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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14

During a conversation one day re-
Gently, Congressman Flower, Of New
York city, casually remarked that he
represented the richest district in the
country. More than that, " said he,
..my district, the Twelfth, is richer than
any State in the Union except New York
and Pennsylvania. 1t is richer than Mas
sachussetts, or Illinois, or Ohio, or Cali
fornia." OF course, says the New York
Star. Mr.. Flowers little observation set
everybody to discussing, and it was ac-
knowledged TO be true. The Twelfth
Congressional District extends from East
Fortieth street to East Eighty-sixth street
and from the East River to Seventh ave-
cue. In it live the Vanderbilts, the
Rockfellers, Jay Gould, Russell Sage, D..
o. Mills, and, in fact, almost all the very
rich persons in the city except the As
tors. who live in the Eleventh Assembly
District. The united possessions OF the
residents Of the Twelfth Congressional
District must be more than 1000, 900,
900. Illinois is valued at about So, 900,
OOO, 900, and Ohio and Massachusetts at
a billion and half.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14

urged to a point beyond his trotting
powers and then he will break into 3
gallop. This is true OF anything from a
Percheron to a thoroughbred. 1 con-
cluded hat if l could develop in the
horse the intelligence necessary to make
him trot instead of run had the problem
solved. This had to be done by breed
ing as we'll as training, and so l under
took the task.
81 bred thoroughbred mares to stand
ard-bred trotters that might get the
speed and gameness of the one and the
GOODNESS and endurance of the other, and
then l bred again with view to deyel-
oping the trot as a natural gait. | am
satisfied with the progress l have made
so far, and am convinced that event
ualIy horses will be bred so that they will
prefer trotting to running, and that their
greatest speed will be brought out in
trotting. In other words, the horse will
be so bred that the trot will be his nat
ural gait and consequently the easiest for
him.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14
The American or Sweet Chestnut.

Almost every boy who has gone nut
ting is familiar with this well-known
American Rut-bearing tree, and every
fall thousands of bushels of nuts are
gathered in the forests and find a ready
sale in our large cities, bringing from
81 so to S. or S. per bushel, according
to earliness, supply and quality. The
great destruction going on constantly of
the timber of this sort naturally dimin-
ishes the supply of nuts. Some idea OF
the value of this timber may be CLEANED
from the fact that we have frequently
known the wood leave permission to
cut the timber, and having no reference
to the purchase of the land) of good
chestnut timber tracts to sell for from
SIS to $3.50 per acre. The buyers would
not so readily pay these prices if they did
not know they could realize much more
than that when they marketed the tim
Der in proper shape for the trade. Trees
Of this variety grow rapidly, and when
ten or twelve years old are of coed size,
but arc more profitable at fifteen years.
If carefully cut, they VII soon succor up
from the old stump or root, and in a
few years produce good-sized trees again,
especially, if you do not permit too many
shoots to grow from each stump.-NsU
York OJseypcr.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14

Saws the New York Times: There are
slways difficulties il the selection OF
Judges at the fairs. An exhibitor, OF
course, is disqualified unless he has the
nnselish disregard Of his own interests
70 Withdraw his animals from cOmpeti-
ton. which is too much to expect, In
view of the fact that his stock is shown
for business purposes. A prominent
breeder is also excluded because he Is in
terested in the stock Of his BREEDING, and
few outsiders have the confidence Of the
exhibitors because they lack the requisite
expert knowledge. The selection Of pro-
fessional judges who are properly com
pensated for their services and have the
requisite knowledge would seem to re-
move the difficulty, as they could act at
several fairs in the same capacity and
would be quite disinterested. This
method has been found satisfactory at the
English exhibitions, and would doubtless
be so here. 1t would not, perhaps, pre-
vent disappointment on the part Of some
of the exhibitors, who might be apt to
protest against the decisions, but that
difficulty might be met by the selection
Of jury of the exhibitors who should
decide any questions raised by disap-
pointed party On the basis of the scale
cf points. The matter is one Of sufficient
importance to be met and disposed Of
once for all.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14
The London Sandwich" Man.

