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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-07-15
Columbus and the Egg.

Professor Edwin J. Houston, in his re-
cent lecture before the Brooklyn Institute
of Arts and Sciences, in referring to the
incident of balancing an egg on end,
gives the usual explanation that Colum-
bus accomplished it by cracking the
shell. We are not prepared to combat
this idea authoritively, but for many
years have regarded it with suspicion.
Patriotism inspires in OR breast such a
high regard for the one who discovered
the land upon which we live, as to for
bid our attributing to him any such dis
reputable trick. We believe that Others
cracked eggs before Columbus, as they
have since, and stood them on end too,
but as there is another way Of balancing
an egg without resorting to such unfair
means, we submit this explanation as
probably the true one of Columbuss
feat. If freshly laid hens egg be vio-
lently shaken so as to thoroughly mix the
yolk and white, and also to fracture the
air sack and allow the condensed air to
rise, it is simply a question of manual
dexterlty, within the reach Of all, to ba-
lance an egg without cracking it, on a
perfectly smooth surface. Electricity.
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A Patiant Worker.

Perhaps the most conscientious work
mauship in the world is to be found in
Japa0, although the foreign demand for
merely snowy articles has proved some
what corrupting, even to true artists
Yet there are still men who are proud to
spend infinite pains on piece of work
for which they will be, according to our
ideas OF good wages, inadequately paid.
Henry Norman gives the following in
stance OF modest self-estimate in the
case Of man who is one of the most
skillful and original artifcers in the
world, and whose works are everywhere
admired.
This ivory carver sat in his little room,
open to his little garden, chi'eling upon
a magnificent tusk from which was just
emerging a very graceful female figure.
The ivory he held between his knees aud
the tools we're spread out at his side.
"How long will this take youl"
asked.
"About four months" he replied. -
Detroit Free Press.
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FUN.

Did any one ever see woman who
could look intelligent while talking to O
baby9-Atchison Globe.
If you feel discontented with your
lot, get out and dig in it and raise some.
thing.-Indianapolis Journal.
Half the world doesn't know how the
other half lives, and isn't quite sure how
it is going to get along itself.-Somer-
vile Journal.
Maybe the reason for putting the
woman's head on one side of our coin is
a gentle hint that money talks, too. -
Philadelphia Times.
yesterday told Schlegelmayer that
his club consisted of blockheads, and to-
day l hear that have been elected an
honorary member. "-Fliegende Blaetter.
"Simon! Simonl There are burglars
in the housew That's all right, Mary.
l made an assignment Of everything to-
day for the benefit of the creditors. -
Chicago News.
"Why, what is the matter, my dearl
You look disappointed" 81 wanted to
have a real good quarrel with my hus-
band, aud he insisted on apologizing."
New York Times.
Cupid has his bows and arrows ready
for the summer season. A peculiaritY
of his shooting is that the more Mrs. he
makes the better the girls are pleased
Philadelphia Times.
Mrs. Grimley-"Our iceman is verJ
strong. He carried 800 pounds of ice
from the street to day clear into our eel.
lar. Isn't that wonderful" Mr.. Grim.
ley-"No, not if he weighed the ice him
self."-Boston News.
The Sword Swallower-"Great Scott
This won't do; there are thirteen of w
sitting down to dinnerl" The Living
Skeleton-"Thlrteeu nothingl There
are only twelve. You miscouute1 the
two-headed girl. Chicago Tribune.
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Washington.

