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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-09-09

Working oxen-Those brought in were in
fat condition. and were sold for slaughter.
Northern and eastern beef cattle-But few
We're on the market and there were from X 10
Lc of from last week. None were sold for
exports, the quality being too inferior.
Mich cows and springers-No sales were
made even 10 jObhers.
Veal calves-The receipts were but few in
excess of last week and prices were I'M
changed.
Sheep and lambs-The receipts were small.
This had a tendency 10 hold up the market. for
while at Brighton lambs fell off fully l4c. at
Watertown no change could be noticed.
Western beef and cattle - Receipts were
somewhat lighter put than last week. and
all but the tail ends intended for exports.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-09-09

Tapley's "Bread Winner outwears all
other shoes.
, 1892-01-13

A semi-fiendish delight often seems he
possess people of strolg nerves in sneer-
ing at those with weak ones The irrlta
bIlity of the nervous h~vpochondrisc is
ridlculed as natural ill temper. The very
genuine and distressing symptoms IRON
which he suffers are made light of. He"
or she is a crankl' is the cheerful sort
of sympathy with which the nervous
Invalid meets from the unteeling and the
thoughrless. At the same time no COM
plaiat is more defined aud real, none has
a more easily cxplainable origin when it is
chronic Imperfect digestion and assimi-
lation are always accompanied by nervous
debility and anxiety. Build up the
powers o. assimilation and digestion with
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, and nervous
symptoms, sick headaches and n general
feeble condition of the system are rene
died. Remember that fearful ravages are
produced by la grippe among weakly, ner-
vous people. Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers cures It, aud prevents malaria, rheu-
matlSm aud kidney complaint.
, 1892-01-13

Jack is fond of pets, and when at sea
is allowed to cultivate hat fondness to
acertain extent. The most hard hearted
~shipowner does not object to having one
or two stray dogs or cats provided with
homes on his vessel. And Jack is very
grateful for this Indulgence. 1t affords
him deep pleasure to hold in his loving
though rough embrace the innocent
creature who, either by a cheerful wag
of the tail or a responsive purr, assures
him that his attentions are appreciated,
and that the fact of his being lacking in
personal attractions is not taken into
consideration.
Jack loves the poor creature just as
tenderly as if he were perfect. The
ships cat may be lean and u~ninviting in
appearance, but this does not prevent
Jack from petting it. Other pets are
sometimes kept on board ship. 1t is not
unusual for seamen on vessels returning
from tropical ports to have pet monkeys
or parrots. The captains wife, who has
her own way sometimes, turns her cabin
into an aviary. Single captains have
been known to keep pets on shipboard,
although, as q rule, they seem ashamed
to display any weakness of this descrip-
tion.-London Tit-Bits.
, 1892-01-13
No,ice to Creditors.

Estate of Henry Houseman, deceased.
Notice is hereby given hat letters of
administration were on the oath day of
December, 1891, granted to the under
signed in the above estate, and all persons
having claims against the said estate are
hereby required TO exhibit them, with the
necessary vouchers for allowance, to the
undersigned administrator within six
months after the date of said letters, or
they may be precluded from anv benefit
from such estate. and if such claims he
not exhibited within one year from the
date OF said letters, they will be forever
barred. FREDERICK b. SHELDON.
Administrator.
Dated CHEYENNE, Dec. IS, 1891.
, 1892-01-13

To be eulogized when dead is more
often the lot of a man than to be praised
in life, but surely aquainter compliment
was never paid a dead man than was
received by T%alleyrand, for when his
demise was announced to one of his
acquaintance, the latter exclaimed, He
must have had some good reason for
dyingl | think | will be at least i'll my
SELF" and forthwith went to bed.
Yet another compliment to a dead man
was uttered by the Marchioness of -,
who, when told that the celebrated
physician Borden had been found dead
in bed, exclaimed, "Ahl Death was SC
afraid of him that he did not dare attack
him except when he was asleep, Lon
don Standard.
, 1892-01-13

