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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21
PapyrHs and Papsr.

In ancient Egypt the papyru' plant
grew in enormous quantities. The root
of it were used for food, the bark fol
ropes, baskets, mats, and even for river
boats; the fine skin of the lnne! bark
was glued together in strips and employed
as writing paper. The word 'paper" is,
indeed, our modern form of the word
'!9apyrus.
Naw this fine skin or rind was i'm
porte&into Rome and by the Romans
was called "liber," and when the papy-
rus was made up into book it, too, was
known as "liber." The case in which
such q collection OF books was kept was
termed lin Low Latin) {. "librarian, "
whence, through the French "librarie, "
we have our English "library."
The Greeks called the plant itself "by.
blos;" and when among them the papyrus
became a book, the latter was termed a
"byblos." The earliest Christian writers,
using the Greek language, spoke of tho
Holy Scriptures as "biblia," the books,
and later, when the Scriptures were re-
garded as a single work aud not as a
collection, the plural form "biblia," the
books, was adopted as q Latin singular,
"bibha," the book. With slight modi-
fcation, "biblia" spread into all modern
European languages, and appeared in
English as "the Bible" some time after
the Norman Conquest.
One remembers how on the 18th Of
June, 1915, King John signed the great
charter of the constitutional freedom OF
Britain, aud how, after be had signed
it, be flung himself in burst of fury on
the floor and gnawed the straw end
rushes with which the floors of those
days were strewa. Now what was
"chartal" Originally nothing more or
less than a sheet Of papyrus strips glued
together as writing paper. So it is to
the Egyptian reed that we owe our
"charters, ""charts, "cards, " "cartes, ="
blanche aud de visite,) our "cartoons"
and unro "cartridges. Good Words.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21
NEWSY GLEANINGS

THE coffee crop is large.
CorroS crop prospects are poor.
DROUGHT in Southern Russia is broken.
FOREST fires have been raging in Mime
sofa.
MANY are dying daily Of starvation in
Mexico
The Malta Is said to have migaated TO
Chicago.
DROUGHT and locusts are doing damage in
Argentine.
GREAT prairie fires have been raging in
North Dakota.
CHOLERA riots have taken placs in bufa'
Pesth, Hungary.
CHOLERA continues on the decrease
throughout Europe.
THERE are over 1900 factories in operation
about Moscow. Russia.
TIE cholera death record Ia Russia no"
foots up 800 900 victims.
The Idaho Test Oath Law has been oe'
clared unconstitutional.
The new railway betw ecu Jaffs and Jeru'
salem is now open 10 regular uanc
REMARKABLY rich lode OF silver has
heen discovered at Orarval. In Finland.
LIEUTENANT MACOONAL ha's9 20 o
dropoed from Canads's militia rolls Tor aa'
vocacy Of annexation
THk last OF the cholera infested immi
grants have been discharged from quarsn'
fine in New York Harbor.
The United States Treasury. Department
has snioped S100J0,0)O in small notes SCUM
and West to aid in moving crops.
TIE Government will take measures 90
hasten the work on the armor for cruisers 10
the Carnegie mills at Homestead, renn'
THERE is a movement on foot IN Coiora1o
10 have United States troops stationed az
points in that state to protect the game.
PROFESSOR PIcsERIsG. Of the haryar'
branch observatory at Arequip,, Arzentina
saws that he mas discovered forty small iake
in Mars. He also confirms Professor ho'
denis observations on the limits and mes
sured attitudes Of the planet.
AT the Food Exposition in Madison squar'
Garden, New York City. lot OF large veze
tables were shown. Among the COLLECTION
were cornstalks seventeen feet hig', pepper
two feet and half long. growing on "a
vine, anj white-plumed ceiery tw, fest ans
half long.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21
FUN.

