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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-01-23
The Desertsr and His Pipe.

A Commonwealth avenue physician
had been dining professional cronies,
and, as the cigars were lighted, the talk
drlfted to the tobacco habit, first, in its
effect upon the race at large, and then to
its peculiar effects upon various indi-
viduals. ~ know a man., said the
elder physician, Sin fact, he is now IN
my employ, who is a victim OF the
strangest whims in regard to the use OF
the weed that ever came under my OBJ
servation. He is a Scotchman, about
sixty years old. Twelve years ago he
deserted from the English navy and
came to this country, when gave him a
position as coachman. One morning
went into the stable, aud noticed that a
hole about two feet square had been cut
in a partition between two stalls, and
little shelf had been nailed up underneath
it. | wondered what on earth it had
been done for, but Donald was away at
the time, and when he came back it had
slipped my mind. 1t was a week after
ward before / had occasion to go iato
the stable again, and when | did found
Donald standing on stool, leaning his
elbow on the shelf, with long clay pipe
In his mouth, smoking away like a good
one and blowing the smoke through the
window he had cut. Upon my question
ing him he told me that of the twenty
years he had passed in her Majesty's SER
vice ten of it had been on board powder
ship, where the rules against smoking
were very strict. During all this tine
he had been accustomed four times day
TO stand upon chest ard lean out OF
porthole to smoke. so that no one would
smell it, and when at last he took French
leave he found that he could not get any
satisfaction out of pipe unless INDUCED
in the old posture, and you can find him
after each meal, aud for half an hour be-
fore going to bed, standing on that stool
blowing his smoke through the little
window. "-Boston Herald.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-01-23
ONYX Mines In Arizona.

Says J. Miller, of Prescott, Ariz ::
Until recently most of the onyx has
been mined in Mexico. Two valuable
onyx mines have been found in Arizona.
Both are located southwest of the city
of Prescott. Unlike the onyx mines of
Mexico the Arizona onyx is capable Of
high degree of polish. Then the Mexican
onyx has many flaws which must be
filled by the lapidary with kind OF ce-
ment m ide from the dust that is formed IN
the process Of polishing the stones. have
secured tract of land containing 22O
acres, which l am confident will develop
into the richest onyx mine in the world.
The other Arizon ma onyx mine is located
about ten miles from my mine. Both
arc a number of miles southeast of Pres
colt. ."-Aep York Tribune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-01-23
Washington.

THE President has nominated Henry II.
eTan to he limited States District Judge for
the Eastern District Of Michigan; k4snrt 4.
Hannay. TO be United States Attorney>,t
the Eastern District Of Texas.
THE White House was the scene Oh IsrsgS
and brilliant reception given by the flSsr
dent and Mrs. Harrison in honor OF .ns
Dinlomatic Corps. The guests asked 20 ui5ss f.ss,
tha diplomats were from Congressionai' ~
dicial Army aud Navy circles
AN adjourned meeting OF tine ln0erSJdI 10 IA
antal Railway Commission was ns.u -
washington with the President Mr. SSst
In the chair. Hector de CaseEo WIS '''0'''-
Secretary of the Commiss'oa.
THE Postmaster General has abolished the
,,ostoflce of Catherine Ala, wnere tne resi-
fents had objected TO coloreo pos'"iaS'ei'
Granville Bennett.
TsE Navy Department has oeciueo ena'
the cruiser San Francisco, here.olole in-
tended for the flagship OF the Aslaeic seaevn, ,r,
will be attached to the facino seas.on Nm '.o n
old wooden sloop-ot-"ar AA'N%'
10 China as flagship
GENERAL NETTLEToN, Acting cecIeealy
~ the Treasury, has approved tne orueI ~
the Secretary Of Agriculture designating
Rouse's Point. Cape Vincent and Ogdens-
lurQ. n. n .. a. QNdTdhtiAio otoNtou loi tu5
inspection Of cattle, sheep and other rumi-
nants.
SENATOR AND MRS. STANFORD gave a din
per in honor of the President and Mrs. Har-
rison.
Gozo FArENo, tie newly appointed Minis
ter from Japan, has arrived in Washington.
GENERAL S. V. BRNET, Chief OF the
Bureau of Ordnance, War Department. has
been placed on the retired list of the Army.
His services in the Army extended over a
period OF forty-six years. seventeen OF which
he filed the position Of Chief OF Ordnance.
SIR Gozo FATENo. the japanese Minister,
was presented to the President by Secretary
Blaine.
The President has nominated as Collectors
OF Customs Eldridge II. Byrant, District OF
Machias, Ne, Patrick II. Downing, District
Of Wilmington, Cal.
SECRETARY TRACY wrote an official letter
to Commander G.. c. Reiter, United States
NAVY, refusing to grant the latter's request
for trial by court martial for neglect OF
duty in connection with the Barrundia affair
in Guatemala.
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eUai0HS FACTS

