Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1875-02-18
NUMBER a..


"Sally, what time do YOU folks
dine?' "Soon as you go away-thats
missus' orders
Vinegar boiled with myrrh or
camphor, sprinkled in a room cor,
reefs putridity.
A good comet for home use can
he made by tying bunch Of lighted
fire-crackers TO a cats tail.
Cicero said, THE pursuit of all
things should be calm and tranquil" "
How about capturing heas?
"Marry a widoweri not IL said
Matilda. Babies are like tooth brush
es. Everybody wants their own
The New York S,m denounces ss
a "bare-faced and moustrous fraud"
the Growning Radical infauy in Lou
isiana.
A number Of Alma, Owls. } sports.
men who chartered a steamboat to
go hunting, returned with just one
snipe.
Somebody observes that when six
young ladies sit down to talk about
dress, small boy with tin horn is
Il refuge for the weary.
Mrs Partington, reading of tho
strike of the wire drawers, remarked
All, me what new tangled things
won't they wear next p
Papa, are YOU growing taller all
the time?" "No, my child why DO
YOU ask ?" Cause the top Of your
head is poking through your hair
Forty girls will run after n snoh
with a gold headed cane, where one
will shy up to a fellow with sound
horse sense.
A young lady up town has disc ard.
ed the use OF ialsehair, and thrown
away her chignon, with the remark,
There's millions in it." Very prob
able Wash. Cron.
81 can't say as he went to heav.
en-" remarked Fort Scot Citizen OF
a dec ased townsman, but he paid
bill of eleven years standing only the
day before he died, and you can
judge for yourself"
Sooner or later, justice certainly
overtakes the leader OF a country
brass band. A bridge came along
and struck one on the head the other
day, rs he stood on the top of all Erie
freight train.
And now they say William Penn
would sit down under tree, with In
dians about him, and telling them of
the better land beyon the sea, deal
himself four aces every time, and win
the game.
1t looks bad to see a dog preceding
his master down the street and calm.
lv turn down the stairs to the first sa.
loon he approaches. 1t shows there
is something wrong, something lack
inc, deplorabIe tendency on tho
part of the dog.
a Troy stove firm has received n
letter fl0m the West in relation To
the purchase of heater for church,
which concludes as follows: "The
heater furnished by you for the
church at - works bully. GIVE
us your rocF bottom price, as We are
poor but very pious."
When old Sam. Cfowder, down
lin Pike, was running for Justice Of
the Peace, his wife, in anticipation Of
honors in store for her, said: "My
dear, when YOU s.; to he Justice Of
the Peace, Wat will ! be ?" "You,'
said old Sam, you'll lie the same
old fool you always were y
The other day drove OF enc tnou'
sand turkeys passed through Barre,
VI. driven ike so many sheep.
When night tell all would by gencr-
al consent, leave the road and take
to the fences, and their drivers had
to wait till morning, for they could
ret them no farther.
A colored preacher remarked =
when God made de iust man lie
,et l.hm up agn de fence TO dry.
"Who made de fence" interrupted
ran eager listener. put dat man out!
exclaimed the colored preacher, "such
questions as dat d destroy all dc tie
ology in de world.
Rev. DR.. g., having inadvertently
preached a sermon for the third time,
one Of his parishioners said to him,
after service:
doctor, the sermon Won preached
to US this morning, having had three
several readings, | move that IT be
passed"
4 Detroit boy, was considered tia;
his education was completed, was
thus addressed by an aged friend
"Oi course YOU want to 90 TO school.
said she; 1fyou 90 right alorg you'll
learn and improve by and-by, and
get to knos az much as those BIZ
professors who went clean to Iceland
to observe the transit Of Beccher"
4 peculiar libe! case is to be tried
before the Chester County pa
courts. 4 NJ. Wm. Benner posted
. a notice on bis property forbidding
ncighbor, named Lewis II. Ham
, mond, or his family, from trespassinl
. on his grounds. Hammond retain.
ed by a similar prohibition Of BenneI
from his grounds, adding the word
"as ! have only four turkeys LEFT,
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