Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-07-30
VS. NOTES.

The Page Courier" relates the following
fish story s'One day last week Byron, the
little son of Mr.. B. W. F. Shenk, who lives on
Mr.. G. Strickler's farm on the Shenandoah
river, rowing boat on that stream was sur
prised beyond expression to see fish of enor-
NOUS size, leap from the water into the boat.
Examination proved it to be bass, 10 inches
long and inches wide. But the singular
part of the story is yet to be related. Upon
preparing his basship for the table he was
found to contain yellow s'suoker" 81 inches
long, as safely stored away as Jonah was in
the whale"
Mr. E. S. Cassell, who lives a few miles ives
of Wytheyille, has cow of the Jersey breed,
from the cream of which he makes the largest
amount of butter imaginable. The per cent
yielded sounds incredible. One day last week
his good lady churned one gallon of pure
cream, (which turned out" after weighing
on well-balanced scales, five pounds of solid,
sweet, golden butter, which-we believe milk
weighs ten pounds to the gallon-is one pound
of butter to every two pounds of milk. That
animal is ''worth her weight in gold"
Mr.. Milton Fravel, farmer residing near
Woodstock, Va, while wedding in his field,
pulled up large raddish which was q most
wonderful freak of nature. With the except
ion of head and feet, it had all the parts, per-
fectly formed, of human being. The arms
and legs were models of perfectly formed hu-
man limbs, beautifully shaped and finely pro-
portioned. The waist was model of symme-
try and beauty. The left limbs were some
what smaller than the right, but were as fine
ly formed. The only way to give an accu-
rate idea of this wonderful natural formation
is for one to imagine the Greek Slave in sit
ting position.
Mr.. Charles NJ Fry, Virginian, is now,
and has been for some years, the President of
the Bank of New York, the Oldest bank in the
United States.
Five years ago Ida Garrison, of Denison,
Texas, fell from a tree and hurt herself so that
she has not since been able to use her arms
She has succeeded in learning to paint, hold
ing the brush with the toes of her left foot.
Andrews, of Atlanta, Ga. now ninety six
years old, has started on his second tramp, on
foot, to Boston, accompanied by his little dog
He will pass through Richmond during the
summer.
Near Barterville, in the southern part of
Nicholas county, Ky. within sight of each
other, are the homes of two women whose ages
aggregate 220 years. One is Mrs. Catherine
Waggener, aged Ill, and her sister-in-la law,
Mrc Roba
They are widows, and each has reared large
family of children, nearly all of whom are
married, some of them having grandchildren,
which would make these old ladies great
grandI~uvrers. These remarkable women have
never seen a railroad train nor modss4t N,
within stones throw of where they now live,
and have not been in Carlisle, the county seat,
for thirty-two years.
J. N. Peed of Jasper, Mo-, had 120 acres
of corn adjoining wheat field which had been
devastated by chinch bugs. He ploughed a
trench around the corn field and for fourteen
days hauled a log through the trench, and
thus saved the corn. The bugs thronged into
the trench by millions, but they never got out.
The log did the business
Miss Feany Wheel, of Sacramento, asked
Jacob Kline, cornet player in the first Artil-
lery band, to marry her. Although he ought
to have done SO. he refused, brutally, and
laughed when she threatened him. She went
home, put on an old dress and hat, exchanged
anew MCKEE plated revolver for one that would
not glitter SO much and thus attract attention,
went to the plaza where the band was giving
an evening concert, waited until Kline had
finished, and then stepping up behind him,
sent bullet into the back of his head, killing
him instantly
If Florida has many more boys like Morti-
mer and Roland Bunting, of Madison, her
future is assured. These little fellows-they
are - and IL years old-have this year rented
twelve acres of land and planted it with corn
and cotton, have worked the crops carefully,
and have good prospects of an abundant yield.
This besides raising enough vegetables to sup
ply the large family of their father, who is an
invalid.
1t Is told in Wat erbury, Conn.,, that we'll
known business man of that town prepared to
build handsome dwelling, and awarded the
the contracts. During recent kirmess there
his fortune was told by one of the alleged gyp-
sizes, who warned him to give up the project,
else death would claim him. If the house
should not be built, long life and happiness
awaited him. The next day the merchant
withdrew the contract, and nothing further
has been done about building the new house.
Kissimmee, Florida, boasts of cucumber 10
inches long, weighing five pounds and half.
Mrs. Mary Colby of Vienna, Me-, although
go years old, has just personally worked out
her road tax of 81.
A little newsboy of Orlando, Fla, being sud
denly told of his fathers death, dropped his pa
pers and hurried home. A citizen, picking them
up, sold them through the town, telling the
circumstances, and realized $40, some of them
bringing five dollars.