West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-02-22
WAITS AND WHIMS.

In Washington the old heel-and toe
polka ia superseding the waltz.
MILTON was man out OF sight but
not out of mind.-N q. Picdyune.
CHARLESTON has abolished her heavy
license fee for commercial travellers.
CALIFORNIA last year produced
enough to support ten million families
year
UP to the present time over twenty
thousand silver mines have been located
in Arizona.
THE iron molders say that last year
was their best since 1872 This will be
better.
A MAN in Illinois has found way 10
make good lumber out of compressed
straw.
BEFORE 1870 Germany had only
seven railroad bridges over the Rhine:
now she has sixteen.
SHpBUILDING in Maine last year was
only fifty-fiye per cent, of the average
OF the three previous years.
THE marriage of the Duke of Con-
naught will take place at Windsor Cas-
tie about the 18th of March.
PRINCE BISMARCK is said to look with
displeasure on those German diplomats
who are married to foreigners.
Mrs, GIBBS, of 81. Louis, advertises
that she il an elocutionist, poetess,
washer and irOner.'
In IA brcach-of.promise case the lover
was convicted of writing, Nj hart beets
only for the, Mi darling huney"
A WISCONSIN farmer has cured case
of cold feet by filling his boots instead
of his stomach, with whisky.
THE old saying, Excuse haste and a
bad pen" has been attributed to pig
who ran away from home.
A VACUUM automatic brake lately
tested in England will stop in three
hundred yards train running at sixty
miles an hour.
JOSEPH GAMER, of Scottsville, n. Y,
aged one hundred and seven, has Just
lost his wife, aged one hundred and
three, TO whom he was married in '790.
DIR. STRoUsRERG, the once fa,lous
railway king of Germany, offered three
per cent on its indebtedness of eighteen
million five hundred thousand dollars.
LAsELL Seminary, an institution in
Massachusetts,, gives object-lessons in
cooking to it's pupils on Saturday even
ings.
Now butterflies across tho mead are winging,
And bluebirds in the foliage singing:
Now tender buds tho woodland are illuming,
And vioets are timorously blooming
In Florida
u. X. WdHOs.
IT is terribly exasperating to n really
good pious man TO sit down suddenly on
an icy sidewalk and see the wicked
safely stand in slippery places"
The Tribune says Lord Beaconsfield
not only knows every thing, hut much
else besides" 1t should have said, "but
much else also in addition besides."--
Grdphic.
AN exchange says: We are told that
during the recent severe weather, the
sparrows feasted upon those of their
number that were sickly and which they
could easily kill.
In Texas Mr.. Swindell has been
elected TO the Legislature and Mr..
Twaddell has defaultcd, Should have
been just the other way.--NeU York
World
AN Indian has got the advantage Of
the white man in one thing, at least
he can chew tobacco, and the Juice don't
show on his shirt bosom. -iSyrocuse
Tinles.
DURING the past two years stock rails
ers of Illinois have lost $3,384, ,920 by
hog disease IL seems IA if il would
pay Illinois farmers 10 study the disease
and pay good sums for "sure cures"
MASSACHUSETTS has turned out and
sold one hundred and fifty thousand
barrels Of cider this year, and her mills
are still running Nearly every mill
owner is pledged not 10 drink cider, and
~ regard IL as Intoxicating, but they
have no objection 70 other folks getting
drunk on il.