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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-26

bian series is found in the fact thar II
comprises stamps OF much higher
denominations than does the old series.
The highest denomination of the ole
style ordinary postage stamp is ninety
cents, whereas the Columbian series
runs up to five dollars. There cannot
be much practical use for this stamp,
except for sale to collectors and posi-.
bly, for the payment OF postage on
heavy packages OF foreign mail matter.
There ID one stamp in the old serie'
which is not for sale at any price ia
anybody, and never passes into the
hands of the public except by acci.
dent.
This is the newspaper and periodical
stamp, Postage upon mail matter Of
this class IS paid at pound rates IL
money at the office of mailing, and the
stamps which are used as evidence OF
the payment never pass into the hands
Of the publisher, but are cancelled by
the postmaster and are by him for.
warded as vouchers to the department.
Washington Star.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-26
New Uses for Aluminium.

New uses are constantly found fol
the pure metal aluminium, says the
Popular Science Monthly; less EN-
ployed in jewelry, it is most useful in
the modest ranks of plated-ware and
kitchen vessels. In Germany it has
been introduced experimentally into
the equipment of soldiers. Its alloy
with the rare metal titanium, while
light, is very hard and tough. Could
not picks, bayonets, sabers and mess
plates, imposing lighter loads on foot.
soldiers, be made Of it? The Russian
army tried horseshoes of aluminium,
and the horses of the Finnish ORA.
goons, on which the experiment was
made, are said to have gained percep-
tibly in speed by it. 1t has been in
troduced into machines, to reduce the
dead weight-a gain Of special value
for aerial navigation and for cyclers.
A canoe entirely Of aluminium, hull
and machinery, has been launched on
the Lake Of Geneva, and suggests a
new resource for the bold explorers OF
rivers with numerous rapids in Africa
and elsewhere. The supposition is
consistent with past experiences that
new wants will arise as the means Of
satisfying them increase, and that the
new metal, without infringing upon
the domains of its predecessors, will
in some way create the uses for which
it will be employed.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-26
Horrors OF the Commune.

Ayoung linesman staggered into the
courtyard, bareheaded, ghastly pale,
his tunic half stripped off. His neck
was cut deeply open at the potion OF
the right side for a length Of nearly
six inches, and the severed flesh hung
down on to the shoulder in thick
scarlet fold; he dripped with blood,
and literally spattered it about him as
he reeled in. He still held his rifle
with his left hand, and with the right
he dragged after him young woman.
With last effort the soldier flung
the woman toward us, stammering out
hoarsely, "She has killed my Captain !;
she has killed two ofmy comrades; she
has cut my throat, and yet / bring her
to you alive!" And then the poor
young fellow dropped heavily, his rifle
ringing on the stones as it fell with
him.
Tie that woman's hands behind
her." ordered the commanding officer,
as the soldier was put upon litter for
conveyance to the ambulance. Silent
and breathless stood the woman; she
seemed to expect immediate death.
Her shoulders, her tattered garments,
her arms and hands, were splashed
everywhere with blood; the expression
of her white face, with the hard glazed
eyes, the clenched teeth, and the
strained distortion Of the corners Of
the mouth, was demoniacal.
Straight she stood up before us, her
head thrown back as if to dare the
worst; she made no answer to the ques-
tions put TO her. There was discussion
among the officers as to whether it was
not their duty to have her shot at once.
But, though the case was clear, they
shrank from commencing executions
by woman, and after some hesitation,
spared her, taking it for granted that
when tried she would be condemned.
Her arms bound back. she was sent
into the cellar. She was, however, the
only one let off; from that moment
every prisoner, man or woman, brought
in red-handed was taken across to the
park and executed straight away
Rlackwood's Magazine.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-26
History Of Iron Making.

