Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-04-14
TUESDAY MORNING; APRIL II, 1885.
Various Items.
! steaI-pen-the penitentiary.

1 SA4S'
The number of medicine supplying
plants in the world is nearly double
that of fruit-yielding.
Largest aud best selection of Scrap and Photo
Albums in town, ut w. A. EAsTERDAY's New
Book Store.
The University at Oxford has ap.
Pliances for printing books in 15C
languages and dialects.
Plush and Velvet goods-including Photo
ana Card Albums, Frames, &C., ut w. A.
EAsTERDAY'S Book Store.
TIE mormon temple at Salt Lake
will yet require more than four years
for its completion, and will cost
So, 900, GOO.
A handsome line of Gold-fnish Prism Hang.
Ing Lamps, suitable for parlOr or library, ut W
A. EAsTERDAY's New Book Store.
A New Jersey town has fitted up
the Town Hall as skating rink for
the purpose of raising money to pay
off its debts.
A look at the beautiful case of Gold Pens,
Pencils and Charms. at w. A. EAsTERDAT's
Book Store, will convince You of their merits.
If the day is not cloudy on Aug.
II, 1899, England may view total
eclipse of the sun, the only total
eclipse in the next 25O years.
If you want to make the heart of the small
a. EAsTERDAI's New Book Store, Charles
town, w. Va.
One of Connecticut's contributions
to the New Orleans Exposition con-
tains lot of wooden nutmegs made
out of the original Charter Oak.
A nice line Gilt-edge Poems, Story Books.
Children's A. B. c., ChatterboXcs, Hymns,
5ymnals, Bibles. and other books, ut w. 4.
In Cape Colony the extensive
planting of the common tomato is re-
commended, as it is alleged that
insects shun the land on which it is
grown.
Why wear out with continual
coughing at night, when Ayers Cher
ry Pectoral will relieve, soothe, and
cure?
{" See here. your dog howIs all
night long, and never lets me sleep" {"
Neighbor-" Yes, L know, but YOU
howl all day about it, and don't let
me rest. I'm getting mad myself. :"
TabIecloths, one would imagine,
are entirely out of date, for every
thing in that line appears to be called
" scarf. /" Jane, be sure and put
clean scarf on for dinner tonight. %
Vases, Games. worlz-Boxcs, Writtng-Dcsks.
Domtnoes. Chess-Boards Fancy Inkstands. Spy
Glasses; Reading Glasses, Wisp Holders. Ban
jos, Gnitars. Oil Paintings. RIEtics. aud a full
line of the newest novelties, at ". A. EASTER
DAYS New Book Store.
The London Duly Telegraph nets
its owners a million dollars a year,
and runs ten Hoe presses. OF the
four original proprietors the sole sur
vivor is the owner of country week
ly, and another died in poorhouse.
For long time past the head man
of the Paris Petit Journal, who used
to be a workman at three francs a
day, has made an average of two
million francs year. 1t is claimed
that the Petit Journal has a circula-
tion of 8O0,OO copies day.
New Spring and Summer Goods at
GEO. Fl. HAGLEY's. Clothing, Shoes,
Hats, Underwear, &C., cheaper than
before. a rare chance for bargains.
Call early.
When on visit to Orange, CAL, ten
years ago, Calvin Fletcher stuck his
walking-stick into the ground. The
cane took root, and is now a stately
sycamore tree fifty feet high, with
wide-spreading branches and its base
tLrao fnof opJ n IoIe;r o;.o,,... ea....--
Halls Hair Renewer renews,
cleanses, brightens, and invigorates
the hair, and restores faded or gray
hair to its youthful color and Iustre.
People with gray hair prefer to use
the Renewer, rather than proclaim to
the world, through their bleached
locks, that they are becoming aged,
and passing on to decay.
In the Russian town of Sysran there
is now living a man whose age is 127,
fact of which there is said to exist
indubitable proof. lie ewas wounded
in the battle of Borodino and after
ward entered Paris with the allied
army. He is supported by charity.
II lhSh VI OpSil dtT exercise, ana
the want of sufficient care in the mat
ter of diet, the whole PHYSICAL mech
anism often becomes impaired during
the winter. Ayers Sarsaparilla is
the proper remedy to take in the
spring of the year to purify the blood,
invigorate the system, excite the liver
to action, and restore the healthy tone
and, vigor.
Poor old Dan Rice, once the most
famous of clowns, is holding a ten
cent circus in New Orleans, and de-
plores the days when he used to take
his Floating Palace Show up and
down the Mississippi and take in
the quarters of thousands of people
at every landing.
Capt. B. F. Bradley, Riverton,
Md, says in the year 1884 he used
Powell Prepared Chemicals on corn,
and thinks it the best and cheapest
fertilizer on the market. The price
of PowelI's Prepared Chemicals is
only $500 per bbl.-a sufficient
Quantity to make one half ton COM
plete fertilizer. Brown Chemical
Co., manufacturers, Baltimore, Nd.