The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-07-24
NO. 16.
Items Of Interest.
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A smart thing-a mustard plaster.
Smoking is bad habit. Mount Etna ha!
giving it up.
A forty-pound meteor killed sheep near
Little Rock, Ark.
A striking passage-Htting your head
against a low doorway.
There are about $4,000 physicians and sur
geons in the United States.
If every year we rooted out one vice we
should SOON become perfect men.
No one evil dare maintain that it is better
to do justice than to bear it.
There are $3.50 Roman Catholic bishops,
priests and chaplains in Ireland.
A china wedding and wedding in China
are horses of quite different colors.
The sweetest thing on earth is a little child
when it has learned to know and love.
Bodily enjoyment depends upon good
health, and health depends upon temper
| ance.
Knowledge will always predominant over
ignorance, as man governs the other ami
mails.
| 1t has been discovered that tall men live
longer than short ones, and the reason is OBJ
vious.
The mortality between the whites and
blacks in the South is about three Of the lat
ter to one of the former. f
After friendship and love comes benevo-
lence and that compassion which unites the
soul to the unfortunate.
How contagious is the laugh Of some peo-
pie; how iarring that of others, like playing
on a worn out piano.
The innocence and purity Of childhood
brings bitter heart pangs to the sin hard
ened man and worldly woman.
Coffee growing has proved successful with
few planters in Florida, aud its cultiva-
ton promises to be extended.
The traffic in eggs in this country is esti-
mated to aggregate $3.50, 1000, 900 annually
Hens our prosperity.
''Why is the sun masculine ?'' "Cos sons
allus is. ''And the moon fem;nine?'
''Cos it is so changin'.'
1t is better to wear out than to rust out.
We must not only strike the iron while it
lshot, but strike until it is made hot.
Only they who carry sincerity to the high.
est point, in whom there remains not sia-
gle hairs. breadth Of hypocrisy, can see the
hidden springs of things.
Good pictures are great teachers. A fine
work Of art hanging in ones house speaks
to him constantly in language Of tender beau
ty that wins its way to the heart.
What is the difference between cat con-
fined in a bag and the wind blowing through
dilapidated house? One cries through the
sack and the other sighs through the crack.
A great many marine disasters for this
year have been reported, but Of the number
of (partner)ships that have been wrecked, of
banks (of dogs that have been lost, and the
schooners (of beer that have gone down, no
record has been kept.
Extract from French feuilleton A: s.This
blow was too much for the poor count,
whom so many emotions had broken down
he fell with his face upon the earth some
instants after Domingo had finished his re-
cital. When he arose he had ceased to
live.''
''Do the dying suffer pain ?'' is a question
that is being considerably discussed by sci
entific men. We don't know about the dy-
ing, but we do know that the living suffer
payin', particularly if it is payin' subscrip-
ton to newspaper.
Walking matches between young ladies
and gentlemen are getting to be quite COM
mon. You can see them any pleasant even
ing by going along the bluff. Any young
couple who are engaged are walking match
when they are out for stroll, aren't they.
The ages of Ohio political magnates are:
Judge Taft, sixty mine years; Senator Thur
man, sixty seven years; Governor Bishop,
sixty seven years; Secretary Sherman, fifty
six years; Stanly Matthews, fifty five years;
Mr.. Foster, ffty-one years; Mr.. Ewing, fif-
ty years; and Gen. Garfield, forty-eight
years.
Professor Holden says that great many
writers use vocabulary Of 10000 words,and
the average among good writers will fall
very little below that. That may be true,
but when man tries to raise window In
a hurry ana catches his thumb between the
sash and the fly screen, he doesn't use more
than half dozen words, but they are worth
10000 on ordinary occasions.
An agricultural Journal tells how to make
a very pretty window ornament. Take a
goodsized sponge, it says, sow it full Of
rice, oats or grass seed, and place it in dish
of water. The sponge will absorb the wa
ter, and when the seeds begin to sprout at
tach a cord to the sponge and suspend it in
the window. Itwonld be we'll to serve some
of the good-sized ''sponges" in this neigh
borhood in the manner described, but the
difficulty is they are already very seedy, and
will not absorb water worth cent.
At the steamboat explosion at Lake Min
netonka, man who put out to the wreck in
a boat succeeded in rescuing a lady, who at
once plteously implored him to try and gave
her dog. This he refused to do, and mo-
ment later she pointed to gentleman, who,
half in the water and half out, was clinging,
beside the engineer, to large piece OF tie
wreck that was floating in the vicinity. and
requested her rescuer to save him, too, as he
was her husband. He was fished out, but
the dog was not recovered.
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