West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-01-25
WAIFS AND WHIMS.

THERE are four hundred and twenty
one Chinese business houses in San
Francisco.
ST. LOUIS has one rat hole moro than
Chicago, and she is almost wild over
the discover Syracuse Standard
KNOW one thing-if stand by the
principles of truth and duty, nothing
can inhict upon me any permanent
harm.
rnB beautiful in heart is n million
times OF more avail, ~ securing domes-
tic happiness, than the beautiful in
person.
DIR. MARY WALKERS reason may bo
restored Edison is said 10 be at work
on an invention TO keep pantaloons from
bagging.
lT IL said that in Cai, mia there
has been rain enough to impart an
emerald cOloring to the soil" Is this
poetry
The u. :. Senate--an ornamental
lnstitution-cost the country 1896, ,84S
last year for salaries, lemOn.peel and
whisky.
Miss JENNRss, of Pembroke, n. H.,
is the right kim of an aunt. Christmas
day she gave two nephews $4,000
apiece,
A BARBER advertises himself by a
placard hung in the window as "1he
Great Capillary Abrdger and Tonsorial
Operator"
THERE are people with whom peni-
tence stands for repentance-people
with whom wearing mourning dispenses
with feeling sorrow.
THE vice of gambling is said TO be
increasing in Philadelphia. What can
you expect Of city that IN laid out
like a checker-board?
PAPER kerosene cans are the latest.
By using them, servant girls aud
kitchens can be blown up much cheaper
than with the tin can.
Onl dear to memory ara those hours
when every pathway led 10 flowers,
Ana tucks OF pperni mt possessd
Aud maven was round whom We fed
On rich ambrooial VI gerbread. D..
Int q man sit out in an empty dry
goods box until lie freezes his nose, and.
he can imagine he has had n sleigh
ridc.-Nc orleans PicdyURc
QUESTION for debating society
" II man has tiger by the tail, which
would be the best for his personal safety
to hold ON or TO let goP
CREDIT is like loOking-glass, which
when only sulIied by breath may be
wiped clean again; but if once it is
cracked it is never 70 be repaired.
The new invasion of Mexico by
American merchants bent on cult.
waiting good will and trade, is one Of
the mosl hopeful signs of the times.
THERE is nm oil we'll of Santa Bar.
bara running to waste in thirty iathOms .
OF water. The Yankee residents of
Santa Barbara grow sick thinking Of IL.
A MAN advertises for competent
person 10 undertake the sale OF a new
medicine and adds that 1T will prove
highly lucrative to the undertaken"
A LONDON tailor exhibits his cloth for
sporting suits by turfng his window,
placing stuffed partr dyes and pheasants
~ IT, and Displaying the bales Of cloth
in the foreground.
IT stands every man in hand 10 ex-
anime himself carefully and satisfy
himself that he has not boen shipped in
a barrel 10 some medical college. Hun
dreds have been.
A NEVADA man drove twenty-eight
miles ~ attend funeral, but reached
the house ~ find the deceased alive and
recovering. He therefore brings suit for
twenty dollars damages.
DAKOTA TERRITORY IL rapidly set-
tling up and growing in wealth. There
has been an increase of sixty per cent.
ia the assessed valuation of property
during the last year
a REsIDENT Of Cuttingville, Vt, saw
what he took TO be q burglar in his
room 1T night, and jumping out Of bed
thrOttled with an iron grasp the big bass
yiol which stood in the corner.
a MAN in New York was sued for as
sanlt Tor thrashing q beau Of his daugh-
ter's, whom he had warned 10 keep
away. The courts stern sentence was,
"YOu are fined the sum Of one cent, sir"
WHEN we get money orders down 10
FIVE cents, as has been proposed by bill
introduced in Congress, most anybody
ought TO be able to get money TO send
away.-Fond Du Inc Rcportor
ARKANSAS, which made the Bowie
knife historical, grows n plant in pro-
fusion which is said 70 be superior 10
imported teas. That settles il; the
Chinese herb must 60. Tr0Y Press
'TwAs the night before Christmas
When all through thr house
Ihe young ioIkH Wcfc ftrfuK--
And young lady, veRh.ug one hundred and
sixty pounds wrO vent no he ct0.rt 70 cot
goblet wm 'scarel aiu0st To- death " by O.
dear little mouse. hOrrifo o'tn Heruh
a NEBRASKA doctor attributes diph-
/ iberia TO the use Of the Irish potato. His
I father, Dr. Keith, Of Augusta, Maine,
many years ago urged that decaying
I potatoes were the sole cause OF this
disease.
Now" said citizen Of Rawlins,
Wyoming Territory, at q recent dance,
" you see that heiier in red dress
that's my wife, an ef you dance with
her more'n two times, pard, I'll shutc
the hull TOP Nv yer head Oft Whatll
ye drinkW