Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-04-01

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paragraph "a itale.
Mexico, it is said, is disposed to goslow
in accepting Mr.. Blaine'sreciproci.y scheme.
An afternoon Chicago paper says: His
Holiness Pope Leo XIII is out with an
apostolic benediciiou upon the Worlds
Fair.
Its reported that Malone and Langstou
have made up"-but il isn't said they kiss
ed, as did Malone aud Riddleberger on one
occasion.
Considering the physical appearance of
Italy on the maps and the mercurial tenn
permanent Of that people, il /, not unnatural
that they should kick becauseof the New
Orleans affair
General Albert Pike the venerable au-
thor and statesman, and head of the Scot
fish Masous Of the Southern jurisdiction, is
now i'm his last illness at his home in the
Scottish Rite temple in Washington.
Nations. like individuals, sometimes 60
very much out Of their way for excuses for
quarrel. Il is said England and France
are taking steps towards war and Newiouud-
land and Egypt are mixed up in the preseu.
trouble
Mr.. Arbueble. the millionaire coffee mer
chant. Of New York, who gained uotoriety
by breach Of promise suit ia which he
was mulcted % the tune of $4,000, aud
was endeariugly addressed as Baby Blunt
ing" By "Buunie," died a few days ago.
Jack the shearer,' who ia q, present
shipping off the tre>se- OF New York maid
ems, might find q cougenial job as scissors
editor Of some paper which fails To- give
credit for clippings of hairbveadth escapes
from its more or less esteemed contem-
poraries.
The unicycle railroad is a new thing and
it is claimed for il that train of freighted
cars will move at the rate of one hundred
miles an hour BY 10 there can be mo- dan
ger for spreading of rails. The officials
Of the road, it may be presumed we are un
iformly appareled.
Within the past week Adam Barley, aged
sixty-four, his wife, aged forty two, a sister
sixty-eigh;. and "a daughter twenty years of
age, have died OF Ia grippe after tew days
illness. They lived near stephens City,
Frederick county, Virginia Two children
are dangerously in
The idea advanced by scientists that the
earth is passing through vast spaces of
"star dust. and that, as she revolves. grip
microbes drop down, is considered % huge
Joke by medical men ia New York The
star dust theory may be ail fudge, but there
is no joke about the grip. It holds its own
pretty we'll
There were 1904 deaths in Chicago dur
ing the four weeks Of March ended last sat
urday night, as against $40 for the CORES
pouding period in 1890. Last week alone
there we're 600 deaths in the city. The
health department attributes the increase
in the death rate 20 the grip. Ii looks like
making room for Worlds Fair visitors
There was @ prodigjou- scare among pa
irons of a dairymau in New York few
days ago upon discovering that his milk
was blood red. Sample, were analysed by
achemist. who pronounced hestraDge color
ing due 20 "micrococous prodigousis. Now
the dairyman wants Co be Well resd 90 exc
plain to his customer, that the micrococous
prodigousis is a harm less vegetable microbe
The Worlds Columbian Exposition will
certainly be greater in some respects than
was the last in Paris. The building viii
cover al least fifty per cent. greater space ;
its cost will be more than twice as much
and the number of exhibitors is sure 90 Dee
very much greater How the attendance
and receipts will compare with those OF
the Paris Fair remains. of course 90 be
seen.
The Chicago Globe says The .ate Repub-
lican Congress made appropriation which
cost the people:
Sl.013 a minute
S65.1Oj am hour
81 1902 500 O day
$40 937 $50 week
1890 GOO "a mouth.
S525. 600 GOO a year
1t breaks the record of congressional
iobberv and with it the neck of the 2. o. o..
The Washington correspondent, of the
Baltimore >un says, CONGRESSMAN Glib
son of Maryland, who was q member Of the
Hearst funeral party, was in Washington
ON Saturday and he denied most emphat-
ieallv the sensational stories told In certain
quarters about the trip. It is a great injus-
dee 10 an concerned o. say that there was
the slightest breach of propriety through
ont the entire journey Every gentleman
on the committee fully appreciated Che 500