, l
hope you'll be happy 1 hope, after
twelve years of marriage, dear Mary,
you'll be as happy as am now"
Her eyes shone; faint color glowed
on her ordinarily pale cheeks. Mary
Sadley looked at her in surprise.
"Would you believe" went on the
Souire's wife, "he has hired girl to
come here and do all the rough work, so
as to spare mel And there IS such an
easy, spring-upholstered sofa in the hail.
in place of the lumpy old lounge; and
there's one Of the hay-hands splitting a
pile of wood to last from now to Mich
aclmas. And we are to keep our we'd
ding anniversary in real old-fashioned
style, next week; and Titus has ordered
a dress trimmed with white ribbons, Just
like tie one was married IN. lie says
l shall look as young and pretty as l did
then. Such nonsense, you know; and
vet it is nice of him to say so-now, isn't
it?"
Aud Mrs. Sadley laughed through her
tears.
Poor SOUL The sunshine had come
late in life, yet it filled her whole being
with blesseduess.
"Pm so glad" said Mary. "But you
deserve it all, Cousin Eunice.'
Aud the newly betr0thed lovers whis-
pered to each other that the millennium
must sure be at hand. For what else
could so have changed the Squlrel
They did not stop to reflect that there
is truth IN the old saw; "Good in all,
and none all good. THE Ledger.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.


THE British ship Buckingham, from Dun
dee Scotland, came into the port Of New
York in charge Of her first mate, her captain
having been assassinated on the voyage by
the ships cook, IIascar named Bahguhan
Dhaas.
FRANK SHIRLEY and John Trapper,
miners, were fatally injured in an explosion
In the Crabtree mine Of Greensburg, Penn.
George Houghman, a boarding house keeper,
had his skull fractured by stone from the
same blast.
A LEHIGH engine exploded at Dale, n. Y,
with terrific force, killing two men and badly
injuring three others.
ROBERTS, CUsHMAN & Co., Importers Of
hatters materials in New York City, failed
for $500, 900
PRICE, SHERMAN & Co., hat manufactur-
ers, of Philadelphia, Penn, have assigned.
They are rated from 500, 900 to $500, 900.
The settlement in the hat trouble at Dan
bury, Conn, is a complete victory for the
manufacturers.
WHITTEN BURDErTE & You've, clothiers,
Of Boston, Mass, have assigned. They are
rated at Sl,000000; G. w. ingalls, & Co.,
shoe dealers. also of Boston, assigned with
liabilities Of $4,000. They were large deal
ers and managed about twenty stores.
BY a vote Of IA to II the Aldermen Of New
York City granted franchise to the New
York and Long Island Railroad Company to
construct tunnel under Forty second street
from the East to the North River.
BosToN. Mass, elected as Mayor n.
Mathews, Jr., Democrat.
THIRTEEN patients were inoculated at
Mount Sinai and st. Luke's Hospitals in New
York City with Dr. Kochs lymph for the
cure of consumption.
LIEUTENANT-C COLONEL ANDREW II. YOUNG,
Assistant Quartermaster in the United
States army, died few days ago at Dover,
n II.
The mills Of the Clara Thread Company
in Kearney and Newark, n. j., closed down
and almost three thousand people were
thrown out of employment.
The United States cruiser Newark failed
10 complete her trial trip off Delaware
Breakwater, owing 70 the breaking Of two
bolts in the radial gear Of the low pressure
cylinder
Elk SENATOR FRANK B. ARNOLD COM
mitted suicide in his oiiice at Undlla n. Y,
by shooting himself Mr.. Arnoll, since his
defeat last November for Congressman from
that district, has been desponie and at
times acted strangely.
HENRY BLUE, a clerk employed by
! Thomas H. Perkins q Co., stock brokers OF
Boston, Mass, has been arrested charged
with the embezzlement Of Sl734 from his
employers.
liz New York City Henry Siebert. tobacco
merchant, failed with liabilities OF $3.50, OOO;
Venaole & Heyman, liquor dealers, assigned
owing nearly S40O, ,O0): Tarlow a. flushing,
manufacturers Of worsted knit goods, sus-
pended for 800, 900.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-12-19
South and West.

