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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
FREAK FACTORIES.
shewmsn Have No Trouble In Providing
New Attractions.

ehowmen Have No Trouble In Providing
New Attractions.
Chow do you manage to find new
freaks and curiosities?' was the ques-
ton asked Of the manager of q travelling
show that had pitched its tent in a
London suburb.
Don't have to find them, was the
laconic response. ''They find us. The
freak business is as regularly established
as any other and has its wholesale and
retail firms, travelling statesmen, brokers,
price lists, factories
ssFactories?'' queried the reporter,
aghast.
"Why, certainly, factories, of course.
The freak business is divided into about
three varieties foreign, domestic and
fake.
'sIn the first class the collectors travel
all over the world in search of rarities,
but the very best freaks come from In
dia and the Malay peninsula. In these
countries there are people who breed
freaks. They buy young children and
animals and deform them while their
bones are soft by all manners of means.
Then they are constantly on the outlook
for genuine natural freaks. and i'll those
lands the birth of freak occurs very
frequently. The headquarters Of this
business is at Singapore
"Then there are any number Of men
who devote themselves to the discover
ing and placing of freaks of all kinds
and varieties, and there is scarcely a
day goes by that we do not receive
packages of photographs and illustrated
circulars from some freak merchant OF
other.
t'Of course there are the faxed freak
men-a perfect host in themselves. If
the proprietor OF some little show needs
an additional attraction and does not
have the money to hire something good
for, like everything else, freaks have
their price-he can get something for
little money that will serve his purpose
"The- real, genuine live freaks always
command high prices and travel all
over the world in order to exhibit them
selves Most of them have regular routes
mapped out by their advance agents,
just like theatrical companies, and as
they only appear at place at long in
tervals they never get stale, and some-
times make bigger hits Oh their second
Or third appearance than ON their first. !"
London Mail.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
Surgery In the Middle Ages.

In the middle Of the twelfth century
priests were the only doctors. By an
edict of the council of Tours surgery
was separated from medicine and the
practice of the former forbidden to the
clergy. The latter then employed their
BARRIERS to perform surgical operations.
This arose from the fact Of the monks
having their heads shaved frequently
and observing the dexterity acquired by
the BARRIERS in the use of edge tools.
The knights of the razor, from cupping
and bleeding, passed on to tooth draw
ing and finally to other operations re-
curing skill and dizziness, if not much
knowledge. They knew practically poth-
ing Of anatomy. It is said surgery was
denied to the clergy by canon of the
church which forbade them to shed
blood. This was considered the dark age
of medicine, and somber indeed il
must have been to the worthy citoyer
who, perhaps, placing himself in the
hands of his barber for relief, might, al
the same time that he was getting ri6
Of a tumor, also part company with his
head.-Exchange.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
POWDER FOR CANNON.
A Mixture That VIII Burn Slowly Is Nee.
essary For Big Ordnance.

essary For Big Ordnance.
The great trouble with powder in
cannon was soon found to be that it ex>
erted all its force too suddenly, SO that
all the strain came on one end of the
gun. When gunpowder is set on fire, it
turns suddenly into gas, and the gas
needs about 800 times the space that
the solid powder occupied. The explo-
sion Of ordinary gunpowder is SO sud-
den that for moment that part of the
gun around the powder charge has'to
hold the big volume of gas squeezed
down under enormous pressure until the
shot can make start to get out Of the
gun and make room for the gas. If,
therefore, gunpowder could be made
which would burn little slower, so
that it would not all be burned until
the shot reached the muzzle, the gas
would be more gradually formed and
the strain be distributed all along the
gun. Such powder was first made in
Germany and was first called cocoa pow
der, because it resembled in color and
general appearance cake of chocolate.
Its method of manufacture was kept Sc
cret, but other countries analysed the
grains and soon learned to make it even
better than Germany. It is made partly
by changing the proportions Of the in
gradients, making them about 70 per
cent saltpeter, 5 per cent sulphur and
il Per cent charcoal hn$ mainly ~
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Corrected.

Papa Gust arrived from down town
We'll, where's Bessie? Why isn't she
running to meet me, as usual?
Mamma--Bessie has been naughty
and disobedlent. have had to deprive
her of her playthings, and she has been
weeping bitter tears in her own room
for the last half hour.
Voice OF Bessie (from adjoining room
Tears amt bitter. They're salt
Chicago Tribune.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
ON THE BRIDGE.

