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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-08-30
The Discovery of Glass.

There is little or nothing known
with certainty in regard to the inven-
tion or discovery of glass. Some of the
Oldest specimens are Egyptian, and the
age of certain glass vessels made by
that people, which are now kept in the
British museum, is believed to he at
least 4,194 years, dating back to the
year 230O b. c. Transparent glass was
first used about 75O b. c., the credit of
this latter discovery being given to the
Phoenicians. The old story of it's acci-
dental discovery is familiar: Merchants
who were resting their cooking pots on
blocks of subcarbonate of soda found
glass produced by the union, under
heat, of the alkali and the sands of the
desert
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-08-30
cuRIoslrlEs OF PLANT LIFE.
Trees That Distiil Water, Furnish Light,
Change Color. and Catch Fiah.

Trees That Distiil water. Furnish Light.
Change Color, and Catch Fish.
On the Canary Island grows foun-
tain tree, tree most needed In some
parts Of the island, says the San Jose
Call Mercury. It is said that the
leaves constantly distill enough water
to furnish drink TO every living crea-
ture in Hero, nature having provided
this remedy for the dro-ght Of the
island. Every morning, ncar this part
of the island, cloud or mist arises
from the sea, which the Winds force
against the steep cliff on which the
tree grows. and it is from the mist that
the tree distilis The water.
China, too, claims her rsmarlable
tree This is known as the ia low tree,
30 called from the fact of its reducing
substance like tallow, and which
serves the same purpose, is of the same
consistency, color and smell. On the
island of Lewchew grows tree about
the size of common cherry tree, which
possesses the popularity of changing
the color of its blossoms. At one time
the flower assumes the tint of the lily,
and again shortly takes the color of the
rose. In Thibet there is curious tree
known as the tree of the thousand i'm
ages; its leaves are covered with we'll
defined characters of the Thibetan
alphabet. 1t is of great age and the
only one of its kind known there.
The caobab tree is considered one Of
the most wonderful of the vegetable
kingdom. 1t appears that nothing can
kill this tree; hence it reaches an
astonishing age as well as enormous
size. The natives make a strong cord
from the fibers of the bark; hence the
trees are continually barked, but
without damage, as they soon put forth
new bark. 1t seems impervious to
fire and even the ak is resisted, as IL
continues to grow in length while it is
lying on the ground.
In Mexico there is plant known by
the name of Palo de Leche. 1t be-
longs to the family of euphorbia. The
Indians throw the leaves into the water
and the fish become stupefied and rise
to the surface and are then caught by
the natives. In this case the effect of
the narcotic soon passes off. The
milk of this plant thrown upon the fire
gives out fumes that produce nausea
and headache. The milk taken inter-
nally is deadly poison; it will pro-
duce death or insanity according to the
size of the doze. There is popular
belief among the lower class in Mexico
that the insanity of the ex-Empress
Carlotta was caused by this poison.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-08-30
HER OBNOXIOUS ATTIRE.
It Was Too Much for the Nerves of This
Poor Woman.


Poor Woman.
Bad nerves are frequently very
troublesome. Experience proves that
1t is always advisable to nip their dem
onstrations in the bud before they get
too audacious and assume control Of
the whole system.
At a garden concert the other even
ing, says the New York World, very
ine-looking, elderly woman in high
ly desirable seat seemed to be laboring
under a mysterious malady. She
twisted about, she wriggled, she rubbed
her hands together excitedly, she
leaned back and shut her eyes as if in
desperation. What could be the mat
ter with her? She did not seem warm,
for she did not fan, and she looked too
well to be on the verge of a stroke of
any kind. Suddenly the mystery was
solved. Before her sat lovely summer
girl clad in a charming fluffy gown of
silk gauze. The perturbed old lady
leaned and touched her on the shoul-
der. Then she said
Young lady, your gown is beauti-
full, but it is made with the stripes run
ming bias on your back, and they drive
me nearly frantic. Would you mind
changing seats with me, SO can't see
them? If you don't shall certainly
have to go home"
And the charming girl changed seats
with her
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-08-30
NapOleon's Poison Bag.

A curious detail of Napoleon Bona
parties costume was the religious care
with which he kept hung around his
neck the little leather envelope, shaped
like heart, which contained the poison
that was to liberate him in case of
irretrievable reverses of fortune. This
poison was prepared after recipe that
Cabanis had given to Corvisart, and
after the year 1908 the emperor never
undertook a campaign without having
his little packet Of poison.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-08-30
How Beetles Defend themselves.

