Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-02-06
GENERATING

Venus sat for one hundred photo
graphs.
London has one hundred and fifty
railway stations.
Freebooters-Men who are ready to
kick for nothing.
Every town in Walworth county,
Wis, has a grange.
X X was surprised to hear an 0moha
man call him Mr. King.
There are nearly nine million mich
cows in the United States.
A Green Bays merchants toy stock
consists of ] 40 jewsharps.
The Bible is now printed in as many
as two hundred different languages.
Five thousand men are now em-
ployed on the Centennial buildings and
grounds. l#
1t is even so that journeyman tailors
in China are happy with two cents a
day for wages.
The total stea m boattonnage of the
world is 5,244,s8S tons, ofwhich Eng
land owns 3,0l5,7s3.
IA book has been published called
9 Half Hours with insects" The au-
thor is not a regular boarder.
Over n hundred steamb boats for New
York canal navigation will be built on
the Hudson river this winter.
Elijah was not a vain man, yet his
tory relates that he was taken up with
his clothes. - Iesve Hdtte Gaz.
In the last nine years in England and
Wales, 1888 persons were sentenced to
deaths and l6, 80 to penal servitude.
The debt of Illinois on January lat.
1876, was only $1,730, 970 and there ii
money in the treasury to pay it all off.
The first regular night watch was or
dered by Henry III, in London, in
1858. 1t was from sunset to sunrise.
From Minnesota it is reported that
the lu an Der i" CUT will not be over fifty
per cent. OF last winters, which was
twenty-five per cent. less than the win
ter preceding.
1.-TWO hundred and one persons were
killed on railroads last year" Why
the railroads have gone to the trouble
to kill that odd person is what no fellow
can find out.
A GAINESVILLE man has written life
of the devil. The last three chapters
comprise ten years biography of bis
mother-in-law. .ses.s.. 49,
Mrs Darlington, reading of the strike
of he wire drawers, remarked "Ah,
me what new-fangled things won't they
wear next 2"
Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer of
Boston, has been found guilty of muir
der in the first degree, and has been
entenced to death. The defense of insan
ty was not allowed by the jury.
The route to the Yosemite Valley is
to be kept open this winter. Hitherto it
has not been visited by tourists in the
cold season, but the scenery is said to be
grander an d more beautiful now than
ever.
The owner of a Nashville street railroad
tried to ride on one of his cars last week
for nothing, and the driver bounced
him. The driver, who had read that
story about the great warrior and the
inflexible sentinel, expected to be promo
ted, but is now looking for another OBJ.
Conscience is a cl ock, which in one
man strikes aloud and gives warning,
in another the hand points silently 70
the fgurs but strikes not; meantime
hours pass away and death hastens, aud
after death comes Judgement. Reader,
listen to the sound of your conscience
or notice the pointing of the hand and
act now to day.
{" Stranger, will you try hand with
us at poker 2" Thank you gentlemen,
but there are seventeen reasons why can
not Accommodate you row." Sew
enteen reasons for not playing cards 2
Pray, what are they 2" Why, first, /
haven't any money" "Stop that's
enough, never mind the other sixteen"
We are told that the late Mayor Have
meyer used TO take exercise by saving
wood in his cellar every morning before
breakfast. And Hayemeycr, it will be
remembered, died very suddenly. There
are very few sudden deaths in Norristown
among married men from this cause.
That sort of exercise is taken by their
wives. -Norristo,on Herald,
A Detroit insurance agent hired boy
the other day to mind his Office and went
to dinner leaving the Office in the youths
charge. When he returned he found that
the lad had whitfield one of the table legs
almost in two and dissected the cushion of
the swinging chair. He was greatly an
noyed and spoke sharply, when the boy
bsrst into tears and replied If you do
not want to let Teller take any comfort
I'm going TO leave P'-Dstroit Free Press
A thrsng Of youth and beauty glide
Amid the festive scenes
The dancers close, and side by side,
Upon each other lean,