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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-24

trance gate did 1 collect my senses
sufficiently to ask Trippy:
ssBut who was it that went in the
stage coach with Major Juggleford9 Eh,
Trippy?'
"Oh, Sam, you dreadful goose2" said
Trippy. at was the lay figure"
"Whati" sail l.
'Didn't you see me lifting it along9
Didn't you suspect anything3 Sam,
Sam, declare you grow more stupid
every day. Yes, it was the lay figure In
the new travelling suit, and all the time
Miss Gertrude was putting en- a white
dress and her dear mothers own Brus-
sells veil at home, bless her heart! And
what will the major say when the stage
stops at Callentcwn, and he goes to help
the traveller out2 And there's no return
stage till to morrow morning at nine
o'clock.
"Trippy." said l, after long silence.
"Well9" retorted Trippy.
'1'm almost sorry, Trippy," said |,
''that while the minister was here, and
as it seems so easy to be married, that
you and didn't get married tool"
-''Don't be fool, Samp' said Trippy.
But she didn't seem so very angry, af-
ter all, aud some day-who knows2
Yes, sir, that's exactly how it hap
pened. l wasn't to blame at all; but
the Major discharged the whole house
full of us. Trippy is with Mrs. Warning
ton now, Mrs. Mobbs is matron in hes
pital, and I'm very well pleased here,
sir. Did you say the wagonette, sir, and
the dapple gray team2-Saturday Night.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-24
Rnnuefnrt and Its Cheese.

Cheese, which has been the fortune of
Ro9uefort, has destroyed its picturesque
ness. 1t has brought spectators there
who have raised great, ugly, square
buildings of dazzling whitness in harsh
contrast with the character and sombre
tone of the old houses. Although the
place is so small that it consists of only
one street and few alleys, the more
ancient dwellings are remarkable for
their height. 1t is surprising to see in
village lost among the sterile hills houses
three stories high. The fact that there
is only ledge on which to build must
be the explanation. What is most Gu
rious IN the place is the cellars. Before
the cheese became an important article
of commerce these were natural caverns,
such as are everywhere to be found in this
calcareous formation, but now they are
really cellars that have been excavated to
such depth in the rock that they are
to be seen in as many as five stages,
where long rows of cheese are stacked
one over the other. The virtue of these
cellars, from the cheese making point of
view, is their dryness and their scarcely
varying temperature of about eight de-
grees centigrade summer aud winter.
But the demand for Roquefort cheese
has become so great that trickery now
plays part i'll the rlpening process, says
Temple Bar. The peasants have learned
that time is money" and they have
found that bread crumbs mixed with the
! curd, causes those green streaks of mould
mess, which denote that the cheese is fit
for the market, to appear much more
readily than was formerly the case when
it was left to do best it could for itself
with the aid of subterranean atmos-
| phere. This is not exactly cheating I;
it is commercial enterprise, the result of
competition and other circumstances too
strong for poor human nature. In cheese
making, bread crumbs are found to be
cheap substitute for time; and it is said
that those who have taken to beer brew
ing in this region have found that box,
which here is the commonest of shrubs,
is cheap substitute for hops. The
notion that brass pins are stuck into Ro-
quefort cheese to make it turn green is
founded on fiction.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-24
The Great Parade.

