Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-03-06
EXCHANGE NOTES.

Mt. Crawford correspondent of the
Rockingham Register: MIS-. James A. Fifer
has pleced three quilts, as follows: One
called "Boston Pavement contains 10
pieces; another, "Wreath of Tulips" 2,40l
pieces; and the third. "Rocky Noun
taiu," 1876 They are handsome covers,
and are useful as we'll as ornamental.
Page Courier Rodham 7 Mayes, next
to the oldest man 10 the county, We are
Informed, died at his residence near
stanleyton, this county, last Monday, at
the advanced age Of 81 years.
The dwelling house Of Mr. VIM H..
sours, situate on Mill Creek, about FIVE
miles southwest Of Luray, was destroyed
by fire ABOUT II o'clock last Wednesday
The staunion indicator says: On
Wednesday afternoon colored pupil OF
one of the public schools went to DR.. B.
P. Reese's Office and complained that be
had stuck something in bis foot last June
while running, and it had commenced
hurting him. DR.. r. found n sl'gnt
suppuration on the ball Of the foot which
he probed, and applying the forceps drew
ont a piece of wire parasol rib three and
half inches IN length aud perfectly
straight. TIE boy said that in the eight
months it had been there it bad given
him little or no trouble.
The Scottsyllle Courier has been pub-
fishing a number OF interesting stories
about fox-huuts. In its last issue one OF
its correspondents gives an account OF
Tennessee fox which when hoty pursued
jumped on a freight train and thus eluded
the dogs, and having ridden till danger
was past sprans of and took to The woods
II appears that the fox adopted this
strategy on several occasions, always
boarding the train at cut whero it wa
slowed and getting Of at another cui
about three miles distant.
Winchester Mars The GIst shipment
of sugar outside the State Of Maryland
fro.n the ne y r, fnery at CARTS Bay, nea
Baltimore, was made to two Wrcheste
firms, one hundred barrels cach coming
TO Coopcr Bros sud Batcr Bro TIL
new reliaory is working TO is frll capacit
and has orders nearly a month III al.
One day last week a six foot vein
coal was struck on the farm Of Mr.. JON
r. Lupton, near this city. For some tim
it has been known that conditions lndi
eating presence of coal existed 10 seyera
sections of the county, but this is the II
lar,e vein discovered. Should the vel
on Mr. Lupton's place pan out as Indicate
it will be qaite valuable find
DanvH;e Tim,s Nf Jsrro Th.ic, Q
this county, presented ~ 'ith hen e9'
i which weighed five onuc-s.
Having curiosity TO see il IL had tw
yolks, ,ge boiled it aud placed it upon on
table for dissection. When 20 hroEe
omen, to our establishment, there was
perfect egg, shell AMI al, inside the lar@
one. Tie smaller cgs which ~as OF tn
SIZE of an ordinary Que, vas envei"9eu
the white Of the larger one, lat il had
white and yolk OF is own, and the vol
of the larger one was on one end. Ho'
did the SHELL get hard inside !
Had the hen set on these eggs, the iitiI
chick in the inside egg would have bad
difficult job pecking cu'. One chic
would have come ont Of only one shei
while the other would have come DAT
two. Would they have been twins A
who have seen ibis remarkable egg pr
/ nounce 1t the greatest curiosity OF Il
> kind they ever saw.
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n ,cfiff.o ~ O. lad