Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-07-15
Briefs.
Briefs.
Pic-nics are all the rage.
Mosquitoes draw their bills "at sight"

Pic-nics are all the rage.
Mosquitoes draw their bills "at sight"
Have you heard anybody say SIT is hot?"
Do you go to the land of Goshen this morn
ing?
The Band had warn time at Alton, and
didn't get any salad either.
1000 in the shade is what the thermometers
stood at several days last week.
The Page Courier lugubriously remarks. mo
bar room in Luray yet, and not much pros
pect."
The showers Of Saturday and Sunday only
served to show how delicious it would be TO
have more Of them.
One house-fy inside room can more effec-
tually break up an afternoon nap than ten
brass bands on the outside.
"Oh," she said, 81 think soda-water is soda
l1cious." He took the hint and soda dime on
the harvest-fleld of love.-1faraton Independent.
A circular advocating summer resort calls
attention to numerous seats In forked trees
and elsewhere, some of them just large enough
for two persons.''
The recent protracted drought has almost en-
tirely. destroyed vegetation. The grass is as
'brewn and sere'' as though the melancholy
days. had come.
The Fincastle Herald says 1.-Two very large
droves of sheep passed throughto town this week,
some eight hundred in all, owned by Messrs.
Beake & Myers of Augusta.
The July number Of the Virginia Medical
Monthly is on our table. Among other interest
ing original articles we find one on the "Treat-
meut OF Qiphtheria' by DR.. ]. Alex. Waddell,
of this city.
The cornerstone ofthe colored NJ 2. Church
at Waynesboro', will be laid on the 10Th by Mt.
Zion Lodge of Masons staunton. The Excelsior
Band will be in attendance and at night there
will be lawn-party.
On lext Friday the 18th inst, the Board OF
the Western Lgnattc Asylum will elect Ma
iron ofthat Institution to 81 the vacancy re-
Gently caused by the death of Mrs. WH. B.
johnson. There are great many applicants
for the place.
.'Yopng man." said stern old professor to q
student who Lad been charged without kissing
one of his daughters-"yoHng man, don't get
INTO that habit. You'll find that kiss is like
eating SOUP with fork" "How so, sir ~ ask
ed the student. because" answered the stern
old professor, '.you can't get enough gift"
The Spirit Of the Valzey, At HarrisonburG men-
tioning the printer boys, who called at that Of
fee on the 4th inst, speaks Of Mr.. Eugene NJ
Root as "the artistic job printer of the staun-
ton Spectator, who, like his specimens of job
work, Is beautiful to behold" Is this put
upjob? OF is it only ''taffy."
The three Or four hundred eEegrsiopists from
Richmond on Sunday made but little change
in the quiet, Sunday appearance ofour streets.
Their presence would not have been noticed,
but for the large crowd that gathered at the
depot in the evening to bid them "God-speed"
on their return to the Capitol.
A fashion item says: ssslim, wasp-liks figures
have had their day." This will be sad npws to
tall girls who don't weigh over one hundred
pounds. But it is hoped they will neither COM
NIT suicide nor leave the country. The modiste
can make up figure as plump as nature her
selfa figure that will deceive the most critical
young man=we'ye beea ted.
The excursion FROM Richmond on Sunday
landed between three and four hundred resi-
dents OF the Metropolis In our city. They spent
the day in visiting their friends, attending tbs
churches and sightseeing generally. soMe
however fearing to get lost among the numer-
oas hills on which Staunton, like ancient
Rome. proudly sits. spent the day at and near
the depot. keeping ass anxious eye upon the
iron horse that had brought them away fTof2
Richmond, into the Businesses of the noun
tains.''