The greatest parade IN the history 10
Grand Army Of the Republic and the 81
est parade that organization can ever hope
to have, took place to-day. Never had there
been 50 many men in line anywhere in this
country since the civil war, and never have
there been so many people in Washington
upon any occasion. A careful estimate Of
the number Of men who marched in review
past Vice President Morton aud Commander
in Chief Palmer, places tho total at s. 900,
and the passenger agents Of the railways es-
innate the number of strangers In the city
at $50, 900
The day was perfect for marching. The
air was cool and at times the sky was over
cast with Clouds but not drop Of rain fell,
and the veterans were as comfortable as IL
was possible for them 10 be after standing in
line from one TO five hours and marching
three miles or more. The gray hairs and the
hating steps Of the old soldiers Indicate
that marching days for many Of them are
about over and II is probable that from this
time forward each annual reunion will see
fewer men in line than the year before. II
was not the reunion alone that attracted so
many Of them to Washington, but thousands
of them seized upon this as probable their
last chance of visiting the national capital
and seeing the changes that have been made
in the city.
Not only were all the government depart.
msnts closed, but private business was sus.
pended as well, and the entire population,
with all the visitors in town turned out on
the streets 60 do honor TO the passing veter-
ans.
Every window overlooking the line Of the
parade was occupied by as many people as
could possibly see out of it, the stands Of
seats erected along the line were all filed,
and the sidewalks from the building line to
the curb were packed with a struggling mass
OF humanity each person trying 70 get TO a
position from which something could be
seen. Many were disappointed, and were
compelled 70 be satisfied with hearing the
music and catching an occasional glimpse Of
the passing columns
The parade was reviewed from two
stands, one erected for the President aud, In
his absence, occupied by Vice-President
Morton, members Of the Cabinet and others.
The Presidents stand was at the north front
Of the Treasury Department. The Vice
President and his party stood or sat on a
platform in the centre Of the stand, and back
OF them was canopy Of rich hangings, dec
GRATED with the badge Of the Grand Army
and national flags. On either side were a
number Of seats for especially invited
guests. Vice-President Morton arrived on
the stand some time before the head Of the
column appeared. He was accompanied by
Secretaries Charles Foster, Tracy and
Noble, Attorney General Miller and Post
master General Wanamaker Secretary
Rusk, who was in the procession with the
Wisconsin contingent, Joined the Vice Presi-
dents party later.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-24
Attacked BY Birds.

Bailey Hoover, a young man en-.
ployed on the Curtiss ranch, reports
strange experience with birds. He was
driving a single horse and buggy from
the FAIR ranch on recent afternoon.
When about Two miles from Knights
Landing he was suddenly startled out of
a doze by myriads of birds which
swarmed down upon him, screaming
angrily and flying at him. The air was
literally black with them and they VIC
iously attacked the horse, which was
frightened into frantic effort TO run
away The young man was scared be-
yond his powers of description. He
fought the birds off with his whip, and,
directing the horse as best he could,
was soon beyond their pursuit.
Hoover entertains superstitious fear
that the incident portends evil for him,
and is sure something bad is going to
happento him before the week is out.
He said they were nearly all blackbirds,
although there appeared to be other
species among the army Of his winged
enemies. Woodland (Cal.) Nail.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-24

Once an inhabtant of this continent
from the Arctic slope to Mexico, and
from Virginia to Oregon, and, within
the memory of men yet young, roaming
the plains in such numbers that it
seemed that it could never be extermin-
ated, the buffalo has now disappeared as
utterly as has the bison from Europe.
The early explorers were constantly
astonished by the mIltitudiaous herds
which they met with, the regula rity of
their movements, and the deep roads
which they made in travelling from place
to place. Many of the earlier references
are to territory east of the Mississippi,
but even within the last fifteen years
buffalo were to be seen on the Western
plains in numbers so great that an en-
tirely sober and Truthful account seems
like fable. Describing the abundance
of buffalo in a certain region, an In
dian once said to me, in the expressive
sign language of which all old frontiers
men have some knowledge, "The coun-
try was one robe.
Much las been written about their
enormous abundance in the old days,
but have never read anything that l
thought an exaggeration of their mum
bers as l have seen them. 0nly one
who has actually spent moRths in travel
ing among them in those old days can
credit the stories told about them. Once,
in the country between the Platte and
Republican Rivers, l saw a closely
massed herd of Buffalo so vast that l
dare not hazard guess as to its num-
bers; and in later years 1 have Travelled
for weeks at a time, in Northern Mon
tana, without ever being out of sight of
buffalo. -Scribner
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-24

