Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-06-12
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At the last grand ball at Wyoming, Miss
was attired in Il buff grosgrained buck
skin dress, with army blanket overskirt
bottom Topped up with bucksllin strings
cut bias. Hair dressed a Ia Red Cloud, in
which was twined a few sprigs of sage
brush, the whole secured behind in abunch
with a handsome pin made with a pine
splinter and d buffalo's ear
An Ottumwa, Oregon paper says: dur
ing the wind storm the other day Richard
Warden, of the A" Courier" lost his hat,
which went whirling into space, or rather
into mud-hole. Richard, however, Was
equal to the occasion. He simply cross, d
his ears over his head and bid defiance to
the storm
In abiding to the fact Of their being al,
eX-Engish officer Oh the reportorial staff
of the New York York sHerald'' WHO
once outranked Sir Garnet Wolseley, Il
Commercial Advertiser" says: well Sir
Garnet had tie same chance open to him.
It's his own fault if he didn't avail him.
self of it,
A man applied for divorce at Burling-
ton the other day because his better half
had deserted him, saying that she did not
''propose to leave York State to go and
live with a lot of Vermont gum -cl,aw-
erS."
An Iowa engineer married II young lad,
while waiting fol :; late train last week
THAT'S no great shakes. A couple might
marry aud raise IA large family Of children
Indiana depots.
\ little boy in st. Cloud Il few days AGO
undertook to see il he could lift himself 10y
hanging on "a mules tail He und out
all about it. aud the doctors think the skin
on his forehead will grow III, nut VIII
leave bad scar
The old superstitious notion that croco-
dies weep, has been exploited by the sciell-
fists: but it is pretty generally acknow
edged that sailars have repeatedly Sc.
whales blul,t,er.
The Detroit Free Press" saws: CT
Albany Journal never has less thap eigl.
columns on a hanging affair, and som =
times reaches twelve, and Il marked u,
is always sent to tue widow
If lady in ii red cloak were to cross a
field III which WIS Il goat. what wundtlf;.
transformation woali probably take place:
The goat would turn to but ter and tht
lady into Il scarlet ruaner.
man who fell into II vat of boili,.
lard and got ont alive, says that it was no
an unpleasant sensation after the first IN
hent, but he thongi!t what !. lightly quee
shaped d0uglnut he would make
An agricultural paper recommends a
quart OF brandy to cure the staqgers We
have thought brandy was the cause OF tie
stag GERS.
TINS engine wont work." said IA Ere
man to the chief of the fire department.
No wonder" was the reply, lit was made
to play"
Way do women talk less in February
Than IN amy other month Because ii
The Shortest molth in the Year.
y New Jersey paper boasts of Il new
subscriber one hundred and three Years
Old. I'VE siloiidl't ctll li.n v ~ new.
Nalne the friendship of him who stan, s
by you III storm; sNarms of insect, will
SURROUND you in sunshine.
NJ 'cbtsll must nave ice "A t,bl u
chewer, as his way Of life had fallen :into
the scar .nd yellow leaf'
Two horns will last al OK ii lifetime. but
many man waut~ that Lumber eyelv
morning before breakfast.
jayntsvllir t"s al edu atel pig call, d
Ben i'ntlrr. There is a chance for a libJ
suit --oii tntr part of the pig
lie fell dead and expired in two mih-
ntes. says ID Georgia paper of the death
of a negro.
What is the most daring theft a man
can l'e gagii;y of? Taking the chair at a
public nesting.
Marriage lis often said to be a lottery;
bat Cal hsi eiat,.s lis belief "a. it is !,
game Of eribbage
There is 4 sly fellow up town who has
LAUGHED i'll his slnrvc so nue., that it has
become tlreadbare
Births are bling. announced as g Our
Young Folks for April y in the Turner
Fails, Mass. ''Reporter''
Placards Oh the st. Louis street cars de-
rla'e flat This an can't wait for ladies
to kiss good-by'
A Georgia paper promises to publish a
thrilling cereal. Its readers will prol a.
bly, make an oat Of it.
If man is murdered by his hired man
should the coroner render verdict of
CHILLED by his own hand