Iron was used before history WA
written. The stone records OF Egypt
and the brick books of Nineveh men
ton it. Genesis (ix., 22) refers to Tu
bal-cain as "an instructor of every
artificer in brass and iron," and ii
Deuteronomy (iii., 11) the bedstead o.
the giant Og was "a bedstead Of iron. =
| The galleys Of Tyre and Sidon traded
in this metal: Chinese records as.
cribed to 1000 B. G. refer to it; Homer
speaks of it as superior to bronze. The
bronze age came before the iron age,
because copper, found as nearly pure
metal, easily fuses. and with another
soft metal--t or zinc alloys into hard
bronze; while iron, found only as an
ore, must have the impurities burnt
and hammered out by great heat and
force before it can be made into tool.
The word sometimes translated ''steel'
in our English Bible really means
bronze or brass, but steel was distinc
lively known to the later ancients.
Pliny the elder wrote in the first cen
fury of our era: "Howbeit as many
kinds of iron as there be, none shall
match in goodness the steel that comes
from the Sores (Chinese), for this com
modify also, as hard ware as it is, they
send and sell with their soft silks and
fine furs. In second degree of good.
ness is the Parthian iron." Asia proba
bly, made more iron and steel thirty
centuries ago than it does to-day.
About the time Of the first Olympiad,
776 B. G., there is authentic record of
the use of iron in Greece, and Lycur.
gus used it for the money of Sparta.
Iron and steel weapons Of war begun
to displace those of bronze before the
battle of Marathon. The Romans
learned iron-making from the Greeks
and the Etruscans, their mysterious
and highly civilized neighbors, and OBJ.
tanned iron largely from Corsica, where
the mines had been worked from the
prehistoric period. The Roman
DICTIONARIES found in Spain steel
weapons of the finest temper, and Dio.
dorus says that the weapons Of the Gel
tiberians, were SO keen "that there lie
no helmet or shield which cannot be
cut through by them" Toletum (now
Toledo was then as famous for its
sword blades as afterward in the Mid
die Ages. Caesar found the painted
Britons fighting with spear-heads o.
bronze, but wearing armlets of iron,
and remains Of pre-Roman FORCES are
still found in England and Wales. The
Germans knew the art of sword-forg-
ing, and their legends Of dwarfs and
trolls with magic swords point to an
earlier people, adopts in mining and
metallurgy. -Harper's Magazine.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-26

To understand the way to rest, says
the American Analyst, is OF more i'm
portance than to know how to work.
The latter can be learned easily; the
former it takes years to learn, and
some people never learn the art OF
resting. It is simply a change Of
scenes and activities. Loafng may
not be resting. Sleeping is not al
ways resting. Sitting down for days
with nothing to do is not resting. A
change is needed to bring into play a
different set of faculties, and to turn
the life into new channel. The man
who is burdened with care can find re-
lief in something that is active, yet
free from responsibility. Above all
keep good -natured, and don't abuse
your best friend, the stomach.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-26
UNCONTROLLED.
The mighty forces OF mysterious space

The mighty forces Of mysterious space
Are one by one subdued by lordly man.
The awful lightnings, that for cons ran
Their devastating and untrammeled race
Now bear his messages from place to place
Like carrier doves. The winds lead on bis
van.
The lawless elements no longer can
Resist his strength, but yield with sullen
grace.
His bold feet scaling heights before untrod-
Light, darkness, air and water, heat AMI
cold.
He bids go forth and bring him power and
pelt.
And yet, though ruler, king and demigod,
He walks, with his fierce passions uncon-
trolled,
The conquerer ofall things save himself.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in the Century.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-26
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Clothes carefully folded and sprin.
killed. are half ironed.
Warm mutton suet applied to cold
! sores will soothe the pain, allay the
Inflammation and soon cause them to
disappear.
A settle is comfortable thing
about the kitchen, as it can be used
for many purposes and yet do it's best
service on ironing days.
Individual salt cellars are again in
use instead of the salt shakers that
have been popular for SO many years.
They come in glass, silver or china,
and small silver salt spoon is placed
by each one.
No matter how large the spot of oil
any carpet or wooden stuff can be
cleaned by applying buckwheat plen-
tifully, brushing it into q dustpan
after short time and putting on fresh
until the oil has disappeared.
Nothing in the way of linen lasts
longer than the half bleached damask,
and it is good economy to buy it, for
in few months it will bleach to
snowy Wilderness and not grow yellow
when laid away as quickly as the fully
bleached will do.
Cold boiled potatoes sliced and put
in milk gravy, and boiled till warm,
are very good with any kind Of pork,
especially ham and bacon. They are
more delicate if the gravy is thick
ened with corn starch and enriched
with butter. This is way of saving
potatoes, as the gravy forms much Of
the dish.
When you are making your pastry,
take the bits that may be left and roll
as thin as writing paper; spread with
grated cheese, fold and roll again. Re-
peat this three times, then cut in
strips as wide and as long as your fin
ger. Brush with beaten egg and bake
in quick oven. Watch carefully, as
they burn quickly, and require to be
only delicately Drowned.
A warm footbath, with an ounce Of
sea-salt. is almost as restful as nap.
Paddle in the water until it cools, dry
with rough towel, put on FRESH Jck-
ings, have change Of shoes d the
woman who was s'ready to 81 will
feel much better in ten mv es. An
other tonic for the sole isl 4andful Of
alcohol. This is sure y to dry the
feet after being out in sorm.
A good batter for fry ng meat, oys-
tiers, ETC., instead Of eggs and crumbs,
is made in the following way: Three
quarters Of a pound of sifted flour
mixed with two ounces of butter melted
in warm water. Make a soft paste,
beat it smooth till the batter is thick
enough to mask the back Of spoon
dipped into it, and salt to taste. Add
The last thing the whites of two eggs
we'll beaten. ss'-,>
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-26
TO COOK DUCK.


