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How Edison Showed His Photograph.

Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky. was
telling curious experience the other
night which he aud the late Senator
Beck had about ten years ago a. the
Capitol at Washington. Tney were
talking together outside of one of the
committee rooms Of the Senate when a
stout-looking man, with round boyish
head covered with iron gray hair, came
up to them aud, begging their pardon,
told them that he had curious little in
strument under his arm which he would
like to show them. Upon this he pro-
ducel a bundle and, the Senator'S con-
senting, the three men went into the
committee room. When the wrapper
was taken of the machine looked like a
miniature corn shelter, aud the man
asked Senator Beck to talk into it and
to say anything he pleased. Beck
thereupon, in stontorian tones, recited
one of Robert Burns's short dialect
poems.
The boyish-looking man turned the
handle and Beck's voice was ground out
in the same tones that he had usel. The
Senators were astonished. Neither had
ever heard or thought Of the possibility
of the photograph and Senator Beck
accused the man of being ventriloquist.
He wanted to try it again aud insisted
that the man should go of into distant
corner of the room as he did so.
81 will do better than that, replied
Mr.. Edison, for he was the msu. 81
will 90 outside Of the door aud you can
talk into the machine and work it to suit
yourself"
This he did, and the two Kentucky
Senators found the machine 10 work
equally we'll during his absence. This
was, am told, the first time that the
pbonograph was ever shown in Washing
ton. Now you fad nickel in the slot
machines in every block which retail
through this instrument the popular
music of the day, aud many statesmen
dictate their letters into monographs
aud have them Transcribed by type
writers. The most OF the shorthand
notes Of Congress are dictated to phono.
graphs before being transcribed, aud the
Congressional Record OF to-day is largely
gotten up BY phonograph, New York
Herald,
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

FRINGE BISMARCK is partly Of slav orr
cin.
JUSTICE LAM.n's long locks have bssn
slipped c.ose and are now quite gray.
1T is ftty.ninc years since Gladstone took
lis seat in the British House OF Commons.
CARL ScHURz has built for himself a
orettY summer cottage at LlkS George,
| s. Y.
JULES MAssESET is regarded by macy
people as tie most popular musician in
I Paris.
BISMARCK and Won Moltke once fought a
iuel over a girl when they were fellow
! students.
SENATc RS HAwLEY Of Connecticut. and
Gibson. OF Louisiana, very much resemble
each other.
GENERAL BIDwELI, the Prohibition can.
iidate for President will not do any cam
paign speaking.
BARON HTRscH, the Hebrew phianthro-
pist, is planning an extended tour through
the United States and Canada.
JUSTICE SHIRAs, the new appointee to the
Supreme Bench, is a cousin OF James q.
Blaine, his mother having been Blaine.
SINS REEVES the famous English concert
TENOR, huO IL uOH OH Oti bos JSA1CA tA9
teaching staff OF the Guildhall School OF :.
Music, London.
WATSON R. SPERRY, Of Delaware. the
newly appointed Minister to Persia, isaoout
forty-five years Of age and a graduate Of
Yale. class Of II.
COLONEL ROBERT H. CROCKETT, Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress iu the Sixth
Arkansas District, is grandson Of the IA
nous Davy Crockett.
The little Queen of Holland has had a
uniform made for her. as Emperor William,
of Germany, has appointed her Colonel OF
the Second Regiment OF Westphalian In
fantry.
CHAIRMAN CARTER, OF the Republican
National COMMITTEES, wears light colored
goatee, and in many personal features Is a
striking reproduction OF the traditional
"Uncle SAM"
ROBERT H. FoLoER, Of Massilon, Ohio, Is
claimed TO be the oldest practising attorney
in the United States. He was born In Ches-
ter County, Penn, 1912. and began the prac'
tice OF law thirty years thereafter.
CHARLES F. LUMns. the young novelist
and explorer, whose fame is beginning 70
spread beyond the pages OF the magazines
is about tnirty-two years old and has passea
hisrecent years in the far Southwest.
KNuT NELSON, who is the Republican can
didate for Governor OF Minnesota, fami-
IiarIy called "the little Norwegian Mr.
Nelson is short in stature, being about five
feet five inches in height, and wears a
closely cropped dark chin beard. streaked
with gray. His profession is the law. In IT.
as in political life, he is especially popular
with the Scandinavian citizensof the North
west.
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CURIOUS FACTS.

