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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
An Odd Geography.

About 100 a geography was intro
duced into the New York schools from
England, "a Little Description of the
Great World" by Peter Heylyn. The
biographies of those days are the oldest
of all our textbook relics. The pre-
vailing ideas of Europe and Asia were
tolerably clear, but the most of Africa
was mysterious land, and the interior
of America-dark and unknown.
The Sahara Desert consisted of the
Land of Beledulgerid and the Land of
ZaaIa, inhabited by wild beasts and pagan
peoples, said to be hospitable and
friendly, who eat camers flesh and milk
In Negro Land, or the center OF
Africa, were people without heads, who
had eyes and mouths in their breast.
The King resided at town called Mousul,
where was market for human flesh and
where a hundred slaves were killed daily
for the kings table.
Wonderful stories came from the
French possessions along the Mississippi,
where the land was so fruitful that two
acres would return 400 bushels of corn
In the land of Florida were found goodly
fruits and goodly quantity of gold snC
silver.
"Emeralds are found there alsoe, ano
turquoises and pearls. The men of thi
country doe naturally love ware and re
venge, inasmuch that theyare continually
in ware with one or other. "-N8w Yorl
| A3ye1fiser,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
A Billion Dollars.

If you were to eat penny cake every
second for ~, 800 years, you would have
bill of $1,000, 900, 900 to pay the
baker. Don't try it.
A billion dollars stacked up in a single
column would make a pile 1404 miles
high.
If the dollars were taken up in the air
and thrown to earth in a shower, they
would cover an area Of more than half a
square mile.
The weight of 81, 900, 900, 900 is equal
to that of Al Gas American men.
1t would pay the salaries of 10000
Presidents of the United States, and sup
port the royal family of Great Britain for
several years.
Placed edge to edge 81, 900, 900, 900
in bills would carpet an area OF 81
square miles, with liberal fraction left
over for repairs. Laid in line length
wise they would form a belt 3.0625
inches wide and ia, 269 miles long, that
would 90 around the earth nearly five
times and reach halfway to the moon.
A billion dollars in paper money would
make, if spun together in one sheet and
then cut up into pieces of proper size,
gowns for 127, S67 women, or dresses for
1888, col children.
1t would pay for the education of
$50, 900 children from the kindergarten
to and through college, and buy a city
lot apiece for so, 900, 900 persons-nearly
the entire population of the United
States. --Meoo York AdoeytiSer.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
WORK AND WORKERS.

THE miners at Carbonate and Beacon, Iowa
have voted TO declare the strike of and return
TO work.
THE Feque Rolling Mill, in Peque, Ohio
has signed the scale of the Amalgamated As
ISOLATION, and work will be resumed.
MosT of the masons at work on buildings
in course of erection at Paterson, New Jersey,
struck against a reduction of five cents per
hour.
No further attempt will be made at present
to dsarm the striking coal miners in Wash
ington. Shipments focal from the mines are
increasing daily.
THE Duquesne steel works at Pittsburg,
will, it is announced will resume operations,
the company having enough men to put the
plant in operation.
THE strike of the journeymen painters in
Pittsburg was officially declared off. The
plumbers have also surrendered. The brick
layers are the only ones now out. They are
on strike for an advance in wages so cents
per day.
THE Waugh Steel plant in Belleville, Hi.
nois, and the Little Rolling Mill, in East St
Louis, which have been idle for two weeks,
pending action on the Amalgamated Associa-
ton scale, have resumed operations, the firms
having signed the scale. The plants employ
1000 men.
THE eight-nch mil. at the Pennsylvania
Bolt and Nut Works, in Lebanon, Penn. re-
sumed work with its full quota of men Both
the eight-inch and l0-inch mills beingth only
one idle. The company claim that the strike
in the 16-inch mill and in the bolt heading
department will speedily be ended
OPPENHEIM & Fisher, Wolf & Co. and
several hundred smaller cigar manufacturers
in Chicago have agreed to pay the 81 advance
demanded by thestriking cigar makers Three
houses still hold out, but the strike, which
has lasted ten weeks, is practically settled in
favor of the men.
AT meeting of table glassware manufac-
turers of Pennsylvani, Ohio, and Virginia
held in Pittsburg the plants were consolidated
and an association formed under the name of
the United States Glass Company. d. c.
Ripley, of Pittsburg. was elected President.
/ The company comprises Is firms with a capt.
tai ofS1, 000,0
THE different labor organizations affiliated
with the Central Labor Union of Harrisburg.
Pa, will meet in county convention on Sep
tember 9th, to place in nomination three
candidates for delegates to the Constitutional
Convention. All labor organizations, oranges
and alliances are each entitled to send three
representatives TO the Convention.
IT Is said that poll of the delegates to the
Convention of the Glassblowers Association in
St Louis, shows that more than half Of them
are in favor of joining the Federation of Labor.
Also, that demand will be made for an in.
crease in the price of blowing beer and mineral
water bottles of thirteen TO twenty per cent.
and that, if this shall be refused the FIVE
thousand members Of the Association will
strike.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES

Two men and a boy were drowned near the
San Miguel Islands, California, while hunting
seals.
LESLIE Young and Henry Campbell, boys,
were drowned at Lake Calumet, Chicago,
while bathing
THERE was a collision between freight
and passenger train, near Fort Scott Kansas
Ten persons were hurt but none fatally.
DURING a fire in tenement house in Brook
Ign, New York, MAGGIE Bishop, aged years,
aud Maggie McCart., aged 4 years, were
suffocated.
THE gas tank of the Municipal Gas Com
pany in Rochester, New York, exploded, XIII
ing Night Waterman Staplcton and the cap
tain of a canal boat, whose mare is not
known.
A DISEASE, supposed to be the Texas fever,
has broken out among herd Of cattle owned
by Judge Shaw, at Independence, Kentucky.
Seven of the animals have died and 20 others
are sick.
KATE and Mary McGowan, sisters, aged
respectively q and q years were drowned at
PittSton, Pa. They were in boat which
sprang leak and filled before assistance could
be rendered.
A TERRIBLE freight wreck occurred on the
Colorado Midland Railroad at Ute Pass, ow-
ing to the brakes refusing to work on a steep
ion were destroyed, and Engineer Moore and
Fireman Wilson were killed.
JOHN McNe1' and Miss Lucy Kaiser were
drowned at Columbia Park, Chicago, by the
capsizing of boat McNetf was a married
man, and when his dead body was taken home
to his wife the shock unbalanced her mind 1t
is feared permanently.
A LOCAL freight train on the Northern
Pacific Railroad broke through trestle bridge
at Spokane Falls Washington, and five cars
and cabOose were wrecked. Michael Flgh-
erty fireman, was killed, and q r0admaster
named Spear mortally injured.
THE steamer Athos just arrived at NewYork
reports the laundering of the Helen Mead in
the Gulf of Mexico. She was bound from
New Orleans to Nicaragua, and is the third
ship of the Morgan Line sent on the same
voyage with the sam Inflated result.
NEAR Kilkenny Minnesota, during funor-
al procession, team drawing wagon con
tanning six persons ran away, smashing the
vehicle. Daniel McCauley, aged 10 years,
and Mrs. Young DAILY, aged IS, were fatally
injured. The others were badly bruised.
TIE family Of J. II. Cornelius, a well-to-do
farmer near Russellyille, Kentucky, were
poisoned a few days since Bernard Cornelius,
a nephew, died in short time, and five others
are dangerouslyill The symptoms are Of
arsenic. The poison is supposed to have been
in the milk, but how it got there is not
known
P. W. BARNEY, Superintendent of the Lake
Champlain Transportation Company, lost his
life near Fourteen Mile Island in Lake
George. His little son fell into the lake and
he plunged in to rescue the boy. Both were
drawn ashore, when it was found that Mr..
Barpey's forehead had been crushed in By a
projecting rock, which he must have struck
under the water, and he died shortly after
wards. The boy was uninjured
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
How Wakeful Man May Get to Sleep

A writer, evidently of practical turn
of mind, tells contemporary how easily
the wakeful dyspeptic can be made to
slip off into the lands of dreams. He
says: "The dyspeptic, of course, eats a
light supper, may resort to the use of a
towel, wet with tepid water, and COW
cred with a dry cloth, the whole then
applied to the pit of the stomach. Be
fore the sufferer knows it he will float
into shadow land, such is the sympathy
between the organs of digestion aud the
brain. Owing to the position of the
stomach, light sleeper ought to sleep
on the right side instead of the left,
never on the back. If there is ten
dency to cold feet, a thin wooden blanket
may line the lower third of the bed.
The limbs ought not to be greatly
fle1ed, position which presents free cir
culation, and they should rest one upon
another lightly. The night light, where
used, ought to be tiny taper, and not
gas or kerosene, both of which devital-
ize the air. A darkened room is the
best. Nature puts out her light, and
draws the curtain of darkness for pur-
pose. With good habits, physical and
mental, and determination not to deal
with anodynes, sleep may be won from
its shyest lair to watch over the restless
pillow. Detroit Free Press.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
FROZEN In HIS GRAVE.