There is little difference in the houses
OF Russian village, says Frank G. Car
penter. They are all one story, and the
average hut is not more than twenty feet
square. Their log huts are about eight
feet from the ground at the top where
they meet the ridge roof of brown
thatch, and this thatch is of straw aud
is often eighteen inches thick. 1t is put
on so well that it will last for years.
The average Russian hut has one door
and two little windows at the front, with
sometimes a second window in the rear.
The front door is much like a rude
door such as is sometimes knocked up
by our farmers, aud it leads not into the
living room of the hut, but into little
storeroom or sort of vestibule which
forms one end of the cabin.
This room is usually without any floor
ing but that of the ground. You may
see tho chickens or other animals belong
ing to the family in it, and some of the
farming tools of the establishment stand
about its walls. In the center of one
side of it is a door reached by one or
two low steps leading into the house
proper and forming the entrance to the
only room il the cabin. In 1t the fam
lily sleep, cat, cook aud live, and when
it is remembered that fully half of the
year in Russia is made up of bitter win
ter, when the days are short aud the
nights long, it will be seen that the
greater pant of the PEASANTS existence is
passed here. visited living room of
this kind near Petroiisloi in the midst
of the great black plain Of Russia, where
the land is as rich as the valley of the
Nile and where the farmer should live as
well as anywhere in the world, for he is
working on the worlds richest lands.
This hut is that of a well to do peasant.
1t is if anything better than the average.
Its living room was not more than ten
by twelve feet in size, and one-fourth of
this space was taken UP by the great
chimney, which formed the oven, the
cooking stove and the heating arrange
ment of the hut. This chimney was
fully six feet wide and about eight feet
long, and its trout, in which were holes
for fuel and an oven, rose from the floor
to the ceiling.
In the side facing the room, leaving
about two feet for the chimney, there
was a cut out under the ceiling ledge
about three feet high and of the depth
of the stove. This was, in fact, the top
of the stove, and it formed, l was told
the bed of the family in the winter time.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-24
POPULAR SCIENCE.

The average man is said to have
2,304, 900 pores in his skin.
A German man of science holds that
ell diamonds come from meteors.
Professor Stirling, the English natu-
ralist, has found fifty species of electric
fish.
Carriages fitted up with electric lamps
were used by speakers during the late
English elections.
The British Admiralty has adopted
tiny electric lamps for gun sights, to be
used in connection with electric search
lights.
The first Italian Pharmacopnia OF
national character has just been com
pleted, and enumerates 597 medic
substances. A revised japanese Phar
macopeia--in Japanese and Latin--has
also been issued.
There seems TO be little doubt that the
numLcr OF the visible stars is really linn
tied. Most astronomers now admit
that the total number of stars visible in
our largest telescopes cannot much ex-
coed 100, 600, 900.
The interlocking switch and signal
system is gaining rapid progress in the
West. Contracts have been made by
one switch and signal company to have
twenty five railroad crossings in the
West equipped with them.
Some idea of The extent to which
climate may be modified by large body
of water is given by Professor Forel's
estimate that the heat accumulated in
Lake Lemau, Switzerland, during the
summer is equivalent to that which the
burning Of 81 900, 900 tons of coal
wohld yield.
fhe death Of Dom Pedro, late En-.
peror of Brazil, left a vacancy in the list
of eight for eign associates of the
Academic DIES Sciences, France, and is
likely to be filled by the election of
Lord Kelvin, who, as Sir William
Thomson, Is kno wn as the "hrst physie-
lstn in the world.
Professor Schevln, of Berlin, has in-
vented flash light having brilliancy
rivalling that of the electric arc, and
greater penetrating power in thick
weather 1t is produced by forcing air
through pumice stone impregnated with
benzine and mixing it with benzine gas.
The air thus treated is passed through
powdered magnesium and ignited by
small flame.
Experiments with malleable cast iron
by the Admra lily of Sebastopol, Rus
sia have been suceessful A trial bar
heated to red heat, was folded and re-
folded several times in succession, and
at the end only one scarcely perceptible
crack showed. Another bar that was
folded cold under hydraulic pressure,
broke after taking a persistent curve.
A third bar, heated to cherry red, could
be forg ed and heightened into strips.
It's tens lie strength was almost equal to
that of ordinary Siemens- Martin steel.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-24
KILLED WHILE LAUGHING.
A Girl Stabbed in the Back and to Death
BY Frenzied Lover.