Amau ia Georgia has built number
of houses which are occupied by widow!
free Of rent.
A railway in the Argentine Republic
has one stretch of 2l miles without a
curve or bridge.
In China they tie a red cord around a
baby's wrist, so that it may grow up
quiet and obedient.
w. C. 5cupham, a Philadelphia
druggist, has two boys born on succeed.
ing Fourtbs Of July.
A resident of Manchester, England,
has Bible 200 years old, which is two
feet long and about the same in wi dth.
The corn cob pipe which the manu-
flctory at Washington, Missouri, sends
all over the worlds called the "Misso uri
meerschaum.
jewelers. are coming money out OF
recent fad OF the fashionables by reduc.
ing photographs and copying them on
watch crystals.
On a small twig recently broken from
an apple tree near GAINESVILLE, Ga, there
were tweuty-six apples the size Of a
large hickory nut.
A Chinese father is allowed to kill a
child for disobedieuce, and he often
does so, and no law ever convicts him,
while custom honors him.
A camellia tree near Dresden, Ger
many, has an annual average OF 40, 900
blossoms. 1t is about fifty feet tall and
was brought from Japan about $50 years
ago.
The largest bell in the world, the
famous "Giaut of Giants" at Moscow,
Russia, has a circumference of sixty
eight feet, is twenty-one feet high and
weighs 4l9,7 772 pounds.
A match-cutting machine is an auto
matte curiosity. 1t cuts III, O,Ooo
sticks a day, and then arranges them
over vat, where the heads are put on
. at a surprising rate OF spcci.
Marshall P. Wilder, the humorist,
says that one Of the strangest experiences
of his entertainment business in Eng land
is the custom prevailing among man
ayers OF paying him in advance.
White tar is one of the latest inven-
tions or discoveries. 1t will not be-
come soft under the suns rays in any
climate, and is expected to be used
largely in caulking the deck seams of
fine yachts.
Some ordinary house flies which had
been imprisoned iu the shaft of a niue
at Bangor, CAL, for a. long period by
the closing of a light we'll were found,
when the shaft was reopenei, to have
turned to a clear white.
A bicycle relay run between Indian
apolis, Ind, aud Columbus, Ohio, a
distance of little less than 2)O miles,
was made at an average speed from start
to finish of a mile in three minutes 27i
seconds, or 1875 miles per hour.
A shad twenty-six inches long, three
and half inches thick and weighing
nine pounds three and half ounces WAS
caught in the Hudson River recently
at Esopus, N. Y. 1t is considered to
be the largest shad ever taken from the
river
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A Stranue Story Of a Woun1.

"The war was responsible for many
queer things" said DR.. Eugene Hard
castle, st. Paul surgeon, now at the
Southern. Cup in Northern Minnesota
lives man who entered the service in
1861. He was very dull fellow, almost
a fool. During oae of the sorties made
by the Confederates at Donelson he re-
ceived a buckshot in the head. The
surgeon could not fiDd it aud the woun1.
healed. He returned to duty one Of the
brightest mer in his company, and in
time became second lieutenant. At the
close OF the war he returned home, mar
ried a superior women, prospered in
business aud was elected Sheriff in his
county. Three years ago his head began
TO give him great deal o. trouble. He.
came to st: Paul aud located the buck
shot aud removed it. He is now as
healthy as ever, but is the same stupid ;
doIt that he was before the fight at Fort
Donelson. ."--St. Louis Clote- Democrat.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