Perfection lies
In sweetheart's eyes;
Her cheeks would shame rose.
love her hair,
But can't bear
The bridge on sweetheart's nose.
It indicates
Her noble traits,
And strength of purpose shows,
But rivals scorn
And others mourn
The bridge on sweetheart's nose.
If I should feign
A deep disdain
For her. do you suppose
That tears of hate
Would devastate
The bridge on sweetheart's nosef
think instead
(You see dread
To add to sweetheart's woes)
Ill venture this:
I'll fondly kiss
The bridge on sweetheart's nose
And warmly praise
Her gracious ways
And boast my scorn for those
Who worship not
That beauty spot
The bridge on sweetheart's nose.
New York Herald.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19

Irate Business Man (white with an
ger at being disturbed) You book
agents make me SO angry with your
COMPOUNDED nerve and impudence that I
cannot find words to express my indig-
nation.
Book Agent Dumping with enthu-
siasm) Then, sir. You are in luck. 1
have here the very thing you need-a
dictionary Of the English language,
containing all the words and slang
phrases known, and only 5 shillings.
Take it, and you will ncycs. be at a loss
to express yourself again. London Tit
Rita
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
Taking Two weeks on.

Teacher-How many weeks in the
year, Tommy Timkins?
Tommy-Only SO this year.
Teacher-You know very we'll that
there are 3d.
Tommy-No'm; not this year. Pa
says he's going to take two weeks Off
Roxbury Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
The Pull of a Fish,

"What want" said an angler, lis a
rigging of some sort to measure the pull
Of fish. If a pound fish pulls 8 pounds
ounces, want to know it, and if 8
pound fish pulls only 8 pounds ounces
I want to know that too. A joker wrote
to sportsman's paper the other day to
tell of an invention to measure the size
Of the fish that are lost That is where
this pull measure machine would be
good too. It would have to be self regis
tering, Of course.
Everybody laughs when any one
says he lost big one. I've lost fish of a
size I never dared tell Of just because
of the bad name fellow gets for tell
ing of such things. I could tell of 6 and
Z pound trout in Canochogola lake up
in the Adirondacks, but what's the use?
Why, say, I've seen trout Just
then he remembered himself and began
to talk about grizzly king fly with a
yellow tail-New York Sun.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19

You Will kindly give US iln example
Of the general law of averages, MI.
Peabody" said the professor Of nathe-
matics, after his lecture On the doctrine
of chances.
"Um-why-there's the speed OF the
telegraph, and the lack Of it in the mes
senger who delivers it," said Peabody,
in a vague, hesitating way. Cincinnati
ENQUIRER.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
Controlled by Watches.


Paul du Chaillu, the African explor-
er, tells how he once controlled race
of savage cannibals while he was on the
dark continent. He had number Of
Waterbury watches, whose ticking COM
pletely nonplused the savages and
caused them to regard him as spirit.
He made practice Of leaving one of
these watches in u village where he had
stopped. After awhile the watch, of
course, ran down and stopped. and the
cannibals said that the spirits had gone
to overtake their master. When Du
Chaillu returned to these villages, he
always got the watch that he had left
behind him and, unobserved, wound it
up again. The natives heard the ticking
continue, swore again that the ex-
plorer was spirit and did their utmost
to please him.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
Tho Ant.

The instincts of the ant are very un-
important, considered as the ants, but
the moment a ray of relation is seen to
extend from it to man and the little
drudge is seen to be monitor, little
body with a mighty heart, then all it's
habits, even Chat said to be recently OBJ
served, that it never sleeps, become SUBJ
lime. -Emersog
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19

WASHINGTON. d. c., August 6.-The
Comptroller of the Currency is inform.
ed of the failure of the American Ma.
tional Bank, of New Orleans, La 1t
had capital of $164,000, and accord
ing to its last report to the Comptrol.
Ter, owed depositors $3.50, 900, and had
borrowed 100000
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
Exhausted.

