Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-09
ODDS AND ENDS.

/ OhO vi vohH huohiH pOcnlS is
entitled The Last Smile.p We
suppose the man was then carried
home.-Ncic HdceR Ne,cs.
The weather is getting balmy and
spring-like, and yet lots of men still
continue to prefer beer to spring
water.-Ihiiddelphid HeraM.
We never could understand why
a woman has to sit on the floor to
put on her shoes. But It's none of
our business.-OH city Blizzard.
The English sparrow betrays his
British characteristics by making
a good deal Of noise without accom-
plishing anything.-NeW Harn
Ners.
a good man is just as liable to
fall down on slippery place and
crawl around and humble unintel-
ligently to himself as bad man.--
chicago Telegram.
A writer remarks that "the world
is full OF smiles and tears.' Not so
full of smiles, however, as some
thirsty individuals wish it was
Darlington Free Press.
The pastor of a church in Union
town, Pa, has been requested to
resign because he rode on a bicy-
Gle. This seems to be another ease
of wheel and woe.-Ne,c Haren
News.
81 cannot lend you my counte-
nance IN this affair."" remarked a
Burlington belle, as she caught one
of her admirers trying to steal her
photograph out Of family album.
Huntington Free Press.
a "drag" is the fashionable
young lady's term for a demi-train.
But when the drag trips up a sab
siety man he sayssomething a great
deal worse than "Demher train =
Rochester POST Express.
"Were you at the opera last
night"
Yes
"How did you like the tout en-
Semble?r
"Not very well. thought that
the orchestra gave us entirely too
much toOt as well as too much Gym
bals.r-Tid-BHS.
Professor Huxley says it would
require nearly a million barrels OF
herring to supply the cod on the
Norwegian coast with one breakfast.
According to our past luck in fish
ing, it would take usabout fifty mil
lion years to catch one breakfast
for less than one-fOrth the cod on
the Norwegian coast.-NoristoWn
HTdM.
The Japanese have mad for a long
period a refined taste for flowers
which we are slowly attaining
The arrangement Of flowers IS a
part of polite education, for which
there are special schools and teach
ers. Mixed bOquets are considered
sloveDly and vulgar, flowers of one
kind or a big branch Of blossoms
with stem and green leaves being
preferred.
Butter is an article which does
not appear to have been either Of
Greek or Roman invention, but to
have come to the formerpeople from
the Scythians, Thracians and Phry.
gians, and to the latter from the
nations of Germany. After they
had become acquainted with the
manner of making 1t, it was only
used as a medicine, or as All ONT
mcnt in the baths, but not asan ar
ticle of food nor IN cookery. 1t was
always in an oily state and not firm
like our butter.
An eminent physician here quotes
the assertion OF some authorities
that "death from hanging appears |
to take place very rapidly, and
without causing any suffering"
But he is of a different opinion.
lie concludes that, although the
pain in hanging can under no cir
cnmstances he very acute, yet when
we see a culprit heaving his chest
and almost raising the whole body
n his struggles for breath we must
conclude that there is cOnsldera-
Die amount of torture.
Half dozen men in saloon in
Nipandtuck, the other night, were
rying to blow out a candle ten feet
Instant, but all failed. Presently a
dressed gentleman enter
ID the room and offered to bet fifty
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