Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-10-03

cut behind" up to the sympathy that
divides the last crust of bread with an
unfortunate. Perhaps they are right, I
haven t time to argue about it, but from
whatever source it may come, the echo
of business is quite as old as the world it
self, whether it be renovated and digni-
fed by the name of the press, or still
travelling along out of sight and response
bility behind the indefinite they say
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One of the Mexican Editors who was
doing the Eastern Cities few weeks
ago, was so delis hted with the busy air
Of Pittsburg, that he wrote back in COM
munication to his paper, this is the
workhouse of America" With the same
good intentions he would likely have
written of Martinsburg, after view of
the street corners. = this is the playhouse
of West Va"
Tableau on Martin st. Man standing
at corner of house looking up at window.
Girl upstairs wonders what he means.
Martinsburg boy comes along, sees man,
sees big book and pencil in his hand.
Walks slow, thinks man is drawing girls
picture, or Irritation on hand, walks
slower. sees man go on to next house.
Same programme. No girl there. TAX
ing plat of city. End.
The show windows at Neal Berry are
realistic scenery artistically arranged,
and out of the usual method of adjoining
rural show windows. He has the boss
fan.
| wonder if one of the society boys
knows that there is chubby little kitten
in town named after him.
Mat Mccormick discounts Morpheus of
late. He don't mind talking over the
gate by the silvery light of the moon.
But leaning over the mail delivery by
the light of gas bill, and talking to an
unappreciative public until "a O'Clock, is
a different thing.
There are some ingenious and bright
lille children in this burg. One of them
told her teacher that she thought she
could read better than Mary, (her sister,.
and when the teacher said to her, may
be it would sqNnd better if somebody else
had said it. y She readily answered,
maybe it would, I've got cold, and l
can't say it very well. ="
This same infant terrible went calling
" it'll her mother, and during pause in
the conversation, said to the lady of the
house, "where is the miserable table you
keep p
Another, who IS a member of the infant
class in one of our churches, was skeptic-
II, &l,o, 10 aff hal oox ha
fishes, and in answer to her teachers ex-
PLANTATION, said, well, Christ might have
done it with them people, but he could
MT have done it if our boys had been
there
1t was very wee granger who, stand
ing in a doorway watching the cattle
pass by, saw one of them dragging a
short rail along chained to its neck to
prevent it from jumping fences, and who
calling, said, 4" Mother come and look,
here goes a steer a maxim fence"
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One of the Juveniles who took in Rob-
bin g circus, undertook to give private
entertainment of the same description the
other day, to select circle of gamins.
They clembered to the roof of new
building, and he began by trying to hang
on to the edge of the roof by his feet.
The laws of grav.tation have no respect
for amateur circus performers, he struck
terra firma in about two seconds, and
rose up with battered frontispiece, but
lungs still able to do their duty. By the
assistance of two or three of the medical
profession he will soon be able to play
Humpty Dumpty again.
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Winchester was honored on Wednes-
day with visit from our budding poll
ticians, who put on their best bib and
tucker to salaam to Governor lin pro-
spective) Wise. They came home wiser,
if not sadder, men.
THE HARRISBURG ANTIQUARY EXHIBIT.
I wish had room for full description
of this. but as it is / must condense all
into brief space. 1t was wholly an ex-
hibit of antiquities as valuable and rare
as any known in the United States and so
large collection that the Martin st.
Rink would not contain them all. We
had only time to note the rarest and
most valuable. The largest and choicest
part of the collection is the property of
MIR. and Mrs. Coleman of Lebanon, Pa,
collected by them thro' all parts of Eu-
rope. and at an enormous expenditure.
| Among the articles in this collection that
most attract attention, are two superbly
carved arm chairs belonging at one time
toJerome Bonaparte. Fire shovel, brushes
and tongues, gold mounted, that once be-
longed 70 Napoleon, and handsomely
worked rug that was used by Maria An
toinette. There is very large and mag
nificent specimen of globelin tapestry
that is almost invaluable. There is also
in the Coleman collection a child s bronze
chair, found in the tomb OF a prince
near Naples, and which is more than
$500 years old. There is also silver
lamp from the holy sepulcher at Jeru.
salem and a splendid roman lamp OF
bronze very old.
There was a beautiful old gold satin,
all over hand embroidered court dress
that was worn at ball of Queen Annas.
aces and tapestrys that made one thiei
in desire. Old and rare jewellery that
once qlitered around thrones and daz.
lied kingly eyes. Rare engravings and
paintings that cost fortune to procure
One of the rarest paintings in Oil II
dome on spider-web, and comes from
Austria. The picture is the face OF
man and is painted upon an infinite
|, number of fine cob-webs, and tho
cannot SEQ how it was done l appreci
ate the value and rareness OF IT,
There was o rare collection of ancient por
traits, and prints.