The herald., 1897-04-25
OMNIBUS

Never in the history of the tobacco
trade in the Connecticut valley have
crops been picked up so clean as this
year.
The adoption of a universal postage
stamp which shall be good in, any part
of the world, will be considered at the
postal union congress in Washington
, next month.
An inhabitant of Arendskerke, in Hol-
land, has notified the municipal regis
trar of the birth of his twenty first son,
all the others being alive and in the en-
joyment of good health.
At the recent village election in Con-
stantine, Mich, the women taxpayers
were allowed to vote oman electric light
ing bond proposition, but only three
availed themselves of the right.
Some of the lumber trade journals are
writing in favor of soft elm for the in
terror finish of buildings. and assert
that wherever 1t has beer used in the
western cities it has proved very salts
factory.
In Paris the subject Of painless exc
cution is being discussed again, and NJ.
Berthelot. the distn guished chemist. is
credited with the opinion that the lethal
chamber using ordinary coal gas, is a
suitab BILE method.
In the suicides cemetery at Monte
Carlo sixty-five new graves were filled
in last winter. The cemetery is in bar
rem, uncultivated land, and within it
are buried any who have takep their
lives through losses at the Casino.
In China a movement has been started
against footbinding, a custom cherished
for forty centuries. A number of man.
darins have signed q pledge engaging
never to permit or encourage the pro-
cess among their families or attendants
The dowager empress Is said to be in
favor of the reform.
There is one man at least who has
made a success of poultry raising, and
he Is Isaac Wilbur of Little Compton.
r. I. He ships from 10000 eggs year
and has 100 fowl houses on his place.
The chicken1 are. fed, from a. wagon
which goes from house to house In the
morning, and in the afternoon the eggs
are collected.
At Salt Lake City the semicentennial
of the arrival of the Mormons in the val
ley of the Great Salt Lake is to be ceie-
brated the coming summer. beginning
July goth and ending at midnight on the
Gath following. The citizens of Utah
have subscribed 100000 for the cele-
bration, and say it will surpass in splen-
dor anything Of the kind ever held west
of the Mississippi river.
The two hundredth anniversary Of
Trinity church's (New York; founding,
May g. will be celebrated by an eight
days festival, extending from May 2
to o. William III. of England gave
Trinity it's charter May 6, 1897, and the
descendants of men who worshiped un-
der that charter are making arrange
ments to celebrate the anniversary in a
manner worthy of such an occasion.
When the Roman Catholic church. in
Portsmouth, Va, burned down the other
day the Baptist and the Methodist
churches Of the city offered the home
less congregation the free use of their
chapels until 1t could provide itself
with another edifice. and three Meth
odist and one Episcopal clergymen
called personally on the priest to express
their sympathy with him and his people,
Broken Hill, the richest silver mine in
the world, situated in the extreme south
west of New South Wales, was sheep
run some thirteen years ago, the popula-
tion consisting. OF a, few hands employ
ed on a station many square miles in
extent At the present time it is one Of
the most densely populated and active
townships in Australia, and some idea
of its progress may be formed from the
fact that during 1896 the money orders