The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-05-09
MncIl IN LitfIe.

The warm weather has brought out
the awnings.
A dishonest man never has time to
pay his debts.
The taitling busy-body is the snake
of the neighborhood.
Visitors to Chicago in search of flats
should beware of sharps.
Reciprocity that does not reciprocate
is of no use to the country.
New cottage houses are springing up
around town like mushrooms.
There is a bad mud hole near where
the o. R R. crosses Wand street.
The ground hog is giving us few ex-
ira weeks this year for good measure.
Those persons who planted their gar
dens in haste can now repent at leisure.
Salvation is free, it is true, but that
does not refer TO the contribution box
Well all 90 to the Fair,
If they'll lower the fare.
During the month of April there was
the heaviest rainfall for twenty years.
Everybody in Point Pleasant is doing
one thing at the same growing
old
When You have read this paper hand
it to your neighbor and ask him to sub
scribe.
The summer fly is still in the unseen,
but he will soon be here with linen
duster.
When man finds a woman that there
is nothing too good for lie wants her to
take him.
Morgan Wilson, of Guyandotte, was
sent to the Reform School last week for
serious offenses.
All kinds of vegetables and strawber-
ries were somewhat injured by the late
cold snap and frost.
There will be services morning and
evening in the lower Presbyterian
church, next Sunday.
Have you noticed that the first day of
May and Christmas always occur on the
same day of the week.
Wall street shows its patriotism by
demanding and trying to compel an is
sue of government bonds.
Thieves entered ]. ZeigIcr's store in
Huntington one night recently and took
about 500 worth of goods.
]. w. Stafford, wealthy druggist, of
Bluefield, shot himself through the heart
recently. Ill health the cause.
Present indications are that foreign
noblemen will outnumber the Ameri-
can colonies at the worlds fair.
When we don't spend our money we
are economical; when other people don't
spend their money, they are stingy.
The voters of Tucker county have de-
cided by a large majority to move their
county seat from st. George to Parsons.
Winter has fingered in the lap of
spring evidently with a view to encour-
age marimony, or discourage fishing.
Which?
The editor of an Ohio paper thanks
the Lord because he has "a printing
press, postoffite, potato and pea patch
and pig"
Three hundred and twenty-six per-
sons were killed at railroad crossings in
Chicago in 1892. What will it be while
the Worlds Fair is on?
happy married life sweetens with
age, and the "fittle joys" that enter the
household enhances the picture o. lovli-
ness, and cements the tie.
The wooded area in the United States,
excluding Alaska, is nearly 1,113,O0O
square miles. No wonder Point Pleas
ant CAN'T get out of the woods.
The salary of the mayor of Abilene.
Kansas, is one dollar per annum. No
wonder the men are willing for the wo-
men to hold the offices out there.
W. w. Wickham, of the o. r. R., has
gone to wiImuth, Del, after the four
new coaches that are completed and
ready for service. They are beauties.
The latest idea in cradles is a self-rock-
ing one, with a photographic attach
ment that sings lullabies. Gee, whiz!
but they would sell in Point Pleasant.
A Georgia editor recently bought a
DlcNle Win WHICH 10 run uOWn ueIlu-
quents; the sheriff levied on the bicycle
and it is now running down the editor.
Don't wait for the wagon,
You have no time to spare;
The race begun, it's ten TO one,
You'll beat the wagon there!
cyclone in Mississippi upset things
generally, changed the day of the week
bowed the slaves off barrel and left
the bung hole, and scared a d-keaded
woman.
In old times royal courts had profess
ional testers to amuse them. Nova
days the fun-making home and abroad
for exclusive circles is made by the $50
cial leaders"
The big sleeves in the ladies dresses
are as ugly as the freaks of fashion could
suggest They are devoid OF beauty,
, comfort and good taste. They look like
mechanical wings.
Decoration Day comes on the 3Oth Of
this month. The day should be more
generally observed here than it usually
is. Let the proper person take some
action in this matter.
Manufacturing enterprises are the