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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-03-09
A Former Vermont Man Killed in Low
ell, Mass.

An iron pulley OF the dynamo at the
power house Of the Electric Street Rail-
way Company, Lowell, Mass, burst
at O'Clock, and piece of the pulley
struck the fly wheel of the engine. The
wheel was 20 feet in diameter, having
rim of iron three inches thick, aud
was making y revolutions per minute.
1t was smashed in an instant and the
iron rim, which was made in sections,
scattered in all directions, SCATTERING
the building. A. II. Mead, assistant
engineer, was struck on the head by a
piece of iron and died in few minutes.
George Langley, an oiler, had a jaw
broken. Pieces of the wheel were
hurled through the roof and 100 yards
distant into a field, and brick walls
were torn out in places as though made
OF paper. One piece of wheel weigh
ing nearly ton was hurled onto he
Boston and Lowell tracks. The mo-
ment the explosion occurred, all the
electric street cars in the city stopped
and were unable to move until another
dynamo could be started up an hour
later. A ton section of the fly wheel
crashed through the brick wall of the
engine house and through the brick
wall of the repair shop. Mr.. Mead
formerly lived in Corinth, VT.
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Babyland for March,


With its two bright, joyous little serials,
and its pictures with their verse and story,
is as wen suited TO Baby's needs as are the
| grown-up magazines TO the grown-up
needs. Babyland is delight in itself.
Price so cents a year; s cents a number.
Our Little Men and Women for March
has for its frontispiece a charming girl
portrait, by Miss Helen M. Knowlton and
there is a dainty bit of verse which tells
the pictures story. The Columbian serial,
"The House That Was Made for Me- and
the "Three Little Gold Diggersn are each
charming in their way. And the shorter
stories, with their pretty pictures, the
rhymes, verses and articles which tell just
what children ought to know, are well cal
culated to entertain, instruct and please
1.-The Clock o. the Year, is an exquisite set
ting of verse and art. Price 81 year; 10
cents a number.
The Pansy for March is strong, terse and
energetic. II is entertaining besides. There
are excellent short stories, and there are
serials whose worth can only be estimat-
ed by reading. The American Literature
paper this month concerns itself with the
poet Longfellow, and valuable paper il is,
too. The shorter timely articles, verse and
poems, are supplemented by the popular
Pansy Society OF Christian Endeavor, every
where well known and highly priced.
Price n a year; 10 cents year. d. Lo-
throp Company, Publishers, Boston.
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Worthington's Magazine for March is a
royal number. Evidently this vigorous
young magazine is growing and thriving,
since, though exceptionally bright from
the start, each number steadily gains in
interest, attractiveness and value, and its
success in cateriT to the varied tastes
and requirements of the American family
at home proves its ability to give valuable
points to many an Older and more expert
enced periodical
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U0nYch0uagY.N

NJ. Berillon, French doctor, who
has been directing his attention for
some time past to the study Of nail
biting, or, US he call it, onychophagy,
finds that habit or disease extremely
common. In a public school in Paris,
ont of 265 pupils examined, during
the month OF April last, sixty-three,
that is to say, nearly onc-fourth, were
addicted to biting their finger nails.
Curiously enough, results vary greatly
in different districts and in different
schools in the same district. 1t seems
that girls are more given to the habit
than boys. In one girls school in the
Dep lrtment of the Yonne eleven ont
of twenty-onc were confirmed nail
biters. In another girls school the
proportion was sixty-one ont of 2O7
pupils, aud Of those siXty-ona fifteen
were found to he in the habit Of biting
the nails of both hanl~, anl the others
Of biting only those OF one hand. VI.
Bcrillon recognizes that nervousness
has much to do with the habit, aal lie
proposes to cure it by means % ''sng-
gestion.' Probably it would be more
cffectual TO make the victims wear
gloves or finger stalls. London News.
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FEED FOR YOUNG COLTS.

