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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-03
CURIOUS FACTS.
Orange pie is something new.

OiduZC DlJ 10 cOhANbhihr. hN"-
Blonde hair is the finest and red the
coarsest.
P. r. Barnum's family motto was
"Love God and be Merry"
A big ocean steamer consumes about
300 tons of coal in tweuty-four hours.
The majority of scientists say that the
top of a wheel moves faster than the
bottom.
The force required to open an oyster
appears to be 13l9t times the weight Of
the shelless creature.
1t has been calculated that there are
about 200, 900 families living in London
on about S. a week.
The thickness of the human hair varies
from the two-hundred-and-fftieth to the
x-hundredth part of an inch.
The smallest known insect, the Pter-
atomus Putnamii, parasite of the ich-
neumon, is but one-ninetieth of an inch
in length.
The Prince of Wales is a direct de-
scendant of King Alfred, beng the
thirty-third great-grandson; thus the
English throne has remained IN the same
family for over one thousand years.
In each respiration an adult iuhales
ono pint of air; a healthy man respires
sixty to twenty times minute; while
standing the adult respiration is twenty
two times per minute; while lying down
thirteen.
When the postal officials sent to Adj
rian, Mich, the pay due young man
who was killed in the recent Lake Shore
accident near Cleveland, they deducted
twenty five cents for the unfinished part
of the run.
Mrs. Louise Burbank, Of Leoninster,
Mass, is almost 10i years OF age. In
her early years she walked from Quebec
to Boston, carrying her babe upon her
back, the family finances compelling
them to make the journey in that way.
A local journal of Fulda, Mimi, notes
that a woman recently brought to the
Office a hens egg, which measures q.
inches in circumference the smallest
way, and nine inches the largest. 1t was
boiled, and upon opening it a smaller,
perlectly-formei egg, with a very thick
shell, was found, surrounded by the
white of the larger egg.
A very difficult calling is that of mi
crometer making. For mathematical
purposes these instruments must be made
so fine as to measure the 3I.1OOJ Of an
inch. On such a scale the hair OF the
head is as large as horse car. To do
this demands elucation, technical skill,
mechanical and mathematical knowledge
and unfailing eyes aud hands.
The most extensive salt mine is in
Wieliezka, near Cracow, Austro-Hun
gary. For six hundred years it has
been constantly worked, and from it
5000 tons of salt are annually taken.
The mass of salt in it is estimated to be
five hundred miles long, twenty miles
broad and 1900 feet in depth. It's col
lective galleries are fully thirty miles in
length, and its lower levels contain
streets and houses, making it complete
underground village.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-03
THE NEWS EpITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

Z ALLEY BROTHERS q PLACE, leather deal
ers, at Boston, Mass, have assigned The
liabilities are estimated at $500, 900.
COMMENCEMENT exercises were held in
many colleges including Yale, harvard,
Wellesley, Amherst and Dartmouth.
THE statue TO Henry Ward Beecher in
Brooklyn, n. Y, and that of Archbishop
Hughes at Fordham College, New York
City, were unveiled.
The jury of the Court Of Oyer and Ter
miner, New York City, found verdict Of
mot guilty" in the trial OF President Clark,
Cbauncey NJ. Depew and ten other directors
OF the New Haven road who were charged
with responsibility for the fatal tunnel acci-
dent on February2 20 last.
COLUMBIA won the triangular freshman
race from Yale and Harvard at New Lon
don, Conn, IN the record-breaking time Of
nine minutes and forty-one seconds.
EMIL MARQUEE 6 Co., leather dealers at
Boston. Mass, with a branch house in New
Orleans, have assigned. The Liabilities are
from 500, 600 TO 10000.
The Cornell Varsity eight carried off tho
honors in the triangular race at New Lon
don, Conn, between Cornell, Pennsylvania
and Columbia colleges. The winners time
for the three miles was 1927 1-2.
TIE monument of the lllth New York
Volunteer Infantry was dedicated at Gettys-
burg, Penn. Benjamin B. Snow, OF Auburn
\. Y, delivered the Grafton, and c. d. Mac.
Dougall OF the same place, made an address
The beneiiction was pronounced by Rev. S.
e. Hopkins, Of Palmyra, n. Y.
DURING baseball game at Johnstown,
Penn, few days ago one of the players
discovered the body Of an unknown food
victim.
A sCAFFOLD erected at the Worthingtoa
pump works, Elizabethport n j., on which
seventeen bricklayers were at work, sudden
ly fell and prccipitated the men forty feet
TO the ground. Michael Nolan, thirty-fiye,
unmarried ami Gabriel Williams, thirty,
also unmarried, were instantly killed The
other mel were all more or less injured.
The great Yale-Harvarl University four
mile boat race at New London, Conn, for
the sixteenth time in the history Of the an
nual event was won by Harvard, leaving
Yale with a record OF eleven out of the
twenty-seven contests which have taken
place between the two great rival institu-
tions. Yale was beaten by eleven lengths
time twenty-one minutes and twenty-three
seconds.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-03
FUN.

