Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1882-05-06
NOTES.

A man is like fog when he is an extreme
mist
The nearer a rain-clcud is TO the earth,
the larger the drops.
I, New York firemen can take TO the street
in five secords from the streke of the gong.
Gibraltar contains, aside from the troops,
about $4,000 inhabitants. OF these 1880
are Roman Catholics. .,t
The total indebtedness of the city Of Bal
timore is $50, ,2sS, l9l ,73, being over 1923 600
more thar it,sss year ago.
A man at lone, Ga, wears an old. fash
ioned watch-seal worn by President Jackson
at his first Inauguration.
Nearly 10000 tons of barbed fence-wirc
have been manufactured in the United States
during the past year.
According to scamen, a green hue of the
ocean indicates soundings, an indigo blue,
profound depths.
Spirits of camphor makes good barome-
ter, as its cloudy before storm and clear in
fair weather.
Pencil marks can be rendered indeliblc
by dipping the paper in skim-milk and iron
Ing on the wrong side after drying.
Mr.. Edmund Yates explains tha, ouida
is only the rendering Of the name ct that
wrter-Louisa-as she lispcd it in child
hood
Paper can be made transparent by spread
iag over it, with feather, very thin layer
of rosin dissolved in alcohol, applied to both
sides.
1t is a popular mistake to call thin naky,
semi-transparent mineral isinglass. Isin-
glass is fish glue, and has nothing to DO with
the mineral, which is mica
Silk articles of delicate shades should not
be folded in white paper, as tie chloride OF
lime used in bleaching the papear will prob
ably impair the color Of the silk
fts.
Some wild Cincinnatians are desirous tha,
President Arthur shall go TO their town in
April to plant twenty-one trees in Eden
Park one for each President of the United
States.
1t is i iime-hcaorcd ccstom in Quincy,
Fla. 10 salute newly married couple by
firing 4 cannon That is to remind tho',
present that the battle of life has fairly be-
gun.
In the esc6rial are preserved 1922 relics.
among which are the entire bodies of twelve
saints and ''some tokens of Jesus Christ and
II sainted mother"
Collector Thomas of Baltimore says that
during the present season half dozen OF
more negroes have been kidnapped, carri-
ed to the Chesapeake and Potomac oyster
beds and there forced to work as dredgers;
in practical slavery.
The Union Baptist church in Baltimore,
composed of fcolored people, most of WHOM
are in humble circumstances, has shown re-
markable liberality. It's contributions fora
year are $3, 900, aud FIVE Of the young men
of the church are preparing for the ministry.
The sunbeam Is composed ofthree distinct
rays, one of heat, one of light, and enc cal
ed the chemical ray The blue or chemical
ray is greater in spring, the light ray in
summer The chemical ray is less in au-
tumn.
fla lamp chimney be cut with diamond
on the convex side, ii will never crack with
the heat, as the incision affords room for ex-
pansion and the glass after cooling returns
t. It's original shape, with only scratch yis-
ible where the cut was made.
II those farmers whose farms arc soils un-
derlaid with clay would sell quarter OF
oae-half of their lard and put the proceeds
into the judcious tile drainage Of the rest,
they would make more money ltom the one
half OF tie original farm undcrimprovcment
than they now DO from the whole area.
4 LADY VINO knows tn Presidents family
well says that raticcice Is one Of their char
actcristics. She went to school with one Oi
the sisters, who was 50 close-mou,hed that
she would not even tell what was her middle
name Only the initial letter was known tc
her teacher and comrades.
After Senator Malone, as receiver, hat
gobblcd up the Atlantic. Mississippi and
Ohio Railroad, now the Norfolk aud Wcs
tern frozen-out stakeholder interpreted
the letters "a. W. and O." on the ears as
follows "ARmias md 0rfcsie'; Ortesia j.
the name Of Mahoae's wife.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, IT,, vii, tits TN
derstood, accept newly endowed professor
ship in the Harvard Law School Mr.
Holmes is one Of tho cleverest oftho youn,
er Massachusetts lawyers lie is the "cap
tain" Of whom his father vent in search af
ter a battle in Virginia. The search is de
scibcd in one Of the doctors most charming
: papers
Some journals axe expressing surprise tha
T Carlyle's grave has yet no monument. Non
uments dependent upon public subscription
are century plants America has not 70
succeeded in finishing one dedicated to tn
memory of George Washington. Carlyle
host ,nonun,ant will he fnund in everv libra