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FASHIONABLE INTELuGENoE.-Ata party the
other evening there were present six young la
dies, attired in the height-or rather width of
fashion, the circumference of whose united
dresses exactly equalled that of Astley's circus.
It was calculated by Senior Wrangler who at.
tended that if the material of which the
six dresses, were composed, had been cut
into strips two inches wide, it would have
reached four times round the dome of St.
Paul's; while the air-tubes with whom the skirts
were expanded would, if placed end to end, have
very considerably overtopped the monument
Some idea may be formed of the labor which
the present mode has rendered necessary, when
we state that to Gil the air-tubes of single dress
it takes the most expert lady's maid, upon the
average, upwards of three hours and quarter T.
ven with The help Of o good-sized pair Of bel
lows.-London Punch.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

NEVER JEST WITH SoRIprURE.-It is of great
Importance that we should resist the temptation,
frequently 80 strong, of annexing familiar, IA
cetious, or irreverent idea to Scriptura express
sion, a Scripture text,or Scripture name. Nor
should we hold ourselves guiltless, though We
may have been misled by mere negligence or
want of reflection. Every person of good taste
will avoid reading parody or travestie of
beautiful poem, because the recollection of the
degraded likeness will always obtrude itself up
on our memories when we wish to derive pleas
ure from the contemplation of the elegance of
the original. But how much more urgent is
the duty by which we are bound to keep the pa
ges of the Bible clear of any impression tending
to diminish the blessing ofhabitusl respect and
reverence toward our Makers law.-Palgrace.
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Ep,op.u ON AN ARCTIC ExPLoRER.-The fol
lowing witty lines are from the pen of Brant'
Meyer, the well known author
From the dawn of creation the name OF old Cal"
Has been cursed as the author OF Staging;
But glory awaits in our age on the Kane
who s1Ays not, though famous for sLEIaHISa.
So fill up the cup to the Kane of the Pole,
Whose marvellous tale, though no fable,
Attests that for generous deeds OF renown
Our KANE in reality's ABLE, (Abel.)
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How TO PROSPER IN BusIsEss.-In the first
place, make up your mind to accomplish what
ever you undertake. decide upon some partlsc.ul-
lar employment, and persevere in it, All dif-
ficulties are overcome by diligence and assidulty
Be not afraid to work with your own hands, and
diligently too. GA cat in gloves catches no mice" I"
she who remains in the mill grinds, not he who
goes and comes" Attend to your business |;
never trust to another. ga pot that belongs to
many is Ill stirred and worse boiled" Be fru-
gal. THAT which will not make pot will make
Dot lid.n "Saye the pence and the pounds will
take care of themselves" Be abstemious. "Who
dainties love shall beggars prove" Rise early.
"The sleeping fox catches no poultry" "Plough
deep while sluggards sleep, and you will have
corn corn to sell and keep" Treat every man will,
respect and civility. "Every thing is gained and
nothing lost by courtesy" Good manners IN
sure success. Never anticipate wealth from any
other source than labor: especially never place
dependence upon becoming possessor OF an in
heritauce. "He who waits for dead mans
shoes may have to 60 for long time barefoot
ale who runs after shadow has wearisome
race" Above all things, never despair. "God
is where He was" He helps those who truly
trust in him.
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Now LIvNe.--A contemporary says that the
boy is now living who will be President of the
Republic in 1900. What lis name is or where
he resides he does not stop to inform us. he
may at this moment be gathering pumpkins in
Oregon orpeddling pop corn around Troy. Dam
iel Webster once made "a new suit of satinett"
by selling catfish at a shilling q string. Wher-
ever he may be all unconscious of his high des-
tiny, he feels the divinity that stirs within him;
and grasps bis book, thlrsting for knowledge
His parents as they answer bis endless queries,
rejoice at his developing intellect, yet little
dream that his will be great name among men,
known wide as the world.
Or perchance the hard hand Of poverty, or the
cold hand of orphanage, are moulding and train.
ing him for the patient effort, that self-relance
and resolute will, that fit him for great achieve
ments. He must pass through the school that
prepares him for his high career. In his youth
many trial and wrong must break him to the
hardness of life. In his manhood many hard
ships must be endured, many obstacles overcome,
and rivals outstripped in the race; the voice Of
envy and detrsction despised; and hatred and
malice defied.
Through such school and training the Pres
ident of 1900 will doubtless come, and is now
coming. But from what condition in life, from
what part of our broad land no one can predict
or know, but Providence, who presides over the
destinies of all nations.-Rochester american.
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TIE GREATEST DNNER.-A letter from St.
Petersburg gives the following bill of fare OF the
grand dinner given by the Gar to 100000 peas
ants at the gates of Moscow:-24o sheep. roast
ed whole; 4SO tarts, 2s,sOO gallons Of broth, 4s0
dishes ofjelly, 1900 fowls, 1000 turkeys, 24OOo
loaves of white bread, 5000 loaves Of brown
bread, $500 hams, $4,000 apples, $4,000 pears,
46, 900 plums, 1000 pals Of beer, 1000 pals OF
mead, $500 pals of white and red wine. AT
the head of every table there was sheep roast.
ed whole, the horns gilt, and the nose tipped
with silver. All the fruits were hung upor
Christmas trees.
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How "FRENoH BRANDIEs" ARE MADE.-We
have derived no little amusement from the pe-
rusal of circular issued to liquor dealers
throughoutthe country by firm in New York, in
which the eimportantinformation is conveyed that
they have been for many years "trying toimproVe
all kinds Of spirits from grain and turn into a
good imitation of French cognac; and that, aft
ter much labor and experiment, they have at last
found an article to answer that purpose" They
then set forth the process of mandatory: "By
dstillation and chemical operation we get OF
fourth-proof an article in which the flavor is so
much concentrated that, by mixing gallon Of
it with twenty five to fifty gallons of American
pure, it gives good imitation of the imported
brands" One gallon of san article to pro-
duce from twenty-five to fifty gallons OF imita-
tlon of the imported brands; to be bottled Ia
belled, set forth, and swallowed at one dime
per pony glass, as an article "such as you can
not get elsewhere in town." This article is
called spirit of cognac, and, according to the
circular, 'may be had without color, OF
colored for pale or dark" "Dark, by all
means;" ~ prefer PALE" "You can take whicl,
you please, gentlemen; but yon are now aware
of the manner in which both are prepared"
This enterprising firm have also discovered
an article which they call spirit of gin. They
aver that splendid imitation of Holland gin
can be produced by mixing one gallon of the
spirits with forty gallons of pure spirits. In adj
dition they have constantly on hand a fine sup
ply of ''chemical coloring," by which the 'dark'
article of imitation brandy is produced.
The circular closes with a list ofprices, which
if published, would astonish our citizens, many
of whom, when imbibing these limitations" !"
which cost about sixty cents per gallon, are in
formed that "that brandy cost me $8 in New
York"
With this information in their possession we
should not wonder if there was decided de-
cline of confidence among brandy drinkers PAS
well as among the imbibers of the pretentious
liquors, gin and rum.
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The Turks at a Fire.