A coLoRED man killed Mr.. Aaron, a mer-
chant in his store at ROebuck Lake Miss,
the other night and was lynched Oetore
morning.
MISS MAUD GRANTaAM and Oscar hey-
ers. students at the Missouri Wesleyan In
stitute fell through the ice into pond near
Cameron, No, while skating and were
drowned.
The Farmers Alliance Convention at
Ocala. Fla, adopted a financial policy an |
declared in favor OF the Paddock Pure Food
bill.
The first Legislature Of Id ,ho convened at
Boise City. H. z. Burkhart. ex-clerz real
the proclamation convening the special Legis-
lature. The thirty-six Representatives were
sworn in Permanent Speaker Frank A.
Fem took the oath OF office.
JOSEPH Brown was called to his door at
Dougherty Iniian Territory, and fired upon
Dy some unknown person. The ball strucS
him in the heart aud passed through his
body and struck his stepdaughter, who was
standing behind him, killing both instantly.
SYLVESTER SYLvEsrERsES and Sam Nc
Gee. farmers. were killed by an engine at a
crossing in Crookston, Minn. They were
driving home and both were lying IN Tie
bottom of the wagon drunk.
THE American National Bank of Arkan-
sas CITY. Kan. closed its doors from lack
of funds to meet Obligations.
AN epidemic of scarlet fever is raging in
Cabell County, w. Va.
THE Crow Indians, in full council, have
sold to the Government their lands west OF
the divide on Prices Greek, Montana, ani
the adioin ng strip fifteen miles wide Con-
~ otn NJ
chased, 1, l,S5OOOO.
THE Texas cotton crop. based on returns
from IA cotton growing counties, VIII Ot
1sls.OOO bales, against |, l,1O4,OOO bales last
year.
EAsTLAND. FOWLER & Co, wholesale
crockery and glassware dealers, Of San Fran
cisco. Cal, have failed. Liabilities, sl9S, OOOi
assets, $5S, 800.
GEORGE MARTIN, the colorel murderer OF
William Crouch was executed at Meridian,
Miss
THE Franklin Bank at Clarksville, Tenn,
susnandad ,avment Two hours later the
Farmers and Merchants Bank. OF the same
place. osei its doors. These failures caused
Kendrick. Pettus & Co., tobacco dealers, OF
Clarksyille, to make an assignment
THE will Of the lato Horace Kelley, oi
Cleveland, Ohio, gives $500, 900 for the foun.
dation OF National Art Gallery IN tna'
city.
THE Territorial Council Of Oklaho:n'
passed the corrected House bill, emoodylns
some of Governor Steele's recommendations
locating the temporary capital at kingnsh,e,r, ii,,,
Governor Steele promptly approved the OIL
THE hostile Indians have been fighting
among themselves in the Bad Lands ol
South Dakota. The fight was for leanershl
betsvaen Two Strike and Short Bull each
vishin1 To control the united bands. The
fght was bitterly contested for several
hours, and many were killed.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-12-19
CURIOUS FACTS

Tortoises and turtles have no teeth.
Ten ordinary eggs will weigh pound.
The first air pump was made in 1850.
The knot, or nautical mile, is 6,OS6.7
feet.
Out of every five emigrants three are
males.
More bachelors than married men COM
nit suicide.
Windmills were in original use in the
twelfth century.
A large banana tree in a greenhouse al
Flint, Mich, is bearing small bunch OF
fruit.
Ottawa, Kan, boasts of a rooster Sc
large that it must be helped upon its
roost every night.
A S. gold nugget was picked up from
the gravel with which street IN lone,
CAL, is graded the other day.
Asaletida is a vegetable, not an ami
NAL product. 1t is prepared from the
roots of plant extensively grown in
Persia, Bcloochlstan and Afganistan.
The leaning tower of Pisa is 1873 feet
high, and is, if the cornice be included,
thirteen feet eight inches out of the per-
pendicular. The walls at the base are
thirteen feet thick.
In China all the land belongs to the
State, and a triiing sum per acre, never
altered through long centuries, is paid as
rent; this is the only tax in the country,
and it amounts to about sixty cents per
head.
The vampire plague makes stock rails
ing in the Brazilian provinces of Matto-
Groso and Entire Rios almost impossible.
As many as twenty of the winged blood
suckers often attack single cow in q
night.
A farmer near Atlanta, Ga, not nee1-
ing coffin he bought for his sick child,
the latter getting well, mounted it on
four legs and used it as watering trough
for his cows. With the lid he repaired
his feuce.
There is a curiously named literary So
ciety in London, the full title of which is
the volumes united once. a-month-
to,form a-perfect-sette; object-convivi-
ality and mutual admiration" 1t is COM
monty known as "Ye Settle Of Old Vol
umes."
Slaves were sold publicly in Liverpool
in the latter half of the last century. Sir
Picton in his "Memorials of Liverpool,
quotes two advertisements of the sale OF
slaves in Liverpool, which appeared in
Williamson's Liverpool Advsrti'er in the
years 1865 and 1855.
Island No. "A, on the Mississippi, has
an owner, but belongs to no State, coun-
ty or township. 1t appears that, accord
inq to enactment whereby the States OF
Arkansas and Mississippi were created,
the river boundary Of the former ex-
tended to midstream, that of the latter
to midchanel. Herein is the difficulty.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-12-19

