South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-10-27
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49, - ciiO ~ AZ tiu tttsttu - l.fN Il
oiind aud knows nothing except how
To depreciate the excellencies OF tn
ers.......A Wisconsin parrot has been
attending a camp meeting. and now
shouts Glory to God : Amen = etc.
as it IL were really good bird
Young men and maidens, beware of
Irritation. 1t bi,cth like aquaforiis
and stingeth like hornet. 49,. Ameri-
can teeth factories turn ont ten thou.
sand artificial teeth a year, Ia supply
the annual loss,amd $4,000, 900 ot gold
to stop up the cavities that appear i'm
natural teeth---A Policeman i'm
Gallon, Ohio. had the shoes stolen
from his feet while he slept on his
post The excuse that an Iowa
young man makes for having engage
Ell to marry two girls is that, know.
ing the ficklcncss OF the sex, he sup
posed that one or the other would ill
him, and he wanted TO be sure of a
wife. But neither proved untrue,
and, on his choosing between them
the rejected one brings suit for dam.
ages. Where there's II will there's
way, but says u young man il this
true IN every respect? 49,. Mrs. Mary
Austin, who lately died mt Washing
ton, had forty-four male children, o.
leven OF whom survive. She was n
doctor of medicine and surgeon, and
served through thewar with the rank
OF Major DR.. Mary Walker is small
potatoes indeed as compared Will,
this lady, never having even had
twins, while Mrs Austin had triplets
six times -----1 here were, at the Ias,
count, one hundred and fifty.cight
chartered Marriage Benefit Associa.
tons in the State of Texas, most of
which are said To be swindling con,
Germs. .......School children who read
the newspapers are found to be better
acquainted with geography, spelling,
and the meaning ot words. grammar.
and more generally intelligent than
those who 10 not This Insignificant
but undoub,ed fact The West Va.
Central and Pittsburg Railroad has
been completed to Kittsmillcrsvile
making II now 20 miles from Pied.
mont. Grading has been tlouc much
farther, and the road will proba-
bly, be completed rs far as Fort Pen
dIe,on, - miles from Oakland. before
winter .......' Whv Go women 80 Of.
ten wander ainilessly in the nlurlv
solltudVs at tie dead p;,s,, brooding
over days forever gomez asked Il
Young lady of Il marrying widowcr.
They dob t, think. lac said. Rather
they wander, especially mt this season,
IN the dry goods stores oftlie present,
often pricing articles which they have
not the remotcst intention of buying.'
.........The American committee III
charge Of the revision of the Old Tes.
lament, is holding daily sessions at
the Bible House in New York. Tie
work OF revision has progressed To the
Psalms, which have already been re
vlscd four times, twice III this country
and twice in England. The Songs OF
Will come next, followed by
Ecclcsiastcs, which will all hut com.
plete the work, and will take about a
year yet to accomplish Professor
Meade, of Virginia, and DR. Hare, of
Philadelphia, DR. Packard, of the Il.
Iiscopal Theological Seminary of Vir-
ginia. and DR.. Douaul, of BROOKLYN.
are in charge of the wor', . Fear Of
punishment and hope of reward moves
towards and sycophunts. Virtue is
lndcl cndent Of either lie who does
his best, however little, is always TO
be distinguished from him WHO does
.--.O Over eight million dollars
worth OF cottonsce1 meal is imported
into Great Britain, and En-
gllsh grazers claim that through its
excellence as food they can compete
with Americans. 1t appears strange
that Southern farmers should allow
SO much of this choice feed and spIen.
did fertilizer 10 60 abroad "A man
rever caught a fish as large as the
one that got away from the hook Just
rs it was being landed "A Wash.
lngton correspondent has discovered
IN the basement of the Capitol all old
man, acting ~ substitute for an en-.
gineer, who formerly was a member
Of the House, and subsequently, leu.
tenant governor OF his State. Tie
love of rum las degraded him from
The balls of Congress down into the
cellar, and instead Of five thousand
dollars n year he is paid SlS n month
to manage the elevator for other peo-
pie IA German has invented
that water won't hurt
Publish your joys, but conceal your
sorrows ---- a false friend is like the
5had Ow on the mountaineering
in sunshine and vanishing in shade.
THE Greedy hats, OF 1872, arc he,
ing resurrected 49, Honest worth.
clothed IN poverty, often tremblcs
upon approaching vice throned in
wealth.. According TO the report OF
the commissioner of agriculture of
1870. the larvae of large hy which