The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-09-11

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crossing.
There is marked scarcity Of prime
potatoes and prices are correspond
lingly high.
The reforiners of penmanship, adj
vocate the perpendicular instead Of the
slanting style.
The persons who invent an insect
powder that kills humbugs, has mill
ions in prospect.
A trunk differs from man in that
lit can be completely strapped without
becoming broke.
j The man who has no use for the
Temperance pledge, very frequently
has for the pawnbroker's.
/ An organ grinder andmonkey are on
the streets today. Another circus
must be coming this way.
There are lots Of men who s'say
what they Think but they are most
outspoken at the telephone.
/ Receipts for canning, preserving
land picking are being exchanged
among the good housewives.
/ There's one good thing about the
dynamite victim5 when he goes he
starts in the right direction.
This is the time Of year when the
fisherman can be found lying around
under the trees by the brookside.
According to the Scientific American
a 1000 candle power arc light is only
equal to the light Of 800 candles.
Spiders webs are so light that one
long enough to extend around the
globe would weigh only half q pound.
In some places the leaves are al
ready beginning to take on the hue Of
autumn. They are also falling rapid
lly.
Several of our bicycle riders have
got the HYPNOSIS bicyslistarum, q
new disease to which wheelmen are
subject
Not with a pair of tweezers could
you pick up a new idea on the money
question advanced during the extra
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session.
One of our fin de siecls girls says
that when the squeeze" is oyer in
financial circles, she hopes it will come
her way.
Whenever You have a proposition
to get something for nothing, it will
pay you to walk around it by the farth-
est route.
A bride Of two months has secured a
divorce at Superior, Wis, because her
spouse refused to scratch her back.
The brute.
An uptown man thinks his wife will
make a good congressman because she
talks so early and long on the money
question.
The man who don't know his friends
when he has favors to bestow, will soon
learn to recognize his enemies by the
number.
| A social cynic says one Of the troub-
les with our society is that it does not
know the difference between talk and
conversation.
Don't be looking at those who make
higher professions than you do to see
if you can't find ugly spots on them.
There is no nourishment in any such
diet.
When we remember how bravely a
woman has her teeth extracted and
how man yells we sometimes think
that pain hurts man worse than it
uuTlS MOLudu.
Tie leaves are falling from the trees
the skies incline more to gray effects
aud there are other indications that
| it is prudent time Of the year to
stock the coal bin.
Only two more months forthe World
Fair to remain. Travel to Chicago
is necessarily increasing every day and
the average daily attendance is now
up to the expectations and wishes Of
the managers.
Don't be croaker, even in these de-
Epressed times. Let the stars Of hope
beam brightly over your pathway, and
exercise your confidence until it radi-
ates its brightness upon all around
YOU.
Great reduction in ready made and
Custom Clothing. Mems, boys and
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