Mr.. Gladstone owns the largest lead
pencil in the world.
The Eolian harp receives its name
from Eolus, the god or ruler of the
winds.
A branch thirteen inches long, from a
Michigan orchard, contained forty-two
apples.
Under the Pennsylvania laws it costs a
man sixty-seyen cents every time he
swears.
There is a waterfall of 2400 feet in the
Alps in Switzerland, said to be the high
est in the world.
It is believed that the hollYhock was
brought to Europe from China as early
as the year 1873.
An Indiana doctors son was kicked to
death by horse-making the fifth child
of his lost by accident.
Prince Mohammed Burhaneddin, the
five-year-old son of the Sultan, has been
enrolled as a seaman on board Of the
Turkish frigate Orkanie.
A bank known as the United States
Bank was established at Philadelphia in
1791, together with the national mint,
which issued its first coin in 1892.
The foreman Of one of the largest
barber shops in New York City is
authority for the statement that more
men part their hair in the middle now
than ever before.
The custom of christening a ship by
breaking bottle OF wine over her %"
at the launching is traced back to tne
pouring out of libations to the gods,
practised by Greeks and Romans.
Fishermen over large part of Europe
always kill the fish as soon as they take
them out of the water, and do so upon
the ground that it is better for the flesh
of the fish that it be killed at once.
A man at Small Point, Me-, is to have
a fence next summer that would please
Rider Haggard. It will not be made OF
elephants tusks, but of the swords of
swordfsh. There are enough of these
swords gathered during fishing voyages
to build picket fence forty feet in
length.
"Tumbler-weedn has caused a block
age in portion of Pendleton, Oregon.
The weeds are full of "tumblers," and
we'll nigh impossible. Recently a farm
horse team and wagon became stalled IN
a mas, of weeds while descending HILL
and the vehicle was extricated will
greet difficulty.
A man at Foccoa. Ga, has been
totally blind from infancy and ms Iot
been educated, yet, it is claimed, pos
sesses unusual intelligence, and can solve
difficult mathematical problems. He eau
tell day from night by the atmosphere
and when travelling can tell when be is
passing objects some distance from the
road, such as a house or tree.
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ApvEHrIsINe BATES.
Foreign.
Foreign.
IL Tugaree. the head hunting tribe Of

The Tugaree, the head hunting tribe OF
The Russian budget for 1891 shows an es-
timated surplus Of 81, l67, $40. The estimates
include, as extraordinary expenditures, $28,-
775,OO0 for pablo works and sl2, 9l25OO for
armaments.
A SMALL part Of the Chilian navy took
part in a revolt the army remained loyal TO
the Government.
NJ. FLooUEr has been reelected President
Of the French Chamber Of Deputies.
SENIOR N. A. MARTINEZ. President Of the
Spanish Chamber Of Deputies is dead.
THE death at London, England, of Charles
Hastings Russell, ninth Duke OF Bedford, is
announced he was born on October 0, 1919.
THE Uruguay Parliament has passed
bill which increases the customs duties.
The Chins Of Farther India made raid
ON Pinthaw, village Of Burmah, killing
eight persons and capturing twelve.
VIOLENT snowstorms are again prevailing
throughout Austria Hungary. A blizzard
ragged in the city Of Vienna all the afternoon,
The railroad lines are again blocked.
GENERAL WoLsELEY, Comnander-in-
Chief in Ireland, is concentrating the
soldiers at Cork, Dublin and Belfast. There
are nearly fourteen thousand soldiers in the
Dublin and nine Thousand in the Cork COM
mand.
The scourge known as ''black DEATH has
reached the city OF Tobolsk, the capital OF
West Siberia. The whole Of Asiatic Russia,
from Samarkand to the mouth Of the Obi, is
suffering from the pestilence. Thousands are
dying at Obdorsk.
THE Chilian rebel warships are blockading
the ports Of that country.
TIE Scotch railway strikers tried to
wreck a train near Greenock and were riot
Gus at Perth.
THREE earthquakes occurred at Parral, in
the State of Chihuahua, Mexico. The gal
lery at the Convent Of the Sacred Heart
gave way, killing six persons and wounding
nine.
HURRICANES have been raging at Mar
seilles, Francs, and on the Algerian coast.
OFFICIAL Russian reports show that 800
persons were transported to Siberia IN 1890.
TIE Turkish Ambassador in Vienna, Aus
tria. Sadullah fasha, made two attempts 20
commit suidide. He was fr.-ally injured.
TIE body of the Duke Of Be1fozd was,
according to his expressed desire, cremaees-
at London, England.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States


