West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-11-23
WAITS AND WIIIMS.

IuE United state is selling moro than
10 buys az present.
Az Antwerp silk factory was cstab.
hshcd in the year 1904.
lUE very children learn to lisp the
price of stocks i'm California.
NINETY thousand bushels of pcanuts
will hc produced in North Carolina this
year.
\ SEW Krupp cannon sends bali
through tire hcavicstngmor plate at eight
miles
Tm government has distributed S24,-
. hl' in rntions TO the yellow fever suf.
lcrcrs
/ WIlrE twillcd roulard is now inn
ported made up as corset covers or un.
dcrwaists.
MoNEY makes the marcgo, steam
makes the cargo, and the sight of the
/ creditor makes the mango.
IuERE is NO man So friendless but
/ that hc can find q friend sincere enough
/ to tell him disagreeablc truths.
/ \ MlsER of : Xty years old refuses
/ himself ncCcssaries that he may not
| want them when he is u hundred
IurRE wouldn't have been any milk
+ in the cocoanut if somo of our dairy
men hod had The construction of il.
/ A THRIFTY young man will wear hia
/ last winters trowscrs. and save his
money TO take his girl out sleigh-riding.
/ Mrs. PtRTINGroN suggests as pre-.
/ vcutvC OF steamboat explosions that On
ginccrS Toe required to bile the wator ON
/ shore
AJvRY Mt sherman, Texas, sentenced
% man To ninety-nino years imprison.
mcnt; some of the jury wanted TO make
IL for life.
THE man who smokes cigarettes is
merely ornamental, But tho man who
smokes hams is really useful.-Nc,o la
zen Rryistcr
II is row of empty houses that gets
it's windows broken: aud empty heads,
empty hearts aud empty hands are sure
to come to grief.
JUST, though severe, criticism invigo-
rates; foolish and ruihan Censure al
most consecrates. OF Whom TO be dis
praised is no small praise"
WI lean no more ON the gate, and
gaze n the eyes OF brown; not that our
paths run separate, but 'Jnuso the fence
* down, NcridcH RccOrjeT.
Feelings come aud 20 like light
troops following the victory of the pres
ent, but principles, like troops of the
line, arc undisturbed aud stand fast.
II ls caught "a cold, a horrd cold,
lhcy do who go n-hshinD
And ihia ncooun for what would else
For when noghbor kindly Oskod
with ice ~ sweet as toby.
Did Java pleasant timer he Ntid,
- Yonkers Gaseife.
Now that the base ball season Is over.
clergymen, lawyers and doctors may be
found in their Offices and studies at the
usual hours, and students will resume
their dusty books.
VICTOR HUGO asserts that there are
children in heaven the same as on earth.
Then they can't be happy, for no one
ever saw child yet who didn't sigh TO
become man or woman.
"SATAN died here" reads Pittsburr
sign; but il was not till an astute Allie
Phany Dutchman inquired when he
died there thnt the people understood
that they could get satin dyed
No persons make go large n demand
against the reasons Of others n those
who have none of their own, Just as n
highwayman will take greater liberties
with our purse than our banker.
THEY used 10 call 'em horso-raccs when
we were a boy, but now they join with
cattlc-show, and call it t" an exhibition
OF trottng stock" so that doacOns and
| small boys can see the fun without It's
being wicked
Is gambling room in Nevada the
Janitor, on opening the place in the
morning, found a man sitting dead ut
table with cards still in his hands. He
bad been shot at poker by his adversary,
who had fled.
/ Mrs. RACHEL STONE, OF Gratz, Pa,
/ died recently at the age of eigbty-four.
/ She was the mOthcrOf thirteen children,
| and bed sixty.ninc Grandchildren, nine
| ty-two great grandchildren and one
/ great grcat-grandchild.
RErAmliquor dealers call their places
/ Of business " sample rooms" " liquor
stores, salOOns" and sometimes "bar-
| rooms" but uncommon, indeed, is such
! q sign as swings in Three Rivers, Mich,
. "Si ~,ruther's Gin Mil"
THrRE Is no sight more calculated TO
/ excite the -ympathies of the young than
/ ~ see an old maid i'm o street car, her lap
/ full Of bundles, an umbrella in one
/ hand, and pet dog under her arm, and
/ the lady trying lO eat Juicy pear with
double set Of false teeth that are
loose .-- PecEs SIM.
THE immense horns Of South African
| cattle are made to twist spirnly, and in
. fsnciful curves, by being scrapcd on
one side or the other while they are
/ growing Each owner can tell the oxen
| which belong 20 his span in this
way by the acquired shape Of their
naturally regular horns
Ius sarcastic girl rarely succeeds in
catching % husband, consequently she
runs down upon the lee shore Of old
madcuhOod as feet as the gale of years
cau drive her Her character Is not
l9vah.c, and only q most confirmed hun.
ter of curiosities would care to marry
her for her intrinsic merit
OS Saturday evening IasLa Mexican
called at Dr Walkers Office 10 have
him look 90 little child, bat the Doctor
wa out and the man went home and re-