Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-06-12
ODDS AND ENDS

The danger Of infect,o,
water is said to be only slioS.i lnRs
by filtration through sand s ao.y tedlos
ing through at all times mn nt'slls pas
numbers just after the llts, u lsgs
cleaned and again after Il bs. n3 tsss
for some time. ' Oeen usa
1t is proposed to substitn,.
ure Of light as a standard in nls ses nss
candle, and it is thought that r sose q u
the measures already used will B. s we
A black thunder cloud bad obs. 'Ha
sky. "The other day it was HS.sIaiedtA.
said little girl, land now it's ds, T'salas.
The first prize in the competition ,
memorial to the late German lOfas
William i, in Silesia, has been sd; .alpse
the sculptor Herr Christian PaS. ssa
Breslau, and the architect Herr I TIas. Z
Leipzig. 'Aclt
A wild East" has been brouoh, 80,
don, for an attempt similar 10 t5s, ~ 20
falo Bill. Eighty Arabs and few 40 :. nc
including women and children
camels, asses, dogs, tents-in fae sse
oriental outfit complete-haye come -
to exhibit the life and to executs ~, ~ vs
tasias of the desert. ~ Aa
At Torrelagorda, Cadiz. a MaYiu =.
matte rapid firing gun weighing ahoa ~ Y
pounds threw projectiles weighing ~
thing over one pound at the rats =, q.
| shots in ten seconds. In hiob -
put forty-seven shots out of ffty in y.
get 600 meters distant. Afterward /, IA,
fifty explosive shells in ten seconds >, by
meters range, and dozen shots NO.
the target. F'0a
Two English cyclists have lust comnl.,.,
the tour Of Europe on bicycles Tbs r,I =
London last summer, and Travelled s,,Ir
siyely on their machines, except vS..
obliged to take steamer for crossing l.
or lake. They went through ran
Switzerland and Austria, into RoumsS,,
and Turkey, thence returning via Rns,.
Sweden AID Norway, Northern prrai,
Holland and Belgium.
AT the beginning of the wear II wa. 81
mated that about 5000, 0OO, 900 was invest
in the electrical industries. Thetelegr.rs
companies had $4,000. 600: telephone y,
100000; electric lighting and power rom.
panies, $500, 900, electrical supply eom.
panies, 100000, 600 There is no doubt ~,
another year will show 81 600 O0m n.
vested in electrical industries.
The biggest telescope in the world ere,.
ed at Ealing, in England, has Just b,
made, single handed, by Mr. Common a.
astronomer. Its whole r.. IS weighs near,
twenty tons. The enormous iron eyljnd,
which forms the tube is 90 feet long sDas
feet in diameter, resembling the ordimr
boiler of stationary engine. Inside M,
is delicately distributed some ten ton. Il
pig iron, the whole instrument going I,
form the most wonderful machine With
the planet possesses Through Nh. Con.
mons telescope it win be easy to see 10
fewer than 50,00O,O0O stars.
An elaborate system OF protection aga,s
fire is to be installed at the Brussels thes-s
de la Monnaie during the summer hoH-
days. An immense water tank will b
connected with number of small tsn
placed all over the building. When eiths
of these taps is turned the water will m
into a series Of pipes playing upon thesiaa
and viii automatically bring down theirn
curtain, ring alarm bells and light electro
lamps in all the passages, so that the a.
dience may find their way if the gas fails
The site Of the old court house si
county Jail, erected in l764 In Great Blf
rington, Mass, is TO be marked byablOckd
stone with the following Inscription: NE
this spot stood the first court house Il
Berkshire county, erected in 1764 when
Aug. 16, 17T4, occurred the first open resist
ance to British rule in this country h
was at this court house, in 1880, that Ilee
dore Sedgwick, under the bill Of rights
secured the freedom of Elizabeth Freeman
a runaway slave Of Gen. John Ashley q
Sheffield. This is supposed TO be the fni
freeing Of a slave by legal process in Moth
America.
One often reads pathetic stories Of %
birds that die simultaneously with g
shortly after, their child owners. ItsolaA
pretty, but the simple prose Of the msttd
often is that the owners infected the bid
1anaries and other songsters will eath
scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, oranei
any other human disease, and II left iH 70
'ick room they are almost sure TO be d.
'ected. Pet cats and small dogs ioa ~
,ften sacrificed in the same way anaia
heir cases there is also the risk that 10
viii SO out ard become the unwilling Q
itrumcnts Of disseminating disease