West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-05-25
Personal TOPICS.

GRAND DUKE 20 Sultan: a" You will
! pay me five milliards as indemnity.
| Sultan: Do be kind. Add ten franc
more, and lend them to me. "-Pari
Paper.
AND they are going to ascertain
| If the President of the United States ba
his life insu red so as TO be more certain
about his policy, perhaps Cincinnati
Commercial.
Mr.. Rory has absconded from Mon
ueal because he was fearfully in debt
and no one would let Rory owe more
IVhitehaH Times.
Col. RICE, the inventor Of the trowe
| bayonet, who witnessed the operation,
around Plevna, says the American arm,
made by our private companies are con
sidered the best guns in Europe.
WHEN Mr.. Kingsbury, of Chicago
died in 1856 he left 81, 175,O 900 and ONLY
orc heir. The lawyers have wrecked
the estate, say the Chicago papers. and
! have left hardly enough to pay the ed
ucation bills of the heir.
LIEUTENANT READE, of the regular
army, has been offered seven thousand
/ dollars per annum for seven years IN
take charge of the telegraphic system of
! Japan. He is said to be one of the most
accomplished electricians in the country.
MIR. BEECHER says that Mrs. Tilton's
late confession reminds him Of a story
OF negro waiter who was asked by q
! guest if it was the second bell for
! breakfast that had rung. No, sab !"
said he, cts not de second bell, it's de
second ringing of de fust bel. "-Lnter-
! ocean.
DIR. SETH SMITH, of New London, Ct.
has left five thousand dollars to Con
gregatiOnal Church in that place. and
one thousand to another in East Lyme.
and twenty thousand dollars for the
foundation of the Smith Memorial Home
in New London, for respectable aged and
INDECENT women.
PASTE this in your hat, boys, for refer
ence in the beginning of the twentieth
century: The RcHgjo- Philosophical Jour
nal states that James Nolan, from the
spirit world, prophecies that Gin the
year of our Lord 1901, there will be
lens constructed by a person named
Hollingsworth, who is yet a boy, by
whose power the trees and in
habitants on the planet nearest the
earta can be seen. "-Boston Globe.
MERCEDES, Queen of Spain, as little
schoolgirl at a French convent, was n
pretty, gentle, modest industrious, young
creature. A fellow-pupil, writing of
her at that time, describes her as
having fine, clear complexion, pleas
ant features, dark-gray eyes, and splen-
did, thick, glossy black hair. Ali the
other scholars were obliged to call her
Madame" Little Madame" was
always most amiable, jolly, and play
loving.
ONE secret of O'Leary's success in the
great pedestrian tournament is told in q
recent letter from Sir John Ashley to the
Sporting Life of London. He says that
the American had India rubber and
leather alternately fixed on the heels of
his boots, which materially counter
acted the hardness of the track after il
had got set and he had an ample supply
OF the best made boots, whereas the other
competitors had most of them ill-made
boots and shoes, and very few had two
pairs, and many not even change.
MARAUDERs in Texas, especially along
the Rio Grande, are known as "Ineo
dams or MeXicans," and thew
have recently broken up the ranches in
Duvau and Falls Counties, plundering
and numbering the occupants. In Can
ada and in the Northern and Eastern
States, where their outrages take a less
violent form, they are known as
tramps," but an examination of their
habits OF life would prove probably that
tramps really belong 10 the same genus
as the outlaws known elsewhere as
Indians or Mexicans."
LECTURERS, who wonder that their
hour-long essays, read in monotone from
manuscript do not "hold their hear
ers, may learn lesson from DIR. Storrs
His Is no essay" but a completed and
perfect Grafton, delivered without notes
and with as much vigor as though he
were talking to jury, with determin-
alton to make them hear and understand.
III we can have more OF this kind of
lecturing, backed by hard study, culture.
and ripe scholarship, the lyceum may
once more assume its old place and dis
pense with the Fictitious aids with which
it is now encumbered.- Boston Trans
cript.
JOHN MORRIssEY, lately deceased
was early in life employed i'm n paper
mill, then in a brush factory, and after
wards learned the molder's trade. He
was then deck-hand on q steamer. from
which he was elevated to the position of
steamboat runner. Then he became a
/ pugilist, and won purses from Yankee
| sullivan, Tom Hyer and John c.
| deenan. Successful in all these under
| takings he took to politics and an en-
/ thusiastic constituency, in 1866, sent
/ him to Congress, where he served two
| terms. Afterwards he was twice sent to
the New York Senate. John was the
most ambitious of all the rowdy and
sporting element, and good and bad
were queerly mixed in his indomitable
/ nature.
DR.. MARY WALKER was born in
| OswegO, y. Y, about 1880. and has al
/ ways had the reputation Of being pecu-
liar She was a superior scholar, and
taking to the study Of medicine, grad
uatcd regularly. She married when
quite young q DR.. Miller, the match
proving an unhappy one. a suit for
divorce against him was unsuccessful
because Of his declaration Of his willing
ness to live with her, and his allegation
that she had deserted him without
cause. During the war DR.. Mary had
charge of a hospital i'm the West and
was captured by the Confedcrates and
confined in Libby Prison a. spy. Since
the war she has lived at Washington
where she has always been doing some
thing to attract notOriety from the time
that she so persistently endeavored To