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Hard Fight of Two Birds.

The most extraordinary occurrence OF
birds fighting came under my notice
writes w. Hewlett from Newmarket,
England, to the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Rev. H. Moon, walking along High
street. had his attention drawn to pc
culiar noise in the air, and upon looking
up saw several OF the common swifts
dashing about and uttcring peculiar
noise. Presently two of them commenced
fighting, and with such extraordinary
ferceness did they grab and claw each
other that they both came to the ground
and were picked up by the reverend
gentleman and brought to me, still
locked together.
examined them, aad found the
claws of each bird fairly imbeddcl in
the breast of the other, and 30 deep
that they could not extricatc themselves,
and for o long time they remained in
this exhausted and helpless condition.
Finally | separated them and washed of
the blood and set them free; it was a
long time before they could ay.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-18
Nest of the 0rioIe.

The nest OF the Baltimore oriole is an
elaborate piece of workmanship and is
likely to be hung from dropping branch
Of an elm, sycamore or pear tree. 1t is
placed far out on the bough where leaves
are many, and is usually in a lofty situa-
tion, though nests have been found dis
tant only few feet from the ground.
The Baltimore oriole is loom, his bill
being the shuttle. With rare skill and
nicely he weaves a cylindrical pouch OF
grass, horsehair, yarn, twine, strips OF
bark, rags or paper, in fact any soft
material that is obtainable and suitable
fol- warp and woof. If proper lengths
of bright-colored yarn are laid upon the
lawn when Icterus galbula is building
he will be sure to help himself and work
them into web. The smart appearance
his nest will then present is very strik-
ing, and, doubtless, swells his breast
with pride, while less fortunate congen-
ers consume with envy when comparing
their sober homes with his.
The Baltimore oriole lays from four to
six eggs, about one inch By little more
than half an inch in size. These are
pinkish- white, spotted and scrawled
over, but most profusely upon the larger
end. with brownish lines and blotches.-
NeU York Post.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-18
"staff,, for Worlds Fair Buildings

Thirty thousand tons, or 2OOO car
loads. of "staff" " will be used in the
construction OF the main buildings OF
the Columbia Exposition. 1t has been
decided that all of the buildings will be
faced with this material. Staff was in
vented in France about 1876, and first
used in the buildings OF the Paris Expo
sition in 1878. 1t is composed chiefly
of powdered gypsum, the other constitu'
ents being alumina, glycerine and dex-
trine. These ere mixed with water with
out heat, and cast in moulds in any de-
sired shape and allowed to harden.
The natural color is murky white,
but other color are produced by ex-
ternal washes, rather than by additional
ingredients. To prevent brittleuess the
material is cast around coarse cloth,
bagging or oakum. The casts are shall
low, aud about half an inch thick. They
may be In any form--iu imitation of cut
stone, rock-faced stone, mouldings, or
the most delicate designs. For the lower
portions OF the walls the material is
mixed with cement, which makes it hard.
The material is impervious to water.---
Scientific american.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-18
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

