Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-04
NOTES AND coMMEETs

f-9s YER : that the percentage of-Ea IS
crease Of steel rails in the trlsI- va -.
= -i--l year than in any year since 1885
HEAE Is a prospect that somebody
n Make mint Of monev OUT of san.
ls5 lectures II America. The Ieetn-er
ana ms wife VII be carried from p5inf
70 point IN a palace car now builqinv for
mat special purpose.
I ONE OF the most amusing Of the MANY
sfo'esque Dlunders which English news
papers continually make in COMMENTING
upon foreign matters occurred recently
N me Spectator, Of London. Il smoke
o. M John De Quincy Adams.
Mas. MART MnLox. OF Madison
county Ky, was the first woman IN that
state % be elected County Superiuten-
Gent Of Public Schools. and her admins
tratlon was 50 successful that at the re-
cent election there was no candidate il
the neid against her. Her example had
+ proved somewhat contagious, as there
we're at that election women candidates
Tor that Office in eleven counties IN The
State.
EIGHTEEN words have come into the
anguage-probably temporarily. most Of
them-to denote the act or STATE Of cleo
the killing. They are are as follows
EleetromOrt, thanelectrize, thanatelee-
trlze, thanateleetrisis, electrophou. cleo
tricise, electrotony, electrophony. cleo
troctony, electr0etasy, electricide. cleo
trop1nize. electrothenese. electroed
electrocution, fulmen, voltacuss. and
electrostrike
HE announcement that a machine has
been invented which viii gather cotton
balls from the plant is causing a great
deal Of talk among New Workers Who :
deal in the Southern staple. some Of the /
members Of the Cotton Exchange believe T
the machine viii de- the work success
fully and supersede hand labor. II the .
hope Of the inventor IS realized. the cost I
OF preparing cotton for the market will .
be wonderfully diminished.
An Iowa judge has given an interest
ing decision. 4 man was brought be-
fore him charged with drunkenness. and
I'VE witnesses swore 10 the truth Of the
charge. But several other witnesses had
seen the prisoner an hour and a half be-
fore the time at which ne was said 70
have been drunk and he was not drunk
then. The judge rendered the remark
able decision that an hour and a half was
not time enough 70 get drunk ii. and
the prisoner was therefore discharged
THE Sinh Of Persia became a father at
the age Of sixteen years. and all his chill
aren are well advanced IN life. He has
eight daughters, al married. His eldest
daughter IS called the Glory u the Kings.
the second the Light Of the Empire, No. ]
Is the Pride Of the Empire and No.
he Purity Of the Empire All these Z
daughters have married rich husbands. {
md the shah has promptly seized the q
possessions Of his sons-in-law. with one !
exception. This son-in-law i chief Z
iriest Of the Teheran, and he holds his G
.varici0us fdther-in-law in check through {
Influences.
ACCORDING TO a gentleman who has re- 4
entity spent some time abroad, the two r
Americans best known outside their own =
0untry are Mark Twain and Or. Tai o
mage. Every sermon Talm2ge preach =
$, said he, SIS published in journals in I
cotland, England. South Africa, Austria L
q and New Zealand You meet very a
w people in those countries who haven't 4
card Of the doctor and who d0n't take
great interest in anything you can tell Z
bout him. Mr. Clemens Is even better G.
noWn His books are % be found IL y
I the Libraries and in all the bookstores.
al any Information YOU can give regard 1
z the man Is listened 70 eagerly" n
Mas. NARY L. BEAsELET. Of Philadel- Cd
nia- is the happy inventor and patentee Sc
q barrel hopping machine which gives eli
p an income Of SEQ. 600 q year: her ID
aehine, 1t IS claimed, being capable 81 dC
1Oping twelve hundred barrels q day VI
Is not perhaps, generally known. says ml
arper's Bazaar, that the invention Of the III
tton-gin, which revolutionized the 70
tton trade, and established African v,
lverT on 50 firm foundation IN the fiv
aited States. was really due to a wo- nj
Al. the widow Of the famous General vi
-eeue, at whose house Eli Whitney was
sitting when she explained her idea to cl,
%. and showed him how 70 make the
)del on which to claim his patent. 10,
BRUssELs. not content with having he
IRE beautiful public buildings than any sp'
her European city save Paris, has now "a
70 rival Paris itself King va
Arch CT Triumph one-third larger the
IN the celebrated one in Paris, and il en-.
thar this gigantic work viii me
completed BY the close Of the century. on
lssels already has the most Eonumen- the
courthouse in ali Europe magnit- ira
Il pile. which cost vast sums of money. lk'
which contains some superb halls sa'
e Paris Triumphal Arch cost two mil the
Is Of dollars: that Of Brussels i 10 rlln
t three millions. It vii be richly tor
ate with sculptures. some Of which Dell
be Of gigantic properties OF
'HE reign Of William Tell as an his ~
cal character must now be considered ~
n end. be having al last saccumbedto
vigorous attacks Of the icouoc,asts- -
order Of the Cantonal Government Of
WV. b Is henceforth TO Be religious 80
xeiuded from al school histories pub
ed By authority. and Il Is officially -
claimed that the Tell stories arc