The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-02-18
Special Paragraphs.

An early spring is looked for. And q
prosperous spring in real estate about
Richmond is also expected.
The long-talked-of utilization of the
force OF ocean waves has been success
fully put in practice on the coast OF
France, where this power is used to lift
heavy blocks of granite.
If all the babies bora in one year were
laid in line, head to foot, they would
stretch from New York to Hong Kong.
If they could walk past corner at the
rate of twenty per minute it would take
! them six years to pass
Newport News, and Hampton and Old
Point will be practically one big city in
the course of very few years. Hampton
and Newport News are steadily building
toward each other, and the electric street
car line that is now being constructed
will quicken their growth. The line
will be opened by spring.
A company has been formed in Rio
Janeiro, with a capital Of $5,O0O,OO0, to
explore and develop the natural resources
of the Amazon. Colonies are to be es-
tablished and means provided for reach
ing a market for region heretofore
practically UNEMPLOYED.
There is one patriot in Washington
who insists that there is no need for war
with Chill just yet. He is humping at
the doors of the Treasury with claim
of $3.50 'for cutting soldiers corns dur
ing the rebellion and he argues that
not cent should be appropriated for
war purposes until his bill is paid.
In 1890 North Dakota had 2,616,314
acres sown with wheat, giving yield of
81, SD, 611 bushels, or ten bushels and a
fraction to the acre, and that, in 1891,
1855, 500 acres were planted with wheat,
the total yield being GA, 1883 bushels,
an average of over 2s4 bushels to anacre.
OF other crops raised in the State the
figures are: Oats, 1881, 528: barley, s.
27O,6S5; flax, 1,214,01S, and rye, 310,067
bushels.
Chicago Tribune: Wealthy Parishioner
day from the text, "a rich man shall
hardly enter the kingdom of heaven"
was little tough on us fellows that pay
about $25 for every sermon we hear you
preach. The Rev. DR.. Fourthly-Yes,
but think, my dear SIR of the immense
comfort there is in that text for the fell
lows that can't afford to pay twenty five
cents.
At Pembina. N. D., the thermometer
stood at forty eight degrees below zero
one day recently At Spiritwood Lake,
in the same region, the ice is three feet
thick, and in cutting it on cold days the
saw stuck fast frequently, and had to be
cut out with an AK. The weather has
been so cold that few people have been
about the farming districts. The Skyes-
ton Gazette remarked the other day:
1--WE communicate once more with the
outside world to-day by means of an
auger-hole, made by the rotary pillow
through the drifts
Mormanism dies hard. The past few
years have witnessed determined efforts
to stamp out the iniquities which have
made the name of Utah disgraceful in
the eyes of the civilized world. No one
will ever know, however, the mountai-
nous difficulties which have beset the
friends of social decency and good gov>
eminent in their attempt to clean up
that territory. And now again a dele
cation is at the national capital trying
to secure. the passage of the proposed
scheme for local government, which
is simply plan OF the followers of Joe
Smith to re new their hold upon the Ter
ritory. 1t is not likely this effort will
succeed, even in the House, but if it
does the Senate should make short work
of it.
A recent count of divorce suits ponds
ing in Indiana shows that, notwithstand
ing the lively competition of some new
States further north and west, the
Hoosier courts are still doing business at
the old stands. Since the modification
of the divorce laws in that State in 1873,
the grounds ON which entire separation
may be gra 1ted are only seven. and for
the purpose of divorce citizenship in the
State can be acquired only through bona
file residence there for two years Under
these less elastic conditions, it appears,
there were only 420 divorce suits pending
at the time of making the count. This
tally indicates an average of about fifteen
hundred Il year for the entire State.