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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17
How CannibaIs Do Their CookiaI,

"You don't hear much about them,
but there are caunibals in Australia to-
day." said DR.. F. D. Clum to a Kansa'
Ctv Times reporter. "Strange' Well,
No very when you take into consid-
Grafton the character of the country.
The blacks or aborigines still wear brcech
clouts, and when yet short distance
from civilization you will find that the
majority of them wear no apparel OF any
description. The Australian black
bears about the same relation to that
country that the American savage does
to this.
"When you get away from the cities
into the brush you will find plenty OF
them who would kill you, aud there is
nothing they would relish better than to
make barbecue out of yOu, provided
that there was no danger Of being caught.
Collectively they have the greatest fear
of the white man, for they know that he
Furnishes severely. They prefer to roast
their victims. A stew they consider
very good, but, as a rule, they lack the
utensils and means Of making broth.
When a plump white stranger is cap
tured and killed the body is carefully
prepared. 1t is then bound to a stout,
green pole, which is supported at either
end about two and half feet from the
earth by forked sticks.
"Between the sticks fire is built, AMI
when the proper number of Goals are
made, the green pole, with its choice
morsei, is put atop, and it is there per-
mitted to simmer and roast until done to
\ turn, the man eaters occasionally stick
ing their knives into the body to test the
degree of doneness. Cannibalism on the
island. however, is gradually dying out.
The blacks are of very low order of
intelligence. The Maoris in New Zea-
land are a much more enlightened peo-
ple."
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17
Artificial Minerals.

Attempts have been made, not with
out success, to form minerals. Artificial
ultra-marine has long been an article OF
commerce. The formation of the dia
mond is said TO have been actually ef-
fectel, but, in the opinion of the in-
ventor, the process is so difficult and
dangerous that The diamond merchant
need not feel uneasy. The ruby and the
sapphire have been largely reproduced in
Paris, and, curiously enough, the color
ing matter in both is found to be due to
one and the same-chromium-in differ
ent states of combination. Red and blue
stones, or an immediate violet form,
which might 6e likencd to the rare and
beautiful oriental amethyst, have been
obtained in one and the same operation,
from the same lot Of material. The
Jewels thus produced have so far all been
small; Large enough to form the pivots
of superior watch works, but not large
enough to rank as rare and costly orna-
mental objects. Francisco Exam
iner.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17
imitation Ihundercloul Phanomana,

The effect of an electrical discharge
upon the condensation of steam was
shown by Shclford Bidwcl at the meet
ing of the Royal Meteorological Society,
Of London. The usual shadow Of small
Jet, cast upon a white wall, is of feeble
intensity and n neutral tint. But when
the steam is electrified, the shadow at
once becomes much dense, and takes on
peculiar orangc.brown hue. The
electrical discharge evidently promotes
coalescencc OF the minute particles of
water in the jet, thus forming drops that
obstruct the more refrangiblc rays of
light. The experiment may help to ex-
plain the intense blackness-often tenn
pered by lurid yellow glow-of thun-
derclouds. - Trenton (N J.) Amwien.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17
LATER NEWS.