by Frenzied Lover,
Aspecial from Mount Holly y. j., says: Liz
zie Peak was stabbed to death with carving
knife by Wesley Warner on the South Penn
berton road, near Mount Holly, few hun
dred feet east of where thu road joins Pine
street, and within mile and half Of where
her brother Barclay Peak, now in the state
penitentiary at Trenton, shot and killed
Katie Anderson.
Lizzie in company with her sisters Minnie
and Kate, and three young men. Harry Mat.
lack, Jesse Stroud and Thomas Shnn all OF
Mount Holly, were returning from the town
to the Peak home, a teuant-house on the
Gaskill farm. The party were walking in
pairs Matlack aud Lizzie Peak bringing Up
the rear. As they turned the corner from
Pine street into the South Pemberton road
they We're singing and laughing. Warner
was lying in wait, and when the first couule
had passed he suddenly sprang upon Lizzie
and plunged long bladed carving knife into
her throat, seyering a main artery The
songs and laughter suddenly changed to
shrieks and means. The men Of the party
were taken by surprise, and madeno attempt
to save the girl or capture the murderer
Minnie and Katie Peak seized Warner but
he threatened them with the knife and broke
from their clutches running as far as Pine
street toward the town. Here he passed
Capt. Joseph Bryan, who asked what was
the matter, and Warner replied that he was
going for policeman.
Captain Bryan had her picked up and
taken into the house, but in five minutes the
girl was dead
The murderer, Wesley Warner, is shoe
maker who formerly lived ia Mount Holly
but who went to Brooklyn several years ago.
where it is said Lizzie Peak has been living
with him.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-24
.eDeath watcho Noises Exnloined.

There is a more or less clearly defined
thread of superstition RAINING through
the minds of most people, aud not few
who have at various times been involun-
tary listeners to the sound of unfamiliar
tickings, especially during the hours Of
darkness, have been unable to prevent
their imagination leading them back to
the stories told them in childhood of
the dreaded omen of the tick of the
death watch, which precedes a death in
the family says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
II is now well known that the ticking is
produced by an insect, and a Partisan
chemist has not only taken the trouble
to investigate the subject thoroughly,
but has sent to a Paris paper two insects
actually caught in the act of producing
the sound alluded to. They were on
the same sheet of packing paper (strong
tarred paper, but on opposite sides and
at distance Of about four inches apart.
One struck forcibly with its head at the
rate of six blows per second, and the
insect on the lower side answered as
soon as tie other had finished.
The insect Is a tiny beetle, barely
quarter Of an inch long. 1t is generally
during the night that it produces the
ticking sounds, aud in order to do so
<.iaws in the anteung and intermediate
legs, and, resting principally upon the
medium legs, strikes its head against it's
support by sort of rocking motion.
It is through this noise that the male
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-24
White Hair Turns Black.

Up to few months ago Jacob Lauek,
IN old man of sixty -seven years, residing
in BERKELEY County, West Virginia, was
the possessor of a snow white head of
hair. But in recent months a graduil
metamorphosis has been taking place in
this respect. 1t began with the appear
ance of a few hairs of an intensely black
color, which gradually became more
numerous until, at the present time, very
few white hairs can be seen in his head.
Mr.. Lauck and his neighbors alike are at
a complete loss to account for the unex.
pected renewal of youthful hue in locks
once silyered. -PicaYune.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-24
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.

