Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1875-09-25
Notes from Abroad.

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each for toads. They fad them the best and
cheapest destroyers OF insects which inteS'
their plants.
The Scotch herring fishermen say ihat the
crop viii be double the average this year Al
Wick alone, $4,000, 600 fish were caught In
one week.
American city tax payers will be surprised
70 read that the taxes on a lot 20 fee, front ana
a two story brick house thereon, in the vicini-
ty Of Tufnel park, London, amount to only
eli per snuum.
An Englishman was lately arrested for
stealing gas by attaching rubber tube 10
pine in the cellar Of an uuoccupiei house next
door to his own. He had drawn off 100000
feet in five years.
It is understood that the marriage OF Mr..
w II. Gladstone. NJ. p, eldest son OF the
Rigbt Hon. w. f. Gladstone, with the hon.
Gertrude Stuart. youngest daughter OF Lord
Blantyre. Will take place the last week IN
September.
Since the year 1900 Englani has waged for
ty.pine wars; France, thirry-eicht; Russia,
twenty-two: Austria. twelve; Prussia, eight
and in spite OF al the peace societies and inter
national conventions they all appear aaAIouS
for another.
The eccentric Emperor Ferdinand, Of Aus
tria. whom the revolutionary upheaval ol 1913
frightened from the throne, and who died al
Prague a short time ago, Is said TO have be-
queathed 10 the Pope the magnificent sum oi
six million dollars.
The tunnel under the English channel is to
no ot,emptsd after all. Engineers who have
made the preliminary soundings report that
the water is nowhere more than one hundred
and eighty feet deep and the bottom bed OF
easily penetrable chalk.
Cardinal Manning says the gift Of prophecy
is not needle to perceive that Europe is on the
eve of a blJ5der war than has been chronl'led
in tie past. The arming Of seven millions oil
men. with a power uuequalcd ~ human an
nails be thinks. can have lut one result.
Melton. the Regent street halter in London,
announces himself as "by appointment hat
ter 10 his Excelleucy the President Of The
United States" aud exhibits a letter from that
eminent gentleman which says that his hat
q. fits rertectly and the workmanship much
admired. There must be a brick IN 1t then.
Captain Webb, the English sailor who sue
c.cIed in swimming from Dover to Calais.
across the English Channel, has iar surpassed
the feat Of the American, B'ynton. Webb
accomplished his feat without the assistance OF
any floating or lile-savlne apparatus, and ei-
fected It To- twcuty-one hours aud forty MN
ltes-two hours less than Boyutou took.
Clara Morris Mrs Harriotu submitted to
terrible ordeal IN Paris, recently. During her
-, bo,Itb.trin n Fnrope. she suffered
return of the spinal affection to which she had
/ limo been subject As the only permanent
cp,e the doctors ordered, and administered,
the ami cation of heated irons along the spinal
comm
s,otoy tlo roviyalist writes Of the English
- o,J her rr,,dcbillren. "Tbe little
stii...... ;,.t s,cb sbv-lookin, Youngsters as
'".H' ~, ~. -,iIi,o,s !, orr Sunday schools
We N ,.,,,5,,,,ber i,st such n nl.asant
,.,I,. l,',I,. no ,.o SOC averv s,bhath I'm the
,,,,,, c,'rrs, r. onr Methodist churches in A.
,na,;,, -
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'.'"uEn '"I's '.I,''.'' '', - :, -,
( PIE g''"ereo at '"e '''."'y '' ~
glimpse oi her' one IS T'i; WIZ" - 80
az is '"i' '"''S' VI 90 -;ii" ,.-,,a
'"I,S e7'' ."'S ~ ~ ','.' now
n'u'"Ia ',l, =, ti,aL ,ro, or lilac never having
- ,lo doth or ber eldest
/ N"'H t'J 0''''' '. H.. ,..,',,o-,. ,ro
"d"-u,e' '''"' coz -.
tnar'e'''"'E S"e', """ y. 49, .,I..
popular as sue lo oIa.',,u ~ har I,
FeP'r'eI' no"oser' .,t T,' 5 Go i;lo ,ri'o
le,.'' Si',,'sS "'''.'e .l Wv. don,irion
'""'' '"",''''' ~ Nv ow-,
4 L2udoh correspondent S.ys - -
lh LONDON very Iu''oU' ''.'
sP'asuIus houses. 'noo ~ 80 ''.''
l, appear 'h"t ne mas U'en '"' ~
the ioN-h"unds oI . certain ",,'' "o -,r'
OF Of these houses ana pays 'r.e .h'''iuss ~
at the door. man meets H'u, d" 't' "'''
and says, Nhai HOUNDS sT N,h', ','Ie5
L-seX an! Oh oeihs ,n'oI"'''' Nv ''4'S '"'
gallant hunter To a stao.e "Nste '.',e -
wooden morse standing lN INu''' "' NV"''s"
or other mud. The man 'Grh5 " ".ee'' t"e
wooden horse KICKS up hi- ie'S' anu 'u N'e
minutes the su"o Is c''eItH WIN as ulHC"
mud as he would have gathered h"A he pe'n
riding across the country l'r I'VE h'u's.|
Then the splashed one WIN Wl.p 10 manu-
walks mp Pail Mall ana IIec"''"y, ana te"'
those Of his friends whom fe meets "h'
glorious hunt he has enJ'ye'.
Montreal, Canada, Is just now tie scene ola
singular bot dangerous excitement. The In
gln'l.i some yel7 ,' III, 's J .n5,vD- ,',.
a5'.''..' IN, L,,,, ,.af'-i.y f,Le mem
o. III.