South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1889-08-30

OIL cStoouc acid.
Cultivation Is as necessary to the
mind as food to the body.
It is said that no one can arrest
the fight Of Time, but Who is there
who is not able to stop . minute?
There are two reasons why we
don't trust man. One is because
We don't know him, and the other
beosuse We DO.
One Of the main questions of the
age in regard TO some men, is not
what they live on, but Why they live
on.
a man in business without ON adj.
vertisement in the newspaper is like
grave without q tombstone. or a
book agent without a tongue. Meth.
er one is known, neither one does
much, all are passed by.
Andrew Young, author of Lie
hymn. There is happy land, far,
fsr away ia 80 years of age and
still vigorous. In 1888 he heard an
old Indian air that amused him deep
ly. and be composed words to il. So
| the hymn vas made. 1t hae been
translated into nineteen different
languages.
Those who have great reverence 70.
royalty will be surprised to learn that
The Earl OF Fife, who recently mar
riod Queen Victoris's grand daugh.
ter, lie the descendant of a Scotch pei~
dier who grew rich and was made
gentleman In 1889. There has al
ways been some doubt even about
Queen Victorla's royal descent.
GEN. d. II. HILL has sent a lett r
to the trustees Of the MilledgcvilIe
(Ga-) College rendering his resgna-
ton as president of the college. The
feeble state OF the Generals health
was the cause that determined him
to take this step. Gen. Hill was a
distinguished Confederate officer,
and brother n-law of StonewaIl
Jackson.
Burdette says: The good things in
the world are the cheapest. Spring
water costs less than corn whiskey;
a box Of cigars will buy two or three
bibles; gallon of old brandy cos's
raore than barrel of flour; a full
hand of poker often costs more in
twenty minutes than his church sub.
scrip.ion amounts 70 in three years.
The postal laws give Newspaper
publisher the RI ut to send paper
to the address Of a person who is in
arrears for subscription until the full
amount is paid. A party who takes
a paper from the post Office is re.
sponeible for the subscription money
whether lie has subscribed for the
Same OF not. A refusal to pay is a
felony. This information is given
for the benefit Of some individuals
who think they can read a ncwspa.
per Uithou! paying for it.
Opium ia GO. by cutting the cap.
SUE OF the poppy flower with uotch-
Ell iron instrument at sunrise, and
by the next morning drop or two
OF juice has oozed ont. This is
scraped off and saved by the grower,
and after he has vessel full of II
il is strained and dried. 1t takes a
great many peoples to make pound
of opium, and it goes through a NUM-
Der OF processes before il is ready for
the market. In liquid state il
looks like dark strawberry juice.
In 1916. says 10 odon exchange,
1T took just one busbel Of corn to buy
one pound Of nails; now one bushel
OF corn vii! buy ten pounds Of nails
Then IL required sixty-four bushels
OF bailey to buy one yard of broad
cloth; now the same amount Of bar
ley will pay for twenty yards Of
broadcloth. II then required the
price OF one bushel Of wheat TO pay
for one yard Of calico now one bushs
ell Of wheat will buy twenty yards of
calico"
A teacher, teaching his class TO
swim, says: There are two things
necessary to acquire the art. One is
TO grow used to being wet all over;
tho other 10 to realize that your body
is so much lighter than the water
that you will surely float IL you only
will stop trying TO prevent It," The
teacher should have added while the
body 10 40 light as TO float, it raroly
floats right end MP for comfort. the
thing TO learn IN swimming IL 20 keep
the talking end ont in the air.
Invest The price OF one sheep in
bells, says the New York TiJuRe.
Bell every tenth sheep. No dog will
attack flock OF sheep that is pro-
tccted. This Is not theory; Il has
been successfully tested more than
fifty years. 1 have known two dogs
to do about $50 damage TO sheep
mot proteeted) 10 q single night.
When bells have been tried, a great
noise OF bells has been heard. and
when the pasture was 10 plain sight
of the house, going quickly 10 the
door, dog would be seen running
away and the flock oil looking after
him.
General Early has written a letter
in reply to the published statement
that he refused 70 contribute 10 the
Lee monument because be learned
that a portion of the granite cAmo
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