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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-03-30
WITH THE ELECTRICIANS.

A WESTERN inventor has a scheme for
heating theaters by putting electric
heaters under each chair.
A COMPANY to introduce electricity
as a propelling power for canal boats
has been organized in Maryland. 1t
has a present capital stock of $780,
600.
SCOTLAND and Ireland are now con-
nected by telephone. The telephone
line connects Edinburgh, Glasgow and
Belfast, its total length being 25O
miles.
DETRoIT's municipal electric lighting
plant is to be made up of IS 1O0-light
Weston electric machines, supplying
current to 1900 Brush double carbon
lamps.
IL Austria experiments are being
made in the direction of finding some
cheap, practical method OF electrically
lighting railroad cars. as the authori
ties consider that such Il method would
not only add greatly to the comfort Of
passengers, but would be much safer
than oil or gas.
WATERBURY and stowe. two Vermont
towns 10 miles apart, are to be con
nected by an electric railway. The
cost Of the projected road is placed at
$3.50, OOO Toward this amount stowe
has already voted $40, 600. The road IS
to be run by water power and will
carry both freight and passengers.
SOME papers have it that John Wana-
maker may become largely interested
in a telephone company organized to
fight the Bell company. Nr. Wana-
makers experience in the post office de-
partment is counted upon to make him
a particularly useful man in the estab-
fishing of new telephone company.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-03-30
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

THE less water there is in butter the
fewer odors it will absorb.
THE best way to keep root crops is
to pack them in sand and put in the
cellar.
EARLY maturing is simply impossible
If the animals are stinted while they
are forming bone and muscle.
FOURTEEN million Of the inhabitants
of France have farms of twenty acres
or less from which they manage to OBJ
tain Il living.
EXPERIMENTS will show that it is
mistake to feed more than ten pounds
of beet pulp per day to pigs. Under all
circumstances the pulp must be com
bined with other fodder.
IT will pay you either to sell your
cattle as soon as they are fit for what
you can get or feed them so that they
will come out in the spring in good con-
dition. It will not pay to keep them
over a second winter In the hope OF in
creasing their weight.
AGRICULTURAL cooperation appears
and so on. Cartophilus, Ahasuerus,
Isaac Laquedem, Moser b, etc, are
children of nervous pathology. Their
resemblances result from attacks Of the
same malady, and have an identical
origin.-M. Henri Coupin, in Popular
CoiaDca
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-03-30
YOUNGSTERS PRATTLE.

LITTLE BEssIE-"Lct's play were
a married couple keeping house" ="
Ethel-"All right. butyou must be the
husband Ma says ! amt strong
enough TO- stand punishment"
JOHNNY" said the schoolboy'smoth-
er. "do you like arithmetic" Nom.
| think the influence of that book j.
unwholcsomea and depressing. "Why?"
because it is full Of horrible eX-
amples.'
MAMMA" said the little boy on his
return from church, "our pastor tells
lies" flush. Johnnie. What an idea.
"Oh. YES. he does. lie said: And now
lust one word more. and he said ever
so many more-talked nearly half an
hour
ToNMY-"Naw, I wish you would
get paw to sell out this house and
move sommers else" Mrs. Figg-
why. my child?" Tommy-"There
amt no more dogs around in this
neighborhood for Towser to lick. Hes
got EN- all scared most to death"
ToMMuE-"E "Eh,-Mr Snodkins. gi' me
ten cents. I saw you kiss sister Mr..
Snodkins-"Well- a quar-
ter, but be sure You don't tell Tom
mie-"That's all right. I'm used to
keeping quiet. That's five dollars I've
earned this week"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-03-30
SOCIETY FADS.

