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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-24

bouillion is the first thing then couple
of oysters, bit of fresh fish or a couple
Of soft boiled eggs should be served and
are preferable to broiled steak, because
they are smaller tax on the digestive
organs. Some stewed or fresh fruit will
help as a stimulant, and piece of brown
toast may be taken if there is a craving
for bread. A thin Cruel or more soup is
a much safer drink than stimulant'
Properly given, pack will reduce the
weight thirty pounds but to keep from
regaining a regular system of exercise
must be pursued. One of the leading
specialists in the treatment of obesity
maintains that diet has everything to do
with the discomfort or inconvenience Of
superfuous fat.
at is quite impossible" he says, "to
give hard and fast rules as to quantity
and time of eating, as SO much depends
upon work, exercise and ability of the
person to digest and assimilate food.
That a diet of fish, fruit, nuts, milk,
eggs, ,succulents and cheese will, if main
tanned, reduce the flesh without destroy
ing the general health in the least 1
know from actual experience. l know,
too, that it will cure dyspepsia, improve
the health of the body and lengthen
life."
The revolution in the mode of living
may seem like starvation, and will at
first be attended by prostration, as every
change is; but the human stomach is
mans best and most obediept slave, and
can be trained to digest almost anything.
All one needs is a sufficiency, and it does
not make very much difference to the
appetite whether the supply is roast beef
and plum pudding or stewed prunes and
soft-boiled eggs. 1t is fact, however,
that with exercise and what is called the
"natural food" obesity can be cured.
The desired reduction secured, the old
form Of mixed diet may be resumed, pro
vided the amount of exercise is in
creased. .-Nep York World.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-24
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

MRS. LANerRY, the actress, is resting in
Paris.
SAN JONES, the evangelist, will lecture in
Florida this winter.
MARK TWAIN received SEQ. 900 in royalties
from the play in which the famous Mulberry
Sellers appears.
Mrs. CUSTER has been visiting several Of
her gallant husbands army friends in Mon
tana and the Dakotas.
RICHARD W. THOMPSON, ex-Secretary Of
the Navy, has been in politics since 1884. He
is eighty-two years Old.
OSCAR WILDE, the apostle of aesthetics,
has grown quite stout and looks like sue
cesSful butter merchant.
WILLIAM H. ENGLISH, Of Indiana, ex-
Governor and ex-candidate for Vice-Presi-
dent. is writing history Of Hoosierdom.
GENERAL BoULANGER is the son OF a
Breton father and an English mother. he
has spoken English fuently from childhood.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE, the author OF
"Sen Hur,n writes a small and neat hand
which is as clear and legible as copper-plate.
QUEEN VICTORIA is very tenacious Of the
rule that she shall lear at least once a week
from members Of her family absent in other
lands. She likes letters
The Duke of Portland is thirty-thrse years
old and one Of the fattest men in the United
Kingdom His girth increases almost visibly,
and he is daily becoming more ponderous.
j. NJ. ASHLEY, who is one Of the more
prominent OF the new Michigan millionaires
did not have a dollar few years ago. He
has since made 81 900, 900 in railroad build
ing.
THOMAS B. JONES the new Governor Of
Alabama, is a man six feet tall straight as
an arrow. with jet black hair aud piercing
black eyes. His countenance is rather
stern.
THE richest banker in the world is Baron
Blechroeier, OF Berlin, who is the agent OF
the Rothschilds in Germany, but is in
dividually worth more than any one Of the
Rothschilds.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has the reputation Of
being the richest Scotchman in the world
Yet there was time when he earned only 50
A week in Pittsburg, and was glad enough to
get that amount
The Duke of Portland is erecting at We'll
beck, England, a row OF almshouses 10 COM
memorate the successes of his racehorses.
They are intended for widows on the estate,
and are near the Abbey.
JESSE PARROT, who fought under General
Andrew Jackson at New Orleans, is hvingon
4 farm near Carrollton, Ga. He was born
March p, 1890. up 10 his sixty-flfth year
We made good farm hand" writes a recent
visitor.
THE Rev. Edward Everett bale, the Boston
preacher and author, is sixty-eight years old.
He was a practical newspaper man in his
youth, an even now, il called on, he could
set type and report fire IN an entirely
creditable way.
JOHN HABBERroS, who wrote "Helen's
Babies is very fond Of the sea and looks
somewhat like a sailor, with his bronzed
sace. shaggy hair and loose shirt collar. he
Is one of the most successful authors and
newspaper writer's OF the day.
REV. Dr.. MEREDITH, who, next TO DR.
ralmage, breaches TO the largest audiences
in Brooklyn, was a sailor boy, II wasin that
capacity that he first arrived in San Fran
CISCO where he remained some time and then
went to Boston tostuiy for the ministry.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-24
A Sfcne Elepha b

