Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1882-11-25
NOTES.

The frauking privilege obtained in the
English Parliament from 1860 TO lSio.
Unless il be 10 or - stories and covers a
block New York building is deemed ne
thing at al.
There have been 500 diphtheria cases in
Pittsylyania county, Virginia, since July,
and 25 per cent. were fatal.
An iron grey musiache and mutton
chops" reader pleasing the countenanec Of
Massachusetts executive.
The scarcity of psrtridges which are slow
ly being exterminated is due 10 the mowers
close clip of cloyer-exposing and destroy
ing the nest.
The Order of I.afa, cite is late New
York incorporation intended to foster love
of couatry, respect for republican iustitu-
tions, recognition OF the veterans and the
collection Of wa. trophies.
In England vegetarianism is making big
procrc,s-the temperance folks aiding it
Vegetarian dining rooms are opening every
where. VIM. Black, the novelist, is an alb
stainer from Gesh food.
Apartment: houses, or flats" are all that
is building in New York row. 8 are pro-
jec;ed to cost an aggregate million and g.
story. $500 600 one, is erecting at Broadway
and 5oih street.
Horseshoes made Of three thichncsses of
green rawhide compressed in 4 steel mould
are used to some extent in England. They
weigh about a quarter Us much as an iron
shoe. and are said 70 wear longer.
The Hanson Gao, = low hung, two-wheel,
m room colored vehicle seating'lwo to four
is introduced in Philadelphia and Washing
ton, and the Indies, especially. are charmed
with them. The reader Of the average Eng
lish novel will recognize the llarscm.
A Pike county, Indiana, son-in-law was
hired to clean out the old mans smoke
house. Doing SO he found 800 specie. The
old woman, since dead, had hid it there du-
ring the war. His wiGes daddy demanded
it. He kept It. = sui; spending.
The sons of the Prince of Wales are not
dispo ,itiored alike. Albert Victor's thought
ful and quiet, George a young scamp. Re
Gently dircd at Queensland By its Governor
the younger watched every chance to pull
surreptitiously the pigtails of the Chinese in
waiting.
Tea and coffee, says the London Times,
are natural allies against alcoholic drinking
and natural rivals otherwise. China, Rus
sia, Asia and Jap1a drink tea Arabia, rur-
key and the Mahommedan world drink cof-
fee. Europe is 'alf and 'alf. England
drinks tea and Yankceland consumes more
coffee than is good for its digestion.
Patricio Aiilmo is the topioftical title ola
ten million dollar lIibornian in Mexico,
whose handsome stone mansion, royalty fur
nished. crowns q bit of table-land 1850 feet
high and comprising 10000 acres. Bri-
gands capture Lim now and then and com
pei him to part with some thousands in loose
change-which they, poor devils, call ran
som
There is in Upper Broadway, New York,
or Williamsburg, as it is cGied-an ar
morer's little shop where suits Of mail and
h, lu.ets ara such are made for the big ac-
tors. militia companies and dealers in theat-
ric goods. There are but six practical ar
morcrs in the world and only tllis one in the
United State.
A curious feature Of street life in Gotham
is tie peddling. Men occupy every availa-
bic nook in doorways, at corners, &c, sell
ling every conceivable kind Of portable
mtrchandie They pay rent 20 the owneIs
OF the buiIdings-the rates ranging from 3
to .ij. There afe, perhaps, thousand OF
these pciilcrs ard their profits average from
- to sJ0a day.
Betwixt teir revc7ond selves the VERY
missionaries on Aries burning sands have
ad;ulecd King 3!ctc.a to be The Pcskiesi
piece Of royalty they have yet tackled. lie
is continually tripping up in Theological
path-oarmly embracing a truth to-day, a
stoutly denying !, tomorrow ard bidding
its lucklese ezponnder to light out on the
instant: a moycm ent which the bearer OF
good tidiugs speedily accomPlishes. This
entcrprisng nan and monarch has offered
ertree into Lis dOminions 10 the English
missionaries if Queen Victoria will make
/ him her son-ia-law, and it is just possible
that she will DO nothing OF the kind.
I,,rO,fnuf 10 Gas Consumers.