The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-06-02
V SERIES. VOL. II, NO. 3.
Current Notes.

} 1t is estimated that there are 100000
Irish in Australia.
When angry count ten before you
speak. When very angry count the cost
The Bank of France now holds nearly
5000 900 francs in gold.
The only way to be in the fashion now
adays is to be little different from eve>
rybody else.
1t is the man who has to live on corn
bread at home who finds the most fault
with the pie when he travels.
Soulful Youth Qanguily)-''Do you sing
Forever and Forever?" She practically
mo, stop for meals"
1t is poor designer nowadays who
cannot turn out a yacht that will neither
look like yacht nor be yacht.
The American town which cannot have
grand opera house in these eupiasHic
times is sadly lacking in sign painters.
| Delivery wagons the motive power of
which is electricity are the newest vehi-
Giles in London. A green grocer was the
| first.
The fine salmon that used to tempt the
| angler in New England streams have en-
tirely disappeared, and there are but two
or three rivers in Maine where any NAV
still be found
The Bearing of It-"Then, perhaps,
you're afraid that I couldn't support a
wife p Not in the least; but think that
wife might find you insupportable."
"Phill' Armour, the prince of pork
packers, was once California miner,
and didn't have as much capital to his
name as would have purchased side of
a sucking pig.
Prince George, of Wales, will soon be
made Admiral of the Fleet and Cons
mander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy.
Some of the veteran officers over whose
shoulders he will pass will think that
royal favor is far ahead of long service.
Darling, said the young man, your
eyes are like diamonds, your lips like
rubes, your teeth like pearls, your hair
like jet" George she interrupted,
remember that you work in jewelry
store. Don't talk shop.
The oldest hotel probably in the world
is the Hotel of the Three Kings at Basic.
Among its guests in 1926 were the En-
peror Conrad II, his son Henry III, and
Randolph, the last King of Burgundy.
One result of the May Day dynamite
scare in Paris was that the receipts of
the theatres for that day were only 27>
316 francs, whereas on the preceding
Sunday they had reached 81.527 francs,
the loss being 54,211 francs.
France points with pride to its Tunis-
ian colony, where there are IS, 900 French
citizens and persons claiming French pro-
lection Great results are expected from
the opening of the harbor of Tunis next
year and of Bizerta the year following.
A short time ago the Moorish Kaids
gave the Sultan of Morocco and his son
present of 200 male and female slaves
to celebrate the event of the marriage of
the heir to the Moorish throne. Girls
from ten to thirteen years of age fetch
about $50 to $120 each, and the slave
merchants find the females more profta-
BILE from ten to twenty years of age
Pretty evening dresses of rose pink,
cream, mauve, and Spanish yellow lib
erty silk are made with moderately full
skirts shirred to a deeply pointed bodice
that is fastened at the back. The sleeves
are in the shape of one deep puff that
reaches to the elbow, the half low neck
is finished with falling f1ounce of lace,
and the skirt at the hem is bordered with
five rows of narrow satin ribbon the
shade of the dress. Very often the skirt
is accordion pleated or finely shocked
instead of being gathered.
Yellow and white are more fashiona-
BILE just at the moment than any single
color Or combination of other colors. All
the varied shades are popular. Golden
yellow, primrose, buttercup, new gold,
orange, channels, maize, Spanish, daffa-
dill, jonquil, lemon-one and all find spe-
cial favor; and very becoming evenings
dresses and tea gowns are made of soft
corn-yellow and pale canary>yellow
India cashmere en- princesse trimmed
either with black net and black velvet
ribbon, or with lace and white Thibet
fur.