West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-09-28
WAIFS AND WHIMS.


CQtIEE has been successfully grown
In California.
lrE CREAM from buttermilk IL an Ala
bama achievement. sf. t#H.
AMERICA took the prize Tor paper at
the Paris Exposition u
PAwNBRoKERs arc beginning to take
bathing suits. LMdH '
The introduction of the whippina.post
is mootcd in Alabama. rg.gI
PRINCESS BEAFRIoB,- of England,
studiesthe harmouium. ..rr
MILLIONS of our fellow creatures
shave with stone razors
The United States Supreme Court
was established in 1889.
AN cx-spurt. A dilapidated public
fountain.- Ncr York NewS.
\ pooR horseback-rider always has
an eye to the inanc chance.
LoNDoS possesses nine cemeteries,
with total of 2,225 acres
\ BASS was caught i'm the Schuylkill
which had u rat inside of il.
\ MEAN for making clothing fire
proof has been made SUGGEST
bAPLAHDERs can travel hundred
miles u day with pair Of deer.
Miss BRADDON acknowledges the
authorship of thirty-three novels.
p GHE first locomotive i'm America was
put IN operation August 2s, 1880.
RAILROADS carry three million pms
sengefs safely where they KIN one.
4 fWHY s. the letter ar" never too
late ~ Because il IL always in time.
TIM 0roIbic thinks Beaconsfeld has
left too little Turkey for the Greece.
WHAT insect does ~ BhcIsmith
manufacturer lie makes the firesly.s
WATCHES are Like trouDle.s They
never como sngle-hapded.- Aews York
NcUs H'9l
stA DULbTu CJrq'Y Ordinance speaksof
"anyocow.of either SEX" a bullfiere,
certainly.
IN Turkey, ~ much as two thousand
dollars Have been paid for an amber
mOuthpieoe.. ti e.
LIFT there be an end 10 the palpable
fasehood that figures won't liz. Ne,o
BoUen Register. 1i'MH
l'HERE were one hundred miles of
tunhe! IN Great Britain in 1877, which
cost about $4,000 900.
BLACK velvet slippers perfectly plain,
are said to be the truly correct thing for
gcntlemen's indoor wear Br rI
Mr.. RORY has absconded from Mon
treal because he was fearfully in debt
and nobody would let Rory owe more.
in 1906 there was but one man i'm
this country who could make drawingg
for cotton machinery; his name was
Ogden. quo.
TIE Turks are the most courteous
people on earth, and never take the
wrong hat of the hatrack. -Brcdk(ast
Table.
Mr.. STURGEON says that "open-air
preachers should not bawl themselves TO
death" but we are not able TO see il i'm
that light. Grdphic.
II Is question worthy Of careful
investigation, whether a Ferson whose
voice is broken is not all the more com
petent to sing pieces"
a CORRESPONDENT wants 10 know
whether, considering the great utility of
the ocean, poets are not wrong in call
ing it, waste Of water"
THE Four Co0nfies, a paper published
in Texas heads one Of its columns with
this pertinent query "ls this your
paper, or O borrowed OneY
WHAT il the difference between n law.
stationcr and his clerk? While the
latter merely engrOssts the deeds, the
former engOsses the profits
WHAT is the difference between
poor gun and a masquerade costume 2-
One - hred and dOesn't hit, and the
other is hired and doesn't Gt
~ you want 10 have man for your
friend, never get the ill-will Of his
wife. Public opinion is made up of the
average prejudice Of womankind.
ONE Of the results Of a recent tenn
pcranCc revival i'm Iowa is the sale of
over twenty miles Of blue ribbon to
adorn $4,000 signers of the pledge.
PA" said a little four.year.old,
there's q poor man out there that
would give anything to see you. Who
| IS IT., my sonp 1T IS n blind man"
1 AN antiquarian has uneartbed the
/ fact that yellow fever prevailed in New
I London, o., IN September and October.
I l1O5 There were 85l cases and 81 deaths
THE single-scull raoeW exclaimed
! en- old lady, as she laid down the morn
/ ing paper Ny gracious ! ] didn't
now there was race with double
skullW
DIR. DAVIS, of Johnson County, Iowa,
recently shot q neighbOr three times
without killing him. What nonsense {.
lie. should have given the man a pre-
scription.
OCONNELL was as bitter on Peel a.
| upon Disraeli Abiding toSir Roberts
blanduess, he said that the right honor
able baronets smile was like the silver
plate ON q coffin