HAROLD NJ. SEwALL, OF NJ Iina, Consul
General at Samoa has tan1ered his resigna-
tion aud it has been accepted by the Presi-
dent.
A TELEGRAM was receivedat the Treasury
Department from Special Agent Williams
at Port TOWNSEND, Washington. confirming
the news 0, the capture by the revenue cut
ter Corwin Of the British supply steamer
Coduillan in Alaskan waters.
CAPTAIN S. G. MILLS, Fifth Artillery,
United States Army. has been appolntet
Commandant Of Cadets at the West Point
Military Academy, to succeed Lieutenant
Colonel Hawkins. relieved.
W. J. CAMPBELL, Of Cdicago has de-
clined to serve as Chairman OF the Rspub-
lican National Com nittee, being unable to
arrange his business affairs.
The President has signed tn } Agricultural
Appropriation bill and approved thu bill
appropriating SO, 0l0 for the erection OF
stetue of General w. I. Sherman in Wash
ington.
GENERAL J. C. KGLroS, retired, has been
appointed Governor Of the Soldiers Home
Ia Washington.
The Sergeantat Arms Of the Honse sent
ninety-seven telezrams to absent members.
urging their speedy return 10 washington
in connection with the consideration OF the
Free Coinage BILL
The news from Homestead, Penn. caused
a great deal of excitement at Washington.
Bulletins were sent by the Western Union
Telegraph Company over the private wire
to the President. The Secretary OF War
and several other members OF his Cabinet
were with the President when the news came
of open hostilities The Western Union
Telegraph Company also sent bulletins to
the Cabinet officers at the various depart
ments.
CHARLEsJ. CRISP. Speaker OF ths House
of Rspresentives, has been renoninatsd Tor
Congress at Cordels, Ga.
THE special committee Of the House OF
Representatives which investigat the Pen
sion Bureau has made a report recommend
ing that the House pass a resolution demand
ing the removal OF Green b. Raum from the
Office Of Pension Commissioner.
In consequence OF suggestions by Surgeon.
General Wyman, OF the Marine Hospital
Service. the United States Treasury De-
partment has taken steps for the thorough
disinfection Of the baggage OF immigrants
arriving at New York from the cholera
districts Of Europe.
TsUNEJTRo MIYAoKI has been presented TO
the State Department as the new Secretary
Of the japanese Legation at Washington.
NEARLY O0Omoney order Offices have been
established lately.
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South and West.

RUFUS JOHNSON, Laura Lewis anil Ida
Swanson. all OF st. Paul, Mimi. were
drowned while boating on Spring Lake,
Minnatonka.
JOSEPH, Zlcharia and Henry Martin,
three brothers, aged twenty-five, seventeen
an thirteen, were drowned in Kings River
near Huron, Cal. while bathing.
THE Arapaboe Indians are doing the ghost
dance on their reservation in the Indian
Territory to the great alarm Of the white
settlers near by.
JONES, the colored man who murdered
Mrs. Tierney, was taken from the Jail at
Weston. W. Va, and hanged by a mob.
THEDemocratic State Convention Of Kan
sas met at Topeka, and nominated a full
State ticket. The platform approves the
nomination OF Cleveland and Stevenson, and
endorses the declarations OF the Chicago
Convention. II sls) declares prohibition 10
be failure.
SENATORS WARREN AND CAREY, Of
Wyominy, were hung in etiiyy at Ogden,
Utab. by in iignant citizsns for voting
against the free coinage o. silver in the
United States Senate.
WILLIAM HELMS, Of Fulton, Mica, an in
sane man, murdered his wife with knife
and a hammer, AMI then cut his own
throat.
The corn crop in Northern Texas, Indian
Territory and Nebraska will be the largest
known for fifteen years. The cotton crop is
also promising.
A 300-foot wall running along the Newport
News Railroad yard in Memphis Tenn.
fell and killel three men named Huntes,
Hogan AMI Bell.
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Novel Mod, Of Catchin1 Wool Plgeou,.

The old gentleman asked me if | had
ever heard of the hunt of the wood
pigeon by the Spanish Basques. l hal
not. lie waxed enthusiastic over the
delights of this chase. 1t appears he
was, and had been for fifty years, the
'matre de la colombiere," and has ex.
hibited the method to half the crowned
heads in Europe. The origin Of the
right is lost in the mists of antiquity
and belongs to a society, the members
iuheriting the right, which has always
remained in the same families from time
immemorial.
The hunt begins on October lst, end.
ing the last day Of November. The net
is thirty feet high, aud hung perpendicu-
larly from high trees, the lower end
touching the earth, where the drawing
strings are held by men in concealment.
A lot of lads and children are sent of
two or three kilometers and drive toward
the nets (often six or seven nets are used
at one hme), clapping aud shouting
whenever the colonies try to diverge
from the course. When the flight draws
near the net man posted in tall tree
filings high into the air an imitation
hawk. DOVE swoop the terrified pigeons,
and in their onward impetus fall into
the net, which is instantly closed by the
trappers, aud catches them all alive.
/ asked how many were caught in one
net; the old man said the largest num-
Der he had ever seen in one was 12l. An
ordinary number would be fifty or sixty
sometimes only ten, or even two. This
season they had caught in all $500 birds.
The old couple keep their share alive in
the long grenier to be found at the top
of all Blsquo houses, ventilated by Gu
rious triangular holes. Here they are
fed aud grow very fat, being much es'
teemed at the table. -GaGguani's Mes
senger.
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An Amsrlo,n Who Resembles a PrInc,.

