South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-05-12
saatl, alranth 5ntslliaenses.
ROMNEY. FRIDAY. MAY i2, 1889.

ROMNEY. FRIDAY, MAY i2, 1889.
BREviriEs.-It is the fashion now in
London for bridesmaids to have bril-
liantly colored dresses in contrast with
The brides white -. Ito that will no.
look before him will have TO look boz
hind him-with regrets. How few
new brooms, after all. sweep clean. un.
less there be clean sweeper behind
them. - Just as regularly as spring time
comes the red man resumes the war pa;h.
The better Uncle Sam feeds him through
the winter, the harder he fights him in
the summer. Ii we had no faults we
would not take SO much pleasure in no.
ticing them in others /. /. Tue nearer a
rain cloud is to the earth, the larger The
drops. A Hartford church is conneo-
ted by telephone with the houses Of 100
members OF the congregation -. II is a
popular mistake to call a thin haky,
seml-transparent mineral isinglass. l.
sinSlsss is fish glue, and has nothing TO
do with the mineral. which is mica
A sympathizer with those who are a.
bused for liking tobacco writes 10 Lon.
don paper to show that it is natural
and comparatively harmless luxury
The interesting part OF his appeal is
where he shows the strength OF the ap.
petite: ''ln Mrs. Brasseys interesting
diary of her voyage in the Sunbeam, she
says OF tho Csnoe Indians that they
came alongside shouting, "rabaco =
which was given them in exchange for
skins, and they then took off those they
we're wearing and clamored for more to-
bacco; anti finally the woman with them
parted With her sole garment for lillle
more tobacco. Nearly 10000 tons
oi barbed fence have been manu-
featured in The United States durinp the
past year Ii is reported that 2,2j2
women are engaged i'll farming In Indi.
ana -. correspondent wants 10 know
where the expression Lot up comes
from. We believe it comes from The
fellow who isn't on top in the f.ht.
II lamp chimney he cut with a dia.
mend on the convex side, it will lever
crack with the heat. rs the incisian af-
lords room for expansion. and the glass
after cooling returns 10 its original
shape, with only scratch visible where
the cut Els made -. a Cincinnati corr
respondent of the New York Tines pre-
iicts that Ohio will go Democratic next
fall by at least $4,000 majority. The
law abolishing tho whipping post in
virginia took effect on the LIST inst.
The STATE Executive Committee of the
Political Union in Virgins, straightout
! colored republican organization, has is
sued call for State Convention to BE-
held in Stanton or the 27th OF June.
The object Of the convention is TO max e
effective their efforts in behalf of "irue
! republican principles and adherence TO
such leaders IS Hon. John +. Dozen
derf, aud Gen. W. G. Wickham The
| BGd'aoTedn, In It's account Of "A marriage
in high life describes how ''the bride
walked on the arm of her father" We
should fancy that the Bridegroom must
have been little alarmed to see tie n i.
crobasic manner In which his future wife
takes hsr walking exercises. At tie
gate of the cemetery st Avignon, in
France. the parents OF child certified
70 have died OF Group insisted on having
the coffin opened to take last look.
The child was found breathing, and vas
expected TO be saved In Bucsing-
ham county, Va, there 10 q goll mine
owned by northern company which is
valued st two million dullars.
There sre 10 truer friends To man
llsn poverty and rheumatism. They
stick to him when all his friends forsake
him. IA Dayton. Ohio, girl has nam
ed her deserving lover Conkling, be
cause be voluntarily went back on n
sure thing. --.I find that, with light
meals, my health improves, said an
I Esquimsux and down vent another
candle. Some housekeepers ere so
cons,itutioDsily wssteful that tie ioofe
dour they have Tie more they knead.
Cows on the prsiries got accustomed 70
the noise Of locomotive bells and whis-
Ties, and DO not always clear tie track
until thrown OF by the cowcEtcbsr. A
patented devise is described in The
Scientific American Tor squirting hot
water twonty rods shcad. Il i, calcu-
lated that this will stimulate the --latest
into action .---It is not by PERSONS
se'king his own happiness directly that
It IS attained bat by f,rgetfulness Of
self, ana conservation Of thought, fee.
ing. opp0rLn Wv and lime 81 Tho ln..r-