The first man to aim a bow at giant
corporation was David. d.-Teras Siftiags.
The cautious excayatoT never throws
himself into his work. .-Bost0n Courier.
When man goes down, the general
verdict is that he has gone up.-Dalas
NeUs.
1t is but natural that tough stick
should often go on a bender. -Mw York
Herald.
The hotel "bouncers" are about to es-
tablish an organization. 1t will be made
up of members of the fire departments.
-Statesman.
sect off the track" yelled the car
driver-he yelled in vain. The man was
London detective, and had never been
on it.-Puck.
Aunt Mabel-"Why, Johnny, how the
sun has tanned your Johnny--"No.
it wasn't the sun that tanned me. 1t was
papa. ."-Nunsey's Weekly.
"Every individual is responsible for
the universe to the extent Of his powers, "
says Bellamy. That lets the dude of
very easy SomerDiHe Journal.
Pride of ancestry never seems so fool
ish to any one else as it does to people
who can hardly remember who their
orandfathers were. ---SomergiIe J0urRal.
The quickest way to lost your place in
the affection of the man who says ne
doesn't care for admiration is to sop
telling him the pleasant things yoa hoHr
about him.-Emira Ga,ette.
Mamma (eyamining the proof of her
small daughters photograph-"Grace,
why didn't you smilel Grace (aged six
years, with an inspired air--'I did,
mamma, but the man didn't put it
down. ."-Harper's Bazar.
Speaking as a Stakeholder: "What
does your gold mine superintendent say
of the life out therel" Essays it's life
of unremitting toll" "No doubt
about that!" "No-particularly as to
the unremitting part. ."-Chicago Tri-
June.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-03
LONG AGO.


once knew all the birds that came
And nested in our orchard trees,
For every flower had name
Ny friends were woodchucks, toads an
bees:
/ knew where thrived in yonder glen
What plants would sooth a stone bruise
toe
o., l was very learned then,
But that was very long ago.
l knew the spot upon the hill
Where checkerbsrries could be found,
l knew the rusheS near the mill
Where pickerel lay that weighed a pound
knew the wood-the very tree
Where ivei the poaching, saucy crow,
And all the woods and crows knew me
But that was very long ago.
And pining for the JOYS Of youth,
tread the old familiar spot
Only TO learn this solemn truth:
have forgotten, am forgot.
Vet here's this youngster al my knee
Knows all the things used TO know;
To think [ once was wise as he
But that vas very long ago.
/ know it's folly to complain
OF whatso'er the fateS decree.
Yet, We're not wishes all in vain,
tell you what my wish should be:
III wish TO be boy again,
Back with the friends l used to know.
For was on, so happy then
But that was very long ago.
-ErJeas Field. III the Chic 19O NeWS
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-03