Fruit manners" as u girl aptly desig-
mates them. are a distinct department of
table etiquette. Strawberries, hulled,
are eaten with spoon or fork; unhulled
are taken in the fingers separately and
daintily and dipped in sugar before be-
ing conveyed to the mouth. Apples,
pears and peaches should be divided be-
fore being attempted in mouthfuls-al-
though a ripe pear may be halved and
eaten with a spoon. The same utensil
should be employed with melon, though
a fork which has one tine slightly broad
ened is often seen for this fruit. At
English tables spoons are served for
bananas as well, although when these
are served as a single fruit course sherry
or claret is usually sent around with the
whole fruit. A few drops are poured on
the plate, and the banana, stripped of
its skin, is dipped in the wine and thus
eaten.
Oranges seem to offer as many meth
DDS of eating as there are varieties of the
fruit. The Florida fashion of halving it
across the grain and taking out tho
juice and fine pulp with a dessert spoon
is o neat way and gives one all the de-
sirable part of the fruit; some eat an or
ange quite as daintily by tearing it in
small sections and taking the fruit in
m%outhfuls; this method needs a little
practice before being attempted at form
al tables, as the inexperienced, with a
juicy Havana or India river, speedily
gets himself into trouble.-Her Point of
View in New York Times.
, 1892-01-13
She lis Always Ready.

There are, as we all know-and too
often assert-both men and women who
are ''all hands and feet" The man 10
simply pitied. but the woman-heaven
help the womanl She is scolded, pecked
at, sat down on by everybody to tho
fourth cousin and the third generation.
She is K to a.martyr. The bowels of
u compassion fairly yearn when we
picture the reveries of the ~tactless wom-
an. In sheer eagerness to avoid contem-
plating her we seek her antipodes-ths
careful woman or the careful man.
Whether it is a merrymaking or the
last sad rites; a picnic, a charity, o
birth or a wedding, the precision exer-
cised by certain careful men and women
we have met is worthy of a monument.
The provision is equal to all occasions,
vanquishes all easons. From the warm
ing of a bed in the coolest night of the
season to the laying on of a poultice, the
exactness, the precision and provision of
the man or woman who thinks of every
thing is so marked that it excites the
admiration of the average, while the
t~actless n takes refuge in silence and
a only look on dumbly. Should a fire
startle the family in the early morning
hours the caretaker, we are prepared
to maintain, will be found with the
right garments on ready to direct the
hoseman just where to squirt, while the
t~actless one is tossing a hat box and a
music box out of a window or carrying
an armfhl of shoes down stairs.
Nothing short of an earthquake or tor
nado could disturb the equipoise of the
caretaker of the family. He or she
knows precisely where to put their
hands on pins and matches in the dark.
The woman never forgets to salt any
thing. The man never was known to
fail to post the letter intrusted to him
promptly. These are the people we de-
fer to. If we had our way we would
erect monuments to them and see to it
that their virtues were engraved in a fit
ting Misunderstanding Bulletin.
, 1892-01-13

Did you ever hear eff a man who was
a victim of the oyster habit? The writer
was in an uptown cafe the other even.
ing, when a gray haired, full chested,
big framed man came in and ordered
Blue Point oysters. He ate a dozen, or
dered another dozen, then a third dozen,
hesitated, IS if in doubt, paid his check
and went out. Three dozen oysters
right down made ones eyes open, but
the waiter said: 'Oh, that's nothing.
DE comes in here every night for raw
oysters. Sometimes he eats three dozen,
sometimes four dozen. Hes what ! call
an oyster eater. don't believe he eats
anything lse."-New York Tribune.
, 1892-01-13
II the Groom Washed His Hands.

In certain parts of Africa a custom
once prevailed (and may stilD of the in
tended bride bringing a bowl or calabash
of water for the bridegroom to wash his
hands in. If he condescended to do so
she then and there acknowledged him as
her lord and master, and moreover
drank the water as a proof of her love
and fidelity, and cases have been known
where a copious shedding of tears of joy
and thankfuluess accompanied the latter
act.-San Francisco Examiner.
, 1892-01-13
SIZED UP AS A RusTLeR.