Isl Hubbard told me that he got q
heap Of work out Of you when you was
workin fer him, said the farmer.
"Waal, I allow he did, said the
hired man.
"Yaas. Fact is, I guess he jist about
got it all. "-Indianapolis Journal.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
*Daily, except Sunday. tSunday only.
CONNECTIONS:


Train No. 408 connects at Harper's Ferry
with Fast Limited Express trains, leaving at
LIB p ~, arriving at Columbus at ESQ a. m.
a a. pittsburgh at S45 p. M, and Chicago at
Loo q. m. next morning; with train leaving
at 5:l9 p. M, arriving at Cincinnati at 7:45 a
M, st. Louis at 600 p. M, and connects at
Weverton with train arriving at HagefstoW1
at Z:I3 p. M, and at Washington junction with
train arriving at FREDERICK at '2:2O p. H. VT
Train 46 connects with fast yestibuled trains
at lHarper's Ferry at 9:59 p. m. for Chicago;
1921 p M for Pittsburg, and 14e a. m. for Gin
e:55 a. M; Chicago at 900 p. M, Cincinnati at
$50 p. M, and st. Louis at TIP a. m.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars run through
60 cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago and Pitts
burgh On all express tralns. 's
For rates, tickets, baggage checks and FUR
eher information apply TO B. g. o. agents or to
=; ~. DudroW, Travelling Passenger Agent
Winchester, Va, or G. T. Hammond, Agent
StauntOn, Va.
CHAS. O. SCULL, VIM GREENE
Gen. Pass. Agt. Gen. Man.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
AN AMUSING DEBATE.
The Subject Was Serious Enough, but the
Situation Was COmfcal.


The Subject Was Serious Enough, but tn.
Situation Was Comfcal.
When, in the cid days Of trouble be.
tween the English and French, there
was talk of sending Admiral Hawke te
sea to keep watch over the enemy S fleet,
there occurred notable interview. II
was November. The weather was stormy
and dangerous fer vessels and the gov
ernment was not agreed as to sending
them out.
Mr.. Pitt, who was in bed with govt,
was obliged to receive those who had
business with him in his chamber This
room had two beds and no fire. The
Duke of Newcastle came to him to con-
slider the sending out Of the feet, and
had scarcely entered the room when he
cried out, shivering all over with cold
How is this? No fire."
''No, "said Mr.. Pitt. "When have
the govt, cannot bear one
The duke, wrapped in his cloak, took
seat by the invalid's bedside and be-
gan talking, but lie found himself un-
able to endure the cold.
Pray allow mel' he exclaimed sud
denly, and, without taking off bis cloak,
he buried himself i'll the other bed and
continued the conversation. He was
strongly opposed to risking the fleet in
the November gales Mr., Pitt was abse-
lutely resolved that it should put to sea.
and both argued the matter with much
warmth. It was the only warmth, in
decd, i'll the rCcm.
81 am positively determined that the
feet shall sail, - said Pitt, accompany
ing his words with the most lively ges-
ticulatioHs,
1t is impossible! 1t will perishl1
said the duke, with equal emphasis.
At the moment the discussion waxeq
hottest another dignitary CT the realm
came in and found it difficult to keep
his corntenance at the sight Of tw9
ministers celebrating on q matter of SO
grave Importance from such q novel sit-
uatiCn.
The feet cid put to sea, and Mr..
Pitts judgment proved to be right. The
enemy was crippled and signal adj
vantage gained Youths Companion.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
TUFTS Pills
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R. P. Smith, Chilesburg, Va.
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do without them. I have had
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
A SPANISH FETE.
rbne No Longer Hears the Seductive Guitar
and the Castanets.

