Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-11-13
ODDS n ENDS.

II takes two men two hours to wind the
large clock in tie steepleo Of Trinity church,
New York city
A cynic remarks that the average board.
ing house keeper has never been able to
find the store that keeps good butter
Ben Butler once supported himself by
making chairs for thirty cents a day, His
annual income now is said to be s2OO,0O0
Al Montichiari batteries Of artillery us.
ing smokeless powder kept up a fire for
half an hour without their position being
discovered
A petroleum engine has been introduced
in a lighthouse in Scotland for working
the siren Of the fog signal apparatus 10
Gently instituted.
Prince Bismarck has 1903 decorations.
The diamond star given him by the late
car OF Russia is worth $4,000.
The best kind Of cheap jewelry is Of sl.
yer, for the reason that it II is more likely to
be what it pretends to be.
IL is reported that there are 1900 Japan,
csc in this country, Of whom 1900 have
been baptized by missionaries in their own
land or since coming to the United States,
civilian, Emperor Of the Working.
men," wa inscribed on the arch Of wei
come erected by the w~orkingmen under
which William II and Emperor Francis
Joseph passed in entering Ldegnitz.
A popular remedy for rheumatism is
piece of new flannel applied over the seat
Of pain. This application is warming and
very gently irritating, which accounts TOT
it's beneficial effects.
Thomas Moonlight mortgaged his farm
for $500 in 1861 and used the money in
raising the First Kansas battery A year
later Case Broderick joined this battery
a. a private and served in IL to the end Of
the war. The two men are now by a sin.
gular coincidence, running for congress
against each other
A barristsr who is shortly going TO enter
the holy state OF matrimony was seen
scribbling IN his brief the other day in
court. LATER IN tie day his clerk, happen.
ing TO glance at the writing. read these old
lines: Fee simple or ii simple fee, And
all the fees entail, Are nothing when com.
pared to thee, Thou best OF fees-female0
Johann Sebastian Bach's piano has just
been overhauled by a maker in Gohlis. It
is of Saxon manufacture and Of wonderful
tone. After Bach's death it passed into
the possession Of bis son F%riedemann. who
sold il TO Count Boss. Some twenty-five
years ago it became the property Of its
present owner. Herr Paul de Wit, OF Leip
sic.
The postal business M the London house
OF is something tremendous
During the session which has CLOSED 10
money orders were issued and paid and
7.26I postal orders Nearly 10000 tele
grams were received, and stamps exceed
ing the value OF al5,C00 were sold Tie
daily average of letters delivered at the
house was l2,0o1 and the number posted
was 300
The citizens OF Sreuben county, n T.
regardless Of politics, are ~rallying around
Miss Cora e. Russell. the FIRST woman who
was ever nominated for Office IN that
county. Miss Russell is a candidate on
the Democratic ticket for school commits
sioner. and Steuben county promises to do
the gallant and graceful thing by eleeting
her by a large majority
The international telegraphic rates on the
continent will conform after July I, 1871,
with the schedule fixed by the recent in
telegraphic confereucein Paris
Between Germany and adjoining coun-
tries the rate will be ga cents per word
between Germany and Great Britain
Scandinavia or italy, 3 cents per word
and between Germany aud Russia, Spain
the Balkans, ) cents per word
A unique nva is progressing 10 the
Fort Scott tkan.l district. where Gen. john
Rice and lis son are opposing candi
for the legislature Gen Rice asks
bis friends 10 dead lenieutIy with the boy
that be is Young aud immature, and while
he means well be does NOT know ueara
much as be thinks he does. The young
man tells his audiences that the times and
demand the blood and vigor q
youth, aud that the lean and slipperi
pantaloon should seek the quiet Of the
corner-and so the campaign
goes, with the friends OF each candidate
their man will win