Even the egotist expects more of'his
.ellow.man than he can accomplish him7
elf.-Washington Star.
ANY person eau get there. but the
question is what is he going to do after
be arrives. Dallas News.
A great many who try to act the prodi-
gal son find too late that they acted the !
calf instead .-Atchison Globe.
Three almost infaIlible ingredients for
the development of cholera are foreign
vags, rags, and jags. s.-Pittsburg Press.
When you come right down to the
facts IN the case, it's the loose-itting hat
that shows which way the wind blows.
Texas Siftings.
The deaf mute has this advantage:
When he has no other person to converse
with he can still talk with his fingers
Boston Transcript.
Guest-"What have you put this
magnifying glass on my plate for"
Waiter-"You ordered reed birds, sir.
Chicago Inter.Ocean.
Watts-"Have you seen my new dog
yeti" Potts-"No. What is he; liver
coloredl" Watts-"No. Light-colored." |"
indianapolis Journal.
Though a man faucies that his wit is
like cutlery, he makes mistake if he
undertakes to sharpen it by a continual
grind. d.-Washington Star.
1t has not yet occurred to the diction-
ary-makers to classify "phonograph" as
feminine noun simply because it talks
Observation-Disclosures Times.
The English sparrow doesn't take
kindly to being turned into the nautu-
rallied American reed bird. He'll die
before he suffers it.-Philadelphia
Times.
There is little more tantalizing 10
man than to go home with something in
his mind he wants to scold about, and
find company there and be obliged to
act agreeably .-Atchison Globe.
Rev. Mr.. Tyke (at the chr isteuing,
forgettul of the date)-"Let me see, this
is the thirteenth" Proud Father
EGood heavensl no! it's only the
eleventh. Kate Fields Washington.
Wickars-"Timmins is pretty good
elocutionist, is he notl" Yickars-"Yes,
indeed. Why, he can even make his
own poetry sound as though there was
something IN it."-IndlanapOlis Jour-
nal
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21
The Dog and The Swapping Turtle.

A day or two ago a twelye-pouns
swapping turtle strolIed into the village
Of Derby, among the Connecticut hills,
and moved down its principle street,
leisurcIy gazing at the sights. At John
Hanley's residence it suddenly paused.
John Hanley has dog, ambitious, Dig
piRed aud inquisitive. The dog caught
sight of the turtle at about the moment
it stopped walking, and, after having
meditated for a second or two, evidently
concluded it was worth looking into.
Slowly and cautiously he advanced tn
the turtle in the road, which, apparently
having decided that there was fun to be
had with the dog, drew in the outposts
of himself, laid low and kept very still.
The dog shifted at the turtle, then drew
away suddenly, walked gingerly about
the queer find, and shifted at it again
The. turtle remained as motionless as
rock. Again the dog walked about it,
then shifted at it, finally opened his jaws
with sudden resolute click, picked up
the beast, and started for his home,
doubtless intending to astonish his mas
ter with his singular discovery. He
hadn't gone far, however, before some.
thing happened. Said a Derby man.
who had witnessed the proceedings with
curious interest: "In one moment there
was dog-gOne circus in every sense oil
the term. The dog had just got good
hold of the turtle, when suddenly the
turtles long head shot out, and its jaws
closed with a resembles grasp on the
dogs cheek. You can believe there was
music then. The dog jumped two feet
into the air and shook his head furious
ly, howled and pranced, bounded, rolled
in the dust, described all forms of geo.
metrical figures, but the turtle held on
and went with him.
''Thc snapper was slayer. he had
caught on to the dogs idea, and fol
lowed It perfectly. He was in it as
long as the dogs hide held. Finally
the dog got up on his hind legs, stand
ing straight in the air, aud shook the
turtle savagely; then he clawed at the
enemy with both fore paws, but it was
no 90. Just at this moment, however,
John Hanley, who had been aroused by
the uproar in the street, rushed on the
scene, and he sized up the situation iu
an instant. Firsthe caught the dog and
dragged him into the house, then he got
the family tongs, caught the skylsrkiug
turtle and rammed one leg Of the tongs
down the beasts throat. 1t was only
after repeated jabs of this sort, however,
that he finally forced the turtle to let
90. Then he wangcd it out of the kit
chen window into the garden. The
dogl Well, he is better, but it will be
a long and cold day before he under
takes to monkey with a snapper again"
New York Sun.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21

obliged to pay them eight or nine dol
lars a week when they can hire plenty OF
young girls just out of school who can
write nicely and figure well. Most of
them have homes of some sort, aud are
willing to work for pin money, as they
call it. They grab at an offer Of 81 a
week. If you notice as you go through
the stores, you will see the majority of
the saleswomen are between sixteen and
twenty years old. New York Sun.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21