down in the heart OF the deep, cool
well, 'but most think I've been too
hard on her. Now I come to study on
it, I've had lots O. hired help about the
farm, and she's done all the bousework
herself. And she never was very strong!
Was she a pretty girl! There wasn't
none prettier in radius o twenty miles
around Kingsley Church. And to look
at her nowg"
The Squire got up and stamped I'M
easily around the well.
"I've been brute!" he muttered to
himself. "Worse than a dumb brute
for they amt supposed to know no bet
ter. don't know what I've been think
in of all these years. Leave off loving
her9 hain't never let it off. ] love her
now, bless her faithful, patient soul, as
we'll as ever | did, only I've fell into the
way of beiu' careless and neglectful. But
I'll turn over new leaf this very day,
see if l don't"
He kept his word.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-12-19
New z.aIand's Dairy Industries.

New Zealand is far from being such a
hot country as to prevent farmers from
producing excellent butter and cheese.
From the latest information we have re-
ceived from that country we learn that
there are now some fifty cheese factories
in operation, having an annual output Of
some sixty tons OF cheese. As this in
dustry or the making of cheese in the
factory system is not as yet ten years oil
in New Zealand, we must conclude that
conditions are very favorable and there
is fair prospect of an immense increase
in the dairy products of the country
Neu York Sun.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-12-19
A Sad Russian Marriage.

News has reached England of one OF
the saddest marriages on record which
was recently entered into by a former
Russian officer condemned to ten years
hard labor in the mines and lifelong
Punishment and young aud beautiful
girl, possessing an ample fortune in her
own right, vino has faithfully and wearlly
followed the footsteps Of her lover.
The bridegroom was brought to the
altar Of the prison chapel in the soiled
gray clothes Of miner, his ankle bound
by chains clinched in his iron waistband.
The marriage ceremony over husband and
wife babe each other sad but hopeful
farewell; he to return to his gloomy, toll
some life, and she to wait wearily until
her husband obtained the freedom of a
colonist. FFancisco Chronicle.
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THE BROCK BENEATH THE SNOW

Way down in dads OF medder, where the
pussy willers grow,
used to go an lissen TO the brook beneath
the snow;
Above / heerd the roarin' win an saw the
snow-gust whirl;
But the brook beneath the snow an ice
danced singiD', like girl.
I'd put my ear down to the ice didn' min
the col,
An wen heerd itsmusic, there wuz summer
in my SOUL
An wen dad licked me an my heart 'ud bile
an overflow,
would go an hear the music of the brook
beneath the snow.
An then my sObs 'ud change to shouts. an
sorrer change to glee.
For it stIewed along its rusic from the
mountain to the sea;
An I'd stretch my ear to hear it, an my heart
'ud swell an glow,
Wen lissened to the music Of the brook be-
Qeat1 Tue SHOW.
Since then the wintry blasts Of life have
blown me here an there,
An snowstorms they have blocked my way
an hedged me everywhere;
But sheltered from the harrycane, within the
valley low,
1 lissen for the music of the brook beneath
the snow.
For know beneath the snow an ice that
there is golden sand.
By that glorious streak NV melody that wig
giles through the land;
The storm beats hard; the wind is high;
cannot hear it blow,
For 1 lissen to the music of the brook beneath
the snow.
S. W. Foss, in Yankee Blade.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

against them TO relieve the monetary sit
uation.
The members Of the Senate Finance Com
mittee, together with a special COMMITTEES,
comprising Senators Plumb. Hale, Mitchell,
Mcmillan and Power have been named 10
confer and frame a scnsms for legislation t.
relieve the financial condition oftle country
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-12-19

The annual production Of coal in japan
is over 100000 tons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-11
HANDFUL OF EXCISE REFORsERs

The New-York Citizens Alliance TO promote the enact
ment OF just efficient and popular excise law, the cir
ar calling the meeting modesty announced came together
Yesterday afternoon in John c. Boyds law Office In 1.-The
Tines building John j. Martin, who keeps liquor store at
Broadway and Catharinet presided and there were
nine other persons present They passed resolutions
phaszng vocerousy fact that they had mo cohnec-
ton aiaton with political party organization
whateyer.' John w. Keogh, George Hopper, John J.
Martin, Adolph Luhrs, Charles Gundlaok and Bruen
Bschof form tbs Executive Committee Several other
committees we're then appointed, and judicousy
the names distributed and comminged that those the
Finance Committee also the members Of the other
committees The chairman depored the smslness OF the
meeting but assured the 'reformers" well as the
porters chat this because IL Is very hot"