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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-10
Printers Epitaphs.

One of the oldest epitaph' upon
printer, says the Manchester (England)
Times, is that inscribed upon monu-
ment erected in St. Mary's Church,
Datchet, to Christopher Barker, at one
time printer to Queen Elizabeth. 1t
runs as follows;
..gers Barker lies, once printer to the
Crown,
Whose works of art acquired a great re-
nown,
Time saw his worth. aud spread around his
fame.
That future printers might imprint upon his
name.
But when his strength could work the press
no more,
And his last sheets we're folded into store,
Pure faith, with hope the greatest treasures
given,
openeI their gates and bale him pass to
heaven"
In different strain is the next cpitaph
VIC shall quote. 1t purports to be
written By the defunct himself, but who
ever wrote it showed n pretty turn for
making a merry quib of serious topic.
No better idea of death being release
from cares and trorbles could be con-
yeyed than in the following lines:
NO more shall copy bad perplex my BRAIN
No more shall types small face my eye5alls
strain.
No more the proofs foul page create me
troubles
By errors, transpositions, outs and doubles;
No more to ovsrrun shall begin;
No more be driving out or driving in,
The stubborn pressman's brow 1 now may
scoff,
Revised, corrected. and finally worked OIL
Here is curt complaint;
Weary of distributing pye,
Pressed out OF life. must die.
I've cut my stick, my font is sped.>
Ny case is empty. as in life my bead.
In fact NV iast impression is--I'ni dasd"
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A DISTINGUISHED Dog.

The Bangor (Me.) NeOs notes the death
of bulldog named Spring, the property
of Mr.. J. D. White, at the age of fifteen
wears. The dog had but three legs, hav-
inc lost the fourth in saving his master 5
life. Mr.. White was standing on the
railroad track. An empty coal tram
came laundering past on the down track
and he didn't hear the approach oil a
loaded coal train on the up track al
though the engineers bell was ringing
Spring saw his masters danger ana ne
BEGAN to bark furiously, but Mr.. White
mpposing the dog was barking at the
down train. didn't turn around. Then
Spring few at Mr.. White and bit HIM
on the right leg. The dog had never
done such thing before, and, jumping
aside to give Spring kick, Mr.. White
caught sight Of the snorting locomotive
lust in time to see in another second 1t
would crush him to death. In twin
king he hauled his companion from the
track. and the engine almost rubbed
AGAINST them as it passed. 1t ran over
Springs left hind leg and Mr. White
had it amputated at the g"nl'rei JOINT
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-10
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Pnscz GEORGE, OF Greece, is a famous
boxer.
THE Russian Czarowitz is q scienti6,
scholar.
SIR JoHY MAcDoyALDs estate is valued
at $4,000
.MARK TWAIN" has gone to Paris for
three years stay.
Mr.. FOSTER, Secretary Of the Treasury
is famous whist player.
THE President Of Hayti is said 70 receive
IN annual sa.ary OF S2fJ,OJ1
The Cleveland's new home on Buzzsrds
Bay is called ''Gray Gables.
NOVELIST RUDYARD KIPLISG was only
two weeks in the United States.
SIR JULIAN PAUNcEFoTE, British Minister
at Washington, plays lawn tennis.
LORD WoLsELEY entered the British army
thirty-fve years ago at sl.21 day.
SECRETARY NOBLE is the hardest-wor6ed
man in the Government at Washington.
r. P. HUTCHINSON, "Old Hutch" tho
Chicago speculator, is going to live IN boS-
ton.
Mrs. STANLEY will accompany the ex-
plorer on his lecturing expedition to Aus
tralia.
Fx.SEyAroR TABOR. Of Colorado. con-
templates the erection in Denver OF s9V,-
900 residence.
THE Prince Of Wales is an imposing figure
in uniform, though he is seen at MS Les1 IN
evening dress.
JOHN BURNS. the British socialist aud Ia,
Dor agitator is man OF wide rea1ins ana
great cultivation.
QUEEN VICTORIA attended the christening
of her granddaughter, the INFANT
child OF the Duke and Duchess OF Fife.
HUBERT LUkPscaES, the well-known
journalist who died recently in Brussels
Belgium, spoke nine different language
THE Ouee, of Saxony maintains three
nhvsicians. whose sole duty is TO attend the
ailments OF the suffering poor. The Queen
pavs the physicians out ot her own private
purse.
THE New York Recorder has started a
snbscription fund for monument 70 COM
memorate the heroism OF Frederic broxaw,
the Princeton graduate, who died trying to
save woman in the surf at Eloeron, n j.
LORD SALISBURY, stout AMI indolent as
ha NAV now seem, has been nara WORKER,
and in 1852 when be was Robert Cecll, Wis
tied the Bendi2s and Ha,larat geld nelds or
Australia. where he lived In tent, ala ms
own washing and cooking and dug anf
gathered nuggets
SENATOR GEORGE, of Mississippi, is sixty.
FIVE wears OF age, and has been member oil
tns Senate for ten years He was Briga-
dier-G General in the Confederate army and
after the war was Chief Justice OF the Su-
preme Court Of Mississippi.
Two curious old relics of European royal
~ are passins their declining days In Oh.
scnrity in Lon ION. They are the Prince or
Mautria and his aged mother, the Duchess.
The duchess is nearly ninety and her son Is
well on in life. They live in very humble
style, but still retain rare collection Oh
Jewels and bric-a-brac.
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South and West.

