Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1877-05-19
General Gleanines.

since bred is going upi, might he well to
'cr. t1mqs on cake.
The Burlington Hurtege thinks that If you
habit gone % the Centennial you might have
saved moacy enough 10 buy a strawberry.
4 Western exchange says that this year will
see the end O: the erasshoppcrs,' but It
doesn't tell Us which cad.
j. m Bailey, the DAnbnry Noes mAa, has
STOPPED lccturins for The season aud gone 10
eating peanuts.
/ ll thc year 1876 the seed received in Chica-
50, principally clover and timothy, were val
ucd at move than $4,000.0O0.
Parson Grownlow was partisan 10 temper
arcc ass well as politics. Ou his dcath-ted he
refused Tire stimulous of brandy, remarking
I Co his children, " This cannot last long, | am
nearly gore, follow my exawplc."
Four only Of The ffy-cish, sieners Of tho
Texan declaration of independence in 1885
survive These arc Edward Waller, Of Viz
I giua John W. Burton, Of Tennessee; W. b..
Sca;cs, Of sherman Colorado, and Charles b.
Stewart. All arc over siXy-thrcc.
a New Hampshire paper relates that at
Newton, IA that State, mad dog, after having
been wounded, took refuge in a barn, where
I some of lhe hay became soaked with his b.ool.
/ The Lay was tel % q horse, which went mad.
/ Gov John Lee Carroll was married 70 Miss
Cater NJ. Thompson. daughter Of tho late
I Judge L. T. Thompson, of Stauutou. Virginia,
% lhs Cathedral IN Baltimore, on Monday
evening Mr. Charles Carroll brother Of the
+ Governor, and his wife, q sister Of t.se bride,
( were present..
Roucn. France, has tho tallcst structure IN
/ ,he WORLD The cast Iron spiro OF its cathc-
I jrtl Is iy2 feet high, while tic dome Of ST..
/ Peters at Rome raises It's cross 4j2 feet above
the ground. and Strasburs the highest cathe-
/ Lrll iu oil France. reaches, with its celebrated
/ clock tower, AS feet.
Capital and Labor says that formerly tho
/ demand for farms was So great in England that
\ tenants ran a race 20 the steward Nowadays
/ land IS % De hal 10 every county. In North
crn England landlords are compelled 70 take II
into tLcir own hands IN Scotland, East Lo-
than, the garden Of agriculture, seems to have
fallen iat0 a state Of Insolvency.
The truthful locust which is Just making
i,s appearance 20 some parts or the state Of
New York. bears ou the back Of lis head, SD
which is supposed % stand for " Wlr" Tho
last advent u W locusts heralIcd our war
ul tho rebellion this timo the sinister portcnt
seems % De intended fur our friends across tic
water.
APuis newspaper gives tho following as
( tie ages If some Of tho lcadmg public men Of
/ Europe: Prince GoItschS6oG, 30; Lord Ben
/ c1nsGeld, -; Mr.. Gladstone, CS; Prince Bis
mark, C3 Lord Granville, 81; Marshal dc
I NacMahou, 60 ". Theirs, so; Emperor VIII
\ liam, SO: Victor Hugo. 80; Thomas Carblo,
I 81; Alfred Icnnyson, o. Bishop DupanlOup,
/ IS; Plus ~, s.; Gariha,di, 20; Eerl Russell
/ 81; Lord Strattord, &c EcIclGc, 80 u. jules
/ Simon, o.
/ The pittsburs Commercial has This % say
lucut the recovery Of tho country from long
prevalent hard times: We DO not have 20 be-
I GIN nc The bottom and build up anew, as they
! lii ia 1873, aud when tic good times oyertako
/ us the change will be so comparatively slight
| that wc shall hardly be able 10 rcalizoit. We
I think tho country is nor on tho high road 20
national rccupcration aud health, bu. the
change IS so gradual that we shall still 30
growing 40 tie hard times when NC are in iho
very midst Of prosperity.
The frst book ever produced in England
was printed hy William ClXton in the Alrnon-
I ~ 10 Westminster 10 the year li7I, and was
entitled tho "Dictos and Sayings Of the Phi.o-
sophcrs." \ copy II the original is extreme
| Is rare and valuable, fetching, when Sold
many hundreds of pounds Il is q small folio
I volume, very beautifully printed on ash-gray
paper, with rcG initial letters, and is rcmarka-
Jlo for It's cycurcss Of color aud distiuctneSS Of
I type There is fine copy Of tho Dictcs %
/ In the British Museum, and Mr. Elliot Stock
/ Is engaged in producing fac simile OF it BY
I permission ot the trustees Of that institution.
The following notice, says tho Bu'ie,ia 4 -t-
/ jafieuiWc. ia couspicuous'y SCI Up in the
+ State forests II France. 70 w0ull DO well 30
/ hlycsimjar notices posted in our public parks :.
Iicdso i.0-s-Fccl on mice. small rodents,
slugg and c1ubs. DO not Kill q hclso hog.
. Tuds-A farmers friend destroys twenty or
thirty insects per lolr Do act ki.. q tad
/ N9e-Dcstroys inccssantly erubs, mole crick-
cts, and insects injurious D. agriculture; no
trace Of vegetable matter is ever found in its
stomach does more good than harm. D0not
ki!l mole C,cEchacr hamcatorl aud his
grub .vcrhlluo Each insect lays 30 o. 100
eggs kill tho cockchaicTs Each depart
ment Of France loses annually thousands Of
francs ly the injuries Of insects. Birds are
the only enemies capable Of coltcudiug with
them. Children DO not rob the birds nest. -
Then follows a list of rewards offered for the
destruction Of c0Dkchalcrs.