Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-11-14
Bad deb,s-owing a grudge.
To secure q result--look It IN.


Frightful in axe-iden,s--a chopping
sea.
A high note--one of thousand dol
lars.
Moonlight mechanics il the la test for
burglars
Our railroads use 100 million of ties
annually
Arkansas has just opened her first fe-
male college.
To Mr.. Power, Of Virginia. all things
are pewer.
To raise beets--take hold Of the tops
and pull.
The latest Irish fashion is home rule
hat with no crown.
Advertisements labor while the adj
vertiser sleep.
Horse thieves in Texas are serenaded
by string bands.
Rev DR. Chaplin believes in printing
tracks in the newspapers
An Illinois wsmen has presented her
ninth husband with boy.
"That wedding" has about gone the
ronnds Let us have peace.
A doctors motto is supposed to be
patients and long suffering
A toast over glass Of ardent: Heres
what makes US wear old clothes.
A flock OF grasshoppers was eight
honrs passing over Emporia, Texas
England sends Us, oman avera 4 5000
barrels Of malt liquors every mouth.
Kentucky gentleman was kicked
by horsel asst week. The horses Lee
was broken,
1t is proposed 10 England to provide
seperatc cars for the accommodation of
ladies travelling alone
A Detroit beggar sage her father is
sick and her mother hasn't but three
peanuts IN the house
Why will folks pay so much for rent
when they can get q house maid for
three OF four dollars.
An old lady writing to her son out
west, tells him to beware Of bilious sa-
looms and bowel alleys
''He wears his hair and his ears long"
is the description an Indianapolis editor
gives Of Cincinnati contemporary.
Ia Colorado they claim to have dis
covered the imprint of a bear on rock
Only bear foot, probably.
A western admirer of the fine arts chron
icles sententiously: "Bierstadt is Iuggina
his paint-pot along the Pacific coast
A Detroit boy, who found a pocket
book full Of money, was too proud to
take reward Of two cents, and declined
it.
A Connecticut editor unkindly al
ludes to rival editors head as the Po-
lar regions, because it is great white
place.
Some Of the Californians are laughing
at stranger, who, In one Of their towns,
said he was ''perusing around seeing the
climate"
Virtue is that good virtue which Is
the complement Of happy life; the
only immortal thing that belongs to mo-
rality.
Human life is gloomy chamber, n
which the limoges of the other world
shine the brighter the deeper it is dark
ened.
"Artists in horse clothing" is the sign
over the door Of an establishment In
Third avenue, New York. There will
soon be announcements Of winter robes
for pet dogs.
"rhere was an old family fuel between
them" was what witness in Chicago
murder case said to the Jury. The
Judge asked her If she didn't mean
"ieud, and she asked him who was tell
ing the story.
Don't confine yourself too close to the
details of your business. Mix freely with
other men, and you will thereby get
new ideas and a stimulus. Limit yonr
field aud you will strengthen your own
hands. Measure yourself by the stand
ard OF the best men you know, and do
not be deceived; yet believe firmly that
what man has done, man can do, and
that by making sufficient effort you can
equal, if not surpass your rivals.
A clergyman, who owned farm,
found his ploughman sitting on bis
piow, resting his horse. Quoth the cler-
gyman John, wouldn't il be good
for you to have good stub-scytne
here and be cutting lew bushes along
the fence while the horse is resting
short time 2" "Wouldn't it be well,
SIR said John, "for you to have tub
of potatoes in the pulpit, and when they
are singing, peol EN- awhile to be ready
for the pot 2"
Foreign governments have discovered