AT the Moqui Reservation in Arizona, tho
Indian agent and another white were MUIR
dered, and $50 bucks in war paint encamped
in Keam's canyon, armed with Winchesters
and ready TO fight. Troops from Fort VIM
gate went to disperSe them.
STATE TREASURER WOODRUFF, Of Kan
sas has been indicted for the embezzlenent
of State funds.
The town Of Moville, South Dakota, was
nearly wiped out by a fool. The inhabi-
tants were compelled to camp out in a field.
THOMAS THURMAN, Joseph Zins Miss
Edith Zins. Miss Catherine Case and Miss
Kate Riddle were drowned while boatinZ on
the Ohio River, opposite Covington, ny.
The boat was run down by barge.
STATE COMPTROLLER CoLGAY, of Califor-
MIA. has been advised by his attorney, j. A.
Barhan, not to pay the 5000. 600 appropriated
by the Legislature for Californias exhibit
at the Worlds Fair on the ground that the
appropriation is unconstitutional.
THOMAS HARRIS, colored, was hanged at
Shreveport La, for the murder OF Ella
Franklin. Two colored men living IN Cass
County ten miles east Of Dapgerfield, Texas
named VIII Hartsield and Nun Sheppard,
were taken out and shot to death by un-
known parties.
THOMAS W. BAcID. of Littls Rock, tine
largest wholesale and retail machinery
dealer in Arkansas, has failed with liaolll
ties OF SlOO,OOo.
ALI, but one OF the fourteen flint and WIN
dow glass factories OF Flndlay, ONO, nave
shut down until September l ana prooaoly
longer. giving over 1000 employees TWO
months vacation.
THE doors of the Red Cloud (Neb.l Ma
tional Bank were closed by order OF BANK
Examiner Mcknight.
LEVY and Joseph Straus, masters, have
made an assignment at Baltimore, Md. LII
abilities over So90.OOO.
THE wholesale ana retail grocery estab-
lishment of David Nicholson, st. Louis, Mo-,
was completely destroyed by fire. Loss
5000 600.
ARNOLD EGFRIED JAEy, son OF Frederick
Indwic Jahn. founder Of the German Turn
ers, Society. was buried at Graceiand Gene,
tery. Chicago, III. The body was followed
"a Tho tomb by one thousand Turner's IN uni
form.
SIX Chinese women persisted in a lodging
bouso fire in Chinatown, San Francisco,
Cal.
Ar,tItSc wall killed Patrick Haggerty,
Richard I. Benniwitz and John Fiaherty az
Janesville Wis.
4 DESTRUCTIVE hurricane swept over
large area in Kansas and Missouri.
VouDENor CRUMProS was hanged az Fort
Smith, Ark, for a murder committ'd III 1ne
Indian Territory in lSs9.
LIEUTESANT-C Conn lNDER GEORGE A.
NORRIS, OF the United States steamship
Omaha, died at San Francisco, Cal, OF pneu-
monia.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-10