Everybody who has been in London,
England, is familiar with the sandwich
man" who parades the principal streets
Of that city Every day of the year, Sun
day and week day, rain or Snow, fog or
sunshine, the sandwich man is on his
melancholy parade, with his boards
buckled to him fore and aft, a sort of
peripateti; advertising mechanism.
There is hardly a class in the COM
munity of the British metropolis but re-
cards the sandwich men with a half con-
temptuous pity. Even the sweater OF
Whitechapel and the crossing sweeper of
the New Cut look down on them with an
air of disdain. They are the most
broken down specimens of humanity in
the great world Of London, and are de-
void alike of physique, Of spirit and OF
hope. Their countenances are never
without the gloom of detection, nor their
poor feeble frames without the sugges-
ton Of semi-starvation. They are the
social wreckage Of modern civilization.
And now there has arisen a movement
among them to form a sort Of trades
union Of their class, with a view, if it be
possible, of improving their condition.
1t was to be believed that even the
crushed worm would turn sooner than
that the sandwich man should give such
an unexpected exhibition of courage; and
the movement has probably been inaugu-
rated and supported from the outside.
There are about 1000 Of them in Lon
don; they make from thirty-two to thirty
six cents per day Of twelve hours, and
they sleep mainly under the arches of
bridges and in holes and corners Of the
public markets. They are not, as a rule,
strong enough to work more than every
other day, often indeed not more than
one day in the week, so that the wages
of thirty-two cents has often to cover two
davs', and occasionally whole weeks,
expenses. They are under the orders OF
agents who contract with advertisers and
who are paid by the advertisers from
fifty-two to sixty cents for every sand
wich man whom they furnish. The
agents or middlemen pay the waif the
wages above mentioned and pocket the
remainder.
It is to oust the middleman and to Sc
cure to the sandwich man the fnll pay Of
from fifty-two to sixty cents day given
COR such labor that the movement re-
ferred to is intended, and there are few
people, we imagine, but will wish that
the movement may have complete success.
-Nen Orleans Tines Democrat.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14

There is probably no industry that
adds so much 10 the pleasure and health
of the public, afiirns the Boston Culti-
rqtor, ''as that which preserves in perfect
condition, by canning, fruits and vege-
tables for all seasons OF the year. Fruits
and vegetables are thus put up wherever
cheap, preventing the glutted markets
that would result were these perishable
articles all to be used at once. Thus
they equalize prices throughout the year.
More than this, they give to many locali-
ties fresher and better vegetables than are
often offered in their selson in our large
cities. It is to the interest Of farmers
everywhere u encourage the establish
meut Of Ginning factories in their neigh
borhood. Taey make as good a market
foy fruits and vegetables as many cities or
villages can supply, and by diversifying
.he produces Of farmers do much TO in
sure them against the losses to which
they are liable when growing only grain
and other crops in which the seyerest
competition prevails. s.'
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14
south and West.

Ar Kingston. Tenn, John NJ. Wester,
Jr., the Town Marshal, was shot by james
Edwards. whom the Marshal was trying 70
arrest. Wester in turn shot Edwards Both
men died in an hour.
AT Riverdale, Ga, John R. Mccullough.
agent for an Atlanta guano house. was
robbed Of $1,000 in money and $1,000 in notes
by burglns He had them in satchel In
the room where be was sleeping. The satchel
and notes were found later but no trace Of
the thieves.
THE village Of Mercer, Ohio is afflicted
with scOurge Of diphtheria. Niue children
died during the week and fourteen new cases
were reported The schools have been or
dered closed, and the inhabitants are leaving
the town.
A GENERAL fight is reported at Irvine,
Estelle County. Ky, ia which John Wilson,
Superintendent Of Public schools and d. R.
Lilly. son OF Judge Lily, We're killed, and
Grant Lilly dangerously wounded.
ROBERT I. LINCOLN, United States Minis
ter at the Court OF st. James. arrived in
New York City With him came the re-
mains Of his son, who will be Inferred in the
crypt at Springfield, ILL.,, containing the
body of Abraham Lincoln.
By the breaking of scafolding raised ten
feet from the ground, on which loO men and
girls were grouped for the purpose OF being
photographed, at Lyon & Healy's new piano
factory. Chicago. H., William Kischangoil
was killed, two fatally injured and several
others badly hurt.
The Georgia General Assembly convened
at Atlanta. The Senate elected R. G
Mitchell. of Thomas, as President, and the
House chose Clark Howell, Jr., Of Fulton, as
Speaker.
A FREIGHT train fell through bridge
across Comal River, near New-BTauntels,
Texas. The first span Of the structure gave
way, and the engine and three loaded cars
were precipitatsd. TO the water below. dis.
tance Of City feet. The engineer, Haily and
the fireman, Jones, were killed.
Ex-MAYoR W. w. CorTRELL Of Key
West. Fla. who a few weeks ago was a
terror to the officials and was finally driven
to Alabama. a fugitive from justice was
shot and killed by Gerald, the Chief OF
Police at Montgomery, Ala. Cottrell was
drunk and was arrested by the police. de
insulted the Chief and challenged him to
fight a duel.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14
A CHARACTER.

