Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-03-28
THE CHAT OF THE WEEK.

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Here are few "old hundred" cases o
'good as ever "Mrs Tozer, res iding ii
the town Of Athens, Me-, is 407 years
knits stockings without spectacles Johr
Boyd, Louisville, KY, colored, 112; chew
and smokes; third set of teeth coming two
cords of wood before dinner Sarah Elan
ders, 105, Macon, Ca, hale and hearty
engaged to be married to Luke Cozens. 101
of the same place; temperance and anti.to-
bacco. James Tyler, Chicago, 1O5, lately
whipped his son Grorge Tyler, aged 80, fol
impudence; fined S.. Mary Walters, Ell.
mira N. Y, 104; takes in washing no
spectacles Bible twice day; smokes a
pipe; strictly temperance
The FASHION OF D1sEAsE.-It is aston.
ishing what fashion there is in diseases.
His ex-Imperial Majesty, the late Bona.
parte, having died of 'embolism," the doc.
tors on this side the water are discovering a
great many cases Of it. Last week, in Ohio,
a young lady died from what the local prac.
ticioner declared to be "heart- clot, or EN-.
byolism of the main fue of heart" But the
damsel was not dead after all, for she re-
vived within an hour, when it was found
that she had only been choked by a bit of
chewing gum! Quite notifying this was,
both for the respectable old family practi.
ticner and for the young lady.
LEGISLATIVE PAsTIME.-A Richmond
correspondent advocating licensing gam
bling establishments, says:
In one faro bank here most any night a
! ! quorum Of the present Legislature may be
found, and yet not one Of these gentlemen
who visit them have the manliness to ask
for law licensing these establishments for
fear of their constituents
The NEXT PREs1DENr.-Th Montgome.
ry Gala. } Advertiser is losing confidence in
men and things. 1t offers desperate wa.
ger that "Oakes Ames, if nominated by
radical convention, would obtain more votes
for President than any other man in the
United States. He could beat Hartranit or
Simon Cameron, in Pennsylvania, or Pome.
roy in Kansas"
ALBANY JoKE.-Here is good Joke.
Three Albany men cut one of the hind legs
from Newfoundland dog that had been
killed. dressed it in neat style, and sent it
to friend. He had it cooked, and ate it,
thinking it was mutton. Now, If some one
would give those three fellows nice little
dose of arsenic they would be appropriately
appreciated.
How THE GIRLS SHALL DREss.-The gov
erning board of Vassar College, at Pough.
keepsie, has issued decree eliminating COL
lars and cuffs from the academic wardrobe
1t is not yet known how the "sweet girl
graduates receive this harsh decree.
The dying words of the late L. D. Shew.
ell, who died 90 the steamer Adriatic, on
her last voyage to this country, were:
Turn my face in the direction of America,
that may look toward my native country"
Gov. McEnery of Louisiana, is trying to
get the other governors to join him in pc
tition to President Grant to convene Con-
gress in extra session to consider the state
of affairs in that unhappy state.
Miss Faithful says the superficial educa-
ton of girls is. 'like dipping Thorn into weak
solution of accomplishments, forms coat
ing that will not stand time or YEAR.
A sympathizing newspaper man in Geor-
gia, condoles with brother editor at the
serious illness Of the latter's two sisters and
three brothers.
The Richmond reporters have fallen in
love with Lucien Beard, the horse thief,
and are trying to prove it pity that he
was caught.
The writers of dime novels are said to be
better paid than any of the magazine authors,
and the brain work is not half so great.
A woman in Maine has taken the small.
pox from letter written by young man
sick with the disease in Boston.
Chicago sheds affection as the duck sheds
water. Here she is now with a new base
ball nine at salary Of SIG, 900.
A dog lately fell eighty-fve feet in
mine shaft, and nearly killed Chinamau
without hurting himself much.
1t is only honest farmers in Iowa who fill
ducks with water and then let them freeze
before taking them market.
The ''little ak" historically connected
with exemplary veracity is not to be con
founded with Colf-ax.
In Coldwater, Miss. last year twenty.one
couples got tired of living in hot water, and
procured divorces.
l. An Illinois town offers $4,000 to the
man who will 20 there and invest 800, 900
in cotton MILL
One Godfrey, of Tompkins county, New
York, recently paid his wife $500 to leave
him sine die.
| 1t took twenty-five years of agitation to
abolish the Thanking abuse It died in its
SIND year.
The Queen of Denmark is rebuking ex.
travagance, by appearing in public in CALI
co dresses.
Parisians amuse themselves with post
cards by sending anonymous missives to
Theirs.
Thurlow Weed. it is said, reads Dickens
for an hour, every night, before he goes to
sleep.
The free bridge across the James river,
at Richmond, Va, has been completed.
The list of deceased Kentuckian's debt
or's measured eighteen feet
Bridgeport ladies refuse to trade where
female clerks are employed.
The penalty Of using postage stamp the
second time is fifty dollars
Rev. DR.. Munsey, is again in Baltimore
much improved in health.
"Jef Davis is running for the office of
mayor in Topeka, Kan.
During 1872, $1,000 deer were shipped
| aast from Minnerofo