Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-06-12
Editorial Brevities.

prlatlon Dllls.
The rich depend on the poor, as well
as the poor on the rich. The world IS
but a magnificent building; allthe stones
gradually cemented together. There is
no one subsists by himself alone.
Let US take care how we speak OF
those who have fallen on lite's field.
Help them up, not heap scorn upon
them. We did not see the conflict. We
did not know the scars.
Pride is like the beautiful acacia that
lifts its head proudly above its neigh
; boring plants, forgetting that it, too,
ike them has its root in the ground.
Libraries are all shrines where all the
relics Of saints, full of true virtue, and
without delusion and imposture, are pre-
served and reposed.
Men are geese, women are ducks, and
birds Of a feather flock together.
The world owes us all a living, but
she Is Just as hard to collect from as any
other debtor.
The reason given why an old toper.s
mouth would make good sole leather,
was that it would never let in water.
1t is said of the mosquitoes of South
America that they sit on the trees snd
bark, and a great many OF them weigh
pound.
\ pretty milliner settled her adver-
tising bill with a Little Rock newspaper
last week by kissing the editor Arkan-
sas editors don't get very rich but they
have heap OF far.
A Connecticut widow, worth 81 ,000,
600, is ready to marry, provided she can
find a man who knows enough. Al
most any man knows enough-to marry
such woman.
a young man has been arrested in
Albany for preparing new dodge
He fastened bristlcs on the tail OF rat,
and then sold him for asqurrrel. The
purchaser was gentleman from Ger
many.
A little boy being asked by his teach
er who Washington was; said he was a
great Injun fighter. How do you know?
asked the teacher. Because, replied
the lad, he cut down his father Chero-
kee.
Don't you wish you was big mani
said one little urcbin TO another. IL rect
do. I'm just dying to be big enuff to
git shaved an have one Of EN- BARRIERS
powder me all over and squirt cologne
juice at me, was the reply.
A gentleman told one of his friends
that for an eternity his wife had denied
to be more than twenty nine years OF
age. My wife is more reasonable, SAID
the friend. i have at last persuaded
her to be thirty-two, but | have never
been able TO coax her along any fur
ther
We should give as we receive, cheer
fully, quickly and without hesitation; for
there is no grace in a benefit that sticks
to the fingers.
II life be a battle, how mad must he
be who fails to arm himself for the con
test II life be a storm, how infatuated
is he who sleeps while his bark is driven
amid unknown waters If life be pill
grimage, how unwise is he who strays
from the right road, nor seeks TO return
till the twilight shadows gather around
his pathway
A Philadelphia servant girl who was
washing windows spattered some water
On a pedestrian. She apologized, he
smiled, and in four weeks they were mar
ried. lie turned out to be worth $780,
| 600.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, has the largest
match factory in the world. 1t cuts up
1000, 900 feet of logs into matches, and
used S30O,OOO worth of revenue stamps
during 1879.
"An honest man is the Doblest work
OF God"-but it has been so long since
our gaze has rested upon. that we give
this item as a historical fact, and not
one deducted from personal obserya
ton.
A loaded revolver was discharged in
trunk which was being handled by a
reckless baggage smasher," in Council
Bluffs, Iowa, the other day. The bullet
whzznd by his ear. lie lifted the next
very tenderly.
All ~ ,,a p ,,oo,,,. GGNI-L,, -,
Thou Sad 2 Now, Aide, we will be
honest with you. The reason we are
sad is, because our back suspender.but
ton has busted. and we are afraid the
other one wont hold till we get home.
"Now," said the examining physician
to the unhappy pilot. you must pick out
all the reds you see The pilot com
menced by grasping the learnedprofess-
ors nose, which was worsted. "Tbat
will do" said the professor; ''your GER
tifcate is ready"
"Why do girls elope'' is the very in
terestiHg query put by contemporary.
Well there are various reasons, the prin-
cipal ones being that the girls are dis
pleased with the way their mothers do
house work, and some girls have all idea
they can support husband. A good
many of them do it too.
Real merit of any kind cannot long
be concealed; it will be discovered, and
nothing can depreciate it but mans
exhibiting it himself.
No man ever lived right life who
had not been cbasteHed by a womsn's
love, strengthened by her courage and
guided by her discretion.