He Proved quite Harmless, However.
Notwithstanding His Appearance.
he had on a cowboys hat-he had
long hair and fierce black ~eyes-there
was a claw from the foot of a grizzly
pear dangling from his watch chain.
You could size him up only in one way
he had killed his man, or perhaps half
a dozen of them. If he hadn't fought
Indians and stood up to the bad, bad
men of the far west, then his looks be-
lied him. He was a quiet, unostenta-
tious man, as all nervy men are. He
was reading a dime novel, as all game
men do when they travel. Now and
then he felt down the back of his neck
to see if his bowie knife was cuddling
up to his spine ina proper manner, and
now and then he reached down to his
boot legs to see that his cargo Of re-
volvers hadn't shifted.
Three or four of us, after taking plenty
of time to size him up, decided to ask
him how and where he got the wound
which had left the scar clear across his
left cheek. 1t looked like the work of
Sitting Bulls tomahawk, but we wanted
the particulars. So it was agreed that !
should work him up to tell his story,
and after "A quarter of an hour of di.
plomacy | had shaped matters so / dared
observe:
That is a bad scar you have on your
cheek, and there is no doubt a story con
nected with ity'
"Yes, sir, there is" he replied.
we should like to hear the particu-
lars, if you have no objection"
"Oh, the story don'tamount to much
he modestly remarked.
But you certainly had a close call.
How many Indians were around you?"
Indians? didn't see no Indians"
'Oh! Perhaps you were in a western
stage when it was held up, and You got
that seal in fighting off the road agentsg"
Never saw a roa agent in my life"
he answered.
Tackled by a bad man perhaps
Never saw a bad man"
But you had a fight" | persisted.
mo, | didn't"
well, perhaps you'd be kind enough
to explain how you got that SCARF"
II will. | went into n restaurant and
ordered n pumpkin pie. The waiter
brought me a squash pie instead. /
kicked. The owner of the place, who
was a woman, got mad and slashed me
with an old case knife. l afterward
settled with her for three dollars in cash.
That's the story, sir"
"But why-why are you wearing that
hat and other things belonging to n
western terror | asked.
These things? Oh, | got EN- of an
actor for four dollars. He had to sell
out or walk home, and as the walking
wasn't good he sold out"
And may | ask who you areY' | in
quired, rs an awful silence fell upon our
crowd.
Certainly you can. I've been work
ing for n farmer near Monroe all sum-
mer for 1even dollars n month and
found, but | quit the other day and am
going to Toledo to get n stock of stomach
bitters to sell on the road. Needn't no
body be afraid of me. l amt loaded,
and if | was | nin't got the sane to go
off. Never tackled but one man, and /
hain't got through running away from
him yet"
Then we went to the other end of the
car and tried to call the convention to
order and do some resolving, but it was
a failure. Everybody seemed to want
to sit inc think. -Detroit Free Press.
, 1892-01-13
Feeding the Crowd ut the Worlds Fair.

Feeding the Crowd ut the Worlds Fair.
The visitors to the exposition will be
fed. The study of how and where to
feed the crowds at the big fair has been
an incident of the work of the construc.
ton department for the paAy six weeks,
and is as complete as possible. Food
will be served in ten of the principal
buildings in restaurants, private dining
rooms and over lunch counters. There
will be three characteristic lunch coun-
tiers, twenty-seven principal restaurants
or cafes, and in connection with them
115 dining rooms.
The supplies will issue from seventeen
complete hotel kitchens, manned by an
army of more than 1000 walters, cooks
and scullions. The dining room will
occupy above five acres of space, and it
will be possible for above 5000 peopls
to sit at table at one time.-Chicago
Woman's News.
, 1892-01-13

The worst calamity from famine even
recorded took place in the years 1877 and
1878 in China. Complete crop failures
took place in alrthe northern provinces,
and the number of those who persisted
from van of food was estimated at
$500. 900. AS the internal communica-
tons of a country are improved the dan.
ger of wholesale starvation is much les.
sened.-Providence Journal.
, 1892-01-13
A New Lear Turned Tor 1899.

This IS what we are doing: Running
Pullman dining cars. Pullman palace
sleeping cars. Pullman %colonist slecpers,
free reclining chair cars. and new day
coaches. IL costs you nothing extra to
ride on a frst-class line. Yon can reach
alt easter points via the Union Pacific.
, 1892-01-13

She-l wonder why the hair of profess
sional musicians so often stands on end.
He-Easily accounted for. His hair is
trying to get away from the connection
going on under the surface.-Pittsburg
Rullatin
, 1892-01-13
Electric Bitters.

