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OUT IN THE WOODS.

Out in the woods where the naples grow,
There's a musical drip that tse children
know,
A sphinx, spank, sphinx,
siivery tink
As the waters down from the great tree;
flow.
Sweet are the waters that trickle down
Through the great trees afar from the
town.
With their sphinx, spank, sphinx,
Till the trough looks pink
AS it peers through the sap from its coating
brown.
A rough-hewn trough is the trough for me
And its homemade ''spile7 in the maple
tree,
For the sphinx, spank, sphinx,
Is silvery tink
That dwells like song in the memory.
The dead leaves rustling beneath the feet
Once gathered from sun and from rain the
sweet.
And the sphinx, spank, sphinx,
OF the famous drink
Is the song when the spring and the winter
meet.
Out in the woods where the map,es grow
There's a musical drip that the children
know,
And the sphinx, spank, sphinx,
Is a silvery tink
That will summon the violetS from below.
Columbus Dispatch.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-05-01
To Increase the Supply Of Rubber.

A resident OF the Malay Peninsula,
writing to Ceylon paper, suggests that
It might be profitable il those owning
properties in Ceylon would scatter broad
cast few bushels of seed of the Cesra
rubber tree in the belts or useless jungles
adjoining their estates. The Ceara
grows rapidly and thrives in jungle,
while there is every probability that
India rubber will increase in price to a
considerable extent. A German syndi-
cate propose to establish a large planta-
tion In Mexico, in part of which the Ule
tree fourishes, and an average-sized
specimen yields twenty gallons of "milk, y
equivalent to forty poands of dried rub
her.-En8lish Mechanic.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-05-01
Washington.

Mr.. CALHOUN, an ornithologist connected
with the Smithsonian Institution, Washing
ton. was killed near Placentia, New Found
land, by falling over a precipice. de was
collecting sea birds at the time.
THEmeeting Of the National Academy OF
Science began at the National Museum,
Washington.
COMMANDER GEORGE Z. KEITER, or the
Navy, was ordered to the command Of the
Thetis relieving Lieutenant-C Commander c.
II. Stockton, who goes on waiting orders.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT WHITE. Of the
Railway Mail Service, has announced that
he will present a gold medal to the clerk in
the whole service who makes during the
year ending December 81, 1891, the best
case examination.
JAMES S. CLARRsoN, late First Assistant
Postmaster-General, and vice-charman o.
the Republican National Committee was
chosen President Of the Republican National
League. which recently closed its fourth an
Duai convention at Cincinnati, Ohio.
SECRETARY FOSTER finally determined up.
on the exchange with the National Bank de-
positories of silver half dollars for currencv.
Two hundred OF these now hold about S2f.~
OOl. 900 worth OF currency. Tie amount OF
silver half dollars in the Treasury equals or
exceeds SIS, 100000. The net surplusis about
$4,000, 000
THE Secretary OF the Treasury decided n
withhold Si7. 900 of the direct tax money dua
70 Illinois until that State settlesits account
for an overiraft Of arms.
SOLICITOR HEPBURN and Special Agents
Whlteaold and Chace have practically cSin-
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-05-01
CURIOUS FACTS.
There are no snakes in Bermuda.


