The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1877-04-26
VARIOUS TOPICS.

Vegetables from the Sonth begin to form
an item in coastwise mpcrts.
81 am afraid it is mixed goods" said the
lady to thu clerk ''Oh. no. madame, i'm
possible" replied the polite gentleman, IAN
our came's hair slnlwls are made Of pure
silk direct from the worm.''
No lrislmal ever made greater bull than
the English lawyer who drew up M imdct-
ment charging that the prisoner killed man
with II certain wooden Instrument called an
iron p stle.
Stars in til. Theatrical profession don't
have to earn their own living. they are al
ways, according to the plly-bil anil a,lver.
tisements. ''well-supported by an excellent
company
''Sunday is the golden clasp that lads to.
gether the volume of the week." says
writer 1t is also good time to pull off your
boots and try what bullion remedies yo., have
accumulated. during the preceding six days.
James G. Bennett of the New York Her.
aid. has purchased Il residence i Paris, and
will remain aor,al for several years, until
the Bennett-May duel and its attending oc-
currences, have fale'I from the plbc iniii,l.
The Prince OF Wales owes over 81, 800, 900.
And yet it is safe to assume that he takes
life more cheerfully, has more fun and wears
better clothes, and smokes higher-pricel ci-
gars, than some editors who have laid up as
much as ei4llty-seven dollars for rainy tlay.
1t is estimated that it will cost the State
of Texas 100000 to hold constitutional
convention, and the Houston Age suggests
that, instead of that expense for i, convcn-
ton, five cotton mills be built, which, can be-
done for the same money.
The New Orleans correspondent uf the
New York Times says Nichols is too pru-
dent and lair minded to suit his Democratic
friends. Many OF them have urged him to
measures of lioienca to which lie will not
listen. Like most. Confederate soldiers, he
has had fighting enough.
Five years ago Senator Ben Hill, Of Geor-
gia. III an address before the University OF
Georgia. said: ''We must do all in our pow
er to edncal", elevate, protect and advance
the negro That's very gaod Republican
ism, If Mr.. Hill can maxi. Georgia carry 1t
out.
Broken china may be menlel by paste
made of the white of egg mixed with flour.
The article thus mentled will not hold water
without coming tn pieces, but for VASES,
1amp-shatls aud similar articles, this paste
answers a very good purpose, and it is al
ways at hand.
The pnr ST AMI hist sugars are the hard
and white. Or tile grannlated. The
brown sugars, which many consider swecter
than white sugar. are actually less swe,t.
They seem swet.Lrr, BECAUSE they dissolve
more readily in thu: nnutl, when tasted.
The Petersburg Index appeal learns from
citizens Of the Tobacco counties in that section
that preparations have been made for plaut-
ing an immense area in tobacco this season,
and that if nothing occurs to injure or abridge
the crop, it will be one of the largest ever
grown in Virginia.
Aunt Emily-s'Why, Nellie. don't you
know it is unkind to catch hold of your sis
ter and pull her hair?'' Nellie (who doesn't
see it)-'.Well, Aunte, saw you holding
cousin Frank round the neck quite tightly
yesterday, when mamma was out, and pull
ing his hair, and he didn't say anything.'-
Judy.
The Democratic journals Of the North
chuckle gleefully over the bare possibility Of
the President being opposed by any menu
bers of his own party. The Southern Demo-
cratic journals, on the other hand, come for
ward with promises Of support in case the
President should need it in carrying out his
policy.
The Chicago Times since the Democratic
defeat in that city has taken up its old prac
tice Of speaking of its party managers as fol-
lows: "a more irreclamable lot ef idiots
and asses than the persons who set up for
managers OF the old graveyard party in this
city, this State and this nation, the planet
we occupy does not contaln.''
Mrs. Hayes has a reception every evening
in the library of the White House. 1t is
handsome, oval room, and in the low book
cases which line it are the choice collection
OF books presented to General Grant by
divers Bostonians. The ex President has
left them there for the present, having as
vet no home in which Il, put them.
boy in Cunberla county, Pa, forty
years ago lost shilling that his father had
given him to pay his teacher for school
book. Last month the boy now. nearly
fifty years old. learned where his old teacher
isliving. and sent him letter, detailing all
the circumstances connected with the un-
paid for book. aud ineosing the amount ct
the little debt with forty years interest.
Mr. James Russell lowell is reported as
telling this story about his htic..er: lone
morning the man exl atiat"'l about the love-
Illness OF the moonlight Of the night before,
| and, Just as the poet was thinking that he
had done him an irinstce in never having
given him credit e.. li"ement OF Soul, the
butcher added: = ie III was so fine |
Jest coudn It sleep, and had to gel up and 60
1
to killin'.''
| Mrs. Muggins- ' Well, Mrs. Gu5bins, I
was just a goin' to whisper to yer that our
Mary Ham ere is to be married Tuesday
week. Mrs. c. Lawks, now, am am
right glad to hear it, my dear, though you
must expect soight o. trouble; aud do
'ope wot with the railway accidents, sooicides,
l,ydrophoby an things about, let alone as a
Eempcror may even ave the measles, being
most dangerous to hup-growns: that your
husband u'll subscribe regular to our burial
society,"
| The St. Louis Republican, Democratic
paper, in abiding to The SouthesA policy OF
the President, says:
There is no alternative for, Democrats
but to accept and spplM,d.it., He has solved
the sonthern question in a, manner and by 8
method absolutely ahoye criticism, and il
VIM nOt he worth while tor any n,,hlic maj