The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-12-01
What He Promised.

w uGU he EFOnlSS0.
She-"You will love me always?"
Enthusiastically my darling.'
She-"And you will never cease to
love me?"
He-"Never, my darling"
She-"Apd you will save your money!"
He-"Every cent"
She-"And you will never speak harsh
ly to meY"
He-"Never"
She-"And you will give up all your
bad habits?''
He-"Every one of them"
She-'And you will get along with
mammal"
He-'Yes"
She-"And papag'
He-"Yes'
She-"And you will always do just
what mamma wants you to do2''
He-"Yes"
She-"And just what papa wants you
to DOR
He-.Yes"
She-"And just what l want you to
do?"
He-"Of course.r
She-"Well, / will be yours; but fear
am making an awful mistake"
A Laplander will often skate $50 miles
in a day.
In India there is species of crow that
laughs just like a human being.
The saloons of London, if set side by
side, would reach distance of seventy
five miles.
The Dead Sea is nothing more than a
small but very old salt lake now in an
advanced stage of evaporation.
The famous bank of Venice began
business in 1892, lasted 800 years, and
might. have existed to this day but for
the invasion of Napoleon.
Fine voices, says Good Health, are sell
dom found in a country where fish or
meat diet prevails. Those Italians who
eat the most tish, those of Naples and
Genoa. have few fine singers among
them. The sweet voices are found in
the Irish women.
The chemical section of the Franklin
Institute, of Philadelphia, proposes to
give DIR. Harvey Wiley, of the Agricul
tural Department at Washington. re-
ception on the evening or Decent er 5th,
the date of his lecture before the Frank
lin Institute.
Rev. Dr. Henry S. Jacobs will retire
January 1st, from the passionate of the
Madison Avenue Synagogue, of New
York, on half pay. He has been a rabbi
for nearly half a century, for seventeen
years of which he was pastor of the
Madison Avenue Synagogue.
The choir of the West Presbyterian
Church of New York. Rev. John r. Pax
ton, pastor, will lose the services of
Clementine de We're Mime. Sapio) at the
end of the present year. She will here
after devote herself to the concert stage
and has European tour in prospect.
Some of the new French jackets are
finished with a velvet hood lined with
then lined to match. The Vatican plat
still appears upon many fashionable
coats, though the majority have the
plain princess back. In some styles the
plait is the same width all the way down
while others show it much narrower at
the top, gradually widening towards the
edge of the coat.
The contest over the United States
senatorship in New York-the vacancy
to occur on the expiration of Senator
~Hiscocks TERMS becoming very lively.
The Legislature being Democratic, Ed
ward Murphey, Esq, chairman of the
New York Democratic Committee, is a
candidate for the honor. He is known
to be backed by Senator Hill and Chief
Croker, of Tammany Hall. Mr.. Cleve-
lands friends are said to be decidedly OPP
posed to the Hill Murphey combination,
and several prominent anti>Hil Demo-
Gratis are mentioned in connection with
the senatorship. It is intimated that
Mr.. Whitney himself may step into the
race. If he does it is believed that no
power can defeat him. Mr. Whitney is
Mr. Cleveland's closet friend
One Birthday IN Twelve Years.
There are many people now living
who will have only one birthday to cell
.brate for nearly twelve years to come.
This strange circumstance is due to the
20 al hat aI,
18th, and to the further fact that the
year 1900 will not be a leap year.
Cause for Rejoicing.