West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-06-01
WAITS AND wBIMS.
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law.
Two hundred and forty-three Eng
lish people went mad from love last
year.
In March the Baldwin PHILADELPHIA
works sent Russia twenty-six locomo-
tives.
The manufacture OF base-balls EN-.
ploys three hundred workmen at Natick
Mass.
STEAM machinery is now successfully
applied to the Matching of shad in South
ern waters.
The Marquis OF Lorne and Earl Dun.
raven will visit this country for a buff
falo hunt next fall.
In San Francisco there are forty
five thousand voters, thirty thousand of
whom pay no taxes.
FIFTEEN persons have lost fingers in
using a molding machine in the New
buryport shoe factory.
A MAN walks on the water at Taun-
ton, Mass. He wears immense tin shoes
in which air is confined.
The fact of Mrs. Tilton's confession
was telegraphed TO the London press
and appeared in large type in the great
dailies.
For the future crude pc roleum will
be sold by weight in New York, allow
ing six and one-half pounds to the
gallon.
JOSEPH III. CHADWICK, of Boston, now
bankrupt, has first and last given over
three hundred thousand dollars to
charities.
The Cashier of the Credit Foncier
Bank of st. Petersburg has been arrested
for misappropriating 81, 375,000 of the
reserve capital and specie.
THERE is an umbrella one hundred
and seven years old. 1t was made in the
reign Of George III, and has passed
through many rains since.
KING HUNfBERT has set apart two hun
dred thousand out Of the income of his
civil list toward the monument to his
father to be reared at Turin.
HE will of the late A. L. Stewart will
not be contested further, and there is
grave apprehension that several LAWYERS
are going to starye TO death. Bu6ato
Express.
THE City Council of Rome have voted
to allow religious instruction TO be given
in The public schools to al pupils whose
parents desire it, but at separate and
fixed hours.
lT Is one thing, remarks the Elmira
Gazette, to start anewspaper and another
thing to establish it. 1t takes fool, in
fact, to attempt The one, and wise man
to accomplish the other
Two members of the Suffolk Bicvcle
Club accomplished the distance from
Boston to Newport (seventy-two miles)
In thirteen hours, including stop of
two hours and half at Taunton.
A NEW police regulation interdicts
the entry to Morgue, in Paris, of chill
dren under fifteen. Ibis lugubrious
place was favorite promenade of
nursery-maids with their young charges.
The discouraged collector again pre-
sented that little matter. "Well," saws
his friend, you are round again"
Yes" says the fellow with the account
III his hand, but | want to get square,"
THERE is boarding -house
Not far away,
here they have onion hash
Three times day.
Oh how the bIArders YELL
hen they hear the dinner bell
oh, how the onions smell
There every day
BARNEY WILLIAMS didn't know how
much property he had. and he iotted
down requests of five thousand dollars
where his estate couldn't pay five hun
dred cents. The disappointed heirs
don't approve OF such liberality
A PROPOSED solution of the problem of
convict labor and its competition with
Tree labor, is to employ the former in
the manufacture of articles exclusively
imported fir m foreign countries, said
products to be sold at the regular mar
ket prices.
MAN was scared to death in Berry
vile, Mo. He was passing graveyard
at midnight, when two men spranp from
behind monument and shouted at
him. He ran home and went to bed but
was so nervous that he could not sleep,
and before morning he died in convul-
sions.
a YOUNG man from the country en-
tered the office of Probate judge Miller
this mSrning, and asked for marriage
license, and the application was filled
out by j.. w. King, who happened to be
in the Office at the time. Saws the
would-be benedict to King: Keep still
about this, ! don't want il To get in
the papers What difference will
that make p asked King. ooh. 90
deal, says the fellow. % / haven't asked
the girl to have me yet, and if she
should go back on me it would be an
awful joke on me. - Youngstot0n Trib-
Une.
The German language is full of words
that can only be pronounced when
broken up into sections that will not
loosen the te tn, but the average Ameri-
can will always have his doubts whether
anything can be crowded into diction-
airy that he couldn't handle a good deal
easier sometimes than he can say " No p'
in the full vigorof his native vernaculur.
plug hats logged along together, like
economy and comfort AID now tie
Government proposes TO try it on bv
sending a large consignment Of stove
pipe tiles to the CrOg Indians. The
standing army will have 70 be considera-
bly, increased before they can be made
70 wear them.
a BosToN rector gives each child in
his flock ON every Easter pot of flowers
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