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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-24
CURIOUS FACTS.
Brooklyn has copper house.

Brooklyn has copper mouse.
Sky-blue is the mourning color Of the
Armenians.
Some Washington people pay 81
pound for butter.
The first account We have Of an
armored ship is in 1880.
Some one has calculated that there are
20, 649 stitches in shirt.
A Spanish duchess was sent to Jail re-
Gently for abusing a maid servant.
The Columbian Exposition will have
the biggest metal dome in the country.
The chief causes Of wrinkles are sup
posed to be mental worry and excessive
laughter.
In proportion to its population, Aus
traia is the largest tea-consuming coun'
try, and England stands second.
About $50 B. G. the Ioniaui first in
troduced the present system of writing
from left to right; previous to the above
date. from right to left prevailed.
To indicate his reputation Gs an expert
wood carver, colored man in Hutchin-
son, Kan, recently in fifteen hours carved
a chain nearly six feet long out Of solid
piece of wood.
Nothing new under the sun. 1t Is as
serted that there was a strip Of railway
across the isthmus of Corinth twenty
three centuries ago. Polished granite
blocks served as rails.
An Alabama cat has mania for steal
ing young chickens from their natural
mothers and raising them herself. She
is generally successful in making them
fine hens and roosters.
Apaches believe that if they kill man
in the dark their own souls will wander
in darkness forever. This curious super
stition is made use of by people in the
Apache County, who hide by day and
travel at night.
Tn the towns and cities of Chill all the
shopping of any consequence is done in
the evening. In Santiago the stores are
omen till midnight, and during the hot
afternoons, when everybody takes
siesta, they are locked UP.
Professor w. s. Williston, OF the
Kansas State University, has made big
find in Grove County, Kan, nothing less
than the skeleton of pterodactyl, whose
skull measures three feet in length.
There is no more perfect specimen in cx-
istencc.
The body of Miss Flora Hume, after
being buried for twenty lone years. was
disiuterrcd at Colchester, ILL.,, recently
and found to be in as perfect a state OF
preservation as when first buried. The
face was not discolorcd and the body
was full and round.
Bavaria is the only German State that
has separate headsman. His name Is
Mattenheimer, and his methods differ
but very little from those OF the Prusslan
executioner. As there is not sufficient
call for his services to occupy his time'
he ekes out living as an assistant at the
Munich Jail.
Mrs. s. c. Cobb, of Belvidcrc, n. j.,
while opening clam the other day,
found a large and beautifully variegated
pearl, the violet shade predomlnatIng.
It was found to weigh one pennyweiSht
and four grains. The jewellers there pro-
nounce it beautiful aud valuable pearl
and one of the largest they have ever
Seen
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-24
THE HERALD JOB OFFICE
LIMITATIONS.

'if youth could know!
How many needless fears were stilledr
We tell our hearts with trembling lips.
"Twere then less sad that May time slips
Away, and leaves dreams unfuldlled,
If youth could know"
"Could age forget!'
Again we cry, with tear dimmed eyes,
''Our lips would wear less sad smile
For hopes that we have held erstwhile;
Earth still would seem like Paradise,
Could age forget"
II youth could know?
'Tis pitiful to grope through light.
And yet-and yet if youth had known,
Mayhap the heart had turned to stone.
'Twere hard to read life's book arIght,
If youth could know.
Could age forget
'Tis pitiful too late to Learnt
And yet-and yet il age forgot.
There were sweet thoughts remembered
To hardness sympathy might turn,
Could age forget.
''lf youth could knowl
Gould age forget"
We cry; but would we have it so'
Were fewer eyes with lashes wet?
We hug our limitations yet,
While crying, as life's moments 60,
Gould age forget!
".f youth could know
Charles ". Coleman, in Harper'S Bdzdr.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-24
Extinct Birds.

uThere are only four eggs OF the
great aux now in this country, says an
oologist, "and they are valued at 500
each. It seems odd to think Of bird
becoming extinct but no one has seen a
Labrador duck, either, since 1856. There
are but five mounted specimens in exist
ence. and none of the eggs are in exist
ence. Kirtland's warbler IS another
bird that is rare. Until recently but
seven had ever been captured, and these
al were found in region near Cleve'
land. Ohio, less than a mile square
specimens were worth 800 apiece. But
a little while ago naturalist who
CHANGED to visit the. Bahama Islands came
upon colony of the birds, and knowing
what mine he had struck, shot about
twenty and took them to this country
When he began to unload, the story
came out and the market sagged, so that
now you can get a Kirkland for So or 80.
The Connecticut warbler is another bird
Of interest to biologists, because no one
has vet seen its eggs. 1t passes upon the
Mississippi River in the early spring and
probably mates far in the interior OF
british North America, aud goes south in
the fall by the way of the Atlantic sea-
board. If any one can find the nest OF
this little fellow with four eggs in it, it
will be 5000 in his pocket. "--Times--
Democrat.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-24
The Home of the Grip.

