West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-07-20
WAITS AND WHIMS.

WAIFS AND WHlMS.
IuE antidoto of opium is coffee.
No base ball clubs in Germany.
\ RAINING favor tc--an umbrella.
DR. MARY WALKER is forty-eight
years old.
SuIcprs number two day in New
York City.
TnE Romans hardened brass 40 as to
cut stone.
A SPIRIT wrnpper-Thc paper around
bottle of whisky.
lr is noticed that picnic lemonade is
built without l,mon-aid.
TuE writing ink used by the ancients
would be called varnish to-day.
A BURNING lake of sulphur has been
discovered in the Indian Territory.
lN China they spend $3.50, ,0eu. COO a
year in worshiping their ancestors.
DURING the siege Paris subsisted on
horse-ilcsh Now it lives on strangers.
\ MAN without money is poor, but a
man with nothing but money is poorer.
InE festive goaA aud sporting cows
Can never, never knit their browse
Ncio JcTcy Repubiioon.
a BABY, according TO the French, is
an angel, whose wings decrease as it's legs
lcngthcn.
AN epson salts mine has been discov-
vcrcd about twelve miles from Chat
tnooga, Tenn.
Mrs. HANNAH Cox, of Iolderness,
n. H., has Just celebrated her one hun
dred and second birthday.
THE Nihilists i'm Russia show their
contempt for religion by smoking cigar
cites in cathcdrals and churches.
\ MAN reaches after the unattainable
when he finds fault with every body and
expects none TO find fault with him.
THE American who thinks he knows
French has only to reach Paris TO find
out that he doesn't even speak good
English.
Ar the recent Beer Congress the argu-
ment was used thar ,hs decline of
Turkey is due to the temperate habits of
the Turkish people.
THE kindness which most men receive
from others are like traces in the sand.
The breath OF every passion sweeps them
away from memory forever.
lrshould beneccssary but TO grow old
in order 10 become indulgent. We
seldom sec a fault committed that we
have not committed ourselves.
PAIN here on earth is often nothing
more than an initiation to something
higher-thc box on the car, or sword
stroke, that makes man knight.
An Ohio woman had her foot hanging
out beyond the bed-cover. Her husband
mistook il for burglar. and shot att
with direful accuracy. Awful feet
The time present seldom fills desire or
ss....
and We are forced TO supply the def
cheney by recollection or anticipation.
THERE are enough houses in Washing
ton TO accommodate one hundred and
fifty thousand people, and only two
thirds Of tlrit number to put in them.
F'IFrY-oNE metals are known 10 exist,
thirty Of which have been discovered
within the present century -Four hun
dred years ago but Sven were known.
THf streets in Paris are kept so clean
and tidy that the people who are run
over and killed do not look NJ mussed as
q New Yorker who slips on an orange
peel
4 LONDON physician has solved the
problem Of living on sixpence day,
but what good many people in this
country lack is the potent Ixpence.-
BroqtIast Table,
STANLEY is an awful liar. In one of
his letters about Central Africa he
speaks about the lion- stalking in the
hills" Hen tell us next that the ele-
phants can sing and chew tobacco.
HIRE was trouble at Mrs. Leare's
funeral services, IN Philadelphia, be
cause her son John desired TO sit at the
head of the coffin with his two wives,
ono of whom the family would not rec
ognile
NEVER marry for wealth." says
contemporary, but remember that IL is
Just a. easy to- love q girl who has a
brick house with Mansard roof and
silver-pIatcd door. bell as one who hasn't
anything but an auburn head and ami
able disposition"
No people can be happy and con
tented unless thay are governed by laws
which they have made themselves
There you are. That puts a sky-light
into the mystery of how 10 comes 80 few
married men find in the conjugal state
the serene JOY and balmy comfort bright
fancy pain ed.- BrcqkIosf Table.
THE best receipt we know, if you
want 10 bc miserable, is to think about
yourself, how much you have lost, how
much you have not made and the poor
prospect for the future A brave man
with souliu him gets out of such pitiful
ruts and Laughs at Encouragement, rolls
up his sleeves, whistles and sings, and
makes the best of life. This earth never
was intended for Paradise, and the man
who rises above his Encouragement and
keeps his manhood will only be the
stronger and better for his adversities
Many a noble ship has been saved by
throwing overheard the most valuable
cargo, and many a man is better and
more humane after he has lost his gold.