Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-01-31
THE CHAT OF THE WEEK.

A Montreal correspondent of the Toronto
Globe says: ''The medical students at Vic
toria College, Montreal, are becoming thu
disgrace of the city, and are reported to be
completely beyond the control of the profes
sors. A few days ago a party of them
stole body from their own dissecting room
took it to McGill Medical College, received
their price, and had drunken spree on the
proceeds. Since then they have been ac-
cused of stealing in broad daylight corpse
from the Hotel Dieu, their own hospital,
only dead few hours and unburied, Of
taking it to college and selling it., and
spending the money in similar way"
ARTEsIAN WELLs.-Artesan wells are
multiplying in Chicago. twenty-onc of them
having already been bored, all of them sue
cessfully. The well at Kenwood, just south
Of Chicago, 255 feet Deep and 81 inches in
diameter at the bottom, yields $50 gallons
per minute. 1t cost about $1,000. Anoth.
er we'll in the business centre of Chicago is
i,60O feet deep, yields 525 gallons per
minute, and cost 81 600 The usual depth
is from 1000 to 300 feet. The deepest
WE'LL $40 feet-is in South Park. 1t has
bore of only 81 inches, and the discharge
is small
To Discover LIFE. DIR Hugo Magnus,
assistant physician to the hospital at Bre-
slau, suggests, as the best means of deter
mining the presence of lingering traces of
life. that tight ligature be tied round one
of the fingers. If life be not extinct, the
part beyond the ligature soon becomes red,
the depth of the color increasing to dark
red and violet. Just above the ligature
the skin remains white.
lime LosT.-It is estimated that during
the last year the New York city horse cars
carried one hundred and twenty-five mil
lions of passengers, of whom forty millions
rode two miles or more, wasting at least
thirty minutes in each trip, as compared
with what would be required if they had a
rapid transit railway.
MODEL CORRESPONDENCE BUREAU--A
Troy paper tells about literary bureau in
that city which furnishes addresses, poems,
speeches, ETC., to order, for every body, from
college students to State Senator's, at prices
varying from five dollars to one hundred
dollars, and gives $3.50 as its 1eceipts in
fifteen months.
A WIDoWERs' FUND.-The Hebrews Of
Philadelphia are talking about establishing
a new beneficial association, to be called the
"Widowers' Fund Society,"" A member
will receive $1,000, when his wife dies, to
defray the extra expenses arising from her
sickness and burial and the care of the chill.
dren.
Co. OPERATION IN ENGLAND. "A combined
movement has begun among the workmen
in the Sheffield (Epgland) trades for the
purpose of erecting works and manufacto-
rles on their own account. It is said that
the scheme is planned to extend throughout
the whole of the local trades.
1t is estimated that the recent American
diamond swindle cost the people of Cape
colony some hundreds of thousands of pounds
as when the news of the alleged discoveries
reached South Africa the market value of
diamonds was deprecated by nearly 20 per
cent
An Atlanta woman has not only whipped
bar.keeper for selling whiskey to her
husband, but she has whipped her husbands
employer for paying him money while he
was drunk.
Milkmen in London are fined ten dollars
every time they are caught adding water to
their milk. Such measure in this coun-
try would speedily extinguish the national
debt.
Immense amounts of real estate are be-
ing offered for sale in all parts of Pennsyl-
vania, particularly farming lands, tie pres.
ent owners Of which Intend going west.
England supplies her railroad patrons
with foot-warmers. In this country passen-
gers are not only warmed through, but
thoroughly roasted.
Since the Stokes verdict the thirty.one
prisoners in the Tombs at n Y, charged
with murder have grown uncomfortable.
A Japanese young man in the Berlin
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than any other student in the institution.
One towel answers for twelve customers
in an Indianapolis barber shop, and the bar
Der shsrpens his razor on the stove pipe.
Young married men at Rockland, Me-,
have devised plan of cooperative house.
building, in order to obtain homes.
Miss Amelia Davis has the enviahle rep
utation of being the best pork beans ba.
ker in the whole State of Indiana.
Queen Victoria sent gold spittoon to
the King of Siam, who uses it on State &C.
casions for an oyster tureen.
Davenport, Iowa, turns out thirty thou
sand cigars day, pure Havanas, cabbage
wrapper and burdock- filling.
The principal reference required by St.
Louis boarding house keepers is we'll de-
fined vaccination mark.
A child in the household of VIM. Halter
of Muscatine, Iowa, was poisoned by chew
ing green pasteboad.
There remains to be cut Of the Hoosao
tunnel 3, 129 feet, being 391 feet less than
two thirds of mile.
Honest farmers in Iowa gil ducks with
water and let them freeze before taking
them to market.
Californians are picking ripe watermelons
when it is cool enough to 60 out on shady
afternoons.
There are 10000 Presbyterian congre.
cations, embracing 100000 members, il