Huntington independent. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1871-1874, 1873-08-07
Varieties.

book store the other day and asked
for "deck ofthem new postal keerds
double headers
James Fisk. father Of the lsts
Prince Of Erie," is making q tour
Of Wisconsin cities, engaged in the
sale of q patent carpet tack.
The New Bedford boy Who wac
asked to give the Derivation of nigh
lty, replied "old cheese" IF he was
not exactly up 10 etyUology, he evil
dently had explored the pantry to
some purpose.
A recent visitor to one Of the
islands on the coast of Maine discovi
cred a school Of forty scholars, all Of
whom we're grandchildren Of one
man. lie was put down ss the most
extensive grandfather in the State.
To tell your own secrets is general
ly folly, but that folly is without
guilt; to conmmunicSte those with
which We are entrusted n always
treachery, and treachery, the most
part, combined with fo'
Let us never expect anything for
ourselves, when We enter the barren
road Of self-devohon. Our own
heart must suffice for the task, and
then Providence will renew it, and
for,ify it when 1t begsns TO fall.
4 Wisconsin girl, while attending
picnic recently, nearly lost her rea-
SON by stepping on tho body offs
suicide in climbing over fcnco. The
body vas that of man who had cut
his throat with q rasor, aud had lain
undiscovered for many days.
! A DUtchman, getting excited over
an account Of an elopement Of 8 mar
ried woman gave his opinion thus:
"Ifmy wife fans away NIT snoder
mans wife, l shake him out Of his
preeches ifshe pc mine father, nise
Got.
An illuminated Bible at recent
European sale, sold for $40, 600.
This bit Of information gives wick
ed wag an opportunity to say that If
some Of i,s professed admirers allow
ed the good book to illuminate them
it would be better for the world
generally than the making of ilIum-
mated Bibles.
The Walworth murder bears fruit.
The other day in New York an old
man and young man disputed on
the street. They were father and
sou, and the latter, bad it not been
for the bystsnders, would have shot
his parent with a pistol which he
held in his hand. They were at lass
separated. Their names were not
discovered.
The Boston Transcript AYERS that
the man is yet to be born who can
furnish local item for a paper and
be perfectly sure tha, nobody will
take osenco at il. 1t is an even
chance if be can do 1t when he is
born, at least for a few days. Indeed,
his being born at all furnishes a local
item which will probably put some
boly's nose out Of joint. bet him
remain unborn.
Jimmy McCarty, the oil prince, is in
trouble. A friend asked him what
"he would take for one hundred
thousand barrels Of oilT and Jim
said "about dollar, lsspose," and
then his friend got bis ear ready fof
shipping the oil, and bis 100000 to
pay far it, and insisted that the bar
gain was fair one. The lawyers will
probably pluck the plumbs.
The Roanoke. w, Tins saws:
'Jee Chapman throshes 800 to 900
bushels of wheat per day with bis
steam thresher. Joe will own this
county some day, rnd We hope he
will Ho is the most eo.shead fellow
we have ever seen. lie vas poor
printer boy during the var, and has
made cool 800, 900 since that timo.
Pluck ard level head have done it,
One Francis Massey, who has been
figuring at Cape May as a BrIstish
Lord, turns out to to be bogus, and
has decamped. He gave out that he
was the only SOD ofthe Duke Of
Leeds, and Captain in he Royal
NsvY. lie represented falsely that
his yacht Of 450 tons burden was at
the Breakwster, aud gave invitItions
innumersble for sailing aHd fesstiDg.
A young fellow from Brooklyn,
who wears dyed nusiache, paper
collar, velvet coat, and big soiitsirs
diamond ring, has been spending his
time writing bis name around on
Ssrstoga mirrors, window psnes, dc.
The other morning he took the early
train, all because one Of our pretty
girls wrote under his name With her
little diamond:
"Wbene'er see fellows nsms
! Written on the glass,
| know be owns a diamond
And bis father owns an ass"
| Plague stricken cities are misera-
bic spectscles enough, but there may
be equal wretchedness in q plague.
stricken village Such is Birming-
ham, AIaba ma, 10 which the cholera
is prevailing. The population is
only 300, aud there have been 20
deaths from the epidemic, while the
people are represented as worn out
with incessaDt watching. In large
town there are hospitals, physicians,
uursos; in small ones there may not
even be a sexton to bury the dead.
The fall inportatiops are beginning
to arrive at New York The dry
gocds entries last week show mark
ed increase. The total is So, 25G ,767,