South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-10-13
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CeptiOu Il ldtteTy Is eHccttVe only
with weak man. Man pardons
and forgets; woman pardohs only.
ITO wait and trust, is often the la
test lesson we learn i'm life. A man
who gives his children habits of in.
dustry provides for them better than
by giving them money or lands
What is becoming is honest, and
whatever is honest must always be
becoming Only those faults which
we encounter in ourselves are insult.
ferable to us i'm others. The path
OF genius is not less INSTRUCTED with
disappointment than that of ambition.
The Democrats OF Ohio do not
expect to carry that State; but they
claim they will gain four Congress-
men Judge Thos. w. Merriwether
lives in Newton county, Ga, and his
near friend, DR.. II. w. Lovett, in
Screven county. They were school,
mates They first married twin sis
tors, daughters of Bishop Andrew
Their wives died and they :hen mar
ried two other sisters, also daughters
of bishop-3ishop Price. These
wives died, aud they then married n
third pair of sisters, not daughters of
bishop, but two sisters being the
daughters Of Mr.. Smith, OF Green
county With these last sisters they
are living happily Virtue dwells
at the head OF Il river, to which we
cannot get but by rowing against the
stream ----- Economy is half the bat.
tie of life, it is not half so hard to earn
money as TO spend it well 1880 The
Stalwarts of Pennsylvania declare
they will carry the State if it takes a
million dollars TO do it,. We should
not pass from this earth without Ieav.
ing traces to carry our memory to
posterity- ---Twenty-one towns in the
United States bear the name of Gar
held $500 When there is much pre-.
tension much has been borrowed ma
ture never pretends. - While learn
ing adorns a man. let us remember
that truth ennobles him A sim
gle steamer took 10000 barrels of ap
pies from New York to London last
week------It is good thing to learn
caution by the misfortune of others.
The sabre which John Brown had
upon his person at the time he was
captured at Harper's Ferry, the 10th
OF this month twenty-threc years ago,
Is now in the possession of Gen. II. G.
Baylor. of Jefferson county, this State.
.........The Srumblers never work and
the workers never grnmble Com
mon sense is not Il common thing
Buffalo are becoming numerous again
in the Black Hills. A drove of TO-
600 was recently seen there - 1t is
stated that mt late hour few nights
ago couple appeared at the Office of
Leavenworth, Kansas, justice to be
married. The justice was not in.
Thereupon the two quarreled as to
the responsibility for their Hardness.
and ended the affair by separating
and departing in different directions.
The next evening the man appeared
with new woman and was married
to her, and few minutes later the
woman concerned in the original en-.
gagement put i'll an appearance with
another man and was married TO him.
There is 4 certain dccorum, even
in grief; for excess of sorrow is as
foolish as profuse laughter----Virtue
Is the pollteness of the soul. Luck
is the dream of simplcton In
Russia the Sunflower is cultivated for
the oil it yields. The oil is used in
cooking as well as in l0mrs, and for
making soap and paint. 1t pays to
raise 1t here for seed for fowls and
horses Another colored youth has
been appointed to cadetship at West
Point. 1t is understood that he will
be provided with tin ears and will
sleep with an alarm clock ..... Care
Tor what you say, or what you say will
make you care.---- The Cape Ann
Advertiser tells how to color old gold
with horse-ra1ish leaves. What we
want TO know is how to get any old
gold 10 color.-----1 here is good
deal OF worldly wisdom in this planta.
ton saying Remember, young man,
dat de less frich' yer's got ON dis earth
is better frien' to himself den he is
ter YOU ------In one lot there are
four calves and in another two young
men with their hair parted in the cen,
trc. How many calves i'm alI?....
An old bachelor leaving his boarding
house for weeks journey, after TAX
ing leave Of his Iandlady, stepped up
to a salt mackerc! on the table. shook
him by the tail, and said Goodbye.
old fellow, | will see You when re-.
turn. ~-----Poveriy is in want Of
much but avarice Of everything.
The stoutcst heart loses hope under
repeated defeat Wit is mer.
chandlsc that is sold, but never can
be bought.......A Alexander II. Ste.
pheus says he awells with pride when
he remembers that after forty years
Of public life he is as poor as when nc
entered II Mississiptj baa tIp