BELTS, purses and card-cases are now
fashioned from Java lizard skin. This,
with its broad markings of brown and
cream.white, presents a pretty effect
when garnished with a silver mount
ing.
THE floral decorations at a recent
copper" wedding were unique in
conception. About the rooms were
scattered copper stands and kettles
bearing golden-brown chrysanthe-
NUNS and brown foliage. The bios
som designs on the table were caught
with brown satin ribbons.
A JEwELRY fad that made its debut
in Paris and has received a warm wei
come upon this side of the water, calls
for a revival of the long, slender gold
chains worn by our grandmothers as
neck and bodice ornaments. The
maids of society attach to these old
fashioned trinllets their lOrgnettes or
time-pieces, while matronly fair ones
find comfort in securing their eye
glasses or private keys to the chain.
OOTILLlON IdNOIS dtc Illl9 NOdooh NNi )
costly bits of luxury. Owl-head bon
bonnieres in Russian enamel. boxes of
satinwood, lace fans, leghorn hats
filled with blossoms, exquisite satin
reticules and boxes freighted with
sweetmeats, plush handbags, Japan
ese teapOts, silver powder-boxes and
pin trays. tortoise-shell hand-glasses.
stick-pins, glove-buttoners, shoe horns
and unnumbered fetching fancies are
included in the souvenirs of the modish
dance.
IT is whim among the fair sex just
now to make birthday presents to one
another of cup and saucer with a
spoon thrust through the handle. The
ware must. of course, be the choicest.
and the spoon n marvel OF daintiness
and elegance. In this way some IA
vored damsels manage TO secure quite
a valuable collection OF cup and saucer
and spoon oddities. each birthday
bringing with it a fragile offering in
Dresden or Sevres. with accompanying
spoon in silver, gold, Russian enamel,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-03-30
MUST HAVE SECRETARIES.
Society wOme n No Longer Able to Keep
Up with Their Correspondence.

Society wome n No Longer Able to Keep
Up with Their Correspondence.
A great deal is said about how let
ter-writing is lost art, and lovers Of
bygone days take great pleasure and
pride in pointing to the numberless
epistles written in the past generation
and then contrasting them with the
little scrappy notes scrawled in the
very illegible handwriting of to-day.
Within the last few years the utter i'm
possibility of any society woman at
tempting to keep up her own corre-
spondence has been thoroughly proved,
and the New York Herald thinks that
of all the fields of employment open
to women that Of private secretary is
most desirable and one of the most re-
munerative. 1t is a post which re-
quires business ability, great tact, a
clear handwriting and a thorough
knowledge of compositions The
schools and colleges are beginning to
realize how important it is to tram
women to fill these very positions, for
every year sees the demand increasing.
Some women require that their secre-
taries shall write hand precisely like
their own, so that notes Of most inti-
mate character can Le answered by
the secretary without giving offense,
as would probably be the case should
the receiver of note for an instant
fancy that anyone than the person TO
whom the letter had been sent had
answered it. OF course this position re-
auires the most absolute trust, for the
secretary is of necessity intrusted
with the most intimate affairs
of her employer. The world has GER
tainly changed since the time when II
was generally believed and universally
stated that no woman could keep Sc
cret, for many are the cases in this
city where another person has charge
of my lady's private affairs and never
has there been known a time as yet
when such confidence has been abused
The duties of secretary are manifold
and require considerable knowledge OF
society and its requirements She must
know to whom cards should be sent,
must keep up a visiting list and be sure
when invitations for receptions and
dances are sent out that none OF the
dead friends are invited. In some
places the secretary has charge of the
household affairs as we'll, g.. =
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-03-30
THE ISRAELlTE IN EGYPT.
Egyptian Names Are Faithfully Repro
duced In the Bible.

A correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian writes: Perhaps hardly any
tale of ancient times has come down
to us SO well accredited as to its main
facts as the story of the sojourn of the
Israelites in Egypt, their wanderings
in the desert, and the slow and painful
evolution among them of higher form
of religious faith, and yet, if we are to
believe Profs. B. Stade ('Geschichte
des Volkes Israel) and E. Meyer
C"Geschichte des alien AegyptensD' j.
the Israelites never were in Egypt at
all. GAN that we read of their history
in Exodus" says Prof. Stade, sis myth
decked out as history" A defender,
however, has arisen for the old story
in far Japan, whence Prof. L. Riess
sends paper to the Preussishe Jahr-
bucher December) discussing at some
length Profs Stade and Meyers argu-
ments, and giving his own attempt at
rationalistic version of the Bible
story. He dismissed as untenable their
argument from the silence Of the
Egyptian records (why, he pertinent
ly asks, should the Egyptians have
sought to preserve the memory OF
events so little creditable TO them
selves?), and rejects as unscientihc
their attempt to emasculate into
the mere passing wandering of some
small nomad tribe that migration and
regeneration of whole nation which
has left lasting traces on the history
of the world. The accretions of later
date may be distinguished from the
small bits of fgenuine tradition that are
all that have come down to us by their
very appropriateness, by their aptitude
to enforce the tendencies OF the age IN
which the tradition took definite liter
ary form; thus the miraculous element
in the story of the Exodus would grow
naturally out of the desire for religious
edification, the omission Of other men
ton of other tribes than their own
from the growing national exclusive
ness. But where we find details given
which are opposed to the tendencies OF
the later time, such as the Mldlanltes,
later on Israels bitterest enemies,
figuring now as their main helpers in
a spiritual as well as material sense
or the forefathers of the two great
tribes, Ephraim and Manasseh, spring
ing from an Egyptian mother, there
we may surely draw conclusions favor
able to the genuiness of the tradition
of which they form part No explana-
ton can accoun: so simply for the
faithful reproduction in the Bible mar
rative of Egyptian names and circum-
stances as that of the memories left 10y
lengthy sojourn in the country.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-03-30
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

