Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-01-14
All Sorts.


All Sorts.
Spring water-Apri showers
Oregon farmers are blowing.
Natures most gifted son-Old Sol.
''Yak laces' are now imported from Thibet.
Alaska yields 10, 900 mink and {, 900 marten
skins every year.
Quebec is about to start new morning pa.
per.
jerks says that pawnbroker's office must
be loan some place.
Bird never few SO high but it had to come
to earth for food
A. guest, like fish, hath bad odor the
third day.
A house full of daughters is a cellar full Of
sour beer-so says Dutch proverb.
There were forty-seven deaths in Richmond
last week.
The Scotch boast line Of one hundred and
fifteen kings, who reigned 1000 years.
Last year there were imported $3.50, 55s
pounds of Ecogice, valued at $362,455.
The rails are low laid on the Northern Pa
ciic road for a distance Of 455 miles west Of
Lake Superior.
Leesburg was known as Georgetown in the
early days OF Virginia, and was incorporated
under its present name in 1858.
Gen. Malone is having family vault pre-
pared in Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg.
It appears that two-thirds of the population
OF the United States are drones, who live upon
the labor Of the other third
Ben Wade has no daughter Hence the re.
port that she was shortly to be led to the al
tar, etc., is slightly fabulous.
The Modock Indians are entrenched in e
cave, which, with its ramifcations, embraces ar
area of several acres in extent.
The Springfield Republican calls one of New
York's principal architects Of fire proof
buildings bonfire architect"
Beecher charges ST., 800 for lecture in Chi
cago and as he only asks $500 elsewhere the
Chlcagcans have right to feel proud of it.
Edwin Forrest believed that men lived long.
er in active life than out of it, and for that rea
son he refused to retire.
A. T. Stewart has presented one thousand
dollars TO the fund for disabled fremen. in New
York.
4 scientific paper suggests hollow walls filled
with water for the prevention Of fire. Thai
would do if the water wasn't worse than the
fire.
Mrs Whipple. Of Portland. Wis, shaved
her corns too closely and died
The New York Freeman's Journal says tina
neither Of the Misses Greeley is Catholic.
4 little girl at Dubuque amended the Lord
prayer by asking for her daily ginger bread. .
An cid lady in Middletown, Conn, is proud
of her twenty hens, which have collectively laic
499 eggs in the last three months.
A Mississippi iceberg anchored below St.
Louis Thursday, having taken along in its pas
sage two transfer boats and barge, and sunk
barge loaded with iron at Caroudolet.
The Louisville Courier-J ournal estimate.
the total tobacco orop of 1872 at, In round mum
bers about 259. 49, 900 pounds against 262, 1885,
600 pounds IN 1870.
berea7ed husband in Ohio has sued th,
Cleveland Woman's Medical College for th,
value Of his deceased wife, whom the students
in THAI establishment lately dissected too small
for decent interment.
The movement Of the negro laborers Of ths
Border States towards the South still goes On
and will continue, IN obedience to laws which
are memorable.
The German lower house generously prom
Uses TO furnish workmen who strike, and thus
throw themselves out Of employment, with q
f0rtnight's gTatultous board and lodging In pri
son.
A couple were married at Milton, Wis, a
the deathbed Of the brides mother, at her re-
quest. The bridegroom caught cold at the flu
neral aad died within Z. week.
A Madoc chieftain. known as ''Shack Nasty
JIM" (modo- California; being flially oath ti
leave his mother On sick bed when called to
war, considerably killed her before leaving.
The extraordinary demand for iron and Goa
is causing the development of new sources oil
supply in Europe. England now draws or
Spain aud Ireland for iron ore, while new coal
mines have been opened in the latter country.
The Sandwich Islanders, who, in 1923, mum.
bered 40 600 souls, such as they were had
been reduced, in 1858. to less than IA, 600.
The Pope, on receiving the Palatine Guard,
made brief address Abiding to the present
prosecutions OF the Church, he declared thai
the cities Of Europe were dancing or periloui
ground.
Colorado wants State orphan asylum, anG
the Denver people have dog-hghts, and donate
the proceeds. toward that charitable object.
Plymouth Center a pretty large Connecticut
town, has built only one house 10 the past forty.
five years.
A bid Of S., 900 has been made for the right
to advertise upon the new board fence that sur.
rounds the Government block in Chicago.
The number of fires In St. Louis last year was
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to insurance companies $944, 232
Endeavor TO take your work quietly. Anxiety
and over action are the cause of sickness and
restlessness. We must use cur judgment to
control cur excitement, or our bodily strength
will break down.
ABOUT THE SCHOOL TAx.-In answer to
sundry questions of State Supt.. the Atty
GenI J. C. Taylor. replies, Dec. Goth, that It
is not the duty Of the Clerk Of the Board of
Trustees to collect taxes of any tax payer,