Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-03-25
All Sorts,

Will never get a blessing from sermons or from
prayers.
All Sorts.
Kansas has female garroters.
Mrs E. A. Pollard is on lecturing tour.
The big boy Of Connecticut public school is
IS years old.
Coal has advanced in price in England IS per
cent. in ten years
Ia ancient times people urred their dead
now they earn their living.
There were forty-six victims to non.explosives
10 Madison, Wis, last year.
The King of Italy has appointed Amadeus a
acknowledgement in the Italian army.
Initial note paper has superseded the mono
gfam, and three-cornered paper is in order.
A Wisconsin magistrate reeds the marriage
ceremony backwards for divorces.
Smoke is still issuing from the ruins of the
Boston fire.
What length. ought lady's petticost to be ?
A little over two ieet.
There has been great destruction of property
by fire all over the State within the last few
months.
The Tobacco Exchange Company of Char
lottesville has been chartered.
Which is the ugliest hood worn FaIsehood.
In Chicago widow is called second hand
ed wife.
Who was the straightest man 10 the Bible ?
Joseph, for Pharoah wanted to make ruler OF
him.
Two hundred men, women and children from
Denmark, will settle in Virginia In April.
Vermont has upward of 10000 drunkards,
though. as 10 Massachusetts, no liquor is sold
there.
The work on the Lynchburg and Danvie
Railroad is to be pushed on to q rapid compile
ton.
Street costumes deliberately embroided with
brilliant colored Worsted will be among the
spring novelties.
Dir. Berj. Flannahau. formerly of Louisa,
died very suddenly near Charlottesville recent
ly.
Girls in eastern shoe-factories make on an
average Sl2 per week, and they consider it the
business On feet.
London Punch defines woman as ''a creature
endowed with seli-ornamental instinct.
1t is now sixty-six years since Pail Mall,
London, vas lighted with gas-the first street
OF any city go Illuminated.
1.-THE Country Parson," in his latest essay in
Frazer, Gays: mo man mind is healthy who
ever tastes undiluted brandy
W. I. Willer & Son, whisky dealers, Louis
vile, Ky, burned out. Loss $55 000
The Carlists il Spain have achieved several
successes aud are accused Of outrages.
The subject of the degeneration of the quality
and number of horses 10 England is engaging
the attention of Parliament
The light-fogered fraternity 10 Brownsville
lex. have taken to stealing the street lamp
posts.
Among ladies in London, writes fashionable
correspondent. there is a perfect rage for black
silk stockings.
An Industrious little boy in Philadelphia sup
ported his eyed mother during the winter
months By stealing 300 doormats.
The cars Of the late Orange aod Alexandra
Railroad now bear the mystic aud mysterious
device of ". G. V. Nj. and G. S. r. r.
The house of Matthew Perry, 10 Grayson
county. was destroyed by fire Saturday, the slh
A member OF The Ohl0 Legislature proposes
bill for6idding the Smith family to christen
any more babies John.
The inhabitants Of Key West, Fla, decline
to pay salaries 10 clergymen, fearing that any
thing suggestive OF funerals may ipjure the rep
otation Of the place as resort fer invaiids.
''Stovepipes' are going out of fashion for
ladies' riding hats, aud the cavalier beaver,
with long ostrich plume. is now the correct
thing,
There are two reasons why some people don.
mind there own business. Oae is that they
haveo't any business, and the ctheris that they
have no min0.
Americans read more newspapers than any
other people. but 90 not read more books =
Probably because the average newspaper is bet
ter than the average books.
The Indiana Legislature has earned the IN
dying gratitude Of all the keno-dealers in the
State by enac'ing that no one under twenty-one
years Of ags shall be allowed to play with bill
ligrds.
bar Of iron worth Sc worked into horse
shoes is worth $40 so; into needles, $3.50 pen
knife blades 1884 balance springs of watchaa,