West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1877-09-08
EVERYDAY srICERlEs.

WHEREVER there is much 10 Offend
there is much To pardon and when there
is anything to pardon, he assured thcreis
something to love.
HOWEVER many friends YOU have, do
not neglect yourself. Though you have
thousand, not one of them loves you 40
much ~ you ought to ycyourself.
SUNDAY is the strongest OF all the
days, for the others are week days and
this is not. And yet Sunday is oftcner
broken than any one of the week fell
lows.
No character will please long which IN
uniform. TO bc always jocosc is buff
foonery; always pathetic, silly; always
wise, sententious; always grave, tire
some. q" HA1 Nant bH
ELEoy IN COUNTRY FARMHOUSE, ny A
SUMMER soJouRNEG.
Know yc the lip where the gauzy mustache
Ever drags through the milk and gets tangled In
whcrc the hairs arc as soft as the youth they en-
Fl. ss hue % mos: = ne @ s Ss. Csi st ss sss s
The first nt the table. the last one 20 rise
u ", % oston Globe.
THE fly which awakens you at early
dawn, by crawling over your nose, may
drop into your neighbours butter dish
before dinner and be served up in your
own sauce for supper.
ROCHESTER, Democrat. "Money in Il
nutshell" is the title of an article in the
Cincinnati Gdzctfc. We shall not trust
our money in so large u receptacle AZ
that IL would get lost.
ALBANY ArgHs: At fashionable
wedding recently when the bridegroom
lr..1t I.u,n En ~ all al
the solcs of his shoes. There. is moth
ing like economy in beginning married
life.
a GREAT philosopher says: I'm the
economy Of nature nothing is lost. The
inside of nm orange may refresh one man,
while the outside of the same fruit may
serve as a medium for breaking another
mans leg.
chap in the country lives in Napa
County, California. A cargo of rock
splintcrs was blown into him by the
premature discharge of blast, and now
he resembles section of patent gravel
cement.
THERE are but three ways for
man to revenge himself of the censure Of
the world: TO despisc it, to return the
like or TO endeavor 10 live so ms TO avoid
it.. The first OF these is usually pre-
tended, the last is almost impossible; the
universal practice is the second.
BY reference TO the mortality reports,
says an exchange, il will be found that
fourteen deaths last week were attributed
to old age. This deserves serious con-
sideration, and the Board Of Health
ought to take effective steps to prevent
such disease assuming the proportions
of an epidemic.
SUMMER THOUGHTS.
Upon a mossy knoll in the forest,
Lay looking upward at the eternal blue
Of the Infinite and quiet heavens, through
The oak-leaf aud the hcmocks canopy,
And now and then cloud went drifting by,
Iistlcss and slow, and changing 70 the view.
=. How like my seeting summer thoughts 70 YOU,
a deeper, darker l0yelicr azure hath,
The birds have ceased their singing, and the breeze
lsbllcd With hum Of insects darkness saith
With the first few stars twinkling through the
That night hath come a little whiie, and death
Lake night, will end lifes summer reyerics.
MANY young man spends his money
like prince for ice-cream 70 treat his
girl on Sunday night, and is willing to
stand at zero in the estimation Of his
friends all the next week, by his per-
sistcnt begging Of stray chew OF to
bacco, in consequence of the impecuni-
osity produced by one Sabbath's gener-
osity
WHO can explain the operation of
that sentiment which creates around the
one object Of our love halo Of life and
beauty, which extends 10 all animate
and inanimate nature, and of that other
sentiment which, when we cease TO love,
strips the object Of our late passion of all
its adventtious charms and reduces IL TO
The ordinary lcyel2