ELEVEN Pittsburg PENN laundries hav.
formed trust 30 fight Chinese competition
and reduce expenses.
FIRE in New York City DESTROYED th,
grain elevator and mills OF e. NJ Van Tas
sci and the seveu-story factory Of Vought &
Williams, iron merchants. Loss over
$500 900.
TIE New Jel sey Legislature assembled al
Trenton, and Governor Albeit sent his an.
nual message; in the Senate Mr. Stuhr, o
Hudson County, was unseated, and Z. F.
Mcdonald. who was turned out last May
was seated in his old place.
The Democratic candidates for State
offices in Connecticut were sworn in by the
Senate at Hartford. and made formal de-
mands for the Offices, which the present in-
cumbeats declined to surrender.
THE Court OF Appeals Of New York has
granted new trial to ex-Sherif James A.
Flack and William Flack convicted Of con-
spiracy to secure a divorce for James A
Flack
GEORGE NJ BARTHOLOMEW, the default
ing President Of tue Charter Oak Life Insur-
ance Company, returned to Hartford, Conn,
after four years exile in Canada, and was
sentenced to State Prison for one year.
a LOADED car became unmanageable and
ran down steep incline at Split Rock, near
Troy, n. Y, killing four persons and serious
ly injurIng four others.
The report of the Treasurer of Harvard
College, Cambridge, Mass. made to the
Overseers shows the invested funds Of the
college TO amount to 81, l21, Sj4.
SENATOR ]. DONALD CAMERON has bsen
nominated by the Republicans Of the Penn
avlvania ,oCiSlaf flira and Dir + n Eallin0er
has been nominated by the Republicans Of
the New Hampshire Legislature to succeed
Senator Blair.
THOMAS IvIsoN, aged forty-nine and Tice
Hunt, aged twenty-nine, farmers. were killed
by train while walking on the Central track
near Byron, n. Y.
BANKER Z. H. HoRNER, of Wall street.
New York City, was arrested for mailing cir
culars containing list OF prizes drawn by
foreign lottery bonds.
JAMES NJ DoUGHERTY, Mary Anterson's
mad aimirer, was convicted in New York
City Of murder in the second degree for the
murder Of DR.. Lloyd of the Flatbusa Insane
Asylum.
A SEVERE shock Of earthquake was felt at
Pepperill, n. H., and neighboring towns.
THE Stoneboro PENN Savings Bank and
the Sandy Lake lPenn.l Savings Bank, both
of which were largely managel by the same
parties, have failed
AssEMBLYxAN FRANK P. DEMAREsT, of
Rockland County, n. Y, was arrested on
charge Of forgery, having raised tax bills Of
the Union Steamboat Company, OF Upper
Nyack, \. Y. He confessed ami paid up
1888 which be embezzled, but will be prose-
cuted.
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South and West.

