West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-12-07
WAITS AND wHIMs.


table.
A LEAN lover may still be man of
great sighs.
III the Goddess of Justice was not
blind, she wculd bc imperfect.
No person is entitled TO reward for
duties performed through fear.
SOME men are as unsatisfactory as a
soapy door-knob and twice as slippery.
HEAVEN gave women tongues To ask
questions with, and eyes TO give answers
with.
LIFE, like the water of the sea, is not
quite fresh and sweet till il rises toward
heaven.
MANY run after felicity, like an ab-
scnt-minded man hunting his hat while
II tisOn his head.
TuE woman who confdes TO one man
her partiality for another seeks advice
less than an avOwRl
FEATHERS are used this year to trim
everything except hotel pillows Reo-
kUk Constitution.
TnE persons most apt at spending
money are identical with those most apt
at Suspending payments.
THERE were one hundred miles of
Z,
cost about fifty million dollars.
CARBoLIC ACID is now recommended
for many forms of skin disease, and
especially for boils, carbuncles etc.
SOUTHERN negro arrested with
chickens IN his sack declared, " De man
who put EN- dar was no fren' oh minep p
FIFsoLE is one of the few Italian
towns which have right to create
mobiles. A title of Count can be bought
there for 500.
DIR. JOHNSON, once speaking of a
quarrclsomc fellow, said that il he had
two ideas in his head they would fall out
with each other.
ONEof the articles shipped from India
to China is salted rats, which are, az is
well known, highly appreciated in China
as an article of food.
The garments belonging TO the Moors
who died from cholera in Morocco, in
stead Of being burnt, arc sold by auction
in the public market.
a DYING patient recovered 30 sud
denly in Cleveland the other day that
the attending physician was himself
frightened almost to death.
ONCE they started female seminary
| IN Utah. IL ilourished well, but Just In
the height OF its prosperity the princi-
pal elopcd with the whole school
Now that st. Louis has statute Of
| humboldt, the papers of that city are
overwhelmed with letters inquiring who
| Humboldt was, and what Office he ran
| for
a PITTsBUBG schOol-teacher had Just
taught her scholars TO say either" and
"nither" and fenance" when she died
No one can tell when their life's work
will be cut short
An Olean squirrel is credited with
having carried off, in one week, thirty
two bushels of buckwhcat and eight
bushels Of corn and hid the same in
lot of sap buckets in the woods.
MosT Of the beautiful dyed feathers
sold in New York under the general
term Of Nassaus are chicken feathers,
imported from Nassau in Holland, and
dyed and manipulated in this country.
GoNG THRo' THE RYE.
ssys the Captain 10 Pat:
" Come, III have none o that"
AZ Paddy Of whisky was drinking his OIL.
with satshed Sigh,
As nc finished the 20 rye"
Gays Paddy Be Jabers, don't think ye viii"
- Yduo0b.
IT ia now we'll ascertained that, IL
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DISTINGUISHED from the best sugar of
sugar-cane, either by taste, appearance,
or chemical analysis; the two are iden-
tical
A CURIOUS invention is being shown
in London, namely, q watch with n white
face, white in daytime, but when taken
into the dark, or at night, the face be-
comes blue and luminous, 80 that you
can see the time.
a HGH-ToNED but impecunious Chi
cagO youth recently Tilted a Cincinnati
girl because ne thought she was poor.
Then she went and inherited $4,000, 900,
and wouldn't speak 10 him. He now
thinks it great Missfortune.-N r
Gr0phc.
1HE estimates Of the Japanese Minis
ter Of Finance for the fiscal year 1888
have been published and show an in
crease iu the public debt of $4,000, 900.
the total liability of the State amount
ing to 1915, 100000.
a WEsrERy paper apologies thus
ln place Of Mayor n. was tight last
evening beyond a doubt please read
" Mayor " was right" etc. The com
pOsitor that did the mischief has been
asked 10 remove himself
THE Mexicans have o method Of sub
DUNG fractions horses and such az are
inclined 90 run away, which might be
introduced here with profit. A hood or
wiuker 80 arranged that the driver or
rider can IN an instant draw it directly
over the eyes of the animal, edectually
blindfolding him. When this is done
the horse instantly becomes quiet, and
repetition of the blindlOlding two or
three LImes gradually resulia I'm his be-