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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-11-11
Aids to Plumlniss.

If you are thin aad want to put on
flesh, for breakfast and supper have
something nourishing and savory, plain
brown bread for instance, the slices
Drowned in fresh butter on griddle,
which makes an appetizer Of the good
old dainty. Demand good, lean bake l
potatoes to be eaten with undeniable
cream or rich gravy, which is aesh-torm
ing food, and you may indulge in male
dishes as you please, provided they are
we'll made.
All thin people wishing to grow plump
should begin with simple, easily-digestcd
fare, almost as if they we're invalids.
Fresh law eggs, beaten with orange
juice are very nourishiug, and give
strength to the digestion, so that
stronger food can be attacked. II care
is taken to select very digestible food,
it is true that the more one eats the
more he can eat, and the system may
thus be led into yigor aud flesh. New
York World.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-11-11
Iha Metals.

Among the most important and we'll
known metals are tin, copper, mercury,
iron, nickel, zinc, lead, silver aud gold.
Iron was known many centuries ago and
during the ''iron age" Silver and gold
are taken in the rarer metals. What is
a metali some one asks. A metal is an
element which possesses peculiar lustre,
known as metallic lustre, the higher OK
ides of which are acid-tormIDg com
pounds.
Some of the metals are barely known
to exist as: Iridium, tuns ssten, palladium,
etc.
A person unscquainted with pure iron
would scarcely think it to be nearly a
silver-white metal. The "Iron Age"
marked the latest advancement Of the
primeval people. Extensive smelling
works we're erected, and 400 furnaces
we're discovered by NJ. Quiquerez in the
Berness Jura.
Platinum, being one of the rarei
metals, was discovered several centuries
ago, but was not utilized until lately
Iridium is the expensive metal and oc
ours usually with platinum and osmium.
The alloys of osmium and iridium arc
used a great deal in tipping gold pens
The metals arc divided into five groups.
The acid employed in the first aud Sec
ond group is hydrochloric; the third
group are soluble in dilute acids; tho
fourth in water, acids and alkalies, and
the fifth are soluble in the air. Detroit
Free Press.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-11-11
Gothan's Window CIeal:rs.

It was made known alta workiugmon's
meeting, held a night or two ago for
the purpose of organizing benefit fund
for sick and disabled window cleaners,
that there are about a hundred profei-
sional window cleaners in this city who
fi1d steady employment the year round,
and that this band of special workers is
part Of big corporation employing over
800 workingmen in Berlin, London,
Breslau, Vienna and Potsdam. The New
York Guild of Window Cleaners was
started two years ago, and its work
differs from the labor of the ordinary
window scrubbers in the fact that the
guild workingmen use no waterin clean
ing windows, thereby dong away with
the biggest nuisance that storekeepers
have to put up with. The cleaning is
done without swashing everything in tho
store window with dirty water.
The professional window cleaner OF
Gotham goes over the window pane first
with a damp cloth to take off the dust.
Then he sponges the glass with clean
ing paste made Of alcohol and whitening
powder, and then rubi the pane brisIIly
with a chamois skin, aud wipes it finally
with dry cloth. This gives it p olish
The cleaners come around once a week
to each shop in their district. 1t takes
them quarter Of an hour to clean the
glass of an ordinary store window, aud
it costs merchant a dollar a month to
have the cleaning done. Each working.
man is provided with new-fangled sort
of ladder, built so that it cannot slip
from the window, aud eau, If necessary,
be heightened from seven feet to sixty.
These ladders are painted red, aud they
run up to a point at the top. This
pointed top is placed in one corner OF
the window and sticks there while the
cleaner stands against it aud reaches
over aud scrubs the window.-New
York Sun.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-11-11
Sunfuwfrs as a Field Crop.

