The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-11-17
Hero and Thara

A resident of Albany, Ca, claims tc
have seen the other day, a flock of six
teen wild turkeys in an intoxicated con
dition.
In several Florida conhties a short
time ago "there was q shower of fine
spider webs, which covered the ground
for miles,
Somebody claims that an electric
plant has been discovered in India which
will influence magnetic needle twenty
feet distant
Among the students of Iowa State
University is Mrs. Stark Evans, the wife
OF lawyer and mother of five children.
over 800 women are now studying at
the Harvard Annex, and the freshman
class of thirty is the largest since the
annex was opened.
A woman teacher at Topeka, KAN, has
| taught school there for twenty-five
years, it is said, without ever having
missed a single days attendance.
At the exhibition at the Photographic
Society of Great Britain there is pho>
tograph of Mont Blanc taken at the dis
lance of fifty-six miles
Rosa Bonheur, notwithstanding her
advanced age, has just completed three
small pictures, studies of animals as
usual, not lacking in vigor
Theshignest lakes in the world are in
the. Himalayas, in Thibet, where there
are some bodies of water as high as 90
600 feet above the level of the sea.
| According to European Swans the
sound made by flies, when heard through
microphone, is extremely like the
neighing OF horse in the distance.
Nearly every State in the country was
represented in the one!hundred old army
nurses that were present at the late
Grand Army Eneampment at Washing
ton.
Telephones have been introduced at
the government rife ranges at Fort
Sheridan, ILL.,, as a means of communica-
ton between the firing points and the
targets.
They are getting a good deal of fun
up in Wisconsin out of Governor Peck's
excuse for writing "Pecks Bad Boy,
that he was only forty three years old at
the time.
| The smallest race of human beings
known are the inhabitants of the Anda
man Islands. Their average stature is
81 feet, and few of them weigh more
than sixty-1ve pounds.
! The latest thing in Boston is the TWEEN
| tieth Century Club. which has just been
chartered. The object of the club is
! 1.-THE promotion of the liberal arts and
all earnest, unselish purposes.
| The following advertisement appeared
recently in a French paper: Wanted,
distinguished and healthy-looling man
to be cured patient in doctors wait
ing-room. Address, Sc
The Empress of Russia's court dress,
which is valued at $4,000, has only been
worn on one occasion, viz: at the coro-
nation of the present Emperor 1t is
covered with magnificent embroidery in
real silver.
According to the study of the climate
of Egypt. made by DR.. J. Ham, it APP
pears that for three or four days in
March or April Cairo is visited by a hot,
dusty wind that destroys the foliage OF
many of the trees
Il thought you said your boys nurse
was a colored girl, Mrs Hicks" said the
t visitor. II saw her today, and she's
white" ''Oh, well, she looks white,
said Mrs. Hicks, "but in reality she is
very green"
| Without opening>a single additional
seam, there is probably enough coal in
view in New South Wales to enable TO-
100000 tons to be put ont annually for
some years to come. This amount is
more than double the present production
| Count Tolstoi has recently deposited
his memoirs, including large diary aud
manuscripts, with the curator of a Rus
| sian museum. the condition being that
years after the authors death
| A discussion is being carried on in re-
lation to the telephone cable between
England and France rs to whether it is
more economical to carry on conversa-
/! ton ov er the line in English or French
The toll is about So for three minutes
use.
An Albany (Ore.) man rented his farm
| the past year for a third of what it rails
| ed. He has just received word that
among the things raised were twin ba-
bies, and the landlord is in quandary
how to manage the matter and get his
third of the youngsters.
| A Bridgeport Conn shoemaker was
made the victim of an enterprising thief
last week. He left his shop to attend to
a business engagement, and upon his
| return he found that his stove was miss
ing. The strange part of it is that there
was hot fire in the stove at the time.
Just before the sermon the other even
ing in a Cambridge Mass church thr
electric lights went out. But they we,..
not initiated in that respect by the com
gregation. On the contrary, everybody
stayed and listened to the pastor while
he threw light ON the subject he liza
chosen for his sermon
Friday Not the Most Unlucky Day.
A statistican Of the German Govern
ment has come to the rescue of thos,.
persons who do not share the wide
spread superstition OF that Friday is the
most unlucky day of the week. A short
tlme ago he determined to make a scieil
tific investigation of this question, uai,g
for the purpose, among other things. ti.e.
records CT the department of compulsor.f
insurance. The most fatal or III fortu-
nate Weekday, according t. the inv.-s-
tigator, is not Friday, but Monday. 81
teen and seventy-four hundredths Der
| nv,t $50 i.