Almauacs were complied 100 years be-
fore the Christian era.
The finest diamond cutting in the
world is done in Boston.
San Francisco school-boys struck till
teacher was reinstated.
Statistics prove that cnly one man in
million lives to be 10S years old.
The value of the japanese coin called
the yen is about eighty-three cents.
A mocking bird died the other day
at Independence, Kan, which was thir-
teen years and six months old.
Forty-eight inmates of the insane
asylum on Blackwell's Island, New York,
are rehearsing farce which they will
soon produce.
Del Psrdo, Mexico, has Frenchman
with three arms and six toes on each foot.
He is a shoemaker by trade, and seems
happy and contented.
The really long-named society is to be
found in Germany. 1t is the German
Society of Volunteer Doctors and Nurses
for Care of the Wounded in War.
The marble ledge on Crandall Creek,
Cooke County, Montana, is declared to
be "over 1900 feet wide, one mile long,
and of known depth of 500 feet"
The Nevada Legislature having refused
to appropriate money for the travelling
expenses of the district judges, one of
them has bought a bicycle on which ia
make his magisterial circuit.
An official letter from the Eastern
Luuatic Asylum of Virginia to the Gov
ernment of that State says that one of
the inmates has been there for thirty-four
wears, and is one hundred and nine years
old.
1t is said that so close was the physical
resemblance between the late D. s. Tay-
lor and his uncle, Zachary Taylor, that
the statue surmounting the ex-President's
monument in Kentucky was modelled
after the nephew.
The first water-mill ever built was
erected on the River Tiber, at Rome, A.
D., so. Windmills were in original use
in the twelfth century. Tide-mills were
operated in Venice about 17OS. Saw
mills are said to have been in use at
Ausberg, Germany, about 1882.
A native of Borneo stole hammock
belonging to an English missionary, and
his chief sentenced him to eat the plum
der or lose his head. He was given
seven days in which to tickel his palate
with the outfit, and accomplished the
feat. He is now cheap honest"
An Egyptian scythe recently untarthed
is exhibited among the antiquities in the
private museum of Flinders Petrie in
London. The shaft Of the instrument is
wood, supporting row of flint saws,
which are securely cemented into it.
This discovery will set at rest the specu-
lations which have been made as to how
the crops of the land were gathered in
the flint and early copper age.
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deposits, which are dissolved by natural
courses of water, either rain or under
ground, veins, and then carried to the
lowest ground which in this case is the
basin that contains the salt deposits. All
creeks in this vicinity discharging their
water into this lake have salt water be-
fore getting to point even several feet
higher than the surface water OF the
lake. which has no communication what
ever with the sea. 1t is only fed from
these creeks flowing from the adjacent
hills and mountains.
The salt found on this island is of a
very superior quality and is believed to
be the only pure, white, natural, refined
salt-deposit or mine-in existence. In
its natural deposit it is found in even
layers from five to eight inches in thick
ness. 1t forms even and pure white crys-
tails, aud is ready for the mill as taken
from the lake. When fine table salt is
required no other refining process is
needed than that of milling.
The actual deposit, extending over
$40 acres, at uniformed depth of twelve
feet, gives $40, 40, 900 cubic feet, or
IL, 14S, 92S tons Of pure, perfectly refined
salt. As soon as the workmen have ex-
cavated a given number of cubic feet
they abaLdon the site and operate at an-
other point. In the first cavity the brine
comes quickly to the surface, reforms or
crystalizes, and in two weeks is ready
again for the native miners. This proc
cess of reforming is constantly progress
ing and the attentive watcher may see
the crystals appear on the surface in
much the same way that snowhakes
gather and form in concrete mass.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-05-01
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.


BARON HIRscH has purchased tract of
land near Ridgeway. Penn, on which to eS-
tablish colony Of Russian Hebrews
= FERDINAND MEYER, aged seventeen,
committed suicide at lis home in Philadel-
phia, Penn, by shooting himself through
the heart because his mother would not buy
him new suit of clothes.
Four carloads Of Pinkerton guards ar
rived IN the coke regions OF Pennsylvania
All were heavily armed. These men will
take the place Of the militia, as Governor
Pattison will not allow the National Guard
TO be used 10 evict the strikers
THE mortality on recent day was the
largest recorded in New York City for near
ly twenty years. The total number Of deaths
was PSI.
MAX HUNGER fatally shot Martha Mar
gawski at Newark, n. j., and then commit
ted suicide. The girl had refused 0 carry
out her promise to marry him.
HENRY BEcEHTsER, an old man Of Chat
ham, n. Y. went TO State Line, Mass
where his sister-in-law and her husband, Mr.
Seible, were living On some dispute over GER
tain property he shot BOTH killing Ssible.
The woman was not killed Breckhiser fed
to the woods, where ne fatally shot himself
The Virgins. Pritcharj. Dickinson and
Wilson blocks. some OF the largest in Rome
n. Y. were burned a few days ago. Help
was asked for from out Of the city. The fire
was confined to the blocks mentioned, and
was got under control with aloss Of 800, ,00O.
MORE fighting over eviction Of strikers By
PinkertOn men took place in the Connells-
vile PENN coke regions, resulting in the
death OF Hungarian woman.
WALLACE ELLIOTT & Co.. one of the
largest shoe firms at Haverhil Mass, ha,
closed out its business owing to depression
m trade. The firm did business of $4,000
year and employed 25J hands.
MAJOR JOHN G. KINNEY. Postmaster of
Hartford, Conn, died of pneumonia, aged
ffty-two The Maior served throughout the
war with distinction. He was connected
with several newspapers.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER of the Census
has instructed the special agent at New York
City to institute suit against the Havemeyer
Sugar Refining Company for refusing to give
information to the agents Of the Census
Bureau.
AN abandoned woman. found murdered
and horribly mutilated in a Water street
dive, gave rise to the belief that Jack the
Ripper" the butcher of Whitechapel, was at
large in New York City. The police have
description of the murderer.
Two Italian laborers were killed and four
others seriously injured in a railroad col
lision near Rock Point, Penn.
MRs. MARTHA HALL, aged sixty-fve, of
Lowell. Mass, who had one leg and her
nose broken and her spine injured in the Old
Colony Railroad accident at Quincy, was
awarded s1l, 600 by the arbitrators.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-05-01
Foreign.