not more than five per cent. of the fruit
shipped perished on fast voyages. The
Government was then induced to lift the
duty off the frui;. From that time on
the trade grew even faster than at first
and the demand always kept ahead of
the supply.
Seeing the rapidly growing and sue
cessful business in the the fruit at Bar
acoa, capitalists started groves in jana
lea, Aspinwail, Honduras, Blue6elds,
Limon, and kept clearing the
wooded country about their places and
putting in banana trees.
At first American steamers were char
tered for the trade, but they soon began
to put up their charges for transporta-
ton, and then Norwegian and English
vessels crept in and crowded out the
American ships.
There are at present about forty
steamers in the trade that are coming
and going all the time. These steamers
are built for no other purpose and carry
from 10, 900 to ~, 900 punches each. A
banana steamer is a shell. There is but
one compartment, and in this compart-
ment the bananas are stood on end in
layers from the bottom Of the ship to the
deck.
1t is peculiar fact that but one bunch
OF bananas grows on tree. After tho
fruit has been cut the tree is then cut
down to the ground, and from the stump
another tree sprouts which bears another
bunch the following year. The greatest
trouble of farmers is to keep the farms
clear of sprouts. They shoot up from
the roots OF the tree for a radius of ten
feet and grow like weeds.
As the fruit is cut from the trees it is
placed on the backs of little pack don
keys and transported in this way to the
coast. One donkey can carry from three
to six bunches, according to the size Of
the punches and the distance from the
coast. In the season at Baracoa there
are more than three thousand donkeys
that stretch along in line for miles
plodding toward the coast with their
loads Of bananas.
The fruit from Jamaica is considered
by dealers to be the largest, best and
most salable. This is said to be owing
to the fact that the fruit is allowed to re-
main longer on the trees and is more
fully matured than from any other Sec
! ton.
One firm has just planted a grove Of
| 1 300, 900 trees at Gioara, Sama, near
Baracoa, which will be bearing fruit in
another year.
The cost to the farmer of raising the
fruit is estimated at twenty-five cents a
tree, and he calculates on realizing ten
per cent. profit. The fruit is sold in the
market at from sevcnty.fve cents to 81
a bunch wholesale.
The principal markets for bananas are
New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Savannah, Galveston and
Tampa, Fla. From these points the fruit
is circulated over the country. -NeD
York Herald.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-03
Accommodating.

A sign on railroad restaurant not a
hundred miles from Detroit, according
to the Free Press, reads;
DINNER READY
You don't have TO waitl
We have hired men TO do that!
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-03
How Can This Be2

Over the mantle piece Of an old inn in
Lincolnshire, England, may be found
this drolI quiz;
A man without eyes saw plums on tree,
Neither took plums nor left plums.
Pray how can that be-
The answer just below the riddle is
this:
The man hadn't eyes but he had just one
with which on the tree two plums he could
spy. 49,,
He neither took plums nor plums did he
leave,
But took one and left one, as we may con-
ceiye.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-03

In the United Kingdom there is a free
library for each 977,OOO of the iuhabi-
tants.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-03
THE HERALD JOB OFFICE

is complete in every respect. Work done at
short notice and on the most reasonable terms.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-03

l once knew all the birds that came
And nested in our orchard trees,
The morning call., 1891-09-14
NAVAL J0TIINGS.
Port Orchard Station-Accepting
Recruits.

The right to the site on Puget Sound,
Wash. has been acquired and the Navy
Department as formally established naval
station at Port Orchard. Plans for the large
dry-dcck authorized for construction at that
point are being prepared in the Bureau of
Yards and Docks, and when the precise
spot for the dock is determined upon 10y the
officers who are examining the condition of
the ground bids Tor construction will be i'll
vitcd. The plans provide Tor dock 60
feet long, 10 feet wide at the bottom of en-
trance and capable of admitting vessels OF
80 feet draft The dock will be on the
bureaus designs and will be built OF timber.
\ distinction of the dock viii be the granite
entrance made necessary by the presence oil
the sea worm in these waters
Commanding officers OF vessels have been
authorized to accept recruits at any de-
mestic port when there Is a depletion Of the
enlisted forces by deSeTtion or other cause
This privilege had been given commanding
officers of vessels abrOad, and those IN
home waters depended upon the receiving
ships. The latest returns show tHat the
enlisted strength of the navy was within
fourteen of the authorized strength. The
right to accept recruits OF b'aTd naval YES
sells is q convenient and economic method of
keeping up the required force.
The board Of marine officers engaged IN
IOImuldttIlS ooiho SOliVliO ~ A'S .it"SS P-N-
motion in that CORPS has practically COM
pleted its lab0rs and the report will soon be
ready for submission to the Secretary. 1t is
likely that the board will recommend an
optional retirement after thirty years ser
vice for officers in lire and staff, no have
war records, each officer to ue retired as of
the grade next above that held by him at
the conclusion of the thirty years term. BY
this means the. vacancies will be created
gradually.
Commander T. NJ. Barber has been or
derer to command tie MoEocacy on the
AsiaIic station, aud was to have proceeded
from Vancouver on Wednesday. He Will
relieve Commander NJ. l.. Johnston, who
has been given two months leave of alb
The morning call., 1891-09-14
THRASHED THE PARSON.
A Wom an, Angered at His Evidence, Be-
1abors Him With an Umbrella.

