Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1885-07-21
SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON.
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 81, 1885,
Various Items..

dltOuS llSIIISs
Paper printed and put up in tablet
form at the SPIRIT office.
At present thevalue of all the gold
in the world is valued at Sc, 900, ,00O,-
600.
There are $1,000, 900 horses in the
United States-one to every five per-
sons.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Can
ada has decided that Quaker cannot
be made Mason.
The French government has de-
cided to build in Paris a metropolitan
railway underground.
Halls Hair Renewer is the least
troublesome to apply, and the most
cleanly, of all hair preparations.
The enormous number of 2 ,400,-
900 foreign emigrants have come to
this country in the last four years.
What this country needs most is a
practical scientist who can invent an
attachable steering apparatus for cy-
clones.
Ayers Sarsaparilla is the most eff
fcctiye blood-puritier ever devised.
1t is recommended by the best physi-
clans.
Millionaire j. C. Flood, of San
Francisco, is building a palace in
which one room will be lined with
ivory and gold.
AT a parish church in Surrey,
England, the other day, a widower of
"a was married to a widow of 81.
The bridegroom was attended by a
grandson, and the bride by couple
of great grand-daughters.
1t is estimated that forty leading
hotels in New York entertain an
average of 5000 transient guests
daily. Including the lodging houses,
it is believed that not less than 15, 900
transient guests find a resting place
in New York every night.
The Baltimoreans are just tickled
to death over the whipping-post in
that city, erected for the mutual
edification of wife beaters. Two
have been edited already. A good
service to humanity would be rem
dered if Il few hundred of these posts
were erected throughout our land.
Such inhuman, fiendish monsters
should have the lashes laid on heav-
Iily.-uartinsburg Independent.
Halls Vegetable Sicilian Hair Re-
newer never fails in restoring gray
hair to its youthful color, lustre, and
vitality. DIR. A. A. Hayes, State
Assaycr of Massachusetts,, endorses
it, and all who give it fair trial
unite in grateful testimony to its
many virtues.
Very few Americans have vet
learned how little land is required
for furnishing food to human being
year, provided that little is well
cultivated, and we'll chosen. A wo-
man in the Hudson river valley, who
cultivates only six acres, supplies her
family with all that n garden will
yield, keeps COW and horse, and
sells besides some 5000 or $500 worth
of fruit and truck each year. 1t is
needless to add that she raises more
Ihah one crop IN year, ana allows
no waste places.
G. w. Hawse, BuRcss Run, W.
Va, says in the year 1888 he used
800 lbs. of compost, made with Pow
ellis Prepared Chemicals, per acre
with wheat on very poor land and
harvested 16 bushels wheat per acre
weighing 62 lbs. to the bushel, and
had as good stand of grass as he ever
saw. He says he now gets as good
results from PoweII's Prepared
Chemicals as his neighbors get from
fertilizer costing S34 per ton. Pow
ell's Prepared Chemicals cost Sc per
bbl., sufficient quantity to make
one-half ton complete fertilizer. Ad-
dress Brown Chemical Co., Baltimore,
Md.