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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-04-20
The Bats Liver Superstition.

OF all the queer superstitions of which
ever heard there is one possessed by man
on Change that caps the superstitious
climax. won't tell you his name, but he is
one of the most prominent grain and pork
dealers in the city. One night last summer
he was visitor at the Fifth district police
station. We were bothered a good deal just
then by bats, that kept flying up and down
through the stable attached to the station.
Our visitor and the stable boys killed several
of the bats, and the liver was taken from
each of them and carried away in the mer-
chants pocket He wanted them, he said, to
give him luck in his business transactions,
for he declared there was more good luck in
one bats liver than there was in half hun
dred rabbits feet, which were well known to
possess luck of no mean proportions.
He told us where he had discovered the
bats liver charm. 1t was on lower Mssis-
sippi steamboat, about year ago. A party
of colored deck hands were playing craps.
One of the party had bats liver, and he
laid it on the deck floor every time he picked
up the ivories to throw. AS result, he won
all the money his companions had After
doing this four or five times on the trip up
from New Orleans to Memphis, the bats
liver holder was barred from the game. He
couldn't lose. The merchant to whom 1 re-
fer carries his bats liver to this day, and
never thinks of going on Change without it.
Police Sergeant in Globe-Democrat.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-04-20
When a Big Rope Snaps.

Few people know the danger of standing
near taut lines or hawsers. have seen haw-
sers snap with pistol like report under ire
mendous strain and knock men twenty or
thirty feet, frequently breaking arms and
legs. The best hawsers are made of sea
grass, and will bear an enormous strain.
They will stretch until their diameter is
diminished by more than half. In the recent
gorge disaster I noticed a remarkable illus
tration of this point. The sectional docks
were held to the shore by an enormous line,
four inches in diameter and fully 100 yards
long, 1 afterward learned that it was 20
years old and cost $4,000. Well, the ice be-
gan to bear down on the docks. The old
hawser behaved like Trojan and began to
stretch and creak. The men got out of its
way, but the old line held together, growing
smaller and smaller as the thousands of
pounds were added to the strain. In little
while the line was not larger than girls
wrist, and it remained in that perilous state
for several hours, when the gorge finally
broke and allowed the ice to float down
stream. Afterward the hawser returned to
its normal size, not weakened a bit. Such
cables must always be made to order, and
they cost lots of money. The line of which I
speak is the largest on the Mississippi
Steamboat Captain in Globe-Democrat.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-04-20
Popular Conversation Parties.

1t is astonishing how difficult it is for a
party of fifty, we will say, to talk well. They
sit. these fifty people full of ideas, and stare
in each others faces if they have met to talk.
But get them into a crowded room, and how
every tongue is 1imbered! Let some one play
piano forte solo, and the effect is equally
good everybody wishes to talk. There has
been great effort made recently for popular
conversation parties. Several clubs have
private meetings at the houses of members
for familiar talk A number of ladies' clubs
have attempted it, but the result is utter ST.
lence All are afraid of their own voices,
There are one or two empirical remedies,
however. If at ''homes" and at evening re-
ceptions the aids to conversation are not pro-
life or heart inspiring, if there is no ready
made topic at command, it is not bad thing
to throw an explosive conversational shell
into the middle of the floor The powers of
talk are often thus Embossed. A startlingly
clever observation might be quoted, or
question of such character that it will
shock no prejudice. These are the empirical
remedies.-Harper's Bazaar.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-04-20

I never see group of tired men hurrying
by when the days work is done that I do not
wonder what kind of homes they are going to,
and 1 think l can tell by the eager or sorry
expression of their faces and the elasticity or
slowness of their steps whether their antici-
pations are cheerful or otherwise. 1 once
saw man going home with a face so be-
grined with coal dust that it was anything
but agreeable to look at it, but which became
almost glorified with sudden lighting up of
joy, which shone through all the sooty black
when, from door in the distance, there
came little fair haired, blue eyed girl, fresh
and sweet as rose, who, with a glad cry,
papa, papa, papa's tum," threw herself into
his arms. l knew the man was very poor,
but knew also that he was happy in a home
the thought of which made the longest hour
seem short, and in wife who had helped to
make him nobler and better citizen than
are thousands in the higher walks of life,
who spend upon one dinner more than he
was worth
BLESSED be the wife who, having won her
husbands love. knows how to keep it and
does it."-Mary J. Holmes in Chicago News
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Eaten with the Fingers.

