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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26
WashinOfnn.

TIE President made the following nom-
nations: Robert T. Bovine OF New York, 10
be Assistant Appraiser Of Merchandise OF
the Port OF New York Samuel II. Byers.
Iowa, to be Consul-General of the United
States at st. Gall Harrie r. Newberry.
OF Michigan, to bsSecretsry OF the Legation
at Constantinople. Francis Macnutt, OF the
District OF Columbia, TO be Secretary OF the
Legation at Madrid.
President and Mrs. Harrison enter
tanned the United States Supreme Court at
dinner in the White House.
The Navy Department has authorized the
use OF the United States steamer Kearsarge
TO convey Minister Durham from Port au
Prince Hayti, to San Domingo.
TIE President sent to Congress a message
calling attention to the Choctaw and Chick
asaw claims for the payment OF which Con-
gress appropriated g, 99l. 40 in the Indian
Appropriation bill passsi by the last Con
gress. He speaks Of corrupt contracts be-
tween the Choctaws and Chickasaws AMI
their agents.
Mr.. VoN HoLLEBEN, the newly appointed
Minister from Germany, arrived at Wash
ington. He was met at the depot by the
Charge d Affaires and two lieutensnts and
escorted to his hotel He then called at the
State Department in company with Mr..
Won Mumm, Charge d Affaires, and had an
interview with Secretary Blaine.
The marriage in Europe of Miss Mary
Fuller, daughter of Chief Justice Fuller, 10
Collin c. Manning, Of South Carolina, at
one time the private secretary Of Senator
Butler, has Just been announced at Wash
ington. Miss Fuller until recently was
studying music in Berlin.
THE Secretary OF the Treasury has
awarded goll ife.saving medal TO Harry
T. Thompson. OF New YORK. for having
saved the lives of ten persons at different
times between the years 1852 and 1856. and
a silver life-saving medal 10 Reuben Held,
of New Yorx, for rescuing a boy named
James Morse from drowning at Marion.
Mass, last summer.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26
Foreign.

MOUNT VEsUvIUs, in Italy, is again in a
state Of eruption. A stream OF lava issues
from the base Of the great cone and flows
into the Atrio del Caysllo.
THERE were heavy snowstorms throughout
the United Kingdom OF Great Britain and
in France: traffic was seriously impeded. A
fishing boat foundered off Newcastle. County
Down, ireland, and five Of her crew were
drowned.
PLors 10 kill General Cante and President
Montt. Of Chile, have been discovered and
thwarted.
TYPHUs and black smallpox epidemics are
spreading across the frontier Of Austria
Hungary into Gallcia.
SEVEN Arabs WHO has sought shelter in a
grotto at Kouba. near Algiers were killed
By the collapsing of the ROOT OF the grotto.
WILLIAM RHODES, ex-Minister of Agricul-
ture for Canada, is deal. j. Sverirup. ex-
Prime Minister OF Norway, isdead. be was
at the head OF the Cabinet from 1854 70
1891.
E.P. DEACON, an American visitor at
Cannes, France, shot dead his wite's para
mour.
MRs. CHIPPEWA, OF Winnipeg. Mauitoba,
the largest woman in the world, has died.
She was forty-six years old and six feet high,
weighing $50 pounds.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

CHARLES |. RATHBoURSE shot aud killed
Daniel Cheeseboro, whom he found talking
with Mrs. Rathbourne In his house near
Stonington, Conn.
The taking Of the census on which legis-
lative reapportionment will be based was be-
gun by one enumerator in each election dis
trict Of New York State.
TRAIN struck a buggy at Paper Mill
Crossing, Mass Ths buggy contained John
Westgate and his son, both of whom were
killed. The home OF the men was within a
stones throw OF where they were mangled.
JAMES HASSoS, leader of one of the Dem
ocratic factions at Tarrytown, n. Y, was
shot dead by Chief of Police Hackett at the
Democratic primary. Harmon attempted to
strike the Chief with a club.
AN Italian vino had arrived at New York
a few days before on the Massilia died at
Carbon, Penn, OF what was thought 10 b.
typhus fever.
DAVID DUSHAN WIrHERs, the acknowl-
edged head Of tue American turf and
known among borsemen as the Sage of
Brookdale, died in New York City, where
he was born on January %, 1922
The Department of Superintendence Of
the National Educational Association closed
its twenty-eighth annual convention in
Brooklyn, n. Y.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26
The Date Palms.