A bit of conversation that occurred
at one of our State agricultural fairs
and was reported in q local paper,
seems to illustrate very common feel
ing in regard to the feed Tor young
colts. An old farmer approached a
leading horseman, and, after explain
ing the age ard other points connected
with his colt at home, in all serious
ness asked the horseman he supposed
a quart of oats day would be such
high feed Us to injure the colt. ga
quart of oats!' roared the one ques-
toned; "Why, man alive, that's about
what its owner gives his Plymouth
Rock rooster in that pen over there,
every day" The old mans ideas were
only little more ridiculous than those
of many others. There seems to be a
great fear on the part of some farmers
that they may feed their growing colts
too much, and SO these animals take
five or six years in coming to an i'll
developed maturity on rough fodder,
with little or no grain. No animal
upon the farm stands more in need OF
growth-producing foods to makes its
existence profitable to his owners,
than a colt, and the amount that it
can proftably consume is by no means
small. Think of the feed that the
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What Chinese Epicures Eat.

~ Chinese mandarin has forwarded
The menu of banquet gwen at
Pekine to the foreign diplomatlstf,
tbe menu of which follows: First
came four classic dishes-namely,
swallow nests with pigeon eggs, shark
fins with crabs, dogfsh with Wild
duck, duck and caulifower; then sue,
ceed delicacies served in cups placed
before each guest; swallow nests,
shark fins, plain morils, vegetables,
mushrooms with duck feet, fried
partridge, pigeon in slices; then there
appeared four dishes-namely, ham IN
honey, puree of peas, vegetables ana
dogfsh four side dishes; haricot
cheese with bamboo buds IA kind OF
asparagus), roots of bamboo, chicken,
shellfsh four hcrs d'oeuvers in
duplicate, ham and chicken, fish and
gizzard, pork tripe and vermlcelll,
duck and pork outlets. Each guest
had also placed before him plates OF
almonds, pistachio paste, pears and
oranges. Finally, the following were
the roast and boiled meats: Sucking
Dug, roast duck, boiled chicken, boiled
pork. There was a profuslon OF
European and Chinese wines. No
opium was smoked, for official China
is not yet reconciled to the drug which
it owes to the East India Company
Asiatic Quarterly.
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Greenwich observatory comes next,
and then the 27-inch instruments IN
Paris , and Vienna and the 26-inch
glasses in the University of Virginia
and at Washington, D. @.
In the matter of mere size even the
Yerkes instrument is little compared
to the huge rejecting telescopes in
various observatories. Lord Rose, at
Birr Castle: Ireland, has a reflector
72 inches across; the Bessemer reaec-
tor in London is 54I inches in diane
ter; the Herschel and Melbourne re-
fectors measure 46 inches across, and
the one at Paris At inches. But re-
fracting telescope is SO much superior
to a rejecting instrument in power
and general .adaptabihty that, the
Yerkes telescope in the Manufactures
Building is called the largest telescope
in the world.
It's tube of hard steel is 64 feet long,
and without any accessories or glasses
weighs four TONS The steel has q
varying thickness of from fve-six-
teenths to one-eighth of an inch, the
thickest steel being in the center,
where the tube is hung. The tube is
somewhat cigar-shaped, for it is 81
inches in diameter in the center and
gradually tapers to AZ inches at the
object glass and 3S inches at the eye
end. With all the rods, arms, finders
and other accessories the tube weighs
seven tons. The column or pier upon
which the telescope is poised is made
of cast-iron in five sections, nav
ing an aggregate weight OF forty-two
tons. The lower section or base
proper flares out to Is by lS feet and
weighs lS tons At the floor level the
pier is g. by II feet and gradually
tapers to the "head" casting, which
rests on top of the column and which
weighs six tons. In that casting il
the main spindle which carries the
tube. The spindle is a beautiful
specimen of steel forging Is inches in
diameter and 13 feet long. 1t is re-
sponsible for three and a half Of the
seventy-fve tons. This spindle is
called the polar axis, and is always
set up so as to be parallel to the axis
of the earth. Upon the polar axis IS
the "declination sleeve, within which
is the ''declination axis" a steel forg-
ing II inches in diameter, 8 feet long,
weighing 1! tons, upon which the tube
proper is boltetl. Thus the telescope
can be pointed in any direction, either
in declination, that is north to soHth,
or up and down, and in Sisht asceA-
sion, east to west.
The "declination CIRCLE the large
wheel near the counterpoise weight, Is
eight feet in diameter and is made OF
cast-iron. 1t fits on the sleeve that is
on the polar axis, and, as the point
er" is carried by the spindle, the circle
stands still, and the pointer travels
around and reads the degrees which
are printed in large white marks and
figures on the rim of the circle. The
degrees can be readily seen from the
floor and give merely an approximate
reading. This is called the "coarse
ircle." The fine circle for accurate
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means for accurate adjustment, and
self-oiling devices. So we'll balanced
is every part, and so evenly poised is
the whole thing, child can move the
instrument with the greatest ease.
The object glass will not be ready
before the last of the year, for the
delicate work of polishing and correct
ing the glasses requires time as well as
patience. The glass is in two pieces,
one of crown and the other OF flint
glass. This is to correct chromatlc
alteration or color.
When the instrument is mounted in
it's observatory the column will stand
north and south. The, details for the
observatory have not been completed, |,
but work on preliminary plans has be-
gun. With an object glass % per
/ cent. greater in area than any other
refractor, that much more light will
be admitted, and astronomers predict
great results from the telescope 1t
will be used chiefly in spectrum analy-
sis, and the spectroscope and spectre
graph are made and on exhibition in
the gallery just northeast OF the tele-
scope. Without the glasses, the tele-
scope as it stands, towering in the
main aisle sevehty-ive feet in the air,
costs about s60, 900. A remarkable
feature of it is that practically it was
designed and built since last Decem-
her
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FERTILIZER FOR CORN.

