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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09
The Frugal Greeks.

The Greeks are the most frugal and
temperate people Of Europe. Gluttony
and drunkenness are rare vices AMONG
them. Their diet is such as it was two
thousand years ago. They eat little
meat; barley bread, goats cheese, or
black dried olives and wine make up a
bountiful repast. Bread and wine. or
bread and leeks, form many mans din
ner. Our agoyiatis munched raw beans
with evident relish as his luncheon.
Maize is cultivated in some parts of the
country, and is imported from Italy; but
i never saw it properly treated-it is
generally eaten half cooked. A large
number of herbs are boiled as greens. -
and used in salads. Salt fish is prepared
in some districts Salt is a government
monopoly and is very brown. Olive oil
serves as butter, cream, lard and suet.
The food is generally too oily for an
American. Honey is often used as i'm
ancient tines instead Of sugar. Sweet
milk Is little used, but many prepare
tons OF eurds are common: curds and
sugar are made into a toOthsOme dish.
There are many varieties OF Greek wine,
but almost all are strong and fiery, and
are tempered with water when thew are
drank. Wine costs only a trihe (about
eight cents per quart Of excellent quali-
tY), but IS seldom taken in excess.
But the Greeks are not without their
dainties. Rice is much used with meat
gravy, making an excellent DilaH.
Chopped meat Is rolled into crOQuettes,
wrapped in young vine leaves, and fried
The best olives are much richer and
higher favOTed than those sold in Amer
lea. Rich sweetmeats are prepared from
ounces and other fruit The offer Of
some sweetmeats is often among the FIRST
attentions paid to a guest. a delightful
drink is made from the milk Of the green
almond. The rose-favored IVkugaf is
hardly equaled by any Of our confection-
cry. In this connection, perhaps, should
mention the Greek tobacco, which f.
cheap and mild, and has a fine flavor. -
Seribaer's Nagazine.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09
Plain Rnougb.

mice little girl that you had with
you the other night at the theater
Smith ?"
yes, pretty nice; but she is apt to
be strong-minded and sarcastic al
times"
us thar 500"
ayes; and it makes the incest girl
disagreeable to show such DISPOSE.
ton"
81 should say so. But / don't under
stand it at all in her case. / had hsI
out to n little gathering of two few
weeks ago, and butter wouldn't nell
in her mouth"
Well that is strange. Why not?7
"Oh, because she was eating iCe
cream, l suppose. San francisco
JY0SD.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09

No.3 FULTON MARKET. New YORK CrrY,l
January %, 1884.
have been using BRANDREra's PuLs for
the last te years. They area wonderful modi-
cine There is nothing equal to them as Blood
Purifiers and Liver Regulators. But wish to
state how remarkably they cure rheumatism,
and how ca lily; was affected by rheumatism
of the legs. My business wholesale fish DEALER
naturally leads me 20 damp places. l was so
bad c uld not walk, and at night / suffered
fearfully; tried Balls ans, Sarsaparillas and
all kinds of tinctures, but they did mo no good
and l was afraid OF being a cripple. finally
oomnenc d using BRANDRErH'sP PILLS Itook
two every night for ten nights then began TO
improve. continued taxi g them for forty
days and got entirely well. Now. whenever
sick, take BRANDRErHs Pills. They never
taiL ]. n. HARRIS.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09

The cherry crop has been a failure
this year in England, except in Kent.
where they have been abundant and de-
licious ever since the time when Rich
ard Harreys, fruiterer to Henry VIII. sent
to Flanders for fresh gratis Of special
kind, the old stock OF English cherries
seeming to be dying out, and planted 1O5
acres Of the new fruit around Tynham.
The Kent cherries have ever since been
the choicest and most plentiful of Eng.
lish cherries
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09
Seven Hundred Times an Uncle

Frederick Clark, Of Damariscotta
Mills, now deceased. was born In
Marlborough in 1903. lie was the sir-
tenth child Of family Of twenty chill.
dren by the same father and mother
Eighteen Of these children lived 10 ma
iurlty, seventeen married and sixteen
had families Ills parents both died ia
their eighty fourth year lie was the
uncle Of one hundred and nineteen
ncphcws and nieces, and q sister held
the relation Of aunt TO one hundred and
twenty seven nephews and nieces at her
death, embracing the third generation
only. Before his death be was uncle 10
three hundred and eighty-seven nephows
and over four hundred nieces - Rfch-
mond (Ne Rec
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09
Ice I'm His Pocket

