West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-06-29
NEWS AND NOTES.

JAPANESE workmen always sit down
at work.
AMERICANS eat twice as much salt as
the English.
SILVER circulates in Germany side by
side with gold.
PRINTERS ink keeps the hinges of
store doors loose"
MUSICIANS gave us Draw il mild
and come it strong"
a GREAT deal of corn has TO be re-.
planted this spring.
CREMATION is Practiced among the
upper class in Siam.
OLE BoRNEMAN BULL isthe full name
of the great violinist.
DARWIN says there are some plants
that sleep and dream.
LEIPsIC is one of the leading centers
of the doll making trade.
BERLIN scientist has demonstrated
that dust is inlammable.
Miss Mulock says the young wife who
is economical is heroine.
MoTHs will never touch anything
wrapped up i'm brown paper.
GLASS grindstones are being expert
mented with in mills in Germany.
BRAZILIAN nuts grow inside peri
carp about the size of mans head.
BRACELETS have been in use i'm everv
nation from its very earliest period.
PEARLS differ from other gems i'm re
quiring no art to bring out their beauty.
"A POULTRY raiser thinks he has sid
covered chickens that will lay twice n
day.
| HAVE bone to pick with Won"
came from Sicilian marriage obsery-
ances
ORIGINALLY no person guilty of a
crime was allowed To engage in a prize
fight.
PRIMITIVE bread was grain soaked in
water, subjected to pressure and then
dried.
DUMPS, an Egyptian King, is respon-
sible for oh, she is down in the
dumps"
BAsHI-BAZoUK means light-headed.
ana the name was given them for reck-
less riding.
"A TABLEsPooNFUL of tincture of
myrrh ina pint of water makes good
tooth wash.
WITH a sponge slightly moistened and
sprlnkled with sugar all the ants i'm n
house can soon be trapped
AN old woman sf Durham i'm 1929
hrst made table mustard and for years
would not reveal the process.
A PRESSURE of 400 pounds TO the
inch at temperature 100 below zero
Will compress air into liquid.
LETTING the cat out of the bag"
originated by countrymen bringing to
marketa cat and trying to sell lit 10 green
horns Tor young pig.
lT IL about seventy years ago since gas
lamps were first introduced into the
streets of London. In 1886 one thou
sand dim oil lamps supplied all the arti-
hcial light in the public thoroughfares
The Chilian and Peruvian govern
ments intimate their willingness TO make
the United States the center of distri-
button for the guano and nitrate industry.
The trade that is thus offered To Amer
ican shippers amounts to $l5,000,0U0
year.
The Palmyra (Mo.) Democrat SAYS
that labOrlng men in that neighborhood
openly threaten that if the self-bindinp
machines are put INFO the fields by farm
ers, they will burn them, and that the
grain stacks of all farmers who employ
these machines will be burned, also.
NINETY years ago two men we're
hanged in Nlassachusetts for burglary
This year town Treasurer, who is
a defaulter TO the amount Of 500
600, goes about his business, and nobody
thinks of furnishing him, until detect
I'VE from another county steps in and
arrests him.-Bosfon HeraH.
COMPLETE returns of the school
Of the State have
been received. The number of chill
dren of school age, between six
and twenty-one years, is returned as fol-
lows: Whites Malc4 3j4, 239 females.
353O07. Colored Males, 5,937; females,
5,9,l2. Total Of white and colored chill
dren, G99 095-an increase over last
year of 1921 l.-IndianopoEs Jouyhal