! was not long in Constantinople before
came in for what is Of very frequent occurrenc,
there, namely, fire. Indeed, I believe that
as storm is said to be always going on in som,
parts of the sea, SO q conHagration, larger OF
smaller, is always raging in some parts of the
narrow wooden streets of Stamboul.
The people have public amusements, and thi.
is considered one of the best if may Judge
by the demeauor of the crowds, whose singular
bearing was to me more interesting than the spec
tacle witnessed in common with them. Al
first knew not what it meant. | had observed
that vast multitudes were moving with what
for a Turk, is haste towards the court of ore oi
their mosques, stationing themselves, as soon as
they had reached it, on the steps, balustrades,
and every spot whence view was commanded
Joining the company, discovered the cause
of their assembly in whole street from which
clouds OF smoke were rising and from which ii
was every moment expected that the flames
would burst. Nothing could exceed the busi-
ness like alacrity of those who struggling for q
place in the balconies, or the placid enjoyment
of those who had attained one. In expectation
of the great event, piles of carpets, pillows, and
neighbouring houses, and placed wherever room
could be found.
On these comfortable seats the multitude had
established themselves-the men in one part,
sedately smoking; the women in another, now
ooking on and now playing with their children.
In moment refreshments of all sorts were pro-
vided; sweetmeats, confectionery, and sherbet
by number of rival purveyors, who advanced
with unalarmed alacrity, amid the smoke and
falling spars, plainly considering the scene of
destruction as sort of 'beneft," got up for
their especial behoof and unceremoniously ell
bowling to one side the police, who rushed with
pals of water on their heads, to the rescue Of
the burning houses.
In few minutes more the flames burst out
with aloud crash, mounting high into the heav-
ems, and fingng and exciting and pleasurable
heat into the face of the crowds, who, without
ever removing their pipes, Except to drink
gazed with silent but impassioned interest on
scene which to them was no more matter Of
surprise than street preacher would be in Ed
inburgh, a "Funziane" at Rome, or Punchinello
at Naples. Among the crowd of spectator were
the proprietors of the burning houses smoking
like their neighbors, and well assured that their
loss had been determined by Allah long before
the prophet was born.--Dd osrey Sketches.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

