The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-04-20
Special Paragraphs.

The girl with a "dot'' is more popular
than the 'girl Of the period"
People know the shad season is at
hand. They feel it in their bones.
II the ice combine persists the icecream
girl viii become a greater luxury than
ever.
Gov. Tillman has great confidence i'll
the South Carolina saloons. Much de
ponds on the quality of the free lunch.
Ex-Gov. Buckley says he has no re-
spect for the newspapers. Here is an
other case of stand-off.
The Legislature has protected most
of our native birds except the chickens.
They are protected by the market price.
Ii you have a good deal of confidence
in people divide it among a good many.
Don't invest it all with any one. person.
The disgruntled workmen at Chicago
marched out and then marched in again
A strike against Uncle Sam dosent last
long.
Ohio appears to be losing her political
cunning. Out in Steubenyiie they
elected dead man to office
The chances are the hoopskirt is not
tosbe resurrected. This not only.puts the
skeleton in the closet as it were, but
shelves it likewise.
Chicago has the success of the Worlds
Fair in her own hands. ExtortiOn will
injure it quicker than anything else
There is safety in moderation.
The telephone paper, the latest dis
covery in journalism, has already secur-
ed number of libel sui Its success
would thus seem to be assured.
Since italy is now suffering from
drouth, it may have been Dryenforth
bombs that the anarchists were recently
exploding there are so numerously.
According to the new Treasury regu-
1ations, while the Chinese may have to
go, they won't have to have their pho
tographs taken, which is great con
cassion to their ancestral pride.
A dismissed army officer is to be pun
ished for enlisting after having been
deprived of his commission. 1t is right
that the morals of the ranks should be
preserved, if possible.
1t is reassuring, at least, to note that
the cholera outlook is not having de-
pressing effect on the Worlds Fair. Eu
rope is crowding this way.
The Senate has decided that poker
playing is not an objection to an office
holder. The senators know what the
inalienable right of every American citi'
zen is.
All the railroad lines between Cincin-
natl and Chicago with southern connec.
tions have so arranged matters as to ad
NIT of Cincinnati stop>overs for passen
gers Ell route to the Worlds Fair.
The Kansas Popuists are still riding
on the wings of the storm that strucl
them election day. A Peoples party
without a cyclone cellar is bound to NEE
with reverses.
There is much to think over in thu
fact that the greatest talking country il
the world the United States, turns GU
sixty thousand new hats every day.
The churchmen of Rome are afrai(
that Cardinal Gibbons may be elected
Pope. But what they fear more is hi
Eminence's enlightened views of human
ity, liberty, education and citizenship
Peru has offered reparation and al
apology for breaking up an American
consulate. Well. by lingo. That ough
to make Montt feel Chill after the full
some cablegram to the great man a
Washington.
Ming Lok, New York Chinaman, ha
sued Chu Sue Beam, a fellow country
man, for $35, 900 damages for libel. Al
New York is now bordering over tn
question, can Chinaman be libeled.
The fines for cruelty to animals shout,
be made so heavy that brutality would
become to costly an amusement an(
too expensive a propensity to indulge in
The animal which serve us SO faithful,
deserve that much protection at on
hands. Slight fines accomplish nothing
Yet the victory remains with tn
women. Let a woman announce hersel
as candidate for Mayor of ever so small
a town, and instantly her name is blown
by the trump of fame from Maine tC
Texas. while men aspiring to the same
honor are dropping all around her int
obsourity, with about us much noise a
leaves falling in forest.