Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-05-06

Summer!
Ice-cream.
Cereal head-gear.
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Cereal head.gear.
How did you like "Marth. ?"
single-barreled eyeglasses are in style.
The straw hat is impartial. 1t lends It's
charms to both sexes.
IT'S strange that some people have such lack
of appreciation for fine art.
Young man, in pressing your suit be careiul
not to wrinkle that of the girls.
Sullivan, the pugilist is a knockulist He
operates upon the eyes of his victims.
If the dirt is not soon hauled off Main street,
1t will soon have to be scraped up again.
Ingersoll is lecturing again. Pity that Bob
has such little respect for his future home.
The Emma-Abbot kiss stakes the cakes
The dwell, the thrill, the bliss-yum. yum
Hannah M. Grant has been commissioned
postmaster at Irish Creek, Rock bridge county,
Va.
Virgins says England will have announcer
earthquake the 18th. He is shaky, but hits
sometimes.
The new style hats assume the shape and ap-
pearance of turtles, coal-hods, wagon-wheels,
stove-pipe elbows. &c.
1.-THE sky has been obscured for several days
by great volume of smoke. caused by fires IN
the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The small boy who hangs around the parlor
and makes faces at his sister should be pun
ished for contempt Of court.
Oscar Wilde thinks there is nothing he could
do that would meet the approval OF the Ameri-
can people. Yes. suicide will
A perfectly white squirrel, with eyes as red
as a terrapins. about three months old, was
caught few days ago near Fishersville.
Rev. John G. Dice and wife paid a visit of a
few days last week to their daughters, Mrs. W.
E. Leonard and Mrs. j. F. Estill, of Lewisburg.
1t is an established fact that the giraffe's
tongue is seventeen inches long. That Is
enough to turn the head of the fair sex with
envy.
The term "duds," applied to that class OF tops
who resemble croquet wicket. has been
changed by some sage philosopher to "a SLIM
Move its adoption.
There is a panic at Blacksburg College over
the breaking out there of scarlet fever. Many
of the cadets passed through Lynchburg Tues
day en- route home.
The large furniture warehouse of Mr.. 3. M.
Wilkes, on Main street, was moved back from
its foundations last week. Its removal attract
ed much attention.
Now the little buds are bursting into evanes-
cent bloom;
Likewise are the candidates thirsting for the
promise Of a boom.
Mr.. Richard Mauzy, Editor of the SPECTATOR.
is absent in Lewisburg where he went last
week to attend the funeral of his brOther-in-
law, e1-Gov. Henry Mason Mathews.
Soon the soulless organ. grinder
Will, with plaintiff music, come.
AS an eloquent reminder
OF how much cheek it takes to bum.
The session of the Deaf, Dumb & Blind Insti-
tuition will close on June 18th, and the pupils
will leave for their homes on the 18th. Itwould
be well for their parents TO remember this.
Boarding-houses now furnish opera-glasses
to each boarder, in order to detect the food as
it is beyond the power of the nude eye. 1t
would be a breach of table etiquette to feel for
it till you got hold Of it-therefore, the glasses.
Mr.. Hensley, an undertaken at the village of
Bethlehem, within two miles of Waynesboro',
has furnished six collins for negroes. all grown
but one, since 22nd of April He has averaged
two collins per week since LIST of January for
white and colored persons.
"What will the coming girl wear ?" is query
In a fashion magazine. She will wear about
the same as other girls wear we suppose; but
you can bet On the big straw hat, with about
five yards of goods on the rim, and the fair
leather satchel with strap.
The ice-cream season is now upon us, and the
festive youth for whose benefit the wood and
gas has been consumed during the long, cold
vest himself of some collateral in the appro-
priation Of ice-cream, or get "froze out" Oh,
matrimony, what a saving.
The Rockingham Register says fudge Nc
Laughlin worked the Circuit Clerk and his
deputies very hard during his closing days Of
his recent term of the Court. They had to work
all night Wednesday and Thursday of last
week. This was occasioned to q very great ex-
tent by the dilatory actions of the lawyers
which the Judge declared must not occur
again.
Orange Judd, Editor of the american Agri-
culturist for some thirty years, but unconnected
with its business management for year OF
two past. has lately retired from its editorial
department and located in the West. He de-
sires to eather complete postal Card Album
of the old Readers and Friends, and requests
them all to send him now Postal giving their
present location and address, naming also
when convenient, the years in which they
were his subscribers. Mr.. Judd's address is
Chicago, Illinois.