II the lintlcss cotton plant has made
great fortunes or conquest we have not
heard OF it. Still vegetable oils for
culinary purposes are more and more
coming to the front. Kansas is called
the SunHower State. The seeds from sun
flowers yield a pure, sweet oil, and a
large product at that per acre. TIE plant
will thrive on almost any soil. 1t could
be grown in drills or in hills, two or
three plants to the hill and cultivated
like corn. On rich land each plant will
bear two or three flowers and yield from
200 to 1000 seeds to the flower. There
are a number of varieties also, some bear
ing flowers as large as a peck measure
in diameter. There will be a chance for
an inventor to produce machine which
will free and clean the seeds. Suppos-
.edly any press used for linseed or castor
beans will express the oil, and a mani.
pulation like that used for refining cot
tonseed oil and making it equal to olive
oil would also refine the seeds, or rather
oil from the sunaower seeds.
There is a great desire IN many house.
holds for a substitute for hogs lard. II
must be sweet and odorless to supersede
lard or butter. Some people have an idea
that almost any kind of butter, rancid
aud stale, could be used by bakers or
confectioners. There never was a greater
mistake. 1t does not require the most
educated taste or the keenest sense of
smell to discover the fact when stale or
rancid butter has been used in the prep
aration of cake, tart or pie.
The oil from rape seed, which grows
two blooms like turnip plant, is COM
monty used in the north of Europe in
baking potato pancakes for instance.
When this is put into the pan and be-
comes heated to a certain degree all the
unpleasant odors escape in a minute, aud
after that the butter is mixed with the
oil in the pan and the product is as free
from taint as if the purcst lard had been
used.
There are plenty aud good sala1 olive
oils now in the market, including the
psuedo, cotton, olive oil wholesome
and of fairly good favor, but of such
oils as could be used for other culinIry
purposes, especially baking, there are
scarce any, and in due time perhaps sun
flower oils will fill the place.-S.. Louis
Republic.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-11-11
The Barometer Trees of ChiIeo'

One Of the most remarkable produc.
tions of the Isle of Chileo is the cello.
brated barometer trees" which grow
in great profusion In all Of the salt
marshes. 1t is believed to be near
relative of the India rubber tree of Bra
zll. The wonderful traits OF this tres
were first made known to white men in
1884, the natives informing the De
Young company that both the leaves and
the bark OF the tree were neyerfailing
weather prognosticators. In dry weather
the bark Of this natural barometer is as
smooth and white as that OF a sycamore,
but with the near approach of storms
these characteristics vanish like magic.
Twenty four hours befole storm breaks
over the little island the tank of every
tree of the species turns as black as eb-
ony, save few scattered patches of
carmine, these latter markings being
supposed to fortell great electrical dis
turbance. The leaves, too, which in
their normal state hang laterally (as they
do on all American trees), drop. edge,
wise and tremble like things endowed
with animal life and reason. st. Louis
Republic.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-11-11
Ina Thlef's Eye

The eye always indicates the charac-
ter of the man. This is particularly true
of thieves, for the expert detective eau
tell in almost every case whether or not
a man is thief by simply looking him
squarely in the eye. A welI-known ALE
gheny detective, in speaking Of this
matter to Pittsburg Press reporter the
other day, said;
"Yes, can pick thief out every
time. can't tell you what it is that
gives the man away except that it is the
expression of the eye. In the first place
there are few thieves that will look you
squarely in the eye unless they are
obliged to do so. They will avoid your
glance as long as they can, aud even
when they do face yoI aud gaze steadily
at you it is always with the same express
sion. Although their eyes mly be wide
open aud the gaze apparently steady,
you will see, if you look closely, that
there is something awey back throughthe
corner trying to avoid you. l have
picked out numbers of thieves by this
little lodging movement. never saw
a thief VINO was free from it.
Everybody has met that man who
resolutely refuses to meet a steady gaze
for more than three or four seconds at a
time. Its no. fai 50 say that all such
Dersons are dishonest. In many cases
the pecuIIarity is a direct result Of bash
iulness.
ga little close observation will enable
the observer to put persons in the class
to which they belong. Tnc maa whose
eye is almond shaped is almost always
dishonest at heart, if not iu overt act.
The eyes Of some Of the most notorious
thieves in the country are of this pattern,
and the expression given the face by
this sort Of eye is very striking
Another Characteristic thiefs eye is
one whose lower lid is straight while the
upper one is more or less arched. The
straight lower nd is always noticeable,
however, the effect being very cunning
aud foxlike expression. Detectives
usually have very noticeable eyes, keen
aud clear, although one of the best thief
takers that the writer has ever known
has big brown eyes, as innocent in ex-
preston as aya those Of frank and hon.
est schoolboy. This is his natural ex-
preston, but when he becomes inter-
csted in anything his lids close aud his
gaze is as penetrating as that of an
earle.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-11-11
The First Map of Amsrica.