Miss EMMA c. WHITNEY is recording
clerk in the Ohio house of representa-
tives.
WOMEN are said to make the most
artistic window dressers for dry goods
stores.
Mrs. EMMA C. LANGENOUR has just
been elected a member of the board Of
directors of the Yolo county Cali saw
ings bank.
A SWEDISH woman has hit upon a
new field for women's work. She has
started in business as an analytical
chemist in a town which is the center
of the mining industry.
NINE. EMMA Seller, a German
woman, first discovered the mechanism
of head notes, the highest tones in the
female voice. She devoted herself to
the study of the larynX at the dissect-
ing table, and was rewarded by find
ing two small cartilages in the vocal
cords which produce these sounds.
Mrs. y. E. BRONsToy, of Atchison,
Kan, has been setting type for forty
three years. She learned her trade in
her fathers Office in Newport, Ky, be-
ginning when she was twelve years
old. She has been part owner Of one
or two newspapers in her day, and has
set type in many Offices in Kansas
Mrs. LITTLEDALE. accompanied by
her husband, has just completed the
most adventurous journey ever under
taken by a woman. Starting from
Constantinople. she crossed the entire
continent Of Asia to Shanghai. The
journey was undertaken from a love
Of exploration and sport. and will not
be followed by the publication of 4
book of travels.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-03-30

"But you forget that l don't know
you at all. l can't conscientiously rec
ommend man that know nothing
about"
well, suppose you are right, but IT
seems little hard from my point OF
view. I'll drop in and see him and tell
him that am friend Of yours You
wouldn't object to that, suppose?"
"Oh, l object to nothing Try it If
you think 1t will do you any good. /
may warn you, though, that he is not
such a fool as / am, and that you may
find it little difficult to drop in"
The young man laughed. 81 am not
so easily discouraged as you may i'm
agine. called up here several times
during the last three months and they
told me you were away, but didn't
believe them"
"Rea1iv' wdS AWAY, wScreg s e4ss
II was in Switzerland"
"And did you have q good timer
~ didn't go to have good time; ]
went to work"
'Ob, is that fact?"
Eyes"
"Why, should think that there could
be no better place to work than right
here"
"You are mistaken. There are toe
many Interruptions Too many people
come up to see me on too many sub
jects about which have very little in
terest"
That's bad. Now, would thinl
that it would be easy enough to keel
anyone out-that is, anyone that yo'
really did not want te see"
ut is difficult matter. They get IL
on one pretext or another"
We'll, why don't you tell ther
straight out that you are busy an.
can't talk with them? / should tel
them to go"
ut seems brutal thing to do, and
have never been able to work mysel
up to it"
"Then 1 would give them prett
plain hint that they were in the way.
"As how. for instance?"
"Well, there's dozen ways woul
say that l was so busy that had n
time to talk"
That is nearly always the case. Fo
instance, here are lot Of proofs tha
must do and the boy is waiting fol
them in the next room. The printers
are waiting for him, and so, you see,
when l neglect my work keep a whole
procession idle. 1t isn't only my time
that is wasted, but the time of lot OF
innocent people"
That's it, exactly. But couldn't l
help you on the proofs? l can read
proofs like house on fire."
Proofs are like salvation-every man
must work out his own. They have
been read csref ully enough by the pro-
fessioual proof reader l am going over
them to try to mitigate the original bad
English"
Couldn't help you on that?"
I'm afraid not. My theory-I think
mentioned it to you before-is that no
one can help man but himself"
well, remember that am always
ready to lend a hand il you want me
to-"
have already taken up a great deal
of space in setting down this purpose
less talk. There is little use Of giving
any more. He talked on and on while
1 nervously fingered the waiting proofs
At last he said that he was afraid he
must 90. He would drop in later, he
added. and if anything turned up.
Luke Sharp, in Detroit Free Press.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-03-30
CHARITYs COMMANDMENTS.