The Arabs believe that the date palm
brings happiness and contentment to the
country in which it grows. According
TO this idea the "happy" places of the
earth are situated in the North of Africa,
Southwest of Asia, South of Europe and
same parts of India. Some of this
"happiness' might we'll be brought into
our own country; it is believed the date
tree could be cultivated in the southern
part of the United States with good re.
suits. 1t is a beautiful tree, tall and
straight, sometimes reaching a height Of
sixty feet. The leaves are from eight to
ten feet long, and the spadices, or fruit
bearing branches, grow from $50 to
200 dates each; bunch Of dates weighs
from twenty to twenty-five pounds
Yick's Magazine.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26
South and West.

A. A. OLIVE, of Red Bluff, Ark. shot AMI
killed his stepdaughter, who interfered while
be was beating his wife.
WALTER AUSTIN, coorej, was lynchei
near Arcadia Fla, for the murder OF Bert
Hard. a white man, foreman OF the Moore
head Phosphate Works.
SHERIFF THOMAS B. BLACK, of Franklin
County, No, is 900 short in his accounts
The fire at the State Luuatic Asylum,
Jackson Miss, destroyed two-thirds OF the
main building. The loss is about $50, 600.
j. d. Brown, a recaptured lunatic in revenge
set the institution on fire. He perishet in
the flames.
ELIJAH HOFFMAN, aged sixty-fve, living
near Red OAK Iowa, was attacked by eight
wolves late at night, He escaped by stab
bing one: the Others turned upon the
wounded wolf
The sawmill boiler OF Jacob Kisling,
about ten miles from Lima, Ohio. exploded,
killing Mr. Kisling, his sou Frank, and John
Schiyerdocker, an employe. The men were
blown into fragments.
The marriage of John Sanford, a men,
Der OF Congress from the Twentieth District
Of New Yors, to Miss Ethel Sanford, third
daughter OF the late General Henry s. San
ford, formerly United States Minister TO
Belgium, took place at Sanford, Fla. The
ceremony was performed by Bishop Whip
pie, of Minnesota.
The Warmoth faction Of the Republican
party, OF Louisiana, met at convention in
New Orleans. AMI nominated a State ticket
headed by John c. Breaux, for Governor.
FIRE broke cut in the drygoods store of A.
Scherz & Sons at New Orleans. La, and
before the flames were extinguished more
than 81, 0O0, 100 dana 20 had been done.
A SMALL boat, containing Captain Gault
and four seamen of tue schooner Oscar and
Hattie, was capsized at Nestuccs, Oregon,
and all hands were drowned. The party
was in search Of several deserters.
The city of Detroit, Mich. has voted to
present the new Government cruiser Detroit
a handsome silver punch bowl and tray to
cost $500.
THE Peoples party in convention at Alex
andria, La. placed full State ticket in the
field. nominating for Governor g. w.
Bruce, of Rapids There are now IN the
field in Louisiana two Democratic, two Re-
publican and one Peoples party ticket.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26
0bjsct Lesson by Poor Lo.

AS is well known, the American Indi-
ans have been removed farther aud
farther from their homes to make room
for the whites. Once, relates the author
of 1.-THE Making OF New Eogland, !"
when an agent of the Government was
sent to a certain tribe to notify them
that they must again remove, Chief
asked the agent TO sit down on log.
The agent did so. The Chief then asked
him to move, aud very soon to move
again, and again, until the agent got to
the end of the log. The Indian then
said, "Move farther" Il cannot" re-
piled the agent. "Just so it is with us,
said the Chief. "You have moved US as
far as we eau go, and then ask Us to
move still farther. Once "a Week.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26
FUN.

