West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-09-06
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A flrkin is seven pints.

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A talent of silver was $53s. 80.
Most insane people have dark hair and
dark compilations.
II is said that person who Is in the
habit of carrying cane never loses an
lmbre la.
A Western man claims that strong
brine will cure rattlesnake bite or hy-
drophobia.
There are five cities in the world hav-
ing each population of over 200, 900
inhabitants.
A novelty in rife targets is a glass
ball dancing on a jet of water. 1t is a
most difficult shot.
A hands breadth is equal to three and
five-eighths inches. A fingers breadth
is equal to one inch.
IA man has invented machine to be
exhibited mt the Buffalo IN. W Inter
national Fair, which will lace shoes.
A wild girl is roaming in the forests
of Catahoula Parish, La. She frequents
the streams and subsists principally on
fish.
Mr.. Price, of Macon, Ca, the other
day, killed big wild Turkey with his
little pistol, and the bird was eighty
yards off aud up tree in the bargain.
A colored woman in Louisville, KY,
chose a novel manner in which to end
her life. She rolled up ten needles in a
piece of tissue paper and then swallowed
them.
An Augusta (Me.) boy brought the
family Bible with him to a circus which
was exhibiting in the town, in order to
prove by the family records that he was
young enough to go in at half price.
While three young men were playing
ball in Concord, N. H., at noon, a dove
few swiftly around corner was struck
by the ball which had been thrown be-
fore the bird was in sight and was killed
instantly.
Idiots have been known whose mem.
DRY for names and words was so reten-
tive that they could repeat a sermon YER
batim, and indicate where the preacher
blew his nose and coughed while de-
livering it.
Mrs. Gaines, of the Hooking Valley,
Ohio, told her husband to bring her
home a new dress or she would jump
into the well. He forgot the dress. She
kept her word. 1t cost him $l2 to get
u.
Henry Brewer, an English soldier,
wounded in India and sent home to be
put on the reserve, has just died of what
the doctors agree was hydrophobia, al
though he solemnly asserted that he had
never been bitten by dog, Cut, or any
other animal.
The Moslems have just concluded the
fast OF Ramadan. During the dayti
no food can be touched, water tasted nor
tobacco smoked; at night feasting may
be carried on as energetically as the
Moslem pleases, and after the fast there
are three days of feasting.
Shaving was introduced among the
Romans about b. G. 300. Pliny says
Scipio Africanus was the first Roman
who shaved every day. Subsequently
the first day Of shaving was regarded by
the Romans as the entrance upon man.
hood, and celebrated with great fes.
tivities.
The Chinese farmer soaks his seed in
liquid manure, reduced with water he
allows it to remain till it sprouts, when
he plants. He thus obtains a rapid
growth, saves from many insects, and
thus obtains better crops, but the latter
will depend much upon the condition
Of the soil.
Pontiac, the famous Indian Chief, dur.
ing the war which he waged against
the English in 1863 issued promissory
notes or bills of credit, written upon
birch bark, to purchase supplies for his
warriors, aud such was this chicftain's
reputation for integrity, that the French
received these bills, which were subse-
quently all redeemed, in the latter re-
spect being unlike the Continental bills
OF credit.