Inyo County, California, has a Won
derful natural formation in the shape Of
a monster stone elephant. The rock that
has taken this remarkable form is Of
dark gray granite, almost the exact color
of the Asiatic elephants skin. The re-
semblance is so close that the first gold
seekers thought they had discovered a
real petrifed pachyderm.-Dstrot Free
Press.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-24
91renan1naIl Gerald
ADVERTISING RATES.

No. 8 to the Union Iron Works Of San Fran
CISCO Cal, at 50, 223, SS3.
The Census Bureau states that the popula-
tion Of Kansas is !, ,423, 4S5; increase In ten
wears. A. 81 per cent; North Carolina, l,6l7,-
S49; increase, 1854 per cent.
The Census Bureau announces that the
population OF the State Of Alabama is
1,508, ,073; increase, 245,56S; per cent. l9.45
THE Secretary Of State received a dispatch
from Minister Ryan, at the City OF Mexico,
announcing that the Mexican Republic will
adopt the recommen iations Of the interns-
tional American Conference in regard 70
uniform system Of weights AMI measures.
THE contracts for the three battleships for
the Navy have been settled, the Cramps. OF
Philadelphia, building two vessels. aud the
Union Iron Works, Of San Francisco, one.
The former firm will receive Sj,0j3.333 TO-
each ship, and the latter S3,223,353.
THE President made the following appoint
ments: D. Geoghegan, Register o. the Land
Office al Vancouver, Washington; George ".
BRYANT Receiver OF Public Moneys at Los
Angeles, Cal; Thomas A. Starrh, Receiver
of Public Moneys at Haley, Idaho; Charles
c. Warner, Agent for the Indians Of thu Ne
vada Agency, Nevada; David Wade Mat
thews, Agent for the Indians Of the klamath
Agency, Oregon.
Mrs. HARRISON, wife Of the President, has
accepted the presidency Of the recently or
ganized society known as THE Daughters Of
the American Revolution"
The figures OF the Census Bureau show
the State OF Texas % have a population Of
2.232, go. increase 60. All: State OF Ten
nessee-Population l,763, 723, increase 22l,-
36f, per cent l43j.
PAYMAsTER GEORGE A. DEERING, Of
tue United States Navy, on duty in the
Coast Survey. was found dead in his bed at
his house in Washington. Upon examina-
toni was found that his death was due TO
heart disease.
FUNERAL services for Justice Miller were
held in the Chamber Of the United States
Court, aud then the body was taken to Keo-
kuk. Iowa. Ex-Secretary Belknap was
buried in Arlington Cemetery with military
honors.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-24
CURIOUS FACTS

Drums were beaten for the first time
in 1947.
Dolls that can turn somersaults are
now in market.
Athens, Ca, has cat that weighs
sixteen pounds.
William Howell, Of New York city,
has invented a machine for making shoe
strings out of paper.
They claim to have found evidence
among the Black Hills of North Dakota
that white men existed there long years
ago.
One police court, in New York city,
in three hours disposed of 12O cases
an average of minute and half to each
case.
Locks were used by the Egyptians,
Greeks, Romans and Chinese. Du Cange
mentioned locks and padlocks as early as
1881.
It is not generally knOwn-in fact,
popular prejudice points the other way
that the last carriage in a railway train
is the safest.
Benjamin Franklin, while working as
a printer among London beer drinkers,
was called the "American Aquatic" be-
cause he drank only water.
Mrs. Jacob Benton, of Lancaster, n.
H., has learned five languages while an
invalid in the last five years. She speaks
and writes volapuk fuently.
1t is said that the postmen Of London
walk, together, something like 48'36O
miles per day, distance equal to twice
the circumference OF the globe.
It is said that in the Vatican library at
Rome there are seventeen love letters
written by Henry the Eighth to the
cruelty wronged Anne Boleyn.
William Ellis, lad caught stealing
from his employer, NOrristown, penn
ieweler, invested all his stealings in per-
fumery and musical instruments.
Mrs. Penschower, of Cloverdale, CAL,
has raised a sunfower this year that
breaks all records. TIE stalk is six
inches in diameter at the ground, it
stands twelve feet high, and the flower
measures nine feet around the outer
edge.
A cork rope is the latest invention. II
is made of small corks placed end to end,
and the whole covered with braiding
of cotton twine; over this is a coarser
braiding in heavy strands. According to
the inventor, a rope one inch thick Will
stand a strain of 1000 pounds.
Ell. Brigham, of Worcester, Mass,
who has made a reputation for himself
as whittier, has nearly completed his
masterpiece in that line. 1t is model
of a summer house, stands about twelve
inches high and is about six inches
square. 1t was all cut from a block OF
white wood nine inches high.
The Greeks were the first to establish
trotting races. Pausanius, in his "De-
scription of Greece" shows that the
Greeks did this at their celebrated
Olympian games as early as the seventy
first Olympian, continuing them to the
eighty-fourth-440 to 492-a period OF
ffty-two years. Pau3anius fourished ia
years after Christ, Travelled throughout
Greece and wrote a minute account Of
all he saw.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-24
AT REST.

