South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-07-07
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RoMNEY. FRIDAY. JULY Z, 1882.


BREvIrIEs.-The Insane Asylum at
Weston, this State. has 600 inmates. 80.
Gold pens have been initiated by pens
made of galvanized iron, and thinly pla.
ted with gold. The pink.eye among
men, is said to be prevailing in Cumber.
land county, Pennsylvania. The Aus.
tralian colonies have population of
100000, but they own $4,000, GOO
sheep, or an average OF nearly thirty
sheep for each inhabitant. :. A thief
who was arrested in New York, last
week, upon being asked his occupation.
replied that he was "a pocket miner -.
Blessings are strewcd like flowers in
our pathway; it rests with US to gather
them up carefully or pass them BY.
Or grasping landlord Krauf remarked
"He would squeeze the salt from poor
widows tears" There are times in
the lives OF most OF Us when the pres
sure OF the hand aud an unspoken sym.
pathy are worth infinitely more than
gold "A Chicago Clergyman says that
the devil has a conscience. but that it is
depraved -. When KING CETgwAYo
wants good laugh he orders one Of his
guards to have tooth pulled in his
presence. He enjoys tue fun so much
that he has half notion 10 turn dentist
himself. -. A London scientist predicts
that the time is not far defiant when 9.
!ectricity will be stored So successfully
and cbearly that little boxes OF it will
he ueed TO psopel tricycles. and people
will journey about the country by that
method rather than by rail. .SwIND-
LING THE PRINTER.-The Salem Rryis-
ter snys: "A man may borrow money
steal from widow, discount his own
wLiskey bill or nip prayer book from
dying heather, and still have some
chance of pardon but when he swindles
poor printer out of his bill, we think
the devil has such a Grm grip on the
waist OF his pan:"loons that repentance
and forgiveness are utterly out of the
question" The best way to shorten
sales is TO stop advertising Letter
from well-bclovch young French lady
TO her lover: Finally, my ownest Own.
understand that | I've yen more for
| Jour defects than your moral qualities,
and thus judge OF the boundlessncss OF
my love for you - Why is loco {.
motive like beef steak? Because its
good for nothing without its tender.
The edge must be keen that can cut
Off woman's wit. - FENDERsoN saws
he wishes he WAS rumor, for q rumor
soon gains currency ANA that he has ne
yer been able TO do. The Chinese
have introduced u new kind OF radish
into California. that OBJ aims ienarka.
Die size and still r mains tender. Spe-
cimens are in tho San Francisco market
that are twelve inches in circumference
and weigh two pounds. : A boy says
in his composition that Onions sre the
vegetable that makes you SICK If you
don't eat them yourself" he al ways
Mt leisure To do good never make bu-
sincss an excuse to decline Offices Of
humanity Strive TO impress on your
chiidrea that the only disgrace attach.
ing to honest work is the disgrace of do.
ing it bad. Money and fame are two
things that mon work hardest for. and
after death one is worth to them Just
about rs much as the othor There
are Fifty race courses in Kentucky, and
qnite number CT small colleges II
love eve said Mr.. Sheep to Mrs. Sheep
Said Mrs. s.. Bah = About 81 .40O.s
600 in gold was shipped from N. York
on yesterday week. "A little boy,
proud OF bis new jacket. Informed his
sister that he was a six-button kid
BLAINE sent 81 900 10 the victims of
the Iowa cyclone -. WIZ is a bull dogs
tail like an old man 2 Because il is
IN firm. The Mexicans of the wealthy
or well-to.do class have An unique Gus.
tom in married life. Husband aud wife
have entirely separate apartments, and
neither Is expected TO enter the apart
mehts Of the other except on invitation.
-. Why don't they build mills on The
Nissippi River 2 Why, dam It, they
can't..-.A Venitisn glass mosaic por-
Trait Of General Garfield by the Yenc-
Man artist Salviat, is soon 70 he hung
beside Abraham Lincoln's picture IN the
old House Of Representatives a. Wash
ington The Sharpsburg, Nd. Eate,.
prize states that one day last week Wv.
JOHNSON caught turtle OF the snap.
per species, 10 the Potomac, weighing
something over sizty pounds That
was Citing burial Of Mr.. JAMES WICK.
the greatest cultivstor Of flowers In A
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