The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-07-20

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and as good ut home.
Some of the bathing dresses worn
this summer will be ugly enough to
make the little fishes stand on their
bald heads and weep.-Er.
Mr.. Charles is now delivering to
our citizens coal from the sunken
Khnawha barge, at 81 per 100 bushels.
A Mason county belle says she
don'tlike thcquarreling part ofcourt,
ship very well, but oh! the making
up-yum! yum!!
NEW VERSION.
Mary had vaccine scab
Upon her snow-white arm,
She warned her beau to this effect
For fear he'd do 1t harm.
But when they came to part that night
She gave mighty grab,
And whispered, thug me awful tight,
And never mind the scabw
1t is singular the pride some men
take in exposingaj jug of whiskey, on
their return from Gullipolis, as they
pass up our streets. 1t looks very
smart, don't it,"
1t is "revised" to read, "faith. hope
and love-" What 4 worldof worsted-
work will have to be taken down
from sitting-room walls and be alter
ed.-h.
The paw-paw crop promises to be
more than an average one. This in
formation is for the small boys.
The blackberry crop, we are told,
will be almost an entire failure, and
we advise those who want this kind
of fruit to take the first that offers.
There seems to be an unusually large
increase of lunatics this year, and a
few Of them are 10 be found in Point
Pleasant.
Mad-dogs are reported in the coun.
ty. Kill the first dog you come
across that shows u disposition to
"crookedness."
The recent rains made great
change in the atmosphere.
People begin to know where to get
good work at low prices, hence they
bring their job work to this office.
The wheat yield in this county
will be much larger than was expect
cd, and the grain is Of superior
quality.
We publish this paper "in the in.
terest Of the people of the county"
IN EXPLANATION.
Her lips were 80 near
That-what else could | do?
You II be angry, fear,
But her lips were no near
| can't make it clear,
Or explain it to you,
But her lips were so near
Thnt-what else could do?
Marcus Friedman attempted to
swim the Ohio the other night, and
came near being drowned.
Roasting ears about two inches
long, and ten grains to the ear, are
worth ten cents per dozen in our
market.
The saloon men now call our
County Commissioners the three
kings"
1t was little hard to say Of doc.
tor who was taking q stroll in u
churchyard that he had gone to pay
a visit to some of his old patients.
Locusts are now beginning to make
the air melodious with their sweet
songs"
The world is apt to COO in your ear
like dove when you are rich, but if
you happen to be poor it kicks like a
mule.
j. N. was here; he put the pressure
on US, but before going away, "raised
the veil"
This would be good place for a
few manufacturing establishments
We have good foundry and ma
chine shop in this place. A gooG
man, who understands the business,
would do well to get hold e it,
1t is now said that the comet will
strike the earth about the Goth d
August, and set the world on fire.
The law strictly requires road sur
veyors to erect finger boards at what
ever places needed, but it is not en-
forced.
Physicians tell us that there is
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