West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1886-08-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

"N'' NhuhfrluE sNttN
OVfU one thousand canal boats are tied
up IN New York harbor
Ihf railroad, OF all Asia are not equal in
mileage To those Of Illinois.
R'Rr was born recently in tho peni-
t'ntiary az Anamo,a, Iowa
'u'E'u was disposed Of by raflle at
he""nee H. few days ago
BusroN is trying noiselo>s pavement Of
| granite blocks sot on concrete
Mi Susu,lANA FrNAKr No.uu. Of Jnpop
Is coming over here for a spell
Is a museum IN an Arizona town are ,ro.
served the heads of seventeen Apachcs
F9rH now churches are building at
''' raul MINI, at an expense of $500
MIS- Sr,rrrrR, to whom Mr. Tldcn. in
/ admiration, left Sl0oOOo is summering at
! Nichy
NAruAN b MooRr, Maine hunter aged
sixty eight has killed 275 moose since his
! youth
Tur etiquette classes are an important
! part of the instruction in girls schools in
! Japan.
MNF PATTI has given $3.50 to the swan
sea Hospital. She made the money e.s two
| concerts. '
THr number Of roi,road passenger trains
! u'W arriving Ind departing from Chicago
| daily is ~
a MARROW street in Nogales, 4. r.. is the
| oINlding line bctwoon the United state,
aud Mexico.
Iuf courts or New YORK. Connecticut
"nd Wisconsin have all declared boycottinr
"a misdcmoanor.
Tn new one dollar "a l,,,,,. ...,.,;,,.
l" toe issued will bear the portrait of Mar
tina Washington.
Now that tho President has rone 70 r..
! Adirondacks office seekers can take to tl,c
woods for Ewhilc
THr annual production Of ,owino m,
'n'hrS allows one for every 200 civilized
people ON the globe.
SENt2oR JoNEs, of Florida, is going 10
hang out his law shinglo i'm De,roit .ti,,,
ID aras 1t may seem.
IioiLf PACE HosWFn, ugcd io9 years nbc
"'"' "i'he record to show for 10. died i'm
i'o'ton the other day.
a MoyENENT is on foot for the erection of
"'"hulnnt TO Bluchor, the celebrated
'f'''ian general, at Caub
a hoUNG lady who shook hands with the
''Sldeht tho other day proposes To bsyo
'"' -i'Ne she wore stuffed
NEW honk Cry will have twenty sevcp
'h'aters counting two opera house. and
| NailetyNshow places this season.
ESGIIsH capitalists offer TO invest sq,,
p',VoD IN railways in Peru. the limos to rpn
/" the rich mining districts of that country.
C"TroN was cultivated in India $50 vears
h'l"re Christ, and was gathered from ibo
n''u by hand, exactly as it is being done
today '0"'
THIS, FROM "a Connecticut Insurance
agent s Office door slate for brovi,1.. "Coro
10 bury my wife; VII bo back IN thirty
minutes"
JE"fiRT manufacture in Providence. r
l' winch has been practically dead for five
Years rs enjoying a boom. the greatest
since 1851
MRS CLEVELAND Is said 70 write ON nm
average about twenty letters day. most
OF them IN reply TO communications from
entire strangers.
Ihey Hrre2oed a gentleman in Newport
inc o' her day for blowing tho horn ON his
taIlN -ho coach You can Z 20 on toot any
more iu Rhode Island
WTniN tho past Eve wears houses do
{ signed lortwo families, and permitting Of
complete isolation, have gone Up in ST.
Louis by the hundreds
OPERATIVES OF the Boston ubo1osole
clothing manufacturing houses are uropor-
InE To fight against the Introduction of a
new basting machine
TuE most modcsLgirl i'm the world re.idoq
~ Syracuse. ~ Y. H. is said of her TINT
~ hen pupil a. Nassar she refused 20 work
Bpon Improper fractions
AMOS MORRIS, whose oxen hclp,d the first
railroad passenger train into Danbury
Conn, died n few days ago in that city. at
tho ~gc Of ninety-six years
TTr city council Of De KaIb. Ill., bos
passed an ordinance against swearing on
tie public streets, tho penalty being fine
4 "i not less than t3 nor more than $40
WHILE Polish laborer at Manitovoo
Wis was working in a brickyard. a bonb
OF clay cnved in md struck his pick. driv.
ing 1t into his bead killing bim instantly.
THE deposits made by tho people Of New
York city during The past eight months iu
| Cine saving banks showed an iucrease OF
s9.ooooO0 over those Of tho preceding pe.
rod
At Allentown, Pa, n high school eiil
did the sensationally handsome thing bv
gnft ng married before tho assembled spec.
| iaiol- at the close Of the graduating c1cr-
ci-cs.
AS Albany speculator is said N ho max
| ing good deal of money hv purchasing
Canadian silver iu Now York afg0pcr
cent discount and circulating 10 40 home
/ OF uRr
JtNr W1corF coIornd woman OF
WIF"-barro. ra.. is 1O5 years o. d and nm
h.sftatugly declares that she never was n
servants Of George wa bington and mover
-nn him
Nr IupEN once admitted thnt he novc,
| once faond an audience or rose fn court that
stage fright did not seize him He tried
every device 10 cure himself. butit could
nor ls done
BrUor rurf paid $4,000 for The Prot
c-tnn' Episcopal Church property I'm fbe
CITY of Mcsa1. and now tha same prom
crt, ha- value of o0uo1D -o great ba.
been the increase.
N.r Denver thcv have been having
I.us tm. trying to devise means to CON
.rs. i.. 0rv OF streams which com. down
I.m .w'ue .be foothills, and uppi, tIa
irrigation d.t.Hoe.