West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-01-18
WAITS AND WHIMS.

cry than the burden of thousand
crosses.
SUCCESS has n great tendency TO CON
ccal and throw q veil over the evil deeds
Of men.
You have not fulfilled every duty un
less you have fulfilled that OF being
pleasant.
To the CarClcss--Bo careful how you
let fa II remark. 1t hurts somebody
seriously. .- Hartford Times.
TAnoRs are tho only people from
whom you can obtain reliable list OF
our promising young men.
AN English paper AYERS positively
that onions, whether cooked or raw,
give great relief in chronic rheumatism.
GETTING drunk, the Boston Post
thin ks, Ia one of the greatest hindrances
To temperance In this country. - Troy
Press.
The Michigan tramp carries n brick,
and he gets into houses on the excuse
that he wants to heat it.--DctroH Free
Prcss.
THERE is no disgrace In being poor.
The thing il TO keep il quiet, and not
let your neighbors know anything
about il.
The Chinese language is spoken by
about 350,000,0O0. The English Ian
guage is spoken by from 10000, 600 to
81, 900 600.
A RESIDENT of ST. Albans, VI, has
"A son, n grandson, and great-grandson,
and one of his grandsons is older than
one OF his sons.
WHAT pleasure il is to be contin-
ually told of our faults by those hum
htt, ,,t. l.
detected. .--R0O York Ncws.
A Hartford, Mich, minister had
urprisc party, and the guests stole all
his napkins and best dishes, after eating
him out of house and home.
AN Eastern paper remarks that the
fate of Mr.. Stewart involves the ques-
tion, " Where do we go when we dieP
with great additional perplexity.
THERE is to be 1000, 900 feet of lum-
ber put into the head waters of the Con
ncctcut this winter, which will ec
RATED TO Massachusetts in the spring
PEOPLE who take their meals mt res
taurants must shudder when they read
the advertisement, Wanted-Women
for puddings. ~ Boston Commercial But
ietin.
SEVERAL mill-girls in Birmingham
Connecticut, were made very i'll by eat
ing "mottO lozenges." A physician
pronounced IL a case Of arsenical poi
soning
a CASE originally involving 500, but
which has swallowed up the estates Of
both litigants, besides costing the county
n large sum, has been settled amicably
at Bath, Maine.
In fl.g.W.
at the marriage Of President Hayess
parents, is still living in Adams, JefTer-
son County, New York, nearly ninety
four years of age.
IL is officially announced that New
foundland's share OF the fishery award
has been fixed At 81 600 600, and that
the sum has been placed TO the Islands
credit in the Bank of England
A RECENT scientist states that in or
der 10 obtain one kilo OF sugar, bees
must suck 100000 distinct flower
tubes, and thus 10 secure a pound ot
honey $500, 600 visits must be made.
- LADY named Mary Magui-ah
Had trouble So lighting her b-sh
The wood being green,
She used kerosene
Pause. Then continued Solemnly1
She has gone where tho fu, IL dTg-ah."
IN the London Timers account Of the
burial OF the Princess Alice occur the
words funeral obsequies" "a phrase
Dsraeli was criticised for using in his
maiden speech in the House Of Com
mons.
BOoEEsBORo, Ky, men say that the
best twenty-acTe field Of corn raised this
year in the State was on the land cleared
one hundred and ten years ago by Dan
iel Boone. u averaged more than a
barrel to the shock.
LOUIS BLANC is quoted by Mr. Yates
as saying that in the coming federation
OF the world" in the universal republic,
two languages alone would remain
French, as the language Of literature,
and English, ~ the language Of com
meTCe.
THERE are different avenues 10 fame.
| The Maine newspapers announce that
the lady who made the FIRST pair Of
/ trOwsers for the lamented William Pitt
/ Fessenden died recently at New GlOu-
/ cester, at the age Of ninety-six years
! Her name was Judith Rowe"