The ill.ventilated novels OF the Rus
sian Doors, with their hereditary dread
of fresh air, have now for the third time
developed Lung disease that has spread
over Europe and North America like an
unoucnchable con1lgration. In Eng Land
alone the grippe has caused an amount o'
damage that can be computed only by
millions of dollars, and with the solceX
ccption Of mountaln-protectcd Portugal,
not single country OF continental Eu'
rope seems to have escaped the conta-
zion. The idea that men or animals need
air as well as warmth appears never to
eater the skull of the typical mujlk, and
it is a curious fact that the destructive
rinder- pest, a sort of cattle grippe, has
originated in Eastern Russia not less
than five times, involving a total inter
national loss Of about two billion dol
lars. In 1855 it destroyed 2S0, 900 head
of black cattle in Great Britain and
Scandinavia; in 17li the aggregate loss
in Northern Europe exceeded 1000, 900
head. Eastward it has repeatedly sprea1
as far as Japan and China, and in 1747
only two per cent. of the cattle in
Northern China are said to have escaped
the contagion. In Russia itself both
the grippe and the murrain have repeat
edly ragged with a virulence which ought
to have convinced even the representa-
tivcs of science-hating dynasty that
ignorance has its occasional disadvan'
ta0es .-Ner York JOicc.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-24

reports is frequently attestcd by the ex-
act agreement of the figures of the State
agent with the figures made up in the
department from the reports of the
county correspondents.
On the morning of the 10th the final
figures are made up. The cotton re-
port is given out at noon on the 10th;
the grain report at four o'clock in the al
ternoon Of that day. Usually Mr. Dodge
knows the average condition of the cot
ton crop more than an hour before the
time when the report is written. In max
ing up the last report he was not able to
fill in the final figures until most OF the
report had been written. There are
about 300 words in the report as given
ont at noon. As Mr.. Dodge writes it
the expert calculator puts it on the cy-
clostyle, and within five minutes after
the last word is written printed copies
are being run off from this reproducing
machine. These arc placed in envcl-
ones. sealed and addressed. This work
is completed few minutes before noon.
Mr.. Snow takes the envelopes and
ooes over TO the Office Of tina Sec
resary. In the adjoining room the
telegraph operator is sitting at his
instrument. He is in direct communl-
cation with the Washington offices
of the press associations aud vita
the cotton and produce exchanges. A
number of messengers are waiting in the
same room to take copies of the report to
newspaper offices and the offices of bro
kers. Any one can obtain a copy of the
bulletin if he will make application for
it and send a messenger to the DEPART
ment. A copy of the report is taken to
the Secretary of Agriculture. He reads
it and authorizes the statstician to isusc
it. At almost exactly noon Mr.. Snow
steps from the Secretary's Office to the
adjoining room and hands this sealei en-
velope containing the bulletin to the
messenger in waiting. The telegraph
operator receives a copy, tears it open,
and one minute after the Secretary has
put his seal of approval upon the report
the telegraph instrument is ticking 1t oil
in the Offices Of the Cotton and Produce
Exchanges all over the country and it IS
being copied by several hundred news
paper offices for use in early editions OF
afternoon papers.-Ne~ York Sun.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-24
chean Cure for Train Sickness.

Nausea from the motion OF the cars
may be prevented IN the following way;
Take a sheet of writing paper large
enough to cover both the chest and
stomach, and put it on under the cloth
ing, next to the person. II one sheet is
not large enough paste the edges of two
or three together, for the chest and stom-
ach must be we'll covered. Wear the
paper thus as long as you are travelling,
and change it every day If your journey
is long one. Those who have tried it
say that it is a perfect defense. --Ns1
York Journal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-24
THE NEWS EPIT0MIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.