on both cheeks aud the mouth. She
rubbed the point of her nose against his,
then both rubbed faces. She broke
away to resume her position at the CEN
tire pole, while the Papaloi withdrew
for the mug. Her eyes met mine, she
advanced, seized my hands, and repeated
the kissing and nose rubbing. 1t was
not pleasant, bnt furtivc glance at the
solemn faces around me informed me
that discretion was better than cleant-
:-5ss. | submitted. The master Of cere-
monies approached me and, after another
handshake, invited me to drink. | de-
clined with thanks. The priestess
drank, and the orgy continued.
The three priests went into the hut.
Presently the Papaloi returned alone, a
glitter like insanity in his eyes and his
mouth fecked with foam. The master
of ceremonies and his assistant came
from the hut, bearing a white chicken.
They approached tie Papaloi. In
stantly all rushed to him, and he was
concealed by the painting, furious crowd
for five minutes. When the crowd
opened the dancing women had triangu-
lar blotches of blood on their foreheads
and bloody mouths. The chicken had
disappeared.
Up to the time when left, the dance
had been in progress about three hours,
and there had been no drunkenness, but
my impression was that the religious
part of the ceremony ended with eating
the chicken, and that the drinking and
the orgy generally commenced at cnce,
to be kept up all night. now honestly
believe in human sacrifices at these great
ceremonies. The crowd l left seemed
equal to anything.
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Murder as a Matter of Course.

A European traveller, who was visiting
the court Of the Imam OF Muscat not long
ago, relates the following: 81 had heard
that no ruler of Muscat for the last hun
dred years had died natural death, and
was interested, when in our conversation,
the Imam himself introduced the matter
Of this extraordinary fatality among the
sovereigns of his country" is it true,
ventured to ask, "that no Imam for a
hundred years has died in his oeds
"Certainly not, said he, with perfectly
grave face; "let me see--four OF them
have died in bed" "Aud they were not
assassinated, thenl' "Well," he said,
''it is true that they were found under
the mattress instead of on top OF it, but
they uuquestionably died in bed" They
had been smothered by their hsiss ap'
parcnt.--4rgOndut.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