POET SwINBURNE is red-headed bachelor.
THE German Kaiser's new beard is
bright rel.
EX-SENATOR INGALLS,, of Kansas, receives
$500 Tor each Of his lectures.
/ PRINCE BISMARCK has partly written five
chapters Of his autobiography.
VoY MoLTKE left a sort of autobiography
comprising twenty nine diaries.
SENATOR SHERMAN, of Ohio, has been
nearly thirty-eight years in Office.
SENATOR STANFORD. of California, is said
to receive larger mail than the President.
Ex-Governor BERRY, of New Hamp-
shire, he's observed his ninety-titth birthday.
LORD DUDLEY, Of England, holds the
highest life insurance ever taken out. IL Is
for Ss,001,000.
LORD SALISBURY has made tyentJ-ons
new peers since he has been in Office, beside9
raising the rank Of several more.
TEE Youngest son OF General Grant, Jesse
d. Grant, has accepted the management OK
group Of silver mines in Mexico.
CLARENCE II. FREEMAs. the champion
checker player of this country, is a mulatto,
with a slight tinge Of Pequot Indian biood.
SENATOR HoAR, of Massachusetts,, dis
tinctly objects to being Classified among the
old men OF the Senate. he is Sixty-1ye years
Of age.
SECRETARY BLAINEs fortune is estimated
at $3.50. OO0, friend OF his says. and mucA
of it is invested in railroads aud mining
properties.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL, OF Odio, Is balc-
headed of Scotch extraction, with droo2-
ing iron-gray mustache, and Is rising nlne-
and-sorty.
Mrs. NJ. HoTcHKIss, Of Lakeville, Conn.
has given seventy-ive acres OF Land and
s275. 900 to found preparatory school LOT
Yale College.
CHANG JAY, Governor Of Shangtuns.
China. is dead. He was prominent states
man. and had he lived, would probably have
been Viceroy.
SINCE Garibaldi's death no one has been
allowed to use his chair in the Italian Legls-
lative Chamber in Rome. IL is now hung
with laurel wreath.
WILLIAM HAYWARD, the oldest jockey on
the American turf, is supposed TO be worth
about 500 900. The horses he rode won some
thing in excess Of million dollars in stakes
and purses.
TsE remarkable vizor OF Oliver Wendell
Holiness mind is due TO the strict care no
hes taken Of himself since he became an oc-
togenarian. His life is now one OF great
abstemiousless.
BISHOP J. H..VINcENT, OF Chautauqua
fame has not been in good health for some
time past. lie is in constant demand as
lecturer, but it is doubtful II he will be able
TO lecture often in the coming season.
CAPTAIN PETER JOHN IRVING, commander
of the record breaker 1eutonc. Is one OF the
Youngest captains in the service OF any OF
the transatlantic steamship companies. Cap
tain Irving is not much above forty.
THE proposed bride of the Czarowitch OF
Russia. Princess Marie, Of Greece, Is only
fifteen years Of age. She is very pretty an1
is OF the Danish type Of beauty, with blue
eyes and fair hair. The Czsrowi'za met hsr
ayear ago. and Immediately fell desperately
in love with her.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-18
Two Unique Epltaphs.

This unique epitaph is found in Cali
fornia: "Here lies the body OF Jcemes
Hambrick, who was accidentally shot on
the bank OF the Pecos River by young
man. He was accidentally shot with
one Of the large Colts rcvolvcrs with no
stopper for the cock to rest on. 1t was
one Of the old-fashioned kind-brass
mounted. Aud of such is the kingdom
of heaven"
The following epitaph is in Lanesboro'
S. c.: "Here lies Jane Smith, wife oil
Thomas Smith, marbe-cutter. This
monument was erected by her husband
as tribute to her memory and speci-
men Of his work. Monuments OF thii
same style, $780,"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-18
South and West.

