West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1877-10-06
EVERYDAY SPICERIES.


BRmGEpoRT Standard: The United
States army is being rapidly put ON
war footing. Two moro soldiers have
reported for duty at st. Louis and
man in the hospital with II sore leg will
be ready for business in less than fort
night.
INTO TIIE WORLD AND OUT.
Into the world he looked with great surprise
The children laughed W when they saw his eyes.
Into the world u rosy hand In doubt
He reached i-apalc hand took one rosebud out.
And that was all, ,--quito allg" No, surclyi hut
The children cried 80 when his eyes were shut.
-MrS PioH, Ia Scribser.
IT is told OF the father of Herr
Toufelsdrockh that he used to recount
I'm his old age how the great Frederick
had once spoken To him. When asked
what il was that the king had said, he
admitted that il was, Get out of my
way, dogW
The shores of Lake Erie were re-
Gently visited by tidal wave. As il
was not among the Probabilities" i'm
the daily papers, there was great excite
mcnt, until n dispatch from Put-in-Bay
arrived, announcing that the Fat Mems
Association had just gone in bathing.
A NOVEL decoration was worn the
other day by recruit in the Austrian
service When passing muster the SER
gcant asked him what order he was
wearing. The recruit bushcd deeply
and stammcred: "The medal which was
given to our cow at the late agricultural
exhibition"
JOHN FROST, eX-magistrate and char
tist leader, sentenced to death for high
inr n In,
lS39-40, died Mt Stapleton near Bristol,
aged ninety-siX, in July 1877.
The Frost that IRE TO stand ut Newport did aspire,
And failed, 10 his cost,
For ninety years aud six withsood Liics hotter firo
Aud yet continued Frost Punch.
TnE Londonderry Journdt gives the
following instance of pulpit bull: A
clergyman preaching sermon on death,
concluded with the following observa-
ton: " Butevcn death, my brethren, so
well deserved by mankind for their sins,
the wisdom of Providence has, in its pm
ternal kindness, put at the end of our
existence; for only think what life
would be worth if death were ut the be-
ginning"
WE believe there is II marketmen's
praycr-mecting held every day, but we
have not heard of any petition offered
yet for the hardened sinner who charged
lIs for eleven pounds of beef last spring,
and trimmed il down to eight before he
sent il home. AS for the lost wretch
who put two little old withered hens
upon us for thirty-five cents a pound,
as spring chickens, he is probably past
praying for.
NoRRIsTowN HcrdM: Miss Mac
Mahon, Of StOire, Vermont, who is one
hundred and one years of age, was dis
covered the other day at the tub doing
her weekly washing. This comes of
living life of single blessedncss. III
Miss MacMahon had married some kind,
loving heart when she WAS i'm her TWEEN
ties, she might have worked herself TO
death before reaching the age of fifty
years, and thus escaped hard labor at the
wash-tub in her old age.
THE RUSSIAN LOVERS PARTING.
without thee / am poor indeed,
But with thee arn rich;
OH wOuldst thou make my heart 10 bleed
Beloved TzazkOskOvkch?
Tzazkoskcvitch EhihelankoG,
As from her arms he tore,
Burst two suspcndcr buttons OF,
Which rolled upon the floor.
Keep them" ." he cried IN pitcous tone.
And think Oi me my love"
Then turned, and madly fed his own
SkobcskifraulcustOv.
--Andreirf Bdsdr.
NJ. LABOUCHERE says he observed
lately the following little scene in res
taurant at the seaside. Two gentlemen
had had tOlerably good dinner and
we're looking at the bill. There was
mistake in il. I'm lieu Of two bottles of
champagne which had been consumed
the waiter had charged for only one.
"Shall we point out the thing?' says
one, probably the more scrupulous.
Well" replied the other, after mo-
mcnt Of doubt, /" we had better not the
waiter would be sure TO be scolded, poor
fellowp