Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-21
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

This is the season of the year whe
neck and neck between whisky an,
water in the race for victims.
THE more thoroughly one become
quainted with the true history of
"good old times" the less he long
them.
PALM-LEAF fans are becoming
popular than any other at churcl
they ehectually hide the most el
yawn.
4 WASHINGTON undertaken is pr
for his able manner of singing " i "
not live always" in one of the sun
schools.
THE most faithful and natural exc
of the mind j. conversation. We
the use of il more sweet than OF
other action of life.
A LONDON advertisement runs
"a country priest will say mass OF
week for any one who will regularly
the Times newspaper, secondhand
the day of its publication"
WHEN Lamb was a clerk at the
House, the superintendent remonst.
that he came late mornings.
said the imperturbable Ella, ! gol
very early afternoons" That is (
the way business people do this sun.
An what will the world say 1.-THE world j
in lies
The question which, as II Is uttered, implies
All that's fine or that's feeble In thought .
tent
The distinction depends on the world I.
meant.
For let man once show the world that he fee
Afraid Of It's bark, aud twill iy at his heels
let him fearlessly face IL, twill leave him al,
But twill iawn at his feet II he ding II bone
A MAN in Wyoming, Ohio,
opening his chicken-house recently
morning, missed two birds but th,
the other hand he found two fing6
the trap. They haven't been call'
yet.
A Tribune correspondent compla
the "Tolls at Niagara" The
Democrat can't see how they C;
avoided, though, 80 long rs the
continues such Il favorite resort iC
bellies.
WHEN an Esquimaux gontlemal
half a dozen tallow-candles for i,
and washes them down with n pl.
lamp oil, can he be said TO have NJ
light repast?
The difficulty with these dime
il, that a boy who reads them is in
with more consuming desire To gr
and become a pirate and' wear six
in his belt, than be a minister and
white necE-tic.
WE thought the Ohio the best =
river in the country, but here is tn
lington Hackeye, which says tha
ninety thousand shad, recently pu
the Des Moincs river, have to be :
led three times a day 10 keep them
smK sat alone with folded hands,
And neither turned 10 right nor lett
50 mute and sad, she looked like one !
Ol hope and home and friends bere
Poor thing. I thought, and dropped
Thy loved ones all have gone bcfofc,
Have sailed away DER deaths dark III \
And left thee pining on the shore. 4
gladly would have cheered her, bat Z
A stern, cold voice held me In chect
There's nutbin' ails her much" u
" She's got boil upon her neck
-Mio Tor, II
HENRY BERGH il staying at Ne
He is seen 10 wander alone for u
along the beach, lost In thought, II
is rtlmoreS that he intends estab /
a marine gymnasium, IN tb' II
il will aid in the dc yelo n
muscles. *
AM told that our b cath
air, and that the trees have
pure by sucking the poison Y
to me thata great many -, IL
into the world for nothi "a ~
hard work lor The trees. HI
stand it.-Che Foo Tin. 1
Two cOuntrymen wen "
to buy one Of them n ha -, Il
delighted with the samr,e, mid
crown of which was inserted q lo<|
glass. What is the glass forT y.
OF the men. The other, impatia
such a display Of ignorance, excl,
" What for? Why, for the mar
buys the hat 10 zee how it fits him Y