A Solitary Miners Unique Way or Ending
His Life--why He Did 1t.
The tragedy Of a solitary miner, in remote
part Of Sierra Nevada, was revealed few
days ago when the Sheriff of Fresno County.
Cal, searching for two murders, discovered
the body Of a man embedded in grave Of
ice.
The SherifFs party found some miners tools
in an almost inaccessible canyon, aud after
searching about. suddenly came upon dead
man lying at the bottom Of rude grave with
SIX feet OF ice over him He had evidently
cut the grave in solid granite. This done, il
seems be laid down in the grave, placed rock
across his thighs and drowned himself az the
grave slowly filed with water from little
streams which the melting snow sent into it.
Although Midsummer, yet the grave was
filed with lee thai hal not yet melted this
year. The lee was transparent, and the dead
man in the bottom Of the grave was plainly
visible, the body being 0s well preserved as IL
be had died bHI yesterday though there can be
little doubt he committed suicide last Fall
Near by they found this note, written with
lead peneily 81 J name Is Dave Menear.
have lived like devil l viii die like man
and be DID like a devil. November %"
The theory is that he was driven mad by
disappointment, as the mine where be bad
worked WAS worthless
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
A Curious Chemical Anomaly

An astonishing result was reached by
DIR. Richardson, the English expert
Psychologist, in some experiments on the
respiration of animals confined in pure
oxygen. In most cases a steady flow of
fresh oxygen rendered the animals con-
fined in it excited and feverish, and none
were Quoted or made sleepy When,
however, the oxygen, after having been
passed once through the chambers con-
tanning the animals, was collected, pu-
rified and again used, all the warm
blooded animals, such as dogs, cats,
guinea. pigs, rabbits, ETC., became drowsy
and fell quietly asleep; and when the
gas was again used after another purifca
ton the sleep became deeper and some
OF the animals soon died. The oxygen
appeared chemically pure at each time of
using, and the cause of its remarkable
change in effect is as yet a mystery.
Whether some peculiar modification of
oxygen takes place during respiration,
or whether the toxic properties are due
to some active product of respiration
which has escaped detection in the in
hailed ges, is problem which will
doubtless be studied with much interest.
81. Louis Republic.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
DROWNED WHILE SEEMING.


Five Men Lose Thoir Lives in the Ten.
nessec River,
While SEEMING on the Tennessee river, near
Murray, Ed Brown, Walter Strader, John
Meader, Dick Eayes and John T. Brame were
drowned. The party numbered eight They
tied one end of their seine, seventy-fye feet
long, to the bank, and stretched the netting
nearly streight out into the river Stationed
at intervals near the outer end, the eightmen.
with only shoes, hats and coats off swan with
the seines pole toward the shore. One OF
them was well acquainted with the river at
this point, and they swan into swift, cold
cGrrent. Suddenly one was seized with
cramps. A panic followed. The seine was
dragged. and Brane, Brown and Strader be-
came entangled in it. Meader and Eayes were
swept under by the current, while the other
three succeeded in reaching the bank. All
the men drowned were well-known citizens
near Murray belonging 10 old families in the
county The seine when hauled in still held
the three who became entangied in its meshes.
Eayes and Meadcr have not been found
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