A white man from away down South
in the Okeechobee Lake region came
mp to Gainesville on business at the
United States Land Office. While here
he saw the first ice he had ever seen.
He manifested great interest in the
frigid substance. and put a half-pound
lump In his pants pocket to take home
to his family. he soon took it out
of his pocket, however, and as he did SO,
said: Il am afeard it will spile my ter
hacker. - Gainesville (Fla.) Netcs.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09

Mrs. Gaines, of the Hooking Valley,
tod her husband TO bring her homo a
new dress or she would jump into the
well. He forgot the dress. She kept
her word. 1t cost him $l2 to get her
out aud her bones mended.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09

The New York Assembly has passed
bill Incorporating the Grant Monu-
ment Association, and empowering IL
to hold $1,000, 900 worth Of propertv
free OF taxation. All that remains TO
be done now is the comparatively in
significant feat Of securing that $1,000
600. There is no doubt that the asso-
citation can hold it after it is once So
curad
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09

Most women naturally look FORWARD 10 mat
rimony as their proper sphere in life but they
should constantly bear in mind that n fair
rosy face, bright eyes, and a healthy, well-de-
veloped form,are the best passports TO n happy
marriage. All those wasting disorders, weak
tional irregularities peculiar 20 the sex, have
an unfailing specific in DIR. Pierces Favorite
Prescription. IL is the only medicine for wo-
men, sold by druggists, under a positive Qatdr-
dntec from the manufacturers, that IL will
give satisfaction in every case, or money will
be refunded. This guarantee has been printed
on the bottle-wrapper, and faithfully carried
out for many years.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09
Yon sturdy oak whose branches wide
Boldly the storms and winds defy,
80 on 70 en acorn, smaII,

Iliy uOTIlHHL 7ncilTh the Summer SKY.
Not unlike the thrifty oak in its germ. devei-
opment and growth, Is consumption. But
yields 70 the wonderful curative properties OF
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery IL
taken early. Don't be blind TO your own In
terests and think yours "A hopeless case. This
remarkable remedy has rescued thousands.
OF druggists.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09

The English sparrow has become one
Of the most serious problems with which
the farmers Of our cOuutry have 10 con
tend, 30 the way Of agents damaging 10
inc crops They are also Of equal dam
age 70 The song birds, and the insoctirer-
Gus birds Of our conntfY.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09

Suit Yourself,
But there Is no other remedy for sick head
ache, dizziness, constipation, biliousness, or
70 restore a regular, healthy action 20 the
liver, stomach and bowls, equal TO those reli-
able little pleasant Purgative Pellets" pre-
pared by DIR. Pierce. OF druggists.
The Paris census shows 6,9l5 Americans,
IA, 7Ol English and 35 7OS Germans
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09

Levi p. Morton win spend $3.50, 900
on his new house near Rinebeck.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09

IHEaH were ur0 iure1 fn The rrfifed efaf-e
1urnH the hrsis'z months OF this year a. 0yO.-
~ Hrosf tons ~ pig iron. being 2i38 tons
les tnnn in TIE First haf 0f ieL The del.
wa wholly u boesemor pic. oihor
kinda hcing slightly Boa excess OF last year
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09
Suit Yourself,

A Brooklyn woman supports a husband
and fifteen children by selling papers,
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09

Contentmcnt consistent not IN adding
more fuel, but 10 taking away some fire.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09
Lore,aunrneas.

Mrs. Maggie Van Colt. the woman revi-
valist, is at work at Old Orchard, Me.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09

A New Hampshire Court has declared
specializing on margins TO be gambling.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-05-04
Cable Flashes.


