Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

OF the year, where fresh samples of butter
will be received every fourteen days, the
judges decision to be given on the butter
as received, and its condition at the end
of fourteen days. The samples are to be
sent Immediately on receipt of letter or
telegram, SO that the dairymen will not
be able to make special cask for exhibit
ton, and the samples are to be repeated
as often as required. Competing diaries
must send in return of the feeding and
system generally followed on the farm,
| with special reference to the week during
which the samples are sent in. At pre-
sent the number of diaries entered is
800. Nine judges have been selected,
and these act in groups of three each,
each group recording an independent
opinion on each sample, which is checked
by those of the other two groups. Each
group will consist of two butter mer
chants and one dairy expert. The ex-
hibitors are paid the usual market rate
for their exhibits. The shows will be
held at intervals of fortnight during the
eight months of the year.
NJ. LUIGI PALMIERI, the learned direc-
tor of the observatory at Vesuvius, has
made himself a specialist in questions ap-
pertaining to the electricity Of the earth.
In his forty years. experience he has care
fully studied the question of the effect
upon the electricity of the air, of plants,
trees, or the sun, and if it is objected
that these discussions are purely in the
field of speculation, NJ Palmieri responds
that in these electrical indications we
shall find the surest means of the predic-
ton of weather. In fact, according to
the director of the Vesuvian observatory,
we must discard the barometer, which
cannot achieve more than so per cent.
of success in prediction, and take the
electrometer, which never is found in
fault.
THE most brilliant, if not the most
powerful, anarchist in New York is Miss
DR.. Kelly, in Seventh street. She is a
young woman of remarkable beauty, cul-
ture and intellectually. She is a very
able physician and enjoys large and lu-
crative practice. She has been student
of political and social economy since her
girlhood, and has at her tongues end the
works of Lasaile, Marx, Fourier, Godin,
Blind, Mill, Holyoake and Herbert
Spencer. She has a following of about
500, whose faith in her is almost
fanaticism. She is what is called ''pa-
cific anarchist" and does not believe in
dynamite, poison, or bloodshed, but adj
yocates the conversion of the community
by lectures, essays, pamphlets and books.
For the next twenty years the exclus-
i've privilege of taking fur seals on the
islands of st. Paul and st. George
(Alaska) will belong to the North Amer
lean Commercial Company of New York
and San Francisco. This company binds
itself to faithfully obey all the laws OF
the United States and regulations of the
treasury department in the premises, to do
the right thing by the natives, to encour-
age las far as practicable) the dressing,
dyeing and marketing of the sealskins in
this country instead of in London, and to
pay the government in rental, taxes, ETC.,
a sum estimated at about 81 600, 900
year The Alaska Company has been
paying only matter of $500, 900 year.
GIN Kansas says DR.. Henry Lasting,
scientific writer, ''they are making
vermont maple sugar out Of brown
sugar glucose and flavoring compound
they extract from birch bark. The
product is palatable, and to the mex
perienced palate is hardly distinguishable
from the original article In Michigan
clever chemist is making menthol, pep
permint and their compounds artiticially
from coal tar products, and is all ready to
sell his goods at much less than the
genuine article costs. These two new
manufactures win certainly injure the
business of the maple sugar men in New
England, and the peppermint growers OF
Middle New York;
A BosToN clergyman, says the Golden
Rule, has been unearthing barbarities in
that city. In a tenement house at the
north end he found Portuguese family,
consisting of the mother and five chill
dren, who all made trousers for living
and who earned by hard work two dol
lars and twenty-five cents a week, being
paid at the rate of fourteen cents a pair.
Two little girls, aged three and five
years, were obliged to spend their days
basting down seams. The clergyman not
only vouches that he saw these little ones
so employed, but had their photographs
taken as further proof of his statements.
A WASHINGTON electrician is at work
on some important improvements in the
direction Of electric cooking. There is
every reason to believe that investigations
in this field will repay inventors. Elec- !
tricity, when laid on in the house, has
only to be tapped to be Immediately
useful. The great advantage of the gas
fire over coal or coke is its almost
instantaneous applicability, and in this
respect also, besides that of absence OF
smell and healthfulness, electricity would
have distinct advantages.
RAILROAD building in the South was
greater last year than in any previous
year in her history, and the prospects for
1890. saws Dixie, are good for large in
crease over last years fine record. Every
day a new resource is discovered, and
then railroad becomes absolutely neces-
sary to develop it. Georgia and Alabams