Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-02-27
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pasted in a scrap-book accounts OF 100
different boiler explosions.
A Pennsylvania schoolboy has died
from the effects of butting his head
against the heads Of other boys.
Skobelefi's regiment prays before it
goes into battle.
Washington's sister us I'd to write ii
"Deer Brother"
Two Irishmen were proceeding in
company to a jail-yard 10 witness an ex-
ecution, when one said to the other: II
say, Pat, where wud yez be 1.-THE hang
man had his dues 2" "Begorra, said
Pat, nd jist be walkin' down this
shtreet alone"
The wife, son and hired girl of Mr..
Powers, of Pittsbufg, tied his arms and
legs aud rolled him out into the street
and gave him a terrific drubblng.
Joe Faust, an African desperate Of
Of Denton, Texas, cooked pistol on
clergyman, made him get down on
his hands and knees and bleat like a
sheep.
hav seen yung men who thought
waz too exemplary; they wuz so good
they want good for nothing else.
General Stoneman, removed during
the war as leader OF the Federal caval-
ry, is now engaged in the grape culture
III California.
Congress has been is session about
four months.
"Stamboul" is the Turkish name for
Constantinople.
The Colorado beetle commission
wants twenty-five thousand dollars
more to complete its report. As this
valuable and important commission has
already succeeded in perfecting a plan
by which the Colorado beetle can be
exterminated at the cost of three dollars
and twenty-five cents per beetle, and
is confident that 1t CAN'T il has the time
and means, reduced this cost to about a
d,ll.r and A half, we think they ought
to have the money.
Amid all the clash and jangle OF fnan-
cial controversy, the worrl OF the civil
service reform, and the roar oil Louisiana
affairs, the newspaper reader can still
urn to the society column and be
Gained. How pleasant it is to know
once more that Mss TootsyOotsy is WIS.,
ting. for few days. the Misses Plpsy-
wirsy, and that Mr.. Baddletpdaddlety,
of the well-know house of that name, Is
shortly to lead to the alter Miss Jeresha
Gwendnlinc MontSorgeousbangle.
1t was on the train, and the lights
burned dimly. Said he, do 90 ut
ME ?" Said she. "Es, | ubs co." Said
q vulgar fellow on the seat behind them,
what, are yer givn' us tahy ~
John Rhodes, an English miser, liv'
ing at Hounslow, died recently at the
age of eighty, leaving 100000 to varl'
Gus London charities. He dressed like
tramp, and systematically starved
himself.
Harry Hammers. Pennsylvania BOY
not yet seventeen, has committee
twenty felonics since last August, ant
is now in the penitentiary.
An Irish servant girl recently boaste'
to a lady that at her old place she al
WAYS rose at four, made the fire, put OF
the kettle, prepared the breakfast ant
made all the beds before anr one wa
up III TIC lOuSS'
The Gazette says: 1T is not con
sidered the thing for lady to move he
head when she bows to any one in tn
street. She must just bend look
recognition, smile, finer teeth are good
dvinely, and pass along"
The other day two young ladies o
the Nebraska frontier jokingly o2cre
to trade themselves off to couple G
Indians for fifteen ponies each, and tn
Indians very willingly toek the ohel
Finding that the joke was taken earn
estly BY the Indian friends, the girl
become somewhat alarmed. The re
men were told that it was joke, bt
they would have taken the girls b
force had they not been inundated.
To such an extent does small-po
prevail in Rremond, Texas, that mint
tenths OF the inhabitants have left th
place. and business is closed.
That's cur family tree, said an Al
kansas youth, as he pointed to vlsC
rous hemlock. "A good many OF OF
folks have been hung on that tree Il
borrerin' horses after dark.
The Chinese in Carson, New, had
, ball. Zip Yong was the belle. Atml'
I night two Cinnamon entered the bal
seized her, and carried her of. All Sor
D started to rescue her, and was instant
/ killed by pistol shot. The belle hi
not been found.
The Army Medical Museum at Was
ington has among ills curiosities Il
o withered aud parrhcd hand OF ms
who left it Oh the battle field of Gettyi
S burg. A cannon ball CARED it 30 Il
I top of high tree, where the wind al
= sun shrivelled il TO its present well la
} ned condition.
Sister Harriet Ann Glenn is one OF L
|, most devout of the colored Methods
- in Louisville. She went to pray
lT TaDlo,