Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-11-02
English Kings Some Of England's
Rulers Died.

an arrow from an archer.
John died, nobody knows how, but it is
said, OF chagrn, which, we suppose, is
another term for dose of hellebore.
Henry the Third is said to have died a
natural death.
Edward the First is likewise, said to
have died of a natural Sickness which
it would puzzle all of the college of physl-
clans to denominate
ly murdered by r,lffians employed by his
own mother.
Edward the Third died of dotage.
Richard the Second died of starvation,
the very reverse of George the Fourth.
Henry the Fourth is said to have died of
fits, caused by uneasiness, and uneasiness
in palaces in those times was very COM
mon complaint.
Henry the Fifth is said to have died "of
painful affections, prematurely." This is
courtly phrase for getting rid Of king.
Henry the Sixth died in prison, by means
known then only to his jailor, and known
now only to heaven.
Edward the Fifth was strangled in the
tower by his uncle, Richard the Third.
Richard the Third was killed in a bat
Jle.
Henry the Seventh wasted away as a
miser ought to do.
Henry the Eighth died of carbuncles, fat
and fury.
Edward the Sixth died of decline.
Queen Mary is said to have died of a
"broken heart" whereas she died of a sur
felt, eating too much of black pudding.
Old Queen Bess is said to have died of
melancholy, from having sacrificed Essex
to his enemies.
James the First is said to have died of
drinking.
BIRDS SINGING.-The "Pall Mall Ga
zette" relates how French ornithologist,
has taken the trouble to find out at what
hour during the summer the commonest
small birds wake up and begin to sing.
The result OF this inquiry shows that the
earliest riser of all is the greenfnch, who
pr obably imagines that he may make up
for the thinness OF his voice and the mon
otony of his strains by being first in the
field. At any rate he tunes up and gets to
work at his feeble piping at about half
past A. M, hours before the robust and
melodious species of finches are ready for
work. The blackcap is to be heard at half
past 2oE thereabouts; and a half an hour
later the quail makes his first at
tempt at musical performance. 1t
is nearly O'Clock before the first real
songster appears, in the person of the
blackbird. The vigorous notes of this
performer are to be heard about half an
hour before those of the thrush; and the
chirp of the robin is about the same length
OF time before that Of the wren. Finally,
the house sparrow and the tomtit occupy
the last place on the list. Hitherto early
risers have always been exhorted to take
the lark as their example; but the lark is
shown to be comparatively sluggard. He
can never be heard, like the greenfnch,
actually before the break of day; and ex-
cept On very sunny morning, it does not
appear that he rises, in any sense of the
word, until long after chafnches, linnets,
and a number Of the hedge row birds have
been up and about.
HINT FOR PovERTY-CURsED BELLIES
The other day groceryman at Vallejo
gave large party, at which the daughter
of the carriage painter who lived next
door created a decided sensation. 1t was
not that she was more handsomely attired
than the other ladies present, but that
when she gyrated in the "dance of death"
she was observed to display the only pair
OF pink silk stockings ~ the room. She
left the house for few moments at the ex-
plration of the dance, and in the next waltz
exhibited a pair Of light blue dittoes. An
hour later her crushed and exasperated fe-
male friends beheld these supplemented by
other hose OF a delicate chocolate shade.
And so it went on until her miserable ri
walls determined to follow her the next
time she disappeared. They traced her to
her fathers paint-shop in the back yard,
where she was discovered, brush in hand,
and about ornamenting her neither ex-
tremities with final artistic coat of light
salmon. The exulting spies rushed back
with the damaging news, but it was too
late. The men were all too tight to I'M
derstand, the music had gone home. and
the lights were being put out. Thus it is
that fraud and duplicity triumph, while
honest simplicity walks around with darn
on its calf and q hole in its heel.-Sam
FYapcisco Post.
A JUDGE RETIREs FROM THE BENCH.
"A correspondent of the Cincinnati EN-
quirer,' writing from Vanceburg, Ken
tucky:-Qur Criminal Court was opened