Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-03-14
CURRENT NEWS AND COMMENTS.

G. S. Chapman, of Waterbury,
Conn, has a clock which has tucked
of the time without stopping since
1888.
Hurrah for the senate! That Is
the senate OF Wyoming territory.
1t has abolished secret executive
sessions. Now its big brother, the
senate of the United States, ought
to go and do likewise {!
A Michigan man buried bis wife,
put up a headstOne, reprinted bis
house, married a second wife, and
dug five acres of potatoes within
seventeen days, and yet he says he
can't begin to hustle as his father
used to.
A squirrel was killed recently on
its way tom a grain field IN San
Joaquin county, California, and on
examination of its pouches they
were found to contain $40 grams
of wheat, which 60 to show how
much damage a few of these ami
mails can do.
The warden of the Michigan
State prison shot four fingers from
the hand an unruly prisoner. -Four
fingers at one shot is new thing
in Michigan. Heretofore that &C.
complishment has been mOnOpO-
lied BY the State of Kentucky.
A Pittsburg man has been SEN
fenced to three years in the peni.
Tertiary for the larceny of an UNI
brella. 1t served him exactly
right. de should have organized a
syndicate aud gobbled up sll the
umbrellas in the State Of Penu-
sylvania, and then he would have
had a better standing 10 the courts.
y voung woman in Baltimore
whose husband had thrasheG her
was asked b. the magistrate who
examined into the case If she did
think it possible that jealous love
might have lmpelled her lord and
master 10 the castigation. "Oh,
shoot such love as thatw was her
reply. For epigrammatlc concise
ress nothing could be more neatly
out.
In a recent sale of old books and
manuscripts IN New York letter
written by Christopher Columbus
sold for $4,000. 1t consisted of
JIG lines and 4 words, and very
easy words at that, were spelled
the most convenient way. Mr.. Co.
lumbus was good at sailing. says
the Detroit Free Press, but mighty
poor at spelling, though in his day
it was just as proper to spell cat
with "k" as in any other way.
a young lady in a Campbell
county, Va, school several days
ago took severe lesson in natural
science. She placed a bottle OF
frozen ink, with the cork tightly
driven in, on the stove to thaw.
She attempted to take it up after
wards, and the stopper shot out
with a loud explosion, the contents
of the bottle painfully scaldiDg
her face.
The man who was forcibly eject
ed from a car in San Francisco
after rendering IN payment of his
fare fve.dollar gold piece, which
the conductor refused to accept,
Las Just recOYered a big verdict
against the company. The Su.
preme Court held that 50 was not
an unreasonable amount for the
agent of a corporation to change.
The Ohio legislature has amend
ed the Ovens Sunday law, making
t optional with the councils of the
various cities as to whether the sa-
looms shall remain open a portion
of the Sabbath day. The city
councils may in turn refer the mat
ter to vote of the people. There
was considerable Democratic oppO-
sitiOn to the change in the law,
but il received sufficient Republl-
can support to pass 1t. The change
was made to meet a demand from
the Cincinnati people, who, 1t
would seem, cannot worry through
the Sabbath without their beer.
Governor Mckinney, of Virginia,
has approved a bill passed at the
recent session of the Legislature
prohibiting the sale of tobacco,
cigars or cigarettes to boys under
16 years Of age. This will be apt to
be case where prohibition Will fail
TO prohibit, ct least in the tobacco
producing sections of the State. In
thos. sections the small boy may
be deprived of the cigarette, but by