BRIDGET KELLY, aged twenty-one, OF
Shenandoah, Penn, committed suicide by
saturating her clothes with kerosene oil and
setting herself on fire.
The New Jersey Proh;bitionists held their
convention at Trenton and nominate
Thomas J. Kennedy, Of Hudson County, for
Governor.
EDWARD, aged seven. and William, aged
ten, sons Of Frederick Bennett, OF Trenton,
N. j., were drowned in the Delaware River
few afternoon ago. The boys, with their
father. were fishing. but became separated
from him. The younger fell into the water
and the brother Jumped in to save him.
ERNEST NYE, aged sixteen. shot and
killed his sister Maud, aged fourteen, at
their home in Brookline, N. H. He didn't
know the rife was loaded.
BELLE MCKENZIE. employed as a
stenographer on the fifth floor of the new
Exchange Building, Boston, Mass, fell five
stories down an elevator shaft, headfore-
most, a distance OF eighty feet aud was
killed instantly.
MISS LIZZIE BORDEN was arrested at Fall
River, Mass. charged with completely In the
murder OF her father and his wife.
MRS. STEPHEN BERRAY, OF Della ware
County, New York, while assisting her hus-
oand in caring for several hives OF bees was
stung on the right temple and in fifteen
minutes was dead It is the opinion of the
physicians who examined the boty that the
poison struck a nerve and went directly to
the heart.
DYsENTERY has prostratei many persons
at Helmetta and Spottswood, in New Jersey.
Over twenty deaths have occurr ed.
FIERCE thunderstorms prevailed in the
eastern part of New York State Orange
and the adioining counties were visited.
Barns were burned aud cattle killed In all
directions near Ellenville. At Beaver Dam
the house of John Edwards was struck by
lightning and his daughter aud grandchilt
and Harvey Edwards relative, were
killed. The other inmates received severe
shocks. A dog crouched under a table was
killed
THE wall of a building being put at the
Ogden mine, in Ogdensburg, n. j., fell and
ouriei twenty msn in the ruins. Two men
we're killed AMI several injured.
The grain elevator at Eleventh avenue
aud Thirty-fourth street. New YORK City, OF
/. B. Chase & Company was burnsf. with
loss Of 800, 900.
A'sEvERE thunderstorm prevailed at Buzz
,ard's Bay, Mass. At Monument Beach the
cottage occupied by George Alden was
Itruck by lightning. Mrs. Alden was in
itantly killed. She was twenty eight years
Did A house a few feet away was also
struck. The bolt entered the tower, went
iirect into the cellar. an / instantly killed
the cook, Ellen Eigen.
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Washington.

GENERAL JAMES ". DENvEr. OF vii
mington. Ohio, di,t in Washington o
uraemic rosnn. His illness was OF briet
duration. General Denver was born in
Winchester Va. in 1917.
SECRETARY NOBLE has appointed as a
commission to negotiate with the Yankton
Indiana Of South Dakota for a cession OF
their surplus lands. J. c. Adams. OF Web
ster. South Dakota, W. l.. Brown. OF Chi
caso. and John j. Cole, Of st. Louis. These
surplus lands aggregate about l6s, 900 acres.
LETTERS have been sent by the Postofiics
Department to about 2SJ0 postmasters at
county seats asking them to repeat this year.
some time between August and Dece nber
u. the visits of inspection made by them
last year TO the smaller postofices IN their
respective counties.
ACTING SECRETARY NErTLZToN has is
sued circular to customs officers and all
others concerned, calling for a ri lid enforce
ment Of the laws for the protection OF the
salmon fisheries of AlasSa.
DISPATCHES received by ths State De-
partment from Minister Egan said that
Chile had agreed to tae establishment OF
Claims Commission, 10 meet Ia Washington
sor the settlement Of claims against her.
The July report Of the Chief OF Statistics
Treasury Department, SHOWS taat during
the month the exports OF breadstuas
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Evolution of a Letter.

The small letter ''i'' was formerly writ
ten without the dot over it. The do.
was introduced in the fourteenth cen
tury to distinguish "i" from "e" in
hasty and indistinct writing. The letter
"i'' was also originally used where the
ii" is now employed; the distinction
between the two having been intro
duced by the Dutch writers in compara-
lively modern times. The 81" was
originally dotted. because the al" from
which it is derived, was written with a
dot over it.-New York Journal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-19
The Strawberry OF the Sea.

"Of all natures choicest medicines
presented temptingly under the guise OF
a delicious food, none is superior to the
common clam, which is found in abup1-
auce along our Atlantic coast, said
Professor II. II. Nicholson, Of Baltimore,
at the Southern. "Scientists have be-
slowed upon this succuleut bivalve the
scandalous name OF Venus mercenaria,
and the Indians have applied the name
'quahaug' to it. But no matter what 1t
may be called, it is first and best OF the
numerous family to which it belongs,
and is one of humanity's boOns. Many
believe that the clam is tough and in
digestible. 1t is, however, only tough
and india.rubbery when man mistreats
it. don't believe that Providence lu-
tended clans should be cooked any more
than the strawberry. Both are finished
products, masterpieces in their respective
Kingdoms, and should never be put over
a fire. The sand clam, however, should
be cooked. He should first be stuffed
through his sphon with finely minced
salt pork; then the shells should be
wired together and the clam baked. To
eat a clam SO prepared will place
lingering JOY in the remembrance OF au
epicure. But the ordinary round clam
should not be cooked. His juicy flesh
cannot be improved BY fire. He makes
the best dish in the world, pleasing
flavor, nutritious and easily digested.
tell you, the clam is the strawberry OF
the sea. a."-St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat.
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the door behind him he turned his steps
toward Mr.. Holloways.

