The Virginia star., 1882-11-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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600 during the past seven years.
Faith is the daughter OF the soul.
The most effective coquetry is inno-
cence,
Nothing overcomes passion more than
silence.
believers have a life that death can
never touch.
Be fit for more than the thing that
You are doing.
-Alaska Is called the eountEy OF mag
nifssnt isebss0&
After the battle of arms comes the
battle of history.
Mrs. Crittenden, wife of Governor
Crittenden. was robbed of 500 in
sleeping car in Colorado recently.
The exports of rails from Germany
amounted in 1881 to $50, 100 tons, the
heaviest export of any one year.
1t is estimated that the number of
slaves in ancient Greece was three Or
four times the number of freemen.
Seventeen thousand five hundred
and forty-fiye stray dogs were taken
into custody in London during 1881.
The highest range of mountains IL
the Himalays, the mean elevation being
estimated from 16, 600 to $4,000 feet.
The Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company has paid in dividends since
the war the immense sum of 81, ,626, ,576.
Next year several acres In the
Thames valley are to be planted with
sunfowers for rhe use of the aesthetics.
Edward Audran. the composer. il
building an elegant new house In Paris,
which will be called the villa MascOtte.
There was a marriage in Giles
county, Va, recently, in which the
groom was Sc and the bride 36 years of
age.
Ohio last year made about 450, 900
gallons of maple syrup aud 1900, 900
pounds of sugar, and will have as much
more this year.
-Viscountess Stringford established
hospital for the Egyptian wounded.
and the Khedive gave her 80 beds from
Arabi's house.
Congressman Russell Errett had his
right shoulder dislocated by being
thrown out of buggy in Pittsburg,
Ia, the OIHeE uay.
-Me1ssonier has lately been in Ven
ice, painting large picture in one Of
the chapels in st. Marks.
The late green peas Of this season
!, have been more plentiful and OF better
3 flavor than gourmets have known them
, to be in many years.
' AT the beginning OF the year 1861
: the United States army consisted OF H.
4 900 regular troops, garrisoned chiefly IN
, the Southern States.
: Two hundred youths belonging to-
j the best families in Paris and the north
: of France have LETT Calais for the Jesuit
d College at Canterbury.
. "A large part of the Bahama Islands
It is devoted to pineapple culture. Anil
70 hon and half of fruit have been col
lected from single acre.
England has thirty electric light
companies, with capital OF over $50 :
O0O, 100. Nearly as much money Is
III similarly sunk In Francs.
81 The ancient Pueblos were the only
y aboriginal people within the limits OF
VI the United States who possessed the
g art OF glazing their pottery.
In "A simpler instrument than the jews
harp it wonld be hard to conceive, but
~ the process of manufacture comprises
be no fewer than thirty separate operations
in The factory of Mr.. Smyth, at Balb
he riggan. in Ireland. famous for centnr.
ls- past as producing the finest hosiery Il
the world, has been destroyed by fire
lai In landscape gardening, says a
nt English writer, the English have NOR
ed to learn than to teach, but in cottag
10, and villa gardening they are especinll
" strong.
,se In order to encourage the MANI
,h facture of wall papers OF foreign typ'
,he the Japan Government Office have in
To ported eight sets OF the necessary M
mo- chinery from Germany.
an M. Chevreul, the French scisntis
,dy is now in his Goth year, and yet spent
ike eight hours daily in his laboratory, b
the sides doing much literary work.
in their general bearing toward 8
ciety and in the nature and minutene
of their seruples, the early Christia
a.. bore greater resemblance to Quake
'n o1 than to any other existing sect.
,,oa VI For nearly 200 years after its esta
;,o' ;,u lishment in Europe, the Christian Col
.1r .,or munity exhibited moral purity, whic
the If it has been equalled, has never.
sve w any long period. been surpassed.
lese There was question among I
1 of early Christians as to the propriety
that wearing, in military festivals, laul
ear wreaths, because laurel was called at
nave Daphne, the lover of Apollo, q heath
Toe god.
a On Prince Henry. second son Of
!, ~ Grown Prince of Prussia, has embarI
cess IN the Imperial frigate Olga for Ie
,ugh soyaeo' uuIlnS "niSh ne VII. call a1
on PinSAP"i PoiUo Va LILO Ano1'c"n On
'ton. The English Channel tunnel is
suco he % miles long, 18 by 90 feet in dis
steIs eter with two railroad tracks, and