cent the press, was sold at auction BY the re-
ceiver under direction Of tho District OF
Columbia Supreme Court. The property
was purchased by A. T. Hensey, proprietor
Of the Washington Sunday Herald, for Slo,-
150
COLONEL GEORGE THoN retired: United
states Army. died at Garfield Hospital,
Washington. OF exhaustion followin & an at
tack of apoolexy. He was born IN New
Hampshire. He was by breyet brigadier-
General.
Fx-sEyAToa INGALLS, made his first ap-
neararce as a lecturer at the National Chau-
ramona at Glen Echo, near Washington City.
a few days ago. His subject was "Ihe troo-
lens of Our Second Century"
OLIVER p. HALLAM, OF Nashville, ILL.,, has
been appointed assistant chief CLERK OF tas
Pension Office, vice Green B. R,um, Jr, re-
signed.
THE Weather Bureau was transferred
from the War Departm snt % the Agrl-
cult-.al Department.; Professor Marx w.
Harrington, Of Michigan was appointed It's
Chief.
Foreign.
THE Congressional party OF Chilli accuse
the police under Balmaceda OF thro wing I'M
itation bombs at the Ministers to afford
uretext for the arrest OF the Congressional
negotiators.
OUTRAGEs upon .oreigners in China con-
tinue.
THE famous Captain Eyre Massey Shaw
has resigned as Chief OF the London Eng.
land, Metropolitan Fire Brigade. He retires
after thirty years service. There is some
mystery abou. his action.
OWING to a declaration by the Marquis di
Rudini in the Italian Chamber of Deputies
at Rome that the Dreibund Alliance would
be maintained scene OF great disorder oc-
Cured and two members nearly came TO
blows.
The harvest prospects of Russia have be-
come worse, and there are fears Of partial
famine. Because o. the bad condition or
the crops it is proposel to prohibit the ex-
portation OF corn.
The Sultan of Turkey has ratified the
Brussels Anti-Slavery Convention act.
The Triple Alliance among Ger many, Aus.
tra and Italy has been renewed for six
years.
The Governor of NEWFOUNDLAND has been
directed by the Imperial Government to re-
vcke his assent 70 the Order in Council
refusing bait to Canadian rs well as French
fishermen.
ELECTION returns i'll New South Wales
give the Ministerials ffty-ons members,
the Opposition ffty-three, Labor Party
twenty-six and Independents three.
THE widow Of Sir John A. Macdonald,
late Premier OF Canada, has been raised to
the British Peerage.
GREAT distress has been caused in Russia
by the drouth.
EMPEROR WILLIAM let the Island Of
Heligoland on board the steamship Prince
Bismarck The vessel was escorted by two
German ironclsds From Heligoland the
Emperor went to Wilhelmshayen, wnere hs
launched the new ironclad Kurfuerst Fred
rich Wilhelm.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-10
A Humorist's Exercise.

'T wonder whether NJ. Quad took his
dancing platform with him to New
York." says gossiper in the Chicago
Nail. she is a crank on the subject OF
physical exercise, but he doesa't take
any stock in Indian clubs or dumb bells.
He fitted up small platform few years
ago in his residence, in Detroit, and
whenever ne felt the need of physical
exercise he would take a turn at jig
dancing. After hard days work in
the top story of the Free Press building,
he would 90 home, bring out the little
platform, and dance hoedown to the
music of a piano, at which his daughter
presided. After a half hour OF this sort
of recreation and half hour OF rest sup
per would be served, and frequently the
humorist would dance for few minutes
later in the evening just before retiring.
1T beats all the gymnasiums in crea-
ton. he said to me once, 'and | have
never found anything that suits my re-
ouirements so well. A complete mental
rest is obtained, you see, as we'll as phys
ical exercise
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-10
Mystery of Second -GrOwth Forests

Among the curious enigmas OF nature
which have remained unsolyei to the
present day is the growth OF a forest
unon the site once occupied by one
which differed in character from the
latter growth. Some have supposed
that the seeds from which the second
forest spring hal been lying undevclopsd
in the ground for great length OF time
perhaps centuries, but the improoabliity
Of seeds retaining their vitality for such
length of time, and uuaer the cona'-
tions TO which they ould necessarily be
exposed. makes that theory rather i'm
plausible; and, besides, this speculation
fails to account for the origin OF tho
seeds necessary to produce the second
orowth.-ss, Louis Republic.
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Washington.

Ir was decided by ths President at Cabi-
net meeting to coin the trade dollars into
standard silver dollars.
A BULLETIN issued from Washington by
the Census Office shows that the production
of limestone in the United States for the CEN
sus year 1889 had total value ofSi9, 095, 179.
The expenditures for wages, ETC.. were SIS,
O92, IA. The pital invested in the industry
amounted TO s27, or, 325.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER has appointe
J. Ross Calhoun OF Philadelphia as Special
Census Agent. Mr.. Porter will detail an
extra force TO Close up the Philadelphia
work. There are 35S manufactur ing estab-
lishments yet 10 be scheduled. not including
a number Of expert industries
THE State Department has recc'ved
despatch announcing tae death OF Aiexande'
Clark. United States Minister to Liberia:
His remains will be brought to the Unite 1
States for interment.
The plant Of ths Warrington Critic. ex-
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KILLED BY THOUSANDS.
Suppression of Africa's Slave Trade
Causes Horrible Butcbcry.

