West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-12-21
WAITS AND WHIMS.

NEW YORK has five Chinese voters.
THE Up Gulch Shorter is new paper
in Dakota
THOSE who never retract love them
selves better than the truth.
ONE of Bismarcks idens of absolute
rest is smoking ten pipes day.
THE most eminent physicians in New
York make from $4,000 TO $4,000
year
THE Memphis Ledger says the popu-
lation Of the city is greater than before
the late epidemic.
HERE, come hold us down. Is not n
detective in the United States coinage
bureau mints spy2
lT costs the people OF Great Britain
100000 per year TO support and
maintain it's royal family.
He who toys with time trihes with a
frozen serpent, which will afterwards
turn and inAict deadly wound.
THE Lord can more easily have faith
in the religion that wears an old coat
to church than the man in the coat can
ALL the blows we strike should be
for purpose; every nail driven should
IT was the Chicago journal that said
n few more medical schools, and there
will be no business left for resurrection
day"
SIGN of the times In Atlanta,
Ga, clothier advertises 20 supply
patches of all kinds for children's
clothing.
THE thirst for continual novelty
makes people throw away good alma
macs at the end of every year, and buy
new ones
WE are never more deceived than
when we mistake gravity for greatness,
solemnity for silence, or pomposity for
erudition.
WHENEVER you cum akrost n man
who distrusts everyb boldly, yuhave found
one whom il is safe for everybody to
distrust.-Josh Billings.
MILLIONS never think Of n noble
thought but with brute hate Of bright
ness, bay mind which drives tho dark
ness out Of them, like hounds.
IL would be uncharitable too severely
TO condemn for faults, without taking
some thought Of the sterling goodness
which mingles in and lessons them.
NEW fans of painted silk, with ivory
sticks, have bird perched on one side
when the fan is folded, but when opened
the bird is in the middle Of the fan.
ONE Of the shortest Wills ever known
has just been probated at Lewee, Eng
land. II is to the following effect
Mrs M is 10 have all when die"
THE New Orleans Picayune says that
men on the Pacific slope are beginning
TO confess that they stole the Stewart
body in order to get free transportation
East.
AN English publican died recently
from acute Inflammation, caused by in
dulging in ft OF laughter while tell.
ing n funny story TO one Of his CUT
toners.
An astronomical paragrapher observes
that "if mans arm we're long enough
10 reach TO the sum il would be over
three years before he would feel that his
fingers were burned"
IT is Spanish maxim that che that
lOseth wealth loses much he that loseth
friend loseth more but he who loseth
his spirits loseth all" So keep up your
-pirits and fig for care.
ACCIDENT insurance companies, sasy
the Boston journal, have put kings and
emperors down i'm the fourth class Of
risks, along with engineers, brakemen,
firemen and book agents
EfGHT young Cinnamon are attend
ing school in Phillips Academy in An
dover, Mass. In the same school there
are twenty two SONS Of ministers and
four sons Of missionaries.
AN amateur dramatic company IN Os-
kalOOsa recently es ayed TO produce
Proof, but the leading man took In 10
much that was above proof that the
performance had 10 be postponed.-Nor
Herald