Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1868-10-30
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$4,000, 900, in Pennsylvania.
The women of this country wear $780,
600, 900 yards of calico a year.
There is an american omnibus driver"
cracking his whip in Jerusalem.
Oregon has Withdrawn her consent for the
passage of the Fourteenth amendment.
Lemons are now sold by the dozen in
Boston at one third the price asked for good
apples.
A citizen of Pittsburg has given $4,000
to build a home for shoeblacks and newsboys
in that city.
Fashionable ladies in Paris, it is said,
now wear small gilt champagne bottles for
earrings.
Cleveland is to have a hospital for "wo-
men who have become Disguised with their
husbands"
In Paris, it is said that hoops are no lon-
ger worn, and that the skirts are'either very
long or very short. sfa 8l2
Chief Engineer Randolph has advertised
for contractors to do the work on the VIM
chester & Strashurg Railroad.
There are over $50 wooden mills in the
six States of Ohio, Michigan. Indiana, Wis
consin. Iowa and Minnesota -. 55t555
The United States has 100000 school
population, who require 10000, 900 books,
at a cost of $1s,750, 600.
A farmer in Washington Territory brags
of having eaten bread from -four made of
wheat sown only four months before.
The Ohio Farmer says that nine -tenths q
the foot and ankle ailments of the horse are
traceable to standing on dry plank floors.
The number Of hunting dogs registered
at the different hunting stations in Paris the
day of the opening of the chase was 10
500
PIT. Barnum has recently imported from
Holland herd Of COWS, jet black, except
white stripe like a blanket around their
middles
Gov. Bullock has issued Il proclamation,
suspending the collection of all poll taxes in
Georgia, until the next session Of the Legis-
lature.
The vintage Of 1868 in France, is estina-
ted at ,320, 1000, 000 gallons or thirty three
gallons for every man, woman and child in
France.
Il is estimated that there are seven mil
lion head of stock cattle in Texas. This is
nearly ten to each man, woman and child Of
that State
Brigham Young offers the undivided fif
4ieth Of his hand and heart to Miss Annetta
Tnce, an actress now performing at Salt
Lake City.
Adam had great advantage, in one res
pect, over every other husband known to
earth; his wife couldn't threaten to go and
live with her mother.
a man in Chilicothe has twenty-five living
children, and another man living near there
has twenty three, all living Both have
had three wives.
LARGE SuBsoRIpTIoNs.-Mr H. T. Helm
bold, Of New York city, has given check
for $40, 600, to aid in Carrying on the cam
paign for Seymour and Blair.
A female walkist is in training in Troy
She is an English woman, and has walked
1000 miles in 1000 hours in Manchester
She wears male clothing.
A workman in Louisville, repairing an
old railroad freight car, found in the end,
rats nest, containing FIVE 800 bills, three
of which were interest bearing notes.
Brick Pomeroy has made enough out of
his democratic sheet to erect a large Hotel
in la Crosse, and he is so investing it. The
cost will be $500
The latest Fifth Avenue novelty in New
York is ''female barber Shop" that is,
gentlemens hair dressing establishment,
conducted by lady with feminine assis-
tants.
How THE RADICALS CARRIED INDIANA
The Louisville (Ky.) Courier says: 'sIlli-
nois unquestlonably carried the election in
Indiana Tuesday with the ten thousand votes
she sent over to Northern Indiana
A negro tsx-collector down South called
on white man for his taxes. Says he ssMr.
Smith, dis is de second time [ call on YOU
for de taxes How de debbn d'you 'spose
we cullud people an to lib, if you white
people don't pay your taxes?'
Rich cheese feels soft under the pressure
Of the finger. That which is very strong is
neither good nor healthy TO keep one that
is cut, tie it up in cloth, put it in cool,
dry place. If mould appears on it, wipe it
off with a dry cloth.
The Western whisky men are bringing
pressure to bear upon the commissioner Of
internal revenue to obtain construction of
the amended revenue laws that will permit
them to re-distill without mourning the tax
on rectiGed whisky
A young rhinoceres has just been landed
in this country. The first for twenty Years.
He will not get his growth for some twenty
years, but weighs 1000 pounds, and eats
daily two bushel Of corn, one bushei of po-
tatoes and three hundred pounds of hay,
and drinks fifteen or twenty buckets Of water.
The dresses Of the ladies' are now said to
be made IN the reversible" style that is,
like josephs coat, to be worn inside Or out
side at pleasure. VIII not this lead to the
ladies putting on double faces? a sort Of
thing they have not hitherto been known to
do only about in thousand years or SO.
The Massachusetts, Homeopathic Medical
Society declares against the use Of butter,
which they aver, contains no element of
food required by the human system This
is good news for the economical. Why paw.
80 to 70 cents per pound for an article that
is positively useless?
4 man and his wife WHO live In q tona-