A letter just received from Sierra Leone,
Africa, says that the vigilant suppression OF
the slave trade along the coast and conse'
ouent inability OF the wsrlike races to dis
pose of their captives at c profit, has caused
q revival in the most terrible form OF the
scenes of slaughter and b!oodshed which
formerly made every chief town OF the In
terror Golgotha.
Coomassie. it is saic, has again witnessed
the killing OF as many as 20J victims in one
dav. and the death dru'a Is heard In tue
streets even more frequently than before the
British Ashantes exDe iitiou, wnen It was
hoped such scenes were put to an end forever;
The savage Wangarus recently made rad
into Dagomba. completely devastating the
villages. and carrying of over two thousand
captives. They were unable TO get rid o,
the prisoners as slaves aud held sscrincai
feast which lastei for three days In which
every captive persisted, not even children
being spared. ..,.
Ii is universally ADMITTED in the settle.
ments that the approaching extinction OIL
the slave trade i'm Western Africa is making
warfare more nicrciless than it used to be.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-10
CURIOUS FACTS.
There are stone-soled boots.

The rabbit excels all other animals in
enduring cold.
A Pennsylvania preacher has lived on
one meala day for thirty years.
At Harvard University for fifty years
no smoker has graduated with the first
honors of his class.
A woman dentist in New York uses
$1,000 worth of gold filling in her
patrons teeth every year.
Corea has a cave from which a wintry
wind perpetually blows. The force of
the wind is such that a strong man cannot
stand before it.
tits computed, in recently made sta
tistics, tnat the glass -bottleproduction Of
the world amounts to daily output Of a
little over eleven million bottles.
A perfect sapphire is one Of the rarest
gems, and consequently when found COM
mands a very high price. 1t is curious
that a test of its perfection is that it
shall show red in strong, artificial
light.
Mrs. Priscilla Scroggins, OF Gaines
vile, Ca, has 1853 descendants, as fol-
lows: Twelve children, 103 grlndchil-
dren, e3S great-grandchildreu, 4)i
great-great- grandchildren. She is 1O4
years old.
The custom prevailing in the German
army of attaching to the clothing of each
man in active service card giving his
rank. name and regiment is to be adopted
in the British army. Dead and wounded
men are by this means readily identi-
fed.
The Prophecy Investigation Society
was recently received by the Lord
Mayor of London, and informed
that functionary of its object. which is
to seek guidance in the study of the
prophecies as to the expectation OF future
events.
Divers in the harbor OF Syracuse,
Greece, have discovered a magnificent
marble building, whose highest point is
only three metres uEder the water. The
building contains great stairways and
columnei halls. 1t is believed that the
editice was once used a; a bath or a
temple.
Dwarf trees, only two feet high, exac.
reproductions in miniature of sycamore,
oak, cedar, and apple trees, have for
two or three hundred years bcen raised
By the japanese. The mode of producing
them is welI-guarded secret. Some
French gardeners have within the past
five years almost equalled the japanese in
the production Of these dwarf trees.
The origin of "windtalI," in the sens,
Of "good LUCK" dates from the tim C of
William the Conqueror. 1t was thea a
criminal ofTense to cut timber in the for
ests. Only such could be gathered as the
wind had blown down, hence, a heavy
windstorm was hailed by the peasants as
so much good luck, aud from this comes
the modern application of the expires
sion.
n. r. Morrison, Of Yaldosta, Ga,
saws he was riding in his woods the other
dav and he came across kingsnake aud
a rattlesuake fighting, and says he
stopped and watched them while,
when to his utter astonishment the king
snake got toe rattlesnake by the tail and
epdeavored to swallow it. The former
did not succeed, however, and after
watching the light some time, both snakes
were killed.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-10