"Among the relics appertalning to the
discovery of America brought out in con-
nection with the Columbian celebration, "
said the Spanish Consul at this port re.
Gently, sis the first geographical chart
of America, which is preserved in Spain.
The chart is IN the possession Of the
Naval Museum of Madrid, aud is said to
be the original autograph Of the navi-
gator, Juan de la Cosa, pilot OF re-
nowned reputation in his time, and oI
whom Columbus had very high
opinion.
"The chart or map is signed in the
Puerto de Santa Maria, in the year 1900,
but Juan de la Cosa, who accompanied
Columbus as pilot or sailing master on
his first and second voyages, was al
work on it during the voyage with
Alfonso de Ojeda in 1893. 1t is said to
be the best Of all ancient universe map,
in its correctness and extent Of Its newly
discovered territories. and has the re3u
tation OF being the FIRST mapa mdndi ex-
tant, showing, as known in 1900, the
whole of Europe and Africa, great
portion Of Asia and the America jus
then discovered. II was executed with
great precision, and is luxuriant in gold
and coloring. g.-Baltimor (Md.) Amer
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-11-11
The Water Loius.

There is a plant growing IN the south
era waters OF the United States which
possesses the singular properties Of being
able TO reuder the most impure standing
wa.er perfectly healthy. The people OF
Louisiana and Mississippi call it the water
lotus. It consists OF leaves about tho
size of the head of a pin, and roots so
fine as to escape notice except under o
microscopic inspection. Where it grows
at all it covers the water, aud to tho
casual observer looks like coating of
green scum. The flowers and seeds arc
microscopic, so that its appearance in
any given locality is readily accounted
for, but wherever it does appear tho
water beneath is always it to drink. So
markell is this property that families
using tho water from bayous where the
lotus is abundant are known to have bet
ter general health than those taking their
drinking water from places where tho
lotus is not found. 1t is often trans
planted into ponds, bayous and lakes,
spreads with wonderful rapidity, and
never fails to do its work we'll. Memphis
Appeal-Avalanche.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-11-11
FUN.


Lisped IN numbers-The small boys
multiplication table.-Truth.
It doesn't take much OF a hunter TO
bag his trousers. Falls Republican.
A man who shutters conveys his
thoughts by limited express.-Washing
ton Star.
"There are tricks in all grades" and
also in political tirades.-New York
Journal.
Every man who is not bearing any
burden is a burden to himself. f.-Galves-
ton News.
"DO you love nerl" 'I can't tell. I
haven't seen her by daylight yet."-
Chicago News Record.
Bride No. 2-'No other woman ever
wore this ring, did she, ,darlingi' Wild
pwer-''No woman on earth ever had it
on."-Jewelers' Weekly.
"He shouldn't say shoulder arms to
those cavalrymen." "Why nOtl" "They
have nothing but swords. He ought to
say shoulder blades. '"-New York Sun.
"Ye call that beautyr said Pat.
"Faith can see twintJ handsomer
women on Washington shtreet livery day
with me eyes shut. Boston Transcript.
"Maria," said Mr.. De Porque, (Which
'ud you druther hear, popular or CLASH
cal muslc2' "Classical, of course"
"Whyl" 'It costs the most. Wash.
ington Star.
Dabney-"In what army did General
Grabber server" Hustler-"Not in
either" Dabney-"How does he get
his tltle2n Hustler-"He commands
large salary."-Chicago Inter-O Ocean.
"Pop," said the professional humor-
lists little son, "what regiment did the
minute men of Lexington belong tol"
$50 the Sixty-secoud, of course. Ask
me something easy, my boy,"-New
York Sun.
"One feature about this bureau that
can recommend" said the salesman, sis
that it has been carefully oiled all over
the back. Gum won't stick to it any
where" "My daughters" said the
customer, "are all married. Show me
one that you can't drive nail into. l
Want it for my boy y."-Chicago Tribune.
Bagley-"rve got an order from
friend to buy dresser for him. I'm on
my way down town now on that mis-.
sion. don't suppose an article of that
sort costs much, does itl" Wagley-
ga dresserl l married one ten years
ago, and it has impressed me with the
be- a't,at there could be no cosslier in-
ve,tment. Boston Courier.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-11-11
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

