Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-04-16
Les9ech for H9E9saO7'ISts.

Simple addtion-Adding to ones family.
Indiana constables enforce the game by ar
resting card players.
What does a man see in the wild, wild,
waves. See foam.
The mothers heart gives 4th joy at the ba-
by's lst 9th; and ''y' not.
20 for thousand tongues" said the lad
when he crawled into molasses barrel.
IF Adam is accountable for consequential
damages be will have rough time of it.
Shakespeare would never have asked What's
in an aim p if he had been hit on the head
with brick.
A junior of Yale returned book to the H.
brary the other day, with hair-pin in it as a
book mark Let US hope for the best.
A celebrated clergyman recently said, that
he had found more good in bad people, and
more bad in good people than he ever expected
to.
A romantic couple, not great way from
here, named their infant daughter Caressa.-
That was about eighteen years ago, and the
boys are at it now.
The following knotty question claims the at
tention of debating societies IF man has a
tiger by the TAIL which would be the best for
his personal safety-to hold on or let go?''
There is boot-black brigade in Boston made
up Of girls. One of the rules of the associa-
ton is that the young lady who shines for less
than dime, does SO at the penalty of losing
her chignon.
A witness in liquor trial at Lyndon, VT,
last week aroused an unpleasantness in the
court room by testifyiug that he drank with
two men-one Of the lawyers employed in the
case, and the justice who was hearing it.
''Shut the door, it's getting awful cold in
here u was the remark of an Albany husband
as he hung his coat on hitching- post and pre-
pared to retire On the curbstone, under the i'm
preston that he had arrived home
A Hartford burglar was lately frightened ont
of his scheme Of robbery by the sweet simple
ity of solitary spinster, who, putting her
night CAPPED head out of the window, ex-
claimed: 'Ge away, aims you ashamed? ?"
''Oh, yes, said a fair critic, with that Vi
yacity of speech and manner In which the beau
sere indulge when picking friend to pieces
"Oh, yes, Henry would be very presentable if
the Lord hadn't turned up so much of his legs
to make his feet.
Two men having arranged to fight duel in
Rhode Island, the Governor issued procla-
nation forbidding it, whereupon one of the
parties sent him note saying that one of them
would stand IL Connecticut and the other Ia
Massachusetts, and shoot over his miserable
little State.
In an Episcopal Sunday School the other
day, the teacher asked bright boy: 'sJim-
ME, what good thing, what great pleasure are
you willing to give up as sacrifice, during the
Lenten season?' Jimmie meditated about ten
seconds and responded: II think I'll give up
going to Sunday School"
The Washington Star thus describes dol
ly Warden A Dolly Warden" is MORE
antinue dress nattnrn and If is rnada IF Coma
material, and is cut biased at the top and bot
tom, and trimmed with Honiton polonaises and
tube roses, with pepum running two chains
and three links to the southwest from the
starting point, around the skirts Of civilization
and pinned together with a selfacting safety
pin. The figures are so large that il takes
eight dress patterns to show them off to ad-
vantage.
"A Boston man has published an article, in
which he shows how anybody can reduce the
cost of living to ten cents q day. perfectly
sure method is never to spend more than ten
cents Another way is to borrow all the money
you need over and above 10 cents Another plan
is to go around and live with your father-in-
law; and another is to steal all you want; and
SUI another Is to play the old fashioned system
OF taxing dried apples for breakfast, water for
uinner' ana let them swell for supper
refer cartwright, the Rev. pioneer Metho-
o,sa, useu 70 De annoyed by noisy but not
key every opportunity she got. At an anime
broke out with: O '"ichafgeo sister
II had one more feather in tho rn;. r.
my faith | could fly away and he w @aps %
Savior Stick in the feather, o Lord a .n3
let her go fervently responded Brother Cart.
wright oAi'