Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-03-20
Facts and Fancies.

ThiS is nard climate on pianos.
Cairo, Egypt, needs an Ameri-
can dentist.
The Asiatic famine isn't.a Minor
matter.
Brunettes are coming into style,
and blondes are going out.
"The can vas-backs of society," is
the way New York alludes to her
bloods..
| Every housekeeper should keep
a recipe book.
The smallpox is visiting Will
Transport, Pa.
The only balls allowed in Lent
Fish balls.
AS the snow melts off the Sierra
Nevada crests, the bright red
snow-plant peeps up.
The building trades will be live
ly enough when spring really sets
in.
1t Is not true that the ice-crop has
been damaged by the grasshop-
pers.
Schuylkill county, Pa, paid $343
for tobacco for the prisoners last
year.
One heading man has paid since
February 1st nearly $40, 900 tax on
whiskey.
An old miner claims to have dis
covered gold in some rocks near
Asbury Park, N. j.
The Tobacco Leaf classes the
weed among the necessaries of life.
The leading missionary in Gin
cinnatti goes it blind.
The Delaware peach growers re.
port the crop in good condition so
far.
Pittsburg is the largest freight
handling market in the United
States.
Two thousand children were
vaccinated in New Haven last
week.
Who knows but those 23-pound
bass they are catching in Florida
are alligators.
If you have the influenza rub
your nose with nitro-glycerine.
Come, now, Mr.. Prob, give the
ladies cnance to do their shop
ping, can't you?
In the Gardner (Me. Methodist
Conference there are sixteen per-
sons between the ages of 80 and 100.
When Pittsburg young ladies
want to compliment gentleman's
moustache they call it "real cam
els hair.'
Two enterprising newsboys in
Williamsport hung one Of their
companions the other day, but cut
him down just in time to save his
life.
An Indiana darkey says: "I'se
got my cibbil rights. to be suah,
but hain't my ole black toes stick
in out'n my ole butes Just de same,
all for dat pesky Freedman's Roo
row business?"
The Newburyport Herald des-
cribes snake, the head of which
has been dead these two months,
while the tail is still living and
active. 1t must be one of that
kind that some folks wear in their
boots.
The discussion of Schenck's trea-
tise on poker has brought out some
valuable information, for instance
there are 2,56S,690 different hands
of five cards that can be made from
pack; and OF these 10000 are
"straights" or sequences" ex-
Guiding the 40 which are also" flush
esq
Perhaps Simeon Van Wagner
has an irresistible mania for marry
ing. He has four wives in different
parts ofthe country, and all of them
are women of wealth refinement
The last was the daughter Of Judge
Ash burn, of Ohio. and was onl Y
sixteen years old. His desertion of
her, after borrowing all the none y
he could of her father, resulted n
his exposure. He had kept up q
correspondence with the OF her
wives, giving plausible excuses for
hislong absence. and none ofthe m
had suspected infidelity.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines holds a
judgment against the city of New
Orleans for about $40, 900. She has
been trying to execute this judy
ment for some time past, the bat
ture property in front of the heart
of the city, that between Canal and
St. Joseph streets, being levied up
on for that purpose. The plaintiff
in execution has taken steps to
bring about a sale of the batture
some time in the present month.
| Unless some arrangement can be
made largo sacrafice of the inter-
| eStS of the city is inevitable.