Everything pleased my neighbor jim,
When it rained
He never complained,
But said the weather suited him.
There's never too much rain for me,
And this is something like" said he.
When earth was dry as powder mill,
He did not sigh
Because it was dry,
But said if he could have his will
1t would be his chief, supreme delight
To live where the sun shone day and night
When winter came, with its snow and ice,
BE did not scold
Because it was cold.
But said. "Now this is real nice;
II ever from home Tn forced to 60,
I'll move up north with the Esquimau."
A cyclone whirled along its track;
And did him harm
1t broke his arm,
And stripped the coat from off his back;
"And would give another limb
To see such blow again, said Jim.
And when at length his years were Solc,
And his body bent,
And his strength all spent
And jim was very weak and old;
Il long have wanted to know" he said'
@How it feels to die, and jim was dead.
The angel of death had summoned him
To heaven, orwell,
cannot tell;
But know that the climate suited Jim;
And. hot OF cold, it mattered not
1t was to him the long-sought spot.
%. F. Pearre, in Bloomington Paragraph
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14

Ara bull fght in the City Of Mexico the
bulls did not hght well and the populace tore
down the RUG.
IT is announced that the Dominion Gov
ernment has decided to reduce the rate OF
postare to a two cent instead OF a three cent
rate throughout Canada and 20 the United
States.
Two Socialists were elected TO the German
Reichstag from kiel
TaE British Government has entered INTO
a scheme 70 supply the planters Of Jamaica
with contract laborers from hlndostan, the
natives OF Jamaica being unwilling 70 work
on the plantations.
AT the close Of the celebration Of a Bud
dhist festival recently in the province of Sze-
Chuen. China, a number of organized mobs
attacked several Christian villages, Burning
the buildings and looting their contents.
Twenty native converts 70 Christianity were
killed during the disturbances and their
bodies thrown into the Iang-tse- Kiang
River
LORD Grief JUSTICE CoLERTDGE, while
presiding over the Court of the Queens
Bench Division, London. England, was strick-
en- with paralysis.
THANKSGIVING DAY was observed in
Canada by special services held in all the
Protestant churches OF the country.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14
A Cool Word for The Grape.

Among "the kindly fruits Of the
earth" there is nothing better than the
grape. A German friend )f mine, with
a competent palate and reliable judg-
ment, asserts that the American grape
is farbetter than the European in all the
qualities that make "lhe kindly fruit"
grateful to the taste, without reference
to its wine-prodacing qualities. l am
not aware that.the grape cure is Prac-
ticed with us as it is in some parts OF
Germany, particularly in the mountains
Of the Southern Tyrol, but the grape,
the world over, has strong therapeutic
properties. .-Neso York Star.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14
Washington.

TIE President and Attorney General
Miller voted in indianapolis after which
they returned TO Washington.
SUPERVISOR KENNY refused TO comply
with Secretary Mobiles request 70 surrender
the books Of the police census OF New YORK
City.
NAJoR-G GENRRAL o. o. HOWARD, com
msnding the division OF the Atlantic, in his
annual report to the War Department just
made public calls attention to the subject OF
seacoast defence.
PRESIDENT HARRISON returned from In
dianapolis. whittier he made a hurried
Journey for the sole purpose Of casting his
vote.
POSTMASTER % GENERAL NANANAkEk
stated. semi.ohicslly, that there would be
no extra session Of Congress.
THE amount of ~ per cent. bonds re,
deemed under the circular OF OCTOBER
makes a total to date Of S4,052, 800
MAJOR GENERAL ScHoFIELD made his an
nual report to the War Department on the
condition Of the army.
SECRETARY NOBLE refused Mayor Grants
second application for a recount Of the popu-
lstion Of New York City.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14
POPULAR SCIENCE.

