Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1883-01-09
A eolored. waiter is a seryiceable

Various Ifems
A eolored. waiter is a seryiceable
person.
All good clothes come high except
ball dresses.
The crow is shy bird, but. she
generally has caws for alarm.
Policemen are not fond of a boiled
dinner, too many beets in it.
Why beweak Why not be healthy,
robust, and strong, by using Browns
Iron Bitters?
Miss Mildred C. Lee, daughter of
Sen. Robt. E. Lee, is atthe Arlington,
Washington city
Hon. benjamin Morgan, late United
States ninistcF.to Portugal, is hope
lessly i'll in London. =.
Some onelsays: ssCourtship is the
egg froth and marriage the custard
in the floating island of life. ,,
a New York girl has made $50, GOO
by an oil transaction. a can of it
blew her rich aunt to kingdom come.
Life for the hopeful youth is full of
tomorrow. The old man who lives
on yesterday has slender diet and
little comfort.
Drowning men catch at straws, and
catching at straws is the very reason
why great many men can't keep
their heads above water
When woman wants to get rid of
her husband for an hour, she sends
him up stairs TO get something, from
the pocket of one of her dresses.
a correspondent asked: s'Do ca
nary birds like fish:'' Well, we can't
tell whether they do or not; but they
manage to catch little perch every
dag.
..Y-cs,', said the captain of the
ocean steamship, ''wc had very cx-
rensiye trip this time. Very little
saa-sici5Eess; passengers ate fright
fully
The Albany (N. W Press and
Nhjcderjockes' says: '.Thc largest
following We know OF to-day is that
of st. Jacobs Oil: for where st. ia
cohs Oil is, there rheumatism is not. :"
y case believed to be genuine lep-
rosy has developed in the aimshousc
at Salem, Mass. The patient is
Charles Derby, who arrived from San
Francisco Il few days ago.
There is something soft and tender
in the fall Of n single snowflake, but
1t always reminds us to look after our
bottle OF Dr. Bulls Coug:i Syrup
our old,stand-',y in the days ofCoughs
and Golds,-fo: we have always found
it reliable.
Two brothers, George and James
Fra!eE, we're arrested in Comanche
county, Texas, charged with stealing
cotton, end were placed under guard
at Hazel Dell. At midnight a mob
armed with shot-guns oYerpowered
the guard and hung the prisoners on
the same limb of trce.
1t is reported from New Port News
that store was robbed there recently.
Two colored men were arrested for
the offence upon a warrant issued by
q magistrate, who whilst irving the
case and about TO commit the negroes,
was arrested by cunstablc upon the
charge of ro5bing the store himself,
and upon an examination by another
magistrate, the evidence was of such
n character that he wasaheld for trial
for the offence. -.
China is scmethir .fra country.
1t has four canals, equaIfeall the rest
in the world. Some of them are five
thousand years old; the longest was
dug six hundred years ago, and is
twice as long as the Erie canal. That
Titanic wall of defence. the Chinese
wall, was built more than one hundred
years B. c.; it is from twenty to
thirty feet high, and fifteen hundred
miles long, and represents more labor
than any. other structure on the globe.
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