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together; and the above example was
sent to Dresden in 1850, after adorn-
ing the head of a peasant woman for
space Of ffty.two years. It was over
twelve feet in length, and nearly 9
foot in circumference. It was consid-
cred fatal to cut it, hence the dimen-
sions It sometimes attained.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-14
A Stubborn Maine Farmer.

William Davis, farmer of Penobscot
County. Maine, has spent 81 years in jail
for contempt OF court. He was fined Tor
thrashing a boy who teased him and, though
q man OF means, vowel he would never pay
the fine. He was put In jail and has re-
NAMED there ever since. An effort Is now
being made to secure his release.
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The Forth Bridge, in Scotland,
is constantly being repainted; in fact,
no sooner have the painters reached
one end than they have to commence
again ut the other. 1t takes fifty tons
of paint to give 1t one coat, and the
area dealt with is something like l2O
acres.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-14

At Athens, Greece, o small potsherd
has been found which bears the name
of Themistocles, and is supposed to
have been used when the ostracism of
Aristides took place.
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An Extraordinary Growth OF Hair.

This astonishing growth of human
hair is known as the Plica Polonica,
from it's prevalence in Poland. The
Plica consisted of hair closely matted
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-14

much more variety, and the woolen
goods in particular being finer IN
quality"
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pulsed, and the pirates, confident that
The tide OF hattle WAS turning In their
.avor, cheered and Solsnt like incarnate
demons. ssysffs&
As Ralph Dennis a hurried to the deck
he threw off his disgulse, and though
dressed exactly ltke his crew, there was
no mistaking HIM.
The Sea Hawk. men and the Mon.
tauks, on the forward part Of the ship,
saw and recognized. him before the
pirates did.
Ralph DenhamIs 4 Ralph Denham!"
went up the cry from the gallant sailors
who saw victory coMtng, personitied in
the rerson of their beloved leader.
Men OF the Sea.Hawk! To the res
cue. Charge!" thundarad Ralph.
There was only need to follow his
Those who had been burning with
anxiety to get to%sthe deck, now saw
| their chance.
men, and tried to- step the unexpected
onset.
He fell beneath Denham's blade, and
many OF his followers, TO avoid the fury
of that irresistible onset, leaped into
the sea. y.
That part Of the deok was speedily
cleared, and Ralph knelt to raise his
old friend, but LlenSenant Hedges
grasped his hand, and ina voice still
strong, though he was blSsding to death,
said:
Don't mind me! Don't stop till the
ship Is ours.
Telling one Of the ssiloFsto call Mr.:
Dayton to send the surgeon on board
the Wa4derer at QncWs RAp4aap penham
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
Food of the C0l0red PeODle.

Mr.. W. F. Scbults, Connecticut
man, who is an instructor in agricul-
ture at the Hampton school, is about
to gather some curious statistics. He
is going to ''study and report on the
food supply of the colored people" in
Southampton county. Va. The South
ern Workman and Hampton School
Record gives this description of his
plans:
s'He expects to drive from house to
house in some selected rural group,
making careful observations on the
amount and kind of food received in
each house, weighing and measuring
the waste and refuse. and determining
exactly what quanty of food and of
what kinds is actually consumed by
each family, and the average amount
consumed by each individual. The
study will also include study of the
water supply and the beverages con-
sumed. Mr.. Schults hopes also to be
able to gather information about the
condition, social, religious, financial
and moral, of those with whom this
Investigation bring him in contact,
which will be of service in the compre
hension of the problem with which the
school is dealing. IN. Y. Sun.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
A Girls Toilet.

