South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-09-05
ODDS AND ENDS.

"A ShlCAUo piouSh company make ~
different kind Of plouebs aud cultivators,
using yearly about 500, 900 pounds each of
iron aud steel. The works, which employ
$50 hands, can turn out $4,000 ploughs
every yeaf.
LEATHER made from the skin of the
white whale is now a regular article Of ma.
uufaoture at some Of the villages on the St.
Lawrence below Quebec. II is both foe
aud durable, and shoethongs made of it arc
said never 10 break.
The Nevada Cinnamon who work a.
mong the mines never labor after clock,
p. NJ, having firm belief that at that hour
the angels leave earth for heaven.
A BosroN Dairymau has been fined 5000
tor not putting enough milk in his water.
THOSE only are ct for solitude who
like nobody, are like nobody, and arc lik ed
by nobody.
-SoME Ohio couples are making a good
thing out of the liquor law. The husband
buys whisky, shoots Mt bis wife, wallups
the children, and the saloon keeper comes
down with one hundred dollars rather than
stand prosecution.
IT is asserted that rattlesnake smells
/ eAactiy ilke cucumDer
MINNESOTA thinks she will export 90.
600, 900 bushels Of wheat this year.
A MACHINE for forging horse shoe
nails has been lately invented and is now
In operation at The Bristol Iron Works 10
Oswego. 1t will make from ten to fifteen
nails per minute, and requires 60 attend
ant except to put in a coil Of nail rod eve
ry ten minutes.
CHICAGO aud ST. Louis are again ag-
ta,ing over the question'Which is the bigger
! THERE is young man in Madison,
Wisco nsin, who prefers getting his educa-
cation through bis own industry, rather
;han accept the aid proffered TO him by his
father. 80 he does the washing on Mon
days for his mother she paying him the same
as she would n washerwomau, and the pro-
ceed' are sufficient to pay his tuition every
week.
LATELY, at tho Norwich, England, As
sizes, an agricultural Iaborer was arraigned
| for giving away his wife. Under what law
he was tried for such proceeding we do not
know, but that it must be against the law
of Eugland to dispose of an ncumbrance 10
that manner is supported By the fact that
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two months. The separation gives us Gu
rious insight into the agricultural mind. Not
agreeing very we'll with his wife, it appears
that this man suggested she had better
marry another man, friend Of theirs, and
all parties agreeing, they went TO the Regis
irar's office at Norwich, and there the hus-
band formally gave away his wife, and the
latter pair were married. 1t probably never
occurred to nybody in the Registrars Of
fee TO suspect that tho kind person, who
acted 10 the place Of father, and gave the
bride away, was the brides own lawful
husband. The prisoner pleaded in bis de-
Tense merely that he and his wife had had
a few words together and were not happy,
and that he, therefore, fgived her away -
he was evidently under the impression that
the formal giving away served at once to
accomplish the divorce, and to legsize the
subsequent marriage.
ON Tuesday evening last WILLIAM A.
Dryden, Esq, and lady, entertained about
a hundred Of their friends at their residence
at Bloomington, Garrett county. Invited
guests were present from Washington, Bal
timore, Wheeling. RpmDey, Fros,burg,
Cum berland and other points, and the oc-
casion was one Of real pleasure TO all who
participated. Cumberland Times, AH1 %.
FALL RIVER, Massachusetts,, has thir-
| ty-three cottou-mills in operation.
An Indiana lgbtniug-rod agent has
been struck by lightning.
In view Of the fact that there are 2O9,-
907 persons eogaged in farming 10 Iowa to
| III ,2l3 ia all other pursuits, the farmers
ticket would seem to stand a good chance
| Of success.
-VmGISIA negroes don't understand
why one Of their color was not put on the
Lyncbburg ticket, though they compose
majority Of The party. Many Of them are
/ gong over to the Conservative side.
Attention has been called 20 the cul
tivaton Of olive oil 10 tho South. A sim
go plantation Of olive trees in Georgia has
been very successful, aud the yield Of oil
abundant and Of good quality.
The Italian soldiers have meat only
twice a week allowed them, and then il i
boiled. Their ordinary food is bread. Of
iener dipped ia bot water than 10 broth
II 'boy want wine they are obliged to pro.
vide IL themselves.
Five wives attended the funeral Of a
supposed German bachelor At Hoboken
Ne" York, recently. IL broke up 10 fight.
When he departs Professor WISE can
very appropriately use JouN QUINCY A.
DAMs's dying words This is the last of
earth.
-BETTER make PeuiteDts By geuileress