HOMEOPATHIC SoUP-There is chap out
West so mean that he boils two bone buttons in
4 pint of water. This Cruel lasts him exactly
one month He has used the. buttons SO long
that he has boiled the holes out of them.
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DANCING OVER GRAvE.-The following On
try, bearing date May goth, 1885, occurs in the
parish register Of Lymington, Hants Samuel
Baldwin, Esq, sciourned in this parish, was i'm.
mersed without the Needles, in Scratcher's Bay.
sans ceremonie." 1t is said that he ordered his
remains to be thus deposited, to prevent his wife
from executing threat of dancing over his
grave.
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From the London Punch.
The Split in the States.

United States, if our good will
Could but command its way,
You would remain united stlll,
Forever and day.
Does England want to see you split,
United States g-the deuce bit.
Your North and South discovered, we
With less disgust should view
Only that England we should see
And Scotland cleft in two
We wish our great Republic whole,
With all our heart and oil our soul.
Why. who are We? Almost alone,
With you upon this EARTH
We bow before no tyrants throne,
Believeus, aught but mirth.
Your noble commonwealth, If cleft
Would cause us Britons, weaker left.
What head we might against the wrong,
Together make, o friends
Wewish you to continue strong,
On union strength depends.
So that your states may keep compact
Is our desire-now that's fact.
By priest and soldiers two-fold ways
The old world groans, oppressed
We, and you only, far away,
With liberty, are blessed.
And may we still example give,
And "teach the nations how to live"
How all the despots would rejoice,
Should you break up and fall;
How would the funkey's echoing voice
Take up their masters tale
Gree institutions will not do,"
Would be the cry of all the crew.
The press is gagged-the mouth is shut
None dare their thoughts to name,
In Europe round; and lackeys strut,
Arrayed in splendid shame;
And creeds are, at the bayonefs point,
Enforced in this time out of joint.
Still be ityours and ours to bear
Our witness 'gainst these days,
The world at least will not despair
Whilst we our free flags raise.
Then may you still your stripes possess,
And may your stars be never less.
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A FAST HoasE.-The Milwaukee Wisconsin
tells of horse that recently died in Oregon, III.
He was very ugly, and would not be harnessed
except with saddle, and could make extfaordin-
ary time. He could pass over 112 miles in 10
hours. His usual time from Oregon to Rock
ford, % miles, was two hours. The doctor who
owned him, and who alone could ride him, has
been heard to say that during six years past he
has ridden him upwards of twenty thousand
miles, and that during all this time he was never
known to trip or stumble SO as to arrest the rid
er's attention. He was savage, because he was
formerly wild horse on the plains of Arkansas.
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"Wbat plan" said an actor to another, "shall
adopt to fill the house at my beneft2" SIN
vite your creditors" was the surly reply.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

"Homs, sweet home," as the bee sung when
he entered his hive.
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A Railroad Bakery.

Mr.. Il. Berdan, distinguished as an inventor,
has completed an enormous oven in Brooklyn,
opposite New York city, capable of baking $40
barrels of flour, or 100000 loaves per day, suf-
ficient to supply almost the whole city with
bread. 1t is constructed on scientific principles,
the heat is regulated at uniform temperature,
and the loaves are placed on constantly revolving
platforms so as to secure eyenness of bake. So
great an economy of labor is effected that the
establishment promises to sell bread 40 per cent
cheaper than the prevailing prices. The whole
apparatus has cost $4,000. All the machinery,
which performs the entire labor, with the sole
exception of the mixing of the bread, is worked
by small steam engine of sixteen horse power.
The oven is o perpendicular box of brick, about
twenty feet in height and eighteen feet broad by
eight feet in depth. 1t stands upon an arched
furnace, which supplies the heat, which is kept
at certain temperature by self-acting valve
OF most ingenious contriyance. The inside of
this box is hollow, and in the centre oft is an
endless chain, on which are placed thirty-two
cars resting on brackets. These cars are of sheet
iron, with fre.brick floors they are SO SUPER
fetal feet in size, and are to hold the bread
These cars receive the bread at the top of the
oven, descend the whole extent of it to door in
the lower end, when 1t runs out, dumps its con-
tents, slips along to another door, takes in an
other load, pops into the ovsn ascends to the
top, pops out again, dumps its load, travels back
to the door into which it entered, takes in an
other load and so continues on. The machinery
by which this work is performed is as surprising
for its simplicity as it is for its ingenuity. All
the labor of putting the bread into the oven and
drawing it is saved, and as it is always in mo-
ton the bread is always kept at certain tenn
perature, and there is no waste of heat by cool.
ing off. The economy in labor and fuel is al
most incredible, one-tenth part of the labor and
one-twentieth part of the fuel now used in the
common ovens and bakeries are all sufficient for
the mechanical bakery II will readily be seen
that when the work of three or four hundred
bakeries can be performed by one, that there
must necessarily be an immense saving in rents,
labor, gas, fuel and the thousand little expenses
which are unavoidable in small establishment,
and that this saving can be put into the size of
the loaf. 1t is stated that by Mr.. Berdan's oven
the cost to the consumer of converting barrel
of -four into bread, is about one dollar, which by
the process now in use, is above seven and q
half dollars. This will enable the new bakery
to give loaf for sixpence nearly double the
weight Of the present loaf
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A REMARKABLE RIvER.-In the province of
Andalusia, in Spain, there is river called the
Tinto, from the hues of its water, which are as
yellow as topaz. 1t possesses the most extraor-
binary and singular qualities. If stone hap
pens to fall in and rest upon another, they both
become, in one years time, perfectly united and
conglutinated. All the plants on its banks are
withered by its waters whenever they overflow.
No kind of verdure will come up where its wa
tiers reach, nor can any fish live in its stream
The river rises in the Sierra Morena mountains.
and its singular properties continue until other
rivers run into it and alter its nature.
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From the National Intelligencsr.
The Mechanical Paradox Wheel.