Now and then American papers have
an ill-natured paragraph to the effect
that Henry James, the writer, is proud
because he looks like the Prince Of
Wales. This is wrong. 1t is the other
way about. The hautsur OF the Prince
is due 10 the fact that he knows he looks
like Henry James.
The other day Henry james was pass
ing the House OF Parliament when the
soldier on guard presented arms. Mr..
James looked about him to see who the
salute was for, but he noticed there was
nobody near him. After walking on a
bit he turned aud passed the sentry
again. Once more the soldier presented
arms. Mr. James turned to him and
said
'Is that salute meant for met"
"Yes, your royal highness," answered
the soldier. Detroit Free Press.
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Mild Looking Desperadoes.

"It is remarkable how few men who
have attained notoriety as desperadoes
looked the role" said Major T. O. De-
witt, one of CALIFORNIA; Forty-niners,
now taking his ease at the Southern. 81
have seen most of the trans Mississippi
terrors, and with the exception OF Cole
Younger, now serving a life term at
saltwater, Mimi, they looked anything
but dangerous. Jesse James resemblet
a mild hammered country pedagogue, aud
Frank James might be mistaken for
parson. Cole Younger's brothers were in
offensive looking boys; Ben Thompson
would have passed unnoticed in a crowd
of FOUNDERS, and the Pacific Slope kill
ers were, so far as | remember, rather a
harmless looking lot The heavy viii
laius Of Western history were not iu ac-
cord with stage traditions. "--st. Louis
Globe. Democrat.
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A Remarkable Muls.

1t was either five or seven years old
when my father paid Sl75 for in 1853.
This makes her about forty years old
now. 1t is still living and walks by the
side of row Of corn, cotton anu other
crop with that true beeline tread that 1t
ever has, only it is much weaker, from
age. If it hauls wood, you can turn it
loose in the woods and it will curry it's
load to the woodpie and stop there un-
til it is unloaded. Then drive it to the
corn6eld, put on a load of corn and turn
it Loose and it will carry that load in the
lot, if the gate has been left open before
it gets there, and carry it around behind
the crib and stop at the right pace for
it to be unloaded. | have said it Is the
best mule that ever cane from Kentucky,
or any other State. It's color was shiny
black, and it is almost as trim as a deer,
but now it's foreparts are almost as gray
as a persons. This wonderful mule will
cause your State to be fresh in my mem
ory while live.-Louisyille Home and
Farm.
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Waters That COm) and So.

Judge c. F. Lott, one OF the most
careful observers in Butte, lately said:
"Years ago party of US camped on the
bank of deep, clear lake in La'sen
County, near its eastern boundary. Hay-
ing quartered our animals at the lake we
picketed them for the night, and we lay
down to sleep. About ten O'Clock, or a
little later when the guards were
changed, one of them went down to get
some water. In a moment or two he
came running back, declaring the water
had disappeared. He woke us up, tell
ing of the strange fact, and several of
the party went with him to the edge OF
the now empty chasm.
at was a deep, rocky basin, with i'm
mense boulders in the bottom, but there
was not drop of water in what a few
hours before was a lake fully a quarter
of mile long. Just before sunrise the
following morning, two of US woo were
on watch heard the water returning.
we observed it with much interest, and
before breakfast the lake was half full.
By nine o'clock, when we resumed our
Journey, the water had all returned, an1
the lake was full to the brim. The
water disappeared aud returnel l through
several assures in the deep bottom Of the
lake, but none of us were able to account
for the strange phenomenon. ."-Oroyille
(Cal.) Register.
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Weight Against Gold.

The ancient ceremony OF talabaram, or
weighing the Maharajah of Travancore
against an equivalent weight Of gold,
was performed this year with great pomp.
the present Maharajah being an orthor-
dox Hindoo and stickler for tradition.
Months before the ceremonies his Gov
ernment bought great quantity of pure
gold, the greater part of which was con-
verted into coin. After presenting an
elephant to the shrine, the Maharajah
entered the temple and mounted one Of
the sclles, his sword aud shield being
laid in his lap. In the other scale the
newly struck coins we're put In by the
first and second princes until the Ma
haraiah rose in the air, the priests chant
ing vedic hymns. In addition to this
the band played and the guns fired.
Afterward the coin used was distributed
among about Is, 900 Brahmins. Boston
Transcript.
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THE NEWS EpIT0MIzEl.
Eastern and Middle stares.

