West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-03-24
FACT AND FUN COLUMN.
Picked up by the Freeman.

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his wife once every month. An
old bachelor says this explains why
SO many Germans come to this
country to escape military duty.
-NorrsstoOn Herald.
The editor of the Nicholas Chron-
lcle announces that he will take
oats and bacon in payment of sub
scriptions to his paper. We would
like to board with the editor of the
Chronicle this summer. We have
been subsisting for several years
on parched corn and "pratie" skins.
Hinton Herald.
It seems that Mr., Wilson is will
ing to wear his own shoes for an
other term of two years.-Is that
economy Morgantoson Post.
Best sort of economy and it isn't
extravagant to say so. You don't
suppose because be is on the ap-
preparation Committee that he
wants to appropriate anybody
else's shoes, do you Free Press.
Wisconsin ia the leading cram
berry State. Michigan is second.
The average yield of a marsh is $50
to 200 bushels to the acre. The
picking season lasts two weeks, and
three bushels is good days work.
Seventy-fve cents a bushel is the
picker's pay.
Nevada pays the highest salaries
for teachers: $140.50 for men, and
$96.01 for women; and South Car
DINA pays the lowest for men, $685.
90; and Maine the lowest for wo-
men, $16.28. West Virginia occu-
pies the golden mean.-Register.
Mean" is good, but there isn't
much gold about it.-New Domaim-
ION.
The Chinese in California must
be accommodating wealth, however
deficient they may be in influence,
A Chinese syndicate recently Of
fered 100000 for the Palace Ho-
tel in San Francisco, and were
prepared to pay $2,500,000, but f.
nally concluded that the invest
ment would be unwise at the pres
ent time.
The present Congress contains
ninety-two former Federal soldiers,
and sixty-six Confederates. Those
who received a collegiate educa-
ton number 1873. There are three
graduates of West point. The
youngest Senator is Mr.. Kenna, of
West Virginia, who is thirty-sev-
en-. The youngest Representative
is Mr.. La Toilette, of Wisconsin,
who is twenty-eight.
The combined capital of the
firm of the Rothschilds is now
placed by persons who pretend to
know, at the sum of 81, 900, 100000,
one half of it gained within the
last twenty-five years, and the
whole of it in scarcely more than a
century. The founder of the fami-
ly and it's fortunes, Mayer Anselm,
was a poor clerk in Hanover
banking house.
On the high mountain plateaus,
at the headwaters of the streams
north of the Great Kanawha, Cher
ry abounds to an extent unknown
elsewhere on this continent. The
wood is worth in European mar
kets, $3.50 per 100 cubic feet. 1t
grows on levels from 5000 to s.
600 feet above the sea.
Sir Digby, going round to the
stables, finds his new coachman's
children playing about, and intro
duces himself: "Well, my little
man, and do you know who I am ?"
Boy: eyes; you're the man as
rides in my fathers carriage"
A journal has this gem of an
answer to correspondent 1--WE
decline to acknowledge the receipt
of your postcard" Which is very
much like the man who travelled
home to an insulting enemy to tell
him to his face that he would treat
him with silent contempt.
Doctor" said the grateful
patient, Selling the physicians