Beetles have other defenses than
their cuirass, such as nauseous or caus-
tic liquids which they expel on provo
cation, and an English scientist has
found that certain beetles actually
exude their blood, charged with nox-
ious products. So far he finds the prac-
tice confined to the chrysomelide, some
of the timarche, adamonia, the coccine-
lid@ and the meloid@. The blood of
the coccinelid~ has a strong disagreea-
BILE odor like that Of the whole insect;
that Of the timarch@ is odorless but
has an astringent flavor, and in the
case Of the timsrch@ primeliodes is
venomous. The blood Of the msloidss
contains much cantharidine.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-08-30
A Russian Charm.

The Russian method for young girls
to find out when they will be married is
for party of them to assemble and
take off their rings and drop them into
basket OF corn, stirring the grain
meantime till all the rings are hidden
and then hen is brought in and in
vited to partake of the corn and the
owner Of the first ring uncovered will
be the first to enter mstrimony.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-08-30
"When my roommate and I nsed 4

when my roommate and used to
cook our own breakfasts,' said young
man, 1--WE had the best. of cream and
coffee, the finest of butter and the
freshest OF eggs. We enjoyed those
breakfasts immensely, but they were
not cheap measured by the standard OF
half dozen neighboring restaurants. .
IN. Y. Sun.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-08-30
Meteorological Item.

Mamma, the weather is red hot"
said a little Harlem boy.
1t is pretty warm, sonny, but
don't think that it is red hot"
Yes it is. 1t says in the paper that
the thermometer is at blood heat, and
you know blood is red "-Tammany
Times.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-08-30

-she-"I wish l had known you bet
ter before we were married. We
haven't a single sentiment that we can
agree upon" He-"Oh, yes, we have
that last sentiment of yours. Dem.
orest's Magazine.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-08-30

take my revenge 1Or tne brutal way in
which you treated me in days gone by.
Yes, Mr.. Bryant, the tables are turned;
/ have the upper hand now"
"And for the sake of foolish bows
taunts you would risk bringing the
charge of murder upon your head"
returned, bitterly.
"You think intend to take your
life" he said, coolly, but you are mis-
taken. To kill you would be to end
your misery, and there are many things
worse than death. 1t would be harder
for you to live with stain upon your
name. Ruin and disgrace would bring
your proud spirit down"
l was bewildered. What could the
madam mean? at any rate. it was
relief to hear that | WIS safe from
bodily harm; for the rest, how could
he touch me?
II know all about you," he went on
show you have got round your en-
ployers, until you think your fortune
is made! But how will it be with the
company's faVorite servant, after to-
night?" AS he finished speaking. Holt
rose and took the levers in his hand,
changing the points, as had done an
hour before, SO that the next train
would run, not over the bridge, but
down the siding, on to the trucks of
goods that were already standing
there ~" ~
What are you about9'sl cried,
Struggling wildly to free myself.
"Matthew Holt, for Gods sake. think
what ypu are doingI'
= He made no answer, but. leaving the
points as he had placed them. resumed
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-23

We buy the ButtezTck
Fashion Sheet M0nthIV:'
we pay $z.OOpe1' hundred
for them, and give them
with pleasure to our Gus
toners. In return, we eX-
poet to receive your orders
for patteznS, which we get
q commission on. That is
how we get paid for doing
business.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-23

A dispatch from st. Petersburg
says: "The cholera epidemic is much
more intense and fatal than we're the
outbreaks of the two previous years.
The disease has even penetrated into
Finland, hitherto free from cholera.
The hospitals are full and the prison
is being converted into hospital.
The sanitary commission will hence
forth sit permanently.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-23

We do business for Prof
ii, and Pt0htbY doing bus
mess. orr efforts are 10
create business. We work
no 10, 80, 90, - and 90
cent pennY-catch games on
our customers. IT our
handkezchiefS do not sell
freely at 25 cts, we have
not the faculty TO mark
them 20 cts. and cause them
10 go with q stampede.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-23
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
Estate of Simon B. Robbins.

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Hon. Probate Court for the District of Or
leans Commissioners, to receive, examine
and adjust all claims and demands of all
persons against the estate of Simon b. Rob-
bins, late of Craftsburv, in said District de-
ceased, and all claims exhibited in offset
thereto, hereby give notice that we will meet
for the purposes aforesaid at the Office of
III. N. Stevens, on the 18th day of October
next, from ten O'Clock a.. M. until five
from the 2Ist day of April, A. D. 1894, is the
time limited by said Court for said creditors
to present their claims to us for examination
and allowance.
Dated at Craftsbury, this 18th day of July,
A. d. 1884,
E. L. HASTINGS, lco,;ss;-
81 t. M. GALLAGHER, iO'ioieis'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-23

An electric light is to be placed in
the Fire Island lighthouse, off New
York, the candle power of which is
estimated to be 40. 100000 candles.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-23
Notice.

