Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1874-05-21

Epltaph for cannlbal-"One who
loved his tellow-men.'
i Letting of Sleep is little boys
definition of snoring.
Jenny Lind has expressed a desire
to revisit America this summer.
! Western exchange speaks Of q
"ffe-size statue Of Seward sixteen
feet high"
! Why is ship designated as ''she?"
Because she always keeps man on
the lookout.
The wave on which many poor
fellow has been carried away is the
wave of a lase-edged cambric hand
kerchief.
J. A stranger who threw $40 into the
plate of Savannah church, obtained
credit for $500 worth of goods the
next day.
An Ohio man has been converted
to temperance ninety-eight times, and
he says he viii 60 up to a hundred
or die.
A boy in st. Louis swallowed seven
brass buttons, because another boy
dared him to, and is now laid up for
Internal repairs.
In a letter to friend. a young lady
az Illinois states that she is not en-
gagged, but she sees cloud above the
horizon about as large as a mans hand.
A Philadelphia youth was recently
married to a young lady who had re-
fused him eighteen times. He wish
es now he hadn't asked her but sew
enteen.
An Old man at Kenosha, Wiscon-
sin, has ruined his health sitting up
in a cold room next TO where his
daughter and young man were
sparkling.
Unbounded patience is necessary
to bear not only with ourselves but
with Others whose various tempers
and dispositions are not congenial
with our own.
Mr. Cyrus w. Field starts for Cali
fornia next week with Canon kingsly
and his daughter. Early in June he
will sail for Iceland TO attend the
millenial celebration.
Ex Senator Doolittle, once so prom.
inen, in National politics, and an able
man, has accepted the permanent
Presidency of the Chicago Uniyersi-
ty. Salary, $4,000 year.
In drifting through the world of
sin and sorrow who OF us can recall
an instance o. minister with salary
of $40, 900 per annum who ever re
fused pauper good advice!
The Democratic Association of IL
linois have resolved that they Will
make no distinction on Decoration
Day, but will decorate alike the
graves of the Union and Confederate
heroes.
A London advertisement runs thus:
"a country priest will say mass once
week, for any one Sho will regu'
larly send him the Times newspaper,
secondhand, On the day of its publ
cation"
Two railroads Of Wisconsin refuse
to comply with n law of the State
regulating rates OF railway compa-
nies. The reasons assigned are that
they cannot pay dividends if they re-
duce the rates.
Under the head Births the New
York Herald publishes the following,
possibly from a proud father: Os.
wald-On Tuesday morning, April
2S, 4S74, Minnie Oswald, Of triplets.
All doing well.
An old lady in the interior of this
State is opposed to cremation, unless
the friends Of the deceased hire car
riages and drive the mourners up TO
the fair grounds and back. Detroit
Free Pres.
Mr.. II. n Smith will have only
Goldsmith Maid Oh the turf this sum
lner. Lucy, Rosalind. Jay Gould,
TattIer and General Knox are all re.
tired for breeding purposes, and
Goldsmith Maid will follow next win
ter.
Reports from the valleys Of the
YazoO and Tallahatchie Rivers, Miss
issippi, state that the blossoms on
fruit tees have almos; entirely been
destroyed by species Of "measur-
ing worm,' which has heretofore
been considered harmless to this form
Of vegetation.
A newspaper writer in Mississippi.
wto had a difficulty with man and b
killed him, wrote gushing tribute
to the memory Of his victim, which
was published in the next issue of
his paper. laying special stress upon
the gallantry with which he met his
fate and fought TO the last.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
makes this comprehensive reply to
an anxious questioner who Is desirous
Of knowing whether man can love
his second wife as well as the first:
That depends on what sort of wife
the first was and what kind of life
the second leads him
Uncle Bob Breedlove, agedseventy,
was married TO Aunt Betsy Phillips,
aged sixty-Gve, in Kentucky, the 9th
er day. Though their epidermis is
under the cloud produced by long