"Hard times along the border"-Hem-
ming by hand.-Puck.
The Gar of Russia is no goose, but he
would like to be Turkey gobbler. -
Lowell Mail.
In spite of all news items TO the con-
trary, the oldest inhabitant is never
dead.-Puck
One Of the most difficult things to do
is to make a dimple of a wrinkle. -
Galveston News.
A good many men are more interested
in having work than poverty abolished.
Texas Siftings.
The person possessed of an idle Gu
riosity has curiosity that is never idle.
-Bostnn Transcript.
The tramp has reached the hay day of
his prosperity when he is allowed to
sleep in the barn.-Texas Siftings.
A man is like postage stamp. When
he is badly stuck on himself, as it were,
he is not worth two cents for any prac.
tical usc.--Chicago Tribune.
George Eliot says The maa who
trusts friend educatcs him. But the
truster often gets the most experimental
knowledge. columbus Post.
Tramp (beginning)-"Tye seen Better
days" Citizen-"Ycs, indeed. So
have |. Nasty day, isn't it? Hope it
will clear of soon. Yankee Blade.
The woman you would call poem il
not the woman you would call in the
morning to kindle the breakfast fire and
fry the fapjacks. Richmond Recorder.
"Only love me a little bit and | will
be your faithful, willing slave" "But
where is the fun in that' What a girl
really enjoys is managing au unwilling
slave. indianapolis Journal.
Room at the Top Hc---'I don't see
what people keep daires for; can keep
all my affairs in my head" "She-.-
"ThatS good way, too; but not every
cne has the room New York Sun.
Filkins-"Dr. Killum has paid five
visits to our house, Bikins -"Myl
At SO u VISIT That's expensive"
Filkins-"lt's only $40. The last foul
he was after his money. Brooklyn
Life.
Wool-"You don't stand much show
telling stories in party of old soldiers.
Van Pelt-"It doesn't bother me any; ]
used to belong to the National Guard,
you know" Wool-"But you weu
never the hero of any battle. y Van Peli
-"No, but l WAS killed in a shan
fight. - Brooklyn Life.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26
A Fretty Biu Stone.

An enormous boulder, said to be the
largest ever moved in railroad oonst rue
tion, was cxcavated recently on the line
OF the Mexican Southern Railway. II
was 12) feet in height aud measured
1000 cubic metres. The laborers cleared
rs much earth from under and around II
as possible, and then six dynamite cart
ridges were placed underit and exploded
in succession. The sixth explosion
tunb!ed the boulder to one side, chippod
it some, and moved it out Of The way.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26
Arnica Will Do II.

A great many men are troubled with
pimples on the face, which are uusightly
at best, and especially annoying when
they come, as they often do, on the
nose. OF course, they arise from some
impurity of the blood and need cousti-
tutional treatment, but until this is OBJ
tanned a safe aud easy way Of preventing
them is to apply arnica to the skin. A
pimple never comes without warning, a
few hours before there is Away, a slight
inflammation or swelling, and il drop
of arnica be applied to the spot when the
swelling begins, half dozen applica-
tions 10 the course of day will drive
the pimple back " = J.: ska st
Louis Globe -Dcmocra
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26
Symbolical Marriage.

Doctor A. II. Post, the well-known
authropologst, in describing various
marriage customs, refers to strange sort
of symbolical marriage Which is supposed
to have originated in India. 1t is a
marriage with trees, plants, animals or
inanimate objects. II any one proposes
to enter upon union which is not in
accordance with traditional ideas, it is
believed that the i'll luck which is sure
to follow may be averted by a marriage
of this kind, the evil consequences being
borne by the object chosen. In various
regions a girl must not marry before her
elder sisters, but in some parts of South
ern India the difficulty is overcome by
the eldest daughter marrying the branch
Of tree. Then the wedding of the Sec
cnd daughter may safely be celebrated.
(! New York Ledger.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26

can be outlined by soft feathery bead
ing. A house so decorated becomes a
fairy palace, unique and artistic.
In California, the home of floral de-
corations, these plumcs are used in com
bination with bamboo; rods are employed
in frame work that is then covered. A
favorite design is the japanese tea
garden-a row down each side of a
banquet hall hung with lanterns and
decorated with bright colorcd scar(s,
making charming booths in which to sip
a cup of bouilion.-New York Post.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26
lHE rRIBUrEOr SILENCE.

A poet read bis verses, and of two
Who liste ned one spake nought but open
praise,
The other held his peace, but all his face
Was frightened by the inner joy he knew.
Two friends, long absent, met; and one had
borne
The awful stroke and seattle Of binding
Y loss.
Hand fell in hand; 50 knit they, like a
cross;
With no word uttered, heat to heart was
sworn.
A mother looked into her baby's eyes
As blue as heav'n and deep as neither sea.
BY what dim prescience, spiritwise knew
she
Su h souls exchanges never more would
rise?
o deep is silence-1eep as human souls,
Aye, deep as life, beyond all lead and line,
AMI words are but the broken shells that
shine
Along the shore by which the ocean rolls.
y. Buckham, in New England Magazine
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26
A Mint Theft Recalled.