P-ryEAs NJ. AUGuR. the Prohibition can!
didate for Governor of Connecticut last fall,
died at his home in Niddlefeld of heart dis
ease
THOMAS NAcHON, French Canadian,
shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Nora Landry.
at Gardiner. Me-. because she would not
board him for nothing aud then killed him
self.
A DECISION by Judge Wallace was filed in
the United States Circuit Court New York.
in the case OF the Edison Electric Light Com
pany against the United States Electric
Light Company lowned by the Westinghouse
Company, sustaining the Edison patent on
the incandescent lamp. The suit was begun
in 1885.
BRAcKEN's new brick block on North
street. Pittsfield, Mass was burned. Loss
100000.
PETER YARD and George Noseman were
killed and c. F. veteran and Andrew Gil
bert fatally burned by a premature explo'
sion III mine at Hazleton, Penn.
A CYCLONE at Easton, Me-, unroofed
buildings. shifted some from their founda'
tlons and blew down many trees.
WILLIAM A. HALL. who was sent TO State
prison ten years ago for stealing 50,OOt
from the Newark N. j. COmptroller's Of
flee, where he was chief clerk, has been re-
leased. His term was within three months
Of expiration and he was pardoned by Gov
ernor Albeit. As soon as the paroon was
granted it was announced that Hall had
been appointed to a 1920 cierkship in the
State prison.
The experts appointed to investigate the
accounts of Convict John Bardsley, late City
Treasurer, have made a detailed report u
the Mayor. They place the total net de-
ficiency in Mr. Barisiey's accounts $685.
1888. The interest which Mr. Bardsley re.
ceived. amounting to at least s225, 900, should
be added. making total Of money misap-
propriated Of S77S, S35.3S.
The SQUADRON of Evolution arrived in
New York Har0or from Boston, prepara'
tory to giving the New York naval militiaa
week of practical training.
MAGGIE BISHOP, three years old, and
Maggie McCarty, aged four, were burned TO
death in an incendiary tenement house fire
Brooklyn, n. Y.
THE pulp mill owned by the Shawmut
Me.l Fibre Company was burned. The loss
is $3.50. 900
Governor HILL. Of New York, reviewed
the New Jersey troops at the encampment
at Sea Girt
OSCAR NIIAE. agel ten, while playing
about the grounds OF Bunker Hill Monument
accidentally sucked a tamarnd seed into his
windpipe. Every effort known to medical
science was made to save the boys life, but
he has just died.
Mrs. CATHARINE CRAMER mother OF Jen.
ME Cramer. for whose murder james and
Walter Malley and Blanche Douglass were
tried and acquitted at New Haven, Conn,
committed suicide at that place by hanging.
Her husband took his life in the same way
during the famous trial.
Two business blocks were burned in Lynn,
Mass, with loss ofabout S3O0,OOO.
Hop SING, a Chinese laundryman in New
York City, was discovered to be in the adj
vanced stages Of leprosy and still working at
his trade.
j. H. BoNNELL & Co.. Limited manu-.
facturers of printing inks, failed and the
business was placed in the hands Of Herman
Ritter as temporary receiver.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-24
Washington.

ANOTHER test Of armor was held oy the
United states Navy Department at An
napolis Mt which Harvey steel plates
were uninjured.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER has written
letter defending the accuracy OF the Ce nsus
bulletin on municipal expenses.
THE President has recognized Leon Guerin
rs Consular Agent of France at Charleston,
s. C.. and George Hall, Consul OF Turkey, at
San Francisco.
The Controller OF the Currency has called
on all National banks for a report of their
condition at the close OF business Thursday,
July Q.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-24

A travelling photographer in New
York has large monkey for an assist
ant. In fact, the animal does most OF
the work. Mounted on forked stick
stuck into the ground, he insPects the
position OF the person about to be pho
tographed, burying his hairy head under
the cloth that covers the rear part OF the
instrument. Then he stretches forward
his long arm aud removes the cap. For,
perhaps, two seconds he holds it in bis
hand, while he frowningly stares at the
subject. Then be covers up the lens,
and the picture is taken,-Dstrois Free
press.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-24

