Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-03-12
STATNTON VA WEDNESDAY, MARCH ~ 1901
A FAIRY SPOT.

Mrs. Farnham, the lady who projected the raTspola'
ton Of bevy of young ladies' from the Atlantic to me
cfc has recently written letter home of considerable III
teres Though private letter it has found its way INTO
the post office and become public property Shes caed'
seems on fine ranche 70 miles south of San Francisco
on the north side of Monterey Bay The region she rep
resents as perfect fairy land She thus describes IT,
"It is very heavily tmbered and beautifully Wa'ered
with clear living streams running through valleys o' e
most fertile soi which delicious vegetables gro" 'e"
months of the year. The region is specially famed or po
atoes, which become almost fruit here The farmi i've
on is charmingy situated about mile from the old sfoh'
and two from the beach which tremendous surf breaks
and ,hunders day and night From my house LA LIVER
tad look the coast table and range ofmountalnsshe
hills of Monterey and the bay, and near landscape ex
qusely diversified by plain ard wood hill and valley, and
almost every shade that herbage and foliage in country
without frost can show The rainy season is about monh
DID, and the earth as green it is at home in june An
other month will pile with clover, and less than another
varegate with an nconcevable variety Of the most ex
ous,e flowers This is the land of flowers well as OF
gold Our pairies quite insignificant In their floral
shows compared to it. The country and climate are fault
ssexcept in the lack showers through the dry months
Nearly every thing one can desire may grown upon ones
own farm"
She seems still, be opinion, that female society is the
great want of California lady, however, had just ar
rived in the neghbohood for the purpose opening grs
school, where they have "ine community OF young girls
coming on from which she hopes to see some growth
and culture and some addition 10 their social resources
Tower OF SKULLS. in his "Pllgnm age
! ., tho uoy andO writes as follows:
"When was about league from Nisa the last turkish
town almost on the frontier of Servah, saw large tow
er rising up in the midst Of the plain white as Pavan
marble took the path which led 10 it. desired lur-
ksh lad who accompanied to hold my horse, and sat
down under the shade of the tower to ENJOY 1e" mo-
ments repose No sooner was seated than raising my
ewes to the monument discovered that the walls whch
supposed to be built of marble of regular rows OF whe
stone were composed Of regular lows OF human skulls;
hleacbed by rain and sun, and cemented by little sand
ard lime formed entirely the tumphal arch which now
sheltered me from the burning sun; there mghl Dc fo
fifteen to twenty thousand In some pacesporl OF har
were still hanging and waved like lchen or moss, win eV
eIy breath of wind The mountain breeze was then oow
pp fresh penetrating the nnumeabe cavities OF Inc SKULL
and sounded like mournfu and plaintive sigh These
were skulls of fifteen thousand Sevans who had been put
n death by the Pacha in the last nsurecton of Serva-
Serva however is now free and this monument will teach
their children the value of independence by showing them
the price at which their forefalhers purchased it,
m Glass Pearls though among the most beautiful, in
extensive and common ornaments for women now made,
are produced by a very singular process:
"p 1856 about two hundred years ago, Venetian ra'
med Jaoua discovered that the scales Of species OF S
called bleak fish, possessed the popre.y OF communicating
pearly hue 10 water He found, by experiment. 'ha'
beads dipped in the water assumed, when dried ne a
the pearance pearls 1t Proved however, that The peary
coating, when placed outside, was easily ruooed OIL and
next imnnyement was to make the beads hollow, lhe
making of these beads carried TO this day in Ven
ice The beads are all blown separately BY means OF
small tube the nsdes are deicatey coated with the pearl
liouid. and wax coating is placed over that 1t requires
the scales of four thousand fishes to produce half pint OF
the liquid to which small quantities OF seal ammonia ana
isinglass are afterwards added"
@ Willis the pantaette connsseur, shirtco'ar oac'e'
and critic de cene that there Is soon 10 oe
new stile of genleman's hats He boldly inlhaeS ha'
Beebe Broadway halter, will Introduce al 'he "or'u
Fair next summer fashion of hats auth no T'ght angles
The crown is IN be Grounded OFF, like the end oi pump
kim and Hoparth's line of beauty preserved throughou
This style Mr.. Willis thinks, is destined TO 40 away WIN
the nrevainp order of ha,s-whch he calls the segment
of s,ovepipe" Style Verify we have fallen upon strange
Hartford Times.
I'm Old orss-Georgo Young, Of Grand Rapids states
in the "Michgan Farmer" that he owns horse "hch Is
forty five years old He says he bought the animal IN
1926 and that his age then stated to be een years
that he drove him in buggy and rode him IN Albany Tor
six years. and that for the last nineteen years he has been
one of farm team that he has still the colt
that in s4S he drove him 240 miles in four days About
nineteen his teeth became So uneven that he could
not Grind bav we'll and his owner had them hled down,
since which "hehas been able feed with the youngest
horses"
&c William the Conqueror introduced into England
what was called Troy weight, from Iroys' Town In he
province of Champagne. The English were dissatisfied
with because the pound did not weigh SO much as the
mound now in use in England. Hence came the term au
oirdlpoi,e, which was medium between the Fench and
The English weight.
ms. The New York correspondent Of the Phla delpha
Ledger says
Some little sensation was created up at Yves! Point on
s,Dd. last bv the recantaton of Rev. Mr. Gibson, Pastor
of the Protestant Episcopal Church Of the Holy innocent
He has gone over to the Roman Ca hoc Church. and Inc
busy tongue of says that there will be one OF TWO
more announcements of the SORT in this city, ere long
Its only short while since that the Rev Mr.. White OF
ST. Luke'S .'went over"
G5- Fifty six years ago man was executed IN 'a''e
for robbery of The Lyons mail and murder of passeng e
His innocence was subsequently, made manifest, apd re-
pot to the National Assembly recommends proclamation
of his innocence and the restoration Of the forfeited proper
ty 10 his family. "
.9uthorsAipia LondOn-A London journal s'a'eS ''a'
during the year $780, four thousand four hundred ne" pun
locations were issued in London alone Of these ABOUT
five hundred were works of fconat the rate cfalmos' one
.sI half dailrI The ZOO works. 25O were on law