A girls every day toilet is a part of
her caaracter. The maiden who is
slovenly in the morning is not to be
trusted, however well dressed she may
be in the evening. 1t is just as essen
tial to be neat and tidy at the break
fast table and to appear we'll before
ones own family, as it is to ''dress up"
for the drawing room or the eyes Of
Every girl should make it
a rule to take special pains with her
morning toilet. A girl with any self
respect or sensitiveness at all could not
but feel embarrassed and awkward if
found in a soiled dress or unkempt
hair should stranger or peighbor
happen in. Make it point, then, to
look as attractive as you can in the
morning, and there will be no danger
of slovenliness in the. afternoon
Christian Work.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
The President to the Queen. :

! Following is the text of the ietteI
which Mr.. Whitelaw Reid. the special
jubilee ambassador. presented to the
Queen from President Mckinley.
To her Majesty, Victoria, Queen of
! Great Britain and Ireland and EN-
press of India:
Great and Good Friend: In the name
and in behalf of the people of the-Uni-
ted States, Ipresent their sincere felici-
tatiops upon the sixtieth anniversary
ofyour Majesty's accession to thecrowD
OF Great Britain. express the ssenti
ments of my fellow citizens in wishing
for your people prolongation of a
reign which has been illustrious and
marked by advance in science, art and
popular well being.
On behalf of my countrymen wish
particularly to recognize your friend
ship for the United States and your
love of peace. exemplified npon imports
tant occasions.
1T is pleasing to acknowledge the
debt Of gratitude and respect due your
personal virtues May your life be
prolonged and peace and honor and
prosperity bless the people over whom
you have been called to rule.
May liberty flourish throughout your
empire under just and equal laws. and
your government continue strong in
the affections of all who live under it,
ond pray that God may have your
majesty in his holy keeping,
WILLIAM MCKINLEY,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
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Fell From a Balloon.

Walter Steele, travelling balloonist,
met g trogic death last week in the
presehce of an immense crowd of spec
tators while attempting an ascension
at Rivermont Park, Lynchburg. The
balloon had been placed in small cir
cular opening in large body of woods.
When the ropes were cut, the balloon
started rapidly upward. and just as the
main body of the balloon reached the
top of the trees, it was struck by a
strong gust of wind and carried with
terrific force against the branches of a
tree.
The aeronant was hurled with ire
mendouse force against limb of the
tree, his neck being broken by the
contact. The body fell, and when ap-
preached by the spectators was found
to be unrecognizable. An aunt and
sister Of the dead man are said to have
met death in similar manner.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
Baltimore Consolidated Railroads.

Arrangements have been completed
for the consolidation of the Traction
and the City'& Suburban railway cos.
of Baltimore, under the title of the
Baltimore Consolidated Street Rail-
way Co. The new company will have
a capital of $10.O00,00O and bonded
debt of $12,000,0O0, controlling in all
about 1876 miles of line in the city and
suburbs. This makes the new COM
pany one of the largest street railway
companies not only in this country,
but in the world.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
Bryan on the Pacific Slope.

"If an election were held now for
president" said Mr.. F. Wolff, the pres
ident of big iron and shipbu1lding
plant at Portland, Ore, in conversa-
tion with friends at the Riggs, 1.-THE
whole Pacific Slope would vote to elect
Bryan over any man the Republicans
could name. It was hard struggle to
hold Oregon in line last year. but to-
day it would be impossible. The con-
tinued depression in business has
increased the free silver sentiment in
our State to degree that would make
of a revival of prosperity'"-Washing-
ton Post.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
jackson Memorial Hall.

LEXINGTON, June 25.-The great
event in the commencement of tn 9
Virginia Military Institute took place
yesterday, and that was the dedication
of the Stonewal Jackson Memorial
Hall. The speakers of the occasion
were Hon. John W. Daniel, Rev. DR..
J. P. Smith of Richmond, of Jackson's
personal staff, who covered his body
with his own as shield the night he
was shot at Charlottesville, and DR..
Hunter Mcclure, who was chief of
Jackson's medical corps. The day was
also alumni day, and the schools sons
came from far and wide to do homage
once more at their alma mater. Col.
Edmund Pendleton of Lexington, one
of the graduates Of the first class turn
ed out, was present, and was the recip-
ent of much applause. The Alumni
Association held its annual meeting
yesterday afternoon and took steps to-
wards furthering the plan of erecting
q monument to the memory of the
cadets who fell at the battle of New
Market. The alumni banquet was
held last night, and attended by a
large crowd.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
The Ross Mystery.
PHILADELPHIA Bulletin. }.

