Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-01-07
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| A very enjoyable Christmas soiree
was given by the Liberty school last
! Thursday. The rendition of the selec-
tions conferred much credit upon the
instructors. The following program
was carried OUT
| 1. Opening address by Miss HIATT lie
| Hollar.
Song-"Christi is Born" by school.
g. Recitation-"A Christmas Prob
lem." by Harvey Craun.
| 4. Recitation-"Hark the Herald
Angel Sings.' by Minnie Simmons.
5. Recitation-"Gooi Tiding of
Great JOY" by Bessie Sheets.
G. Song Christ is coming,' school.
2. Recitation-'Bethleh STAR
| by Arrena Simmons.
s observation-disclosures st,nas Carroll
by Mary Cave.
8. Recitation-''C mas Day." by
Elmer Key.
10. Recitation-"Give Heed my
Heart" by Mamie Holjar
II. Recitation-''A Song of the
Angel" By Josie Brown.
12. Song-"Little Ones like me,'' by
school.
49,. Recitation-s.Chrssm Carol"
by Maggie Brown.
IA. Recitation-'sA Christmas Tide"
by Estella Arion.
Is. Recitation-"Dolly Isn't Christ
mas jolly" Sadie Hollar.
49,. Essay-"Xmas,'' Golda Sim
mons.
II. Observation-Disclosures Eve,n
by George Brown.
IS. s'Chri-t has come"
by Minnie Arion.
10. Speech-'Greedy john" by
Ernest Sheets.
90. Santa Claus, by Gertie Hollar
==s1. song-"Christmas Carol,'' by
school.
The little folks had number of
short selections All were held in sus-
pense as to what their treat would be
till 1:30 p. M, when they were admit
ted into the room where here was a
beautiful Xmas tree laden with
oranges, candies and other delicacies.
A number of beautiful presents were
placed on the tree for the teachers.
NJ II.
The use of microscopes of immense
over in ancient Egypt, Persia and
| Greece is fairly prcsum .ble because
there is a gem shown at Parma, once
| worn on the finger of Michael Angelo,
the engraving whereon is two thou
sand years old and which reveals the
figures of seven women only with the
aid of strong magnifyirg glass. Sir
Henry Rawlinson brought home from
| Nineyeh stone about twenty inches
| long and ten inches wide, containing
a whole treatise on mathematics that
was utterly illegible without a micro
scope, it could not have been engraved
| without similar aid. Mr.. Phillips
| averred that the art of eoloring reach
ed a perfection among the ancients far
beyond our own. The burned city of
Pompeii was city of stucco. The ex-
| teriors of the walls of all its buildings
were of stucco. and the stucco was
stained with Tyrian purple-the royal
color OF antiquity. The city has been
| buried eighteen hundred years. yet
| whenever the walls of one of its houses
| are dug out the royal purple flames up
! to view with a great deal richer. hue
the Pompeians possessed secret for
making fast colors that we have not.
When the English despoiled the sum-
mer palace of the Emperor of China
they brought home curiously wrought
metal vessels OF every kind, and Euro
| pean metal workers confessed their
inability to reproduce them Sheffield
steel is an English boast, but it will
not bear the atmosphere OF India with
out gliding. Yet the Damascus blades
used in the Crusades were not gilded,
and they are as bright and keen today
as they were eight centuries ago.
There was one shown at he London
Exhibition in 1892, the point of which
could be made to touch the ut, and
which could be put into scabbard
like corkscrew and bent every way
without breaking. The bast steel in
the world today does not come from
either Europe or America, utfrom the
| Pun Sun.
How many young men and young
women are cut off just as the future
seems brightest and fullest If promise?
They are taken away by the diseas 9
which causes over one sixth of all the
| deaths in the world-the disease which
doctors call consumption There is
absolutely no reason in tie world why
consumption should be fsstal-why it
should be even serious. It is disease
of the blood, and can be cured abso-
lutely and always by. purifying and
enriching the blood. The only excep-
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