In accordance with Section 129 of the Revis-
ed Laws, notice is hereby given that bill
will be introduced at the next session of the
Legislature of the Stateof Vermont, providing
for the levying of County tax upon Orleans
County, for the purpose of putting a suitable
said County.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-23

Over 100 OfOH1' Pfen7i-
I'm Portrait tickets have,
been taken. $50 have a.
ready been enlarged and
delivered. The work IS
excellent and much aPple-
c1ated by all who have
1t. We hare plenty Of
work for inspection always
on hand.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-23
4 POINTS 4
WORTH KNOWING:

Davis, the Shoe Man,
has given aWaYneazZY 100
pairs OfZWO Dollar Shoes.
We sell rs pairs, and then
give away one. That's
plain enough. Each Gus
toner does not have TO pu1-
chase rs pairs before they
get the 10Th free. We
have everything durable
in FOOtWeaI.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-23
WHAT I SAW OUT WEST.
BY DAVID HILL.

Ogden, situated in the shadow of
high mountains, is thriving grow
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-23
H. 0. WHITCHER, Barton.
NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS.

The Tax Payers of School District No. /, in
ton are berebV nntified that the tas hills on
the Grand List of 1894 are now in my hands
for collection. discount of per cent will
he allowed on all taxes paid within 80 days
from date. After that time the bills will be
placed in the hands of collector to be col
lected by process of law.
III. G. PIERCE, Treas.
Barton, VT, June IL, 1894.
The go days will expire the 10th day of
September, 1894.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-23

Our'guarantee is like a Bank
Check-if your purchase does 1
not suit you, bring back the (
goods and draw your money
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-03-08
CHRISTIANITY.

"The object of Christianity is
human welfare; it's methed is char
acter-buildlng; its process is evolu-
ton, and the secret of it's power is
God "
So says the Rev. Lyman Abbott,
and from this standpoint nothing
short of the millennium should sat
isfy Christians.
That the church has not lived up
to it's mission cannot be denied, and
that it has made advances 10 also
true.
The question, What is the work
of the present is, by far, of more
Importance than any other question
that concerns Christians.
If human welfare is the object of
Christianity, surely no Christian
can claim that there is not work to
employ all the idle.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-03-08
TARIFF.

Neither high tariff or low tariff
will relieve the present distress of
the working people. What is need
ed-and badly--is work for the un-
employed. Idle people, who must
depend upon wages for livelihood,
when unemployed, cannot buy either
food or clothing, and the less food
or clothing consumed, the more
idleness so, like disease without
treatment, the malady increases.
The product of one class of labor
ers must find market, or cOnsum-
ers in some other class, and demand
must keep up with supply, or labor
becomes unremunerative, and, of
necessity, falls off.
During thirty years of high tariff,
all kinds of industry has languished
except the industry of thieves, until
from one to two millions of working
people are forced to become their
own destroyers, and the Wilson bill
will not, or cannot, produce An i'm
mediate change for the better.
If high tariff, as presumed, stimu-
lated manufacturers to the point of
over-production, and from ever pro-
duction followed enforced idleness
of the producers, then the effect of
the Wilson bill will be to furnish
more products and less employment
for American operatives, for certain
ly the Wilson bill will stimulate
foreign importations in that it re-
moves or reduces present duties,
and thereby opens wider door for
production without in the least en-
larging consumption.
To have a happy and prosperous
people we must have labor employed
at remunerative wages.
While we believe that high tar
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-03-08

thirty years experiment, the ope'
rative is homeless, and tens OF
thousands are out of employment.
The farmer was promised home
market and high prices, but he sells
a large surplus abroad, and home
prices are regulated by the prices
in foreign markets.
Facts controvert all the fne-spun
theories that have been or can be
woven in support of an American
tariff.
Carnegie is thirty times million
aire, while thousands of his operat
ives are beggars, and very few own
cottages. The rapid increase of
tenant farmers, and the terrible fact
that comparatively few farms are
unincumbered, declare plainly that
high-tariff theories are unequivocal-
ly untrue when put into practice.
We find, too, that high tariff, as
an indirect tax (if thereby surplus
revenue is derived), invites may,
prompts--the plundering of the pub
lie treasury in needless expendi-
lures, and in which a few men are
made rich, and, through the riches
acquired by plumber, become the
oppressors of the people who paid
the revenue.
Tariff is also a monopoly-breeder,
and so fruitful that few men of the
Carnegie stripe are able to fix the
prices of manufactured products
without reference to supply or de-
mand.
Thus, briefly, we outline tariff
but, as we have already stated, the
Wilson bill cannot cure any indus
trial evil existing in America. 1t
may be step in the right direction,
the good of which will not immedi-
ately be apparent, and we sanction
it for it's future promise, but We are
far from content.
Our monopolies must go; our finan-
cial system must go our railroad
systems must go; our system OF
taxation must be overhauled our
saloons must go; our idle must be
employed before the working people
of this country will be fully upon
the highway to lasting prosperity.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-03-08