A physician says that the constant
chewing of gum weakens the mind.
Among the senior boys in the different
French colleges more than forty-six per
cent. are nesrsighted.
Sir John Lubbock has Just discovered
that the death rate in London is 16t per
1000 as against III in other English
cities.
At Montichiari, Italy, batteries Of ar
tillery using smokeless powder kept up
fre for half an hour without their posi-
lions being discovered.
Among the objects shown in the mus
sum annexed to the Berlin Medical Con-
gress were a number Of figures illustrat-
ng some of the modes of accidental
death.
Experiments with brake shoes for the
purpose of doing away with the disagree
,ble noise made when a train is being
checked, show that gun metal shoes are
The most satisfactory.
DIR. Julius Weissner, who has made
nicroscopical examination OF the paper
from El-Faljaune, preserved in the Aus
rain Museum at Vienna, declares that
linen rags were used in paper making so
far back as in the eighth and ninth CEN
turies.
The telephone played an important
oart in the maneuvres of the Swedish
aeet. There is a telephone post on board
each vessel, and when lying at anchor
they can telephone to one another by
means of insulated conductors, which are
run down the anchor chains and sub
merged.
In the limits of the United States are
found 413 species of trees, OF which SIX
teen, when thoroughly dried, will sink
in water. The black ironwood is tn
heaviest of all, being more than thirty
per cent. heavier chan water. It grows
only in Southern Florida, and all other
species heavier than water are confined
to the hot and dry regions Of the coun-
try.
Exposed parts of the Scottish coast
are sometimes hammered with force OF
ton AMI a halt to the square foot by
waves Of the German Ocean, and with a
force Of three tons on the Atlantic side.
At skerryyole Lighthouse, on March Sd,
a block of limestone, weighing fifteen
tons was moved more than $50 feet from
a place in the surf to which it was lifted
in a similar gale in 1897.
DR.. J. Edmunds, the medical officer OF
heath for St. James's, London, points
out that diDhtheria is 'intensly infectious
by personal contact" The "resistlng
power he says, varies immensely in in
diyiduals; "but it is essential for the
public to bear in mind that diphtheria is
intensely infectious" As to the origin
of the diphtheritic poison, we know as
much as we know of the origin of any OF
the diseases which are produced by our
bodies being colonized by specific germi-
nal particles"
Attention has been called in various
quarters (the United States, England
Belgium, France and Germany to the
remarkably cold weather prevailing OF
late years, since 1885, in Central and
Western Europe; the yearly averages be-
inc constantly under the normal. 1t now
appears from an Algerian record, that
these years have been warmer than usual
in Algeria. 1t is also shown that there
has been no change in the frequency oil
north and south winds, while in Europe
the northeast winds have been increas-
ing in frequency.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14
TIE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
EASTERN and pIiddIe states.

AN accident occurred on the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western road near Syra-
cuse, n. Y, by which four men we're killed
and many persons were injured.
MRs. ARsESE JULIAN and her one-year-
old baby were burned TO death at Bethlehem,
Penn, by the explosion of an ordinary
kerosene lamp which she carried in putting
the baby to bed.
Mrs. CLARIssA TowNE died at Milford, n.
H., aged one hundred years and eight
months
Two men were drowned by the capszing
of yacht in Hell Gate, New York City.
1T was discovered that herd Of Holstein
and Guernsey cattle at the State Agricul-
tural College at Orono, Me- thirty-two in
all. purchased ia Wes tern Massachusetts, and
Connecticut, were afflicted with tuberculosis.
The value of the herd was about 5000.
T. P. OCoNNOR, member Of the British
Parliament, arrived in New York City. he
was accompanied by Mrs. O'Connor.
Mr.. AND Mrs. HENRY NJ STANLEY ar
rived IN New York City from England,
where the African explorer will inaugurate
his lecture season.
A FIRE in New Rochelle n. Y, destroyed
several of the finest buildings in the town
and valuable silyerware and bric-a-brac.
Loss over 100000
JACOB GENsHEBfER, aged twenty-five
years, a convict in Sing Sing ~. " prison.
committed suicide by hanging himself with
a sheet in that institution
MRS BARBARA LAMPREcHT, evidently in
sane, cut the throat of two of her children at
Philadelphia, Penn, with large butcher
knile and then cut her own.
THREE mills belonging TO the ]. B.
Williams Company Of Glastonbury, Conn,
were entirely destroyed by fire. The loss Is
placed at s1000)0.
The Wells Grain Elevator was burned in
Buffalo, n Y, causing loss of s25O.OOO.
DANIEL TAYLOR and Samuel Reigel were
instantly killed and William Petit was
fatally injured by falling wall at Doyles-
town, Penn. The accident occurred at the
large new mill being erected by Swarthy
Brothers & Co.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14
How Rocky Mountain Sheep Descend
From Great Heights.