GEORGE VAN RIsTos two children were
drowned in the Hu lson, of New York City
despite the fathers efforts TO save them.
EDWARD BURGESS, the celebrated yacht
designer, died from typhoid fever at his
home in Boston, Mass. He was born at
West Sandwich, Mass, June 80, 1873.
P. w. BARNEY, Superintendent Of the
Lake George N. " Transportation Co., was
fatally hurt while rescuing his boy from
drowning.
WILLIAM CARPENTER, his wife, Mollie,
aged thirty, and their son John, age seven
went out in a small boat on the Delaware,
at Philadelphia, Penn. Just OF the Federal
street ferry on the Cam len side their boat
was run down By the ferryboat Pennsyl'
vania. The wife and son were drownsj, the,
husband being rescued.
The boiler Of threshing engine exploded
near Brucevile, Ind, instantly killing John
Fleck. Richard Price was fatally injured
an five men were seriously scalded.
RoBEBr MONROE, a half-5reed, aged fifty
years. was killel in his bel near Duncan,
Indian Territory. His two stepdau yhters,
aged eighteen ani twenty, are under arrest,
and the younger made statement that sie
held candle while her sister plunge la knife
into the slesDer's heart. The girls killed
Monroe 10 avenge the death Of taer
mother. who died from the effect Of beat
ing
BANK EXAMINER DREw's resignation was
received by Comptroller Of the Currency
Lacy, who orderei it to be promptly at
cepted.
A BULLETIN issued by the Census Office on
the population Of Wyoming shows an in
crease during the decade Of 39,9l6, or 192.0l
per cent, the population in 1889 being 90
7s9 and in 1897 6),7Oj. The population OF
Arizona is SO $50. The increase during the
last ten years has been 49, $50. or 47.4S per
cent
ITALY's Minister Of Marine has ordered
the construction of three new iron clads.
aICer Tue ldJeSJ llplOfct lhOoOi' IL ID GA
pectel that they will attain speed Of over
nineteen knots an hour.
EMPEROR WILLIAM Of Germany and the
Empress attended service at st. PauPs Ca
thedral Sunday morning and in the after
noon went to Hatfield House TO visit Lord
Salisbury The day before the Emperor
attended a grand military review at VIM
bledon.
An official dispatch from Chill says that
the revolution is stationary, and that plot
to destroy the Government squadron at
Valparaiso has been foiled.
THE high tides which have prevailed in
the Mersey, England, so weakeneda tempor-
ary dam built part way across that stream
that the entire structure, comprised Of 10, :
100000 tons Of timber and masonry gave
way
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17

The Detroit Free Press says: "Severat
persons were recently seriously and two
fatally poisoned at Pittsburg as the re-
suit of eating smoked fish, an examina-
ton of which showed that it was unfit
for human food before it was cured.
There is very little difference in princi
pie between putting arsenic in an enc
my's coffee and sending poisonous stuff,
in the form of food, broadcast through
the markets of the country. The diff
ference is in degree, for man who con-
mits a definite crime on account of a
definite enemy is rather more respectable
than the one who hazards the life OF in
nocent persons whom he has never seen
for the sake of few mean dollars. Be-
fore the country is many years older
there will be more stringent legislation
governing the production and sale OF
food, and these will be enforced, for the
abuse strikes home to every man."
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17

prisoners ever since. He said they were
10Y men in the gang, and we found
enough plunder on the island to load our
ship. They had captured about dozen
different vessels, large and small, and in
every case had plundered and sunk them.
They did not always kill all the crew.
Soon after the boy was captured they
brought in an American sailor off
spice trader. The boy knew him only
by the name of William, but remembered
that his home was in Boston. 1t turned
out that they had spared his life to make
use of him as blacksmith, but when
they found that he had no knowledge of
that work he was put to death. By
order of the chief he was hung in chains
on a tree about a quarter Of a mile away,
and was eleven days in dying. The boy
went with Us and showed us his bones
still hanging.
The one-armed man and the old wo-
man, assisted by the boy, were the
cooks for the gang. They at first seemed
very much alarmed, and protested their
innocence of any completely in the crimes
of the pirates, but when they came to
understand that all the villains had met
their fate, and that we had come ashore
to clear the island of its last bale OF
plunder, they suddenly ran into rude
store. house, blocked up the doorway
with boxes, and and opened fire on US
with pistols. We had two men wounded
before we could dislodge them, and they
were then hanged to the same limb and
their bodies left to the birds. What
plunder we could not bring off we burned
on the island, and before leaving we set
the forest on fire in dozen places, and
the flames did not die out until the
whole length and breadth had been
swept clean of vcgetation.-NeO York
Vail
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17
Can Talk With the Monkeys.