cet me coupe" And Swain saw the
sailor hat in his hand.
VI.
II was about week after this. The
room had half ton Of letters in it. CIipe
used to come in, look at the bronze peg
and 20 away again. Then the sailor hat
reappeared.
Miss Chalcey was there waiting, so was
her little lunch that she always ate when
Cline and Wallace went down to Del.
monico's, and on Cline's desk was tiny
bunch of violets. He shook hands with
her, congratulated her on her mothers
recovery, and said: "Pshaw! don't men,
ton it, my child. I'm just about as kind
as the average business man-no more,
no less. We've got a terrible LOT of busi-
ness here.
They both laughed
Cline was in particularly good spirits
that morning. 1t was so comfortable,
dout YOU know, to have the Office rou.
tine 90 on its regular business-like way
to bear the click of the instrument; to
get side g,impscs of two white roun led
wrists dancing a gallopade; to know that
the chip hat was covering up that bronze
peg, aud you couldn't hear the bulldnca.
II went on about week, with a little
bunch of violets every morning on his
desk. which he always put in his button
hole when he went uptown. There were
two days when he hadn't got pin, and
she had, and 50 she fastened them on for
him. and there was one awfully nasty
day when he actually helped her eat her
lunch, and enjoyed it.
Then the whole affair came to sud-
den stop. These things always do in
real life.
It was Monday morning. Sac hal
buno IN her hat and busted OF her ma
chine aud looked to see if Boo Slocum )
shades were there, when Cline said, with
horribly sad expression OF cOun:e-
nance:
miss Cline, you've been very faith
full aud efficient secretary, and I'm sorry
I've got to lose you, but the fact is I've
found the woman I want, and OF course
I shall not need you any more"
She was looking at him dreamlly, a'
If she wondered where the paragon came
from that flied his bill.
eyes" he said, "strange as it may
sound I've actually picked out the woman
who IS to be my wife aud | shall not
want a secretary. We've had a very
pleasant time here together, haven wei
"Yes, sir"
"And you remember all the qualities
that was fool enough to expect in one
woman
eyes, sir"
uWell. I've found most Of en-"
"Tm very glad, sir.
"Do you think, Miss Chalcey, from
what you know of me, that she will have
me if ask herr"
eyes, sir
"You really and truly think so, or
business principles''
"Yes, sir"
"Then, by Jove, I'll marry her. fo'
can consider yourself discharged, Miss
Cline-Nelly.'
And she was.
The only uubusiness-lilse thing they
did was to both try to look out the ridi'
culous little pane at TIE same time-and
no two business people could do tina
simultaneously without looking lik
siamese twins.-Nev York World.
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Two young japanese women lost their
nenral balance over Tsuda's attempt to az
sassinate the Czarowitz. One started out 70
see the Russian Prince and niaSe an apoioSj
on behalf OF her race. Shs failed to see Mo.
and committed suicide. Another attemptet
suicide by drowning, but was rescued
Tsuda himself attempted suicide AMI was
fatally injured
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EHEN THE TEARS ARE NEAR TO
FLOWING.

When the heart is overburdenel-
Full of sorrow, lost in woe;
When the world is draped in cypress,
And the dirse-winds through it blot
Then the tears are near to flowing.
When the soul with JOY is freish,ed,
Full OF loves delightful glow;
When the world is clad in color,
And the song-bells thrilling go
Then the tears are near TO flowing.
So it seems that bounding gladneSS
Sister is to sad-eye1 woe;
For, when either, thrilling, throbbinG,
Tbrou yh the being foodeth-lo
Then the tears are near to flowing.
One is just outside the portals.
Sprinkling life with grief-thawed snow;
One is just inside the rose-plot,
Sprent with pleasures pearly flow
Aud We say. the tears are flowing.
Il r. Hamj,r,in, in TImssDsmocr1t.
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A YELLOW fir tree measuring Ill fee; Ia
lenata and iilty-iour inches IN diamster h.s
already been started towards tue Wolrs
Fair, having been shipped froa sea'1ie.
Washington.