The faithful helm commands the keel
From port to port fair breeze' blow;
But the snip must sail the convex sea,
Nor may she straighter 60.
So. man to man; in fair accord,
On thought and will the winds may wait,
But the world will bend the passing word,
Though its shortest course be straight
From soul to soul the shortest line
At best will bsnded be-
The ship that holds the straightest course
Still holds the convex sea
John Boyle 0Reity'
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-24

This years cotton crop is the largest
ever grown in the United States, being
estimated at 1880, 900 bales.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-24
The TeakwOOd Cabinet.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.


az dare say it's a great curiosity, "said
Mrs. Minden, carelessly; "but / never
did fancy these quaint old odds and ends
of creation, and l didn't bargain to have
NV house turned into a storage place for
Uncle Zadoc's old rattle-traps. So Or
dered it sent to the secondhand dealers
establishment this morning. He allowed
me FIVE dollars for it. And, really, "
added the lady, with laugh, 81 think
I should have been tempted, If better
terms could not have been made, to pay
the dealer five dollars for removing it
from the premises!"
Mr.. Minden looked up from behind
the closely printed columns Of the daily
paper.
"And if your Uncle ZadOck inquiries
after itl" said he. because it will
hardly do to offend the old gentleman. "
ooh, wen tell MIN it all fell to pieces, "
said Mrs. Minden, calmly. "Ten to
one, he'll never think of it againl"
And Mrs. Minden replaced the old
teakwood cabinet with a modern chif-
fonier, inlaid with China tiles and gilt
tering with brass ornaments, and con-
graduated herself on getting rid of Uncle
Zadoc Johnson's cold trash"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-24

The skeleton Of big mastodon has
been found in Piatt County, Ill.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-24

There are no cells in Lake Michigan.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-24
The HERALD JOB OFFICE

is complete in every respect. Work done at
short notice and on the most reasonable terms.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-11
MANUFACTURING
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
AUCTION SALES.

COMMISSIONERS SALE OF LARGE AND
" VALUABLE TRACTS OF LAND AND FISH
ERIES ON THE POTOMAC RIVER.
THE OTTERBACK ESTATE.
By virtue OF decree of the Circuit Court OF
Fairfax county, Virginia, made November 26tb,
1889 in the suit of Otterbsck vs. Bohoer, the un-
dersigned commissioners of sale therein named,
at ID o'clock on
THURSDAY, MAY 18th, 1890,
will ofer for sale at public auction, in front OF the
Market House of Alexandria city, part Of the
real estate OF which tho late Philip Otterbsck
died seized consisting Of
1st The TRACT OF LAND called 'OPOSSUM
NOSE" containing 1, ,034 acres, more or less ly-
ing in Prince William county, and fronting about
one mile and a half on the Potomac river and one
mile on Quantico creek. Some AGO acres of this
tract is cleared and in cultivation and on that
portion is GOOD DWELLING HOUSE and all
the necessary outbuildings. The residue is we'll
timbered there being great quantity of hard
and pine wood. The soil is excellent and easily
improved.
ID. The TRACT OF LAND called "HIGH
POINT" containing 1,7OO scres, moro or less,
lying in Fairfax county, fronting over mile on
the Potomac and a considerable distance on Deco
guam bay. About ], 600 acres of this tract is fine
upland, and all of it. except 300 or 400 acres is
in very heavy timber, both pine and hard wood.
In this section of the State there is not better
timber tract or one moro conveniently placed for
shipping TO gooo marketS tieS, luuoer ano coru
wood Tho clearing is in cultivation and has q
large and comfortable DWELLING HOUSE and
substantial outbuildings. The HIGH POINT
sHAD and HERRING FISHING SHORE is one
of the oldest, beat known AID most profitable on
the river.
Terms of Sale One.fourth cash, and the residue
in three (3) equal annual payments evidenced by
interest bearing notes. secured by deed of trust
the property sold expense OF conveyancing to be
borne by the purchaser. The commissioners are
authorized by the decree to receive private bids
and report the same to the Court for its action.
For further information apply to the undersigned
at the addresses indicated below.
W. WILLOUGHBY, Washington, D. c.
EDMUND BURKE, Alexandria city.
B. WALTON MOORE. Fairfax G. 81.
Commissioners of Sale.
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BATTLE OF THE BULLFRoes.-A strang