During the year 1885, when the late
James c. Booth was melter and retiner at
the Philadelphia Mint, three bars OF
silver were missed, and arc supposed to
have been stolen. The silver bars were
in the legal custody Of the melter and
refuer, and he was therefore responsible
for them. 1t was shown that the limited
accommodations of the mint did not
permit proper storage to be furnished,
but this fact did not relieve Mr.. Booth
from legal liability, and he was compelled
to make good the loss by paying to the
Government the sum Of SlSi2, which
was in full for the cost value of the 1881
ounce, of silver bullion lest. The loss Of
the bullion was through no fault of Mr..
Booth, and Senator Cameron has intro.
duccd a bill directing the Secretary OF
the Treasury to return the amount paid
by Mr.. Booth to his heirs. Boston
Transcript.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26

"won whatl' asked Plug, almost
dreamilY.
"Won thousand dollars-arc you
asleepl"
Plug did not answer He reached
over and picked up the pc of money
and turned from the table. The dealer
swore. The proprietor of the house,
who had been watching the play, called
out, "You amt afraid, are youl" but
Ping paid no attention to him.
The deal went on, and in Plugs mind
there continued some thoughts the like
of which had not troubled him for
many year. He walked slowly up and
down the room several times, paying no
attention to the remarks of the mel who
knew him, and who were either congrat-
ulating him on his extraordinary luck or
joking good-naturedly about it. Aud
none Of them heard him mutter, as he
did several times, "Stolen-stolen-
stolen!' Presently he walked to win
dow and threw it open. He leaned out
and looked down into the street. The
ragged little girl was standing under the
street lamp, just where she had dropped
the bill, sobbing with great hysterical
sobs. She was wringing her hands just
as an old woman would, and in the
strange light looked like a diminutivc
old bag. He heard her cry out,
"They'll beat mc-O Lord, they'll beat
me-" His ugly lips quivered little bit
and a great tear fell from his eyes. He
waited a moment, then drew down the
window very gently and walked out OF
the room.
"The high cards still in the deck,
Plug" shouted the dealer. But he did
not near the words. lie was talking 10
bimself "I've played it through from
soda to hook, and it's no good-no
good"
The child was still weeping under
the lamp when he reached it. He said
nothing to her. He clasped her in his
arms, though and kissed her. Then he
gave her a great roll of bills. Itseemed
to her as though it was all the money in
the Eorlo, there was so much OF 1t, and
she quickly ran home with it-even for
getting to thank him for it, if she knew
how. He did not mind that, though.
lie was thinking Of "a worthless life and
the end of it.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26
CURIOUS FACTS.

There arc 4S7 schools in Ii%utsk,
Siberia.
Truckec, CAL, has baby with oDt
black and one blue eye.
An ounce of turnip seed contains be-
tween IA, 600 aud Ii, 900 single seeds.
A Maine boy of eight years is said to
be able to repeat forty chapters of tho
Bible.
The Chinese christen their children
by shaving their heads preparatory for
pig tails.
A dog should only be fed once daily,
and should be allowed an ounce of food
for every pound he weighs.
In certain parts of Russia people who
are hungry are forbidden by law from
being 50 indiScreet as to say so.
The longest mileage operated by
single railroad system Is that oil the
Union Pacifc-10, 92S miles.
Flowers are worn freely by the Greeks,
who, among other things, imagined they
refreshed the thinking faculties.
A ricochct shot from the new maya
zine rifle adopted in England broke
cottage window four miles distant from
the firing point.
A man in Prospect, Me-, has a rooster
that is as goo as any barometer. When
a storm is approaching the rooster crows
during the entire preceding night.
A Pontiac (Mich.) man, who applied
for pension twelve years ago, sends a
postal card every day to President Har.
rison and the Commissioner OF Pensions
in order to remind them that he is still
looking for it.
In Baersdorl, Silesia, great land
owner returned home late at night, and
in the dark collided with an open door.
The blow broke his artificial set of teeth
in two, aud in the shock he swallowed
both. They stuck in his throat and he
sufocated.
A bright halt-dolIar of the coinage Of
1876 was found in a cows stomach re-
Gently in Texas. 1t seems little eaten
by the acids of the animals stomach, bui
was good silver half-dollar. The COW
was about ten years old. When, where
or how she came to swallow it is mys
terry.
A skye terrier is so called because the
breed was once chiefly raised on the Is
land Of Skye, one of the Hebrides. The
celebrated Dandy Dinmont terrier OBJ
tained its distinctive title from the fact
of its being depicted as the fayOrte Of
character bearing that name in Sir Wal
ten SCOTS "Guy Msuneriug.'
Dan, the male ostrich of Robinson's
Circus, died the other day at Cincinnati,
Ohio, of the grip, with which he was
seized some days before. A post mortem
was held. The lungs were found con-
gested and the throat was enlarged and
liberated, while firmly fastened in the
coating of the stomach the $500 diamond
that Dan picked last summer from
visitors shirt front in Montreal, Canada,
was found imbcddcd. The stomach was
eighteen inches in diameter.
In Canon Diablo, Arizona, hole 625
feet deep supposed to have been made
by meteor, has been found. 1t is two
and one.eighth miles in circumfrance.
The theory is that from the appearance
of the walls and the fact that they have
found many pieces Of meteoric IRON
around the hole the meteor penetrated
the earth to a depth Of 700 or 500 feet
before it exploded, aud this accounts for
the strange phenomena. Three pieces
of the meteor, weighing 300, 600 ard
$50 pounds respectively, were found on
the mesa within two miles of the crater.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26
SUN SPOTS.