the door behind him he turned his steps
toward Mr.. Holloways.
"Of course it's mine, every cent OF
it." said Mr. Holloway, when an hour
later he stood before the opened box.
His eyes CLEANED with satisfaction as he
beheld the contents. He tucked the
box under his coat aud left the house,
with an admonition to Severn to keep
quiet for few weeks.
Seven felt intenselyrelieved. al have
been saved from worse fate than pow
erty," he thought, as,he sat down to his
books.
That evening Mr.. Holloway's agent
called to announce that Severn would be
allowed time on his loan, aud that he
might have much better room in one
of his new houses, with unlimited time
for the payment of rent.
Severn was overJoyed; he sent the
money to his mother, moved into his
new quarters and afterwsrd, by mys-
terious good luck, secured lucrative
work, by means OF which he completed
his course in college very comfortably
On the day of graduation Mr.. Holloway
met him at the door OF the church, and,
after grunting a congratulation, invited
him to call the next morning at his Oh
fee.
At the appointed time he was on hand.
"I need an honest man to attend to my
business, and if you wish to take the
position l offer you will be able to pay
what you owe me" said Mr.. Holloway.
4 year later Severn went away for
few weeks, and when he returned Mary
came with him. Mr. Holloway proved
a good friend in his way, aud when he
died goodly share of the proceeds oil
the old chest passed as legacy to MIR.
Arthur Severn.-Chicago News.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.
CHOLERA is raging in Burmah.

thOLthA u raging III DHtAhao
TIE drought in Texas is broken.
THE cholera is still moving westward.
The ost crop is reported a fair average
one.
TOURISTS are numerous in the White
Mountains
The Agricultural Appropriation bill stops
further foreign crop reports.
TIE Queens speech to the British Parlia-
meut is the shortest on record.
BRAZIL, has doubled its purchases or
American cotton within year.
THE drouth in Australia has been efec- 3
tual in destroying many thousands OF rab-
tits.
GREAT damsge has been done to Spanish
VINEYARDS thr' ugh the ravages OF phyi-
loxcra.
The shipments Of new crop India wheat
to the English market are less than those Oh
last year.
SEVEN widows Of Revolutionary soldiers
are on the rolls OF tie Knoxville (renn) pen
sion Office.
AFTER gathering in their crops 10 Utah,
200 Mormon families will move 10 Mexico IN
the autumn.
The Chilean Senate will try the late Min
isters Of Balmaceda en- charges OF treason
and corruption.
THE salmon pack on Columbia River, in
Oregon. for tho season just closed amounts
to iS000 casts.
SOUTH DAKOTA is overrun with tramps.
Farmers tried without success to hire them.
They are now being driven out OF the coun-
try.
DURING their concert tour through Ger
many the New York Arion Society sung to
over 5. 900 persons and added 5000 TO var
icrs poor funds.
COMPLAINTS are hoard from Omaha that
In many sections there are few or no
grains OF wheat in many heads which look
plump and promising.
ASTRONOMERS throughout the United
States expect great scientific results from
the observation OF the planet Mars while ia
opposition 10 the earth.
UNITED STATES troops are driving soon
ersn- and cattlemsn out OF the Cherokee
Strip. The latter are using all possioie
means to delay eviction
PRoFEssoR Koch has gone TO the cholera
infected districts d Russia to renew his In
vestigations into the caase Of tbs disease.
paying special attention to the comma
bacillus.
TEE New York Suns estimate points 80
wheat Weld In Ninnssots and the Dekota9
OF 100 zoe. 90 to ln,0)o.00) bushels II the
frosts held o9 until the latsr s0wn crop
natures. -
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than 60. 900 tons. Twenty-six of these
vessels arc the property of the private
lines of England. The Government
lines control only two. The French
lines arc looked after by four ships, two
CT which are private property. There
are no cable ships belonging to the
United States. In case of damage, it is
customary to hire an English vessel
The old ship Great Eastern used to be
the most celebrated of cable ships. Since
her demise the English steamer Silver
ton, of 6O0O tons, is probably the best
known. There is also Ere nch cable
ship of the same tonnage.
Cables are difficult to manufacturers
quiring considerable complicated ma
chinery. In general terms cable con-
sists of an inner core of copper wires
surrounded by mixture of soft rubber
and jute fibre. This in turn is usually
covered by four layers of prepared gutta
percha. Then comes a winding in hemp
or iute, we'll coated with tarry pre-
paration, and finally the whole is guarded
against injury from the rough shoe ks of
careless handling and uneven ocean beds
and rocks, etc., by au outer layer OF soft
steel or iron strands.
There are two large cable factories in
the world-one the Construction and
Maintenance Company OF England and
the other the French Company at CALAIS.
This last company is part of the Tele-
graphs Sous -Marins Company, that has
been making so earnest an effort to
secure landing on American shores.
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There were blossoming roses and cloudless
skies.
The freshness and fragrance of summer
Love unspoken in tender eyes,
Tears and parting and bitter pain.
There were frost and tempest and flying
mist,
Shorn fields buried beneath the snow,
Lips in longing and anguish kissej,
4 dream-the sweetest that life may
know
To-day-wbat matters the dull to-day,
Morning or noon or its eventide'
Through the hours in their passing the
heart alwsy
Shall cherish only what Fate denied.
Mary H. Kront IN Home Maker
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-19

