The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-04-23

1 dream Of what itmighthave been.
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In order to deserve a good friend
you must first learn to be one.
What we call learning is but the
knoHlodgeof our predecessors.
Detroit, Mich. has a dog oil fac.
tory. The product is used by con.
sumptiyes,
A ma6 may talk continually and
not be eloquent, sound and sub.
stance arc not twins.
Charities should be difused.
Grain will not grow if piled in a
heap; il must be scattered.
Labor is one of the great Gle.
monts Of socioty-the great sub.
stantial interest on which we all
stand.
Conductor-"1 can't use trade
dollars, sirl" Passenger Well,
give this one to the company,
then"
The first ingredient in converse
ton is truth the next good sense,
tho third good humor, and the
fourth wit.
Strict punctuality is perhaps
the cheapest virtue which can give
force to an otherwise utterly insig,
nifcant character.
Thoreis.ina man a hlgor aim than
love Of happiness. He can do
without happiness, and instead
thereof find blessednsss.
One OF The best rules in CONVEX.
sation isnevort to say a thing which
any oflhe company can reasonably
wish he had left unsaid.
"There's wisdom in the cask,"
sings an old poet who knew how to
have a good time. And he is
right. A cask has two heads.
"Boys these days." remarked a
street urchin, as he picked up the
stub Of a cigar and pulled away at
it. "begin whore grown people
leave of"
Scene in an anteroom at late
woman's rights convention. One
old girlin a low, confidential voice;
"say, girls, let's tell each other our
right ages"
1t is impossible to make people
understand their ignorance, for it
requires knowledge to perceive it;
and, therefore, he that can perceive
it hath it not
Probably the wcalthiest railroad
conductor in America is employed
on the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia road. He is said to be
worth $4,000.
There is sign on a building at
jas Angeles, Cal, which has been
read by a woman, with the aid Of
1.-THE electric light FIVE miles at sea.
1t must have been an iceoream
sign,
He seldom lives frmgally, who
lives by chance. Hope is always
liberal, and they that trust her
promises make little scruplo of re.
yelling today on the promise Of to.
morrow.
1.-THE sense of the ridiculous is
one side of an irrepressible nature
it is very well; but if that is all
there is in man he had better
have been an ape andstood at the
head Of his profession at once.
A remarkable bank of singing
sand has been discovered at Man.
omoy point, Cape Cod, Mass. The
sand hero is SO hard and fine
that in two weeks pane of glass
becomes ground by the flying
particles.
Leap year is a good time to en-.
grave indelibly upon the hearts Of
the young men that much misery
is caused by not saying mo at the
right time.
And still, year after year, the
standard Of college education is
raised higher and higher. COlum.
bia has just organized a banjo club.
"Bring something good to the
surprise party tonight" wrote a
young lady to her sweetheart, and
the New York Morning Journal"
Gays "he brought tremendous ap.
petite"
"shot dead by a doclorl" Such
is the startling caption of an ar.i.
clo in an exchange. He must be a
very unskilIfal physician who has
In resort to powder and ball 10 got