The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-04-25
Good. Bad and IndIrerent.

.ocratic blood.
| Apple blossoms are now the approved
bridal bouquet.
+ S, w. swisher is identifying his prop
erty by painting.
Gentle spring go in the kitchen
and warm her feet. -
Cupid is sure shot, although he
makes many "AIrs."
Contentment is better than wealth,
but they can go together.
Plenty of whitewash tends to beautify
as well as preserve health.
The county and town assessors are at
work.
The Devil has no anxiety about the
man who is mean to his wife.
We are glad to see so many of our cit
liens cleaning up their premises.
Snow put in an appearance in this To-
cality, last Saturday.
AS rule the Office that seeks the man
never has sense enough to find him.
Remember that it is to your interest
to patronize the merchants who adver-
tise.
In the Alaska mines potatoes sell for
fifty cents each, and tobacco for SIC per
pound.
There was very heavy frost Sunday
night. which it is feared has injured the
early fruit.
Several of our Odd Fellows leave in
the morning to attend the celebration
at Ironton.
This is the season for marrying the
coachman, and it hrs opened with more
than ordinary vigor.
If you want to have power to lead
others, learn to control the man who
wears your own hat.
The wise schoomaster doesn't wait
till Arbor Day to plant birch where it
will do the most good.
Speaking of talking through a hat,
Missouri does most of her talking in the
Senate through her Vest.
The woman who paints her checks
and the man who dyes his whiskers
never fool but one person.
In earlier times it was no credit to
any married woman to "have string
of devoted male admirers"
If man persists in drinking like a
fish he shouldn't complain if he finds
his reputation growing scaly.
1t is a wrong impression a man gets
when man thinks he can pull himself
out of trouble with n cOrkscrew.
april weather has been very unsettled.
We have some subscribers who are Ger
tainly blood relation of the weather.
The absence of the farmer from town
nova. days means that he will have
more money to spend when he comes.
The old backs in Kenova
Have up on end their bristIes,
All on account of the lively way
In which trains blow their whistles.
The West Virginia State Sunday School
Convention will be held at Clarksburg
on Wednesday and Thursday, May 18th
and 18th.
Braxton county has five candidates
for Superintendent of free schools and
Calhoun six, and among them is Miss
Mary A. Morton.
Show-windows now catch every eye
With the display of hose so fine,
But the attraction never can compare
With the filled ones under crinoline.
The Budhists provide thirty-two bells,
and the man who does not pay his sub
scription to his county paper has TO pass
through them all.
safety envelope just patented is so
folded and pasted together that it can
not possibly be opened without being
entirely destroyed.
American girls seem to forget that
intelligent young men of the climbing
up" kind seldom marry young ladies
who are disposed to flirt.
Why is it you can go hunting all day
long and carry all your hunting nipple
ments, and can't go 200 yards to prayer
meeting OH Wednesday night?
Conductor Glen Neal, of the o. R. r.,
was caught between the bumpers while
coupling cars at Parkersburg last We'd
nesday and had his hip dislocated.
1t looks very ungallant for our States
to allow Miss Ouri, Miss Issippi, Mime
Sofa and Mary Land to attend the great
worlds fair at their own expense.
An effort is being made by labor
organizations to induce the legis-
latures to make election day legal holt
day. We think it should be done.
"Jack the Ripper lost his slipper,
COMM through the Rye,
Annie Rooney picked it up,
And 'winked the other eye"
Almost every town and home could
be improved by planting trees; plant
properly and then care for them, and
no one will ever regret the time and
costs.
Certain parties would confer favor
on owners of flower gardens if they
would go to the country to gather
their trilliums, and it certainly would
look more respectable.
In the matter of good roads there