Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-07-17
PASSING NEWS OF THE DAY.

A good looking, well to do bachelor, was
being leased by the young ladies of a club
for not being married. He said: 'Ill
marry the girl of your club whom on a Sc
cret vote you elect to he my wife," There
were nine members of the club. Each girl
went into corner, and used great caution
in preparing her ballot and disguise the
hand writing. The result Of the vote was
that there were nine votes cast, each girl
receiving one. The young man remains
bachelor, the club is broken up and th.
girls are all mortal enemies, united in the
one determination that they will never
speak to the hateful man again.
A life ticket to the Grand Opera was re-
Gently sold by decayed librettist to gen.
tleman of Paris, the purchaser assuming
that it would admit him behind the scenes.
The authorities OF the theatre, however,
kept him out on the ground that admission
to the Salon de la Danse was personal
privilege and could not be transferred. In
The lawsuit that was brought the Opera
won, the price paid for the ticket, $500,
being held to indicate that the green room
privileges could not have been i'll the mind
Of the seller, as a ticket admitting to that
is worth $4,000.
Frank Hopkinson Smith is one of the
most versatile men alive. He is successful
in number of lines. Inthe summer he goes
abroad and paints about forty pictures, for
which he receives from $3.50 to $500 apiece.
| He writes sketches for the magazines; he
! has just completed a two months lecture
tour, out of which he made $4,000, and he
| is the head of a large firm of architects and
engineers. He is fifty years old and
has grown son and daughter.
A drummer and fifer went through the
| principal streets of Alexandria, July 4th
| playing patriotic music. When the Hon.
Lewis Mckenzie died it was found in his
will that he had left proviso in which it
was stated that certain money was left to
be put upon interest, the aforesaid interest
to be paid to two musicians to go through
the streets early on the morning of the 4th
OF July and play patriotic music.
| Though the Peru-Chili war ended thir
| teen years ago, there are the bodies of four
thousand men and one thousand horses
still on the field at Tarapaca unburIed. The
nitrate in the soil has preserved them and
they are lying in confusion just as they fell.
looking like mummies.
MI. Camm Patteson, one of the dele
gates from the Tenth District to Chicago
mad his pocket picked on a sleeping car
gong out, and nearly all Of the money he
mad with him taken. MI. Patteson will
be remembered as having made speech at
the Staunton convention.
He-It seems to me, that under some cir
cumstances, a minister might be justified
in using another minister s sermon. She
Under What circumstances? He-Wel,
for instance, if it was a very short sermon.
Puck.
Among the patrons Of bicycling in
Europe are the Emperor William of Ger
many, the Queen of Italy. all the Russian
imperial family, the King of Greece. the
Prince of Wales, and nearly all the English
royal princesses.
Rev. Watari Kitashima, the japanese
pastor of the First Unitarian church at
Vineland, N. j., was married last week to
! Miss Lillian M. Brown, member of his
church.
Governor Lowndes, Of Maryland, has
offered $1,000, each for the conviction of the
lynchers of Joseph Cooking, in Charles
county, and Sidney Randolph, at Rockville,
| Montgomery county.
The Lynchburg & Durham Railroad, 115
miles long, is to be sold under the decree Of
| the U. S. Court in favor Of the Mercantile
| Trust Company of New York.
DR.. Hunter MEG uire, Of Richmond will
sail from New York tomorrow July 18th
on the Steamer Campania for 1urope. He
exnects tx he absent about