The queen arrived at Windsor, Friday
evening.
The Panama lottery bill has passed the
French Chamber of Deputies.
PRrNoE FERDINAND is making q tour of
Bulgaria. Upon leaving Sofia he was
cheered by the troops and pOpulace.
EMpERoR FREDERICK will be able to
leave his widow jointure of from $780,
600 to 100000 81 year, with the use of a
residence in Berlin aud a country seat
FOREIGN Jews to the number OF 10000
families are to be expelled from Odessa
A STRONG reactiOnary sentiment against
Boulanger is gaining rapidly throughout
France.
The British steamers Belle and Vena
coliided in fog off Deal. The Nena
went down and sixteen lives were lost.
HEIR kRurP has declined the honor of
baron conferred upon him by the emper-
or of Germany.
IT is officially announced that Count
Herbert Bismarck has been appointed
Prussian minister of state ana PTussian
minister of foreign affairs.
The Canadian commons is considering
plans for reducing or abolishing the
tariff or lumber III case the Mills bill
passes in congress.
The London Chronicle announces the
approaching marriage of Joseph Cham
herlaiu to Miss Endicott, daughter of the
American secretary of war.
UpoN the death ot Emperor Frederick
of Germany, the Empress will inherit n
iointure of 10000 marks, while 1000, 900
MARKS will go to Prince Henry, the Crown
Princes younger brother.
GIBRALrAR.-rhe British gunboat Fal-
con has sailed hence for Cape Juby in
cons: quence of the attack by Il body of
the SIntan of Morocco's troops upon the
Northwest African Company's depot at
that place.
The poet Tenuysou i. now in his 10Th
year. He lives during the larger part OF
of the year at his SUSSEX place, Hazel
more, aud during the remainder at hi;
old home at Freshwater, in the Isle OF
Wight.
rIronrD battle bstween Mexican
troops and Yaqui indians in Sonora re
! suited in the killing of II Indians anG
the wouudiug of a large rumber. The
MeXicans lost one man killed and severa
wounded.
! ; Ar a meeting of the Patriotic League
! the Group OF Acticu approved the pro
/ posal that the league should assist tn,
movement for the revision of the consti
| tuition. reorganization committee wa.
| appointed with Paul Lerouleoe As Presi
dent.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-05-04

dressed meats from Chicago to eastern
points five cents per hundred, minimum
weight twenty thousand pounds.
THE Rev. Sam w. Small has acce pied
the edltorship of the Southern Star, a
prohibition weekly published in Atlanta
by CharleS D. Barker. The Star is to be
the organ of the third party movement.
MANY spurious silver dollars have found
their way into circulation recently in the
cities of Western New York and in Erie,
Pa. They aze dated 1887, little less in
weight, and the T in UNITED" is defect
tive.
FoR every 1000 inhabitants the United
States runs trains 800 miles annually,
while the train mileage of Great Britain
on the same basis Is 1900; Belgium, 500;
France, 1850, and Germany. $3.50.
TIE Toledo, Peoria and Western Rail-
way yesterday settled the last unpaid
claim of damages against it, resulting
from the Chatsworth wreck, by raging
Leo Hartman, of Chicago, 5000. The to-
tai amount of claims paid was about
$50O,00O.
The collector at Port Huron has been
instructed in regard to the Importation
of blooded animals for breeding purposes
claimed to be exem pit from duty, to pur
sue the same course With regard to those
i'm ported by foreigners is now prac-
ticed in regard to animals i'm ported by
citizens of the United States.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-05-04
ELECTRIC SPARKS
Fires And Casualties.

In 1885, 307 persons were killed and l.
SOB were wounded in railway accidents.
A PORTION of Dubuque, Iowa, is flooded
by the rise in the Mississippi. The dam
age and loss will be considerable.
The high school and Unitarian church
at Concord, n. H, have burned. Loss,
$4,000.
The chemical paint mills of Henry
WoodsOD & Co, at Natick, Mass, was
burned Wednesday night. LoGs, $3.50
OOO.
OE Thursday six laborers were buried
alive by the caving in of a sewer trench
at Yonkers, n. Y.
TES persons were fatally injured in a
railway disaster in western New York,
Saturday.
FoUR distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt at Stockton, Cal, a. 8:45 on
Saturday evening.
WINoSA, Miss was visited by destruct-
i've conf tgration Saturday evening, con-
sumipg stores aud other property to the
amount of $3.50 600.
THEE loggers were instantly killed
and Two others badly injured in Bsraza
county, Michigan, by an explosion of
dynamite caused by thawing out the in
fernal stuff over a stove.
RED BIRCH, Old Gopher, and Little
Tomahawk Indians of the Wiunebago
tribe, were drowned III the Mississi ppi
river near La Crosse, Wis, by the capsiz-
ing of their canoe.
FREIGHT train colIided with a work
train that was going on the side track on
the Lake Shore d Western road, badly
wrecking both, and badly injurihg ten or
eleven labOrers on the work train. No
one was killec.
Marquette, Mich.-An ore train run
ming wild, left the track a mile south of
Negaunee, on the Chicago Northwest
ern, last Thursday evening. Sixteen cars
and the caboose were were badly wrecked
and trains delayed until midnight. No
body was killed.
The South End Bank, of COlu mbus,
Ohio, has temporarily suspended, owing
to the defalcation of its Cashier. The
Directors assure the deposltors that all
claims shall be paid in full.
An explosion of gas took place Ia the
tunnel Ill No. shaft of the Delaware
Hudson company, at Plymouth, Pa, Sat
urday afternoon killing instantly Patrick
McGll and John Kneiss, and fatally in
juring three other miners.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-05-04
The National Capital.