BATTLE OF THE BULLFRoGs.-A strange
battle is reported to have taken place in To-
kio. A stream runs through the compound
of Tobukuji Temple at Sugamo, aud a few
days ago some hundreds of bullfrogs gath
cred on either bank. Then terrific battle
ensued, lasting from q. m. to p. M, and
it is stated that when the combat was hn'
ished the brook was blocked to such an ex'
tent with the bodies of the slain that the
course of the water was almost totally i'm
peded Large numbers of people have Viz
tied the place to witness the strange spec
te tecle.-AHd-C California.
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How A SoHooLMAsTER CHECKS SWEAR
1NG.-Samuel RooP, the teacher recently
appointed by the school directors OF Clay
mont to take charge of the school at that
place, has introduced some novel methods
of punishment to control the wild and un'
ruly boys that come to him for instruction.
He does not believe in the use of the rod,
but some OF his methods of punishment are
hardly less severe.
He found that the use ofprofane language
was general among the boys who attended
his school, and he intended to put stop to
it. Any boy caught swearing is now brought
up before him, and after school his mouth
is washed out with sponge and water, and
then the teacher scrapes the swearing
tongue with knife.
Nearly every night after school closes
Teacher Roop has half dozen or more
mouths to wash out and tongues 10 scrape
and one OF the directors says 1.-THE prac.
tice is working we'll and the new teacher
gives satisfaction. Pittsburg Gazette.
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LIN Pixies Peak bY Rail.

The Pixies Peak Cog Railway, one If the
most marvellous engineering feats Ct the
world, Ia almost completed About two
years ago the first real effort was made to
supplant the burro train and drive the iron
horse to the summit of the Sentinel Of the
Rockies" q company OF local capitalists was
organized and the work Of grading begun.
Unfortunately capital was lacking, and after
grading several miles around mountain
peaks and over mighty chasms, the COM
pany failed and the work came to sudden
stop. But this failure of local enterprise
only stimulated and called out the true
western vim and energy. The burro train
was too slow for this fast.going age, and the
people were determined that the smoke Of
the locomotive should yet be seen from the
terminus Of the highest railway In the world.
Ths result wss that last summer witnessed
the organization of company of capitalist
with almost unlimited means. a charter
vas obtained and corps Of engineers set to
work to locate the line. The contract was
let to Messrs. Lantry & Sons, and the work
of grading begun
From that time 10 date Of writing, all day
long and Of moonlight nights, it has been
one continuous boom, boom and roar, re
sembing battery of heavy artillery dis
tinctly twenty miles away. Giant powder
and dynamite have done their work and
mountains of rock have been hurled from
where they had rested since placed
here by the Architect of the Universe.
Iostesd of following the old survey aud
profting by the work already done, the new
road starts from the Ute Iron Springs, q
short distance west OF thu principal avenue
in the famous pleasure resort OF Mapltou
Syringe. Thence 1t takes its course up Rux.
ton Creek, closely following the old burro
trail, past the Minnehaha Falls, through
scenery which would require an inspired
pen to faithfully portray, Four miles west
a station will be located. Leaving the Half
Wsy House the road winds through the
canyons, through magnificent park OF pine
and hemlock, climbing up always up, al
ways up. skirting the eastern base of the
mountain, bearing southwestWardly around
"Windy Point" on the south making its ioal
rise and reaching the summit of Pixies Peak
from the west Here, up amid the eternal
SHOWS, station house and hotel will be
built, II 336 feet above the sea level. From
the eastern terminus at Manitou to the west.
ern terminus on the summit, distance OF
nine miles, the difference In altitude is about
s, ,896 feet, or an average of 926 feet per mile
in the grade of the road. The engine and
cars are now being built expressly for this
road, the engine being so constructed as to
run over line of coRs in tie centre of the
track, The engine preceding the cars going
up and following them coming down. A
company has already been organized to
build an elevated railway through Manitou.
to connect the Denver and Rio Grande and
the Pixies Peak Railway depo's, and this
line will be ready for business by the time
the cog railway ia oompleted.-&. Louis
Globe
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ALEXANDRIA, VA. FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL H. 1890
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resolutions adopted by societies unless Oh
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Exchange. Advertisements, orders for the paper
news any information or business can be sent by
telephone.
Entered at the Pogtofice, Alexandria. Virginia, es
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NEW GOODS DAILY At BBUDHETD'S