A mysterious individual haunts Wood
wards Gardens to wh)m is attributed
the gift of conversing with monkeys in
their own language. He is a little old
man who has seen about three score
years and ten, but as he is always alone
and speaks to no one very little is known
about him. For nearly a year past the
old gentleman has daily visited that for
mer popular resort, deposits the entrance
fee, and, as quickly as his feeble strength
will allow, and with eagerness depicted
on his scanned and weather-beaten
countenauce, proceeds at once to the
monkey cage.
The monkeys recognize him and set
up a chatteriug and bowling that would
CRATE on a sensitive persons nerves, but
the old man does not mind it bit. He
enjoys it, and beams on the quadrumana
that make every effort to reach him
through the iron bars, with an expres-
sion that would lead one to think that
his soul was wrapped up in them.
Finally the noise subsidies and the old
man razes into a dozen comical expec-
tant faces pressed against the bars, with
twen.y-four pairs OF bright eyes looking
at him, and utters few gutteral sounds
that astonish and please the monkeys.
He perfectly initiates the sounds of most
OF them, and all arrange themselves in
semicircle and with great seriousness
listen to all he has to say. Sometimes
hi, tone is serious, when all the monkeys
put on a very abject expression aud look
as sorrowful as monkey can. Then
aoain. when the tones are different, the
MONKEYS will dance about with every evil
dence of delight, and all begin to jab-
Der at once. until the old man points his
finer at one Of the largest. All remain
silent while he seemingly carries on a
conversation with one of the oldest ones,
initiating all the grimace' and actions OF
monkey as well as any human being
could.
Sometimes the conversation lasts an
hour or more, when the little man bids
his friends adieu until the morrow.
1t is SAID by some that the little mau
was once a sea Captain, whose crew were
murdered by the natives on the coast OF
Brazi. and he made his escape to the
forests of the interior with no COM
panioas but the monkeys for many
months, and subsisted entirely on the
wild fruits and other food berries that
he could gather. It's supposed that he
obtained some knowledge OF their
method Of communication during the
months of his enforced residence in the
wilderness that enables him to engage
the attention of the monkeys at Wood
wards Gardens.
When accosted the old man will not
reply, and his mysterious behavior is a
source Of much comment. francisco
| Eraminer.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
FRANCE mas 600, 900 Socialists.
CHICAGO has tweuty-nine parks.
THE Dutch Cabinet has resigned.
K.NsAs has "a. 900 Alliance farmer

FRANCE mas /, COO 900 Socialists.
CHICAGO has tweuty-nine parks.
THE Dutch Cabinet has resigned.
KANSAS has 1900 Alliance farmers.
THERE are $50 cotton mills in the South.
MEXICO is on the verge Of another reyolu'
ton.
PHILADELPHIA has twenty-six million
aires.
THE new copyright law went into forcs
July l.
GRAssHoPPERs are numerous in North
Dakota.
So far this year 1889 miles Of railroad have
been laid.
A RAILROAD is to be built to supplement
the Suez Canal.
CHINA again refuses to receive ex-senator
Blair as Minister.
The diphtheria is raging among the Cali
fornia Nayajoes.
MINISTER FREDERICK DOUGLASS mas re-
turned from Hayti.
THE Indian troubles in Arizona have been
suppressed by troops.
OF 1O.757 farms in Utah, 972i are made
fertile Dy irrigation.
A FINE lithia spring has been disco'erei
near Wytheville, Va.
GROWERS of early fruit in California tnls
year reaped bonanza
ITALY has two new steel protector cru'S-
ers. named the Etruria and Umoris.
NEW ORLEANS artesian wells are, from
some unknown cause, rapidly drying up.
Tzr nopulation of Chinatown in San
Francisco mas fallen nearly 500 IN the last
six months.
TEr assessed value Of real estate in Boston
for the current year Will show an lncreaseoi
about s30,0O0,0O.
SWITZERLAND will be 600 years old the
first day OF August and she Is gong 10 nave
a birthday celebration
THE Mckinley tariff on tin plate went INTO
effect July |. The old rate vs. one cent Per
pound and the new ~.
Ir has been decided at conference held an
Lenberg that the Argentine Repuohc Is 'ns
best haven for Hebrew immigrants.
IT is estimated the accident on the New
York. Lake Erie and Western at Rayenna'
Ohio. will cost the company s251ooo.
THE census gatherers found 6, ,25o, 900 COM
nun,cants OF Jne Roman Catholic Cnurch,
over fifteen years OF age in this country
CHAuYcEY NJ. DEPEw, General y. ".
Howard. Senator AldrIcn and Murat ha'-
stead spoke at the Fourth OF July celeor@-
tion at Roseland ParS, wooistocx, Conu-
AN irrigation convention will meet II SAT-
Lake City on the 18th OF next September 70
which the Governors OF the arid states and
Territories will De expected TO send dele
gates.
CLAY is to be dumped into the Hudson
River over the top OF the New Jersey ana
New York tunnel to render safe the worA-
men now digging up dangerously near tne
river bed.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17