In the school election at Battle Creek,
Mich, two women candidates were elected
by the largest vote ever polled. Hundreds
OF women turned out and took part In the
fight.
THE interstate soldiers reunion Of Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska ami Southwestern Iowa
was held at Chelsea Park, Kansas City, Kan.
Two thousand colored people are waiting
at Guthrie, Oklahoma the throwing open
for settlement of the Sac and Fox lands
GUsTAvE BERGHER and his wife, of Tope-
ka, Kan, quarreled over rent money and
Bergher SHOT his wife and killed her and then
blew out his brains. The couple had been
O German Count.
MARY MUscHETTE, aged twenty OF Min
nearolis, Mimi, committed suicide at wash
ington. She had just passed civil service
examination, and it is thought 10 nave
driven her mad.
DEPUTY SHERIFF CHUBLEY was killed by
Policeman Rufus Highnote, whose cousin.
Calvin White, was shot three times, in
three-cornered attempt 70 settle feud, at
Corsicana, Texas.
THE United States steamship Pensacola
sailed from San Francisco, Cal, for Homo
lulu.
CAPTAIN FREDERICK S. DODGE, retired
army officer, wno has been deranget for
some years. committed suicide at Detroit
Mich. He was fifty-one years old.
Ex.MAYoR JOHN H. B. LArRoBE, the old
est lawyer in Maryland, and widely known
as jurist author and philanthropist die1
in Baltimore, aged eightY.nine.
NIB. CURTIS, the well known actor who
impersonated Sam'l of Posen and Schatchen,
is In Jail in San Francisco, Cal, charged
with numbering Policeman Grant While tne
latter was trying to arrest him.
THE Chiclasaw Legislature convened at
Ardmore Indian Territory, and received
Governor Byrds message.
WILLIAM Z. BAILEY. young millionaire
bank President of Seattle, Washington, ana
r. B. Albertson, his attorney, were KID
mapped in that city.
PRESIDENT COLEMAN, Of the Catholic
Knights of America, Is at Chattanooga,
Tenn, investigating the accounts OF M. d.
OBrien. Treasurer of the Order. MIR. O'brien
is out of the city. There is an apparent de-
felt Of about $4,000.
JACOB II. SHAFFER and his daughter Ida
were killed by a railroad train at Warren,
Ohio.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR MIXLEJoHY, OF
Nebraska, was badly used up IN list ngnt
with DR.. keenan,, at Madison WIS.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-18
Mormons In Mexico.

VERY few are aware of the wonderful
progress made by the Mormons who
have, during the past few years, settled
in the northern part of Mexico, princi-
pally in the States of Sonora and Chihu-
ahua. Hundreds OF industrious Nor
mons have taken up their residence IN
the valley of the Corralitos, above Boca
Grande in the latter State, and the re-
suits thus far attained bear witness to
their untiring energy, and to the mar
vellous fertility of the soil. The Cor
ralitos valley, throughout its length, is
nearly level, sloping merely enough to
effect its perfect drainage. The whole
valley is one vast alluvial deposit, the
rich, dark loan being extremely fertile,
and with an expenditure of even less en-
ergy than that which transformed the
desert above Salt Lake, Utah, into
garden, the valley of the Corralitos will
quickly become veritable paradise.
Several colonies of Mormons are dis
tributed throughout the valley; that OF
Diaz, established in 1888, is situated on
the second bench, or bottom, at some
distance from the river. The soil is
IL
wonderfully rich, resembling that OF the
States of Illinois and Iowa. Here are
seen neat and comfortable adobe houses,
windmills for raising water-both for
consumption and irrigation-well-filled
barns and corn cribs, while thriving
vineyards and orchards OF the choicest
fruit trees are on every hand. In the
background are we'll enclosed, cultivated
fields, stretching far out over the land
scape, in most grateful contrast to the
tiresome mesquite and chapperel which
but a short time since covered the mesa.
In place Of the barren, trecle's plains
we now see thousands OF acres under
cultivation, hundreds of comfortable
homes and few schoolhouses. History
is in fact repeating itself, and the Nor
mans are repeating at Diaz what they ac-
complished at Salt Lake-transiormlng
the wilderness iuto veritablc garden
Boston Transcript.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-18
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

