The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-03-24
General News.

wire rope was recently iu;tue III
England which was six miles long and
weighed twenty -four tons.
Actual experiment has shown that 1t
cost one-half of q cent a minute to smoke |
an Egyptian cigarette.
During the past four months more
than 81, O00, 900 in gold has been brought
to this country from Australia.
The city of Cleveland intends to ex-
tend it's tunnel for water supply two and
a half miles farther into the lake.
John Hogan, who died in st. Louis
last week, laid out the sire of Chicago
in 1896.
Two parties of farmers recently killed
1853 rabbits in one day near Harmon,
Illinois.
An Allentown pa. woman claims that
she possesses an infallible cure for n.y.
drophobia.
The relatives of the Italians murdered
in New Orleans, about a year ago, have
sued the city for 100000.
Chronographs are now being made
that are capable of measuring to the
ten-thousandth part of ii second.
The Manassah Society i. Il peculiar
organization in Chicago composed OF
colored men who have married white
wives.
In England they stand for office; in
countries they lie more or less.-Oal city
Blizzard.
In the Florence oil field of Colorado
there was produced last year 100000 bar
rels of Illuminating and 5000 barrels of
luhricating oil.
The old terms of "port" aud " star
board" are passing out of use Two
German lines have substituted left
and fright " for them.
J. A. Lowenbach ss& Son, dealer in
queensware, Harrisonburg, Va, has as
signed. Liabilities between $1,000 ard
$4,000. Assets not stated.
Farmer Hardin and Lawyer Mckinney,
of Moberly, Mo, went to law over ten
cent dog. The farmer lost the suit and
also lost over 800 in costs
''Do you wear your sunniest smiles when
you want to get an unusual favor from
your husbandY' No, Il wear my briniest
tears. y Yarmouth Register.
The Standard Oil Trust, which has
been in existence for sten years, is
about to dissolve, in consequence of a
recent decision of the Ohio Supreme
Court.
Some notion of the extent Of the base
ball business can be gathered from the
fact that the factories in Philadelphia
use 100 horse hides a week to make
covers for balls.
1t is denied at the office of the Kansas
State board of agriculture that the late
cold snap injured winter wheat in Kan
sas. The plant is not far enough ads
vanced to be affected by the cold
W. f. Sumnerson, of Stanton, won
the prize of $50 as the best amateur shot
at the tournament of the Baltimore Gun
Club in Baltimore last week. by hitting
IS out of 20 single flying glass balls.
Twenty-nne breweries in Chicago will
pool their interests in a company to be
incorporated under The laws of Illinois,
with q capitalization of $50 G00,O00 This
will end the war that has been going on
among the breweries since September
last.
A lamp may be lit with piece of ice.
A tiny piece of metallic potassium is
laid on the wick and touched with the
ice, when the water Immediately pro
duces flame. This is due to the proper>
ty of this metal to oxidize with exceed
ing rapiJity on contact with water.
On the 10th, so colored people, en-
barked from New York for Liberia They
were from Arkansas, originally, but
came to New York direct from Oklaho-
ma. They were in destitute condition,
having been fooled by alleged agents of
the Colonization Society, but the Society
helped them on their way.
The late Daniel Zigler, who died at
his home near Timberville several weeks
ago, bequeathed $500 toward the estab
lishment of the German Baptist "Old
Folks Home in that district. The
Home is designed as retreat for aged
and INDECENT members of the Dunkard
church.
A dispatch from Reading, Pa, dated
the 18th, says: Since the lowering OF
prices in the iron market the large con-
signments of Southern pig-iron by boat
for points in the Lebanon and Schuyl-
kill Valleys has been subject of remark.
The iron comes by way of Hagerstcwn
and Shippensburg, and is being shipped
to number of points in this section.
The census enumeration at Warrens-
burg, New York, found something un
usual He found a child three months
old, the mother Mrs. Fred Chamber, one
month less than fifteen years F; grand
mother, Mrs. John Allen, aged thirty
three years, and great grandmother M IS.
Oscar Greene, aged fifty-four years-al
residing in close proximity, about six
miles south OF Warrensburg village.
One of the marriages of American
wealth to European nobility came to an
untimely end On Monday in Sioux Falls,
ID, where the, Baroness de Stuers, a
niece of Mrs. William b. Astor, was
granted divorce from her husband on
the ground OF cruelty. She lost no time
in risking her happiness again in a mans
keeping, having been married the same
day to Elliott Zborowsk1. owner of the
Broadway Theatre, in New York.