Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-02-19
PICKED UP BY THE WAY.

/ Wm. Kahn & Co., at Sadler Building say
their stock must 90, and that prices are low
er than ever.
Ayers Cherry Pectoral is acknowledged
the best of all preparations for the cure of
pulmonary complaints.
Robert T. Lee, Confederate commander
in-chiei, was one of the surveyors of the
Morris Canal, in New jersey.
1t is denied that Roger A. Pryor was Civ
en- silver service by the State Of Virginia
for valorous service in the Confederacy.
Probably the only woman in the country
perhaps in the world-wlo owns and
works saw mill is Mrs. Harriet Smith of
Tuckertown, fernando county, Florida.
The University of Virginia has no pre-
scribed course of study, no entrance exami-
nation, no vacation except the summer one,
and but six holidays.
H e reading paperl-A Georgia man
has sold his wife
She-What Il shame
He-I don't know about that He got
5000 for her.
In whatever department YOU propose to
cut down expenses, do not let it be in your
advertising The better course would be to
increase .-hdustriqi Rerier.
4 German paper says that a waterproof
paper which will shine in the dark can be
made of 10 parts paper stock, 10 paris phos-
phorcsceIlt powder, 10 parts water, part
gelatine and part hichFomate OF potash.
\ teacher In The Presbyterian Sunday
school at Glens Falls asked her pupils what
was the meaning of Publican" One of
the scholars very promptly replied "Some-
thing little better than Il Democrat"
\ man took his seat in BARRIERS chair.
He asked the barber if he had the same ra
zor he mad used the day before. Being an
swered in the affirmative the patient man
said: Then give me chloroiorm."
The applause which greeted Jefferson Da
Wis and the Liberty Bell at the New Orleans
Exposition worries good many people up
North. They want to know how much OF
the applause was for Davis and how much
for the bell,
The late Mark Pattison, speaking Of the
desimbiity Of condensng as much as posi-
bic in writing, once said " | think it must
have been the scanty supply of paper which
made the classics what they are"
Senator-elect Evarts wears his hat clear
over ON the back part Of his head at an an
Gle OF - degrees. He then brings the hat
forward at this angle until it pushes out his
ears at right angles from his head
The Chicago Nccs plain,ivcly asks;
"WilI somebody please break in Ben But
"ler's door, and see why he is so quiet?
Like enough he has blown out the gas"
Let him alone and leaye-us this hope.
Wm. Kahn & Co., at the Sadler Building,
would impress as a fact upon all buyers of
their Clothing that they sell nothing OF an
inferior character, ard that every dollar left
with them is an investment of hundred
cents and no deception.
An English gentleman, somewhat bald,
entered g hardresser's in Paris to be opera
ted upon aud was thunderstruck to find him
self charged lOE "Ten francs" he ex-
claimed, for cutting my hair" "Oh, no,
Monsieur; not forsatting your hair, but for
finding the hair to cut"
When an Austin schoolmaster entered his
temple Of learning few mornings ago, he
read on the blackboard the touching legend:
"Our teacher is donkey" The pupils ex
pected there would be a combined cyclone
and earthquake, but the philosophic peda-
gogue contentcd himself with adding the
word driver to the legend. and opened
the school with prayer as usual.