Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-12-12
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

over 100, 900 horses are every year
killed for food in Paris.
The German army on peace foot
ing has 63.oo7 horses with the cavalry
and z6. with the artillery Every
horse in the German empire is regis
tered and available for service.
Two men Of Madison, Ohio, have
been going to the polls together for
sixty years. Now they are each eighty
one years old. with but months diff
ference in their ages On November
they cast their fifteenth Presidential
vote.
The wheat market today brings the
glorious news to those who purchased
wheat some two or three months ago,
at the market in Toledo, quotes the
following prices Cash price in To-
ledo ~; Chicago 80 cents, and the
December delivery at Chicago SoK
cents closed
1t was a Bangor philosopher who
summed up church fair in these
words: "a church fair is place
where we can spend more money that
we can afford for things we do not
want in order to please people whom
we do not like and to help the heath
/
ems, who are happier than we are.
exchange has the following which
can be echoed by all the news men in
the land. One delinquent said che
would pay Saturday if he lived" He's
dead. Another said "I'll see you to-
morrow He's blind Another said
II hope | may 60 to the devil ii I
don't pay you this week. He'sgone
to the devil to receive his reward.
Thousands of bushels Of apples and
potatoes are going to waste in this
country because there is no adequate
market for them. But thousands OF
persons are suffering for want Of
enough to eat. There is screw loose
in the economic arrangement some
where. or the two conditions could
not exist at the same time.---Ex.
| Recently young, unbeneficed cler-
gyman in an English suburban parish
received spontaneous and unsolicited
offer from a lady member of his flock
of her heart, money and hand In
reply the spinster was advised by the
unsentimental cleric to give her heart
to the Lord, her money to the poor
and her hand to the man who asked
for il.
1t has been announced that match
for $500 a side was made for a fight
between Thomas Stevens, Of Cattles-
burg, KY, and bear owned by b. +.
Wilson, of Wheeling. The bear is a
ten months-old cub and is a vicious
young brute. Stevens is to be pro-
vided with hunting knife with a
four-inch blade, while the bear fights
with natures weapons. The battle
is to take place at Cattlesburg, Christ
mas evening, in the opera house.
1t is strange why SO many people do
not vote. Many people were sur
prised when they read in the papers
that there were about 40, 900 people in
Allegheny county, Pa, who had not
cast ballot for their Presidential
choice November sd. They thought
it strange that one out Of every three
voters in the county should stay away
from the polls. Allegheny county
has $4,000 registered voters. and
about 40, 900 Of them did not vote.
A new little girls composition on
woman is out. 1t says: boys are
men that have not got as big as their
papas, and girls are women that will
be ladies by and by Man was made
before woman. When God looked at
Adam, he said to himself. Well,
think can do better if | try again.
And he made Eve. Boys are trouble.
They wear out everything but soap.
If had my way the world would be
girls and the rest dolls. My papa is
SO nice that | think he must have
L
been little girl when he was little
boy. Man was made, and on the
seventh day he rested. Woman was
then made and she has never rested
since
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