A NOTICE Of intention to contest the $50,
100000 will OF Mary +. s .Se1rles, of Methuen
Mass, was filed at Salem. The notice re
cites that the contest is on behalf OF her
adopted son, Timothy Hopkins. The ground
for the contest is undue influence.
THE both anniversary OF the Battle OF
Groton Heights was celebrated at Groton,
Conn.
The President was ont cunning in Cape
Island Sound, near Cape May, n. j., and
killed thirteen yelow-legged slipe. The
President was accompanied by George w.
Boyd, Of the Pennsylvania Rlilroad; Lieu
tenant J. w. Parker, Charles Coffin, OF Ba.-
timore, and Con gressman John E. Reyburn.
The party went out in Mr.. Rsyburn's steau.-
launch Neosho.
THE New York Republican State Conven-
tion, at Rochester, nominated a full State
ticket as follows: For Governor, j. Sloat
Fassett, OF Chemung; l. acknowledgements,
John w. Vrooman, OF Herkimer; Secretary
of State, Eugene F. OConnor. OF Kings;
Controller, A. c. Wade, OF Ch2utauqul;
State Treasurer, Ira NJ. Hedges, Of RocS-
land: Attorney-1enera'. William z. Suther-
land, of Monroe: State E1gineer, Verpalca
Coivin, o; Albany.
WARRANTS were issue for ths arrest Of
the five mercantile appraisers or P1lla-
delphia. They are Edward w. Patton,
Albert Crawford, Samuel f. Housenlan,
Harry Hunter AMI James F. Bell, and are
charged with making false lists OF taxables,
classification and exemptions and adding
the names OF dead AMI fictitious persons to
the list.
THE Massachusetts Prohibition State Con.
ventioa met at Worcester aud nominated
Charles II. Kimbail for Governor, Agustus
r. Lee, Jr., for Lieutenant-Governor, Alfred
w. Richardson for Secretary Of State, Mr.
Armstrong for Auditor, and Walcott Harlin
for Attorney General.
An ATTEMPT was made TO wreck train on
the Lehiga Valley road, near Phillipsburg,
Penn, by exploding dynamite. Lewis
Remei was arrested charged with the deed.
TIE National Association Of Railway
Postal Clerks elected H. NJ. Robinson, OF
Atlanta, GA. as President aud c. f. La
grave as Secretary AMI Treasurer, at Water
town, y. y.
SADIE SHAW, four years old, and Johnny
Souders, one year older, were playing In
newly excavated sewer trench at Bridgton,
n. j., when the earth caved In, buryinS
both. The girl was instantly killed and the
boy received fatal injuries.
w. A. SMITH, q New York broker, was
arrested for swindling n Pougdkeepsie IN.
" merchant ou. Of $4,000.
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$hf,tamdrah Gerald
ADVERTISING RATES.
from that port to ol,sn,towa by seven min.

from that port to QIsen'towi by seven min
utes.
The Emperor o. Germany, upon his ar.
rival at Munich, Bavaria. from the scene OF
the Austrian army msnoeuvres, was recaivei
with the utmost enthusiasm and respect. As
the imperial train approached the city tens
of thousands OF voices greeted it with
cheers.
DURING q performance Of "Llkme' at tie
Opera Comque in Paris, France. the electric
lights suddenly went out and panic en-
sued. Upon examination il was found that
the stage carpenter had become entanglet
with the dynamo belts and had been torn
in shreds. This is how the lights went
out.
CLARK F. CARR. United States Minister
10 Denp,ark. has received notice OF the re-
moyal OF the prohibition placed upon the inl-
portation Of American pork into Denmark,
which prohibition has been enforced since
March, 1888.
THE Presidential election in Honiuras was
quietly conducted. Ponciano Leiba, the
nominee OF the progressive party, was
elected.
GREAT gales swept ovs- the Nova Scotia
coast, doing considerable damage.
THE Chilian Government agreed TO reim-
DillSe the y nllou CItOc> IOI tiit CAySho2
curre1 in chasing the ship ltata.
Rich gold bearing quartz has been discov.
erei on the AtiSoSan iron range at Fort
Arthur Canada.
The wall Of a foundry in Leafs, England,
collapsed Two children were instantly
killed ami two others were removed from
the ruins fatally injured
EMPEROR WILLIAM and Prince-Regent
Luitpold reviewed the two Bavarian army
corps in Munich. The weather was splendid
and the review presented brilliant spec
tacle. The Emperor was at the head OF the
regiment OF which he is Honorary Colonel.
AN express train killet nve OF q gang or
railroad worSmel near Glasgow, Scotland.
EMPEROR WILLIAM and Prince Regent
Luitpold witnessed a sham fight at Munich,
Bavaria. TIE western army, under Prince
Luitpold's son Arnolph, was victorious. The
Emperor con grltulats1 the victors.
THE proposed reproduction Of Wagner's
"Lohsngrinn in Paris France, causei so
much excitement and indignation that 1t
had TO be postponed.
THE fishing schooner Georgiana, OF Var
mouth, was upset in making Halifax Nova
Scosial Harbor, ani her captain and crew OF
fifteen men were drowne1.
AT least forty lives were lost in the earth
quake shock at San Salvador.
Mr.. LAcosrE, Speaker Of the Senate, has
bsen appointed Cnies Justcs OF Quebec,
Canada.
A STEAK launch carrying laborers from
Dublin to Londonderry sank in Lough Foyle,
ireland, colliding with the steamer Alba
tross. Fifteen persons were drowned.
IT IS announced that37i estates belonging
TO the Russian nobility will be sold by auc.
tion in October under foreclosure by the
State Bank. Tae estates are located all over
European Russia, and the sale indicates the
desperate straits to which the landed nobility
are reduced.
ScHIFFERsTADr, in Rhenish Bavaria, has
been destroyed by fire. The disaster orig
nated in the sawmlls, and, notwithstanding
ali efforts, the flames spread rapidly, c)n-
yertiag aourisding town to ashes.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-18
Washington.