Inc lMecnau1cal farduOx w Qeels
MEssRs. EDITORS II have as yet seen in your
journal no notice of this scientific toy, for such
it is in appearance although deserving of loft
ier title in principle, which, if it does not dis
turb the theory of grayitation, as hitherto un-
derstood, adds to it another feature as yet un-
suspected and unexplained. How the rotary
vance sustains it keeping the axis on which it
revolves in horizontal position, although rest
ing on pivot at its other extremity, and entire
ly beyond the centre of gravity, is altogeth-
er incomprehensible to myself and many
scientific men who have attempted to ex-
plain it to me. Why, too, do wheel and axis,
when rapid revolution is impaired to the form
er, revolve as it were, oftheir own accord, about
this pivot without any impulse of motion being
given to them by the action of the operator,
and instead of falling in the direction in which
one would suppose graytation would carry
them, j. e. downwards, actually show, while the
motion of the wheel is most rapid tendency
to rise above the horizontal and to approach
the verticala
We have seen this phenomenon, in part, be-
fore, when we were boys, but without remark
ing it, and, strange to say, it has hitherto es-
capped the observation of the wise, perhaps be-
cause of its apparent insignifcance, and yet it
may involve new principles in physics and O.
verturn long established theorems of philosophy.
When we spun our tops and they wabbled
on their plugs before going to sleep, as we
termed it, the centre of gravity falling continu-
ally out of the perpendicular, why did they
overcome the force OF grsvitation and assume
the erect posture, in which they continue to re-
volve until the momentum impaired by the cord
had subsided9 And why could we, while they
were thus revolving, take them up on the palms
of our hands and incline them almost horizon
tally, without their falling on the ground, so long
as rapid rotary motion was kept up2 Thus
with the mysterious little instrument in ques.
ton in which rotation appears to be at vari
ance with gravitation, and whilst rapid and
continued, to overcome it. Perhaps this seem
ing anomaly is more susceptible Of explanation
than have imagined it. If so, l would bt
glad to haveit accounted for, as it has not ye
been to my satisfaction OF of those with whom
| have conversed respecting it. Perhaps it ma!
enunciate some new principle in science. espe
cially in astronomy, and enable the student
the heavens to account more satisfactorily to-
those planetary and cometary alterations whicl
occasionally startle and contound the wise an
like Newton's apple, this trife, though in itse
uncomfortable may prove the parent Of grea
and interesting results. W. b. Il.
ELLENDALE, Va.
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PRoaREssIvE.-'Class in the middle aged 90
ography, stand up. What is pyramidS'
"A pile OF men in circus, on the top oftoth
Where is Egypt"
Where it alters was.
Where is that, you young vagabond7'
Dunno. SIR
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DREPARE FOR WINTERS. +. POINTS
II Has Just received his assortment of PARLoR
COOKING AND BOX STOVES; also general as
sortment of TIN, COPPER AND SHEET IRON
WARE.
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- Lynchburg Smoking Tobacco just received and toi
sale. RO. G. GLEND1,
Staunton, June IS, 1886. Per c. 7. COCHRAN.