Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1889-02-12
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Discomfort is the echo of unbeliet.
Harrisonburg viii soon have an ice
machine.
There is a fat-taTIOw-ty about oleO-
margarine.
The wheat crop of the United
States is 400, 900, 900 bushels
The French have already spent
5000, 600, ,oOB on the Panama ship
canal
Emigration from Germany in 1888
numbered 96,0O0-the bulk was to
America.
The Cumberland Valley Railroad
Company is erecting a new iron bridge
at Falling Waters, W. Va.
A charter has been applied for to
run a street car line along the prin-
cipal streets of Roanoke.
Although Italy has the highest mur-
der rate of any country in Europe it
has abolished capital punishment.
A number of prominent Virginians
are said to favor Hon. c. T. OFFER
rail- as the Democratic candidate for
Governor.
The work of taking down the Libby
prison, Richmond, for shipment to
Chicago will begin about the 10Th of
this month.
Brownstone of fine quality has
been discovered in West Virginia
along the line of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad.
West Virginia has rs commissioned
officers, 1879 non-commissioned. 635
privates, and $4,000 men available for
military duty.
Staunton has subscribed SIC, 900
to the establishing of a large furni-
ture factory, which is to be run by a
Pennsylvania firm.
Valentines model for statute of
General StonewaIl jackson has been
accepted by the jackson Memorial
Association of Lexington, Va.
Thomas Norfolk, coIored, for per
suading John Jackson, colored. tovote
4 Illegally, was fined 81 900 and COM
mitted TO jail for five years, in Balti-
more.
The benefits paid by the Baltimore
and Ohio r. r. Relief Association
since its institution in May 1st, 1880,
aggregate 81 .B5o, BOO The receipts
amount to about $50, 600 a month,
while the disbursements are about
s22, 900 per month.
"Art is long and time is feeting, .
and it is too bad to spend half of .
short life distressed with neuralia.
when % cents spent for one bottle Of
1 Salvation Oil will cure it quickly.
George Conklin, the Iion-tamer.
says he will have nothing to do with
cross-eyed animals, nor use any other
remedy for his coughs and colds but
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup. He says II
is the only reliable cough medicine tc
be had.
One of the vulgar customs OF tht
times is gum chewing. A girl may
be ever SO pretty, but with a quid o1
gum in her mouth she is deformed.-
Regular gum chewers soon develor
the masseter muscles, unduly enlarge
the mouth, increase the size of thc
salivary glands and eventually chang,
the expression of the face. 1t is q
thoughtless. vicious, ugly practice a
its best, and parents should see to i
that IT is not fastened upon the chill
dren.
| Throughout the length and hreadtl
of our great country, Laxador, tn,
! golden remedy. is winning ''goldeI
opinions for its promptness in thV
relief and cure of all diseases whicl
have their origin in imprudent eating
Price % cents.
Lookout that your nurses do no
drug your baby with laudanum, par
egoric or other soothing remedies
Give them DIR. Bulls Baby SyruJ
which innocent remedy is warranted
to contain no opium.
An Albany physicion says that tn
most curious prescription he eve
gave to q patient was one ne preparet
for n lady. 1t was ''Stop walking III
and down stairs The only wa,
this prescription could be taken wa
! by changing her house, as she live
in one of the three-story and bacemen
houses so peculiar to Albany archi
lecture. Her husband secured
, roomy cottage Of two stories, ant
} within year the invalid health wa
almost completely restored.
The Russian Method of stopping
runaway horse Is said to be very effec
tive, and is not particularly cruel
Place q cord with a running kno
around the horse neck near the nee
strap. To this slip-noose attach
pair OF reins. which may be throw
over the dashboard readyto be seize
at once. When the horse starts tax
, up the extra reins and tighten tn,
cord around the horses throat. Tb
most furious horse thus chokcd stop
! instantly, and will not kick nor fall