Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1874-07-16
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The ball kept rolling-the croquet
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The working mans fayorite dish
Cavendish.
Look out for the comet. Thereby
hangs a tail. 40
Crusade sirup' in soda, is much
called for in certain western towns.
1t takes sixty fortune-teller TO
keep the Chicago people comfortably
swind!ed. D q
A discouraged Milwaukee fisher
man offers chrome oevery fish that
will take n bait.
II is said that the preitiest girl in
Harrisburg is newspaper carrier. -
She carries them m her hustle.
Baltimorc is boiling down her sur
plus canine population into glue, by
which tIccity gains Eve cen.sper dog.
Kate Blanchard, the actress, who
formerly rode as Mazeppa, now rules
the roast as cook in a Chicago ho-
tel. t~- '.fa.'r
The grasshoppers have left OBlien
County, Iowa, without damaging the
wheat or corn, Notwithstanding the
outTy.
A coarse Mexican grass called
Tapioca is now manufactured in Yer
mont into paint brushes and other
BRUSHES. .
The Delaware strawberry season is
over. While it lasted. 7,H0, 400
quarts Of berries were shipped North
from the peninsula.
at costs less tc take weekly pa.
per, "argues the Cape Ann Advertiser :,
than a diligent hen can earn in a
year at the market price of eggs"
The editor of the Panama Star apol-
ogizes for the non-appearmce of his
paper by saying that he had to haul
off to dig buck-shot out of his legs.
The Pacific railroads are planning
a reduction in rates Of passage and
freight. They can afford it, and
will find it 10 their account in ma
king it. 1'fa si
San Francisco is having suicide
epidemic. There were seven in tho
first ten days of June, and three in
two days, some of them young busi-
ness men. .r
Fifteen hundred and sixty houses
in New York City are owned by the
Astor family. 1t is suggestive fact
that a large per centagc Of them are
teDements.
The Marquis of Lorne has at last
spoken for the Princes and himself.
At recent flower show he congrarn-
lated the company on the exhibition
''in the Princess name.
An old lady with a large family.
living near river, was asked II she
did not live in constant fear that
some of herckiIdren would be dro wn-
ed. "Oh, no." she replied, 1--WE have
only lost three Or four in that way"
education of the sexes in the
Wesleyan University, Middleiown,
r. l., is reported by the government
10 have been successful. Four wo.
men Just closing their S)phomore
wear have IN tintainci the best OF
scholarship.
A Young fellow at Redwood Falls,
MINI, last week prevailed upon n
damsel to marry him on the sly. The
Young man went to his home, and the
young lady to hers, and there she de-
clares she will stay, having repented
of her folly. 1
A Newark New jersey couple
recently performed delicate duty
before being married. They togetb-
er visited cemetery and frat deco
rated the grave of the gentIemn,i's
former wife, and then that lady =
former husband.
The Schenectady Sar is responsi-
bic for the statement that a June
bug, buzzing around in adark Wa
tortown parlor, flew against a young
lady's face with such force as TO lie
come bopelessly entangled in her
beau's mustache. isu 81.
An English jury i'll the case a wo-
man killed by railway collision.
rendered verdict that the death
"was caused by the imperfect ard
reckless mode of working the line
md the employment Of inexperienced
men at low wages f
When you soc fellow strike n
match to light his cigar, End then re-
store the upconsImed fragment 10
his vest pocket, accept il Is a SYN
that he has been reading some good
book on the necessity of economy
for young men about To marry.
The very smartest woman has at
last been discovered. She lives ~
New Hampshire, is ninety-thrce years
old, and on a recent Saturday even
ing vigorously spanked an assortment
OF her DESCENDANTS as follows: Ore
own child, seventeen grandchildren,
twenty-five great-grapdchildren, and
one great-greatgrandchild. Next!
a committee has been formed at
Berlin for the erection Of great
national monument, to consist OF a
colossal figure Of Germania, resting
,,.on bar ewoyd and holdiuo fhe i'm.