FouR-FIFTHs Of the Welsh tin plate manu-
facturers have met and agreed 70 close their
works for a month.
MRS. ELIZABETH ORRBELL. who died in
Glasgow, April l2, leaves $780, OJ0 10 Gen.
eral Booth for the benefit o, the Salvation
Army.
The natives of Portuguese Guinea hsvs
revolted aud raised the French flag: they
have defeated the Portuguese in two bat
ties.
PART of the Third Battalion OF Grenadier
Guards, quartered at Wellington Barracks,
London, made a mutinous demonstration.
A GARDNER named Damn, living in ths
village of Albrechtshain, Germany muir
derei his wife AMI four children with
hatchet and then hanged himself. He is sup
posed TO have become insane through worry
over financial troubles.
THE Prince Edward Island Ministry has
resigned.
BARON FAvA, the recalled Minister, has
arrived in Rome, and has had a conference
with the Marquis di Rudini.
THE Canadian Government agreed to
grant American fishermen license. Several
vessels started Immediately for Nova Scotia
and secured crews under a license.
CARA, who killed Charles I'LL, Duke Of
Parma. in 1854, and escaped to the Argen-
tine Republic, but recently returned to
Milan. Italy committed suicide by throwing
himself beneath a railway train.
THE Russian Government has ordered
that stricter measures be taken to protect
the seal rookeries of the Behring Sea, and
that an especially vigilant watch be kept on
the breeding places in Copper and Robin
Islands.
The Chilian insurgents have defeated the
Government troops in battle at lquique.
The Premier of Newfoundland. Sir VIII
liam Whiteway, stated the colony's case at
the bar of the House Of Lords in London.
THE Liberal opposition have succeeded in
forming a government in Prince Edward
Island.
THE miners strike at Dortmund has as
sumed gigantic proportions. Ten thousand
men are out.
DISASTROUS rain storms and floods have
visited Peru.
REV. IGNAcIo LEON VELAsco, Archbishop
Of Bogota, is dead.
PORTUGAL has yielded to Great Britain's
ultimatum, and has consented 70 the free
passage OF the Pungwe River, in Africa.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-05-01
Ter soon withdrew, carrying away som
valuable horses, but no scalps.

I ter soon withdrew, carrying away som
valuable horses, but no scalps.
Ah, what rife-shot the withered,
wiry old man was, even when knew
him, in his old agel New Mexico has
never had another such marksman as he
was in his prime; and his six-foot muz-
zle-loading rife of enormous calibre was
never excelled by The finest modern arms
that tried conclusion with it. In all his
long life-in nearly fifty years of which
not six months at time were ever with
out warfare-he never was known to
miss but one shot. And never did he
have to shoot twice at bear or deer, and
seldom more than once at human foes. I
shall never forget my mingled amuse-
ment and awe at an incident which oc-
Cured when he was seventy-two years
old and suffering fearfully from a cata-
ract in his eye. We were out with his
grandson, Rodolfo Otero-a gallant lad
and fine rihe-shot. Rodolfo had a fine
Winchester with which he did some ex-
tremely clever shooting. "Try it, grand
pa" he kept urging the worn, old man,
bent and wasted by disease. He had
never trusted our modern magazine guns,
but at last yielded to Rodolfo's entreat-
les.
go, put me mark on yon CEDAR"
he said, pointing to a gnarled tree full
100 yards away. Rodolfo ran over, and
-considerate of his grandfather's age
and condition-fastened to the tree a
paper some six inches across.
oval" cried the old man, calling him
back. "What thinkest thou, hijitol
That I am as the molesl Here, take
thou this bullet and make me mark of
it on that paper"
Rodolfo did 50. Ny eyes are none the
worst in the world, but could not even
see that lead-mark less than half an inch
in diameter. Colonel Chaves raised the
rife in his withered hands, looked pain
fully at the futterng paper, threw the
rife TO his shoulder and fred-all in the
time in which one might count five.
"Pues." he said, as the smoke cleared,
"now it sees itself better" and he fired
again, with the same rapidity. And
when he walked to the mark the bullet
was in tho spot RodOlfo had marked, and
the second beside it so close that the
aattened bits of lead touchedl
Little wonder that such a marksman,
as cool in mortal danger as in sport, a
born commander and a noble man, was
the terror of the savages, and was loved
and is mourned by those he helped to de-
fend.-St. Louis Republic.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-05-01
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