in pure Mohair Tannires at so and 65c per yard.
Gents Cs.simeres for suiting and pataloon pat
terms, superb line just opened.
Gents Outing and Flannel Shirts, large va
riety Of styles just received.
Also beautiful line of GENTS NECKWEAR,
Four-in-Hand, Text and Windsor styles, in Silk,
Pongees and Washables.
large line of STRAW MATTINGS
great many other novelties, ali at lowest
prices. Give us call
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ap7 10
T ALEXANDRIA, VA, March %. 1890.
In ACCORDANCE WITH THE AUTHORITY

ALEXANDRIA, VA, March ~ 1871.
N ACCORDANCE WITH THE AUTHORITY
vested in US as Presidents respectively OF the
Alexandria and Fredericksburg Railway Company
and of the Alexandria and Washington Railway
Company, by resolutions adopted by the stock
holders of each of said companies, accepting tho
act of Assembly authorizing the consolidation Of
the Alexandria and fredericksburg Railway Com
pany and tho Alexandria and Washington Rail-
way Company into one company, under the name
of the Washington Southern Railway Company,
aud ratifying the contract entered into between
said companies for the purpose, We hereby notify
and request the stockholders of the Alexandria
and Fredericksburg Railway Company and Of the
Alexandria and Washington Railway Company,
who have become stockholders of the Washington
Southern Railway Company, al above recited, to
meet at the Office Of the pany, corner OF Gamer
on and Fayette streets, in the city of Alexandria,
Va, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th day Of April,
1890 at 1890 o'clock p NJ, to adopt such meas
ures as may be necessary and proper in the prem
ises and for the transaction Of such business as
may be brought before said meeting.
GEORGE B. EOBERTS,
President of the Alexandria and Fredericksburg
Railway Company.
J. N, DUBARRY,
President of tho Alexandria and Washington
Railway Company. mh31 I'd
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ADVICE TO MOTHERS.

Mrs. WINsLoW'S SOOTHING SYRUP, for
children teethng is the prescription of one OF the
best female nurses and physicians in the United
States, and hss been used for forty years with
never failing success by millions of mothers for
their children. During the process OF teething
its value is incaculable 1t relieves the child
from pain cures dysentery and diarrhGa gripping
in the bowels and wind-colic. By giving health
to The child it rests the mother. Price % cents a
bottle.
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NEW DREss GOODS, NEW GINGHAMs,
NEW sATEENs. NEW OUTING FL ANNELs,
NEW SHIFTING PEBCALS. REV PRINTS.
NEW WHITE GOODS, some rare targ .ins in
Remnants in this department.
New Hamburg and Swiss Embroideries.
A large line Of 81 in. and 45-in Flounces
New Vandyke Point Laces and Embroidery.
Gloria Silk Umbrellas froA ST. up.
BLACK GO0DS-Cashmeres and Henriettas in
all-Wool and Silk Warps two special good values
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guckien,s Arnica salve

THE BEST sALvE in the world for Cuts, Bruises
Sores Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, letter,
Chappod Hands, Chlblains, Corns and all Skin
Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay
faction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. For sale BY E. 8. Leadbester & Bro.
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COMMISSIONERS SALE OF LARGE AND
" VALUABLE TRACTS OF LAND AND FISH
ERIES ON THE POTOMAC RIYER