The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-11-10
NEW SERIES, VOL. II, NO. 25.
Selection of Wise Words.

Selection of Wise Words.
All men are alike when it comes to
death and dollars
Fortune has rarely condescended to be
the companion of genius.
A man has his clothes made to fit him,
A woman makes herself fit her clothes.
man is cat, and the people too Of
ten shut him up in the same room with
the canary.
A girl of 1G seems to know of no other
use for her nose than to turn it up at
people.
Pleasure may be had, but it comes
fearfully high. Nothing in the world
costs so much.
When a woman makes up her mind to
marry man there is no escape for him
except to marry some other woman.
Don't say you would amount to more
if you had the opportunity; if you have
the ability you will make the oppor-
tunity.
Man never pretends to tell a woman
the truth. Men learn to lie to women
when they are counting them, and never
get over it,
We should miss great deal that is
valuable in human nature if we confined
our attention exclusively to important
personages.
The trouble with getting boy to hoe
in the garden is that he digs up so many
grub worms that tempt him to run off
and go fishing.
A woman is good because it comes
natural; men are never really good until
they have tried being bad but found
that it didn't pay.
! A gentleman is one who understands
and shows every mark of Difference to
the claims of self-love in others and ex-
acts it in return from them.
When they are engaged they act
ashamed to show how much they think
of each other; and after they are mar
ried they are ashamed to show how
much they don't.
Parting with dear friend at the
grave is good deal like parting with
one when you start ON journey and
leave him behind. You cry the first mile
or two, and believe you will cry forever;
but soon you become interested in new
scenes, now people, and new experiences
and forget him. You imagine when you
leave the cemetery you will never forget
the friend you left there, but you do.
| Personal and Pertinent.
With fortune of $75OoC0 safely laid
away, Edwin Booth has positively de-
cided not to appear again upon the
stage.
Edward Blake, NJ P. though one of
the warmest supporters of the National
ist party, is an aristocrat by birth and
instinct and protectionist by training
and choice.
Miss Kate Field does not like desk
work. Give her a big, soft, easy chair, a
quiet but cheerful corner and good
knee pad and she will pour out copy as
if it was no trouble.
acceptance of J. j. Coleman, the mustard
manipulation, of London. Mr.. Coleman
will be a handy man to have around
when his party wants to blister their
opponents.
Charles Francis Adams is no admirer
or Christopher Columbus and thinks it
would have been quite as well if Ameri7
ca had not been discovered for hun
bred wears after he advertised its eX1S>
tence. 1t certainly would have given
the Adams family u better chance of
showing how they could freeze to it.
Redfeld Proctor feels as if he was sit
ting upon velvet. Vermont has elected
him to fill out the unexpired term of
Senator Edmonds and the next regular
term, which will carry him over anti
1899. Vermont is an easy going old
State, where they never disturb existing
arrangements until a cyclone strikes
them.
Charles H. Hoyt, the playwright, who
has inflicted SO many dramatic jokes
upon the public since he first broke =
loose from the ''All Sorts column of the
Boston Post, has been nominated for the
legislature by the Democrats at Charles
town, N. H., strong Republican dis
trict The boys have got back on
Charlie 18th interest this time.