ST. LOUIS has an ice trust
IrALY's debt is S225, OO0,0Oo
KANSAS has 1900 eolored voters.
MINNESOTA has a secret ballot law.
BosToN is to have a $50, 900 church.
AUsTRALIAs population is A. 100000
THERE are j, 5OO,O 900 gypsies in Europe.
LYNN, Mass. has AN Armenian colony.
THERE were sl3 deaths ir Poston in March.
THE price Of -four is dy icing in Eng
land.
SAN FRANCISCO gets her coal from Aus
tralia.
THERE are about 1900 miles Of railway in
Canada.
AN export duty on hides has been imposed
by Uruguay.
TIE railroad from JaiYa to Jerusalem Is
nearly finished.
INFLUENZA is raging in the southern por
ton of Norway.
The Farmers Alliance has been intro
duced in Germany.
RUssIAs military activity is still the lead
ing topic OF Europe.
CHINESE tobacco is seeking admission TO
the markets Of Europe.
RUSSIAN granaries have been virtually
emptied by expectation.
1T is said that President Harrlsons trip to
the Pacific will cost him 100000
VERMONT maple sugar crop is 100000
pounds; value Of crop, 81, 2O0OW.
THE feeling at Pine Ridge, South Dakota,
is one Of unrest and uncertainty among the
Indians.
THERE are six medical colleges for women
in the United States and five for colored
students.
IT cost nearly $1,000 to send Mr.. Blaiue's
reply to Rudini by cable TO Rome. and Italy
pays the bill.
ITALY desires closer relations with France
and will therefore propose modihcations IN
the triple alliance.
THE wheat crop OF South Australia and
New Zealand IS reported to be 2,OOOOOO
bushels short and Of poor quality.
IT is said that according 20 population
Three Rivers, Mich, has more telephones In
use than any other town in the United
States.
ArColorado Springs, Col, few days ago,
an operation was performed upon Miss Myra
Higbee who was born blind, which enables
her to see perfectly.
The Ninth Regiment Of the New York
Volunteers entertained recently in New York
City with reception and dinner the Third
Georgia Regiment survivors.
THE number Of inhabitants of British In
dia. by the late census is 220. 49O 900, an in
crease of nearly %. 900. 600 since 1881. The
population OF all India amounts 70 abont
2S5. 900, 600.
THE Society Of Friends of the Rose in Ger
many will hold an international rose fair at
Trier on June $3.50. There will be complete
collections OF roses from every land where
the rose grows.
LIEUTENANT WISE, who has been negotiat-
ing with the Columbian Government for an
extension of the Panama Canal concessions.
reports that it will only take five years and
S120, 900. 600 TO complete the work.
A NORWEGIAN invention for the produc-
tion from skim milk of new material, which
has been called lactite, or milkivory, has Just
taken practical shape. and factory for It's
production is about to start operations In
Iceland. This new material bears close re-
sembIance to real ivory. and, in addition,
can be made in black or any color desired.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-05-01
Where They Found the Lost Doggle.

Iheard good story the other day OF
Boston woman's poodle, writes a corre-
spondent. True or not, dare to publish
it, for doggy, bright as his mistress thinks
he is, hasn't learned to read the news
papers yet, and so can't sue me for libel.
"King Charles" ran away a few weeks
ago, but profuse advertising and offers
of reward brought him home again.
"Whcre did you find himl" asked his
mistress of the man who returned him.
"Oh, burly man had him hitched to
the end OF mop-stick and was washing
windows with him. ."-B0st0n 7rarsller.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-05-01
The Hercules Beetle.

