The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-03-11
BREVITIES.


Napoleon is now writing the life of Caesar
Augustus
Kansas has $4,000 school children, and
700 teachers.
The Confederate ram .4l5emarle is being
cut up for fuel in Norfolk
A protection paper in Toronto, called Com.
nsonwealta, has just died,
DIR. Mary Walker is lecturing in Connect
cut on "A Deeply Interesting Subject
A play named sTrodden Down, or the
Last Cause" is great hit in Savannah"
Grant has had horse presented to him.
Also an elephant, whose name is Stanton.
The literary negroes in the Virginia Con-
vention have used up 1903 worth of statione-
ry.
No less than thirty thousand letters are
distributed in the Salt Lake Postomce every
week
Caldwell county. Mo, has discovered
petrifed butterfly, 20 feet below the surface
! of the earth
A man in Indiana found one dollar bill
and spent seventy five cents of it trying to
find the owner.
! New York has national guard or active
militia Of $4,000 men. The force decreased
by 1900 last year.
| English astronomers are to view the total
eclipse Of the sun in August from the sum-
nit Of the Himalayas.
Great distress prevails among the Chinese
in Idaho city because the white people are
too poor to steal from.
Russia has new sect called the Christian
Antl-Taxpayers. Il is more popular with
the people than with the government.
North Carolina republicans believe they
can poll 60, OG0 votes for the ratification Of
adoption.
A white man Peter Boaden, and negro
woman Emily Winden, were married in Char
lesion, West Virginia, by the Rev. r. Au.
thor, February 6, 1898.
The Philadelphia Masons are to take five
years to build seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollar temple, with tower nearly
300 feet high.
Elastic boot heels are new invention, and
said to be good Stanton says, arguing a
posteriori, he thinks elastic beettoes would
be much better.
OF all the young women mentioned in the
Bible, Ruth seems to have treated her sweet
heart the worst. She pulled his ears and
trod on his corn.
Iowa has three women editors-Mrs. Mo
ney, of the Jefferson Era, Mrs Hartshorn
Of the Corydon Monitor and Mrs. Mary
Read, of bright County Register.
The law in Salt Lake requires young men
to marry at the age Of nineteen, or pay 3
forfeit to Brigham Young of $500. They
can have as many wives as they please.
| A prize fight took place in New York las,
week, within twenty steps of Union Square
between Western and New York pugilist
the former winning after hard fight.
jerks, who was appealed to for aid, fol
the suffering poor Of Crete, replied that there
were poor ''creters enough near home to
claim all the aid that he could afford to give
The Central Park menagerie in New York
now embraces 511 animals, 81 BIRDS and
20 reptiles, and the collection is to be enrich.
ed by the addition of IA camels, now on Their
way from Texas
II resort to wine to stimulate my wit,
said young spendthrift to an old one. 'iAh,
; replied the veteran, chat is the way began
but now have to resort to my wits to gel
in my wine"
Since Vanderbilt assumed control of the
Hudson, Harlem and Central railway, he hat
cut off about 10000 free passes, and compel
ed former dead-heads to pay full fare when
riding over those routes.
, The Hon. John Morrissey was absent du
, ring the drawing for seats in the House or
, Monday. The following notice was tackled
on his desk "Any person taking this seat
} must prepare to put on the gloves.
: The Pope intends to confer cardinalate
upon Lucien Bonaparte. The Emperor in
sists that if SO, he shall elevate him all BY
himself, and with great pomp, 80 that the
glory shall accrue to the Bonaparte family
Sidney Smith said to an ex-M. P, for Ed
inburg, that all he wanted to make him per.
feet was few brilliant flashes of silence
What magnificent Congress We should have
if the whole body would perpetually scintilate
that way.
The cheerful statement is made that some
men in New York carry on regular trade
in little boys They seize upon them in the
streets and transport them clandestinely to mer
Id the country, and sometimes to the far est
where they are bound out at very low price
Stealing Is SO common IN some parts OIL
the South that one gentleman has hit upon
the expedient of announcing that he has
charged every fourth stick in his wood pile
with powder, and poisoned one-fourta of his
fruit. lie now invites his attentive neigh.
bors to call upon him.
f The Oshkosh Times gives us the following
Black Crook story. "My DEAR" said the
wife, :" the Black Crook is here; shall we wit
ness it tonight WE'LL" said the husband
II had better go alone tonight, and see if it
is fit place for ladies'" Yes-well," says
the wife, +" rather guess I'd better go alone
and see if it is a proper place for gentlemen p
Both went.
In Grey county, Canada, few days ago,
Mr.. Chas Van. Felson, was married to a
young lady named Hall. But few minutes
/ had elapsed after the ceremony when the