Huntington independent. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1871-1874, 1873-09-11
VARIETIES.

how ,untidy he looks.
Chemists say no matter is ever
lost. Printers deny it.
! There is law firm in Boston
called Steele Il Gamble.
About fifty "0ld Benders"
nave been arrested in Kansas.
The bones OF tho late free pass
system whiten the Western
prairie.
The umbrella which Washing
ton used to carry Is TO be seen
in Boston.
Lafayette, Ind, merchants
forge each others names to beer
orders for fun.
a photographer requests that
his sign, taken from life, should
be his epitaph.
Ladies travelling across the
plains carry their hair in their
pockets to avoid being scalped.
Anthony impregnates the air
of every prin;ing-room. Yet
printers are not anti-money.
Watertown, n. Y, has purchas-
ed a second hearse to convey
prisoners TO the lookup.
a Chinaman in San Francisco
talks Spanish. We have some
times seen them walk Spanish"
"Piuching the Eagle" was the
leading head line of the report
)f The i,h of July celebrations in
he Minneapolis Tribune.
The oyerscers Of the poor in a
Vermont town set down in annu-
ii report a charge of $3 for la
KING the paupers to the menag-
rie.'
"Oh, ma" said a little girl who
lad been 10 the show, "Fve seen
he elephant and he walks back
wards and eats with his tail"
A Cincinnati brewers wife
)apered her trunk with costly
leg revenue stamps, and the
)rewer is IN Jail for the way he
ook on about it.
A Washington paper announ-
.cs that the public printer will
ihortly issue complete com
'lication Of the postal laws of
he United States"
"Don't worry about my going
away darling. Absence, you
,now makes the heart grow fon-
isr.' Ofsomebody else" added
he darling.
A drug clerk who put up poi
on for quinine took the matter
cry cody saying that the vic
i'm was old and would have died
u few years any way.
The Boston Transcript thinks
hat tho "ambitious youth who
red the Ephesian dome" was =
raveling agent for a patient fire
apa atns.
We rejoice to learn that
ieorge Augustus SaIa's com
laint has finally yielded d" to the
peal application Of the styptic
alloid AMI the use OF faradisa
ion.'
People who have been sending
ftcr the queer" or counterfeit
money, will no doubt be pleased
o Learn that full lists OF names
re being made for publication.
Jones don't see the use of
uili,ia.-"What," he bawled out,
is better to dIsperse a crowd
han a policeman" "A yaller-
,acl;ed wasp" shrieked an ur-
hin in the street.
4 Connecticut farmer, who set
,ut an elaborate scarecrow IN his
strawberry patch, was dis
sustcd 10 find that a pair Of rob-
ms had built their nest and were
.aising their young under its
hat.
Harvey discovered the circula-
ton Of Tie Llrod before he was
thirty-four. Yet some editors
get 70 be a hun rel before they
can discover the exact circulation
Of their own newspapers.
a printer was boa.ting tho
other day about his won lerful
ability to set type. 81 know
what You cant SET" said a com
radp. What is IT, Two mems
on one nest"
Alice. .-,'Do yon know, uncle
that horid Mr.. Binks declares
that you have taken 10 hard
dr'nkin2,7 Uncle George
"Not true ny dear-nol Never
drank easier in my lie"
The IN le2endent press can af-
lord to tel! the truth, says an
enthusias e}itor. eyes; and
tell it al all times" responds his
malicious rival. d
Nidd,epOrt had : kerosene horror