WARNER MILLER is said to have secured in
California over 81. $50, 900 in subscriptions for
the Nicaragua Canal.
PRINCESS MILENA, Of Montenegro. has or.
rlyedl n Vienna on her way TO Heidelberg.
where she will undergo a surgical operation
MEs. JAMES 6. BLAINE, in. has settled
down resiguedly TO the conviction that rheu-
inatism mas made her a cripple for life, it is
said.
JUSTICES BROWN and Brewer are the only
members of the Supreme Court who do not
own their houses IN Washington, but they will
soon do so.
THE Queen Of Portugal, who is splendid
norseWomafl may often be met whilst riding
IN the open country about Lisbon at an hour
when most OF her subjects are still asleep.
GEORGE SMITH, king Of the English gyp.
sles, IS said to edit pepper in the Romany
tongue to be the organ Of the wandering race.
lie expects to get 2O,O00 subscribers for it.
THE Countess Clancarty. "Belle Billion. " is
the owner Of five fast horses. Of which her
favorite is Cream Tartar. But none Of them
has as yet cqualled Bellies own record for ra-
pidity
CHARLES DAVENPORT Of Cambridge
Mass, who is said to have built the first mil
road car in the United States, has Just started
for a tour Of Europe lie is over eighty years
Of age and 'as sound as a nut"
THE wife of a wel-known naval officer in
Washington wears a very handsome gold meek
lace that once adorned the neck of n Peruvian
princess. The ladys husband took il from
the princess, whose mumitied body he found
in a Peruvian grave.
DANIEL WEBSTER when farmer boy. WIS
greatly annoyed one hot day while having by
being constantly told that his scythe did not
hang right. lie finally hung il up in mn annie
and ctr Al 4 II. a
said: Il guess it hangs all right now" The
"god-like Daniel" was far greater success at
codhshing than at haying.
SEBASTIAN BRUNO, whom one authority
calls the greatest humOrist Of modern Ger
man literature, was conspicuous Austrian
journalist, who made so many enemies in de-
fence Of the freedom of the church that he
sank into poverty. A Dominica monk oh
tanned for him a small pension, and he has
just retired to end his days in the hospice for
the aged at Weinhaus.
SIR WILLIAM GORDON CUMMING is not the
first intimate associate Of the Prince Of Wales
who has come to grief at the card table. some
time ago another pal of the prince Walter
Harbord, was caught cheating at cards.
Though q brother Of Lord SufIield and n major
in the Seventh Hussars, his family influence
could not save him. lie was eashiered from
the army, expelled from the clubs and uni.
gersaliy cut.
JULES VERNE published his first novel
when he vas thirty-fiye years old. Since then
he has written an average Of two books a year.
and is now the author Of sixty volumes Of
more or less fascinating interest Writing a
book with Verne is work Of prOdigions Toll.
Before putting single line to paper he men.
tally prepares all his material, makes his
maps, lays out his routes and reflects upon his
work for months Then when the story has
been written, he corrects it at least ten times
before giving the final proofs to the printer.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
HANGED BY A MOB.
Jailer Gagged aud Prisoner Lynched
in Illinois.

Jailer Gagged aud n Prisoner Lynchetl
in Illinois.
despatch from Spencer, Ill, says: Sherif
johnson was called outside the jail by some
unknown person, and, throwing up the
window, he asked what was wanted. Two
mea stood below, with third between them.
and one Of the former replied that they had a
prisoner whom they wished to place in Jail.
Descending in his night shirt the sheriff
opened the door, aud Immediately some forty
or fifty men rushed upon him. threw blanket
over his head aud in moment had him
secu ely bound and gagged. They then de-
manded and secured the keys to the various
cells and began search, evidently looking for
Frank Dice, who had been in jail for sever, i
days awaiting trial on a CHI rye of numbering
q man named CLANCY. Not wor was
spoken by any Of the men till Dice's cell was
reached. The prisoner had been arous 4 bv
the heavy tread Of the mob and was crouched
IN one corner of the cell. As the door swung
open he uttered a low groan. as if conscious
of what was coming. and moment later he
was brought out into the corridor ia front 4
his cell
Dice was then told that his honr had come
and he was asked if he had anything to saw.
While trying TO talk member of the mob
threw a small cord around his neck. and he
was drawn up to one of the cross beams in
front of his cell. The mob tarried a few
moments till satisfied that life was extinct
and then quietly left the jail and pa sed out Of
town.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
JUDGE WARDER SUICIDES.


oeunh OF Ihdt unfortunate Tragedy In
which Banker FayettS Was Kined.
Judge J. >. Wardcr, who IS under indicl.
ment for the murder Of bis son-in-law, the
banker, Simpson Fayeitc, committed suicide
at his residence, on Lookout Mountain, Tenn.
by blowing out his brains.
Since the death Of his son .in-law, the result
of family quarrel, in which the son-in-law,
Fayettc, was shot and killed, Judge warder's
daughter wounded and he himself seriously
hurt. he has beer attacked with melaneholia
condition. Since his release from conGne.
ment on account Of bis wOucd, he has been
residing on Lookout Mountain with his wife
and mother
Upon the advice Of bis mother, he sent to
the city in order to he relieved Of the mono
tony Of rural life. By some unknown means
he secured pistol in Chattanooga. Al mid
night, after saying his prayers ia the presence
of bis mother and bidding her an afectionatc
goodbye, be placed q revolver ct his temple
and FREQ the ball entering his brain and caas.
ing death IN about two hours.
Nr. Warder, before the unfortunate tragedy
in which he killed Mr.. Fayette, his sOn-in-lsw
was one OF the most prominent politicians in
the state. At one time he wss mentioned as
Republican nominee for governor. He served
for time on the Supreme Bench Of the state.
lie was attorney Of the city Of Chattanooga.
His suicide has created e sensation through.
out the state.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25

