South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-03-13
ITEMS OF NEWS.


from the sun than ct any OF her time.
Dotted Swiss Musl.ns, which were
the fashion years ago, come back this
year.
The second session OF the Fifty
hrss Congress closed at noon We'd
nesday Of last week.
Mrs. VIM. Law, an aead woman,
vas found frozen 10 death last week
in her house at Slosnsvills, N. Y.
Mark Twain. among other equally
big investments, has $l75 900 sunk
In type-setting machine.
We learn that q factory for the
manufacture OF slst and wire fencing
will be located At Parsons this state.
The Australian ballot law has pass
ed both houees of the West Virginia
Legislature.
Arizona is going to erect o monu-
ment TO the memory of the great In
dian fighter, General Crook.
A perfect pearl weig hing 81 grains
was found recently by a Pot,stown
(Pa.) boy in musssl shell along the
French creek.
Governor Markham. Of California,
has signed the Worlds Fair bill. rp-
propriating $500, 900 for CALIFORNIA;
exhibit
The South Dakota Legislature
killed the Worlds Fair bill for econ
omys sake. The amour, asked for
was $4,000.
II is estimated that Congress ap.
propriated during the session lust
closed 1926 100000 and that the
treasury deficit will be very large.
1t has been decided to unveil the
Confederate monument at Jackson
Miss. on June 8, which IL the birth,
day OF Mr.. Davis.
The will OF the late Hon. A. H. II.
Stuart, OF Staunton. Va. leaves his
estate. estimated at $65,O0O to his
three daughters.
Some Of Chicago's citizens have
bought the house in which Bob Ford
killed jesse James and will exhibit il
ct the Worlds Fair.
High heels, it is said, owe their
origin TO Persia, where they we're in.
iroduced to raise the feet from the
burning sands Of that cou ntry.
Senator Aldrich tells of a man who
receatly died in Providence, X. l..
having liv ed in the SEINE boarding
house sixty years.
The Monroe High School at Mop.
roe. N. G., $4,000 structure, was
burned last week. Ttomas Penn
berion and Albert Bost, two students,
perished In the flames.
The cow inoculated with Koch's
lymph by the veterinarians Of the
Pennsylvania Hospital is dead, but
she leaves calf which has been nam.
ed DIR. KOCH
As the Irishman said Of OF our
weather: 'Whiniver it gifts In the way
of sthormin' this year, not bit o dry
wither will wo git as long az the wei
spell howlds.'
A Berks county (Ps.) turkey hen
got fast In q straw stack, and thirty
three days after its disappearance
was found alive having existed with
out food or water.
A New Salem (Pa.) man put o
cartridge between his teeth and acct
dsntally bit hard upon IL. Ii explod-
ed, and the bullet buried itself 10 an
opposite wal, while the man was I'm.
injured.
According to report the Queen of
Sweden has been renewing her health
by making her bed in the morning,
sweeping her room and spending
most OF the day at work in the garden
by order OF her physician.
The frosty weather in Europe has
bean telling heavily on the accide ut
insurance companies. Que company
In London is said to have had 229
claims for broken legs within seven
days.
A bill has been introduced irto the
Indiana Legislature providing that
any person who is injured by the
bands OF masked men known a. White
Caps may receive damages from the
county In which the act occurs.
All The appropriation bills, ipclud.
ing the general deficiency bill, with
the amendment providing for the
payment OF the French spoIiation
claims, we're passed by both houses OF
Congress and approved by the Presi-
dent.
A young woman OF Dakota has
farm bf eighty acres on which che
does most of the work employing only
one servant woman. Last wear
she bought lot OF new stock and
machinery, and cleared $1,000 be-
sides.
One Of the largest hogs in Amerls
ca If not, m fact, in the world was
reared by a Junction City, CKsn.l
man. The length was 8 feet 9 inch
IS elrth Of neck, 81 feet; girlh OF
body 3 feet width across The bips 30
inches, weight 1852 pounds.
The weather reports from Montana,
North and South Dakota and North
ern Nebraska show Monday and
Tuesday nights of last week 20 have
been the coolest on record over those
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