Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-06-26
ODDS AND ENDS.

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keeping the memory of the early Dutch
settlers green by marking historic sites in
New York city with appropriate tablets.
The papers are full of accounts of a sill
yer center piece which is being manufac
tured for the queen, and which contains
1000 ounces of silver. As there is already
plate at Windsor castle valued at upwards
of two millions, it is difficult to conceive
what the queen can want with another cen.
ter piece
The important work of draining the
Roman marshes, ON which the italian gov
eminent has been engaged since 1884, is now
well advanced toward completion. The
work can only be carried on at certain
seasons of the year, owing TO the unhealth-
mess of the district
lady went to one of the groceries in
wildwood, Fla, and bought two pounds of
butter that had been bought in the country
by the merchant. When the nice yellow
lump was cut in two, there was found in
the center of it a large Irish potato nicely
peeled and carefully covered over with
butter
The favorite flower for the buttonhole is,
perhaps, the carnation Ii is a cheerful
little blossom that lasts for days with its
stem in glass OF water, and smiles frankly
and contentedly all day long when thrust
in buttonhole and unoheered by drop of
moisture.
Howardsville, Colo, has curiosity in
the shape OF an ice mine. The mine is owned
BY parties who in the earlier days ran a
tunnel through the frozen ground and
struck spring beyond. As the water flows
out of the tunnel it freezes, and the tunnel
is now filled nearly to the roof with pure
ice II has long supplied ice for the town,
and never thaws, winter or simmer.
The London Geological society possesses
white peacock. The bird preserves the
markings which distinguish the species,
particularly the large eyelike spots on the
tail feathers. The effect of these spots is
remarkable. They are exactly like the pat
tern on damask tablecloth.
Last year the world raised 2.OcO 600 900
bushels of wheat. The United States grew
49O,000,0O0 bushels; France, BOG 600. 900; In
dia, 231, 100000; Russia with Poland, 300
GOO 900; Portugal, 5000, OOO Denmark $780,
600; Spain, 73,O0O000; Switzerland, 2, 500, 900;
Germany, s4,OOO,00o; Hungary, 95,OOO,OOO
Asia Minor, 37,0OO000; Persia, % ,OOO,O
Obstinate nose bleeding is frequently one
of the most difficult things to check. Sew
eral aggravated cases have lately occurred
at the hospital Of the University of Penn
sylvania. As a last resort DR. d. Hayes
Agnew tried ham fat with great result.
Two large cylinders OF bacon were forced
well into the nostrils and the hemorrhage
ceased at once.
A remarkable surgical operation was
performed recently near Red Oak, la. A
week ago a l4-year-old son of James Hall
was shot by a hired man with 3s-caliber
revolver the ball passing into the abdomen
and cutting the intestiues in four places.
He was placed under the influence of ether
the intestines removed and the cuts sewed
up. He may live.
In gratitude for their deliverance from
The perils Of the voyage in the Inman liner
City of Paris, the passengers, before land
ing, subscribed $500 rs a thank Offering
and appointed a committee to decide upon
Is application. IL Is understood that the
committee have decided 10 hand over 400
% the Seamen's hospital, Liverpool, for its |
general purposes, and to endow with the /
balance bed in the same institution for /
,ick American sailors.
a considerable sum Of the Russian rev
niue Is annually spent in payment for the /
,orpses of wolves The official estimate is /
hat no fewer than 40, OO0 OF the creatures 1
ire roaming about at large Last year the /
inhabitants of the province Of Nologda /
Silled 1900 Of the brutes, and in the Casan
district 81 900 We're killed The wolves de-
troyed 2l3 human beings in the course of
he last twelvemonth.
Habit clothes are made extremely plain,
nd are constructed as 70 dispense with all
he weight possible. This matter of weight
: something that women are striving to
void The fifteen and twenty pound
kirts which women have been burdened
nth and which physicians have CON
emned are judiciously discarded now
There seems to be good reason for fearing
hat the zebra is rapidly becoming extinct
Dortsmen and travellers concur in report
~ that the zebra of South Africa is now
lore and more difficult to find, and is. like
ne aboriginal races of primitive lands, dis
ppearing before the march of civilization.
nd, unlike the noble savage" the agile
ebra has ever resolutely refused to be
lmed
In London alone there are upward Of 40
ano factories Over 300 shops and fac
'ries in the metropolis are devoted to the
applying of musical goods of all sorts.
throughout the provinces there are about
900 music establishments of various kinds.
hey possess in England no fewer than
lirty-seven newspapers dealing exclusive
with music. At the annual banquet of
Ie Society Of Musical Instrument Manu-
cturers one OF the speakers estimated
at $1,000 pianofortes are manufactured