The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-10-20
Personal and Pertinent.


De White, the newly appointed Russ
ian Minister of Finance, is no purse
proud, blueblooded aristocrat Fifteer
years ago he was the oyerworked an(
underpaid station master in little
village on the railroad line from Kieff to
Odessa.
Kentucky, is the biggest man in the
State. He weighs 521 pounds and is six
feet eight inches tall His arms measure
/ two feet in circumference and his thighs
three feet. He is only 81 years of age.
Governor Ira P. Chase, of Indiana, was
once DIR ummer for an agricultural ma
chine company and flooded Missouri
with plows, reapers and binders. He
has never repeated OF his doings in
those times.
Marching Through Georgia is a good
enough tune for campaign bands to
pound into sound, waves but the party
Managers are more Interested in their
followers marching to the polls.
Nine. PATHS will is said to contain q
clause providing for monster aviary full
of nightingales and other song birds, to
be placed near her tomb. and to paw for
person to feed and care for them. This
may be true and then again it may be
only an advertising puff.
Professor Pickering has discovered
forty lakes in Mars, and Chicago is now
arranging to corner them for a water
supply for the Exposition.
Science has at last beaten nature. A
French scientist has discovered how to
make artificial diamonds which cost
more than the real ones.
Oliver Scott. of La Fontaine, Ind, is
only baby, yet the little dimpled dar-
ling can boast of having eleven living
grandparents.
Mrs. Hands; millner of Kingsley,
Mich, is suing a man for defamation of
character. When man finds out that a
dressmaker has recklessly placed peck
ct in his wife's gown which he can find
way into, he should keep particularly
quiet about it.
The women of the National Democrat
ic Influence Club request all women
throughout the country who favor the
election of Cleveland and Stevenson to
send their addresses to the secretary,
Mrs, Margaret J. Hoey 449 West Forty
seventh street, New York.
d. w. Reeves, the conductor of the
of the famous American Band, of Prov,
idence, R. L., has, it is said, been offer
ed Giinore's baton and position Away
down in New England they swear by
Reeves.
Belva Lockwood is the Sphynx of the
political situation, and it is much feared
that she will not finish her letter of ac-
ceptance before the election is over.
There has been recently found among
the scrap and waste paper Of a Palmyra,
Mich, paper mill, two parchment land
grants of the dates OF 1910 and 1870 re-
spectively and bearing the signatures of
John Adams and Martin Van Buren,.
Herr Pollak, Hungarian, now living
in New York, can talk at the rate of 500
words a minute. When he starts in the
reporters go out to see man.
The area of the great Sahara desert is
equal to that Of the United States and
would be just the place to which the
bowling politicians might be safely
transported until quiet and sensible peo-
pie have finished the election and chosen
their own candidates.
Queen Victoria has Sevres dessert
service which is valued at $685. 0o She
carries the key of the cabinet in her
pocket for fear the family cat might get
among the precious crockery.
The Marquand family, of New York,
own the most costly piano ever built.
1t was designed and painted by Alma
Tadema. and cost $4,000.
3. M. Inman, of Atlanta, Ga, has pre-
sented his beautiful family residence in
that city to ladies' commission to be
used as an orphan asylum. He accom-
panied the deed of gift by q check for
$4,000 as maintenance fnnd.
Sixty five years ago the mails betw cen
Green Bay and Chicago were carried In
q bag swung over the shoulder of Alex
ander Campbell, who footed the entire
distance: The old man, who is now 80
years old, is now trying to walk over his
old route.