The exhibit of the agricultural expert
ment stations of the United States
promises to be not one of the least in
teresting features of the Chicago Ex-
position. One portion of the proposed
exhibit, which will be likely to attract
general attention, is an experiment sta
tion in operation, with its Office, labora-
tories, ETC., illustrating how the indoor
work of a station is actually carried on.
In another portion of the exhibit each
station will present, by means OF maps,
diagrams, pictures, sets Of publications,
etc. a full statement of its location,
eouipment, lines Of work, etc, so that
the visitor can, if he desires, follow out
in detail the history and the work Of any
particular station. The main feature,
however. will be topical exhibit of the
work of the stations as a whole. In this
it is not proposed to make a full showing
of the work Of any single station, bu.
to make a unified exhibit showing the
kind of work done by the stations, the
way in which they do it, aud some OF the
more important results which they have
reached. The preparation of the exhibit
is in the hands of Committee of the
Association of American Agricultural
Colleges and Experiment Stations CO.
operating with the United States De-
partmcnt of Agriculture. Assistant
Secretary Willis Of the Department has
taken deep interest in the matter and
has promised substantial aid on the part
Of the Department to the stations in max
ing the exhibit.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17

Anna Dickinson, muses. the New York
Ladepeadenf. is almost the last OF the
popular lecturers. There were i'll the
list Cough, Beecher, Phillips, Chapin,
Curtis, and Miss Dickinson. Cough was
a great natural actor, and fascinated by
his dramatic art in description ami IN
story telling rather than by any power O.
rhetoric. Beecher, Chaplin, Curtis and
Phillips had ali the eloquence of culture,
as we'll as of natural endowment. Miss
Dickinson was unique among them,
largely from her womanly quality. The
!Iar9ers took Curtis from the lecture
platform and they have appropriated
him in his mental work for many years
in everything except that which relates
to the duty of a good citizen. Here Mr..
Curtis recognizes public obligation
with which nothing is allowed to inter
fore
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17
A MYSTERY.

Our baby boy one day
Folded his violet eyes,
And from his waxen clay
His white soul flew away
To far of Paradise.
His little hands so fair,
We crossed upon his breast,
And standing by him there
We gave him to the care
o. one who doeth best.
And when to fiual sleep
We laid him soft and low,
We could not help but heap
Upon him lilies deep
And roses pure as snow.
And then, with courage great,
His mother faced the years;
But oft, when it was late,
Among his toys she safe
And fondlei thsn with tears.
But now another child,
With wondrUus violet eyes,
Rests on her bosom mild,
And smiles as be had smiled
To-day in Paradise.
And something seems to say
To her, so sad before;
"The soul that few away
Is back again to-day;
Sweet mother. wesp no morew
George Horton. in Chicago Herald.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17

ground and the terraces are reached by
ladders. Some of the houses were made
before the first Spanish Conquest, as can
be seen by the rafters, which we're hewn
By stone implements. Only less curious
than the relics of the moInd- builders and
more valuable because more available,
these ancient pueblos possess wonderful
interest for the student and weird
attraction for the tourist despite their
peculiar style of architecture.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17
CURIOUS FACTS.