TREASURER WOODRUFF, Of Arkansas, IS
SOC, 600 short in his accounts.
THE Tennessee General Assembly organ
lied at Nashville aud the message OF Coy
ernor Taylor was read.
TIE California Legislature elected Leland
Stanford as United States Senator 70 sue
ceed himself
FARMERS Alliance men captured all the
offices OF the Kansas House.
A STORMY scene in the Colorado House Of
Representatives called out troops
ALL station agentsa and telegraph operators
on the st. Paul Mimi Railroad resigned.
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE NELSON,
at st. Paul. Mimi, has decided in favor OF
Russell Sage in his suit against the st. Paul,
Stillw9tgr and + ..slor,s Falls Railway Com
pany (which involves a laTd giant OF 3OO,-
900 az IS Of land, valued at SO O0O,OJt-
HARRY LEWIS, Dennis Simmons and
Joseph Hewes, three graders N the employ
of a railroad at Silver City, South Dakota,
were instantly killed by the explosion Of
eighteen sticks Of giant powder.
JOHN C. HALL, formerly of the law firm
of Hall g. Rodgers, Of San Francisco Cal,
and trustee of the estates Of John Hawley
and Marvin A. Baldwin, deceased, has con-
fessed to the EN- mbezzlement OF sums aggregat-
ing about $3.50 0C0 by dealing in stocks.
JOHN A. HART. Mayor of Chattanooga,
Tenn. and one Of the wealthiest men IN that
State. died from a second stroke Of par
alysis.
LIEUTENANT JAMES D. MANN, Seventh
Cavalry. United States Army, dlei at Fort
Riley. Kan from the effects of wound re-
ceived at the battle Of Wounded Knee.
Ex-GovERNoR OGLEsBY has been nomi-
mated for Senator by the Republicans OF the
Illinois Legislature.
THE bodies Of Walter AMI Miles Adams
brothers. were found dead thirty miles from
San Diego. Texas Nearby lay partly
butchered COW, and it is thought the young
men were killed by thieves TO cover up their
crime. the brothers, in all probability, haY-
ing detected them in the act Of slaughterins
the animal.
JOHN JOHNSON, a fifteen-year- colored
boy. was hanged at Opelka, Ala, Tor the
murder of jenkins Moore. johnson on the
scaffold said he felt like he had religion.
His last request was of the Sheriff, wnom no
asked to bury his body nicely.
AC. PErR1E & Co, wholesale dealers in
lumber at Dallas, Texas, made an assign
ment for the benefit of their creditors; ha-
bilities, Sl9J,O0O.
AT Bells. Texas, George Smith, farmer,
entered a saloon ami compelled seven men,
at the point of q revolver, 20 hand over taelr
money and va.uables. As he was leaving
the saloon jim Sibel, the iowa Marshal,
fired. but missed him, aud Smltl returned
the shot, killing the Marshal
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-01-23
How TO Be Happy.

For the climax Of devout optimism,
says the New York Tribune, commend
us to DR.. Deems, of the Church Of the
Strangers in New York. The secret Of
his successful and happy life has been
given to the public recently in rhyme.
He says:
The world is wide
In time and tide
And God is guide,
Then-do not hurry.
That man is blest
Who does his best
And leaves the rest,
Then--do not worry.
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covery, only to be laughed at by her step

covery, only to be laughed at by her STEP
mother and sister.
But when, next evening, Buck Tascott
made his appearance, happy and conh-
dent, and informed Selma, before them
all, that the specimen of ore which he
had shown the chemist had been pro-
nounced genuine gold, and that two we'll
known and reliable gentlemen were COM
ing down to prospect Rocky Ridge, and
might purchase it at what appeared to tho
women a fabulous sum, then Mrs. Sand
ridge and her daughter changed their
tone.
They even ventured to pretend that
Uncle Ben's land had not yet been "iegu-
larly settled" as regarded tho division.
But this question was easily disposed
Of; and then, as a last resort, they be-
took themselves to ''washing" for gold
in the creek, until want of success COM
pelled them to return to the clothes
washing at home.
No great gold mine was discovered by
the explorers; but the business turned
out successfully enough to make Buck
and Selma passing rich, in their own
estimation and that Of their neighbors.
Mr.. Buckingham Tascott is promi-
nent man in new aud progressive town
which he started into life, and his wife
delights to tell how all their good for
tune was owing to pet hen.
'It was She" she says, "who laid for
US our golden egg"
Sally has married man whom Buck
Tascott has set up prosperous business of
his own, aud if she and her mother are
not grateful, they have cause to be so.-
Saturday Night.
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alternating Bumble Bees.

The natural history of our humble, or
humble bees has not been studied as
closely as that OF many other kinds of in
sects, still it is undoubtedly true that the
workers and male bees all perish iu
autumn, and only the queens, or larger
females hybernate and live over winter.
There are four varieties OF bundle bees in
each perfect colony. The largest are
queens; then there are small females,
workers, and males. The eggs in the
bodies of the large females or queen bees,
are fertilized in the autumn while the
males are abundant, and when the warm
days Of spring come these large bees
come forth aud Immediately seek con-
vcnient place to found colony. From
the earliest flowers they gather pollen
aud mix this with little honey, and as
soon as enough is collected TO form a
small mass ie& eggs are deposited upon
!. without any special order, but the col
lectiug continues, and as the eggs hatch
the young grubs devour the pollen, form
ing little cells in which they live until
they changeto pupa and come forth a'
perfect bees, when they proceed to aid
the mother bee in enlarging and adding
to the structure, which is to remain their
home during the summer. As a rule,
the females OF all kinds and species OF
insects live to a greater age than tha
males, and will endure far greater hard
ships and even mutiations than the op-
posite sex.-Mw York Sun.
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The Boy Preacher ard His Convert

