South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-12-16
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million dollars. The Ring Theatre, in
Vienna, took Gre on the night of the 9Th
inst, while performance was in pro-
gress and was totally destroyed. 1t is
supposed that over nine hundred per-
sons perishcd In the flames. Some
idea OF the magnitude of the railroad in
fterest in this country can be bad from
the fact that $50. 900 people are emplo, Z
ed In its service. IA facetious young
man calls female institute q 'Vennor
weather prediction because It contains
so many misses. "A Latin Bible, 1862,
sold for $1,000, at the Sunderland sale
in London, few days ago. >. Proba.
bly, the wealthiest journalist in the Unit
ted States is Mr.. A. S. ApsLL, OF the
Baltimore Sun, whose property is esti.
mated at $4,000, 900. ;. Sitting down
on hornets nest is stimulating, but
not hourishing. In the United Grand
Lodge of FREQ Masons, at London, on
the 9Th inst, vote Of coincidence with
the widow of the late President Garfield
was unanimously adopted ;. Avoid a
slandercr as you would scorpion. "A
book stolen from Boston library TWEEN
ty years ago has just been returned
Conscience wrestled with that thief for
a long time, but fetched him at last.
Europe publishes 9S3 medical periodi-
Gals aud the United States 1873. 1t is
infinitely easier to live down lie than
to talk 1T down -. The State of Ire
land continues unsettled Forty. four
head of Jersey and Guernsey cattle
we're sold al Philadelphia on the 9Th
inst. at prices ranging from S25 to ST.
l50... Are you dry. Pat p "Dry's
not the word shake me, and veil see
the dust comm out of me MOUTH.
In the Guiteau trial at Washington on
the 9Th inst. number OF citizens Of
Froeport, H.. we're examined by the
government, and their testimony was 70
the effect that the prisoners father was
man Of more than ordinary intelli-
gence, and that his sanity bad never
been questioned. -. Some women are
like shotguns. They would attract no
attention were it not for their bangs.
Cbestnuts are inhabited this fall and tue
tenants seem TO be fat and thriving.
ut Ia never too late to mend" which is
why the cobbler never has your boots
done at the time promised :. Senator
| ho fot1 r.
children but only three are living A
st. Paul druggist has sold thirty six lbs
OF chalk to one young lady during the
past two years. She eats it to make
her white. One redeeming feature of
Mormonism seems TO DO that it does not
throw the burden OF the support of q
husband on one woman The discoy-
cry OF what is true and the practice Of
what is good ere the two most impor-
tant objects Of life. -. Never ask others
TO do things. that you would not do
YOURSELF Judge GILMORE. of Balti-
more, last week fined juror, who was
ten minutes late, $40. "A good house,
wife's affairs are like motion TO adj
journ-"always in order" Pennsyl-
vania and New York absorb half the
Presbyterian strength OF the country.
THE Philadelphia Herald thinks
that Eve was giddy young thing be-
cause she got married when che was
day old .. The forests OF Delaware and
Sullivan counties, Iowa, are fast be.
ing stripped TO furnish fuel TO the acid
factories, each of which consumes from
5000 TO 5000 cords of four.foot wood
annually The farmers in Iowa are
burning their corn for fuel because il is
cheaper than coal, and despite what the
Chicago speculators say there is corn
enough to burn aud have plenty TO eat.
49,. The total number Of land owners
in Ireland is 66,758. OF whom 36.144
are the possessors Of less than one acre
each. Refners for glucose, sorghum
and beet sugar have been built in Chi
cago. .JoHN w. KELLY, the motor
man, has been brought into court by
some Of his stockholders for the pur
pose OF compelling him 10 patent tie
/ invention he claims 10 have made 80.
/ A coat of arms Of the State of Pennsyl-
vania wrought in marble has been pla-
ced in position on the Southern front
Of the Public Buildings in Philadelphia.
The figure is twenty-foar feet long and
eight feet high To laugh ut FOLLY is
every mans privilege, but 10 excuse it
is tho prerogstiye alone OF the good
man. "A coal Hre is a CRATE comfort
but a nutmeg often suggests To a
crater. . Chicago and New Orleans are
the only American cities tba, license