watering pot, aua hoes and trowel'!
How she had labore1 under a blazing
sun to keep the soil about the vine free
from the weedsl And all for noughtl
Silas did not know that under her
checked pinafcre she carried far
weighter load than the pumpkin. Her
conscience grew heavier with every step,
and at last, when the snowy canvas Of
the tents came in sight, with red, white
and blue floating in the September
breeze, there was not trace of pleasure
or relief to be seen on her face. After
depositing her burden at a stall she went
10 look at the prize poultry, for she
could not bear to be near Silas; his dull
blinking blue eyes carried the keenest re-
proach to her heart at every glance.
There were girls of her own age; school,
mates in white dresses and clean pinafores
like her own; some of them had the ad-
ditional charm of ribbons. Her arm was
soon encircling the not too slender
waist of one of these damsels, her bosom
friend, aud the troublesome conscienO -
was still for awhile, "not dead, but
sleeping" Suddenly silas's face ap-
peared in the distance, aud it awoke.
"Say, susy, hav ye seen the only livin'
marmaid!" he drawled.
"It's nothing but minnow's tail on
rag dolls body" she replied, turning
sharply away and leaving silas standing
with WIDE open mouth and eyes. Tho
conscience was at work again.
Bad dreams haunted Susy all night.
Silas's round face seemed turned to q
pumpkin and the blue eyes looked
worlds of reproach. Hoes and weeds
and golden pies danced a hornpipe be-
fore her closed eyes and she was awake
even earlier than on the day before.
She got up and dressed, then went out
past the dewy flowers, just opening, to
her fort in the loft; but that annoying
little enemy which had troubled her for
a day and a night pursued her even
there. The kittens were wide awake
and they tumbled over her in their
pames of hide and-seek aud tag, but
their playmate did not join them. Her
forehead was puckered with frown
which even Spotty could not drive
away when he laid his two soft little
paws about her neck and purred
lovingly in her ear. lowering above
her like birds of evil omen were the
medal and blue ribbon by way of re.
Sponse.
1t was Susy's turn to be astonished
now. Could silas's pumpkin havs
shrunken in the night, before the fairl
'Why, but"-she began.
81 went this mornin' and asked for
the pumpkin with IS. B. cut on it, and
the man told me it had took the prize, ,"
he explained.
can when l changed 'om I forgot all
about the m markin'p she exclaimed.
The two children gazed at each other
in silence few moments, then Silas
said
"Well, do wish you'd took the prize
after all, susy," with genuine pity in his
voice.
Lets eat our pies together anyhow"
she said.
And they did.-NeH York Observer.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21
THE sONo OF THE TYPE.

Nightly while the millions sleep,
Rsvelers shout, the wretchei weep,
And the watch lone vigils keep,
The printer works away;
With a click click clickl
TIE type in his stick
Records the deeds of the day.
Heeds the youth with glowing facs
That the lines he sets apace
Blight scui with its disgrace?
They bear for him no smart
And the click! clickl clickl
OF the type in his stick
Times with his joyous heart.
Thrills you, man with snnken eye
As his nimbls fingers fly,
Forming words that glorify?
They him no JOY impart;
And the click click clickl
OF the type in his STICK
Outruns his aching heart.
Does tie reader realizS
Glancing Ger with rapid eyes,
Countless,types those lines comprise,
Picked separate from the case,
And the click click click
OF that type in the stick,
All night kept up its pace?
Thus it is through life we go,
Feeling not the joy, the woa
Or the toiling others know;
Alb. better it is so;
For the click click click
Ofthe type in the stick
Tells less OF joy than woe.
Ernest Lacy,in the Omaha World Herald
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21

Gambler is the second largest vegetable
product Of the Malay peninsula. 1t is
most important tanning material, is used
as a brown dye, as medicine and in silk
works. England imports gambler to the
value of $1,000, 900 annually, and our
American imports are close to l,OGO,-
COO
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21

The oldest capital in the United States
is Santa Fe, which was the scat Of Gov
ernment in New Mexico as far back as
1910, aud yet its population is only
6165 according to the last census.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21

Two 6reprOOf trains lined with steel
plating are now being constructed at the
Alexandrovsky works in Russia for the
use of the Car and the Czsrina when
they take their little pleasure excur-
sions.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21

BRIGHT pink
sun bonnet ap'
peared over the
garden fence, and
beneath this was s
face of a still
brighter pin k.
Eyes "'black as
sloes" were Susy's,
and her dark clus.
tering ring lets
were so attractive
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21