Another question often repeated is this,
"What shall 1 eat with my fingers?' AL
though it is considered vulgar to be seen
picking bone, we have lately observed very
well bred people take the leg of little bird
in the fingers, and delicately remove the
flesh with the teeth. 1t is not generally done,
but it can be done neatly. Cheese can be
eaten from the fingers and SO with all the
fruits; very dry little tart or a cake can be
eaten with the fingers, Asparagus is also
conveyed to the mouth with the fingers.
Many English gentlemen eat lettuce and eel
cry, with salt alone, with the fingers. Olives
are also eaten in the same way. Pastry,
hard icecream, jellies, blanc mango, puddings,
are eaten with the fork. The dessert spoon
is only used for soft custards and preserved
fruit, or melons which are too soft for the
fork. When Strawberries are served with
the stems on, they should be eaten with the
fingers; when served hulled and creamed,
they Should of course, be eaten with spoon.
-Harpers Bazaar,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-04-20
A Shrewd Swindline Plan.

"Can anybody change IS gold piece"
AS Third avenue conductor made this
inquiry the other night brawny passenger
stood beside him waiting the reply. Nobody
could change the piece, and the passenger
said: 'All right; give it to me; I'll get out
and get it changed and take the next carr
''Don't get off" said red mustached young
man in glasses; ''let me lend you five cents :"
'sBut you don't know me. No, I'll get off;
haven't got far to 60"
Nonsense, said the red mustached young
man. ''Sit down; there, I've paid your fare. :"
"Well, I'm ever SO much obliged to you"
'Don't speak of it; I've been in that fix
myself"
"Delicate situationg
eyes; but likely to happen to any one.
This is bad weather for getting off and on
cars"
Then the two conversed amicably till he
who had been obliged rose and left the car
with an adieu and renewed thanks
'Ill bet that fellow has more dimes and
nickels in his pocket than have" said the
red mustached young man to the conductor.
s'What? Mop said the latter.
eyes, that's an old fake. His IS piece is
counterfeit, and he wanted to work it on you
Or some of the passengers. New York
TELEGRAM
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Love and Friendship,

Men of every nation, with the exception
perhaps, of France, go to men for intellectual
sympathy, for exchange of earnest feelings
for spiritual intercommunication, in short
for companionship. Love, as generally un
derstood, they get from and give to women
necessarily; but friendship they seek aud
find, as a rule, in their own sex, That is 6
false love which does not include friendship
but it is the love which the mass Of men feel
and the mass of women inspire.
True love, love of the highest kind, con
tains the elements of friendship, infused with
sexuality; friendship is sexless; therefore
serene and stable, and comprehends the com
forts of love without its passion. Many mer
are incapable of friendship; but the lowest
and the basest think themselves capable Of
love. Most of those called the best and wisest
would scott at the very idea of Friendship
with women; and friendship and companion
ship may be considered interchangeable. Is
not companipnship like the rich deposit il
life's retort, after loves passion has ceased tc
sparkle and effervesce? = Junius Henri
Browne in Cosmopolitan.
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that am writing it all down just as it
came to me- La ct niohf

that am writing 1t all down just as 1t
came to me last night
I then thought Mahlon and me talked
and walked together, and spoke of things
on the earth, but 1t didn't seem we SORROW
ed for the friends we had left behind US.
In my dream Mahlon asked me how long
had been sick before 1 died, and remem-
Der just as well that told HIM five Or Elk
days, and that I had pneumonia.
I thought that when I died mother This
wife) and the children were around nay
bed, and that mother said: ooh, God,
just knew this was going to happen"
On the day I was buried 1t seemed to me
I could look down from heaven and see
snow on the ground in the graveyard where
they were putting my body. Just then I
got awake, but the dream was so real and
seemed SO queer that l couldn't sleep any
more.
1t was about 3 o'clock when I got awake
and from that time on until morning [ lay
in bed and thought of the dream. I am
sure it is going to come true, and I am
sure Mahlon Povenmire is going to die
too; and though never believed much in
dreams this was so different from all others
I ever had that am sure it was a warning
from heaven, and write this out so that
if should die on March 26 my family
and friends will know that 1 am prepared;
and if it don't come true, why no harm
will be done. But can't get over it that
am going to die on Mach 26, and that
Mahlon will die week before me, but T.
won't say anything to him or anybody else
about it,
1t may be foolish to write all this, but
if it comes true let whoever finds this be-
lieve that was was ready to 60 when the
message came after me.
ADRIAN F. McNEAL.
About week before March 26, Mr.. Nc
Neal. who had been in his usual good
health, took severe cold, which develop
ed into a severe type of pneumonia, and
on Monday, March 26, he died just exact
ly as indicated in his dream. His dying
bed was surrounded by his wife and chill
dren. and in all things the essential details
of his vision were verified.
What is still more strange, one week be-
fore this his friend, Mahlon Povenmire,
sickened and died Another remarkable
feature is found in the fact that the day
on which Mr.. McNears remains were in
tered the ground was covered with snow.
thus filling out in every particular the
substance OF what came to him in dream
two months previous.
On the whole it can be said that rarely,
if ever before, has a recorded dream been
SO wonderfully and remarkably fulfilled by
subsequent events, and the marvellous &C.
currence has excited comment, not only in
this part of Ohio, but wherever the details
have been made known.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-04-20
Remedy for Ivy Poison.