This remedy is becoming so well known
and so popular as to need no special men
ton. All who have used Electric Bitters
sing the same song OF praise. A purer
medicine does not exist, and it is Quaran-
teed to do all that is claimed. Electric
Bitters will cure all diseases of the liver
and kidneys. will remove pimples, boils.
salt rheum and other affections caused by
impure blood, will drive malaria from the
system and prevent as well as cure all
malarial fevers. For cure of headache,
constipation and indigestion try Electric
Bitters. Entire satisfaction guaranteed
or money refunded. Price so cents and
81 per bottle at Roedel's drug store.
, 1892-01-13

The largest Eagle On the
earth at our. aS~asss1assO 9th
grocery store. Call and see
u, 0nd sUhtIe there get n
fesC prtcCS Ots some of those
fine groceries, fresh and
dried fruits, nuts of all
Kinds, aud yoW sCtt be SIRE
10 bay Them.
n. Underwood y Bro.
, 1892-01-13
The New York NIothed.

Cubbage-l wonder why they are paw
ing this street.
Rubbage-They probably intend to
put a sewer down rs oon as the paving
is done.-NeW York Epoch.
, 1892-01-13

Il feeble soomdn
is restored to health and strength,
by DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton. If you're overworked, "run-
down." or d~ebilitated, you need it.
It's an invigorating, restorative
tonic, and a soothing and strength
ening %nervine, imparting tone and
vigor to the whole system. It's a
legitimate medicine, too-carefully
compounded by an experienced ply
stefan, and adapted to woman's deli
cate organization. For all the
chronic weaknesses, functional de-
rangements, and painful disorders
peculiar to the sex, it is an unfailing
remedy. It's because it is unfail-
ing that it can be sold under a posi-
tive guarantee. If it fails to give
satisfaction, in any case for which
it's recommended, the money paid
for 1t will be promptly returned.
1t is a legitimate medicine-not
a beverage. Contains no alcohol
to inebriate ; no syrup or sugar to
sour or ferment in the stomach
and cause distress. As peculiar in
its marvellous, remedial results as
In its composition.
, 1892-01-13
Boys. Here's Your Gh,nnsl

Not oniy to get way up" work done,
but also to get you darnine, patching and
buttons sewed on without extra charge.
CHEYENNE STEAM LAUNDRY.
, 1892-01-13

In buying a cough medicine for chill.
dren." says n. A. Walker. a prominent
druggist Of Ogden. Utah. never be
afraid 10 buy Chamberlain Cough Rem
edy. There is NO danger IRON it and re-
liet is sure to follow. | particularly rec
ommeud Chamberlain because | have
have found it to he safe and reliable"
Fifty cent bottles for sale by druggists.
, 1892-01-13

The smelter Is an assured Tact. but not
so much so as the new passenger service
put on by the Burlington Route''O IL
, 1892-01-13

Go TO Germania Hall if you want a
good. pure and undulterated 5.year-old
StonewaIl whiskey 81. 90 per quart.
, 1892-01-13
Twenty Columns for One Cent,

entitled "Christ on Calvary" "Christ Before PLATE" and the
"Angelus." All the pictures are reproductions of ELEGANT PAINT
INGs by famous artists
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-12-22
Democratic Northwest.
woFFIoIALpApERoF oIrY AND 90
Christmas Postal Rates. Something
About What Can and What Can
Not Be Mailed.

With the approach of Christmas the
,post-office authorities call attention to
the following regulations:
"Unframed Christmas and Easter
cards and valentines, and other cards
of a similar character passing between
friends In small quantities as tokens of
esteem, are transmissible In mails dis
patched to countries of the Universal
Postal Union Except Canada and
Mexico, to which United States domes-
tic postage rates apply,) at the rate and
under the conditions applicable to
"printed matter" in Postal Union
mails, Notwithstanding they are COM
posed partly of silk or satin, and are
hand-painted and of elaborated design
and finish. But such cards, regularly
framed, whether with wood, metal, or
other material usually used for picture
frames, are not entitled to transmission
as "printed matter" and should not
be admitted to Postal Union mails at
less than the letter rate of postage,
fully prepaid; nor should articles in
tended for use, (such as cushions, &C.,
which bear an Easter or Christmas
greeting, but can not be considered in
any sense as cards be treated as print
ed matter in said mails"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-12-22
Dollars for Halves.