It costs S33 to patent carpet design.
It is seid that the slot machine is over
$50 years old.
The ordinary watch gives 116, ,144,- :
600 ticks during the year.
At Eddy, New Mexico, stratum Of
salt has been struck which is forty feet
thick.
The name Nebraska was first applied
to the river. In the Indian language il
means shallow water.
A Reading PENN man has just re-
ceived letter mailed to him by his SOL
dier brother twenty seven years ago.
An Atchison (Kan.) girl who is about
to be married has announced that she
will pay the expenses of the wedding
tour.
There are 325, 900 acres of olive trees
in Greece. They come into full bearing
when twenty years old. TIE best grape
crop is that OF the currant grape.
Buddha is worshiped in Paris in vari-
Gus private temples, the devoteeS being
chiefly japanese, but many of them are
Frenchmen and few Englisamen.
At North Adams, Mass, the other day
a couple who were united in marriage in
church before the regular service went
at once into the choir aud assisted in the
singing.
The number of live: lost by accident
aud disease in the construction OF the
Panama Canal is conjccturll. Many
writers agree that it is something like
10000.
A jeweer has invented devise fol
use in sleeping cars that promises to be-
come popular. 1t is ladder composed
of tubes of leather, that provide easy
access to upper bsrths.
Alaska was discovered by Vitus Beh7.
ing as late as 1741, and became and re.
manned Russian territory by right o.
discovery until it passed to the Unitel
States by purchase in 1867.
Oceania or Oceauica comprises all the
islands and archipelagos in the Paciic
Ocean, and is often divided into four
great divisions named Malaysia, Micone-
sia, Australasia and Polynesia.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New
York City, is said to have paid Sl2, OOo
for her new team of carriage horses.
They were bought in Paris and are demi-
range Percherons, half bloods, and are
beautifully matched.
Henry Wagner, an old German gar
dener, was digging in his garden at Du'
buque, Iowa, when he turned up the
rust-incrusted blade OF an ancient sword.
Near the hllt could be made out scroll
inclosing the date 1880. The sword i:
thought to be relic OF the early French
explorers who first visited the valley oil
the Mississippi.
The state bed of the last King of Po-
land was made of Smyrna gold braid,
embroidered in turquoises, with verses
from the Koran. It's supports were OF
silver gilt, beautifully chased and pro-
fusely set with enameled aud jeweed
medalIions. 1t had been taken from the
Turkish camp before Vienna, and the
standard of Mahomet had stood under it.
Plans for the irrigation, both in upper
and lower Egypt, during the periods oI
low water in the Nile, include the build
ing of a high barrage across the river
at the first cataract. Great opposition
has been excited against this proposition,
as it involves the submersion of th'
beautiful island of Phile and Its mag
nifcent monuments for several month";
each year.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17

The Aluminium Age, of Cincinnati,
announces the reduction to fifty cents a
pound, $3.50 per ton. 1t is claimed that
the chief causes of the large reduction
are the late improved facilities of extract
ing the metal from the clay and the re-
cent lawsuits now pending iu the United
States Courts between rival manufactur-
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17

A well-authenticated story, related by
the Argonaut, OF the slaughter at Pine
Ridge, is that Of an Irish soldier, who,
kneeling with bis comrades behind a
bank, was shot close to the heart.
"Faith, he exclaimed, I'm sure it's all
over wild me! Rowl me- round, boys,
and make fnce of me- The next mo-
ment he was dead. They Obeyed him,
and used his body as rampant.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17

The entire annual rainfall Of the
United States has been estimated by
Professor T. Russell, of the Signal Ser
vice. at about 1400 cubic miles. The
water would fill a ditch, half mile
deep and a mile wide, extending from
New York to San Francisco; and the
average entire fall per second would fill
a cubical OK with edges of 1877 feet.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17
PICKNICKERS DROWNED.
Their Boat Capsized and No On
Could Save Them.

The Miles Park Methodist Episcopal Sun
day-school gave picnic at Oak Point re
sort at-lt forty miles west Of Cleveland,
Ohio. John Henderson and his nieces, Belle
Henderson. nineteen years old: Ella Hender-
son twelve wears old; Mile Chenowyth and
the Rev. John Spachmann, assistant pastor
Of the Niles Church, went out in rowboat.
When about two hundred feet from shore
the boat capsizsd and all were drowned, save
.John Henderson. who was the only one who
could swim. He started to right the boat,
but the others clung to him and all went
down in a bunch. Their grip was theu
ioosened and Henderson rose 30 tho surface:
The bodies OF the other four were recoveref
after three hours search.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17

The diamond-cutters of New York
earn an average salary Of $50 week,
and are considered the best workmen in
their line in the world. Twenty years
ago nearly all the diamonds sold in this
country were cut and polished in Am
sterdam.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17
BENEATH A LANDSLIDE.
One White Woman aud Forty Indians
Buried Alive.

News has Just been received Of a landslide
on the banks of the Skena River, in British
Columbia, at the North Pacific Cannery. re-
sulting in the death OF one white woman ami
forty Indians. Early in the morning OF
July those living near the cannery were
aroused by an avalanche on Stoop Mountain,
back Of the cannery. Nine houses with their
occupants wsre swept away. Ibfrteeu oooiea
only were recovered.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17

A boy of ten and girl of twelve in
one Of tho public schools at Portland,
Me-, are subjects of good deal Of Curl
osity, as both are bald as billiard balls.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17

Z The New York Sun says that Portugal,
insignificant as it is, can give Europe a
great deal of trouble.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-17
THE HERALD JOB OFFICE

is complete in every respect Work done at
short notice and on the most reasonable terms