The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-05-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

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from disposition at the intersection Of
a large member Of railroads. s,s s
Washington Is the City OF Magma.
centa DISTANCES, on account OF the lib
erat pianSon which 1T was laid out;
Excess of grief for the dead is mad
ness; for tits an injury to the living.
and the dead Know 1t not. -Xenophon.
camoans, the poet 81 Portugal
often felt the billings OF poverty, and
finally died in a hospital in Lisbon.
mot leaving enough to bury MIN. . =
svMost people get their grip checked
II they are going away. Some people
who faii TO get their grip checked In
time go away nev YER to return. Troy
Press. 90. s Sex ses ~ y
I'LL slime your shoes SO you'll see
your,face in EN-. 2 said the boy. 'sl4ow
absurd said Wilkins .I'la satisfied.
seemg feet ia my Shoes, without:
seeing my face in them
Those whohavc suffered much are.
like those who know3many languages;
they have harmed to- understand and
be understood by all.-Afine Swetch-
inc .,,-.
NO, i don't see any way to cut Mr..
LongtaIk salary" ''lias he been en-
gagged to preach another year?' "Yes"
Well, why don't You give him a lot OF
big donation partiea?' Inter Ocean,
dimensions Of Billiard tables Col
lender)-Fcur feet by eight inches, four
feet two inches by nine feet, and five
feet by ten feet Size of room required
respectively, thirteen by seventeen,
fourteen by eighteen. fifteen by twenty.
The contest over the will Of the
late Daniel Hand. the philanthropist,
Of New Haven, who died In 1891, leav-
ing about $500, 900 to the American
Missionary association, has. ended by
the contestants withdra wing their
suits,
The fund raised in Boston to erect
statue in memory Of Bishop Phillips
Brooks amounts to s79,G25 in actual
cash, $4,000 of which Is loaned at 5
per cent, while the remainder is draw,
ing,21@a per cent. intereston deposit.
The Ancient Order of Foresters in
in England has found the admission Of
women into its ranks complete sue
cess There are already seventeen
courts of female foresters, and this
number is expected to- be doubled by
the end Of tie present year.
Paper yarn is now being substi-
tuted for other. cheap stock in carpets,
and is said to be superior to ""shodly''
and 'smungo," both in cost and
strength. OF course the paper is used
only in the body and on the under side
of the texture, and not on the upper
surface. 1t is said that fifty five per
cent, of carpet may be made of paper
without o customer suspecting it.
Housekeeping is a science. 1t can
not be intuitively grasped. It's prin-
ciplcs are sometimes impaired by
mothers to their daughters. No doubt
the science of housekeeping could be
effectively taught in schools. When
the time comes when no girl who ex-
poets to marry is believed to have fin
ished her education until she has grad
uated in the science of housekeeping,
thavcxing servant girl problem, which
now seems so formidable. will have
disappeared from American life. Mil
waukee Evening Wisconsin.
Tho bnrgomasteri of Solingen has
refused to register a child in the name
of Emma, on the ground that the Code
Napoleon, which is still in force in that
town, only allows names Of saints or
historical persons to be entered in the
birth reristers.s The objectof this law
was to prevent children from being
called ''Fraternite,' Egalite." ETC., &C
cording to the prevalent fashion at the
time Of the French revolution.
He was very tall and very thin. He
entered the office of a Wall Street
man and asked if he could not give
linn some work to do, since he was
pennies and out of employment.
"Wen-ah-what can you do in my
iine?'" asked the Wall Street man.
Nothing; only I thought perhaps
. your doors were not weather-stripped,
and being tall and thin, might stand
in front of the crack and keep the
daught off Of you" He was dismissed
without employment, but with a dol
lar for his wallpapers Bazaar.
"A splendid record for safety Of
ships and cargoes was made during
1898 by the large fleet Of grain carriers
between Pacific ports and Europe The
voyage is the longest and storn1iest of
allsroutes in the worlds commerce, yet
out of S26 vessels which sailed from
San Francisco and other Pacific ports
for Europe. only one failed to arrive
at her destination safely and with
cargo in good order. This one ship
was stranded on q South Pacific island,
and lack Of wrecking facilities alone
prevented her getting off and resuming
ller voyage. Her crew was saved.
When the first issue of the Confed-
crate money was scattered among the
people, it commanded a slight pre-
ntium 1t then scaled down as follows:
June, 1851, ninety cents; December 1,
1861 eighty cents; December Is, 1861,
scvenSy-fiye cents; February /, 1862,
sixty cents; February 1, 1868. twenty
cents; June, 1868, eight cents; January,
1864, two cents; November, 1864, four
and one-haH cents; January, 1865, two
and one-haH cents; April Il, 1865, one
a1dspne-haG cents. After that date it,
toek from eight hundred to one thou
sana dollars in Confederate money to
bny a one-dollar greenback.
h the great ancient literary char
{ aotorS had their detractors. Socrates
was called a Insurer by Cicero and 8
pedant by Athenmus; Plato was &C
c,seed I'll envy, lying, avarice, robbery
and impiety; Aristotle was abused by|