In the experiments with fertilizers
for maize at the Ohio Station by c. E..
Thorne and ]. T. Hickman superphos-
pilates and potash used separately, or
in combination, have as often caused
loss as gain, unless nitrogen wasadded,
where superphosphate was useful with
out nitrogen, gypsum also proved
beneficial. Nitrate of soda alone has
generally increased the crop, and
when combined with superphosphate
and potash, has been useful in every
test. While there have been cases in
which the increase of crop apparently
due to the fertilizer has repaid the ex-
ira cost, this result could not be re-
peated on duplicate plots throug b sue
cessive seasons, thus indicating that in
such cases the increase was largely due
20 accidental variations in the soil.
The fertilizer experiments on crops
grown in rotation offer no more en-
cou-sgement to the use of chemical
aanures than those on crops grown
continuously. A very wide difference
is indicated in the value of stable man
ure when used fresh from the stable
or after half years teaching in the
barnyard. Apparently the margin OF
profit in the use of open yard manure
is very meager.-American Agrlcul-
turist.
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pass the gigantic comet-hunter with
out paying an explanatory tribute to
it's size. For month or more the
huge iron column or pier which bases
the telescope stood in state of digni-
fed incompleteness, but expert work
men from the shops of Warner &
Swasey, in Cleveland, O., where the
telescope was built, put the big tube
into position a few days ago. This is
the gift that Charles T. Yerkes made
to the University of Chicago. After
the Fair it will be taken to Geneva
Lake, Wis, and there permanently
mounted to do its share in advancing
the fascinating science Of astronomy.
The telescope has a clear aperture
of 40 inches. That is, the object glass,
the great round eye of the telescope,
is that many inches in diameter. This
dimension places the Yerkes telescope
at the head of the refracting telescopes.
Next to it comes the Lick telescope on
Mount Hamilton, California; that was
built in 1887 by the same firm. 1ts
object glass, made by Alvin Clark, OF
Boston, who is making the object glass
for the Yerkes telescope, is 36 inches
in diameter. The next largest iIstru-
ments are the ones at Pulkowa and
Nice, each having 30-inch object
glass. A 28-inch telescope in the
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KEEPING EGGS.