The world has 45O0 paper mills
CHICAGO handles 1900 trains daily.
DAHoMEY has fallen TO the French
FROST in Brazil has sent coffee up.
CHICAGO is to have Chinese theatre.
RAINS have caussd iools in England.
DEER are plentiful in the Adirodacks.
ITALY is suffering from a lack Of small
coin.
CHOLERA is making appalling ravages in
China.
THERE are 300 Indian voters in the new
State of Washington.
APACHE Indians in New Mexico and Ari
zona are on the warpath.
The Swiss Republic has been duped by
bogus Minister from Salvador.
The Bolivian Congress has passed a Law
fixing the Presidential term at four years.
The railroads Of the country were never
sooverruu with business as the are to-day.
DYsENrERY is raging fatally in some
districts in China, with 30H deaths in l5,-
600 cases.
TIE Ohio River at Fittsburz. Penu.. is
lower than for years, and traffic has beeD
suspended.
DEER are so plentiful in Michigan that
boys have to be hired 10 stone them out OF
the turnip fields.
ABOUT 500. 900 cases Of unusually fine
sweet corn and 100 900 cases Of succotash is
the pack reported for Maine.
THE girl baby born in the Esquimaux
village at the Worlds Fair, Chicago has
been named Columbia Susan
MANY counties in Oklahoma are so poor
that they have been unable 10 comply with
the Territorial Australian ballot law.
THE Missouri Pacific Road has given sl0,-
900 to the families OF thoss killed IN tue
fight with the Dalton gang at Cofeyville,
Kan.
THE heaviest loss among swine, according
TO the Department Of Agricultural reports.
Is sustained in the South. Georgia leads,
with a loss of almost ten per cent, while
Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas are not
far behind.
A GENERAL rain throughout the North
west has given the railroad managers en-
couragement in their Efforts TO raise ths
grain blockade. They say the rains VIII
make the roads bal and stop farmers from
hauling in grain.
The original Columbus letter, recently
purchased 10 Europe for the Lenox Library,
reached the Custom House, New YORK CITY
IL was put under safe lock. for the precious
document has an invoice value OF VOW
There is no duty upon 1t.
A MANITOBA Indian made death-5ed
confession that he and companion, while
accompanying a Sir John Franklin Arctic
relief expedition, discovered one OF Frank
Inns ships but were afraid to report II. fear
ing delay at a time wnen provisions were
short
PROFESSOR FANcIULLI Of New York, has
been appointed leader OF the band OF the
United States Marine Corps at Washington,
TO succeel John Philip Sousa- The new
bandmaster is an Italian, having been born
in Tuscany ami educated in the Conserva-
tory OF Music OF Florence.
THE heaviest armor plate ever made IS
now Ia course Of preparation at the betdle-
hem tPenn.) Iron WORKS. The inyot weighs
eighty four tons. and when conpletsi stil
hs scyenteen inches taick This armof viii
defend the side OF the battleship In tiana.
now building at Cramps ship yard, Phlla-
delphia.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-11-11
THE WINDS, STORY.

The North Wind blew at night off thc,sve.
Saying, "Sorrowful, sorrowful, all of mel
sing of the numbing Winters breath,
/ sing of snow, and death.
bring in the wave with the broken spar,
And the gray seas curling over the bar.
Drifting at night from cold bright star
Sorrowful, sorrowful, all of mep
The South Wind blew at noon off the sea,
Singing, "Sorrowful, sorrowful, come to
mel
sing of the golden buttercup breath,
sing the peace Of death.
/ bring in the shells with the laughing tide,
And follow the brown sails home, and slide
In the drowsy heat down the meadow side
Sorrowful, sorrowfuL come TO me"
The East Wind blew at morn off the sea,
Crying, "Sorrowful, sorrowful, all of mel
/ sing Of the piercing icebery's breath,
i sing of the horror Of death,
And the tempssrs shrek in the rigging
black,
And the spindrift wreath and the rolling
- wreck,
And the boat that never again comes back
Sorrowful, sorro yfull all of mef'
The West Wind blew at dawn off the sea,
Calling, "Sorrowful, sorrowful, come to me.
| sing of the joyous salt sea breath,
sing, There is no death
murmur Of sea caves rosy AMI deep,
And the glittering bay where the shoal fish
leap,
And the lapse of the tide as it sinks to
sleep
Sorrowiu, sorrowful, come to me-!
A. E ellington.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-11-11
Washington.

TIE Hon. John ID. Washburn Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Of the United States 10 Switzerland, has
sent in his resignation 70 the President
The cause is business engagements.
GEORGE S. BATcHELLER callei at the De-
partment Of State and rendered TO Secre-
tary Foster his resignation Of the Office OF
United States Minister 10 Portugal, which
was accepted.
The President gave out to thu press a
card of thauks, in acknowledgment Of the
many expressions Of sympathy he has re-
ceived.
Mr.. Z. o. LEEcH, Director Of the Mint
has submitted 10 the Secretary OF the Treas
ury report of the operations Of the mnts
and assay offices OF the Unitsd States for
the fiscal year ended Juns 30, 1892. The
value Of the gold deposited at the mints and
assay offices during the year was go, 1920
of which SOL, 121, 400 were original deposits,
and s. 345, SIG were redeposits.
The Government has purchased lsO,OO)
acres on the Siletz reservation in Arizona for
$l42,6J0.
GENERAL ScaoFIELD ordered that the
rain making experiments a. Fort Myeri op-
poste Washington, be stopped.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-11-11
Foreign.