The biggest insect OF its kind in the
world is the hercules beetle OF South
America, which grows to be six inches
in length. 1t is said, whether truthfully
or not, that great numbers OF these crea-
lures are sometimes seen on the mamm@a
tree, rasplng the rind from the slender
branches by working around them with
their horns until they cause the juice to
flow. This juice they drink to intoxica'
tion. and thus fall senseless to the
ground Chicago Herald.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-05-01
ADVERTISING RATES.
gIeted their investigation Of the New York

pleted their investigation OF the New York
Custom House and Appraisers stores.
SECRETARY BLAINE returned from his
Southern trip. His outing has proved Of
great benefit 10 his health. The Italian
Government has not yet transmitted its re.
ply 10 the SecretarYs last note
VIcE-PREsIDEYT MORTON and family left
for the summer for their country place at
Rhinebeck, on the Hudson.
j. N. Huston, the Treasurer of the United
States, severed his connection with that Office
and left Washington. His successor, Enos
h. Nebeker, assumed his duties. He filed his
bond with the Solicitor Of the Treasury and
it was approved.
The Census Ofice issued bulletin on the
public school finances of the States OF
Arkansas California, Connecticut Idaho,
Kansas, Louisiana, New Hampshire, North
Carolina, Vermont and Washington. Cali.
fornia appears TO have expended more ger
capita for all school purposes than any other
State.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER, Of the Census
Bureau, published bulletin about the rela-
tive economy OF cable, electric and animal
motive power for street railways. 1t states
that electricity is cheaper than cables or
horses for street railways
SENIOR MANUEL DE J. GALvAN. formerly
Minister to Washington from San Domingo.
has returned 20 the Capital in the capacity
OF a special Commissioner 10 endeavor 70
negotiate a reciprocity agreement between
San Domingo and the United States.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-05-01
A New looped Fabric.

A foreign textile journal records the
invention of new kind Of looped fabric,
which has novel aud beautiful effect
with durability never before attained.
The pecuIiarity about II Is that worsted
is used for the thread forming the figure
of the design, and alpaca or mohair for
the threads forming the ground Of the
design. The contrast between the lus-
trous and beautiful threads Of the mohair
and the worsted gives, it is said, an ef-
feet that is strikiEgly novel. -Ihiladel.
ph;a Record.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-05-01

In London, few days ago Frank Brad..
lev. butcher was cutting up chops and
steaks with his customary stolidity. Sud
denly lie leaped from the chopping block,
brandished his great butchers knife aloft
until be had attracted the eyes OF every ono
TO him. aud then drew the keen blade across
his throat nearly seyering the head from
his body. The crowd, .sOr-stricked. fed
from the shop.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-05-01

A FIRM at Fort Gaines ia, has aaver.
tised for 100. 900 live frogs. and all the small
boys Ia the vicinity are engsged IN an active
search for these spring minstrels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-17

attention TO the fat that in view Of the case
this might be conspiracy 10 deffaud the gov
eminent and o bribery Of Congressman. and as
such punishable by imprisonment
Mr.. Oates said he had no objection to this
course or to any except government officers.
THE WITNESS AsKs QUESTION.
Mr.. Stevens wanted to know II Owenby was
charged with . crime. he did not think there
was anything to show that
The committee replied that that was only q
hypothesis
The witness Stevens, said that after the in
vestigating resolution was introduced he had
asked Owenby in case of an investigation what
parties could prove the statements and 0wenby
had given some names.
There was some more discussion by the COM
mittee relative to these names which was finally
ended by a unanimous agreement that the
question should go over for the present
Mr.. APPERsoN EXAMINED.
Geo. II. Apperson, the other correspondent
of the Globe Democrat, said he had heard
Owenby talk TO Stevens and had himself
| spoken TO owenby. though not at any great
length. Owenby had told him there a
silver pool. and witness understood it to be still
in existence.
MIR. Rowell-Did he say anything about sil-
yer bullion. provision for the purchase of which
has been made in sosas recently proposed
legislation
Mr.. Apperson-He did not aay much about
it. but my impression was that he referred to
silver still in possession of the pool.
Witness said he had got the impression that
the silver pool had frozen Owenby out.
Mr.. Apperson was asked a number Of ques-
tons, but could not give much information.
The committee then held brief secret session
and adjourned to meet next Wednesday.