Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-05-22
p~ BxIEFs.-Brides and flowers ar
all the rage at present.

button or lace AZ Inc Dack.
= Black felt hats still remain the stand
.bys" for gentleman.
Tickets of admission to church we'd
dings are going out of fashion.
The fashionable glove for gentlemen
is buff in color, and has two buttons.
Plain white linen is the present style
for gentlemen's everyday shirt blossoms.
The elbow sleeve, called the Marie
Antionette sleeve, is going out OF style.
Fringes and embroideries in straw
promise to be very fashionable this
summer.
English embroidery on silk worsted,
cotton, or linen will be very much used
this season.
Winters backbone has gone at last,
and Billings Soda Water is delicious.
"Thrice welcome Spring, the bright
eyed, fair-haired maid"
The General Synod of the Evangeli-
cal Lutheran church of the United
States will hold its biennial sessions IN
Baltimore commenting an the 25th' in
slant.
August will have two moons, one the
1st and the other the goth OF the month.
This is all unusual occurrence, not hav-
ing occurred before since about 1853.
TIE hearts of patriots are still long
ing for peas.
Purple sun umbrellas threaten to be-
come fashionable during the approach
ing summer.
The next best thing to paying pas
tor large salary is to pay him small
one promptly.
The father of poverty is foolish spend
ing.
Large hoops are the fashionable car
rings.
A wise man will desire no more than
what he may get justly; use soLerly,
distribute cheerfully, and live upon con-
tentedly.
In putting down carpets aim your
hammer at the iron tack instead OF the
finger nail.
Never be idle. Ifyou have nothing
else to do, turn to and wallop the fellow
that snakes faces" at your sister.
Baltimore ships 5O,OOO,OOO cans of
oysters annually, and 10000 men are
constantly employed in sharpening
knives and soldering up cans.
1t is so dusty in Martinsburg, that
the postmaster has to go under shelter
to lick postage stamps.
An instructor asked a French girl
why beer in French was feminine. She
replied it was probably owing to the
fact that the boys like it SO well.
"What's in a dress?" asks popular
writer. Sometimes a good deal, and
sometimes precious little.
Cline softens all things" except the
young man who parts his hair in the
middle and whistles on the street. Moth
ing can make him any softer than he is.
A Martinsburg girl patiently listened
to, long declaration of love, pathetic
and imposing, from young man and
then knocked the poetry out of lin by
saving, "Now let US talk of you business
affairs"
An Exchange says, wen ride two
miles to see two brothers under twelve
years of age go to bed together without
having dispute about something
Charles +. Gelwicks, an old citizen of
Hagerstown, isdead.
The barn of Henry Rinehart, near
Way nesboro, Pa, was destroyed by
fire on the 18th; also Is head of cattle,
wheat, hay, rye, oats, all his farming
implements, &c. Loss $4,000.
When Solomon said the "glory of
woman was in her hail" we wonder if
he suspected how much "glory" would
be bought for ten dollars in our times.
1t is said there is lady in this town
so modest that, she wont 60 near a
quarry because of the undressed stone
it contains, and she makes her stove
legs wear pantalettes.
When one looks around and sees
hundreds of dough-heads getting rich
doing nothing, while be is working like
a slave for his daily bread, we tell you
that it makes fellow feel as though
the butter of this world was spread by
stepmother.
It is in vain to hope to please all
alike. Let a man stand with his face
in what direction be will, he must ne
cessarily turn his back Oh one-half the
world.
:: A man named William Thomas, Of
Pittsburg,. was run over and killed
"Wednesday morning by the accommo-
dation train on the b. & o. r. r. be-
tween Piedmont and Keyser.
At Point of Rocks, on Saturday last,
two gentlemen from New York, caught
rs bass, weighing so pounds.
E The Hon. James Beck, Of KY, thinks
that Gov. Allen, of Ohio, has the inside
track for the Democratic nomination
for President That if be gets 10000
majority this fall for Governor, be can't