Huntington independent. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1871-1874, 1873-12-18
Varieties Of all Kinds.

Fort Kearnby. in Nebraska, has
out lived lis usefulress, and is to be
pulled down.
The important query Of the pres
eat time: What shall give as .
Christmas present?
A Fort Wayne man wants divorce
on the ground that his wife mas gone
into trsiniug for walking match.
For the first time since the war,
fast ionable ladies wear cleaned xii
gloves. One OF the results of the
panic.
A local editor says there is not a
girl in Page county, Iowa, who would
marry an editor. Sensible girls
those.
a jury at Worcester, Massacbu-
setts, recently had colored foreman
He was the only colorcd man on the
jury.
A colored waiter in a New York
restaurant has been sued by young
iamsel for 5000 damages for breach
of promise.
1t is stated that General Fremont
is suffering from a cancer in the stom-
ache. Napoleon Bonaparte died ofa
sim liar disease.
11'he people Of Om4ha are variously
and pleasingIy alluded to BY outsiders
as "Omabogs,' "Omahosses,' and
"0mahorribles.'
A young lady in Illinois recently
became so much eu barr'ssea by a
proposal from her lover, that in her
agitation, she swallowed a needle.
Twas night. A warm couple stood
in the pale, cold moonbeoms There
lips touched, and there was a sound
like a COW hauling her hoof cut of
the mud.
"Ain't it wicked TO rob dis here
,oost, Jim?7 Oats a great moral
question. Gumbo; we amt got time
TO argue it now-hand down another
pullet."
1t cost inst SO foi aparont to whip
school teacher at Farmer City, Hi
nois.
CAIRO has only two policemen, oDd
'heSe spend half their tiue in fight
ing to see who shall be the chief and
who the force.
Sowing to the absence Of tie edi-
tor, this weeks issue will be found
unusually spicy says the Office devil
Of the Creston, Hin oi'. TINES, who
was left in charge for few days.
A merchant in Chicago kissed TIE
hired girl while his siie was looking
at him through a window. He will
be out again BY New Years.
The Kalamazoo ladies' have been
living panic sociables, at which lch
guest is charged with n stated s1m,
and the money thus collected is giT "
10 the poor.
The following question is suggest
ID for debating society: Which
was first the egg which produced
he first chicken, or the chicken
which produced the first egg.
Marshal Bszaine's wife su,tains
her husband pluokily and faithfully
10 his trouble. Why the women Of
this class are always other fel-
lows wives is what most Of Us are
'rying to fod out.
The introduction Of kerosene into
houses uncheersd by the qas-bill may
he a blessing in disguise; bu, Noah
Connt says in the country they com
plain that it has raised the rate Of
insurance on hired girls.
A lady in Norwich, Connecticut, is
slowly starving to uca;h from an in
a7mation Of the throat produced by
! fish bone which lodged there some
time ago, and which prevents ber
Hkiog any uourishment.
They found a man in tho San
Francisco city prison the O'her day
Vho wanted to get out Both the
officers and he inmates were unani-
nous in sympa'hiziog with that
lauiable desire when they found he
mad the smallpox.
All our pretty girls are in demand
for the great tea party at the Phila-
delpbia Academy Of Music, Decem-
Ter lG and II, and as every State and
Territory will he represented by these
handsome Pbi'adelphia6s each in a
Martha Washington costume, rha ex-
citement will be very conslleratl..-
! 4 good deal Of tea and p good many
| bachelor resolutions will be dss-
troyed.
Amos, Radical, has over $4,000
majority in Mississippi, With = negro
N jority Of 80 or 10 ia the LegisIa-
turc.
Fishk.ll, New York had its princi-
pal business houses burned on Sun
day last, the lst--rhe result Of ineen.
liari.m. Loss 100000.
Tie Pope is reported to be dying
and further; in accordance with
his wishes, Cardinal Pecci, Arch.
bishop O' Perugia, has been agreed
upon as bis successor at an informal
conclage Of the college Of Cardinals
A Moscow be;u'y shot herself at the