The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-11-11
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP

The birds, when winter shades the sky,
Fly DER the away,
Where laughing isles in sunshine lie,
And summers breeZeS play:
And thus the friends that futter near,
While fortunes sun is warm,
Are startled If a cloud appear,
And fly before the storm.
But when from winters bowling plain,
Each other warbler's past,
The little snow-bi1d still remains
And chrrups midst the blast
Love, like that bird, when friendships throng.
With fortunes depart,
Still fingers with its cheerful song,
And nestles on the heart.
and independence free from temptation,
let him keep out Of debt. DR.. Franklin says,
1T is hard for an empty bag to stand up
right"
OCTOBER II, 40 B. C-Battle of Phillippi
and death of Marcus Junius eBrutus. This
eventful day threw into the hands of two auto
cratcal magistrates, of no tried reputation,
and rivals by nature, the universal rule, with
the liberties of their country. There were just
twenty days between the deaths OF Casslus,
THE last of the Romans" and his friend
Brutus, in the two great battles of Philippi.
OCTOBER 90, 900 A. D.--Alfred (the great
King of England, died, aged 81, in the 2Sth
year of his reign. To him is ascribed the mode
of trial by jury.
OCTOBER 80, 161S.-Sir Walter Raleigh, an
illustyious English noblemen, beheaded at the
age of &C. Memorable as a statesman, sea-
man, soldier chemist and chromologist. He
obtained the patent of Virginia in 1884.
OCTOBER 30, 1922 "Sixty-eight men and
fifty women were shipped from Newgate to
Black Fryers and put on board a lighter to be
carried down the river to be shipped on board
The Cesar for transportation to Virginia. In
January 1876, 140 were sent over, and in the
following May 1906" This bit of history ought
| to settle the important question as to the time,
and from whence came the original, world-re
nowned and much abused "carpet-bagger -
Evidently John g. SAKE had his eyes on these
pioneers" when he penned the poem:
ga thing for laughter, fleers and jeers
Is American aristocracy.
ssDepend upon it, my snobbish friend,
Your family thread you can't ascend
Without good reason to apprehend
You may find waxed at the farther end
By some plebean vocation!
Or worse than that, your boosted line
May end in toop Of stronger toine,
hat plagued some worthy relation
AN OLD SAW come for the saw, sir"
What saucer?" "Why, the saw, sir you bor
rowed." Il borrowed no saucer" Surely
you did you borrowed saw, sir Il never
saw, sir, your saucer" But you did, sir (;
there is the saw now, SIR 20, you want the
saw Why didn't you say So
| A BEAUTIFUL INsCR1PTIoN- wan
dering by the wayside, l discovered in the
| Trinity Churchyard an inscription on tomb
stone SO Significantly beautiful that l could
not forbear to record it. On an obleng pile OF
masonry, surmounted by a SANDSTONE were
deeply cut the following words:
'MY MOTHER.
| The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall RISE
| No other letters or characters appear on the
| slab. If there is one inscription in the thou
sand languages that is fitted to retain its sub
lime meaning through every period of time up
| to the resurrection morn, it is this. The writer
seemed aware that names would be forgotten,
and titles fade from the memory of the world.
| He therefore engraved on stone, the name by
which he first knew her-the dearest of all
names-naother! If any should wish to know
further OF her, he is sublimely referred to the
sound of the trumpet and the rising of the
dead, when he shall know all.
MARIA LoUIsA-When Vienna was bonn
barded by the French in 1809 Maria Louisa
was the only member of the imperial family
that remained in the capital. She was too i'll
| to be removed. Bonaparte was informed OF
the fact, and he gave orders Tor the shells to
spare the abode of the invalid. He became
greatly interested in her fate, and made con-
slant inquiries about her. 1t is probably at
this moment he resolved to displace Josephine,
and soon after, at the treaty of Schoenbrim,
he stipulated for her hand In the month OF
March, 1910, the espousal of the imperial pair
was celebrated at Vienna, and on the LIST OF
April they were married in Paris by Cardinal
Fesch.
CRoMwELL's SKULL-A person visiting the
London Museum of curiosities was shown the
skull of Oliver Cromwell. ut is extremely
SMALL said the visitor. BLESS you, SIR" re-
| piled the exhibitor, lit was his skull when he
| was little boy"
Some years ago an ivory turner in London
made his fortune in a singular manner: in
saving in two the tooth of an elephant. he
found in the centre of it a diamond worth
f13,000
| MY BABY.
She is not beauty, my sweet little pet,
Her mouths not rosebud, her eyes not like iat
Her far from Grecian, her skin not like snow
She is not beauty, dear me no. no, no
But then she is winsome, this bird of my bowor
And she grows my heart every minute and h,o,r
She is not beauty, my sweet little pet,
Far handsOmer babies each day can be met.