The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-05-23
Pencil and Scissors.


Tramps are beginning to start out ON
Their summer tour.
This is poor season, SO far. for the
fish and snake liar.
About all our lawyers are attending
the Putnam court..
Everybody ia town is getting wheel,
the ladies included.
There is a great demand in our town
for more boarding houses.
housekeeping and cold dinners are
now the order of the day.
Spring chickens are on the market
and are selling for % cents apiece.
Patients will be received at the Hos
pital for the Insane, atSpencer, July 10.
The Valley Bank at Ridley, Jackson
county, will commence business on June
LIST.
We don't mind the wet weather It's
the wetness of everything else that we
kick on.
A farmer says he has not seen the
clover SO thick on the ground for num-
Der of years.
When news is scarce, don't blame
your paper; it can't furnish news where
none exists.
The County Court was in session
Monday, canvassing the vote of the late
school election.
The school election in this State will
hereafter be held at the time of the.
regular November election.
The builders are taking advantage of
the pretty weather and are whooping
things up as fast as they can.
After strangers have been in Chicago
for week the beware of pickpockets'
sign has no terrors for them.
When you are earnin' your bread
by the sweat o. your brow, don't waste
your salary in handkerchiefs.
A woman can hoodwink a man into
believing that she is saint one day. a
sage the next, and f1irt the third.
"Ah, Pm maddest when sing"
She sung, in plaintive key;
Ana all the nelgnOOFS yelled:
80 are we! SO are wei"
An effort will be made to establish
Confederate Home at Charleston for in
digent and helpless ex Confederates.
The mayor of Guyandotte is a new
prize ring champion. He knocked out
John Mather in short order recently.
"wir the youngest girl in the room
please arise?" said visitor in school.
Every female stood up including the
teacher.
Three mule headed Democrats ran for
Superintendent OF Schools in Wayne
county and thereby let a Republican
slip into the Office.
1t is not an axiom.tic truth that every
horney kneed man you see has spent
his life in prayer; he's only been tack
ing down spring carpet.
A thoughtful editor says that the lad
der of journalism is a great thing, if you
can reach the roof and kick it down be-
fore the sheriff gets there.
Whose business is it to keep the city
clean and sweet? Whoever it is should
see to the cellars and out-houses and
stagnant cisterns and old pumps.
The extremely fat old dog, who lives
in the vicinity Of the Klein Honse, was
missing for few days last week, and
our people said they'd take bacon in
theirs"
Now that skirts are worn 50 much
shorter than formerly, pretty feet may
occasionally be seen, and tantalizing
glimpses of ravishing stockings are even
obtained.
Mr. Jammi-Can't you play something
besides plunkety plunA? Mrs. Jammi
Yes. can play Comrades" and can
ME Rooney" Mr.. Jammi-Keep on
with plunkety PUNK.
Every day almost we hear the remark,
1.-The fashions this year are not nearly
SO pretty as last year." in a regretful
tone as though the pretty fashions al
luded to were past and gone beyond
recall.
Too much hurry.
Too much worry,
He lives best
Who knows how to rest.
A lady who has great many lovely
potted flowers, when asked why she as
SO successful in raising them said: "I