Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-04-24

Briefs.
In New Orleans 1t costs s2O7 to eat cucum
Der, The So is for the doctor.
Fruit-growers think the outlook for goot
crop of fruit of all kinds is encouraging.
1t is said that II you boil lamp globe before
using 1t, it will not afterwards be broken by the
heat.
the library of the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION.
If you are not registered, you must attend tc
it on or before May 18th, if you want to vote al
the May election.
Our promenades are beginning to show that
however backward the spring may be, oul
spring tailors and milliners are getting in theil
work.
When you clean up your back-y yard, don't
fail to throw the refuse in your neighbours
yard it will keep him employed and in good
| humor.
Clean up your back lots, alley ways, and 9TH
| er places where filth has collected This
should be done as preventive against disease
before warm weather sets in.
Our neighbor of the Vindicator has lost an
umbrella. and is so unsophisticated as to adj
vertise for its return. 1t is really refreshing tc
find such righteousness in these times.
They arc raising row with young man in
New Jersey who was engaged to marry thir-
teen different girls. It's getting so a man can't
have any fun at all in that State-E1.
The predatory excursions of chicken-thieyes
are becoming almost of nightly occurrence
1t is about time some one was setting spring
gun. if they want to protect their setting hens.
Charlottesville has colored lawyer. He will
probably saw his own wood, at least-oto
Commonwealth.
Yes, 'cording to the law therein made and
provided.
A number of county people were in the city
yesterday attending the County Court. and the
auction business on New Court street was quite
lively, as well as at Ioeb's auction store on
Main street.
zone Word from the Loved Ones at Home,''
by Mrs. Eva ]. R. White, the great Boston song,
being sung everywhere, written by one of Bos-
toms popular vocalists. To be had at music
stores everywhere. Price IS cents.
Though the law against taking fish with nets
| or in traps expired by limitation last March,
| this does not permit killing fish by explosives
or by fishberries, quicklime, or any other poi
son. The law against such methods is still in
| force.
Puck gives the follwing illustration of how
| Protection Protects:'
| TIT has been proved that unprotected work.
| men, such as blacksmiths. carpenters, etc.. are
| proportionately paid much higher wages than
workmen employed by protected industries
| Protected Workman why is this?"
ference in my pocket for protecting you. Dye
see?"
The Rich. ST. ate has been enlarged to an eight
column paper. We congratulate 1t upon this
evidence of its prosperity, and wish it contin-
| ued success. There is no paper we receive that
we more enjoy to read, and now that there will
be more of it we will enjoy 1t only the more.
Long live the State to defend Right and expose
Wrong.
It rained nearly all day Sunday, and during
the night there was quite heavy downfall,
| but it did not last long. Yesterday was most
miserable, misty, mixed up sort of a day, that
was enough to give most any one the "blues."
We are getting tired of these kind of April
showers. even if they do bring out the spring
flowers.
Insects of different species are attracted to
the plants suited to the wants of their off
spring by the sense of smell, and if some
odor strong enough to overcome the natural
odor of the plant, can be applied to the plant,
or the earth around 1t, it will no longer attract
the insect, but will escape its depredations.
There are many strong odors, carbolic acid, for
instance. that might be employed for such pur-
pose.
Did any of our readers ever think how many
steps the farmer takes in a year? Take the
planting of single field of corn. To break it
up would require walking some forty miles !;
narrowing it, ten miles; furrowing it, twenty
miles; planting, eleven miles, if with plan
ter, and if dropped by hand and then covered,
twenty miles, Thus twill be seen that it takes
about one hundred miles of travel to put in a
five-acre field of corn to say nothing of culti-
waiting and harvesting, and the going to and
from the field while planting.
The Goodson Gazette warns young ladies not
to sit on the ratings near the Institution gate,
land firt with the boys, or else the ratings
will give way and you will fall over and down
the embankment, as two very pretty lasses
hadsthe misfortune of doing last Wednesday.
Luckily the boys had a supply of pins, and
| forming Pin Corps under the supervision of
the heroic teacher of the fifth Glass; did gallant
service by kindly offering to pin up their
snagged and torn garments" This is too bad.
The authorities should see to it at once that
the ratings are strengthened. The generous
efforts of the volunteer teachers to enlighten
the unfortunates should be encouraged.