$50 We does as Jack says; closes the
Games an shets UP the camp, an then
sets round in our chairs an keeps quiet,
a.vaitin' for that infant to tun in. A
balf-hour later Jack comes out agln.
"It amt no use, gents he says,
goin' back of tine bar an gettin' big
drink that child is onto us an won't
have it. You can gamble he's fixed it
IN with himself he amt goin' to sleep
none tonight. I allow it's because he's
among rank strangers, an fgger' it's
good safe play to stand watch for him
se'f.'
"I wonder couldn't we sing him to
Sleep says Cherokee Hail.
" sNothin' agin maxim try, says
Jack, some desperate, wipin' his lips
after his drink.
"'S'pose we all goes an give HIM
"The Dyin' Ranger an "oandy Lanu
for an hour or so, an see,' says Boggs.
$50 in we trails. Cherokee lays down
IN one side of the infant an Booth on
the other, an the rest of us take chairs
an sets round. We starts in an sings
him all we knows an we shorely keeps it
I'D for hours; an all the time that child
a.settin' an a.starin', sleepless as owls.
The last l recollects is Boggs voice in
'The Dyin' Ranger
With his saddle for a pillow,
An his gun across his breast,
Far away from his dear old Texas,
we had him laid down TO rest.
"The next thing there's whoop an
vel! outside. We all wakes up-all ex-
cent the infant, who's wide awake all
along-an' yere it is four o'clock in the
mornin' an the mother has come. Comes
over from the last station on a speshul
blackboard. where that old il ebriate
Monte drove off an left her. We'll, son,
we was willin' an glad to see her. An
for that matter, splittiu' even, 50 was the
kid."-Kansqs City star.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-24

AN elaborate programme fo- tho dedica-
t,rv e~ers;sss of Tho Worlds Far Ia 0cto-
Der. 1872. has been arranged.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-01
Flour. Grain and Feed.

Receipts as bulletined at the Grain Ex-
change, II cars, of which 13 were by Pitts
burg. Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railway, as
follows: cars of oats, 2 of hay, of bran, 6
of flour, / of middlings By Pittsburg, Gin
cinnati and st. Louis, l car of corn. By
Baltimore and Ohio, car of hay, of mid
dlings By Pittsburg and Lake Erie, car of
hay There was one sale on call, namely, a
car of oats, SIC, September delivery. Shell
corn is very firm and oats arc weaker. The
past few days. Spring wheat flour has been
advanced 15c per barrel at sources of supply.
Jobbers here, however, are still selling at
the old rates.
Following quotations are for carload lots
on track. Dealers charge an advance on
these prices from store:
WHEAT-No 2 red. old. 81 Oa91 O3; No. 8, old,
94995c; new No. red, 91@s2c new No. red, $50
soc.
CoRN-No. yellow shell. 69@s7Oc; No. 2 yellow
she'll 6Sd59c: high mixed. 67l1(G68c; mixed shell,
661s67c; No. yellow ear, 71g72c; high mixed ear,
OATsINo. / oats, 1870 G46c; No. 2whte 45@45kc;
extra No. 3 oats 44d4II5c: mixed oats. i2GE3c.
RYE-New No. PENNSYLVANIA and ONO; 1WG72c.
BARLEY-No 2 Canada, 95996c; No. Western.
7S0sOc.
FLoUR-Jobbing prices-Fancy spring and win
ter patents -four s. 5Od5 49, fancy straight winter.
winter "a 75G5 co; straight xxx bakers, "a 759
5 90. Rye flour, 81 25G95 So
MILLFEED-No. white middings, s25 0O926 90 p
ton; No. . white middlings, s2S OOgA 90; brown
HXY-Baled timothy, choice, s12 5O913 90: No. 1,
% 750l0 90: loose from wagon. sl3 0015 90, accord
ing quality: new loose hay. sl1 o12 90; packing
i: STRSw@0ats, a 81 25@7 so; wheat and rye, " $50
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-01
COMPETITION Is LIVELY
For the Limited Number of Orders Coming
in to Cincinnati.

