West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-03-01
WAITS AND WHIMS.

! hundred geese last year.
ENGLISH life insurance companies
charge an oxtraper cent. on old bachelors.
TIE annual loss by fire i'm the United
States is estimated at nearly 100000
600.
THE Chinese liken drunkard's nose
! toa lighthouse, warming us Of the little
water that passeth underneath.
THE beauty of a mans parting his
hair i'm the middle is that IL gives both
ears an equal chance to flap.
THE purpose of the law is to split hairs,
shield criminals and hit Justice between
her blind eyes Bu6dLo Erpress.
! LET every one sweep the drift from
! his own door and not busy himself
about the frost on his neighbor's tiles
CIUCUMsrANCEsca cannot control genius;
il will wrestle with them it's power will
bend and break them 10 its path.
ALMOST everything is sold by weight
in San Francisco. Beer retails Mt fvo
cents per pound.
"WANrED: To exchange music les
sons for washing" is an advertisement
in Chicago paper.
"THEsE remarks ART lncalled for"
said the i. NJ, as he mailed postal
card to the Dead Letter Office.
! WESTERN Massachusetts made one
hundred and fifty thousand barrels of
cider the past season, and temperance
! people aro nghast.
! MIR. GLADSTONE, while Premier, made
within three of double the number of
barOncts that Lord Beaconsfeld has
made.
j. NJ. BoARDMAN, Of Milton, VT, has
a large and profitable muskrat farm in
the marshes ut the mouth OF the
| LamOillc River
THE United States Vice Consul at
Auckland, New Zealand, denies that
there has been any case Of cannibalism
in that country for years.
Mrs. Lacy was fined five dollars by n
Justice in Pekin, Texas. "Ill toss n
cent 10 see whether you make it ten dol
lars or nothing" she said. Lacy won.
AN oil well from which flows two
hundred barrels day has been found
in Todd County, Kentucky, one mile
from the Tennessee line.
a WAsmNGToN court has decided
that funeral expenses are TO he regarded
m preferred claims against the estate of
the deceased.
THE electric lights introduced into
| the light houses, railway stations, and
public halls Of Europe, have, in no re.
ported instance, been discontinued.
THERE il no such word IA "fail."
One realizes the awful force of this when
seeing boy run forty rods in order TO
get @ hitch and ride forty feet
a rRECoCIoUs Scotch lass, seven
years old, when asked whether she would
marry or remain single, said " Neither
| shall be a widow"
The Begun Of Bhopal who erected
the best hospital in India, out of Cal
cutta, is making excellent roads, and
arranging for railroad TO her domiu-
ions.
LOB lNGERsOLL made twenty thous-
and dollars by abusing the Bible last
year, and Toronto clergyman died
from starvation. Isn'tit about time for
another food 2-NeW York Commeroiol.
A SALE Of the property of Plus TX
takes place at the Vatican every We'd
nesday and Saturday. Everything is
included, from superb ieweled crucifxes
10 empty bottles.
THE Philadelphia Chrontcle- Herald is
OF opinion that everybody should be
taught 10 read and write, because other
wise no one would be able To- forge a
check for large amount
All over the South farmers are busy
as beavers preparing for the years crop.
The negroes have generally re-engaged
with their last years employers, and the
hum OF industry livens up the old land.
To pardon those absurdities in our
selves which we cannot suffer in Others
/ is neither better nor worse than 10 be
more willing 10 be fools ourselves than
~ zee others 30.
BRIGHT colOrs, gaudy trappings and
even white horses are being eliminated
from the French army service a. they
furnish a too conspicuous mark for the
2 new arms Of precision now used in war
j fare
DIsEAELT, it appears, is about coming
out for a new Office His enemies have
started report that he once wrote
poems on Spring This Of course, is a
! campaign Norristo10n Herald.
STONEwALbJ JACKSON old sorrel war.
horse, which bore his master under the
I moon on the fatal night at Chancellors-
vile, Is still living At the Morrison
homestead, in Lincoln County, North
Carolina
( A CORRESPONDENT Of the Boston Ad
, Uertiser Is reminded by the theory Of some
! detectives concerning the case of Cash
Ter Barron OF suggestion made years
a ago, when n body, packed in two barrels.
D was found floating in the Charles River.
= " IL is clearly" said a spectator, " case
7 OF suicide The man cut of his own
y legs, and arms, and head, and put them
e into q barrel, and then got in the other
barrel himself"