| SENATOR BLoDGETT, of New Jersey, is
| six feet four and the tallest man in the
| United States senate.
! The bill to give DR.. Mary Walker a
| pension of S25 month has been adverse
| Iy reported to the hOuse.
! OFFERS for the sale of bonds to the
government were opened at the treasury
| department on Tuesday and the follow
ing were accepted: 100000, registered
As at 1853.
SENATOR SAVERS passion for smoking
is so strong that often wnen called from
| the cloak room to some duty on the floor
he keeps his cigar burning by stolen
| puffs.
THE new cruisers were launched at
Philadelphia on Saturday, and everything
worked satisfactorily. There were a large
number of Congressman and other nota-
ble6 present.
) THE house ways and means committee
agreed to limit the general tariff debate
to seventeen days with two evening ses-
sions week and two equal divisions of
! time between the democratic and repub
lican speakers.
The Corean diplomatists have been
suddenly ordered home. When they were
refused draft for their money, because
the draft was not countersigued by the
| English speaking secretary, they thought
they were being made the victims of
some robbing scheme.
SENATOR INGALLS,, on taking the floor,
said he was absent Thursday when SEN
ator Voorhees, addressed the senate, and
was surprised to know that he, and the
tariff, was the subject of Voorhees, ami
madversion. He gave notice that he
would reply on Tuesday.
THE secretary of the treasury opened
proposals Monday, for the sale of bonds
to the government under the provisions
of the treasury circular of April 18th.
The total amount offered was $1,S26 600.
| IN the afternoon the secretary accepted
offerings amounting to $4,000 for coupon
fours and registered fours at prices rang
ing from 81 24.70 to S115.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-05-04
PAG AMIN .

The Great Musician and His Instruments.
II the Asmodeus immortalized by LIE
Sage had an equally lame brother, who
was accustomed to hop with the aid of a
single instead of a double crutch, there
might be a parlous fear that, through
the action of the municipal council of
Genoa, the devil on one stick has been
let loose. The stick is a fiddle stick, ex
plains The London Telegraph. 1: is
stated that the case containing the
favorite violin of the renowned virtuoso,
Nicola Paganlni, has recently been
formally opened at "Genov4 la Superba,"
when the instrument, which was in
excellent condition, was played upon by
the great artists favorite pupil, Camille
Slvori. The violin is 3 large Guarneri,
and is said to have accompanied
Pag anini in all his travels. This cele-
brsted, but slightly terrific, fiddle, having
been bequeathed by its illuStrious
possessor To the city of Genoa, has been
reverently preserved since 1840 IN the
Palazzo del Municipio of the town.
What 1t may be asked, have Asuodeus
and his demon kindred TO do with Paga.
minis fiddle! The answer is very sim pie
For long course of years the supersti-
tious people of the Italian peninsula fully
believed that the instrument in question
was enchanted; that it WIS haunted bv an
! uncanny spirit; that, even as Socrates had
| his demon, so had Paganini an attendant
| Supernatural Influence in his Guarnerl.
| Indeed, there were those ready to make
| sfidavits that when the moestro had
reached his highest fii ieht; when rapture,
when ecstascy, when frenzy seemed to
possess him, as he poured forth with
| lightning swiftnoss the eliminating
strains of the prayer of Moses" "The
! Stres he,n or the Carnival of Venice"
the lurin image of the foul fend himself,
! the owner of the fee simple of the de
monical violin, was plainly visible on the
platform, ssdonically grimscing by the
side of his disciple and slave. DlvesteG
of an extraordinary accumulation of
! myths and legends, the history of Psga-
| minis fsvorIte fiddle is sufficiently Gu
| ions.
Born in 1897, the son of workman in
the port of Genoa, Paganiui was only Is
/ when he began his professional career as
tviolinist at Lucca- He appears, even
before he attained adolescence. to have
led life of extraordinary profigacy
and his already immense talents were
frittered away in ignoble little torth-rate
italian towns, where his paltry earnings
we're squan6ered at the gaming table.
He managed to get up to Leghorn, where
he vagered his only fiddle - last stake
at play and lost it. He was meditatin z
suicide when a French merchant name
Livron lent him valuable Guarn eri in
order that he might keep faith with the
| pubic at concert at which he had beer
advertised to play. At the conclusion OF
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-05-04
Criminal.

