The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-06-22

Queen Victoria has reached that stage
in the proceedings when she feels no re-
luctance about proclaiming her birth
days.
There are three large concert halls in
operation at the Worlds Fair, but all
combined do not make so much music as
the Signalling Directors
Some of the Republican papers of the
North are evidently alarmed over the
prospect of another rebellion. They
should smoothe their wrinkled fears
The South has only buried jefferson
Davis
The newspaper Writings have evolved
some fun out of Mr. "Hoke' Smiths
front name, but there's no fun in
'Hoke's" pension decision. The saving
of $40, 100000 to the National Treasury
is serious.
Perhaps you do not immagine me as
wife who suffers much from self>distrust
and dependency. If had not hus>
band who is not only sympathetic. but
so sagacious in criticism thatI can rely
isfactory test, it would be difficult for
me to bring myself into print.-George
Eliot.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Com
pany has ordered of the Ensign Man
ufacturing Company, of Huntington, w.
Va, 1901 standard stock cars, 10000
pounds stock capacity. These cars are
to have open>hearth steel axels, pressed
steel center plates, National hallow
brake beams, Janney couplers with the
Butler drawbar attachments and
Westinghouse air brakes
In these days half our diseases come
from the neglect of the body in the over
work of the brain. In this railway age,
the wear and tear of labor and intellect
go on without pause or self-pity. We
live longer than our forefathers; but
suffer more from thousand artificial
anxieties and cares. They fatigued only
the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength
of the nerves.-Bulwer.
1t may be no less dangerous to claim,
on certain occasions, too little than too
much. There is something captivating
in spirit and integrity, to which we often
yield as to resistless power; nor can he
reasonably expect the confidence of 9TH
ers who too apparently distrust himself.
What is man if his chief good, and
market of his time, be but SO sleep, and
feed? a beast, no acknowledgements.
The fertilizing power of great mind
is wonderful; but as we travel fart her
from the sources, it is hidden from us by
the very abundance and productiveness
it has caused. How few of us remember
that the tidal lines, the present mode of
registering magnetic phenomen and
oceanic currents, are but the application
of Humboldt's resources and of his
graphic mode of recording them.-L.
Agassiz.
The longer live, the more deeply am
I convinced that which makes the diff
ference between one man and another
between the weak and powerful, the
great and Insignificant, is energy-invisi-
BILE determinations purpose once form
ed, and then death or victory. This
quality will do anything that is to be
done in the world; and no talents, no
circumstances, no opportunities will
make man without it.-Buxton.
Instead of effacing distinctions of
dress at the university, | would fain
have seen them extended into the entire
social order of the country. l think
nobody but duchesses should be al>
lowed to wear diamonds; that lords
should be known from common people
by their stars quarter of mile off,
that every peasant girl should boast
her country by dainty ratification of cap
! or bodice; and that in the towns vint-
ner should be known from fishmon-
ger by the cut of his jerkin.-Ruskin.
| l think every family should have a
dog; it is like having perpetual baby
it is the plaything and the crony of the
whole house. 1t keeps them all young
er. All unite upon Dick. And then he
tells no tales, betrays no secrets, never
sulks, asks no troublesome questions
never gets into debt, meyer commine
down late for breakfast, is always ready
for bit of fun, lies in wait for it, and
YOU may if choleric to your relief, kicl
/ him instead of some one else who would
certainly not as hedoes, ask your pardon
for being kicked. John Brown.