Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1874-04-30
Varieties OF All Kinds.
A Chicago undertaken says he will
cremate at two dollars a body.

CTtuidJc II tNO cOii.iis q oOus.
: Seven hundred STYLES of mourning
cards are advertised by a Londor
stationer.
4 good coat of tar or ink around
the trunks of fruit trees will protect
them from insects.
Without having special reference
to Susan B., we should like to know
what is home without n mother%
In raid on two dens of thieves in
Chicago, recently, the police re
moved 5000 worth of stolen prop
erty.
The Treasurer of Green Bay City,
Wis. has left for parts unknown,
carrying with him $4,000 ofthe cor
poration funds.
One of the London gas companies
charges only seventy-five cents per
1000 feet for gas, aud makes no
charge Tor rent of meter.
The saloon keepers of Chicago have
agreed to suspend the free lunch sys-
TEN, and many citizens will now have
to GO to work.
A San Antonio Texas paper men.
tons the fact that a Mexican woman
was in town the previous day, and
sold her child foi SO.
In Georgia they describe mans
farm by stating the number of mules
that he uses, and talk about a four
mule farm and a six mule plantation.
Among party of Swedish emf
grants recently arrived in Portland,
Me was man and his wife, about
forty-fve years old, with nineteen
children.
An exchange says that a Michigan
men dreamed recently that his aunt
was dead. That dream prove true.
He tried the same dream on his moth
erin law, but it didn't work.
SOME melancholy man with a turn
for arithmetic has calculated that the
people who died in Philadelphia last
year would have made procession
one mile long, marching ten abreast.
THE surgeons of the Confederate
army and navy are to hold a conven-
ton at Atlanta, Ga, on May 20, for
the purpose of embodying, in perman-
ent form, the important medical and
surgical facts brought out by their
war experience.
That dog of yourn flew at me this
morning and bit me on the leg and |
notify you that intend to shoot it the
first time | see it" "The dog is not
mad" "Mad. | know hes not mad.
What has he got to be mad about?
It's me that's mad.
Judge Smith. being asked what
was the longest Circuit Court he had
ever held, replied, "rhe longest as to
distance WAS when | used TO court a
Girl; to reach her hou'e had to make
circuit of eleven miles; but the time
was a mere nothing"
Sovr nooDle never will lie satisfied
with any body or any thing. y wo'
man, who was too poor TO buy herown
wood, made terrible fu.s because the
aid society gave her cord of dry
hemlock instead of hard wood, ard
threatened to repay the drayman!
SHALL we gather at the river?' So
sang some Ohio temperance ladies IN
front of rum house" The old repro
bate who kept the place poked his
head out of window, and told him he
was too busy, just then, but he would
meet them down there, after dark, at
any time they might mention.
There is a lady cf Sagadohoc Coun-
tv, Maine, who has head Of remark
ably fine hair. The average length is
seven feet five inches. When unbraid-
ed and falling loose, it trails for quite
distance on the floor, She has re
fused a large offer for the hair, on
which she naturally prides herself
next to her head.
A qnaint old gentleman Of an act.
i've, stirring disposition had a man
at work in his garden who was Just the
reverse. Jones said he. " did YOU
ever see a snail:' Certainly" said
Jones. "Then." said the old man, !ou
must have met him, for YOU could
never have Gycrtaken him.
An Ohio newspaper is horrifed to
find that the Groceries" are good
deal more than the harmless depos
itories of Goldfish and wash-brushes.
that the sable and alluring bottles
nestles beneath the counters, and ifa
customer, after purchasing bunch
lof shoes or fish-hook, feels as though
an encourager, with or without sugar
would make new man of him, he
can get it at any Of those marts OF
trade"
\ .LAB above n grave in Arkansa;
bears the following legend, evidently
the tribute Of a devoted but discrim
mating husband.
She washed the children,
Fed the fowls,
And made her home
RcsUund With hITl-.'
The social and vital statistics Of the
White House are reported n follows:
One marriage, Miss Maria Monroe,
I,u,,L.ar ~ tho President to NJ