Tame ducks are excellent stuffed
with potatoes mixed with sausage
meat. To make the stutiing, boil and
mash four potatoes Of good size, and
while they are hot add one ounce Of
butter, one-fourth of a pound of saus-
age meat, half a teaspoonful of salt
and quarter teaspoonful of pepper.
Fill the body, rub the breast Of the
duck with onion, lay on it a slice of
salt pork, turn quarter of cupful
Of water in the pan, and roast in q
quick oven. Wild ducks are best with
out stufing. French chestnuts boiled
and rubbed through colander make
delicious filing for ducks. Home
and Farm.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-26
SLICED APPLE PIE.

Peel the apples-let them be green
ings, pippins or Spitzenburgs; slice
them thin into an earthen dish.
1t takes six good sized apples to make
large pie. Lay the slices in the pie
plate on the under crust, with which
it is lined. Have it we'll heaped up
with apples, springle with sugar,
flavor with allspice, cinnamon or
caraway seed, just which you like
best Springle few drops Of water
over the top, a few tiny pats Of butter,
dredge over the whole little -four.
Put on the upper crust, press tightly
round the edge of the pan to keep the
juice in, put in the oven and bake
forty minutes with moderate fire.
When done take out Of the oven,
make little incision in top Of crust
and pour IN two tablespoonful of
water, hold the pie in both hands after
you have done this and give it two
or three rotary movements to equally
distribute the water. Then put the
pie in a cool, dry place till ready to
eat-if your desire don't get the better
of you and tempt you to eat it while
hot. New York Advertiser.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-26
An Optical Illusion.

If you want good ending to a little
party take all the guests into the
dining-room and turn out the gas.
Make them all sit around the table, in
the middle Of which place soup plate.
In the soup plate put some common
salt and little alcohol. Light the
alcohol and then look at each others
faces. They will look natural at first
but as the alcohol burns out and the
salt becomes ignited the fame changes
from yellow to blue and the changes
in the faces are very startling. They
all take on CHASTITY look. Eyes stick
out and the skin looks as though
drawn tight like parchment. Then
the faces become almost black and
when the flame dies out and you go
out into a lighted room you uncon-
sciously try to wipe the black off.
But it doesn't come. It's all the light
from the salt. = Hartford Post.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-26
rRorHED EGG.

A frothed egg is an egg cooked SO
delicately and served SO temptingly
that an invalid usually needs no coax
ing to eat one. II is prepared by TAX
ing large ''fresh-laid" egg, and beat
ing the white to q stiff froth. This
process is always quickened by adding
small pinch Of salt. Butter slightly
but thoroughly an individual earthen
or bright tinware mould or low cup,
and turn the white into it evenly, and
make slight depression in the centre.
In this drop the yolk Of the egg very
carefully. Set the cup containing the
egg in pan filed with hot water, and
bake three minutes in hot oven
New York Post.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-26

