West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1886-09-24
CURRENT TOPICS.

! largest ever known.
THE Hessian ny has greatly damaged tho
| English wheat crop.
IHt colleges were never 80 full. as rule.
as they will be this year
\ ooLoREp man of Mount Pulaski. III is
turning white by degrees
AGEoEGTI orator compared his candidate
TO - cyclone with spurs on "
THF war with Geronimo is over. and that
cut-throat Is on his way TO Florida
In is iSproposed 10 sink an artesiau we'll in
each township in Bruce County. OAK
| THr Mississippi river has not been lower
IN years than IL has been this summer
MRS MARK HorNINs house in Great Rs..
ington Mass, will cost nearly 100000
| CRATER LAKE, in Southern Oregon. is
over 1000 feet deep the deepest in Americ,
l.. b. II Norton, candidate for sheriff of
blne Earth County, MINI. is eighty years
| old
Tar crowd at the large watering places
has vanished a. II by the touch of a magic
| wand
PHnANrHoPIsr CoECoRAN. Of Wash.
ington' has sent 5000 to the Charleston
| sufferers
MuLIoNAIRT Walters, OF Baltimore. paid
$500 for an orchid in New York. few
| days ago.
| SLAB of marble with fitting record has
| been put on Christopher Columbus house
at Savona.
TINY violinS, enameled in perfect imita-
| uon OF their prototype, are passing fancy
| for lace pins
| lHf Philadelphia ministers are discussing
the problem of how to keep the congrega-
| tiOn awake"
MNE. DE Lgssrps. thev saw. hethes in
room which cost something over forty
thousand francs
InE snow isso deep among the mountains
in Eastern Oregon that teams can not
travel with safety.
An old lady in Brookland, y. ", predicts
war because there are SO many boy ba
| bies IN the country
N. DorLE swan fifteen miles in two
hours and forty minutes AZ New
y ork tue other day.
NArIoNAL marriage and divorce law
has been suggested ss the best weapon 10
use against polygamv.
Squirrels and quail are plentiful in
western Pennsylvania this fall, and there
are quite number of partridges.
Az Indian runner recently Travelled from
the Clip mine 10 Yuma Cal, a distance Of
seventy five miles. i'm seven hours
NEW corn Of good quality is being hauled
INTO Des Moines Ia, in wagon lots, and
sells at twenty-five cents per busheI
THr White House, during the absence ~
the President i'm the Adrondacks has been
renovated and put in complete repair
SLoRETARr BAYARD takes solitary horse.
nack ridos after his release from Office
duties, in the early part OF the evening
THE Winchester Mass Leoder predict,
an early winter because migratory bird,
are going South n month earlier than
| usual
THERE are jGi 500 pensioners now on the
rolls, and the Government has pa id on that
account near ~, 100000 600 since the close
of the war.
GREAT scarcity Of small bills is re-.
ported Ones and twos have become
rarity. and the demand for fives is greater
than the supply.
THE settlers on the wenatchie river.
Washington Territory, have been raising
sugar cane this season. aud mill ma. been
secured TO grind it,
THr chestnut-bell is despised nv the min.
strel end man. When he hears IT tinkle he
bee ONES aS funny as funeral in snow.
storm. Tinga-ling
MRs. 4. T. STEWART carries unique ar
ticle az Saratoga this summer in the shape
of a card case, with a small watch in tho
center Of The outside.
HmAN SOUTHWARK. Of Fairfax VI has
curiosity in chicken with twelve toes.
and he has squash which measures six
feet in circumference
lr Is 20 dry IN the prairie chicken conn.
try in New Mexico that hunters carry
water out in jugs for the dogs and pans for
The dogs TO drink out Of
~ has frequently been stated. and never
denied, that domestic service is poorer and
more expensive in the United states than
in any country in the world o..
THE Comptroller ofthe Currency hos i'm.
posed fines offiOO each upon five national
banks which have regularly beon slow in
forwarding monthly reports.
A RurNEBEcK man is engaged in = des.
pcrate effort 10 prove that the sea serpent
seen in the Hudson by large and excited
crowds was nothing but big log.
StS FFRNCI-CO papers are advertising a
rat and squirrel poison that is said ~ have
the excellent qualities Of killing the ami
NAL. drying up its insides and tanning the
skin.
THY Smith family n New Jersey held
their annual reunion A. the heedwater, ~
the Baritsn river recently. There we're
900 Smiths including G7q plain John
Smiths present
KY Wr-r. Fla. has candidate for
mayor who stands only twenty inches
high and weighs twenty eight and half
pounds. He Is Generable Abe SAWYER. not
much more than balf as large ss the famous
Tom Thumb
THrRr died at - Mary, hospital. De.
troit recently from Injuries Issdore
Myers. n man who has hresthed through n
trocheotomv tube tor the past seven vears
The tube was placed just below his Adams
apple When he spoke he was Obliged TO
place biz finger over the tube in order to
get breath 20 produce sound
l.. NrD BrNrffNt once wrote a book of $40
pages boz -ixtv.two hours. scarcely 4leopinq
or eating u that time 10 is no wonder
that be- could earn sGOOOO in q year: but In
I- wonder that he lived 10 be sixty three