The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1872-06-01
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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THERE is a project for maintaining a tel.
egraPh signal ship 800 miles out from
Nantucket TO warn vessels Of approaching
storms. II successful similar vessel
would be stationed off Cape Hatteras.
BILL has been introduced into the
British Parliament by which the adnltera-
ton OF articles of food or drink is punished
by fine not exceeding $3.50 for the first
offence, and for the second offence. inn
prisonment at hard labor for not more
than six months.
SAvAyAH was the first city in the United
states that had n paid fire department.
The department was organized In 1920, and
the members received II l-2 cents per
hour while on duty at fires.
TINE is simply a vault wherein repose
the dead OF the past, and Eternity the only
sexton that can unlock the doors.
Inc oldest newspaper in the world is
pu olished at Pekin; it is a weekly, printed
on SILK, and Is said TO have been com.
neIiced more than 1000 years ago.
Ascsave one OF Queen victoria's ladies
IN waiting are widows, her choice since
Prince Albert died They receive 81 500
per annum, and are the widows OF deceased
peers.
JASRsvnLE, Wisconsin, domestics oscil.
late in rocking chairs or quit.
HARRIET BEEoHER SrowE makes Sl5, 900
a year off her Florida farm.
J. GOULD is said to have made three
million dollars by the late advance in
Erie stock:
SOME of the lakes OF Switzerland are
over one thousand feet deep
n MONSTER fish, resembling in all re.
spects an elephant, but covered with scales
has been washed ashore near Cape Hatz
teras. It's thirty feet long.
SAID a tipsy husband to his wife. "You
need-needn't bl-l-ame me. Twas woman
that first TEN tempted man to eat forbid.
den things '"rhat won't do" retorted
the indignant wife. "Woman NAV have
first tempted man to eat forbidden things.
but he took to drinking OF his own ac.
cord
CoRPULRNT old lady-'T should like n
ticket for the train" Booking clerk (who
thinks he will make a jockey es m;
will yon go in the passenger train, or the
cattle tranY Lady-"We,l. if you are
specimen Of what I shall experience in
the passenger train, give me ticket for
the cattle train, by all means"
The oldest rose bush in the world is the
one trained upon the side of the Ca.
thedral Of lIldesheim, in Germany. The
root is buried under the crypt below the
choir. The stem is a foot thick, and half
dozen branches cover the eastern side Of
the church, bearing countless flowers. Its
age is unknown, but documents exist that
prove that the Bishop of Hello, a thous-
and yeass ago, protected it by stone
root, which is still extant
BACHELOR sea captain, who was re.
marking one day that he wanted good
chief officer, was promptly informed by
yonng lady that she had no objections to
being the first mate. lie took the hint
and the lady.
THE following Is the direction on an en-
envelope Of letter received By a black
smith at Derby, Indiana, few days ago.
Whose wife is named sa.aunah,
lie Is pounding iron for his grub,
In Derby, Indiana.
"What time is it, my dear" asked a
wife Of her husband, whom she suspected
Of being drunk and who was doing his
best 10 look sober. well, my darling. ]
can't tell, cause, you see, there are two
hands on INV watch, and each points to a
different iisure, and ! don't know which
TO believe.
A GENTLEMAN having written a letter.
concluded 10 rs follows. "Give evervboiy's
love to every body, so that nobody may be
agrieyed by anybody being forgotten by
somebody
a LADY writer says IL women were as
particular boz choosing virtuous husband
as men are 100 selecting virtuous wife.
moral reformation would soon BEGIN. that
would be something more than froth and
foam.
a YouSo lady, tho other day. in the
course of lecture said. "Ger married
young man. and he quick about 10. too.
Don wait for the millennium. hoping thc
girls viii turn to- angels before Won will
trust y0ur7elfto one of them a pretty
looking thing You would Doe alongside 90
aHg0- wuuliu you, you brutct
EutY. California toamster SAYS Of the
swearing powers of % fellow tcamstcr. give
known q TEN mule team 90 renouree the
flesh aui haul thirty-onc thousand through
foot of clay mud under one Of bis out
p1urnes
lvDAv, papers tell OF q brokcn-hearicd
w'dower, who has erected pine slab over
the newly made grave of Dis wife. and has