Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

eleven.year.Old boy murdered their
baby sister near Columbia, s. g.,
on Saturday, because she cried.
"Can an editor be a Christian 2
asks Colonel Sheppard. Well, If
there are no banana peels on the
pavement, cats on the back fence,
or flies on the top of his bald pate
he can try Washington Post.
A New York lady won the prize
for furnishing the best recipe by
which a dinner could be prepared
for 81. AS soon ss her husband
found this out he borrowed the
dollar and took his dirner down
town.
The suggestion made TO the agrl'
cultural Department that flax be
grown in these parts of the country
where wheat can no longer be
raised with profit is not a bad one,
and It would be worth the while OF
the Department to prosecute m
ouiries with the idea of finding out
more about the subject.
New Workers are now talking
about a Worlds Fair in 1892, which
they want to eclipse anything this
globe ever knew of before. The
projectors insist that no site Will be
accepted less than one thou
sand acres. The Philadelphia Cen
tennial had 23G acres, and the
Paris has 200. America wants
room.
In the Virginia Episcopal Coun-
ell at Lynchburg, Thursday OF last
week, the proposed amendment to
the constitution inserting the word
"white" in the article defining the
membership of the council was
adopted by a vote of 1874 to %.
The council also unanimously voted
against changing the name of the
church.
The recent fight in Arizona be-
tween section of the United
States army and band of robbers,
in which the latter got of with the
plunder and left the army decided
" hors de combat shows that If we
should ever be invaded by a for
eign foe we had better give the Job
of lighting the enemy to a gang Of
Arizona highway robbers.
On Tuesday, among the Presl-
dents callers was a young man
whose frankness entities him to
succeed. He presented his case
thus;
"Some time ago made applica-
ton for an appointment, l want it
awfully bad. l don't care for 1t
myself, but the fact is, Mr.. Presl-
dent and here the young man
blushed TO the tips of his hair, 81
am engaged to be married, and
unless 1 get this appointment the
engagement won't stand. There
YOU have il, and now you know
why am so anxious
Sam Jones said in one of his
Danville sermons, speaking OF how
a man ought to love his wife
"There are wives in this town who
are miserable, not because their
husbands don't love them, but be-
cause they don't tell them so. Tell
your wife every day that she IS the
best, sweetest and pretuest WON
an in town. Lots of you will have
to tell lie, but its a pardonable
lie. A man who stops counting his
wife as soon as he is married is
hard case, OF his wife is bad egg"
1t will please the girls to read
how New York swelldom has just |
been taken in by an English /
younger brother. This time 1t is
not one solitary innocent women
who has been cheated into matri-
mony with a supposed nobleman.
II is the shrewd hotel proprietor, !
and all the upper and exclusive /
club men who have been dining, /
wining, and loaning money to
clever Young man, who told them
be was the younger brother OF Slr !
Richard Sutton. For two weeks /
this handsome and clever young /
scamp was taken on his own word .
and treated with all the Difference I
which Anglo.mania could suggest. .
They gave him entree to their
clubs, including the ultra-exclnsive
Tuxedo, and the freedom Of taeir
yachts, carts, and pocketbooks.-
When be turns out to be nobody
at all these sheepish young men
have only TO pay the bills, forgive
bis debts, and stop railing at their
sisters for the same lack of dis.
cretion.
Another American girl has
married a bogus foreign nObleman,
and as usual in cases Of this kind
she has learned that her titled
husband Is scamp Of the deepest
dye, and that as soon as he spent
her money aud found ont that there
we're no more funds forthcoming
he had no further use for the girl
that he had so cruelty wronged.-
of course we sympatbise with this
girl, but We must say that she has
no one to blame but herself. If
she was so foolish as 70 be blinded
nv the fhnnpht of a title and TO