REMEMBER the spirit of charity to
keep it holy.
Thou shalt not rob the poor to feed
the pauper.
Thou shalt not take the name Of
charity in vain.
Thou shalt not kill the soul Of man
by feeding his stomach.
THOU shalt not let thy giving bear
false witness to its motive.
Thou shalt have no other motive in
giving before the good of the poor.
Thou shalt not covet the name Of
philanthropist for thine own glory.
Thou shalt not let mothers bury
their shame in an orphan asylum nor
fathers hide their greeds
THOU shalt not tempt son or daugh-
ter to thrust father or mother or broth
er or sister upon the poor-rate.
THOU shalt not give to the beggar
because he is a beggar, for the in
iquity of such a gift may be visited
upon the third and fourth generations
of him who receives it.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-03-30
IN THE BOOK WORLD.

THE country place of Mr.. Stockton,
at Convent, y. j., is called The Holt, "
and that of Mr.. Cable, at Northampton,
"Stayawhile."
Mr.. HENRY MILLS ALDEN, who is a
descendant of John Alden of May
flower fame, has been editor of "Har-
per's Magazine" for twenty-seven years.
A NEW edition of Mr.. Hardy's yves
sex Tales" is being issued in" London.
The present edition of his Tess" has
reached twenty-three thousand copies.
PROF. SLOAN, o. Princeton, who has
long been collecting material for an
exhaustive life of Napoleon, has about
finished writing it. The Century" is
to publish it serially.
THE first edition Of the plymouth
Hymnal" is already exhausted, and the
second edition will soon be issued from
the press. No changes will be made
except the correction of few typo
graphical errors, which in spite OF care
crept into the first edition.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-03-30
NAMES FOR BOY BABIES.

Guy is French, the leader.
JOB is Hebrew, the mourner. -
PAUL is Latin, the small one.
HUGH is Dutch, the lofty man.
ERNEST is Greek, the serious one.
MARTIN is Latin, the martial one.
GILBERT is Saxon, bright as gold.
JACOB is Hebrew, the supplanter.
LUcIUs is Latin, the shining one.
PETER is of Latin origin, the rock.
EDWIN is Saxon, happy conqueror.
ISAAC, Hebrew name, means laugh
ter.
LIONEL, the Latin name, is a little
lion.
LEONARD, the German name, is lion
like.
DOUGLAS is Gaelic, signifying dark
gray.
DAGMAR is German, the joy of the
Danes.
DANIEL is Hebrew, meaning God is
judge.
OLIVER is of Roman origin, an olive
tree.
JAMES is of Hebrew origin, the be-
cutler.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-03-30
ABOUT WILD BOARS.
As Inspected in Geological Garden tho
Animals Show Good Points.

As Inspected in Geological Garden tho
Animals Show Good Points.
A wild boar is always pictured as a
ferocious beast, and hunters agree that
they would as soon meet a lion. But
Young wild boars are far prettier than
anyone would suspect, says Golden
Days.
In their wild state, however no one
has had an opportunity to inspect
them closely, and it is only in a ZOO
logical garden that their good points
can be appreciated.
Their bodies are slim and elegant.
their snouts fine, their ears short and
their legs and feet almost as finely
shaped as those of a young antelope.
Their color is a bright fawn or n
rich tan, with longitudinal stripes like
those of a tabby kitten; and, in place
of the thick bristles Of the other pigs.
their bodies are covered with long
and thick coat of rough hair
Family life in the wild boars quar-
ters is harmonious and amusing. For
the first month the little orange-stripcd
pigs depend on their mother for food
and take no notice either Of visitors or
of each other.
Each roams about by itself in most
Independent fashion, or drops down to
sleep on its stomach, with its legs
stretched straight out before aud be-
hind like 4 llneeling elephant in min
iature.
Later. when they have to be salts
fed with the food provided in the
troughs, they become the most anus
ing and importunate beggars in the
zoo. the old cow and boar setting the
example, well supported by the little
pigs.
The whole family stand upright on
their hind legs in n row. with their
fore feet against the rails. and squeak,
grunt and even climb the wire netting
for contributions.
Even If the floor is Uttered with de-
licious hog-wash, they prefer to be fed
from the outside. and the yearning TO
reach just one inch further than their
brothers seems to give an impulse to
the growth of their snOuts, like those
of the parent swine.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-03-30
Rrnln Takes a Ride.