Mr.. L. H. Curzon estimates the horts
a. present ''devoted to the service Of
the turf" including those in training,
sires, mares, foals and yearliDgs, at
10000.
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aggregated sl4,9s7, 40, as against sl5, s19,-
Dol during July 1901

@'l NuiibS ouilf ic1is
ASSISTANT SECRETARY SoLyY has COM
pleted plans for the course OF study 10 be
pursued by officers Of the Navy and Marine
Corps who will be assigned to Cuty at the
Naval War College.
Foreign.
HyRR HERFURTH. Prussian Minister OK
the Interior, has resigned, and will be sue.
ceedei by Count Won Eulenburg, President
Of the Prussian Council OF Ministers.
HENRY B. RIDEs, United States Consul
at Copenhagen. Denmark. has confessed 70
embezzlement forgery AMI subornatlon OIL
perjury.
VENEZUELA is in state Of anarchy. Cen
eral Urdaueta has proclaimed himself Dic-
iator Of the Western states. The French
Consul at Carupano was imprisoned by tns
Venezuelan authorities, and man-oi-war
was sent 10 demand his release.
EIGHTEEN Indians OF the Balla Coolla and
Wake Neb tribes, were drowned while en-
eaged in a sea lion hunt near Queen Char
lotts Islands. British Columbia. In the
dense miss their canoe struck a rock, aud
the Indians were precipitatst into ths
water.
AT Scharnitz, a village and pass In the
Swiss Tyrol. a landslide causei the death OF
five persons, who were overwhelmed beneath
tho mass OF rock and earth waich came
laundering down from mountain.
CHOLERA is increasing in Teheran. Persia.
The deaths now average sixty daily.
FRANCE has taken possession OF 81. Paul
and New Amsterdam Islands, near NADIA
gascar
The British House OF Commons divided
on the motion OF Herbert Henry Asquith
lGlaistonian), member for the f ist Di-
vision Of Fifeshire, of mo confidence in the
Government: and the motion was carrie.
by vote OF $50 to 80, thus defeating sails
bury.
A FATAL accident occurred in pit at Bes-
sages, Department Of Carl, France. While
eight miners we're ascending the shaft in
cage the cable attachsi to the cage broke
and all weIe dashed to the bottom and
killed.
The Queen of England through her Pri-
vate Secretary has commanded Gladstone
to form Ministry.
JOHANN SINGER, a clerk in Vienus, Aus.
tria, killed his sweetheart AMI his threB
children by charcoal fumes. He was driven
to the act BY poverty.
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SEVERN'S TEMPTATION.

RTHUR SEVER N
raised his head from
the book which he
had been poring over
the greater part of the
afternoon and gazed
despondently at the
dingy walls of the
room. Finally he rose,
and going to the win
dow peered out
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-19

ASSISTANT SECRETARY SoLyY has COM
pleted plans for the course OF study 10 be
pursued by officers Of the Navy anf Marine
Corps who will be assigned to Guty at the
Naval War College.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-26
Notice to Contractors.

Sealed proposals will be received at
the Office of city secretary, to be
opened at 3 o'clock p m. April %,
1892, at the city hall, Waco, Texas,
by the mayor and street committee,
for furnishing all material and labor,
and constructing, approximately 300
linael feet of Is inch double strength
sanitary sewer, with all functions and
special connections, in Third and
Fourth wards; plans, profles and
specifications on file at CITY engineers
office; certified check for $500 paya-
Bile to the mayor of Waco must accom-
pany each bid. The right to reject
any or all bids, is reserved by the city
council of the city Of Waco, Texas.
G. c. MCCULLoCH, Mayor.
Attest,
IoNEY JONES, City Secretary.
April ID, 1892.