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

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$1,000, 900 annually.
Paper under-garments for women
have struck the Pacific coast from ia
pan.
A Nashville doctor tells of woman
who lost her sight by the excessive use
of snuff.
The estate of the late Ezra Cornell, it
is thought, will exceed in the aggregate
100000.
Blondin is going to stretch rope
from the top Of the pyramid Of Cheops
to that Of Kephron, and walk it.
Two Of Robert Bruce's bones were
sod in Edinburgh for f5, and one OF
the vertebra Of William the Lion for
f5 1us.
The st, Louis papers put it thus -
1.-TWO niggers and razor. now one
Niger. The Coroner held the inquest. /"
Last year the railroads in Illinois were
assessed for taxation at $64, 900. 000.--
This year at one-half that sum,
or $50, 100000.
In the Dakota Territorial Legislature
n ow in session, Joley is President of the
Council, and Moody Speaker of the
House.
Chicago has SO public schools, attend
ed by 49,50O children. The teachers
number $40. all of whom, with the ex-
ception of So, are ladies.
William Kupp, who died at Douglas
vile, Pa, recently, weighed 400 pounds.
Not Kupp one would care to raise.to
his lips very often.
Twenty-Five cents is all the Centen-
NAL Commission asks Of the peo-
pie of the United States to pay
for the '"peepsbow Of the universe.
Santa Anna is living comfortably in
the City of Mexico. He is described as
still of an upright, soldierly figure, with
eyes as black as Goals, and thin but not
gray hair.
Minneapolis, Mimi, has new journ-
alistic venture in the shape of daily
paper printed on postal card. This
miniature sheet bears the name Of the
Post Baby.
Emerson. Wight, the newly-elected
Mayor of Springfield; Mass, has two
wooden legs, having lost both of his
natural ones by railroad accident sew
eral years ago.
A Milwaukee dramatic critic tells
how one of the stars was pretty effectu-
ally stuffed with the back Of chair"
Though he had in his pocket dead
season ticket. he determined that for
once he would fearlessly give the truth.
When Chicago policeman goes be-
hind lumber pile and shoots three balls
through his hat, and runs up to head
quarters and tells about his adventure
with the Blenders of Kansas, they raise
his pay on the spot. Merit is always re-
warded in Chicago.
An old bachelor says: "When / re-
member all the girls I've met together, /
feel like rooster in the fall exposed to
every weather. ! feel like one who
treads alone some barn-yard all deserted,
whose oats are fed. whose hens are dead,
or all to market started"
In Lowell, the other day, a discour-
aged mill-girl said to her clearinghouse
mistress, who was lamenting the fate Of
boarder who had eloped with scala
wag grocery keeper: "Yon keep us on
bull beef at "a week and then expect
us to be contented angels"
A lad who borrowed dictionary to
read returned it after be got through,
with the remark; at was VERY nice
reading, but it somehow changed the SUBJ
ject VERY often" II was bis sister that
thought the frst ice cream she tasted was
Q little touched with the frost.
A Canadian murderer wanted them to
put off the day OF execution, owing to
his being afflicted with the toothache
but the sheriff said he'd got to 60 to mill
next day and he ceuldn't possibly ac-
commodate the prisoner.
A little girl four-year old created
ripple by remarking to the teacher OF her
Sanday-school class: "Our dogs dead.
l bet the angels were scared when they
seen him coming mp the walk. He's cross
to strangers"
The exclamation Of an old lady on
hearing Of man who had once lived in
the neighborhood was: "Well, / know'd
he'd come to the gallows at last, for the
knot in his handkerchief was always
slipping round under his left ear"
Mary Brady's experiment proved a
''dead" failure. In getting up rather late
the other morning, she utalized the coal
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