West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-06-15
WAIFS AND WliIMS.


The fishery question-Had n bite
YETI
TUE man who is not loved ia alone
everywhere and with every one.
PHILADELPHIA's debt amounts now
to only $63,000,00O, and she is happy.
THE American rifle team can tell you
what's in an aim, If Shakespeare can
not.
SUCCESS has "A great tendency To con
ceal and throw veil over tie deeds of
men.
The favorite fruit of the Parisians ia
the apple, the sale of which is regulated
by law.
DIsCoNTENT il vital element of civil
ization. Without IL there would he no
progress.
A BANK is the place where people put
their money 80 il will be handy when
other folks want IL.
THE man who never wore tight boots
is courting the woman who never saws n
looking glass. 49, breakfast Table.
THE deepest lake in the world, 40 far
IA known, is Lake Baikel, in Siberia,
where depth of ~, 900 feet has been
sounded.
FELT gray is popular color for ladies'
spring suits. Felt blue is the popular
color for the husbands who have 10 pay
the bills.
Four hundred and twenty choirs lift
their noses to heaven i'm London churches
each sunday morning, with hired voices
TO the number of $4,000.
PARIsIANs are tired of losing their
pocket handkerchieis at the wash, and
now they have their photographs exc
cuted in the center of each.
THE soprano and bass in Houston.
Texas, church choir have been arrested
and put under bonds for disturbing the
peace by inharmonious singing.
A MAN should be virtuous for his own
sake, though nobody we're TO know it,
IA he would be clean for his own sake,
though nobody were TO see him.
THE elder Dumas used to say: "The
man who abuses me does not intend to
ask for the | an of money, therefore |
have fair offset for his words"
VINO IL IL with funercal tread,
Comes slowly home and goes 10 bed,
And utters what iH hest unsaid2
lis he who's ashed since rose the sun,
Subsisling on single bun,
And after hlPs caught nary one.
WHEN disguised in liquor the Rus
slams are never quarrelsome. They go
through an ailectionate phase, during
which they want to hug their neighbors.
This il followed by stolid, apathetic
idiocy.
A CHINAMAN never swears when he
gets mad because there are no "cus5
words" in his dictionary. He simply
upsets his washtub, butts the bottom out,
kicks n dog, and feels better Break|ost
Table.
lF you are a wise man, YOU will treat
the world az the moon dOes--show il
only one side Of yourself, seldom show
yOurself too much at once, and let what
you show be cool, calm and polished;
but look at every side Of the world.
IN vain do they prate of happiness
who never subdued an impulse in obe-
dience 10 principle. lie who never
sacrificed present 10 a future good, or
n personal TO general one, can speak Of
happiness only ~ the blind do of colors.
"DE big sunnower may rise above
DE modest 'tater vine.
An bras about its sunday clothes
An put on airs 10 fine
But when de winter bowls around,
An de lies at de doah.
De big sunn0wer OH wbnr am he7
DE later hcz dc hOab."
"BUsT> Ess is dull Times are hard.
Please come and bury me" was the la
comic epistle received by young man
IN Paris from his uncle He rushed at
once, like faithful nephew, and found
his uncle hanging by his neck in the
doorway.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson Of Mountain
City, Texas, are probably the oldest
married couple IN the country, the for
mcr being one hundred and three and
the latter one hundred and two years
old, and they have lived together eighty
two years.