Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14

getting their society without paying partic-
ular attention to any single one WIS ingen-
ions and genial. He had q cairingo built
to hold eight persons. 1t was CROSS To-
tween fine private coupe and big pub
lie stage. Two big pralc iug horses drew
1t, and liveried goodman sat high on
the front seat. The other portion of Mr..
Kounedy's outfit wns box for one night
u week at the opera. He hired il from
Cyrus w. Field at SIS n night, and was
sns-tenant at TINT pr.ce all throngh last
winter aud during he present season 1hs
! til his sudden death. For each Friday
night ha invited six Young ladies' 10 90
WITH him 10 the opsfa.. his guests wore
chosen from among all his acaunint nnces,
and not often was tho Same giD enter
tanned twice. For each p-rty he also
secured r1ntron MS II chaperone, md he
himself made the eighth person in tho
party. 10 every Indy he sent huge bou-
quot of the costiiest roses, tied with a
very long aud wide sntin ribbon ex-
least harm nizing with it in col
or. To he moro exact about this
he usually obtained scrip of the chief
material i'll each instance. and these Gam
| Piles were delivered TO the florist. who OBJ
tainel rihbonR for tho eight ouqucts 10
suit cry Friday night the Kennedy
harouche would stnrt out from ais own
| quarters he had lately lodged i'll tho
Union League Club-wiih tho host alone
within it. Ills first call would be ut tho
| house of tho Charerone, and thence they
would go the round of six honorod domi-
cil,s, finally bring up ut tho Metropolitan
with tho always envied lond. Mr.. Ken
nedy VIA handsome old man, large of
| stature with ruddy, beaming face, au Il
suow-white hair II was MI odd specific 10
to see him i'll his box surrounded by II bcvy
/ of viyacious giils, handsomely oos;umod
| AMI rrofusely decked with the Iosos of
his providing. Alter the opera was over,
be always took tho party TO one oranothcr
of the most fush enable restaurants,
| where he treated them TO n magnificent
| supper. The cost of this weekly enter
tainment could not have boon less thnn
five hundred dollaBs. MIR. Kennedy died of
heart disense. Now, how many of my
readers will fail to romark that of course
no old wilower'B heart could stand such
>complcx strain as thlt2
| When n man II aiinid
| h"nutiful maid
| liz IL cheering sight to 400.
| That is what you heard tho maiden sing
i'll "Thc Mikndo." Sho wns telling about
n capital punishment which she hnd wit J.
nossed and her declaration that the
doomed man, just before losing his head,
| gazed upon her pretty fncc for courage,
! was always taken as n Gilbert phantnsv.
But the idea ia actually put into practical
use in the largest of New York estn blsh-
ments where teeth arc extracted under
lau.t ing gas. i have been thore two or
three times, and have wntchod this fen-
| ture of the business with amused inter
est. Now IN you already know, laugh
ing-gas renders the patient oblviouS hut
not insonsible. He feels ull that il done
TO him, and often makes lot of fuss
about il. but upon awakening he can re-
| call nothing TINT hnd happened II il
whom the mans afraid" that the beau
tiiul maid" liz placed before him us u
cheering sight to see." In other words
while tho strong- armed dentist stands
ut ono side of tho victims
chair, with the gas bug rondy for him
to breathe out of, girl with m nmiably
| pretty face takes n position close to the
opposite arm. She enZes ~ alphabetically
yet smilingly into his face. Sho isn't
coquettish about il. II may lie described
ms sort of cousinly smile--that is,
somewhere midway between n sisterly
| grin and an ogle with no tie of conBnn-
| guinity in it. AS tho ,nnn brenthes in
the gns, and loses his senses, tho last
finding vision is that of tho girls encour-
aging face. The practical value of this
device lies in the fact-and have this
Oh the authority of the boss of the place
that a goodly proportion of the patients
wonld become obstreporous and violent
while under tho influence of the gas but
for the effect of the girls presence.
That may seem like nonsense, but in
practice ii proves 10 DO good sense,
| When the man nwnkes he finds that biz
feeling, suppose, that she has taken d
deep and poignant interest in his pariicu-
lar caso.-NcW York letter TO Chicag0
| Ledger.