1he engineer on q western New York
train picked up a queer passenger re-
Gently One evening he saw something
come from the bushes at one side Of
the railroad. step upon the track and
stand still between the rails. At first
he thought it was man. but when the
rays of the headlight fell on the object
he saw that it was a bear The train
was moving very fast and the engineer
blew the whistle loudly, but the bear
held his place calmly until almost run
down and then stepped Off This rash
bear must have enjoyed its experience,
for three times during the following
week it repeated the performance.
But when it came out for the fifth time
it had grown careless and the cow
catcher knocked it up in the air Then
the train was stopped and the train
men searched for the bear But bruin
had crawled away somehow into
laurel swamp and is there yet proba-
bly,, but whether dead or alive no one
knows
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-03-30
MERRY BUT NOT WISE.
witty Sayings OF King Charles III. OF
England.

The sayings Of Charles H., the king
who. according to the severe yet just
epitaph written upon him by the earl
of Rochester,
Never said foolish thing
And never did wise one,
are so many as to show us plainly why
he should be so beloved even by those
who could not approve his actions. lie
was merry monarch and he was good
company"
His was an age OF nick.names and he
was widely known as "Old Rowley,"
the name OF an ill-favored horse in the
royal stables One day ayoung lady at
court was in her apartments singing a
satirical ballad called "Old Rowley, the
King" when Charles knocked at the
door,
"Who is it?" she called.
"Old Rowley himself, madam" he
returned, good naturedly.
He could convey a reproof with wit
and gentleness. When Penn stood be.
fore him with his hat on, the king took
off his own.
Friend Charles" said the Quaker,
why dost thou not put on thy hat?"
"Tis the custom OF this place" re-
turned the king, that never above one
person should be covered at time
Youths Companion. =
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-03-30
REWARDED AT LAST.
A Man Of Versatile Accomplishments Out
of job.

OF JODs
In western paper, under the head
ing SITUATIONS Wanted" appeared
the following advertisement, which
shows in fair degree the versatility
and modesty Of one American printer:
Wanted-Situation by a practical
printer, who is competent to take
charge of any department in printing
and publishing house. Would accept a
professorship in any Of the academies
Has no objection TO teach ornamental
painting and penmanship, geometry,
trigonometry and many other sciences
Has had some experience as a lay
preacher. Would have no objection to
form a small class of young ladies and
gentlemen to instruct them in the
higher branches. To dentist or chi
ropodist he would be Invaluable, or he
would cheerfully accept a position as
bass or tenor singer In choir.
Remarkable as it may seem, this ad-
vertisement appeared day after day,
indicating that the gifted printer was
still without a situation. At last there
appeared this addition to the notice:
up. S. Will accept an offer to saw
and split wood at less than the usual
rates"
The advertisement was not inserted
again, so that the readers of the paper
were left TO infer that at last the versa
tile printers requirements had met
with appreciation Youths Compan-
ION
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-03-30
LITTLE RECIPES

A LITTLE ammonia in tepid water
will soften and cleanse the skin.
SPIRITS Of ammonia inhaled will
often relieve severe headache.
DoORPLATEs should be cleaned by
rubbing with cloth wet in ammonia
and water.
IT is said that the hiccough is often
cured by swallowing teaspooDfui OF
baking soda, dry.
II the color has been taken out OF
silks by fruit stains ammonia will
usually restore the color.
To BRIGHTEN carpets wipe them with
warm water in which has been poured
few drops of ammonia.
ONE or two tablespoonfuls OF am
monia added TO a pail of water will
clean windows better than soap.
ONE of the prettiest women in Lon
don society is said to plunge towel
in very hot water. wiring it out and
leave it on her face for half an hOut
every night before going TO bed in
stead Of washing, and this lady has no
wrinkles .,.-. .--.,--..---=