1abors Him With an Umbrella.
Justice Berger's court room In New
Haven was the scene of lively incident
recently which was not down on the caen-
dar, and in which an irate woman vigor-
ously thrashed a well known Baptist
clergyman with her umbrella, says Con-
nellsyille Qnd.) dispatch TO the Globe-Demo-
crat The squire had case wherein John
Bingham of that place was plaintiff, and
Frank Sweeny and wife, of Braddock, de-
PENDANTS. Sweeny formally lived at Indian
Creek, few miles above here in the noun
tains, where he operated a sandbank on the
farm of Rev. r. c. Morgan of this place.
and Bingham worked for him. Some time
ago Sweeny shipped large amount of sand
to parties down the road, and the reverend
gentleman who owned it, fearing he would
not get his pay, attached the money in the
hands OF the party to whom the sand was
consigned. Sweeny was unable to pay the
laborers who helped load the sand until
Morgan would see fit to adjust matters.
Bingham thought he would rush matters by
bringing suit for the amount of his wages.
After all the witnesses for the plaintiff had
been examined it was found that there was
a missing link in his chain of evidence.
Bingham thought of Rev. Mr.. Morgan as
the person who would likely help him out,
and the reverend gentleman was at once
summoned. He gave the necessary evil
Mrs. Sweeny fighting mad. The evidence
offered was said to be confidential talk
between Mrs. Sweeny and Rev. Mr.. Nor
gan. Mrs. Sweeny bitterly denied what
the reverend gentleman SwOre to. After he
had testified he leisurely walked to the
door and stood on the steps. Finally
Mrs. Sweeny walked TO the door,
and finding Morgan still there she
gave full vent to her feelings. She
quickly lifted the umbrella in the air
and commenced to hammer the preacher
over the head and shoulders. The attack
was so sudden and the weapon welded SO
fiercely that Morgan was completely dazed,
and before he could offer any defense his
high silk hat was pounded down over his
eyes and he was completely at the mercy of
the mountain Amazon. Luckily for Morgan
Officer Woodfll happened to be close at
hand, and with tie assistance of her hus-
band drew the woman away. This is not
Morgan's first experience of this kind. A
split in the congregation over him caused
division, and there are now two Baptist
oburphas in his tnwu
The morning call., 1891-09-14
A BARON BEFORE THE MAST.
He Came to America on the Woodland
as a Common Sailor.

He Came to America on the Woodland
as Common Sailor.
TIE length to which O sporting man will
sometimes 90 was illustrated by a story
which has been made public. A man who
calls himself Baron Paul de Sede and says
he is member Of the French Geological
Society, the Royal Forth Yacht Club and
many other well-known European clubs and
organizations, crossed the Atlantic as com-
mon sailor on the Red Star Line steamship
Noordland. which arrived in Jersey City on
Wednesday. The Baron's story is that he
had taken a bet that he had sufficient
nerve" to cross the Atlantic as a common
seaman. He has not only won big wager,
he asserts, but has also earned about 80
francs, which he can get by calling at the
company's office in Antwerp. 1t was at
Antwerp that Baron de Sede shipped as a
common sailor.
he applied to First Officer Doxrod for the
place, passed the physical examination and
registered as Paul Clement. 1t appears that
the young Baron behaved well and was
popular with the ships officers and the crew.
Two days before New York was reached
the Baron revealed his identity. He told
the first officer that he was yachtsman and
said that his work on the Noordland agreed
with him.
Arriving in Jersey City the Baron Sc
cured a leave Of absence, during which he
t0und SUBSTITUTE 10 take MS place on
board the N0OrdaDd on the return trip to
Antwerp. Baron de Sede says he will re-
turn as passenger on the Noordland next
MONTH Since Wednesday the Baron has
spent most OF his time on shore, wearing his
sailor suit. He returns at night, however,
to the Noordland He threatens already to
write book. in which he proposes to re-
count his experiences as Paul Clement be-
fore the mast. The Baron's haunts during
the day cannot be ascertnined. He says
nothing that will indicate how he amuses
himself. The Noordland's quartermaster
man sailor" as they call him.-N. Y. Tri-
bnu
The morning call., 1891-09-14
A FLORIDA LAKE GONE.
Dry Land Where Steamboats, Ran and Al
ligators Swished Their Tails.

