Huntington independent. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1871-1874, 1873-08-21
FUS FCR TRE.LlTTLE ONES.


Spots on the sun-Frecklcs on your
boys face.
True liberhity consists IN giving with
judgement
Courtship is bliss; but marriage Is
often blister
When is q house ike bird? When
it has wings.
A nourishing buSiness-Ornamental
penmanShip,
An ounce of practice is better than
Il pound Of theory.
The best way to desIo-y the wicked Is
TO make them good
A woman who tells fortunes froma
tea-cup is u sauceresS.
Carpets though bought by the yard
ere worn out by the foot.
An Iowa paper wants n young wo-
man to become its devileSS.
Fashion, like death, may be said to
have all seasons for its own.
Failure in n good cause is better
than a triumph In a bad one.
Compulsory education - forced to
learn trade in the pcnitentiary.
A San Francisco paper calls bur-
glars active but useless members OF So
ciety.
The test Of mans. honesty is IN the
sacrifices he will make to preserve It.
1t does not follow that the man who
bolts his food will have the lockjaw.
Should pickpoeket attempt to
steal yonr watch tell him that you have
no time to spare.
Book keeping may he taught in O
single lesson Of three words never lend
them.
The Buffalo Express wants 10 know
what Ben. Butler and the potato bug
were made for.
A Milwaukee boat club has adopted
a light uniform described as handker-
chief around the head and one sus-
pender.
4 Connecticut paper speaks Of
reign Of terror in that State because
man has been arrested for stealing an
umbrella.
None are 30 often in the wrong as
those who pretend to be always in the
right.
Western newspaper calls telegraph
operating "jerkinS the forkcd light
ming"
A Scranton household Is enjoying an
era of peace. The lady of the house
put her tongue TO the fla t-iron to see if
It was hot.
What is the use Of trying TO he hon
est? asked a young man the other day
Of a friend. Oil you ought to try it
once to see, was the reply.
An intelligent chap, who had read
the census reports through, says he
finds there are people who can't write,
but he thinks they might telegraph.
A certain editor on the first side Of
his four pages, has this choice para
graph: "For horrible example Of the
evil effects of intempcrancc, SEQ our
inside"
A gentleman being asked If his
neigihor's dog was hunter, said it
was half hunter and half setter, that
he hunted till he found bone, and
then he sat down 10 eat it.
Between the depths # one and
quarter and two miles the temperature
Of the Mediterranean is everywhere
constant, at only four degrees above
ireeziDg point.
A little boy three years old gave
reason for his infant brothers good be-
hayior az follows: Baby doesn't cry
tears because he doesn't drink any wa
ter, ami he can't cry milkp
Compositors often put IN queer
things TO Gil ont a column. Here il
the latc.t: "Does not a young moth
cr's heart leap 4th with joy when she
bcholds her darling babes LIST 2th!'
IT is sad but true, that tho initials
Of Sous Of Temperance speIs "sot,7
and that Of thos Of the Indepen dent
Order Of gooi TemparS stand f0r
II once got tight"
4 young physiciio 10 ornsd Ia
dy that she must not ALLOW her ohIl-
dreu to drink much lee water ia hot
weather, unless tbo ice were perfect
tly ripe.
A girl not FAR from Holton Kan,
vas at dance last w,et. and when
asked to waltz With one o. our city
chaps, replied: II can't dance these
whirl-arould figures; they always
makes me pukc'
An Old woman arcogted two gentle
lmen IN Qancy market, Boston, ono
day aiih tIe following negative inqui-
Try: Gentlemen, you hain't none Or
lyon seen nothing Of no snuff box no.
where round here no time to-lay, with
40 snuff in II, hain't yerl" Thy said:
"Yes, they h4ln' neither
The e0.orcd show bills which Bar
num will uso up tbs year cost $780,
1900. Ills snail bills crcullrs, &C.,
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