NEAR Lemars, Iowa, Philip Held, a
young farmer, shot and killed his mother
and then committed suicide.
YOUNG man at Neisonvile, O., shot
tn assistant city marshal and then sui
cided. He was arrested a short time ago
for fast driving.
The official report on the defalcations
of Treasurer Tate, places the amount Of
shortage at $230,G0O.
THE negroes at Bessemer, Ala, threaten
vengeance upon those whites who on
Monday lynched a cOlored man accused of
a vile crime. The authorities have taken
measures to suppress the outbreak, should
it occur.
New YoRK.-The motion to quash the
indictment i'll the case of Thomas b. Kerr,
the boodler has been denied and Judge
Patterson says the case must be tried at
once.
JOIN JONES and Nelson McQuistian were
bound over at Kingsland in 81 600 bonds
for the Grand Jurg, charged with the Cot
ton Belt train robbery of several weeks
ago, in which adventure they smoked the
express messenger out of the car.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-05-04
News in Eriet.

john L. SULLIVAN has arrived at Bos-
ton.
A supsIDKNoE in the Upper Mississip ppi
river hood has begun.
REroRrs to the weather bureau for last
week are not reassuriug for the crops in
the northwest.
CHINcH bugs have made their appear
suce il gaeat numbers in Lang county,
Wis, and the farmers are discouraged.
THERE were 22S business failures in the
United States and Canada the past seven
days, being twenty eight more than last
week.
BILL has passed one house of the
New York Legislature to reduce about one
half the charges of the gram elevator
trust at buffalo.
The opponents of Powderly in the
Knights of Labor claim that the order has
d~tndled in numbers from 702, 600 to
10000.
THE Mississippi river is to be brid yed
at Memphis both houses of Congress
having passed bill to that effect, which
the President has approved.
THF annual convention of the Germsd
Bap'ists of the United States was oPeney
a. Harrisonburg, Va, the irst Tuesdsn
after Whit Sunday.
The CaptraI traffic association has re-
duced the car load rate on live stock and
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-05-04
Central American Governments.


Primarily, there are but two countries
Brazil and Guiana-in South and Cen
trail America which can be said TO have
settled political institutions, aud there is
bu5 one-British Guiana-Ehere the Eng
Iish language Is spoken. All the States of
Central America, Colombia, Ecuador,
Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, eno Uruguay are
In a chronic state of revolution and the
Argentine Republic is but little better.
In every one of these countries, snclud-
ing Brazil, society is IN very unsettled
state and tie laws cannot be saic to afford
anv protection against usurpation and
vlolence. There is not republic among
them which merits the name, for they
are not governments of law, bu. of Of
ficlals In the Argentine Republic, where
several colonies are to be established, the
police commissary Is veritable d:spot,
who generally does just as be pieases. 1t
is a common thing for men to be thrown
into prison for months, without warrant
or trial; and 1t is almost an unknown oc-
eurrepce for poor man 70 appeal against
.heir exsctions and arbitrary acts in
Brazil the police delegates are quite as
despotic aud Irresistible.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-05-04
TO EVADE PROHIBITION.

transportation Companies to Make Sales in
other States and Deliver in Iowa.
DEs MONIES Iowa.-The latest device
for evading the prohibitory law under the
late decision of the United States Su-
preme court is an organization of trans
porfation companies with headquarters
other states and agencies in this. Tho
object is to put up beer and liquors in
i'll bottles, in packages of various quaint
ties, from single drink to gallons, to be
sent to agents in this state and sCld in
the original package. Each company
will appoint u number of agents in each
town, SO it is expected that saloons will
soon be open. Then will come the con
test whether the right to import gives
right to sell that which the state prohibits.
1t is proposed by these companies to
make sales in other states and deliver by
agenis in thi state.