The Orange County Farmer finds
this in an English paper: "Put two
Jumps OF unslacked lime about the
size of your hand into an earthernware
pan, pour on by degrees two gallons
of boiling water. Soon after you be-
gin to pour the water on the lime the
latter Will make a startling noise.
When this ceases add the remainder OF
the water. Let the lime water stand
until the next day; stir it up well with
a stick; place the eggs in the liquid
gently one by one, taking great care
that every egg is fresh and not
cracked. Cover the pan with piece
of board. In short time the water
will be glazed over, but you can con-
tinue to,add eggs until the pan is full.
Small pans are preferable for various
reasons. They are more portable and
more quickly filed. No cracked egg
should find its way into the liquid and
become broken. Ordinary care is
needed in the lining process, but no
attention is demanded afterwards save
10 ascertain whether the water has
diminished and the uppermost eggs
become partially dry. If this be the
case add lime water. LINED eggs fried
and used in puddings, ETC., are as
good as fresh eggs"
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How MILK IS RUINED.

Fully one-third as much milk is
ruined by untidy dairymen as is used
economically. This wastsge is caused
by uncleanliness that is the result OF
Incidence. This habit of indolence is
responsible for dirty cans and filthy
utensils. Milk placed in such recep-
tacles becomes tainted, and resulting
cream is soured to bitterness. Churn-
ing such stuff results in a loss OF tenn
per and time, as the product is only
fit for the swill barrel. Scrupulous
cleanliness, if not an infalllble remedy
against loss in dairying, is great con-
server of its profits. Without it skill
cannot accomplish results that prop
erly belong to and are due it. Wash,
scour, clean and dry in the sun every
utensil used in the dairy that the
product may be healthy and whole
some. In this way this waste of good
milk can be stopped. Its stoppage
means profit to the dairyman.I,Ameri-
can Dairyman.
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The driving clock is in the top sec
tion of the hollow column. It is
weight clock and the mechanism issuch
that when the telescope is properly set
upon any particular star it is kept in
the field automatically. The clock is
self-winding, for at the proper time it
switches on q small electric-motor, and
is wound up again.
Electricity is used as power for NOV
ing the telescope, and the observer or
his assistant can turn it by touching a
button. In the clock room are three
motors; one for winding the clock, one
to give quick motion in declination,
and one to give quick motion in right
ascension. The motor can be thrown
in or out from the balcony on the col
umn OF from the floor. On the tube
and on the declination sleeve are mo-
tors for giving slow motion in decina-
tion and right ascension, which can be
switched in and out from the eye end.
The application of power is made
through a worm gear, OF which the
wheel IS q feet IN diameter, weighing
Il tons. The wheel is of cast iron,
with phospher bronze rim having the
teeth cut in the bronze. The worm is
of hard steel The telescope can also
be moved by hand, for on the north
side of the head are two hand wheels
by which the assistant astronomer can
set the telescope. Time is read on the
coarse hour circle, which is on the
polar axis. The circle is spaced into
,twenty-four hours, with fve-minute
divisions, and is intended for approx
innate reading. The fine hour circle
for accurate reading is placed just in
side the coarse hour circle, and is read
through microscopes by an assistant
on the balcony, which is reached by
spiral stairs. All the bearings for
moving parts are of Babbit metal, with
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great trotting borse, Axtell, consumed
when but two-year-old, as reported
by his former owner, Mr.. G. w. Will
Jams: five quarts Of oats, two quarts
of bran, two quarts OF carrots ana
three or four ears OF corn, three times
a day! And thespeed that he Developed
under such acourse OF feeding, showed
that he made good use of it. 1t IS not
necessary thatall should feed so heavily
of grain, but enough should be given
to keep up thrifty growth, and an
all-round development, both summer
and winter. The profit would lie IN
this, that much better horse would
be produced, and one that would be
ready for the harness, or sale, very
much earlier in life than its poorly fed
neighbor. There would be serious
danger in feeding a large amount OF
corn to growing colt, as there would
to any kind of growing stock, and a
filly should have still less. But when
oats, bran, and such roots as carrots,
are given, the ordinary feeder will not
be likely to give too much. A good
many will say that their colts will not
sell for enough at maturity to admit
of raising them on expensive foods:
But no one should raise that class OF
animals. 1t is folly to keep any kind
of stock that will not repay the cost OF
keeping in thrifty growth. An in
ferior animal will hardly pay for the
inferior food it is kept upon, much
less return any compensation for the
work that has been expended IN caring
for it. Raise the kind of stock for
which there is demand at good prices
in the market, and then feed the best
growth producing foods. If this does
not pay, do not raise stock. k.-Amerleap
Agriculturist.
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500 Reward. 500.