The death of Mr.. Christian K. Ross
revives pathetic memories of a mystery
which almost twenty-three years age
threw every household in Philadelphia
into CONSERVATION, which became fol
some time matter of discussion
throughout the country, and which
has not yet been, and probably never
will be, cleared up.
The abduction of Mr.. Ross's boy,
Charlie, was SO bold a crime that it
was followed Immediately by an EN-
phatic demand for the detection and
punishment of the villains. The com
munity was apparently more concern
ed in bringing them to justice than in
the recovery of the child, or, at least,
was unwilling that the child should be
recovered without securing them as
WE'LL If the zeal which was directed
to the latter end had been applied sole
ly to the former at the beginning of
the long hunt for the little fellows
is altogether likely that he would have
been promptly restored through ram
som to his parents.
But the offer of reward of $40, 900,
not simply for his recovery. but for the
abductors also, we'll meant as it was in
the public interest, was short-sighted
as regarded the welfare of the Ross
family. 1t set tribe of policemen and
detectives, professional and amateur,
on all the trails possible and impossi-
BILE, fed the flame of public excitement,
and made it necessary for the scoun
drels to look to their own safety as the
first consideration.
Had the case been managed more
quietly and adroitly at the start, with
less sensational clamor, and had the
reward been offered for the return of
the child and nothing else. Mr.. Ross
might have been spared his long and
search and the years of de-
spair that followed. 1t has long been
the belief of not few of those who had
occasion to look into the case that the
boy was murdered by his captors when
they found that they could not deliver
him up without imperilling themselves,
for they could hardly have reckoned
on the extraordinary outburst of in
dignation which attended the crime,
and which in the end defeated both
justice and the purposes of the unhap-
py father.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
A Lucky Find.

Some months since Mr.. Leon Lee, a
young man in this city, died after a
brief illness. In preparing his body
for burial his underclothing was
thrown in a woodshed adjoining the
house and forgotten. He was supposed
to have quite sum of money, but it
could not be found. Last week his
father. going into the wood shed saw
the underclothIng, and, on examina
tion, found sewed to the inside several
hundred dollars in paper money-Fred-
ericksburg Star.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01

A mans health is the rope by which
he climbs to success. If he can keep
his health, he will go on to success.
Yet his health is the very thing he
neglects more than anything else. It
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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
Uncle Jake, an old darkey who doe

Uncle Jake, an old darkey who does
odd jobs around the office of the Ala
bama Advocate, was asked the other
day why he did not hold an umbrella
over colored street preacher who was
holding forth on the sidewalks in front
of the Office. ''Oh, g'wa firm here boss,
wild yer fooIin'! You know dat man
don't know nothin' to 'spound. l dess
pintedly knows dat eff he knowed
ennything ter tell, dars plenty folks
whar he belongs dat would listen at
him. Don't talk to me bout desc yer
ramblin' folks whar amt 'sponsible
ter nobody. Use done seed ernongh
er dem folks, an amt holdin' no UNI
brellas ober dat sort O. stock-not me-"
All of which the editor prints as par
able, we presume.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
Marriage by Proxy.

In Holland, says Scotch paper,
marriage by proxy, is allowed. This
is the so-called marriage by the
glove" and is usually put in practice
by a Dutchman who is sojourning
abroad, and wanting a wife, is too poor
or too far off to return home for one.
In such cases he writes home to a law
yer, who selects one conformable to
the requirements of his client. Ii the
gentleman approves, he next sends the
lawyer a soiled left-hand glove and a
power of attorney, which settles the
business. A friend marries the woman
by proxy, and she is thereafter
promptly shipped off to her new home.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
Prince Of Wales and His Family
DutifuI Son, a Loving Husband and a
Devoted Father.

