The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-06-02

as the child is supposed to
be washed before it comes here" Where
upon half the audience laughed and the
others wore shocked expressions at such
sacrilegious speech. Then. to the res
lief of every body, he stepped down from
the platform and the real ceremony be-
gan.
The preacher opened with a few per-
sonal remarks, stating that he was not
regular minister, though spiritual one
''Ths little child he said, "a daugh-
ter, believe, must be named first. The
custom of the family is to choose two
letters from the alphabet, and pretty
idea it is, too; SO this little girls name is
l. c., and her fathers, Emory With
these words he picked up three Gala
lilies, tied with narrow green ribbon,
red rose and a spray of heliOtrope, and
placed them in the hand of the mother,
with these words:
with these flowers l dedicate this
child to the good God. dedicate her o
a pure, perfect and noble life; dedicate
her to the spirits who have her in keep
ing.
1.-THE influences around me tell ME she
will be musical. see spirits all around
me singing and playing. When her voice
is developed she will sing and afterward
be proficient in musical instruments.
She will be fine housewife and good
hot T
choose these red, white and blue (helio-
trope) flowers, they were symbolical of
our country's flag.
off she were boy she would be great
soldier, but, instead. when she reaches
eighteen years she shall be general, for
all our wives and mothers are generals. 1
predict for her noble, pure future. She
will never disgrace these flowers. Ladies
and gentlemen, introduce to you, l. G.
Emory"
The baby looked tired and the ceremo-
ny was over.
When Ice Sheets Covered Europe
and Amerca.
From the Edinburgh Review.
During the long Tertiary epoch, when
opcssums disported themselves on the
site of Paris and mastodons tramped
along the valley of the Thames, the
earth was in the throes of mountain
making. The Alps, the Himalayas, the
Alleghanies, the Andes attest the power
OF her activity in those days. At their
termination our continents stood greatly
higher than they do now, and this aided
their glaciation. although it does not
/ fully account for it. But as they became
/ loaded with Use, Europe and America
/ gradually, and we may venture to gay
contemporaneousl sank. This was in
evitabie. Owing to the extreme heat
and pressure prevailing in it's interior,
the earth is an eminently elastic body.
Its surface actually bulges in or out with
very slight increase or decrease Of the
load upon it,
But the great ice sheet formed no such
visionary burden as Atlas bore upon his
broad shoulders Mr.. Warren Upham
estimates that an erea Of about 100000
square miles in North America and an
other OF about 100000 square miles in
Europe 'were covered by ice sheets,
which in their maximum extent had pro-
badly an average thickness of half or
two-thirds of a mile, or perhaps even of
one mile The weight, however, of a
column of the ice half mile high is in
round numbers LOO pounds to the
square inch, and there are more than a.
900, 100000 square inches in square
mile. And the whole of this enormous
mass being extracted from the ocean it's
diiferential effect in producing changes
of level was doubled. The ice-cumbered
land accordingly went down like an over
laden ship. until it was awash with the
waves, and sea shells were deposited
along coast fringes above the drift. Then
as the ice melted, recovery ensued; and
how closely it followed upon relief of
pressure is shown by the tilt to the north
of the once horizontal beaches of lake
AgassiZ.
On both sides of the Atlantic equally,
the INTERPOLATION of fossilized forests
bears authentic witness to the sweeping
over the land of two great waves OF ice
invasion. The trees manifestly grew
where the glaciers had been; again the
glaciers crept forward to constitute them
selves the spulchres of the trees. The
second advance, however, fell short Of
the first, and succeeded it at an unknown
interval Of time. Opinions are much di
vided as to its true significance. DR..
Wright inclines to connect the forest
bedn with merely partial oscillations of
the ice front