The Baptist Year Book gives the num-
Der of Baptists in this country as $685.
SOC, an increase during the year Of
1O5, $40.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21

A blood beet measuring fifteen inches
in length, fourteen inches in circum-
ference and weighing four pounds, is a
curiosity Of St. Tammany, La. asszasg
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21

Newspaper advertisements were un.
known until 1862.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21

The hopgrowers Of New York State
are combining to protect their interests.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21
The Story of Two Pumpkins

A TALE FOR YoUSs AND OLD.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-01-28
DECEMBER WEATHER,

Summary of Temperature and Pre-.
cipttatton for the Month in the
State.
A summary Of December weather for
North Dakota, issued by the weathe;
bureau director at Bismarck. shows the
monthly mean OF temperature to have
been 16.2. The highest temperature
reported was Al above, on the 8th at
Moorhead, and on the 9th at Fort Buford.
The lowest range was Al below zero on
the Goth at Willow City. The snow fall
was large, and of course has been greatly
increased IN January. On lands where
grass and stubble are untouched the
snow is as deep as the tops Of the same.
while the burned prairie and plowed
ground is nearly or quite bare. The
monthly mean of precipitation of rain or
melted snow was ITO inches, being .38
above the normal. The weather record
for January will be more than usually
interesting.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-01-28
PAYING THEIR DEBTS.

Farmers Of SCutsman County Satisfy
100000 Worth OF Chattei Mort
cages.
Over hundred chattel mortgages
were released of record during the month
Of November last, 10 this county. and
still greater number in December. As
hundreds OF mortgages are paid, but no
certificate of satisfaction IL filed, it is
presumed three or four times the num-
Der above stated have been discharged
it being estimsted by Register Ashley
that not over 25 per cent. Of this class Of
CLAIMS, which we're paid out Of
the proceeds of the last crop, have
been released of record. On this
basis, over 500 chattel mortgages were
paid in Stutsman county during the
last two months Of 1891. A list Of 81 in
struments, taken IN numerical order
from the record, shows the average
amount OF each to have been S126.85.
From these figures an idea may be
formed Of the widespread benefits real
lied from the big yields Of grain last eea-
son.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-01-28
state Stock Statistics.

The annual report Of DR.. w. G. Lang.
don, state veterinarian, shows that 2,51O
horses, 512 cattle and 25,4T head Of
sheep were shipped into the state last
year. Five Of the horses proved to have
glsnders, and we're destroyed and the
exposed ones quarantined. A large
number Of the sheep had the scab and
they were quarantined in the unorgan-
lied counties, and after being thorough
" clipped" were allowed TO be dlstri-
buted. Among the thousands of cattle
owned in the state but six outbreaks Of
symptomatic anthrax (blackleg) we're re-
ported. There were but four cases of
tuberculosis. From the diseases among
cattle the doctor reports the losses as
slight, probably not over 100 head. The
Bismarck Tribune says this speaks vol
umes for North Dakota as cattle coun-
try. Tie loss from disease is practically
nothing. The cattlemen have learned
that it pays to put up hay for cattle at a
cost of less than 81 per ton, and millions
of tons 60 to waste every year. Besides
the work done by his three deputies, the
doctor travelled 11,437 miles by rail and
754 by vehicle.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-01-28
Where Lan.; Brings Fabulous Prices

A thronicler OF the days of the good
Haroun-al- -Raschid, seated Oh minaret
of his paradise. with list of New York
real estate quotations spread out before
him, would be seized with an impulse
to write the story Of our prosperity in
jeweled characters on cloth of gold.
And if he should describe Manhattan as
an island overlaid with precious metals
and incrusted with diamonds, there
would be little fault to find with the
metaphor beyond its audacity. In a
down town district, but short time
ago, land sold for $4,000 per frontage
foot, the entire lot, 20 by 100 feet, bring
ing 100000. Uptown, in a choice neigh
borhood. about the same time, $4,000
was the price paid for a frontage of
20 feet by 100 feet in depth. Thus have
the inexorable demands of traffic and
the needs of huddling thousands for
sleeping room and shelter transmitted
the soil beneath the New Yorker's feet
into auriferous strata whose value stated
in figures becomes almost too dazzling
for belief.-Harper's Weekly.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-01-28
Doing Missionary Work.

