Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-11-20
Spirit Of Jeffersorr,
TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 20. 1877.
PEN, INK AND SCISSORS.

The electric light at the depot of the
| Paris and Lyons railroad is now one the sights
of the French capital.
There are fourteen ex- Governors in the
Senate and eight in the House, besides sew
eral exGovernors of territories.
- Rev. J. Dewitt Talmage has declared
the "cyliuder of the printing press to be the
front wheel of the Lords Chariot"
AT what age were you married 7" asked
she inquisitively. But the other lady was
equal to the emergency, and quietly re-
sponded, cat the parsonage"
You're a smart fellow" sneered a law
yer to witness the other day in Brook
lyn court. ''l'd return the compliment if
wasn't under oath, replied the witness.
In Queen Victoria's crown there are
1868 brilliant diamonds, ,273 rose diamonds,
and HI table diamonds, one large ruby, II
saphres, IL emeralds, four small rubies, and
227 pearls.
- Mr.. Cough says there have been too
many movements" of late in the professed
cause of temperance, and the unity and
beauty of the first has been marred BY jealou-
sizes and chickering's.
A colored man, named Stewart, was the
| Republican candidate for associate Judge in
Lawrence county, Pa, in the recent election.
Tho county went largely Republican, but
Stewart was defeated, and hence he thinks
his party is ungrateful
- 1t is said to have become very common
for the ladies of the Russian nobility in the
large city of the Empire to offer their dia>
monds to the public treasury, and wear as
ornaments buttons torn from the uniforms of
slain officers and soldiers.
- professor was one day walking near
ho lI-tn
"natural" pray" said the professor. chow
long eau live without brains 2" II
kinna ken" said Jeremy, scratching his head,
chow auld are ye yersep?"
Charley Ross's father, in his vain
search for the stolen boy, has spent $50 900,
his entire fortune, and is now a travelling
salesman for an Eastern house. He has
made 800 journeys in search ofhs lost child,
and says he shall persovere until it is found
or he dies himself.
Two country attorneys overtakiDg
WAGNER on the road thinking to break joke
with him, asked him why his fore horse
so fat and the rest so lean. The WAGNER,
| knowing them to be limbs of the law, re-
piled, That the fore horse was a lawyer, and
the rest we're his clients"
- Methodism has firm foothold in Ger
many, according to DR.. Mast, who says that
there now in that country moro than $50
preachers, IL 600 members, 02 churches,
623 stations or preaching places, one theolog-
cal school, aud book concern which pub
fishes thousands Of volumes and millions of
tracts every year.
- In Stauuton, Va, the MofFett whisky
register report for % days Of October
s773, equal to s0.340 per annum. The
liquor tax paid by Staunton before this law
WAS only sl,770. The returns from VIM
chester indicate that the tax will yield there
about ), 200 per aDnum. Under the old
license law the revenue from liquor was about
$1,000.
- The coinage executed at the United
States MINIS during the month of October,
1877, was as follows Double eagles, So
454 500 half eagles, s., 900 quarter eagles,
$4,000; total gold coinage, S5,419, 500.
Trade dollars, Sl,O75, ,O3O; half dollars,
S7I1,225; quarter dollars, s554,0 so;
twenty cent pieces, $40 dimes, s77, ,405 to-
tai silver coinage, s2,416,7O2 so.
"A wood pecker bored hole in the sFire
of a church in Jackson, Mississippi last
spring and made his nest within it. 10 the
summer, however, a swarm of bees flew to
the spire, drove out the woodpecker, and
have since filled the interior with honey.
And now man, the sovereign despoiler, has
discovered the hoard, resolved to exhibit the
spire, with its novel contents, at the State
| Fair.
= Mr. Edison, the famous electrician,
claims to have invented an instrument which
eclipses the telephone arvel,-it is
nothing more or less than invention to
preserve and reproduce the tones of the hu-
| man voice long after the voice itself has
! been stIled in death. He claims that the
! voice can be reproduced with the same tone,
! the same intensity and the same aTticulations
in which it was originally uttered.
! PE1ERsON's MAGAZINE for December is on
table, ahe ad of all others. 1t has two splendid
steel plates; ma smmoth colOred fashion plate:
! a superb coored pattern for chair stripe, alone
worth tue price of the number; and nearly fifty
wood cuts of fashions and patterns. The stories
! are by the best authors. all we'll written. For
| 1873 great i'm provements will be made. Among
! these will be a mouthy Supplement. containing
/ a fuIl-sized Paper Pattern for ladys, or child's
I dress. thus giving every subscriber twelve
such patterns, extra. during the year. The terms
! are low, viz: Two dollars year, the postage
I pre- pad by the publisher The prices to clubs
are eheanG1 stu SP"ss6age aiso P[epa Msz1otin
| (2l inches by 26) The Angels of Christmas" to
the person getting mp the club ; or six copies for
/ 5000 (uostage re-paId). ana both an extra
/ copy and the premium engraving to the person
| getting up the club. For large clubs the prices
! are even lower. Specimens of the NaRaZIne are
sent, gratis if written for, 10 those who wIsb to
get up cnbs. Now is the lime TO subscribe for
! 1878. Address CHARLES J: PETERSON, Soo Chest
! nut Street. Philadelphia, Pa.
| THE PoULTRY WORLD for November is,
| as usual, we'll illustrated and embraces
numerous variety of valuable articles on
! poultry raising, etc, which give it great in
/ terest to the faucier and poulterer