Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-03-04
FACTS AND F.ANCIES.


around Quebec.
A mans chest continues to ex-
pand until he reaches 80.
Companion so the learned pig
"a spelling bee.
Miners who make IS day in
the Black Hills work hard.
A Chicago photographer has hit
on q way of making dimpies.
Dried apples are becoming a
fashionable desert for swell par
ties. n
Leap year has revived the inter-
estin the game styled Copenhagen.
Pork filed with thrichina has
poisoned family in LIE Sueur,
Mum.
The Turkish troops in Herze-
govinia have only bread and
onions to eat.
The average women in this
country is five feet two inches tall.
Philip Gilbert Hamilton says
horsefiesh is better than mutton,
any day.
A Chicago Lake, Mimi, child
was scalded to death in a tub of
home made beer.
California is about to establish
State detective force to hunt up
her bandits.
Reserved Seats--Those occupied
by people who don't talk during
the performance.
A fried onion party has been
given in an Indiana town. Min
uet classes are in order.
Boston is exciting the envy of
Christendom more than ever, now
that 1t has two big organs.
Handsome slippers for young
men-Pretty girls sliding on the
ice or slipping on the side walks.
Flies cause one fifth of all the
profanity in the world. This is
the opinion of a bald-headed man.
1t is the wife who has the max
ing of a mans home, says an ex-
change. True, and now and then
she makes his wig wan too.
Spain is troubled with Krupp.
He won't sell her his guns on
credit any more. Why not pay
him out of the Krupption Fund ?
"Alkali JIM" a convict in San |
Quentin prison, California, hid
himself in a shoe case and was
shipped to San Francisco.
When you call for Babcock in
a sample room; the urbane bar
tender gives you half whisky and
half water.
1t was Parton who said OF edit
ing newspaper, "the whole art
and mystery Is to be right" The
same is true of matrinony.
Philadelphia. has an old maid
who danced with G. Washington.
Her memory is very minuet.
The Oldest peer in Great Britain
is the Earl OF Leven and Melville,
aged 90,and the youngest, the Mar
quis of Camden, aged 4.
Women are not allowed to drive
omnibuses in England, the oscu-
latory buss being deemed sufficient
for their capacity.
Lindsay, the murderer, was born
on Friday, killed his victim on
Friday, was arrested on Friday,
sentencted on Friday and executed
on Friday.
The Mil, aukee News has found
a rich hermit named Mum, up In
Menomonee, Wis, Valley. He's
one of your Munnied men.
"I'd rather be a door-keeper and
bay the moon,' is the way New
Jersey fedgling divinity dovetails
Shakespeare and the Psalmist.
Varley, the English revivalist,
has apologized humbly for writing
the violent letter about horse
whipping the editor of the Free
man.
Honest Sam Lappin, the thiev-
ing State treasurer Of Kansas, is
still in Jail, is much depressed and
absolutely refuses to receive visi-
tors.
Awful hard times, but every
woman has velvet suit and a
cream-colered hat, and shows un-
diminished interest In the new
spring styles, says New York
correspondent.
A snow-slide in the San Juan
country carried a Mr.. McGovern
down 1900 feet, but, as extraordi-
nary good fortune wonld have IL,
he was on top of the heap all the
time.