Mrs. F. E. Gardner writes that che sent n
copy Of the Wells & Dickey crop circular
to merchant in Iowa, along with a
copy of the Alert, and adds: "He and
his wife visited me this fall, on return
trip from California, and all the states
between there and here, and liked North
Dakota best of all. Thought he never
saw such crop as was being harvested
on mysfarm, when he was here, and said
that he should send some settlers to this
country. I received q letter from hin,
today saying he could use two dozen Of
the circulars to good advantage. Please
send him dozen or two, if you have
them to spare"
Tho circulars referred to give detailed
statements Of actual yields last season,
together with facts about the James
river valley. Thousands of them have
been and are being circulated far and
near. It 10 evident that interest in North
Dakota has again been revived, and con-
siderable emigration is expected this
spring.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-01-28

The young empress Of China, contrary
to all traditional customs, is taking
prominent place in public life. Form
erly no one was permitted to appear on
the road traversed by her majesty under
penalty of death. Now the emperor per-
mits his subjects to line the streets when
he and his consort travel and to approach
them with petitions. to which they listen
in the kindest manner. The young en-
press has commanded the custom of sac
riticing human beings in order to propi
tiate the Goddess of Silk Culture to cease.
And she has assisted in planting null
berry trees in the forecourt of the temple
where the sacrifices once took place.
New York Sun.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-01-28
A SENSATIONAL STORY.
VIM. Mccarthy Held Up Monday
Night and Relieved of His
Cash and Watch.
That is at Least His Claim. But
Some Folks Seem to Think
It's u Fake.
A City Pedestrian Calls the
Councils Attention to
Needed Repairs.
He Fell Among Thieves.

nc TClA IAHOtk Allowed
Between 7and 8 o'clock Monday night
VIM. Mccarthy, young man recently
in the employ Of Strong & Chase, was
assaulted by four men near the old
skating rink. on fifth avenue, and rob-
bed of $65 and his watch. He lives with
Thomas Hayes, near the court house,
and was coming down town for the pur-
pose of mailing some money to his
mother, who resides in the east. He was
suddedly attacked by four men, who
soon rifled his pockets Of everything ex-
cept ring, and left him in semi-con-
sclous state. The ring bears his initials,
and probably for that reason was not
taken. Mr.. Mccarthy succeeded in
reaching Johnson's tailor shop, where he
related his adventure substantially as
above stated. Owing to the darkness
caused by the absence of street lights, he
was unable to identify the persons who
waylaid him. They were evidently looking
for victim, as they were carefully con-
cealed on the north side of the building
near the path. An alarm was given
but the gang slipped away under cover
of the darkness before any arrests could
be made.
It was rumored on the street Tuesday
morning that man had been taken into
custody on suspicion of being implicated
in the affair, but Deputy Sheriff Nc
Gregor said he knew nothing of 1t, and
Chief McKechine also denied the report.
Various stories are afloat in connection
with the alleged robbery, and it is intl-
mated that all the above particulars may
not be true, but the statements are pub
lished as given by Mccarthy and cor
rotated by Messrs. johnson and Hayes.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-01-28
A Churchyard Garden.

In Berlin there appears to be little rev.
erence for the dead. The old cholera
churchyard of 1881, which afterward
became cemetery for the poor, has long
been neglected, though there have been
funerals there during the last ten years.
The place is now to be changed. In the
lower part Of the churchyard, where a
new church is to be built, the graves
have been opened and the skeletons and
remains of coffins taken out to be buried
in a general grave higher up, where it is
intended to make public garden.
On the upper part of the churchyard
two schools are being built. Other por
tions of the ground will be sold for
building purposes, though it does not
seem very healthy site for human
abodes.-London News.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-01-28
4 Word to the Council.

Ed. Alert: As our city fathers have
consigned us to outer darkness how
would it do for them to protect as far as
they can our lives and limbs by enforc.
ing the snow ordinance? The crosswalk
from the Watson & Lloyd block to the
old Sheridan corner, the corner near
Whites drug store and the walks around
the Methodist church property, are now
and have been for weeks in q disgrace
fully dangerous condition, and almost
any dav the city may be called on to
defend an action for damages by reason
of this condition. Give us lights or
cancel the company's franchise and then
repair our sidewalks,an and streets.
PEDESTRIAN.