TIE post of Consul to San Domingo, TO
succeed John S. Durham, the new Minister
N Hayti has been rendered by President
Harrison TO William F. Powell, Principal of
the Sixth School District OF Camden, n. j..
Mr. Powell is an intelligent, cultured man,
about forty years old.
THE Navy Department. has authorized the
first payment. amounting to $50, 42'' on tae
battleship Oregon, just begun at the Union
Iron Works, California
IT has been decided by the United Stats
Government TO abandon the case against the
steamer Itata, whicl carried arms 10 Cnill
during the recent troubles.
SECRETARY TRACY issued an orler for the
Chiefs of Bureaus Immediately 70 prepare
the YORKTOWN for service on the Pacific STA
tion. end the gunboat Petrol for service on
the Asiatic station.
Trsrs made at the Naval Ordnance Prov
ing Grounds, near Washington, OF the ne"
smokeless powder were highly satisfactory.
JUDGE THOMAS NJ. COOLEY, Chairman Of
the Interstate Commerce Commission, pre-
sented his resignation Oh account OK III
health. Judge Cooley was appointed by
President Cleveland at the organization Of
the Commission, for a term OF six years. AT
the first meeting OF the Commission ho was
unanimously chosen Chairman By his asso-
ciates.
THE Secretary Of the Treasury deci lei to
make a further withdrawal OF S2,OJoOO9
from the depository banks.
SECRETARY TRACY has issued an order
Transferring the Boston and Atlanta from
Rear imiral Walkers squadron to Rear
Admiral Gherirji's comrnand-the North
Atlantic Squadron. This leaves the twS
souadrons balanced In thenumber OF vessels.
Rear Admiral Benham. lately commandant
~ tha Mare Island Navy Yard. has been as
signed 70 the command Of the Soutn Atian-
tic Station. 20 succeed Admiral Mccanp;;
who is President OF the Retiring Board and
Board OF Promotion.
ADxIRAL BEowS, Commander OF the Pa
cifc Station. has been ordered by the Navy
sceoartnent to proceed from Chill 20 San
Frincisco. de will sail on the San FRANCIS
90 and when he reaches the Mare Island
Navy Yard the vessel will DO docked and re-
paired.
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A Valuable Cow.

A gentleman living near Buena Vista,
Ca, has COW worthy Of mention in
these columns. He ha: made careful
calculation of the product of this COW
and it is as follows: Since she first be-
gan to give milk the yield in buttermilk
has been 4462 gallons aud 1891 pounds
of butter, not counting the sweet milk
used by the family. Counting the milk
at ten cents per gallon and butter at
twenty-five cents per pound the value OF
this product would be Sl00395. She
is of the common piney woods stock and
was seventeen years old last June. This
COW is still doing good service by CIV
ing two to three gallons OF milk per
day. The gentleman says if the COW
was three years old, knowing what he
does, $3.50 would not buy her.-Atidntd
Constitution.
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TIE SONG OF The FARM.