'Sne No Longer Hears the Seductive Guitar
and the Castanets.
Another time we went down to fete
in the Plaza Nueva, the square in front
of the governor generals palace at the
foot Of the hill. It was held after dark,
which was an inducement for us to go.
The walters, from whom we got all the
gossip we ever heard, said that it had
something to do with Columbus-it
might be the little affair of the egg, the
discovery Of America, or his own death,
or anything else, for all they knew or
cared The celebration itself did not
help to explain matters. Lanterns hung
from every tree in the plaza. There was
crowd of water carriers, and donkeys,
and women, and priests, and children,
ard soldiers, and men selling big round
cakes that looked like understood New
England pies with nothing inside.
Rockets were let off at rare intervals,
and band, all drums and cymbals,
played with just such brazen, barbar-
GUS beating and clashing as the Moors
must have made as they marched past
to one Of their periodical musters in the
Vivarrambla. That was all; so that the
connection with Columbus was not very
obvious
But the prettiest part Of the pageant
was Oh QUE way back, when, at the top
Of the Gale de los Gomeres, we saw o
group Of girls in the gateway, white
barricade against the darkness of the
wood. They broke away, dancing, aswe
came, and we followed them up the
steepest of the three parting roads in
pursuit Of distant sound Of music. The
scene held out promise of the traditional
Spanish night attuned to the click of
castanets and the drumming of guitars.
But within the Alhambra's Enclosure
we found nothing more romantic than
a man with an accordion and a few
couples waltzing under the trees. For
the national dance and song the stranger
must 60 to the show held by guides and
gypsies somewhere on the Albaycin. It
is supposed to be improper, though it is
at the most only stupid, and for this
you must pay in pesetas.
But never once in Granada's open
streets and courts or in those Of any
other Andalusian town did we hear the
castanets and guitars that play SO Sc
dnctively through the Andalusia of ro-
nance and Murray. That they should
still be expected really shows how hard
tradition dies. Gam /, then, come into
Spain to hear humstrums and hurdy
gurdies?'' Beckford asked Indignantly a
hundred years ago. But every new trav-
eler goes to the country, sure that for
him, at least, there will be the sweet
stunning and mad fandango all the
long southern night under the stars. -
Elizabeth Robins Pennell in Century.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
THE LOST WAS FOUND.
The House Number Looked Strange Be
cause the Transom Was Tipped.

The House Number Looked Strange Be-
cause the Transom Was Tipped.
If any one had told him he was drunk,
he would not have resented it, but
would have made an effort to maintain
his equilibrium and dignity long enough
to explain that he was only little
oozy WOODY. He realized that he lived
at 2O6 Irvington street, and that his
residence was on the right hand side as
he wabbled along homeward. The un-
certain light of early dawn, combined
with the blear in his eyes, rendered it
necessary for him to stop in front of
every house and gravely brace himself
against the ratings until he could focus
his eyesight on the number.
Finally he identified his house, but
after arguing with himself for couple
of minutes he came to the conclusion
that he was just WOODY enough to make
mistakes possible, SO to be absolutely
certain he balanced himself against the
front fence and studied the number on
the transom. Instead of 206 he saw 500.
He rubbed his eyes and looked again,
but the number had not changed. 1t
was still 500. Then he wondered how
it happened that he had got on the
wrong side of the street and three
blocks too far out, made zigzag across
the street and started back, but before
he had walked three blocks he came to
the end Of the street.
The weary pilgrim was bewildered.
He couldn't understand it, but getting
his directions shaped his course up the
street on the right side and kept on un-
til he came to 500 again. He studied it
from every possible point of view, even
trying to stand on his head to read it,
but it perversely remained 500.
Utterly bewildered, he sat down on
the steps and waited till policeman
came along.
"I'm losht,' he explained. II want
er 60 ter 206 Irvington street.
'sThis is the place. sight here" de-
clared the officer.
Cant be. Thish is 509."
'sNo, it amt. It's 206, but the tran.
som is turned over T"
The lost was found. Francisco
Post.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19

Mr.. Justice Harlan has completed his
course of lectures before the summer
law class at the University. and return
ed to Washington.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
He V.,ist:od.

,He-Nice deg! Have you taught him
any new tricks since WIS here last?
She (sweetly oh, yes; lie will fetch
your hat il you y istls L. Boston Globe.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19

A greater number Of men than of
women become stout late in life. No
satisfactory explanation of this fact is
offered
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
Fine Figure.

She-What q splendid figure Miss
Philley has.
He-Yes, $1,000, ooo-Detroit Free
Press.
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19

The Princess Louise draws from the
British treasury the modest allowance
of G6, 900 per year.
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All About Love.

'Say, I'm in love" ocnfdcd the faro
dealer to the lookout 1nrilg q lull in
the play.
"Why, yuu DON'T know what love
isl laughed the lookout.
Don't you believe it, - retorted the
dealer. "Love is a game that Cupid
deals He has crooked layout, and the
bank wins every bet. If you copper i
case in his game it's sure to win if you
play case open it looses, and you re in
big luck if you don't get whipsawed in
every turn. If man calls the turn it IS
a to 10 shot he drcps dead New
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-08-19
Ready to Do It.

Jimson--What' this hear about III
subordination in your class at college!
Young Jimson-No Nothing at all in it,
.Timson-.r ssne president writes me
thai j ~ .o obey your professor.
,solg Boshl He +
to dec, .aS@ sslb week, anu
dac,ineo.. .,Phiiasas lphia North Amerj.