Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-11-25
Editorial Brevities.

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Be not afraid of hard study it is the
price of learning. -
Jenny June advises the women, not
to draw so many clothes behind them
Judge Richard Parker is named for
the vacancy on the Supreme Court
Bench of Virginia. 'A .a' ''. -'i''
Mrs. Brick Pomeroy is not an over
whelming success as an actress l.7i
There's method in nMoodys religion.
He7won't. go to Boston unless he gets
$4,000. -.ta., p. .rir .,i ., E~.
The useless waste ofmoney on wed
dings and funerals calls for reform
Extravaganza makes young men dread
marriage and death. %. 1."sa hra
Some women are like cats. You
may stroke the far the right way for
years and hear nothing but purring;
| but accidentally tread OH the tail and
all memory Of former kindness is, oblit-
Grated.
Two enterprising Californians, who,
four years ago, planted thousand
acres in walnuts aud almonds, will net
over $3.50, 900 from this years crop.
Tom Thumb is going to Texas to
live, and the Chicago Times thinks that
some day we shall hear of Tom being
waylaid and abducted by Texas grass
hopper. ''.'
False hair, it is said, will be drug
in the market aboad this season. The
Parisians are wearing short curls and
natural hair, such as the pictures OF
Queen Hortense and Nine. Recamier
have made familiar. The fashion will
be adopted here by spring. .. .ro
Be kind to all the dumb friends that
God has placed around you, for remem-
Der he notices eyey sparrow that falls.
There is a record kept every day OF
your deeds, and words, and your feel
lings towards them. ad T.. -,Ss
The diligent school boys may be seen
running to school like snails, wonder
ing how to turn friendly corner, that
they may not be seen by their teacher.
AT Breckinrdge, Missouri, last week,
Mr.. John G. Smith, formerly of Hag-
erstown, was thrown from a wagon aud
killed. -,a ggy o b. .... .ri
A tea made of chestnut leaves and
drank in place of water will cure dropsy
in a few days. ............. ......- .,
The sugar crop of Louisiana this year
is estimated at 100000 hogsheads, and
this is said TO. be equal to only about
one-eight of the amount required for
consumption in the United States. ,
tbs stated that Mr. George d. Hor-
ner, of Appomattox county, has effect
ed the sale of. one of his gold mines
embedded in that county to Northern
firm for 100000, He owns three 9th
er mines in the same county, each of
them supposed to be of equal value to
the one disposed of. u-n s.ii o. .
A quaint writer says 4 have seen
2 women so delicate that they were afraid
to ride for fear of the horses running
away afraid to sail, for fear the boat
might upset; afraid to walk for fear they
might fall; but / never saw one afraid
I TO be married, which is far more riskful
than all the others put together. 2. b
We see stated in the fashionable in
telligence, that 'lades are going to
wear their hair this season as they did
three hundred years ago" We had no
idea there were any such old ladies
around. ..'t
A Jealous Baltimore husband, P.iJ.
Tracy, swallowed morphine after writ,
ing to his, wife ''It is for you that I
have done this, and when / am dead
YOU can do what you like about marry
ing Schlutter.D Mrs. Tracy got the
letter, but before she had time to marry
Schlutter her husband had been pump
ed free of the poison. " ''', l., .
Good for Philadelphia. She has re-
deemed herself from the thraldom OF
thieves. The defeat of Rowan for
sherf'is a victory which few outside of
Philadelphia can appreciate. 1t is the
defeat of one of the most Infamous Of
an Infamous ring; it is the overthrow OF,
the man who has done most TO saddle
upon. Philadelphia an enormous debt by
! which nobody but the ring thieves have
profted. ''''
H. Turkey is hanging up while the pow
ers agree upon the cooking. Russia
says says she always did like' her Turkey
with little gamy favor "r-.'' %
There is no doubt that the great ma
! iority of this nation is Republican, but
Il that the late management Of the party,
by, its leaders, has driven a large, .por-,
.tion of it to the support of Governor
! Tilden. The New York Sun, of the
Sth instant, commenting on the elec.
ton says ~ .sa9zil.p 73m7,l bns
/ 1--WE but state a pregnantifacl which
no man more clearly recognizes than
! Governor Tilden, that his election is
largely due TO the votes Of Independent
Republicans la jeL II sh .di.esL
.y Geuerai Grant made great bluader
in throwing off 2 the old leaders oi the
party, and taking up new, udtTied men
OF ordinary 9bility.-Erehangsii,
/ In the shanty of an old man who died
at AberdeeI,' KY, few months ago,
was found abundle Of scrap wooI,which
/ was sold to a ragpicker some days since
for seveuty-fiSe cents. Inside of a the
4 bundle the, purchaser found two mus.