SOIHS W WdoIO.
If there is to be further evolution,
there must be renewed activity.
There are no pauses in evolution.
TO halt is perilous to turn back is
death.
In it's inception and nature,
Christianity of necessity must be
aggressive. Jesus, while He pro-
mulgated a new doctrine, did Tot
hesitate to attack the old.
But what of the present? Under
the laws of evolution, the old is re.
placed by the new, in which the
worn-out is cast off and the new
form appears full of vigor and in
greater perfection-a step nearer
the ideal. Now, to us, it would seem
that the next step in the evolution
of Christianity is embraced in the
social and industrial questions Of
the day. Millions of people are
prey to their environment. Wrong
environment must be destroyed be-
fore character-building can even
begin. rM
Have Christians the divine i'm
pulse of love? If SO, the power is
theirs to overcome evil.
God has exerted, and always will
exert, His secret power in all that
affects the welfare of man, through
human agency. Why endow men
with minds to think, hearts to love,
and hands to mould if it is not that
he may build for himself an habita-
ton fit to dwell in? so
To day, the power of Christianity
is, in a measure, dormant, because
Christians are failing to exert the
secret power of God. 1t is just as
much part of Christianity to work
as to pray, 1t is just as surely the
part of a Christian to exercise rea-
son as faith. God will not do for
the human race what it can do for
itself. If all the Christians in the
world were to pray for the extinc-
ton of any evil created by man,
and did not work for it's extinction,
that evil would neither abate nor
cease.
God could have conveyed the
children of Israel across the desert
in chariots drawn by angels, but,
having given them legs, He forced
them to walk.
God could abolish the intolerable
evil of alcohol, but He does not, be-
cause He has given that power to
the children of men.
God could compel men to so live
that all could enjoy His bounty in
abundance of food and clothing, but
He does not, because man, in sheer
self-interest, ought to do that for
himself
Gods power lies hidden within
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-03-08

1t has no standing Ill pnilosophy vi
philanthropy; that public necessity
long since ceased to be an excuse,
and protected infant industries" a
kissing and by-word a; that they
are not statesmen who build one
class at the expense of all other
classes !; yet, we do not believe that
present industrial conditions are
nearly all due to high tariff and if
we are right, these conditions will
remain under any tariff system.
We claim that the main evils of
the present flow from other sources
than tariff Legislation. We say
sources, because there are number
of well-de6ned sources of evil to
our working people, and we should
say that if these evils were removed,
the tariff might go either way, and
still the people would enjoy a good
measure of prosperity.
The people, as they are more fully
forced into the light of the new era,
perceive that it is under-consumption
that is destroying the laboring
classes rather than over.production,
and they are thinking of the only
plan that will afford relief, and that
plan, or plans, embrace more
equal distribution of wealth, so as
to stimulate consumption up to the
point of comfort for every man, wO-
man and child-not as charity, but
as dues earned by useful employ
ment
The scriptures teach that "all the
nations of the earth are of one
blood" and from that standpoint, all
the people have an equal right to
earth's products and so, where
one nation has a surplus of one
product, and deficiency in another,
that nation should be permitted to
exchange the surplus product for
the deficient product without tax
being levied on the privilege. Un-
der natural laws, surplus will be
produced where the circumstances
are most favorable. Manufacturing,
the supply of labor being equal, can
be done most cheaply where the raw
material is found or produced. Ag-
ricultural products will be cheapest
where the conditions are most favor
able to large yields. Emigration
will flow to the places which promise
the best living to the emigrant. So,
under universal free trade, earth's
products and population will dis.
tribute themselves in accordance
with well-defined laws. There are
no mistakes in the laws that govern
natural phenomena.
Unrestricted commerce and emf
grafton would make no mistakes.
Tariff is usually an indirect tax,
and the greatest bene6ciaries under
go. .,stan, hayo hoon tho manufac.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-03-08

KEEP in the middle of the road.