South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-09-03
Odds and Ends.


their sheep by horse power.
When they build a Railroad the drst
thing they do is to break ground. This
is often done with great ceremony.
Then they break the stockholders. This
is done without ceremony.
SALE OF THE SUPERIOR MACHINE
WORKSHOP Tuesday Of last week.
Sweency's Superior Machine Works. at
Wheeling, this State, were disposed OF
ut public sale to Walter Brooks, Of Bal
timorc, who represented the bondholders.
The sum paid was $4,000. It is un.
derstood company will he formed very
shortly and the works will be put into
full operation, with A. j. Sweeney rs
| manager.
Little Falls. N. Y, has wonderful
dog-not s'mine dog Schneider" but one
owned ty Henry Snyder. His princi-
pal occupation is to carry his masters
mail to and from the post Office. lie
appears regularly Mt every mail delive-
~, and like all other patrons is politely
waited upon by Postmaster Stafford or
one Of his clerks. after which he imme-
diately returns to his master. The bu.
| siness.like manner in which this is done
Is really wonderful. The dog never stops
to read the postal cards.
Professor Ward, OF Syracuse Uni
versity, New York, has specimen OF an
American crocodile. The reptile was
shot in Florida, and measures fourteen
feet in length. The existence Of such
reptile in the United States has hereto
fore been disputed.
-Palm-leaf fans are becoming more
popular than any other at church. as
they effectually hide the most elastic
yawn.
THE BAR.RooM AS A BANK.-You
deposit
Your money-and lose it.
| Your time-and lose it.
Your character-and lose it.
Your health--and lose it.
Your strengthened lose it.
Your manly indepeEdence--and lose it.
Your self-control-and lose it.
| Your home comfort-and lose it.
Your wife's happiness-and lose it.
Your children's hopes-and lose it.
Your own soul--and lose it.
| "A California brass band has four
women in it. and they somehow don't
get out of breath SO soon as the other
members.
The following incident in the life
of Madame MacMahon is related: In
the middle of the winter of 1888 fire
broke out in the female seminary ut Lii
moges, France, and spread with such ra.
pidity that it was feared all the inmates
would perish. Suddenly there was q cry
that one little girl had been left in her
room. AS the excited spectators were
beginning tie pray for the unfortunate
child, a tall girl. with disheveled blonde
hair and flowing night-gown, cut through
the crowd, and, with shrek Of I'll
save her y that rose above the sound Of
cracking timbers and falling masonry,
dashed into the doorway. A loud hur.
rah that was prolonged to the echo only
to be repeated again attracted the at
tention of the devotees, and the pale
faced girl was seen skipping through the
flames with the terrified child. A few
days thereafter King Louis Philippe
sent the heroine gold medal for her
bravery. and captain of the French ar
my, who had witnessed the girls pluck,
begged an introduction. The captain
is now President of France and the brave
girl Madame MacMahon.
A great many fruit.trains have pass
ed over the Baltimore and Ohio and
Pittsburgh and Connellsville road, dur.
ing the last week. From 5 till ~ o.
clock Sunday morning, no less than Sc
ven trains left this place on the Is. & o.
Railroad. Peaches, in Baltimore have
been selling very low, some going ut ten
cents bushel box, and in fact some
were given away, with the stipulation
that the boxes should be returned. -
Prime qualities sold for from forty TO
sixty cents. The Maryland peach crop
this year is immense.-C Cumberland CT
caim, Augost %.
One evening last week during the pre-.
valence ola storm. whilst lighted candle
was sitting on n mantel.piece in the re-
sidence OF w. +. McGarner, in Charles
county, Md, vivid fash Of lightning.
followed by loud report, caused the
candle toflicker and Immediately the al.
amantine fell from the wick. No other
damage was done aud no effect OF the
lightning was observable further than
the causing the wick 90 shed its grease.
"A man who was feeding n thresi,-
ingmachIne in McMinnyille, Tenn, the
other day, felt his pantaloons catch in
the machinery, and had just time TO brace
his feet and hands against some firm oh.
ject near by in order 90 save his life
Fortunately the pantaloons were Of thin
material and gave way easily his shirt
followed, and he was left standing with
nothing on but his shoes.
The Smithsonian Institute has lust
received the largest and most interest.
ing collection of prehistoric relics ever
gathered in the United States. The
collection, which is from the Santa Bar.
bara Island, California. consists OF stone
implements Of every description, and