Is Devoted Father.
In the July Ladies' Home Journal
George w. Smalley writes interesting
NV of 1.-THE Personal Side of the Prince
EM Wales'' "The domestic relations of
We Prince he says, "are not topic
for free discussion, but at least one may
4y that one source of the general re-
gard for him is his bearing both to the
Queen and to the Princess of Wales in
public. Numerous public occasions
have presented the Prince in an atti
tnde of affectionate Difference to the
Queen which is plainly no matter Of
docorum merely, but personal-the son
to the mother; and when the Princess
was present-tbe husband to the wife.
''Those who know will tell you how
deep has been the devotion of the faith
er to his children from their infancy
and youth. when the Prince used to be
in the nursery early each morning.
aown to their present maturity. A
word may be said also-of his brotherly
affection for the Empress Frederick.
who has so narrowly missed, or at most
nominally shared for a short three
months, one of the greatest Imperial
thrones in the world. It was her near
ness to Homburg which was among the
inducements that brought her brother
there regularly. He was constantly at
the old Schloss, where till her new
palace was finished she lived. The
Empress was constantly in Homburg-l
her carriage, with its black horses, and
the familiar Imperial liveries, always
in front of the Princes villa"
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
Hogshead Of syrup Explodes.

A negro drayman sat on the top OF a
hogshead of syrup in a big dray which
two mules were pulling along the
street of Atlanta, Ga, on Saturday,
and when in front of fruit stand near
which several persons were standing
the hogshead explo ded. The hoops
broke, the two heads flew out, and the
slaves shot in all directions. The col
ored driver fell over on the mules, and
a deluge of syrup struck the people in
front of the fruit stand. They were
soaked from head to foot. When they
recovered from their astonishment the
dray and it's driver had disappeared,
the mules having run away. One of
the bystanders was struck with a head
out of the hogshead. and another man
was hit with stave. The syrup COW
cred the ground for thirty feet. 1t is
supposed that fermentation caused
the unusual accident.
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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
The cattle raisers of this country are

The cattle raisers of this country are
complaining of the almost prohibitory
restrictions imposed by foreign coun-
tries upon the export of their cattle to
those countries. But such restrictions
are only natural and are imposed by
foreign countries in retaliation for the
high tariff imposed by this one upon
their exports. When the United States
shall be wise enough to know that
their protective tariffs restrict trade
and hurt their own people more than
those of other countries, they will
abolish them, and substitute therefor
duties that will produce revenue
Alex. Gazette.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01

The state fair grounds in Richmond
have been sold to Mrs. John L. Will
liams, the we'll known banker, for $780,
600. The sale was to satisfy an inde-
btedness of the Virginia Agricultural
and Mechanical Association. The land
consists of sixty acres, with large
frontage on Broad street. The prop
erty was purchased by the society a
few years before the war, when the
first exhibition took place. During the
was it was used as a conscript camp,
known as Camp Lee.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
Reduced Rates to Winchester.

On account of the Firemens State Conven-
ton at Winchester Va, July to g. the B. &
0. r. R. will sell round trip tickets from
Lexington, Pleasant Valley and intermediate
points on the Valley Division for all trains
July 5 to 9 inclusive, valid for return passage
urtil July II inclusive. Rate from Lexington
$500; Staunton 1915; Pleasant Valley $3.50.
and correspondingly low rates from other
stations.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
EVERYBODY Saws So.

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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01

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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01

THE KANSAS METEoRITE.-The me-
teorite which was seen at Wichita,
Kan, about II o'clock Sunday night
was observed throughoutsouthea
Kansas and as far west as Larned. Ali
reports agree as to it's remarkable bril-
liancy, the light being so strong that
the interiors of houses were lighted. A
spark from the meteorite fell on the
street in Hutchinson. 1t Is described
as granite, bearing traces of iron. ITS
weight is thirteen and one half pounds.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01

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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01

"Does he refuse the nomination ?"
"Yes. He says he does not care to 60
into politics"
"Why not?"
He doesn't want his wife to find out
all about his past. t."-Chicago Post.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01

A tract of 10000 acres of farming
lands near West Point, Va, has been
purchased by the Virginia Farming
Co., Thos. B. Norvall, president, 2O7
Mutual Life Building, Philadelphia,
Pa. The company intends to promote
colonization and agricultural develop.
ment of the property.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
It Would BE Published.

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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-07-01
Groceries !! Groceries! !!

Having decided to close out
for CASH my line of GRO
|CERIES, [ offer big induce
ments as follows: