West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-03-22
WAIFS AND wHIMs.


THERE is small community of Nor
mons in Paris.
a NEW shade OF dark green bears the
name of serpentine.
AN Ohio obituary says, Deceased
pumped church organ efficiently for
twenty years"
The dogs of North Carolina live high.
They killed thirty thousand sheep last
year
PICTURE frames are not always hung
on account OF their gilt any more than
mcn.-Fond du Lac Reporter.
The house whore Lincoln's father and
mother were married is still standing,
seven miles north of Washington, Ky.
a GREAT many young men who
swore oil on the lst of January have ro-
sumed
MURDERERs are 40 common In Texas
that the man dying natural death I'm
that State is looked up as an impostor.
THERE are three good aids TO the devil
in this llfe-poverty, politics, and the
toothache.- Toledo Commercial
THE cheerful live longest in life, and,
after 1t, in our regards. Cheerfulness
is He oilshoot OF goodness.
A CoRREsPoNDENT Of tho London
Times says that celery cooked in milk
and thickened with flour will cure
rheumatism.
THE annual importation of oranges
and lemons in the United States in over
2OOOOO,OO0, amounting in value 10
about $6OO,000
LONG Vow, an actor in the Royal
Chinese Theater San Francisco, is paid at
the rate of six thousand seven hundred
dollars year.
ENEBGETIC business men i'm England
are pushing for new market and n
new field of industry i'm the interior Of
Africa.
COUNTERFEIT silver dollars are in cir
crlation. They are thicker and lighter
than the genuine, and can be detected
by imperfect lettering.
ALL prosperous men can give good
counsel and like TO do it; It costs them
nothing. 1t is easy to declaim against
fcasting when the stomach is full
THERE is a boy fifteen years old in
Raymond, Me-, who stands six feet and
four inches in his stockings, and weighs
one hundred and sixty-one pounds.
CLAUDE DE HAVEN decides that the
when he il boring out your eye, with his
forelingcr fortified behind wet towel.
SOME people regard it as singular that
n man who never played at cards in his
life because it is wicked" will exact
20 per cent. interest from poor widow.
The cuirass worn by the German
cuirassicrs is brcaftplate and back
piece of white metal, and weighs no
less than sixteen pounds.
THE hatchot with which Capt. Cook
was killed is preserved in Donai Mu-
scum, Paris. The popular impression is
that the Captain was struck with a club
We are never more deceived than
when we mistake gravity for greatness,
solemnity for silence, or pOmpOsity for
eTuditlon.
PEOPLE who are apt 10 tell more than
the truth, erroneousIy think it evens
the matter if sometimes they say less
than the truth.
EPITAPH.
Sacred to the memory Of Anthony Drnko
who died for peace and quietuegs' sake;
His wife was constantly scOlding and gcOfin',
50 he sought for repose IN twelyo-dollar coffin.
He who is false 10 present duty
breaks a thread in the loom, and will
seek the defect when the weaving Of
lifetime is unrolled
DO not dcspisc the opinion of the
world you might as well say that you
care not Rg Tor the light Of the sun,
because you can find candle.
GREAT Britain imports about 100, ,O00,-
900 eggs per annum, besides those
raised on her own territory. The
importation has nearly doubled in the
past seven years.
a CHILD without legs has just been
born at Cohoes, n Y. Thank
Heaven" said the weeping father, "this
boy will never be a champion pedes
trian."
DURING n recent storm n young
couple in Maine, were 70 desirous Of be.
ing made one that they started for the
ministers with team, with two men
in advance with snow shovels.
THE oldest inhabitant Of Broglie and
the oldest inhabitant Of Toulouse both
died recently soon after the completion
Of their hundTedth year They would
smoke, and perished together.
THE San Francisco Bulictjn says that
the laboring classes in that city pay in
the neighbOrhood Of twenty per cent. OF
the amount they pay for house rent for
water rates, or more than they pay for
milk or bread.
WE cannot understand why enlist
persists in asking questions of a patient
whose mouth is filed with a napkin, a
sheet Of rubber, several clamps, three
| fingers and that horrible instrument of
torture the revolving drill.-Hackensack
| Republican.
AN old sea captain recently died at
\ Guillord Conn, leaving most Of bis
property TO the Episcopalian Church.
/ ln accordance with the terms of his
will the mourners went afoOt, after a
l nrncerY wannn which was mhsLiLmind