South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1885-05-29
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Edward Everett Hale thinks that
SIN these days the Church has some-
thing to do besides singing, reading,
and praying, Among other things,
he mentioned hospitality, education,
and charity
Two Troy men have invented a
machine which, it is claimed, will
practically revolutionize match-ma.
king. 1t has been operated to mako
"a, 600 perfect matches in q minute
I'andits capacity is expected. to reach
Is, 600. 600 in ten hours.
The Herford bull valued at 49,
600, the finest in the world, died at
Cheyenne. Wyoming, on Monday,
after he had been relieved of tumor
weighing IS pounds. He was owned
by the Wyoming Association.
A spider caught for observation by
a scientifically inclined Englishman
was weighed carefully together with
what food he consumed in a given
time. AT the same rate of consump-
ton says the London Standard, a man
weighing 160 pounds would require
the whole of fat steer for breakfast
the dose repeated with the addition of
half-dozen we'll tattened sheep for
dinner, and 2 bullocks, 8 sheep and 4
nogs fos supper. and then as lunch
before going to his club banquet, he
would indulge in about four barrels
of fresh fish.
A French physician has written q
long letter on the advantages of groan-
ing and crying. He tells of man
who reduced his pulse from 126 to
sixty in the course of few hours by
giving vent to bis emotions.
A lady visiting Kansas writes of
the grasshopper in dilferen, strain
from that usually employed: Ifyou are
not quite sure that they are not lnten-
ding to light flight of grasshop-
pers is beautiful thing to see. All
day they floated over US; millions up
on millions of airy little creatures
with their white gauzy wings spread
to the light, mounting steadily toward
the sun, IA it seemed. 1t was like a
snow storm in sunshine, if you can
picture such thing, with the fakes
rising instead of falling
A man in Lyon county, Kansas,
fourteen years ago married widow
with a little daughter by former
husband. After twelve years he OBJ
tanned divorce from his wife and
soon after married her daughter. The
most novel feature of the matter is
the fact that the divorced wife, now
his mother-in-law, lives with her
daughter and husband, and all are
happy.
Two hundred years ago there was
fish in tho Arabian seas go large
that the natives sawed it into plank
which they used to mako roofs for
their houses.
Said Brougham when Inc was a
struggling lawyer: 'Circun stances al
ter cases; but wish could get hold
of come cases that would alter my
circumstances.
A rumor current in Washington is
one to the effect that Senator Malone
in some way got an linking in adj.
vance Of the recent decision of the
Supreme Court on the Virginia bond
cases, went in for the rise which he
knew would follow, and jumped out
before the decline commenced with q
clean profit of $4,000.
Jas. Maxwell one Of the oldest and
most enterprising citizens of Wheel
ing, this State died suddenly Of heart
disease on Thursday of last week.
lie was president of the National
Bank of West Virginia.
A Republican office holder being
asked why he did not resign his of
flee said that if Cleveland did not
have spunk enough to put him out he
was just meau enough to stay in.
Use charity with all be ever gene
rous in thought and deed-help others