The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-08-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

what was II! lie p1cEed the winning
horse.
five caught you making love =
!! my wife?'' "Well?- "1'll give you fais
warming, Ibid that once and I've bees
sorry ever since. Halo.
As more than half of the railroad
mileage Of the world is in the .Unitea
States, Mr.. L. b. Cook, of Hoboken, n.
j., suggests that our national fowes
ought to be cremation
One Of Them-'eThere goes young
Billie Morse. They say hts income b
so large he can't get rid OF it." The
Othcr One-"0, SO he's a single man.
Observation-Disclosures Thomas Cat.
Baby hammocks,' reads sign %
q little hammock hanging outside Q
downtown store. The dealer said thss
they sold more for use in the city: that
mothers bought them for sick childreA
People don't die very often oves
here, do they2' inquired the smart New
Yorker. NO, only once, replied tina
Philadelphia. And there was an In
tense silence.-Philadelphia Record.
"A rude tramp, finding Mrs. Pickard,
of Paris, Texas, alone in her home, de-.
handed dinner and some cash. Shs
grabbed pair Of scissors and punched
several holes in his cnticle, when he
fled in terror.
All, well, let the summer girl laugh
and giggle and have good time. In a
few years from now she will be married
and will wear her winter dress In sum.
mer, putting on white starohcd tie 20
make it look cooler
Mrs. Bagsby-"You're tipsy ngasn.
John. 0, how wish all the rumshopA
were at the bottom of the sea- Mr..
Bagsby-Martha, I honestly believe
you don't love me. 1 chertainly think
you would like to shoe me drowned. -
The Kings Jester.
The Philadelphia Press, one of the
foremost snake organs of the country.
tells about scmaphora cocinea that
swallowed two smaller snakes und had
indigestion. A large cmetic was ad.
ministercd and presently the swallowed
snakes were recovered, still alive, bue
very much frightened.
Most of the figures used for cIgas
store signs, which formerly were made
Of wood, are now made of zinc, and 90
per cent. of these are of Indians. Some
of these figures are excellent; In soma
cases the original model cost $1,000 or
$1,000. They arc made in various sizes,
from small figure that can be bought
for S25 or $50 up. a good seven-foot
Indian can be bought for SOON. Y.
Sun.
"A curious opening, according 20
the London Globe, has been found for
the artistic gifts of women. In the
great hospitals, wnter-color sketches
are taken of rare forms OF disease, and
in this somewhat grcwsomc class OF
work women, 1t seems, have succeeded.
At Guys hospital woman has just
been appointed for such service for SIX
months, the post having previously
been filled by her husband, who is tenn.
porarily incapacitoted.
1.-THE Washington club" u womanr
have clubhouse Of It's own. which ia
10 cost 5000. 1t will be arranged nc
that the rooms on the first floor can be
rented for concerts, theatricals, lectures
and banquets. On an upper floor there
will be rooms TO be rented to club mem.
hers who may desire them. The floor
between will be divided into library,
reading, tea and card rooms. The Wash.
ington club has membership of over
$50.
Shoppers have become used to buy.
ting ice cream freezers and sealskin
cloaks, carpets and diamond ringa
under ono roof, but live lambs are q
commodity that heretofore has noe
been offered at bargain shles-as they
were at Baltimore department shop
the other day. Those who bought the
lambs had to take them away them.
selves, and this the eager woman man.
aged to do by grasping the little crea.
lures in both arms.
AS soon as the new city directory
was out, copy Of it was put into the
hands Of clerk of a large mercantile
eSta blishment, with instructions to
read it from beginning to end, for q
business purpose. The reader, who
expects to get through the letter A by
the end of this week has become inter-
ested in the book, and especially in the
immense number of occupations fol.
lowed by residents of the city. He has
already found his task hard, however,
and says that he will not be able to
work at it for more than four hours q
day.-N. Y. Sun.
Benjamin H. Wells, a resident of
West Lubec, Me-, In eating an orange
several weeks ago, got one of the seeds
lodged In his throat and was unable 70
remove it. Lately his thaoat began to
swell, 80 that it became difficult for
him to breathe. He obtained medical
advice and was informed that the seet,
had sprouted, and must be removed at
once He went to Boston for a surgical
operation for its removal, but the re-
port was that Mr.. Wells can get no re-
lief, as the seed, instead of being lodged
Ia the throat, is in the lungs, and can
not be reached. The Boston physicians
can do nothing for his relief.
The belief that unsound teeth be-
long only to highly civilized state OF
| life seems to be prevalent one. But
D.. Howard Mummery informs us in
! Nature that very different conclusion
was reached by his father, more than
twenty years ago, after an inquiry ex-
| tending over more than decade. Over