I hare read an article in your paper on ivy
poison, and, as have had considerable ex-
perience with ivy poison, I wish to give a
sure and simply remedy which think was
the first to discover. About twenty-five
years ago 1 was badly poisoned by climbing
trees to get wild grapes. I was literally poi
soned all oyer Ny limbs were swollen and
broken out with little blisters. My parents
were away from home at the time. I did not
know what to do. I had heard that salt
water was good. I could find no salt in the
house, but found some baking soda, 50 ]
thought ! would try that. got a large
wash basin, put in about three quarts Of
water and about four ounces of Soda l then
bathed myself good all over 1t knocked the
Ivy poison higher than kite. I was poi
soned several times after that, but always
cured myself with the same remedy. Also
know of many cases where they used it on
my recommendation, and they all were
speedily cured.~-S. Heherling in Scientific
American.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-04-20
A VISION OF HEAVEN,
ABRAM F. M'NEAL's DEATH ON THE DAY FIXED

ABRAM F. M'NEAL's DEATH ON THE DAY FIXED
BY HIS DREAM-A STRANGE STORY.
F1NDLAY, O., April S-A strange story
has Just been made public here, detailing
the particulars of a wonderful dream which
came to Abram F. McNeal, a well-known
citizen of the adjoining village of Rawson,
on the night of January %.
It discloses the remarkable fact that the
death of this gentleman on March 26 was a
full and complete yerifcation of the wis.,
ion, as indicated by manuscript which
was found in his desk by his wife previous
to his death, but kept secret until after
that unhappy event, which occurred, as
foretold, on Monday March 26.
The following is a uer6atim copy of this
strange paper:
RAwsoN. O.. Jan. 20, 1888.
To My Family and Fr5easds:-
I had such a strange dream last night,
which worries me very much.
81 am going to write it down, because I
some way feel it will come true. dreamed
I took sick and in five or six days died. I
thought was but little time getting to
heaven after left the earth. can remem-
Der felt glad I was leaving my old body.
l thought that as soon as got to heaven
everything that was good in me on earth
came back to me. l saw Jesus on great
white throne and millions of angels were
coming and going all the time from in
front of the throne. But it seems I didn't
know any of them. But joined in the null
titude and walked around. Oh so happy
All at once I met Mahlon Povenmire, of
Ada. He knew me right away and said, as
we shook hands:
'Abram, Pm mighty glad to see you"
"Why. Mahlop,' said, "Ididn't know
you had left the world. When did you
reach here?'
"Just week ago to-day, Abram," said
he, land I am SO happy and glad you came,
foF knew yoH would soon follow me-"
I thep thought in my dream that Mahlon
asked me when I left the world, and re-
member that said on Monday, March 26,
and this is what has worried me SO muc i
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-04-20
Life of Russian Peasants

How the people live is q mystery to those
who have not investigated the subject. The
ordinary traveller only sees their little gar
dens, where are grown a scanty allowance OF
potatoes, corn, turnips and cabbage. They
eat when they are hungry, generally cabbage
soup, always simmering on the fire, are
drunk as often as they can get vodka, and
when night comes curl up somewhere on the
floor in a warm place like a kitten or cater
pillar. In the cabins one seldom finds bed
Or a table or chair, and very few dishes
They have no comforts whatever, not even
what we consider the necessaries of life-the
church takes the place of them all.-William
Eleroy Curtis.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-04-20
A Patent Medicine Almanac.