The reader Of this paper will be pleased to
that science has been able to cure in all it's
stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure Is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu-
tional disease, requires q constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
acting directly on the blood snd mucous sur
faces Of the system, thereby, destroying the
Foundation of the disease, and giving the pa
itent strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its curative
powers, that they offer One Hundred DoIlars
iSor any case that it fails to cure. Send for list
of testimonials. Address
F. j. CHENEy & Co., Toledo, O.
sHy-Sold hv Druprsts. TJc,
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GRASS AND EXERCISE ON PIGS.

The effect of exercise on the econ
omy of food fed to fattening pigs and
the economy Of feeding grass with
grains for fattening pigs are consid-
cred in the May bulletin of the Utah
Experiment Station. The results show
that exercise for growing pig is de-
sirable for the purpose of inducing
large consumption. No pronounced
advantage was shown in favor of grass
feeding to pigs. When pigs have grain
enough they do not consume much
grass. To make grazing successful,
it will have to occur with a limited
amount of grain, thus compelling the
pigs to rely upon the grass for their
support.
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A Wonderful Cloak.

Among the articles disposed Of at
the recent sale of the curiosities col
lected by the Earl of Dunmore during
his explorations in Chinese Turkestan,
the Pamirs and Central Asia, was a
cloak formed of the skins of TAI
Chinese wild ducks throats. 1t was
made by native of Chinese Tartary,
who wss occupied for twelve years IN
the collection of the skins. -Philadel-
phia Record.
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RnEE1SG PEARS.

Peurs should be gathered as soon as
they will part readily from the tree
when lifted to right angle with its
natural position. If they are not then
eatable they should be ripened in the
house. The pears must be kept IN a
cool, dark place and be protected from
currents of air in order to rlpen prop
crly.-New York World.
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A BIG SPY-GLASS.
THE YERKES TELESCOPE IS THE
LARGEST IN THE WORLD.
It was Presented to the University
af Chicago and is on Exhibition
at the Worlds Fair-The
Instrument Described.

N the north end
of the Manufac-
lures Building,
says the Chicago
Record, the larg-
est refrac tt n G
telescope in this
world points its
tube toward the
north star.
NJ ost M G n
would consider
aspy-glass which
weighs seventy
five tons some
thing of an Opt
cal instrument,
and few DeoDle
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Pure and Wholesome Quality

Commends to public approval the California
LIQUID laxative remedy, Syrup Of Figs. 1t IS
pleasant to the taste and by acting gently on
the kidney, liver and bowels to cleanse the sys-
TEN effectually, it promotes the health and
comfort of all who use it, and with millions 1t
is the hest and ONLY remedy.
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The Bible Society for. Russia during
the past year has disposed Of 56,o59
copies of the Sacred Scriptures. The
colporters have traversed the wilds of
Siberia in the prosecution of their
task
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The first United States postal cards
were issued in May, 1873, and during
the first two months Of their existence
81 ZOO, 900 were used.
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Missionary work in Siam is now
chiefly in the hands of the Presbyterian
Board, which commenced its work
there in 1910. Twenty years OF labor
were expended before a single convert
was wen from Buddhism to Christian
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We Cure Rupture.

No matter of how long standing. Write
for free treatise, testimonials, etc.. to :. ).
Hollensworth G. Co. Oweso, Tioga Co., n. Y.
Price 81. by mail SIZE.
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American pioneers were God fearing
and Bible loving. They staked ont
town lots, in twenty-five Goshens,
twenty-one Shilohs, eleven Carmels,
eighteen Tabors and Mount Tabors,
twenty-five Zions and Mount Zions,
twenty-six Edens, thirty Lebanons,
twenty-six Hebrews and thirty-six
Sharons.
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So far rs quantity is concerned coal
stands for eighty-fve per cent. OF all
the minerals extracted.