The poppies that peep from the wheat at
morn,
With pearls of the night dew glitterng
still
THE shadows that race DER the waving corn
Andt shy little runnel down under the
hill,
The hoary old orchard whose trees are bent,
And the c'over-fields where the honey bees
swarm.
Cry. "Come to the cradle of calm content;
Come see Mother Nature at home on a
farm.
"Here are pillows Of meadow whose waves
are so sweet
They perfume the air: here are mountains
of hay;
Here are little winds lost upon oceans of
wheat,
And butterflies shipwrecked in hollyhock
spray;
Here is peace in the air and a smile in the
sky,
And nevera fear of deception or harm.
From the cares aud the woes of a city life
fly
To old Mother Nature who lives on a
farm
And 50 the old song from the cherry-tree
tops
And arbors where Bacchus might gather a
treat.
From o,d-fashioned sparrows that live in a
copse
And not in the dirt of an ill-smelling street,
From the bees and the kline and the sentinel
cry
OF the cock, whose shrill clarion bodes NJ
alarm,
Rings out to the city folk ever and aye:
''COme back to Dame Nature; she lives on
farm"
-NeW York World.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-18
Bir1 Mortality Around Lighthouses

A person who spent a month in a
New Brunswick lighthouse says he never
witnessed in hunting trip such mortal
ity among birds. On dark and stormy
nights the light seemed to have q power
ful fascination for birds, anl when the
wind would permit they would circle
about the tower in swarms like moths.
Some would apparently try to resist the
spell which drew them to the great light,
but would always return. Others would
come out Of the darkness in line as
straight as au arrow aud strike the glass
with tremendous force. Others, in en-
deavorirg to shun the light, would
strike the to xcr and fall Of dead. Oa
one morning, after high wind had pre-
vailed during the night, 25i dead birds
we're picked up on the platform aud at
the base o. the to - Chicago Tribune.
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dows. These novels arc like great mud
boxes. They have fat roofs, no chimneys
or fireplaces, and the door Of each hut
is of roughly made boards aud so low
tha. the men aud women of the family
have to stoop in entering it. Most of the
huts have but one room. The family
sleep on tn. floor on mats, aud there are
neither tables nor chairs.
The cooking is done over fire built
out of doors or IN corner of the hut,
and the cooking utensils are of burnt
clay and not OF iron or copper. 1t costs
but a few dollars to build such a hovel,
and the average Indian can build his
own house. Near the towns these huts
are in collections of a dozen or SO, making
suburbs or villages Of mud, and on the
haciendas they are often inside the wall
surrounding the adobe buildings where
their masters live, or they are built close
to the wall on the outside. Along the
railroad you often sec them made OF dis,
carded railroad ties, the ties being set on
end and forming the walls Of the hut,
while thatch of cactus or other leaves
makes the roof. If you will remember
the average length of the railroad tic
you will know the height of the Mexican
railroad hut. In the rainy regions of
Mexico, where the water comes down in
showers every afternoon for several
months of the year, the huts are built
with ridge roofs, and in the valley of
Mexico and amid the picturesque noun
tains along the line OF the Mexican Ma
tional Railroad you see roofs made Of
board and tile. The board roofs are tied
on and held down by means OF stones
placed upon them, aud the tiles are
fastened with mortar. In few Of these
Indian huts are nails used, and rope
withes take their places.
The cheapest huts of all are those OF
the hot county or Of the low lands
along the coast. These are made Of cane
or poles, which are driven into the
ground and tied to cross poles with
strings. The poles are of the same length
and to their tops rafters are tied, and on
these matched roof is fastened in the
same way. Sometimes the pole walls are
plastered with mud, but generally the
poles stand about an inch apart, and you
can sec all that is going on in the hut
through its walls, saw whole villages
of such huts in the State of Vera Cruz,
and the Indians who swarmed in and out
of them were often half naked. Here
there was plenty of wood aud the cook
ing was done in the open air.