For the Limited Number of Orders Coming
in to Cincinnati.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
CINCINNATI, July 3l-Rogers, Brown & Co.
say: Pig iron is going forward quite rapidly
to consumers on existing contracts, partly
for immediate use, and, to some extent, in
anticipation of a scarcity of cars hereafter.
There has been the usual active competition
for the limited number of orders placed dur
ing the week, but only one or two transac-
tions at very low prices are reported, and
these are not we'll authenticated. There is
but little change in the condition among
of foundry, soft and silvery irons are scarce
and the lower grades abundant The Wood
stock coke furnaces are accommodating iron
in their yards, hoping that the long looked
for revival in car building will soon mate
rialize and relieve them
The Aetna charcoal furnace for some time
past has been making "basic" pig for the
Chattanooga Steel Works. As the capacity
of the furnace is greater than that of the
steel plant at present limited portion of
the product is placed on the market for
foundry use. This kind of iron is quite
novelty in the United States. 1t is high in
phosphorous and graphite carbon, with
bined carbon, and the No. l has less than
one-half OF per cent of silicon. In spite of
this the iron is said to be extraordinarily
fluid and especially adapted to art castings
and work where fine lines are needed. The
marked depression in Wall street and the
stocks help to make the general outlook
more discouraging. The good crops are
still looked upon as the factor that will
stralghten matters out a little latter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-01
THE CHICAGO SITUATION.
Orders Are Not Very Heavy and the Few
Are for Early Delivery Mainly.

Orders Are Not Very Heavy and the Few
Are for Early Delivery Mainly.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.1
CHICAGO. July 3L-Rogers, Brown & Mer-
win say: The market for pig metal continues
in practically the same condition as last re-
ported, orders for the most part being of
small size, and covering early delivery.
There are some large buyers who are still
waiting for special prices, and are prepared
to quickly pick up any bargains of this
kind which may be offered. Two or three
sales of round lots of Southern coke iron
have been reported, ranging in size from
1000 to 1000 tons. With this exception, Or
ders placed have been mainly for small
amounts. Prices remain practically un-
changed, though on Lake Superior charcoals
one or two of the largest companies are now
holding their product at SIS so, Chicago, in
consequence of the heavy sales which they
have made, taking nearly the entire product
for the coming season.
Other furnaces making the same class of
metal are still in the market for business at
from Sl7 50 to SIS 90. During the past 80 to so
days there has been a marked increase in
production. The question Is pertinent
one as to whether consumption is keeping
pace with this increase. If the railroad
lines become large buyers iu the autumn, as
expected, it will certainly bring about al
era of prosperity and activity in all depart
ments of the iron and steel industry.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-01
Wool Markets.

NEW YORK Wool in fair demand and
steady; domestic fleece, 300l37c; pulled, 2SG0
Sic: Texas, I7624c-
ST. oUIs-Wool-Receipts, IC5,OOO pounds;
shipments, SO 900 pounds: demand for brightS
limited, but Texas and Territory ARRIVING
freely; prices unchanged.
PHILADELPHIA-Wool steady but quiet;
Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia Xxx
and above, 296133c: Y, 2S13lc: medium, $500
Indiana and Western fine or Y and XX, 2615
@2Sc; medium, 35G36c; coarse. 32d33c: fine
washed delaine, and M. 33G36c; medium
washed combing and delaine, S71&T Zoe;
coarse washed combing and delIine, 3363lc;
Canada washed cOmbing. 3lG35c: tub washed,
choice, 36137c: August, 36c: coarse. 32lQ34c;
medium unwashed cOmbing and delaine. 26E1
2gc: coarse unwashed cOmbing and delRine.
4626c. Montana, 196122c; Territorial, 1j02lc
BosToN, July 31-There is an active de-
mand for wool, with prices steady 20 firm.
The sales for the week amount TO 3,59l,0,0
pounds of all kinds. Large sales, amount
ing in all to over .003 pounds Of terri
tory, have been made at l5624c, or at about
60c clean for fine at 57G5Sc for fine
medium and at 53G55c for medium. Fair
sales of spring California, Texas and
Oregon woods are reported at previous
prices. Fall California has sold at 1SdIlGc for
best. Ohio f1eeces have been quiet aJ 29G130c
for Y, 3lN32c for XX and 35635c for No. l.
Michigan Y has sold at 27G271Ic and No. l at
A135c. In No. cOmbing woods there haze
been sales at 3S640c. Ohio fine delaine has
sold at 4635c, Michigan delaine at 33934c.
Unwashed combing wool sells at 24Gl27c for
One-quarter and 2712Sc for three-eighths.
Pulled woods are in steady demand, choice
supers selling at 40ED45c, fair to good supers
at 306l3Sc and extras at 22D32c- Australian
woods are in demand, with sales to good ex-
tent at 33@42c. Foreign carpet woods quiet.