Telling how the big-horn sheep Of the
Rocky Mountains descend from great
heights into the valleys below, a writer
in the Kansas City Star says:
Their manner Of descent has been
discovered and is easy enough-for a
big horn-when you once witness it.
All through these mountains you will
find seams and riffs which split the
precipices from top to bottom. The
rock has been torn asunder by some force
Of nature, and the result in many in
stances is a cleft or split where the walls
are not separated twenty FEET, and yet
run from the bottom to the tol, of the
cliff, some hundreds of feet. That the
rocky sides were once together may be
seen in the protuberances of one wall
corresponding to the depressions in the
other.
The big horn is t'e prince of caution.
Before he is found a. where he has made
complete war map Of the neighbor-
hoo1, which he carries locked in his
woody head. When he disports himself
on some dizzy plateau he is always sure
of an outlet. No cul de sac for him; he
is tco good a mountaineer for that. Be-
fore he nibbles a mouthful Of the crisp
herbage he has looked up one of these
deep riffs which go down to the valley
below. The moment be is disturbed he
makes straight for it. Arriving at the
verge he never hesitates, but jumps
boldly out and down, aiming for the
other side of the deep crevice. This he
strikes with his four hoofs, which are
hard as cast steel, and at once leaps back
for the other side He descends perhaps
fifteen or eighteen feet at leap, and as
he could not restrain a foothold for
moment at any one of the places he
strikes the rock, he never pauses in his
zigzag leaping until the last one brings
him to the valley, hundreds OF feet be-
slow. That crevice is the big horn
stairway, and that is the way he de-
scends.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14
Russla's Rich CeaI Deposits.

If the calculations of Professor Men
deleieff are to be trusted Russia possesses
the riches coal deposits in the world.
The superficial area Of the coal fields in
the Dsnetz basin alone amounts to about
80, 600 square kilometres. If the capac-
ity Of these deposits is put at so, 600, 600
pounds per square kilometre Zone pound
being about thirty-six averdupois), the
total supply of coal is stated to be equal
to the worlds present consumption for
fifty years. Moreover, this only refers
to the superficial beds and not to the
deeper deposits, which have not yet beer
exploited, but which promises still grea'
er riches. Times Democrat.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14

A writer in the Labor World points out
the fact that the importance OF the posi-
tion which women occupy in the labor
world is only now beginning to be rec
ognized. Their power to pull wages
down and hardships up, to render in
effective unions and strikes, and to make
the battle of life harder for the worker,
has naturally advanced with the increases
of their opportunities to put themselves
in the places of men.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14
CONSUMPTION CURED.

The German Government VIII Pur-
chase Professor Koch's Cure.
Professor Robert Koch had an audience
with the Emperor of Germany at Berlin on
the subject OF his new cure Tor Consumption.
Ills Majesty proposes that the Government
shall purchase the invention outright and
build a special hospital for its application
Professor Koch receiving large annuity
besides a title.
n Is stated as an ascertained fact that sey-
eral slight cases have been undoubtedly eured
by the Koch method. while in graver cases
where the disease has obtained iiriner hold
and portions OF the lung have wasted away,
the life Of the patient has been prolonged and
the growth and progress Of the bacillus nave
been arrested, ii the pest Itself has not Heen
actually destroyed.