Mr.. Harrison then asked some half
dozen young meu around the altar when
they were converted and they gave the
dates OF various meetings. Pointing to
an elderly-lookiug mau, Mr.. Harrison
said:
"When we're you converted"
"Two years ago, when you were IN
Brooklyn" said the man.
"What converted youl How did you
fecll" said Mr.. Harrison.
"Your talk made me sick, was the
response.
There was hearty laugh from the
congregation, before the man added /;
sYour talk made me heart-sicx and |
came to God and got cured. "-Nea
Hdrsn Palladium.
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pUTCH LULLABY.

wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
Sailed off in wooden shoe
Sailed on a river Of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew;
'Where are you going, and what do you
wishy'
The old moon asked the three;
1--WE have come to fish for the herring-6sh
That live in this beautiful sea;
Nets Of silver and gold have wei"
Said Wynken,
Blynken
And Nod.
The old moon laughed and sang song,
AS they rocked in the wooden shoe.
Aud the wind that sped them all night long
Rufiei the waves of dew.
The little stars were the herring-hsh
That lived in the beautiful sea-
''Now cast your nests wherever you wish
Never afesred are we;"
So cried the stars to the hshermea three;
Wynken,
Blynken
And Nod.
All night long their nets they threw
To the stars in the twinkling foam
Then down from the skies came the wooden
shoe,
Bringing the fishermen home;
Twas sll so pretty a sail it seemed
Asif il could not be-
And some folks thought twas dream they
dreamed
OF sailing that beautiful sea;
But shall name you the fishermen three;
Wynken,
Blynken
And Nod.
Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes
And Nod is little head
And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
Is a wee onss trundle-bsd.
So shut your eyes while mother sings
or wonderful sights that be.
And you shall ses the beautiful things
As you rock in the misty sea
Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen
three:
Wynken,
Blynken
-Euqene Field.
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THE LABOR WORLD,
Is Rome 50. 900 labOrers are idle.

INDIA has tweive-year-old weaver
A WORLDS labor show in London is pro.
posed.
SIXTY THOUSAND people are out OF work
in Berlin, Germany.
THERE are about twenty-five Hebrew
unions in New York City.
THE great shoe strike at Rochester, N.
Y. has been declared of.
PENNSYLVANIA trainmen ask for an al
vance in wages al along the line.
IT is proposed to introduce colorsd labor
in the fruit districts Of California.
THERE arc 1000 men employed in the
Portsmouth N. II y Navy Yard.
TIE Granite Cutters National Union has
a membership OF more than $1,000.
RECENTLY sixty apprentice boys at the
Norfolk lVa) Navy Yard deserted.
THERE are ahoucfiye thousand women eni-
ployed in the departments at Washington.
BROOKLYN q. y skylight makers now
work eight hours at from 8 TO $3.50 per day
THE chimney and blown ware department
of the flint glass industry Is in hourishing
condition.
ST. LOUIS tlol carpenters have asked for
70 forty sy.,e cents an hour for t2S s,s't-A'uF DAY
oD May /.
J6ssS- 6,avs. the English asrsss,.S2r, 4 +
working hard 70 secure support Tor the stun :
ers on Scotch railways.
THE Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul
Railroads enginemen have asked that ten
hours be declared days work
TIE Italian Government is about to begin
some new public WORKS on large scale, for
the benefit Of unemployed workmen.
The Austrian Government donated uDem-
ployod Vienna mother-of-pearl workers
1900 to form a cooperative company
THE Federation os Labor asks the Legis-
latures of Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and
Alabama to forbid convict labor in mines.
THE Episcopal churches Of New York have
formed an association Of wealthy laymen and
eminent clergymen to advance the condition
Of laboring men.
THE Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers
has q, 7l5 members at present, an increase Il
23l2 during the last twelve months. In former
years the average increase was about 1900
TIE twelfth annual report Of the Missouri
State Labor Bureau tells Of a mining COM
pany compelling its employees 70 trade at the
''pluck me- stores by issuing checks bearing
on their face these words Not redeemable
until 1892
THERE are thousands and thousands Of
wives and mothers in New York who make
ends meet by sewing on overalls that pay
seventy-iye cents. shirts sixty cents, vests
ninety-f cents. trousers s., flannel shirts
81 dozen. They are obliged to find their
own thread for the oyeralls and shirts and
carry the WORK TO and from the sasp;