JONI CE LEEB. aged sixty. was shot AMI
killed by his nephew, Martin De Leer. In
Great Darlington, Mass, in quarrel over
money.
GOVERNOR ALBEIT and twenty-five Con-
gressmsn reviewed parade in honor OF the
Centennial Of Paterson. N. J.
THE amount OF DefauIter Damn, shortage
in the National Savings Bank at Buffalo
n. Y, is si26, ,636.
Mrs. PoLINsKI was picking raspberries
ON mountain near Mill Creek, Penn, when
rattlesuake attacked her. She grabbed
the reptile by the neck and smashed its head
with a stone, but not before the snake had
put his fangs in her arm several times. She
died five hours after being bitten
President AND Mrs. HARRISON left
Washington by special train on their way
to Loon Lake in the Catskills, where Mrs.
Harrison will pass the summer.
THE non-union men employed by the
steyedores were attacked at Buffalo. N. Y,
by 200 striking union men. who pelted
them with bric'ibats. riot ensued and
several men were injuret. Six rioting
strikers were arrested.
JOIN DowNwooD, a Brooklyn (N. "
newspaper compositor, fatally shot and
stabbed his wife AMI then fired two pistol
bullets into his own head, inhicting mortal
woun1
The White Squadron took the Massachu-
setts Naval Battalion down Boston Bay for
big gun practice. On the Chicago, as
guests Of Admiral Walker. were Governor
and Mrs. Russell, General Dalton, General
Douahue and Colonels Cunningham and
Russell Of the Governors staff, and several
city officials.
IRE President and Mrs. Harrison ar
rived at their cottage at Loon Lake, n. Y.
The eleventh international Convention Of
the Young Peoples Society Of Christian En-
deayor held three days session at the
Madison Square Garden, New York City.
The afternoon and evening sessions were at
tended by an average OF 1900 people and
as many more were turned away.
The PAYERS in New York City declared
their strike off and yielded to the contract
ors.
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-,OTHER WOULD LISTEN.
'uld listen to me, dears.

i Npld listen TO me- dears,
'Ae won. an that fade gown;
, She would somevn.,, = hours rest.
And sometimes trip to town.
And it shouldn't be all for the children,
The fun, and the cher, AMI the play;
With the patient droop on the tired mouth.
And the Mother has had her dayw
True. mother has had her day, dearS
When you were her babies three.
And she steppel about the farm andethe
house,
AS busy as bee.
When she rocked you all to sleeP, deari,
And sent you all to school,
And wore herself out and did without
And lived by ths Golden Rue.
And 50 your turn has come dears
Her hair is growing white,
And her eyes are gaining the far away look
That peers beyond the night.
One OF these days in ths morning,
Mother will not be here.
Size will fade away into silence
The mother so trus and dear
Then. Whist will you do in the daylight,
Aud what in the cleaning DIM
AMI father, tired an lonesome then,
Pray, what will yon do for him?
If you want to keep your mother,
You must make her rest to-day;
Must give her a share in the frolic,
And draw her into the play.
And, If mother would listen ID me, dears,
She'd buy her gowl Of silk,
With buttons of royal We vet.
AMI ruffies as white as milk,
And shield let You do th, trostins,
While she sat still in her chair.
That mother should have it hard all through,
1t strikes me isn't fair
Margaret E. Sangster.
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Bees In a Bellows.

Thomas Dye, of the Johnson neigh
borhood, near Warrenton, Ga, tells oil
quite a strange freak among bis honey
bees. A week or so ago his bees
swarmed, and instead of taking the gum
prepared for them, they insisted ou maxi
ing their quarters in his shop bellows,
where they are now busiIy working put
ting up honey for the winter. That
will be lovely summer home, but we
think 1t rather windy for winter quar-
ters,-AtIanta Constitution.
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CURIOUS rAcTs.S


