West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-02-15
WAITS AND waIMS.

The stock of petroleum in tanks at
present is 4, 100000 barrels.
MARRIAGE is no uneven game it is
tie.
TuERE are twenty-six breweries in
1t. Louis, and one temperance society.
TRuTn is often wounded, but never
slain outright.
ATTENTION to small things is the
economy of virtue.
MEN may bend to virtue, but virtue
can not bend TO men.
WHHELMJ gets the bull on other
fiddlers
A MINNESOTA State Sc enator has re
fused n railroad pass.
a PASTE made of lard and gunpowder
will cure frost bites.
THE dividends payable in Boston in
February aggregate 1867 ,967.
The Indians cultivate five times as
much land AZ they did ten years ago.
a WISCONSIN Professor had his ears
frozen in nine different languages.
ANOTHER prehistoric giant in
fossilized condition has been found in
Nevada.
Ar Deadwood, Black Hills the we'd
ding feast consisted of fried liver and
ice cream.
The Des Moines (State) Register shows
that the farmers rule Iowa. They rule
il we'll.
TwENTY-sEvEN corpses were cremated
in Milan, last year, at cost of about
seventy five cents each
HACK fares have come down in Hart
ford. Passage To and from q train is
given for twenty-five cents.
EXCEPT at table, Queen Victoria will
not be waited upon by those who are
not of gentle blood.
MEN who stand around waiting for a
drink show n lack of cents.--Neio Or
leans Picdyune
LADY ninety-three years Of age, in
Providence, hopes she may not live to
be old and useless.
The fashion plates that come from
Paris are colored mostly in the prisons
by female convicts.
DON'T cry over split milk--unless il
froze on the back stairs, and you are the
first one down in the morning.
The report that Princess Louise had
challenged Nine. Anderson TO walking
match is Indignantly denied
CHIEF JOSEPH has square, honest
looking face, which shows how deceit
ful the human countenance is.
SAN FRANCISCO journals report that
President Hayes has determined TO visit
California as soon as Congress adiourns.
HERE is "A Minnesota girl who offers to
grind two thousand seven hundred
quarters Of wheat in two thousand seven
hundred quarter hours. 2
a CONNECTICUT man recently said
Lend me a dollar. Ny wife has left
me and | want to advertise that i am
not responsible for her debts"
IET man run five miles then step
still in the cold zero wind for three
hours, and he will appreciate the CON
dition Of horse in the same situation.
INMATES Of the Bucks County, Penn
sylvania, poor house are credited on the
oyerscer's bills with silk umbrellas,
pearl buttons and jewsharps
A CANADIAN clergyman starved to
death the other day. Whether il was
owing 10 a lack of salary or too many
donation parties is not stated. Morris.
toWH H,rnd.
FioniEssre Pigmies, though pcrohed On Alps;
Ana pyramids are pyramids m wales.
Zach msn makes his own stature, builds himself
Virtue alone OutbuildH the pyramidB
Hef monuments shall last whom EgyptB fall
~ these surc truths dost thou demand the cause2
The cause IL lodged in Immortality
- Young" Nlgh ThOVghfs."
SECRETARY SHERMAN thinks the
Government will not be able to "get
rid OF its coin" Why on earth doesn't
It start daily newspaper, then? p
HaWkeye.
BoNEs Of the horses which fell i'm the
Turkish war are refining sugar in Aus
tria, some Russian Jews having collected
the bones and realized a large profit by
their sale.
PROFESSOR WISE, the veteran bal
loOnist, says balloons may be built of
boiler iron, if built large enough.
When the surface is doubled the cube
is quadrupled and balloon four hun
dred feet in diameter, Of copper-plate,
would lift up n man-Of-war vessel and
sail away with IT,