I amt got cabbage-h head left skeer-
ceIy." :.
"sho', now, you don't sayl Why, if
that amt too bad" replied Felix, sym
pathetically.
San the varmints has took all my
young Chickens" continued Miss Zero
bia. "An' Farmer Nubbins is a-goin' to
shoot my COW, an, am"
The thought of all her woes was too
much for her, and she began to sob,
Historically.
"Dont cry, Miss Feroby; please
don't" urged Felix. "He sha'n't shoot
your COW, promise you.
But Miss Ferobia shook her head and
dried her eyes on the corner OF her
apron.
.Pll sell the cow" she declared,
soberly. Gan I'll go an hire out some
where. can cook if l can't make gar
den"
''No need to hire out" put in Felix,
eagerly. I'll want somebody to cook
fur me. Say you'll marry me, FerobyF"
But Miss Ferobia in her surprise stared
at him, then hung her head, biushing
like girl.
ats so-sudden," she whispered.
t'What's the odds?" asked Felix,
boldly. ~ wanted you long ago, only |
couldn't somehow git the courage to ask
you. Say yes, won't you, Feroby"
And after little more urging Miss
Ferobia did say yes, and felt very well
contented with her future prospects, in
spite OF her weedy garden.
"Timothy will say the truck business
was failure after ALL she reflected, as
she washed up her supper dishes at
night, with very light heart, "but he
can't say it wasn't successful failure,
ANYHOW. - Frank Leslie's.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-25
CABLE SPARKS.

THE fall of the Bastile WIS celebrated in
France, With general holidcs rejoicii e
THE memorial raised by the German
American Musical Societies in honor of Franz
Abt was unveiled at Brunswick, Germany.
GLASGOW newspaper says TIA it is
believed Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, Of New York.
intends settling in the tHghlan of Scotland.
A GENERAL strike of the employees Of the
live great railway companies of France has
been averted, the men having decided TO
continue work.
THE streets Of Melbourne have been flooded
by the overflow of the Yarra- Yarra riyer, and
thousands of persons in the colony Of Victoria
are homeless from the foundations.
THE coke-workers o. Southern Portugal
demanded help from the government on
account of the cessation of work arising from
the stoppage of expectation TO America.
WHILE entering the northern derot in
Paris, the train running betwe Calais and
Paris dashed into the rear Of a ira from
Lille, seriously injuring number of persons.
THE municipal authorities of Amst rdam
have decided 10 lease the nee ssary ground in
that city for ten years I, tho Standard Oil
Company of the United States for the erection
OF oil tanks.
IN consequence Of the prevalence of cholera
at Mecca pilgrims returning from that place
have to undergo a quarantine OF Tvs enty days
at Eltor Egypt, before proceeding through
the Suez canal.
r. G. DUNCAN, of Washington, d. c., was
a quilted at Carnarvou, Wales, of u charg OF
murderously assaulting his wife on the ground
of insanity, but was ordered to be detained in
custody by the court.
THE men who have be n held in custody
charged with having taken part in the revolt
IN Switzerland against the government several
months ago have been acquitted and have
leen ceased from custody.
THE British Government has appointed the
council of the Society of Arts, a c mmisSion
{ represent Great B ,itain at CHICAGO World's
Fair, and appropriated Sl25,00J TO pay the
expenses of the commission.
THE governor of Ni2a once Novgorod
Russia, has warned the committee of exch nge
that spectators form ny corners to IA Sc the
price of grain or otherw Sc trading on the
growing necessities Of the people will be
punished and expelled from his jurisdiction.
A BUILDING adjoining the castle of the
Duke of AnhOlt, at DesS4 the capital Of the
Duchy of Anholt in which an exhibition of
paintings WAS being held, WIS DESTROYED by
hre. Most of the paintings were save. Tn .
castle had narrow escape from being burne l..
Two studerts, who were arrested in Sofia
on suspicion of having murdered the Bull
parian Minister of Finance Baltcheh Inst
March, confessed that they were the actual
murderers, and accused three prominent
cit zens OF Sofia, who were also taken into
Gu tody with having hired them TO commit
the deed.