Where ne went, OF whom he in
quired, matters not; but one day
when the sun was setting in the west
he opened little cottage gate to
which he had heen directed, and saw,
AZ her knitting, under recovered
porch, his Betty, not changed one
single bit And she? She looked at
him, and did not know him, with his
thin sallow face and his wooden leg.
what may you be wanting, sir?"
she asked.
And he said, 'Bettyl"
And she cried out, "Why, mercy,
it's John Leaf!'
Then he sat down on bench close
by her side.
''You know I never had many
words to spend on anything, Betty
he said. "I'll come to the point at
once. / know now that you we're true
and no cheat, and that you never gave
my ring to Monseer. I found it--or
my lad did, for I'm not very good at
climbing now-in the old magpie nest
in the oak top"
$50 the magpie stole 1t, eh?" said
Betty. swell, they are strange birds.
I've heard they've taken spoons before
now"
"And SO, Betty" said John, eff
you'll overlook the past, and let by
cones be by-gones. I'll be happy
man."
81 owe you no grudge," said Betty.
"And by-gones are by-gones, John
Leaf"
"But you'll let things be as they
were, Betty" said John. "You'll be
my sweetheart again."
She laughed.
''Don't you know" she said. "Why,
look there.
He looked. Through the gate came
q foreign-looling man, with a silver
ring upon his finger, who led by the
hand toddling child.
'Why, it's Monseer," said John.
'You see" said Betty, I went to
him to ask him how he came by his
ring, and he proved it was none of
mine. 1t has name and date on it
that mine never had. And he was
kind to me, and you had been cruel.
And SO we have been married three
years, eh, Louis? And this is our
boy"
II had better go home, I think"
said John Leaf. Zone is always pun
ished for being fool. But this is
your ring. Will you have it, Betty?"
'sPray keep it for your sweetheart"
said Betty. You'll find one soon, no
doubt"
But John Leaf never found one
again, and the ring found in the mag
pies nest was buried with him when
he died. New York News.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-26

II is common mistake TO have too
tight smokehouse. and, in conse-
quence, the meat is apt to remain soft
and greasy. Too open house re-
quires too much fuel, but little air
is necessary to aid the drying process.
The smoke should be applied to the
meat cold, and the temperature Of the
smoke house should never be above
eighty degrees. The meat must never
be allowed to freeze. It is careless
ness in the smoking which causes so
many country people to dislike meat
so prepared. New York World.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-26
Temperature Under Soldiers Hats.

A French physician stationed in
the Senegal has measured the temper
AZURE under the various head coverings
in vogue among the colonial officers
there. The temperature under the
helmet of an officer of the marine is
forty-one degrees, R.. under the sub
alterns' helmets, which are provided
with ventilations, it is thirty-nine de-
grees, and under the white colonial
hats it is never more than thirty-three
degrees, no matter how hot the day
may be. st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-26

The world has large part of it's
wealth invested in 1926, $50 fixed and
107. 100 locomotive engines
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-26
THE RING.

ANY years ago there
stood in B er k.
shire, England, ia,
out upon a quiet
country road, a lit
tie inn, which the
wooden sign swing
ing at the door de-
clared to be Known
as 1.-THE MaSpie's
Nest. " L
It had been thus
named becauAe of
the number Of mag
pies in the Nigh
b or no 0 d. And
straight beforsi the
door stood an loak
tree a centurY bid,
among whose Aup-
pcrmoSt bralnkes
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-08
GENERAL MERw1N FOR TRUSTEE.

The firm of Quigley & Futile of New York was yesterday morning declared insolvent in the probate court. Judge Cleaveland fixed Monday next as the time for the hearing on the estate and for the appointment of trustee. The insolvency proceedings against the es- tate of William P. Futile, the junior member of the firm, and who resides in this city, will come up on the same day. It is thought probable that Gen. eral Samuel D. Merwin will be ap- pointed trustee of both estates. A copy of the courts notice was sent yester- day to Warden D. J. Hickey of the Sing Sing prison for service upon Quigley.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-08
sPIE1BERG CAUGHT Ar LAST.
Arrested in Philadelphia and Will b
 Brought Here for Trial.

