Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-06-20
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

The way of the world is not to max,
laws but follow customs.
Our own hearts, and not other mem.
opinions ofus. form our true honor.
The sultan of Turkey is critically
Ill with tumor of the spine.
There is only one zeal failure in liz
possible, and that is not to be true L
the best one knows.
Do not wait for extraordinary cir
cuinstances to do good actions; try t
use ordinary situations.
# man does not know when he il
beaten. some kind friend is pretty
sure to tell him. Puck.
Four boys took shelter in house
at Tobaccoport, Tenn, and all were
killed by stroke OF lightning.
Some men think they can't live
without girl and after they are mar.
ried discover they can't live with her.
An oil spring, near Muddy Greek,
Wyo., in the vicinity of Casper, flows
a beautiful greenish colored oil stead.
ly.
To write an epigram all you have
to do is to think up something mean
in two lines and make it rhyme
Texas Sitter.
Hoax Would you say boomers are
plural or boomers is plural7 Joax--
| don't know but they make woman
look singular.
Some men may be superstitiousn
observed the Manayunk Philosopher,
"but did you ever know one to refuse
a loan of thirteen dollars?''
An Atkinson woman prefers stay
ing at home and reading Sunday pa
pers to going to church. She says
the styles are newer.-Atchinson
Globe.
John D. Hart, manager, and Cap
tain Edward G. Riley of the steamer
Bermuda. were arrested at Philadel-
phia, and bailed, on a charge Of fill
clustering.
A Frankfort Pa) man is so mean
that instead of taking his family to
the seashore he has bought an cleo
trio fan and placed bowl of salt water
in front of it.
There is no prosperity, trade, art,
city or great material wealth of any
kind but if you trace it home you will
find it rooted in a thought of some in
dividual man.
In the race between Britannia, Me-
teor, Ailsa, Satanic and Hester at
Southampton, England. on Saturday,
Meteor came in first, but lost to Bril-
tannia on time allowance.
No matter how long a woman has
been married, she wants the hero OF
the play TO be young and the william
to be married man. She glories in
the ultimate success of the youth
Kansas City Star.
Lightning struck the barn of Lewis
Crugenheimer in Ringtown valley,
near Ashland, Pa, Saturday night.
Harry Markley and Samuel Belz, two
farm hands, who had taken refuge in
the barn, were killed.
While driving cows. the II-year-
old son off. L. Martin was killed by
bulldogs at cartersburg, Va, June IS.
His scalp was torn off and his neck
and body terribly lacerated. The body
was found in the pasture in the morn
ing.
Some anatomists express the opin-
ion that the muscular tissues Of the
female tongue are more compact than
those of the same organ in the case
OF a man, so that a woman can talk
longer than a man and with much less
fatigue.
John Roenly, carpenter. shot him
self at Trenton. n. J.. Tuesday, BY
placing the end Of gun barrel in his
mouth and pulling the trigger with
string looped around his loot. His
head was half blown of. He had
been drinking.
John Greenwood, the krst Ameri-
AN dentist, made two sets Of teeth for
General Washington. The 6rst was
finished in 1890. and FIVE years later
ne made another set. The plates are
IF gold and the workmanship OF su-
Derior quality.
A vast acreage Of grain has been
'owu this season in Klickitat county,
Wash, and all bids fair to produce an
abundant yield. One observer esfi-
mates that the wheat crop of that
county will this year be somewhere
near 200. 600 bushels.
The remains OF James G. Blaine and
son Walker Blaine will this month be
removed from Oak Hill cemetery at
Washington. to Burnt Hill cemetery
at Augusta. Maine, where they will
be inferred in the family lot, three
acres having been purchased for the
purpose.
The sea anemone has mouth re-
sembling the flower of the morning
glory. ANY small sea animal APP
too near finds the mouth
closes over him. It remains closed
until all the digestible parts have
been assimilated, and then opens and
rejects the bones or shelly portions.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ludlow. the mother
Of the we'll known New Yorker, Rob
ert Center. who was killed while rid
ing bicycle on the Western bouIe-