IN the Island of Sardinia, foods destroyed
24S houses at Sans Perate. and 100 persons
were supposed to have been drowned.
The British Contra Chamber Of Agri.
culture has decided ID mold National con-
ference on the deoression in the agricu tural
industry. The conference will take piacs
on December Z.
1T was officially declared that Hamburg,
Germany. was free from cholera; IN Buda'
Pesth, Hungary. there were twenty-on'
new cases and nine deaths.
THE British Government decided TO ig-
more the request OF the United States Gov.
ernment for the release OF DR.. Gallagher,
the dynamiter.
TIE miners OF Carmaur, France, have
returned TO work ali tle released rioters
were given an ovation.
OsMAN DGGXA has reappsaret with CO..
siderable force. and has occupiet Sh'n AT.
He is maxing raids in the direction OF Sia'
kim, Egypt.
The populace Of Granail. Spain, angerei
at the refusal of the Qussn Regent u visit
the CITY with the little King, attac sed tle
houses of Conservative leaders and destroye1
objects connected with the Columbian csle-
bration.
ANOTHER revolution has broken out in
Porto Alezre. in the State OF Rio Crane do
SnI Brazil. sne Government troops charged
on the revOutionists aad killed nuHoAr Oh
Them
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scarcely daring tolook in that

Fengrove, scarcely daring tolOok in that
direction.
"No-he amt got his deserts" Milo
answered, wiping the sweat from his
brow. "He'll live to be hanged yet.
ma am, never fear" -.
At this moment the souau Or old
Roan's gallop on the half-frozen road
struck like welcome music on Mrs. Fen
groves ears.
"My husbandl" she cried out, hysteri-
cally. "My husbandl"
Milo York vert down and unfastened
the door-the burglars had effected their
nefarious entrance through the parlor
window-and Doctor Fengrove found
himself face to face with the tramp.
"Yorkl" he exclaimed.
eyes, sir, York." nodded Milo.
"And if it hadn't been york, your
wife and the little un would have been
in bad fix"
"Oh, husbandl' shrielzed Mrs. Fen
grove, finging herself into his arms,
"AIilo York has saved our livesl"
81 amt altogether sartin about that, i"
added Milo, ''but Iguess I've saved your
money and valuables."
"But how came you here" qestioned
Doctor Fengrove.
al was a-sleepin' out in the barn, >"
said Milo. "Shc told me could. Sac
give me blanket and food and drink
when was most ready to drop. God
bless herl And l heerd their footsteps
just arter you had gone out, and l sus-
picioned as all wasn't right. So just
got up aud crept arter 'em, and here
they is, with a nod toward the two cap
tives on the floor. "Aud if you1l just
lend a hand, doctor, we'll hist 'en out
into tine hall, where they won't Interfere
with folks, and then I'll go over to the
village for the constable and the hand
cuffs"
"How can I ever reward you for this,
Milolo said Doctor Fengrove, in tones
stided by emotion.
81 don't want no reward" said Milo,
stoutly. "I'd'a' done more nor that for
her," with a twitch of his head toward
Mrs. Fengrove, "Ah, sir, you don't
know :he sort o feelin' man has for
the only person is all the world as holds
out hclpin' hand when he's ready to
droD with hunger and faintnessl Aud
now," more briskly, "I'll 60"
"Dolly," said the doctor,a the honest
fellow vanished, "what would have be-
come of us all this night if you had not
been more merciful and tender-hearted
than Il God be praised that your sweet
woman-nature gained the victoryl'
That was the last midnight alarm that
our doctors family ever sustained. The
two burglars, discovered to be old aud
experienced hands at the business, were
safely lodged in State prison for the
longest practicable term; the gang was
elIectually broken up, and the neighbor-
hood was at peace again.
Aud Milo York is an objectless, dc
spised tramp no longer. lie is DR.. Fen
groves "hired man" now, as much a
friend as a servant, and you may see him,
any sunny day, at work in the garden
with the baby playing around him.
"All wanted was chance" Milo
York says.-The Ledger.