Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-02-21

NtOti hhoN NlJObAlC1 iAC SAAaA
anything or not" The crowd
broke up in a roar of laughter, and
the sheriff called court. English
Paper.
A compliment is thing often paid
by people who pay nothing else;
the counterfeit coin of those who
substitute the form fashion and
language of politeness, for it's sub
stance and its feeling Throwing
compliments, like dice, is game
of hazard, at which the incautious
players may get nothing but a
sharp rap on the knuckles. He
who sports compliments, unless
he knows how to take q good
aim, may miss his mark, and be
wounded by the recoil ofhis own
gun. Above all things, it is in
cumbent upon him to reflect, that
even blue-stocking will look
black at him if he attempt to fiatter
her mental, at the expense of her
personal attractions. At a dinner
party in paris, an ugly and dull
German baron, finding himself
seated between the celebrated
Madame de Stael and Madame
Recamier, the belle of the day,
whispered to the former. Gam l
not fortunate, to be thus placed
between beauty and talent?""Not
SO very fortunate,o replied the
offended anthoress, ''since you
possess neither one nor the other.
SALT IN SICK NESS. Scudder
remarks: 81 am satisfied that I
have seen patients die from depri
walton of common salt during
protracted illness. 1t : is a
common impression that the
food for the sick should
should not be seasoned, and what
ever this essential of life. In the
milk diet that | recommend in
sickness, salt is used freely, the
milk being boiled and given hot.
And in the patient cannot take the
usual quantity in his food, have
given it in his drink.
This matter is so important that
it cannot be repeated too often, or
dWelt upon too long.
The most marked example of
this want of common salt / have
ever noticed has been in surgical
disease, especiallyin open wounds.
Without a supply of salt the
tongue would become hard,
pallid. puffy, with tenacious
pasty coat, the secretiOnS arrested,
the circulation feeble, the effuSion
at the point of injury Serious, with
an unpleasant watery pus viii IN at
last becomes mere sanies or
ichor. A few days Of a free allow
ance would change all this and
the patient get along WE'LL"
A FISH SToRY.-We met a boy
on the streets, and without the
ceremony of asking our name he
exclaimed:
"You'd just orter been down. to
the river awhile ago 20
'Why?' we replied.
Because niger was in swim
ming and big catfish came up
behind him swallowed his feet,
and went swimming along on
the top of the water with him:
and they came up behind another
big fishs and the niggar swal-
lowed his tail, and the niger and
the two fish went swimming
about"
We'll, then what?"
why, after a while the niger
swallowed his fish and the other
swallowed the niger, and that's
the last / saw of either of them.
Sonny said we, with feeling
OF alarm for the boy, you are in
a fair way to become the editor of
political newspaper"
1t will be remembered that
about two years ago Mary Francis
Wade instituted an action against
Martin Kalbfieisch ex-mayor to
recover 100000 for alleged breach
OF promise of marriage. Before
the case ever came to trial the de-
PENDANT died, and the plaintiff
subsequently sought to have the
suit continued against his estate.
Judge Nelson, sitting Mt special
term, decided adversely to her,
and she appealed to the, general
term. Yesterday the general
term rendered,a decision sustain
ing Judge Nelson's action. The
case may be taken to the court of