Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-24

Why not get up a dog show? Ste
phens City has plenty of material?
This has been one of the hardest
winters on health we have ever known.
The prospects for good wheat crop
next season are said to be very good.
Well soon be thinking of "When
the Spring time comes, gentle Annie"
People who don't take newspapers,
must very often suffer for their 'ignor-
ance.
The days are lengthening fast, and
"Old Sol is beginning to show his
power.
Butter holds its own in our town.
If it does not, it is not for the want of
strength.
Never let your good resolutions b.,
broken by the attempts OF others to
ridioule.
House hunters are becoming dis
couraged there are not enough dwell
ings to go around
If a fellow followed all advice to
get rid of cold, he would be walk
ing apothecary shop.
January was lost month to many
of onr mechanics and laborers, because
of its snowy and frigid condition.
Parents should not fail to visit the
schools and see what progress their
children are making in their studies.
II is asserted that the weather dur
| ing the month of January was very
favorable for large peach crop this
year.
The "courted girls" of Stephens City
are to be envied, juding by the amount
of confectionery and toothsome sweet
meats sold here.
If everybody would, tell everybody
Just what they really thought of every
body, every body would think but very
little OF everybody.
1t is whispered that one or two pairs
of hearts, that Cupid has been Juggling
at for some time will be contaminated
in the near future.
Some Of our church going people
will sit in church surrounded by hymn
books and never have politeness enough
to offer one to a stranger.
There is nothing so nauseating as
an outrageous dish ofscandal and the
sickest man in the end is frequently
he who first mixes the unsavory dish.
The most noted men of modern
times have publicly attested to the
value of Ayers Cherry Pectoral as a
cure for coughs and colds.
The only time when u man is solicit
tous in drawing the line between his
own and his neighbours property is,
when he shovels the snow off the side
walk.
There are signs of improvement in
business since the recent holidays, and
if no unfavorable obstacles prevent it
is likely that the spring trade will open
early this season.
Nearly all of our exchanges contain
accounts of sickness and deaths in
their respective localities, and we are
pleased to note that Stephens City is
in healthy condition.
The great beauty of a cold snap con-
sists in the fact that it disperses corn
er loungers from the streets and send
them to other places where their pre-
sence is not so annoying.
1t is an everyday occurrence to
hear some one remark that they cam
not rent house for ''love nor money"
Why not build houses and supply this
want? 1t certainly will pay.
Spurious counterfets of the new
five cent pieces have already been put
in circution. The new counterfeit is
well engraved, but the metal used is
poor and would be easy of detection
in coin of older date.
When man risk his money on stocks
he speculates When he risks it on a
fast horse he is grade lower, and when
he risks it on cards he is a gambler.
1t all amounts to the same thing, but
fashion has different names for it.
Farmers and others desiring a gen.
teel, lucrative agency business, by
which $5 to 500 day can be earned,
send address at once, on postal, to H.
c. WILKINSON g. Co, 1876 and 1877
Fulton Street, New York. 23m6
Young folks would hardly use the
words ''mash" and "masher" if they
knew the real meaning of them. In
England it is the term applied to the
lowest blackguardsv-to men who are
supported by earnings of lewd women.
For frozen feet sure cure is said
to be equal parts of glycerine and tam
min, rubbed on for three nights in sue
cession and heated in we'll by fire.
Spirits of turpentine, with as much
camphor gum as will dissolve in it, is
also said to be an excellent remedy.