Congress at Its last session voted an
appropriation to the Worlds Fair. It
should be paid In money made especi-
ally for this purpose, and should be
composed of five million silver half
dollars, to be coined at the mint, with
special design that should commem-
crate the four hundreth anniversary of
the discovery of America by Columbus.
The Worlds Fair authorities are now
about to receive these coins from the
United States mint, which are offered
for sale to the people at the uniform
rrice of$l each, The advance demand
has been great. Nearly one thousand
banks have sent in orders for from fifty
to five thousand coins each at 81 a
piece.
When this lot of souvenir coins is
issued, there will be no more made and
millions who expect to get them will
be disappointed. The Worlds Fair
authorities therefore make public an
nouncment of these facts, and urge the
people every where to subscribe i'm
mediately for the coins. All banks are
authorized to receive subscriptions and
deposits. Persons who cannot con-
veniently subscribe in this way may
remit direct to the treasurer of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition, Chi
cago, sending 81 for each coin desired,
with instructions how they shall be
shipped.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-12-22
Punching Steel and IRON.

According to a paper read before the
Engineers club, of Philadelphia, on the
proper limit of thickness to steel which
may be punched, the statement is made
that the thicker the steel the greater the
damage caused bk such an operation.
Recent tests madS to determine this
matter are declared to indicate that
punching Injuries steel less than iron up
to, say, three-quarters of an inch in
thickness, at which point the two ma.
terials are about equal in this respect,
and beyond this point the value of steel
after punching decreases quite rapidly
as the thickness increases; in iron the
percentage seems to be much more con-
slant.
The character of the fracture after
punching is also found to be materially
affected by the thickness of the mate
rial. In view of these circumstances, it
is proposed to limit to one-half inch the
thickness of the metal subjected to
punching, excepting in the cases of
girders of more than fifty feet in length,
when it may be nine-sixteenths of an
inch; in top cords and end posts, FIVE
eighths of an inch, and in shoes, pedes-
tails and bed plates, three-quarters of
an inch.-New York Sun.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-12-22
The Water Courses of Mars.

Mr.. j. M. Schaeberle, Of the Lick obseY-
vatory, has introduced new element into
the discussion about the canals" of Mars.
1t has generally been assumed that the
darker areas on that planet are water sur
and islands. AS the canals are dark In
color it was naturally inferred that they
must be channels filled with water. ,i
Mr.. Schaeberle, as result of his studies
of Mars with the great telescope, suggests
the possibility that the astronomers may
have been mistaken about the meaning Of
the colors on Mars, and that the dark areas
may really be the lands of that planet, and
the light areas the seas.
One of his reasons for this conclusion is
that at times some Of the bright areas ap-
pear more than usually brilliant, as though
the rejecting surface were in state of
agitation. The contrasts, he thinks, are
like those witnessed In light reflected from
a calm and from an agitated water surface.
But if Mr.. Schaeberle is right, then the
canals" are not canals, not water courses,
but phenomena connected with the land.
He suggests that they may be the ridges
Of mountain chains which are almost
wholly immersed In water. The double
"canals" then would represent parallel
mountain ranges such as we have upon
the earth. ..E ..
When trained observers, possessing the
advantages arising from the use of the
best telescopes, differ so widely in opinion
concerning the markings on Mars, the con-
fdent statements about the conditions Of
that planet and the doings Of its inhab-
itants, which have been widely printed,
begin to appear ridiculous. Yet that should
not cause any one to lose interest in such
studies.- Youths COMPANION.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-12-22

Ladies who mourn the burden of in
efficient help, or no help at all, will be
particularly interested in the "model
house" which will be on exposition
In corner of the Electric Building at
the Worlds Fair. The "model house"
is one of the triumphs of electricity.
Lighted with electricity it does away
with lamps, and heated in the same
way the bug-a-boo of stove blacking
and setting up is done away with for
ever. The cooking is done on mar
BILE slab and burned victuals are an
impossibility. The washing and iron
ing is likewise done by means of the
powerful agent. A motor runs the
sewing machine, generates supply OF
ice for the refrigerator, keeps current
of air moving through the house and
does away efectually with the terrors
of the heated term. Life in the elec-
trical future of our country promises
TO reach a state of paradisical perfec.
ton that existence will be one
long realization of never ending de-
light,