Arrested in Philadelphia and Will be
 Brought Here for Trial.
 Nicholas Spielberg, the law student who while under arrest for seducing Sarah Newman of 557 State street, skipped his bond, was arrested in Phila- delphia Wednesday on a bail-piece. Max Rosenthal furnished bonds for Spielberg at the time of his arrest and Spielberg skipped his bond. His where about could not be learned until short time ago. He wrote a letter to the Newman girl about a week ago, in which he protested his love for her and declared that he intended to return. He was located in Philadelphia and Sergeant Cowles went there for him yesterday morning.
 He will be surrendered when he ar rives and unless the affair can be set tld up by marriage he will have to stand trial for seduction.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-08
WORK OF THE RoAD DEPABTNENr.
Improvements Made During 1894 by the
 Bonrd of Public Works.

The following is an extract from the report of City Engineer Kelly of the work accomplished by the board of pub lie works during the past year. The re- port will be submitted to the court of common council at the meeting of the lower branch of that body next Mon day evening.
 The Oak street bridge over West riv- CT, including approaches, was complet- ed early in the year. A full and detail- ed description of this bridge was given in the report for 1893. The Whalley avenue bridge has been strengthened at the joint expense of the city of New Haven, the town, of New Haven and the Fair Haven and Westville Railroad company This bridge, from defective design, was so deficient in stiffness to be considered unsafe. and especially so for the passage of loaded electric cars. The bridge will now doubtless answer all purposes for many years. The cost to the city for the work was $271.67. An electrical equipment of Tomlinson drawbridge was completed, so that the bridge has been in regular operation by electricity since April l. 1894. The electric power is taken from the wires of the New Haven Street Railway com pany. Many minor repairs In the sev- eral city bridges were mentioned.
 During the past year new sewers have been built in eighteen different streets, and in Evergreen cemetery, connecting the old sewer with the sew CT in Davenport avenue
 Length of sewers in use January 1, 1894, 7654S miles; length of sewers in use January 1, 1885, 79.45 miles
 The number of house connections made with the public sewers in 1894 was 503. The total of the highest bids for sewer work during the year was $67, ,768. The total of the lowest bids was $50, O,7O6.80, difference of $15,06L20 The total cost of cleaning of catch basins has been 2,102 at a total of $3,09O The cost of flushing the pipe sewers and culverts was $9S8. The cost of cleaning the brick sewers has been $794.
 The total length of new work by hardening in 1894 amounts to 1.60 miles. The area was 15,57O square yards or about 13 per cent. less than last year. The average cost was 35 cents per square yard. Much of the material used was the surplus stone resulting from the relaying, double tracking or laying of new tracks, and paving by the street railroad compa- nies and was delivered without expense to the city.
 The total length and area of street pavements in the city January 1, 1895,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-08
He Fell Unconscious.

Rochester, N. Y, Feb. 7.-Jefferson Adams, aged seventy-nine, who was endeavoring to make his way from Carmile, Me, to Toedo, O., where he has brother-in-law, suffered a stroke of paralysis just as he stepped into the police station to ask for lodging and assistance last night. The old man fell unconscious and was taken to the hospital Tn his pockets were found a testament and papers, including rec concentrations from prominent citizens of Portland, Bangor and Carmile, Me.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-08
eRANr HAs Nor ouAnrr1Ep.
Such is the Opinion cf State Attorney Doc
 little on the Subject

| Such is the Opinion Of State Attorney Doc little on the Subject. State Attorney Doolittle holds that George M. Grant, who was elected a member of the board of public works to succeed William Maley and recently telegraphed that he had taken the oath in California, has not duly and legally qualified in the sense meant by the charter of the city and that MT. Maley remains commissioner of the board de facto and until his successor duly qualities.
 In conversation yesterday on the l subject, he said "Competent author ity means authority conferred by the state of Connections; it means that only a person duly qualified by this state shall administer oaths. A com missioner of the state of Connecticut in California may make out deeds and take depositions, but his power is given him by virtue of express provision of the Connecticut statutes. Without pro- vision no commissioner of this state located in any other state may admin ister paths of office to any elected off, cer of this state and the statutes do not expressly provide that foreign com missioners of this state may administer such oaths."
 Other attorneys hold different opin- ions and the question was the subject of much interesting discussion yester- day. In consequence of the difference of opinion it is probable that ex-Com- missioner Maley will continue to at- tempt to act as a member of the board until MT. Grant returns to this city and duly qualities,