Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1874-05-07

door by person in a passion ''wood
: en- oath"
Nahant, Mass. has fifteen town off
GERS, of whom nine are named John.
son.
G To cure bachelors aches-carry
to the patient, eleven yards Of silk,
r with q woman in it.
A man who travels barefooted
Z around his bedroom, often finds him
self on the wrong tack"
Several young ladies in Wisconsin
lately jumped for silver medal. The
most bey-ant won.
A Utica man used a postage stamp
the second time to save three cents,
and it cost him 511.
A Chicago man gets drunk because
his hired girl calls him ga d-n fool,
The girl is right.
Some lawyers resemble folks who
can sleep in any position; il is imma-
terial on which side they lie.'
A Swede, with his wife and nine
teen children, were among the recent
emigrants who arrived at New York.
Providence, r. l., has taken time by
the forelock and made an appropria-
tion of $1,000 for next Fourth Of
July.
ga collection will be taken up for
poor widow" was the announcement
which rapidly dispersed 4 Detroit
crowd.
A jeweller advertises that he has
some precious stones for disposal, ad
ding that they sparkle like the tears
of a young widow.
Ex-President Andrew Johnson is to
be the orator of the Tennessee Pat
rons of Husbaudry at Nashville on
the 11th proximo.
Married masculine praying-bands
to conduct a crusade against dry
goods dealers are proposed in Mem
phis as a measure of retaliation.
The saloon keepers of Hudson,
Michigan, have clubbed together and
retained the eight lawyers there, and
have re-opened their saloons.
A Carthage, H., merchant adver-
tises for sixty able-bodied men to sit
on the steps of business men and
whittle boxes the coming summer.
A man was arrested in New York
on the 18th inst, in the act of brutal
ly beating his wife. His only excuse
was that "she needed it once a week"
H. L. Ebson, of Parryville, Carbon
County, has a daughter who at the
time of her birth weighed only -
pounds. The infant is living and is
perfectly healthy.
Two indianapolis reporters interfe-
red in a little difficulty between n
husband and wife, and one of them
got a blow in the back with q stove
cover.
A rivalry has sprung up among
the proprietors of Long Branch ho
tells, and bets are being made as to
which will secure the clerk with the |
largest diamond.
The Golden Globe, of Colorado, has
suspended on account of the disap-
pearance Of the editor. He was last
seen standing under tree, and some
mcn were pulling on arope.
The price ola cows tail has been
legally determined by a Kentucky |
court to be 81 80. But an Oswego |
man paid s25 last week for depri |
wing a canine of his caudal append
age.
Johnny Rice, Philadelphia boy,
aged If, having written a story call
ed the "Whart Rats announced to
his fond parent a few days since that
he had gone to New York to become
an author.
They were gong to put a man out
IF San Francisco theatre for ere
ating a disturbance, when a voice,
cried: "IIe's all right; he's killed a
Chinaman" and they let the man
alone.
Crusade punch" is popular drink
| in Fort Wayne. 1t is composed, not
of sage and other "yerbs," but Of
Santa Cruz rum, pop, sugar and egg.
Ordinary drinks are known simply as
meek OIL
The saloon keepers of Keokuk,
Iowa, have signed a pledge not to
sell liquor or beer to minors, or to a
person who is using the stuff too free
Ilv, and ask the assistance of the peo
pie in carrying out the pledge.
Miss Anna Dickinson Is going about
the country lecturing on the social
evil" not nice subject to be discuss
ed at any time, unfit at all times for
treatment before a mixed audience,
and supremely disgusting when wo-
man undertakes to make it the bur
then Of public lecture, and by the
prurient curiosity excited, swell the
number of her auditors.
Joaquin Miller, the wild California
poet. found Geneva full of his coun-
Itrymen, and asked TO be taken to some
place where there were no Amerl-
cans. The boatmen looked at him for a
moment, then hopelessly upand down