Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-06-19

A new system of burning brick, by the
use of kerosene oil instead of wood, is
COW being tried as an experiment at Jova's
yard, north Of Newbnp;, n. Y, on a kiln
containing $4,000 brick.
| It has been decided that the "Ion" OF
Euripides is to be the next Greek play at
Cambridge, England. 1t will be presented
next November by the students of that
university.
A new disinfectant has made its appear
ance under the name of thiocamph 1t Is
combination of camphor with sulphur
Gus acid, containing over sixty times Its
volume OF sulphurous acid gas, which,
upon its exposure in warm room, is grad
ually evolved
Seville is infested with women BARRIERS
They are pretty women, however. A wo
man barber can tuck towel under gen
tleman's chin, hold him by the nose and
brandish razor as well as a man, and can
do more talking at the same time.
A census Of wolves has been taken in
Russia. They amount to $1,000, according
to the enumerators. They commit great
havoc among the sheep and pigs, and dur
ing the past year 203 human beings have
been devoured by them. The price of a
VOLTS head is fixed by the government al
ten roables. About 5000 Of them were
killed last year.
A Berlin restaurant and cafe Is cooled in
summer and heated in winter by electricity
and the flood of light from the electric
lamps is tinted delicate pink, which is 50
becoming to the complexion of the lady
visitors that the place IS thronged.
A statistical enthusiast says that plan.
list, in playing certain presto, played
5, 595 notes in four minutes. The striking
of each note involved two movements OF
the finger and one movement each of the
elbow, wrist and arm From this il is cal
culated that seventy-two voluntary move.
ments were made per second.
The Institute of France has just been
presented with 5000 volumes, including
maps and documents, relative to the so
called Latin countries of America, The
collection was presented as a tribute OF
sympathy toward France by committee
consisting of Col. J. J. Dias, minister OF
Uruguay; DR. J. Gutieres- Ponce, secretary
of legation of Colombia, and J. A. GARLIC
y Navos, formerly consul general of Vene-
zuela.
The annual list of articles lost during
the balls of the preceding season in the
Winter palace at st. Petersburg has just
been published. 1t includes grand cross
of the order of st. Anna, two stars OF the
order of st. Stanislaus, two gold coins
struck in memory of the coronation of
Alexander III at Moscow, five small orders
and fifty bits of women's jewelry valued at
$4,000
Judge w. T. Newman, of Atlanta, owns
a pewter coin or medal bearing on one side
the representation of Independence hall. at
Philadelphia, and the date ITO. On the
other side is the Liberty bell and the in
scription: Proclaim Liberty Throughout
the Land, unto All the Inhabitants There
Of" with the denomination, "e5."
This year is the 2O0th anniversary of the
invention of the improved tobacco pipe
the bowl, the tube and the mouthpiece. Up
to the year 1890 the only medium of enjoy
ing the fragrant weed was by means of a
cylindrical instrument fashioned from the
crude clay and smelling of the earth
earthly The inventor of the present com
bination pipe was physician, Dr. Vilar-
ius, of Vienna. The first tobacco pipe
mandatory was established in 1890.
Enough jewelry was lost at the last
queens drawing room to have stocked a
small shop. The crowding and pushing at
barriers were so terrific that several wo-
men had their dresses and feathers serious
IL damaged, and two ladies passed through
the throne room with fearfully disheveled
hair. However, the jewelry which is lost
at the palace is always well looked after,
so the missing property was ultimately re-
gained by the owners.
Montenegro has hardly any plains The
limestone ridges of the Dinarie Alps which
peaks, are so rugged and rocky that the
people have the common saying, When
God was in the act of distributing stones
over the earth, the bag that held them
burst, and let them all fall upon Monte
negro"
II is difficult for us to conceive the Sa-
hara as having been a splendidly watered
and richly productive region, yet there is
proof it was once so. Among the many in
teresting statements made by Col. Flatters,
of England. who in 1871 made prelimi-
nary study of Eastern Sahara, with view
of building a railway through Timbuctoo
to Soudan, is that the desert is traversed
By many mountain chains, which are in
by the beds of ancient rivers, and
everywhere in these valleys an abundance
Of water Is found not far below the surface