where deathihas.occurred.
A human skull turned up among the
mail matter insthe New YorkfPostoffice
he other day.
Gunpowder twas discovered from tho
falling of a spark on some materials
Amixed ina mortar.
, Wellsville, Mo-, has nearlystwice as
many dogs as inhabitants. 1t has 1740
residents, land 94OO.dogs.
CharleszBrandty dairyman rof Leban.
on, Penn. - has four-Year old daughter
who milks'six'cows every day.
The emeralds, of Mexico andtheAndes
region of South America are of better
color andI often superior in size'to those
found inythe south of Asia.
1t is saitl'that the Eskimo alphabet has
only five characters; that the language
itself is nob very difficult, but it is the
only one the Eskimo ever learns.
There is a surface of 5000 acres in
Silesia, Prussia, which is usually dry, but
which every thirty years fills with water
in some unknown way, and becomes a
lake.
Two neighbors in Rutherford, N, j.,
went to law about a rooster, which it was
asserted one of them had maliciously
killed. The rooster cost twenty i've
cents. The case cost the two families
5000.
The celebrated "Empeor's goblet" q
valued possession of the municipality of
Osnabruck, has been sold TO Baron
RothschiId, of Frankfort, for $50, 900.
The proceeds will be expended in build.
ing new theatre The goblet is OF
solid silver, superbly chased aud ornl.
mented.
In Paris, in Vienna, in Berlin, the
small house or hotel is the luxury OF the
wealthy, and the great bulk of the popu.
Ilation live in flats. In St. Petersburg,
the most modern of European cities, all
the houses are flats. The modern Italian
in Rome lives, as the ancient Roman did,
in fat.
The custom OF using more than one
Christian name was introduced into
England with the coming of Henrietta
Maria, the bride of Charles l., after
whom a large number Of British infants
were soon Loyalty christened. The
rolling resonance of the double name so
tickled the ear of the public that soon
other combinations of the same kind
came into fashion.
The following test Of genuineness in
diamonds is said to be effective: Prick
hole in card with needle and look
at it closely through the gem. II it ap-
pears as a single hole the stone is genu-
inc; if double it is glass. Put your
fingers behind the table OF the gem and
look through it as tbrougha microscope
If you can distinguish the grain OF the
skin clearly it is glass; if not it is
stone.
Apropos of the report of United
States Consul DENLY, of Peking, on the
export of tigers bones from Ichaug for
use in medicine, it may be said that what
purport to be tigers bones are sold as
matter Of course in nearly all the Chinese
shops in New Orleans, La. A specimen
brought there was submitted to the late
DR.. Joseph Leidy, who at once pro-
nounced it to be the bone Of ruminant.
and not that of tiger at all.
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"Say, Bill, heard some one yell
1t was a trainman who spoke, and it
was the head brakeman who heard him.
$50 did lit was under the CIR. An.
other tramp gone to Kingdom Come"
ave ought to stop-hadn't we9-and
see about itl"
"Stop on the Toano grade? How wild
you talk. You must have been drink
ing. San Francisco Argonaut.
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He started up. "Gcod-bye," he said |;
"God bleth you"

His tongue was thick, though his gait
was fairly steady. He could walk very
fast now, and soon he was up the grade
and at the curve. How strong his nerves
were. No longer did the night weigh
upon him. What a different man he was
from the creature who had limped along
the ties few hours ago. How much
firmer of purpose.
The light from an oncoming locomo-
tive shot up the track. The iron giant
coughed, wheezed and painted. 1t was
truly hard pull up the Toano grade.
He stood by the side of the track as the
dazzling head light glared upon him for
a moment. How firm he was, but how
he would have trembled had gone there
Embraced for the ordeal. He did not
tremble now. 1t was long
train. The cars, with their dull
lights, passed slowly at first, blt they
gathered speed as they went along. He
would not wait for the last, for that was
the caboose, and in it was the conductor
What speed the train had gathered
Still it was not going very fast, he
thought Now was the time 1t would
be two-days' foot journey nearer to her.
He would soon be at home.
He grasped hand rail, lifted one foot
up, missed the step, AMI was thrown
with relentless force under the wheels.
There was a wild cry, crunchlng
sound, and the train had passed, leaving
the light dust it had stirred up to settle
down again upon the sagebrush-leaves.
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ON THE T0AN0 GRADE.
BY FRANK b. MILJARD.

ARK and dumb and
cold as death itself
lay the dry mesa. II
was late at night.
The coyotes had
ceased to howl.
The owls no longer
gave forth their dis
NAL h Oots. No
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-02-26
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