Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-22
FRIDAY. AUGUST 20. 1890.
CURRENT NEWS AND COMMENT

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the world.
There will be no state fair at
Richmond this fall. That has been
flDally settled.
Two hundred and twenty'elght
houses have been erected in Salem
in ten months and one million dol
ars spent in building operations.
The Chesapeake & Ohio R. r. Co.
has spent $4,000 improving the
Healing Springs property which II
bought last year, and made hand
some hotel and summer resort.
A Northern syndicate has Just
purchased $4,000 worth of proper
ty in Roanoke. Thirty houses be-
longing to the Roanoke Land I'm
prOvement Company were included
IN the sale.
Ii is considered that the proper
thing for the summer girl to wear is
tan.cOlored stockings to match her
tan shoes. Whether 1t is proper
for her to show them is something
else, but she does.
The Pittsburg Dispatch says:
"Stanley is regarded as a great
discoverer; but wait till his wife
asks him to find something IN the
pocket of her dress hanging In the
closet. The jungles of the dark
continent are nowhere in cOmpar-
SON." But she cannot help him to
find the latch-key hole at 3 A. NJ.
Albert A. Howard, aged eighteen,
and Mollie V. Howard, aged four
teen, procured marriage license
at the clerks Office in Danville and
were joined in the holy bonds OF
wedlock. They are residents of
North Danville, are first cousins,
have no father, but the mother on
each side gave their consent to the
marriage.
\ singular incident is reported
from Bedford county. Mrs Joseph
st. Clair died on the 9th instant.
About fifteen minutes after her
death her husband died, and they
we're both buried IN one coffin the
next day. He had not been i'll at
all on the contrary was stalwart,
healthy man, and went to a store
In the vicinity and made some
purchases the day of his death.
The last words of Mrs. st. Clair
were that her husband might die
and be buried with her. This is
considered a direct answer to her
prayer.
On and after September 1st boys
and youths "actually or apparently
under sixteen years Of age Will be
arrested in New York for smoking
cigars, cigarettes or tobacco in any
form IN any public streets, place
or resort, and fined from 81 to $40.
1t is not a wholesome practice tor
the very young to indulge in to.
bacco. Boys may think it manly
to go around putting cigars and
cigarettes, but it only excites pity
among those who wish them we'll
and sympathize with them in their
delusions. They iDjure themselves
without knowing it, and contract
a habit they are almost bound to re-
greet whenever they reach maturity.
An incident occurred in Wash
ingtOn last week which throws con-
siderable light on electrOcutlOn.
A lneman of the United States
Electric Company, in placing some
carbons in one OF the lamps of the
company, accidentally received a
shock of 1000 volts, which knock.
ed him Insensible, but from which
he slowly revived, with symptoms
of recovery precisely similar to
those observed in the case OF
Kemmler before the second shock
was given. Kemmler was executed
by the application of 1900 volts,
Just two hundred less than the
number which failed to kill the
lineman. The lineman, in describ-
ing his sensations, declared that
he was conscious for at least FIVE
seconds, during which he endured
the most excruciating fortunes.
A dispatch from Marion, Mass,
TO the Nashville american says
that sex President Cleveland Is at
tracing much interested attention
by the systematic training he has
undertaken recently, with much
success, to reduce his weight. He
has eschewed all meats, and con-
fined bis diet to vegetables and
fruits, principally berries, which
he is very fond of. He never takes
oyer two meals, and sometimes
only one. daily. His exercise is