A Big Spot Breaks Up Into Twenty
Small Spots.
Observations made at the Naval Observa-
tory at Washington by Professor Edgar
Frisby shovel that ths large spot hitherto
observed on the sun, which covered space
equal to one-sixteenth Of ths suns surtaca
or an area OF 10000 miles long by lW,W
miles wide has by some great catsciysmIc
operation been broken into ABOUT twenty
small spots.
In addition 10 this, other spots have sp-
pearej. which ARE situated vast distanos
from the original spot ami ara evideotly
totally independent from IL This nsw q:
yeIopement on the suns surfSs, has st!rnceso
the attention Of the astronomers at he -
servatory and viii be closely oossrvsd p
them. - ------ -
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26
Mountain Scenery in Central Asia.

Mr.. Littledale, who has just crossed
the mountainous Pamir in Central Asia,
says mountain scenery there is quite
different from mountain scenery in Swift
zerland and Caucasia, where, when the
eye is tired of resting on the grand ice
scenery above, it finds pleasant change
by turning to the green pastures and the
forests below. In central Asia. however,
although the mountains are higher, the
glaciers, owing to the puuy snowfall, ARE
much smaller, while below the noun
tains, instead of vcrdaus fields aud for
ests, is picture of utter desolation that
would be hard to match in any other
part of the world. The country at the
base of the mountains is so high above
the sea that vegetation is very scauty,and
the plains arc most forbidding in aspect.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26
PLUG HANKINS'S LUCK.
STORY or A WASTED LIFE.

LII in all, Mr.. Plug
Hankins was the
most phenomenally
unlucky man who
ever made a living
out of cards. How
he managed to
make the living not
even his most init
mate colleagues in
the black-leg pro-
fession could tell.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-26

When his body was discovered, the
next morning, he looked uglier than
ever, for a bullet had torn terrible
hole in his forehead. Frank Leslic's.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-06-22
TWAS 4 WONDER
The Way The Wild Runaway Cleared The Team,
Yesterday.

Just before the $40 p. VI. train pulled
out of the station a shout went up from tn.
bystanders about the upper end of the depo
platform.
1t was runaway anil the widest kind Of
one.
Frank Winters hospital team had started
down Commercial street rs though the var
guard at Balaklaya
He was in for IT., anil so it SCENE,
were the hundred and one accommodation
teams that lined Commercial street
For every one Of these teams some on,
held his breath a. the big wagon dashed bs
Just clearing each by what seemed hair,
breadth. The lying horse turned
down toward the post Office
and the wagon was overturned
By the cuFbing and finally struck the pos
by the stand pipe with such force that tn,
horse cleared from it. A barrel of bean,
was broken open and the contents stIewe1
the sidewalk. The running gear of thu
wagon was badly damaged. one wheel en-
t!rely 50. The animal was apparently un
hurt.