West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1886-09-03
CURRENT TOPICS.


MrshE'ro damage the Eric Canal $4,000
worth every year
THE Princess of Wales spends S5.unO a
year for bouquets
THE Cutting edge OF this Mexican busi.
ness is about wore of.
THE grape rot is playing havoc with
some Nmlaud vineyards
ToHoNro woman proposes "a society for
the prevention OF kissing
THE Massachusetts convictS are 10 have
their tobacco supply cut of
WAsmNGroN is one of the best il not the
best, paved city i'm the world
THERE are three private mail delivery
companies operating in Berlin
TwoNEAR-orp boy In Vermont wa.
drowned in a vessel OF sour milk some days
ago.
Tnr story of tho discovery Of mccr.
schaum in Oregon turns out 10 be mere
sham
Apvrcr~ from Corca show that cholera
swept Oft twenty thousand persons in one
province
SEvEN citizens Of Chicago will shortly
leave this world with very poor opinion
ofrepublics
THERE is little doubt that anarchy in the
United States has had its wings clipped
pretty closely
THr Car of Russia is growing econom-
icoL He has cut the czarowitz down 10
$4,000 year.
MACHINES for reeling silk from unpierccd
cocoons are in operation i'm the Agricultur-
al Department ia Washington
THRONES are cheap i'm France Two
made for the last Napoleon are now valued
at 500 each, and find no takers.
THE Niagara Falls crank who goes
through the rapids begins 90 assume the
proportions OF national nuisance
Mrs. CLEVELAND, the Presidents wife.
ms taken sixty sittings for pictures i'm n
Washington photographers gallery
y. GR'N, pocl, with my box five dozen
qullis.' The pcculiarity Of this sentence is
that II contains all the letters OF tho alpha
bot
SUICIDES caused no less than twenty four
Of the total number of l.G deaths reported
officially for May "a, having occurred i'm the
German armi.s
THE N0r0HH1b Nc,rs says: There is a
man in Athens forty three years old who
never fired gun I'M his life" Probably hc
is without arms
PITTSBURGH now has seven Bessemer steel
plants. Steel i. so generally taking the
place OF iron that the puddlcrs are moving
west TO obtain work
Ing rations for the force that unstoinvnde
Mexico, may now very properly be sent 10
those counties i'm Texas whose inhabitants
arc suffering for the necessities of life
A DuHEFNr paragraph Us 10 the eject that
the accomplished daughter Of MIR Law
renee Barrett, obodient TO her fathers
wishes has never seen play or an opera
A PORTION of the Gulf OF Mexico was
blown into the city of Galveston. tho other
day, thus making mariners of numerous
citzena who had no sea going tastes what
ever
THF belle of Long Branch is beautiful
Young Jewess named Stella Isaacs whose
iace rs said 10 he pen feet fac simiIe Of
mat OF Venus seen on artistIcally-cut
canoes.
T"F new election at Leith for member Of
parliament resulted in the triumph of tho
ldadstonean candidate, Mr.. Ferguson His
Competitor Mr.. Jacks lost T. $50 votes since
last fall
erHoSC argument for the economy OF
cremation, is that the Vanderbilt tomb is
io be permanently guarded by detectives
nnd house is being constructed in its vi
cinty for their use
CURIOSITY Of engineering, in the form
Of tiny engine. has been made by an in
gculous clockmaker IL weighs only about
iiteen grains, and is entirely covered by
ait ordinary tbimble
SEw umbrella device is patent win
dow in one OF the sections, through which
the traveller can see who is ahend Of him
aud how oavoid punching him i'm the back
with the sharp point.
a NrrEoG, brilliant with blue and rod
light, was seen from Eastport. Me, few
nights ago. II was seer for thirty seconds.
and LEFT rod track across the sky after the
meteor had disappeared
AT Oneida ~ Y, the other dav n base
bail umpire made wrong ruling when IL
"u- pointed ont 20 him he fined himself
-avcni5 five cents. At tho close Of the game
nis severity gave way, and he remjtted the
dne
PnE1DE7~ fiEEvY, now eighty years old
Hnd Far Rom robust. is represented ss seek
us relief from cares which advancing
years. rather than declining patriotism.
hove rendered burdonsome. aud talks Of re-
yuIue
IuE engineer Of Rapid City, D. r., i'm
surveying for che water works. located tho
reservoir rvcral feet above the fountain
hand ~ the water supply and now tho
uator 4iI not run into The tank. and there
f.ro che city's $4,000 watcr system is of no
u..
ROD tfoUn 70 Sioux chief believes that
if bette. tu sefa living ont Of the white
people chan .u quarrel with them What
1914" want say. ne. .i- white men to plant
.ur corn hoe it harvest b. end put 10 into
.Ho barns which they will build for us
Warriors don't work.
h'Wuo paper saws tbat just before
the opening ses ION Of the -ayant- in that
Hfr Bishop Cox remarked ~ reporter
d .hou.d Iif0 to correct tho proofshee of
nf prayer NYu newspaper men and the
Hr. 1 unfamiliar with prayer that
.nuIa pretty certain fo bungle 10 up
badly Iue will go ON record as tho stand
.ng I.t. 90. frr Jon
OWueII> Nu--0v denie, Tho story that
." wa. married tre other dav. and as She
H.i appear IY have heeu boo o. good posi-.
..u fn know fcr word win doubtless go
vr uIfb IIr public
AS ekalarea say- .Mr Jones called TO