The volume we now have before us for
1886 embraces thirty-one distinct almanacs
Eleven of these are in English, calculated
for various countries where English is spoken;
five in Spanish, for different countries where
Spanish is spoken three Portuguese also for
different countries; two French, four Ger
man, two Dutch and one each in Swedish,
Norwegian-Danish, Bohemian and Welsh.
Each of these almanacs contains from twenty
four to thirty-six pages generally thirty-six),
so that the bound volume of the series for
1888 makes book of nearly 1000 pages
Much of the material is, of course, the same
in all of the editions but the recorded events
in the calenders are local to the countries
where the almanac is to be circulated, and
the miscellaneous information furnished, for
example in the Indian almanac, differs from
that prepared for the Australian almanac
Philadelphia Ledger.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-04-20
A BOYS WHINING Ride

A boy at Philadelphia dropped the rope of
his sled into the slot of the cable and waited
developments. Pretty soon the cable caught
the rope and the boy went whizzing along
che street. 1t was great fun, until he reached
a curve, and then the rope broke, and the
sled and boy brought up against a lamp post,
and the boy suffered most. At the hospital
the young doctors patched up his nose, and
reduced his dislocated wrist. II had dandy
ride" he said, ''but never fought of de
curve. Where's me sled?n-Chicago Herald.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-04-20
pnetrg.
Faith 8 Vista.

When from the vaulted wender of the sky
The curtain of the light is drawn aside,
And behold the stars in all their wide
Significance and lorious mystery,
Assured that those more distant orbs are suns
Round which innumerable worlds revolve.-
MY faith grows strong, my day-born doubts
dissolve,
And death, that dread annulment which life
shuns,
Or fain would shun, becomes to life the way,
The thoroughfare to greater worlds on high,
The bridge from star to star Seek how we may,
There is no other road across the sky;
And, looking up, 1 hear star voices say:
''You could not reach us If you did not die ~
Henry Abbey, in american Magazine.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-04-20
4 Theatrical Superstition.

It is superstition in the theatrical profess
sion that the placard "No Free LIST is the
harbinger of bad business, as it generally
happens that it is rarely displayed excepting
at establishments where the business is not
good, 1t is contended that the mere fact that
the houses are crowded deters ''deadheads'
from making applications for the courtesies
of the establishment, and that consequently
the sign is not necessary. 1t is doubtful if
the display of the sign "Standing Room
Only" is not generally a piece of folly, as
often people would buy admission tickets il
they thought there was a chance of seat
who are deferred by this announcement,
which is so seldom true.-New York Times,
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nnarS0 81
Mondav. the 3Oth dan of April. Il

oOeie
The shares of Miss Fanny Lipscomb .x7xz.
and John B. Hunter in the real estate HsSS&8A
of the late John N. Hunter, which were k4SSs5xzE
assigned to them on a partition of said fszGGSS
real estate made in the case of McCOmb SN
Hunter. -<szEa>.-
The first, being Lot No. in said partit1on CON
tains lis acres and
The second. Lot No. 4, in the same, contains S64
acres.
The lands lies on South River, near Lyndhurst
Station, the s. V. R. r Part of it good arabic
land and the residue pine land in good timber
TERMS:-Cash in hand to pay costs OF suits and
expenses of sale and the residue on credit OF one
and two years from day of sale, payable IN equal
annual ipstalments: the purchaser giving bonds
for said deferred inStalmentS, with approved per-
Sona security, bearing interest and waving the
homestead, and the title to be retained as ultimate
security. VIM PATRICK. Com'r.
B. F, Terry. Deputy Clerk of tine Circuit Court
of Augusta County, do certify that VIM Patrick,
The Commissioner appointed in the foregoing
cause, has duly executed the bond required ac-
cOrding to law.
Given under my hand, this 18th day of March,
1888. B. F.TERRY.
mar30-4t Deputy Clerk.
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Their Own Cottage.

Seven Maine schoolmarms, tired of board
ing house life, are planning to erect cottage
for their own use. They have saved a few
hundred dollars each and their building en-
terprise will be undertaken on the co-opera-
tive plan Chicago Herald.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-04-20

SUPERB LIVERY!-I desire to announce to my
y friends and the public generally that have
now one Of the most complete and thoroughly
Fast and stylish teams, single or double; First
rate saddie-horses; Carriages. which for comfort
and elegance cannot be surpassed with careful
and polite drivers be secured at all times day
or night, at reasonable prices.
Baggage delivered or called for at any point In
the city, and carefully handled.
am prepared to offer SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS to
travelling men. Horses boarded by the day, week,
or month at reasonable rates. and the very best at
tention guaranteed.
1 will give my personal attention and assistance
to any one leaving horses at my stable, to sell them
to the best adyant
Give me calland you shall not go away disap-
oil nted. ALEX HARMAN.
m4rlo Sfaunton. Va
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-04-20

That unsightly excresoence commonly
called wart can be renewed by touching it
several times a day with castor oil, This is
the simplest known remedy,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-04-20

Discard the old opinion that s'Qne piece of
work should be completed before another is
begun" You will find that change of work
affords rest; sometimes it even seems to give
fresh vigor to the worker.