Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-01-07
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cerning the visit of the Prince of Wales to
India. The following are the first four
lines, being an exact transliteration, by
Principal Leitner, Of the Government Col.
lege, Lahore. The poem is in Persian,
which is much affected by the cultivated
Hindoos -
'sHazar-o hashtsad haftad ba-pantsh
resale i'sawi aktuber eZ.mah
zLandan shud ba Hind an sheh Ike ba he'd
Prinse Wels.o Bertani shahinshaI.''
/. Sweetly pretty, isn't it ?-and beats Ten
nyson all hollow.
Seest thou much snow left on the flag
ging; verify it is in front of the house of
the slothful man. He stitch by the fire to
keep himself warm. neither will he depart
for scuttle Of coal. When the housewife
crieth aloud for pail of water, he hath
not his boots on. In the day when the
storm falleth he secludeth himself he saith
to the snow shovel, "Ha, ha, Let us rest
in peace So his sidewalk is an abomina-
ton in the eyes of the people and his
name in every mans mouth.
Sprlggs wrote a note to Miss Whifet,
asking her to go to Wallack's, and deliver
ed it himself waiting in the hall for an
answer. And Mrs. Whifet, near-sighted
and hasty, called over the balus trade:
bridget, do let that man wait outside,
and take Mr.. Whifet's overcoat off the
rack. There's too much of this note bu-
siness going on!' Wallack's had two
empty seats that night.
The Duke of Marlborough was once hes
itating whether he should take a prescrip-
ton recommended by the duchess. civil
be hanged, +" said her grace, if it does not
cure YOU" DR.. Garth, who was present,
and to whom the vixen character of the la
dy was well known, instantly exclaimed,
''Take it then, your grace, by all means
it is sure to do good, one way OF another.
Proctor's lectures on astronomy are re-
volutionizing the regulations of many a
Boston household. Parents, in their ar
dor for science, no longer expect the lights
to be put out and everybody abed by ten
O'Clock. A young man can call and ex-
plain the planetary system to ayoung lady
now if 1t takes him until one o'clock in
the morning to do it.
A pretty and sensible young lady re-
marked in the presence of seven bare-faced
young men, the other night, ''that it just
doubles the value of a kiss to have to bur-
row under mustache.' The next morn
ing one of our druggists sold seven bottles
ola preparation to encourage mustaches, in
less than half an hour after opening his
store.
Bob Longley with modestfervor): 40,
Jack o, for woman's love! 0, for
true hearted woman once, once in ones
life, to throw her arms around ones neck,
and tell one she loves one!" Jack Homer;
"Ah! If you had as much Of that kind of
thing as have, old man, you'd be precious
tired of the whole concern !"
A meteoric stone, weighing ninety
pounds, fell in Missouri last week, striking
u darkey square ON the head. He seemed
to be considerably confused when he get
up, and went off muttering: "Ef know
ed for slluah, de man who ffowed dat
brick, den I'd see whar am de Cibbil Rights
OBJ niggahs.
A girl in Berks county, Pennsylvania,
only twelve years old, rises daily at four
A M, milks thirteen COWS, and prepares
breakfast for the family. Her hair isn't
''banged,' and she doesn't wear a one-leg-
ged dress.
"Was the crowd tumultuous?" inquired
one man of another, who had Just come
from mass-meeting. ssToo multuous,'
replied the other. "Oh, no. just about
multuous enough to comfortably fill the
hall.
A Brooklyn scholar, aged fourteen years,
embodied in composition last week, the
statement that s'the idea of the devil first
came out of Persia, but it didn't amount to
much until after the discovery Of Amer
ica.''
::Have you any nice fresh farmers
eggs ?" inquired precise old lady at a
grocery store. ''No, ma'am,'' replied the
practical clerk, ''but we have some very
good hens eggs" She took three to try.
That must have been a beautiful sight
at the Moody and Sankey meeting when
four mothers-in-law arose to present spe-
cial requests for prayer that their sons-in-
law might experience a change OF heart.
A weak female will berate man for let
ting her stand up in horse car, and she
will then dance from ten O'Clock till two
This shows that dancing is better than
standing up.
Many woman is too feeble to peel doz-
en- potatoes for dinner, will VI ak four miles
past rivals house to display new dress,
and prance back home like three year old
FLY
A noble Omaha mastiff has saved the
lives of three children within a month past,
and bitten fourteen men who called to sell
patent clothes-bar.
An unusual number Of people are mar
rying now. Next year is leap-year, and no
woman wants it presumed that she popped
the question herself.
At religious revival of the colored peo-
pie now in progress at Palestine, Texas, a
song was sung, of which these two lines are
specimens:
You will notice that when boy steps on
a Canada thistle, Or sticks splinter into
his foot, it's invariably a few seconds before
school.
Josh Billings says :-"Yu can't change
date by cussing after an edition has been
worked off.
Seeing is not believing. There are many
men YOU can see'and yet cannot believe.
What kind o. shoes is dem your wear,