Dry Land Where Steamboats, Ran and Al
ligators swished Their Tails.
A very peculiar spectacle was to be seen
ON the outskirsts of Gainesville last week.
Alachua Lake, a sheet of water from ten 10
fifteen miles in length, and covering some
10000 acres of land, is no more. On its
banks were lying thousands of dead fish;
dead aligators floated CHASTITY in pools OF
black water, and the atmosphere was heavy
with noxious gases. Men and boys were
there in thrOngs, crOwding around the pools
left by the receding waters, and with hoes
and rakes dragging to shore hundreds OF
fish which had sought their depths for
refuge. The waters were fairly alive with
their struggles for existence.
Except for a small stream known as
Payne's Creek, flowing from Newman's
Lake into the sink, the two main basins OF
the sink and few stagnsnt pools. no water
is now to be seen where few years ago
steamers were plowing their way. This Is
the second time since 1923 that a similar oc-
currence has taken place. At that time. the
earliest year in which there is any record OF
that part of the country, the bed OF the lake
was large prairie, Payne's Prairie, having
in 1t body Of water called the sink and
small creek. In 1868 heavy rains filled up
the prairie, but the water disappeared alter
short time and the prairie was again dry
land. In 1873, after series of heavy rains.
the sink overflowed. aud the creek swelled
to the dimensions of lake. During several
years the waters increased till larger lake
was formed. and for fully fifteen years suf-
ficient depth OF water stood over the prairie
10 allow of small steamers.
During the last two years, however, the
waters have been gradually lowering, and
about three weeks ago they commenced 60
ing down with surprising rapidity, the lake
failing about eight feet in ten days, until
now nothing is left Of Alachua Lake butthe
memory OF it. The sink is considered the
cause of this change. There is evidently an
underground passage connected with it, and
tor some reason not understood this under
ground passage has been acting as drain
until all the water In the lake has been
drawn Out.-Atlanta Constitution.
The morning call., 1891-09-14
NEWS OF THE HOTELS.
Esquimau Devices fer Securing
Arctic Wolf Skins.
Railroad Building Now IN Progress in China.
Feeling Against the Missionaries.
The Latest Wrinkle.

George Edge. who has been for twenty
years in Alaska, is at the Brooklyn Hotel
on his way to visit his Old home at Redding.
"This fuss that has been raised lately
about the census in Alaska" he said yester-
day, SIS without foundation. But Cne vii
lage was missed, and that was because the
agent could not reach it. This made dif-
ference of about 125 in the entire population
Of the Territory
Equally untrue is the story alleging that
the sea Otters are being eXterminated.
That arose frem the fact that the natives
are indOlent. When sent out they are given
$50 each for the skins, and when one is OBJ
tanned they Immediately go on protracted
spree. After few weeks they return to
the station and report that the otters are
scarce, and so the rumor started that they
were being eXterminated.
"Our principal purchases now are otter,
beaver and wolf skins, and L want to tell
you how the latter are obtained. 1t is tiend-
ishly simple. The Esquimaux take fiat
piece Of flint foot or so long and Clipped
TO extreme sharpness at the edges This
they fasten 10 a wooden stake, which they
drive into the ground firmly. so as to leave
the flint projecting above the surface. The
Ill NJ l5 tDen covered all over WIFI seal UIuU-
Der or fat from some other animal, which
quickly freezes. This completes the wolf
trap, and the hunter needs only to go away
and leave it for day or two TO do its work.
1.-The wolf has al insatiate appetite for
blood, and soon after the trap is set
hungry wolf comes sneaking along. He is
hungry and licks the frozen fat. He finds
it palatable and continues to lick. His
breath melts the fat, and as the latter dis
appears the VOLTS tongue comes in contact
with the sharp flint, which cuts his tongue
until it bleeds. Not knowing that the blood
is his own, the deluded creature becomes
frantic and eagerly licks until his mouth is
lacerated and he is driven into perfect
frenzy.
I'm the meantime other wolves are at
tracted, and they in attempting to secure
share OF the fat bleed also. Then weird
scene ensues. The bait is surrounded by
pack of ravenous and crazy creatures,
which soon turn upon and fail TO devouring
each other until the mercilesS flint is the
center of struggling mass of ferocious
c0mbatants. 1t is q struggle to the death,
and The last survivor bleedS TO death. AT
his leisure the hunter appears upon the
scene and SKINS the dead beasts for the
markftp