West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-02-10
QUEER CUTS.
To effectuallypunish an Indian put
him to work.-San Antonia Er-
prees.


prees.
With sleighs at So an hour, it is
lucky that the season is short in
this latitude.-Memphis Aralanche.
Some clergymen make their wives
their critics. Indeed we have heard
of one good wife who wrote the SER
mons.-Chicago Liring Church.
The Transcript speaks of the tur.
tie as taking "leading part at din
ners." We thought he generally
appeared as a supe.-Boston Bulle-
tin.
Sometimes it is hard to tell wheth-
er man is firm in principle or SIM
ply obstinate, but the man himself
never expresses any doubt.-Boston
Journal of Education.
Generally speaking, the gentleman
who has just accepted position is
not bit happier about it than the
man who has just got job.-Bos.
ton Journal Of Education.
There is one advantage in sleet
over snow. Though the ground is
covered with it to the depth of six
inches, not a sleet ball has been
thrown.-Memphis Ardlanche.
There are about half dozen pain
less methods now of extracting teeth
but if you want to be dead sure that
your teeth can be extracted without
pain wear false set.-Boston Bul-
letin.
We learn from a Boston paper
that 'New England is the brains of
the country" AS the birthplace of
John L. Sullivan, New England has
right to be proud, but there is
such thing as being too proud
st. Louis Republican.
Were our umbrellas Of various
colors, such as blue, yellow, green,
purple, mauve, and so forth. our
rainy days would not be the lugu
brious affairs they are. The streets,
on the contrary, would look quite
gorgeous.-New York Ledger.
Old Commodore Vanderbilt, being
asked one day what he considered
to be the secret of success in bust
ness, replied: "Secret? There is no
secret about it. All you have to do
is to attend to your business and 60
ahead. DRY Goods Chronicle.
The story that colored men with
their faces painted white robbed a
trian in Mexico is too thin. There
is no way in which the black man
can pass himself off as a white man.
He is not built that way in this
country, though it may be different
in Mexico.-Ne,0 Orleans Picayune.
One day Ernest had been serious
ly lectured by his mother, and final
ly sent to the yard to finda switch
with which he was to be punished.
He returned soon, and said: Il
couldn't find any switch, mamma;
but here's a stone you can throw at
me-" ".-Harper's Magazine for FEB
ruary.
A successful and werlthy retired
merchant has often been heard to
say that he never was so rich and
happy as in his early youth. "For
then," in the language of Socrates.
she wanted least, and therefore ap-
preached nearer to the gods, who
wanted nothing."-Dry Goods
Cr0nicle.
They say up around st. Paul that
it is so cold that the air fairly glist.
ems with the bits of frost that fill it.
We noticed those bright specks, but
we thought that they were frozen
portions of the speeches made by
Gov. McGill and Mayor Smith at
the time of the laying of the corner
stone of the ice palace.-Chicago
Times,
Before Taylor was prohibition
county an old man was found dead
one bitter cold morning. The Coro-
ner, cummoned jury and repaired
to the scene. A huge pine-knot fire
was built, and finally, the fire failing
to warm the crowd up properly, it
was decided to "take little" In
due season most of the jurors were
"ready," and after weighing the
evidence, having made legal scion
foreman, the following verdict was
rendered: 1--WE the, the jury, find
the prisoner guilty y."--Columbus
(Ga.) Enquirer-Sun.
That the origin of color blindness