A boat named the King was swamped at
Cape st. Mary's Newfoundland, and all on
board we're drowned.
TIE Marine Hospital Service at Washing
ton, was advised OF the arrival OF the ship
May at New Orleans with four cases Of yell
low fever on board.
The bark Ca ket, from Huelya, Spain, for
Wilmington, North Carolina, loaded with
iron pyrites was wrecked on Fry Pan
Shoals The crew were safely landed by tho
Cape Fear Life-saying Crew.
Three men, Foreman Volanski, Thomas
Kano aud Edward McNaily, perished by suf-
location in the receiving basin Of a sewer, Ia
Jersey City. NolansH was first overcome,
and the others died in trying 70 save him
A broken axle caused q wreck on tho Cum
berland Valley Railroad, at Middleser, Pa.
Three coaches left the track and two we're
overturned. No person was killed. but
several passengers we're badly injured.
Martin Tobin, his nephews, Patrick and
and a boy named Edward Hoyles engaged
in repaeking fish near st. Mary's New
foundland, few days ago, were swept into
the sea by an immense wave and drowned.
The rear car Of an eastbound express On
the Pennsylvania Railroad left tho tracs at
New Brunswick New jersey, End fell
against a freight train. John Roeder. a
track waller, was caught between the cars
and killed, and Brakeman Henry Alison Of
Philadelphia, wss badly hurt. No passen-
gers were hurt.
PART Of an accommodation train on tho
Champaign and Havana Division Of the III
nois Central Railroad was thrown from the
track near Lincoln, Illinois. Twelve per-
sous were injured FRANK Edgel Mrs
Jo6n Richer and child, and John Kirkpat-
rick probably fatally.
A sr,Ter 90, 81. ,.I.ec - - farur
Camilla, Georgia, was burned. Two small
children and their crazy grandmother were
IN tho ard at the time II caught fire. Tbs
old woman carried the children into the
midst OK the flames and left them. They we're
burned 70 death
A DESPATCH from AlpeDa, Michigan, SAYS
that the tugs Sweepstakes aud Ella Smith
we're forced 70 let 20 a raft d 1900 900 feet
OF lumber OF that port during severe
northwest gale. The Smeepstakes made port,
but the Ella Smith has not been heard IRON.
The steamer Pilgrim. Of tho Fall River
Line, ran into the fOur-masted schooner
Benjamin Van Brunt, and two hours later
the schooner was sunk b. the steamer Proyi-
dence The schooner. loaded with 1909 tons
Of coal was anchored in the channel taken
pY the Sound steamers running between
New YORK and Fall River. Both steamers
sere sent to Newport for repairs. u he
schooner was one year old, and cost s5S,OO0
The collision occurred in a fog.
GENERAL GRIZZLY had three Of the sur
vivors Of bis famous Arctic expedition
placed In the Weather Ser sire, where they
are still employed. Long, Council and
Fredericks and Lisutenant Brainard, who
was promoted by General Greely's influence
from a sergeantcy, IS stationed IN New Mex
lea. Breidsrbeck, the other survivor, Is an
Inspector in the New Yqrk Custom-house.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-24
COWHIDBD IN HIS PULPIT.
The Rev. DR.. Bridger Had slsndered
Women Of His Congregation.


Women Of His Congregation.
The Rev DR.. E. A Bridger, pastor Of the
Congregational Church. at Jennings, L.,
was chastised in church by exc 5perated par
ishioners.
The pastor had become unpopular on &C
count of his plain speech on various occasions,
and matters reached crisis when he made
rounds of the town last week, going from
store to store and seeming to take pains to
say that the women Of the place were UNI
chaste and that the whole town was coss-
pool of iniquity.
more than usually large number Of peo-
PIE attended the church. At the close of the
services D. f. M. Burke, leading citizen,
arose in his pew and asked the women to re-
tire. but requested the men to remain.
The women withdrew and Burke proceeded
to the pulpit where DR.. Bridger remained.
Burke asked the minister if he had made
the statements about the women Of the place
accredited to him and received the reply
that he had The minister added that DO
would stand by the allegations, as they were
true in every particular.
No sooner had he uttered the remark than
Burke drew cowhide and proceeded to dust
the minister's garments to his hearts con-
tent.
DR.. Bridger did not finch under tho pun
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