Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1882-11-11
NOTES.
London has Al theatres seating 55,s.

Lohtpu HAS II thCdtiSS oSo'i'5 V','-O
persons.
\ society is newly formed in Boston to
COLOMBO Palestine with Christians.
Gen. Fitz Lee will review the 18th \. y.
regiment in Brooklyn at Christmas.
Alexandria had only public pumps in
1893 and some hundred in 1860. She has
now %.
Gen. Sherman will be retired next year
on $4,000 salary. He will reside in St.
Louis.
- L. 5. factories produce ten million
teeth annually and the gold Filings amount
to 100000.
A locomotives average life is 30 years, a
locomotive engineers GO. The engineer
can jump.
The b. and O. shipped to tide water the
biggest quota of Cumberland coal las' year
-7SS,5S2 TVS.
John Chambcrlin, of y. Y. opens the
Fernando Wood mansion in Washing ton As
select club Dec. lst.
4 Bronson tfla.l grape vine yielded 20
bushels the past season and has grown a
second crop.
Rev. Melville Cox, who sailed from Nor
folk for Liberia Nov 6, go, was the first NJ.
f. missionary to Africa.
Is cows comprise the famous Albert Pan
W strain of Jerseys. Their weekly product
is Ito "a lbs. of butter
Old Bethany in Philadelphia is the
largest Presbyterian church in Penn-hav-
ing $50 members.
Count Won Moltke is just So and has %
wears been chief of the Prussian army
grand general staff.
The Rothschilds gave the English army
in Egypt Is tons Of smoking tobacco-fa-
vorite Virginia brands.
Red Chilis" inn. c., and yellow chills'
in Ga. turn their victims these respective
colors-if Stntg papers do not exaggeTate.
In Italy lime - kept Stacked in pits for
wears before used in building mortar
Hence the durability of Italian structures.
J tailed fog, spotted brown, and Will
inch horns on his head and smaller ones Oh
his back is q Charlotte y. c. tnsas nat"
rr.
Trays are placed in many German cya
and smokers drop their cigar ends therein
The collected 'bacco Is sold to bay ciothe'
for poor children.
\ Baptist bible convention viii meet al
Saratoga next May to settle vexcd denoni
national questions anent translations, yer
,ions, etc.
The demolition of the palace of the
Tuil,er.es in Paris has commenced. 1t
better portions will be preserved on Other
sites as memorials of the empire.
\ more commodious stock exchange j:
projected in New York, an upper Broadway
site being already purchased. The frs
500 seats will cost S5,O0o eacn.
The Northern Pacific is bordering it
road with shade trees as a shelter from
storms and drifts and offers forestry prize
to farmers occupying tie land grant
The Charleston IS. c. ladies' memorial
association will unycil soldiers monu
mcnts Nov. 30. in the local Magnolia Gem
,t,ry and bcs,rew the confederate graves
with flowers.
\ Chester s. c. pumpkin vine of
months growth, covers l,l90 50. t..-th'
ionges. branch, IS #. 3 in, bearing lSpuaip
| kins of % inches Circumference, Wha
pies,
Bishop Psnick of Cafe PaImas, Africa
has returned to this country. He contract
ID the \ lrican fever and was compelled tC
leave his field of labot 20 saye his life. HI
preached in Wheeling on Sunday.
Terra Gotta lumber is new building ma
tcrial introducing in New York. Made o
Perth Amboy top clay and sawiust, east ii
-hapc and kiln baked it is guaranteed iir'
/ proof and to be stronger and easier workc'
than spruce or pine. Is cost is not stated
Fcathcry trimming is still feminine
rage. six y. y. importers receive mil
ion birds annually wrens, lqrk7, blue
birds. toucans, thrusheS, ravens phcasant
and :. American humming birds: the Latte
bringing > and 10 dollars each.
! Noting the ~idening fields of feminin,
abor the London Spectator says: 1t re
mains to be seen whether the distinction
OF SIX DO not include peculiar nervous quail
lilies which viii make sustained rivalry viii
man as impossible in the long run as i
seems inevitable for the moment"
Or. VIM. II. Pancoa,t introduced to hi
Philadelphia clinic class lately young maj
of u. who was born with an iil-deyelope,
infant attached to his cheek. The separa
tiou was the first of its kind ever performed
Among curious press items this one surely
takes the cake 1t is beyond editoria
comment. Only an VI. d. may safely tackl
it.
The boomerang effects ofcpi>tolary indis
erection, are again in,tAncel in the pu0iici
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