Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-08-01
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

The up-to-date woman has plenty
of room to laugh in her sleeve.
Windsor Castle has been used as
royal residence for 7S4 years.
A prizefghter might not be slow,
but he is of sluggish temperament.
Il am completely done up" re-
marked the neglige shirt as it left the
laundry.
Mason Coleman has been appoint
ed postmaster at Deep Water, Fayette
county.
"I'm never taken seriously" wall
ed the firewood. People always make
light of me"
She supported him by making
dresses, and that was the reason he
loved her sew.
The wooded island in Jackson Park,
Chicago, is now the largest and finest
rose garden in the world,
Chicago's new inlet tunnel, which
was completed recently, has capaci-
ty OF IL, 900, 600 gallons day.
The first street railroad was laid in
New York city in 1882, between the
city hall and Fourteenth street.
The manufacture of bicycles pro-
vides employment for 900, 900 persons.
Six years ago not over 10, 900 were
employed in the business.
The Marquis of Santa Lucia, insur-
gent president OF Cuba, has sailed
from the island for New York.
George Carson aud Sidney Yennie
are on trial at Springfield, ILL.,, for
having robbed the postoffice at that
place.
Adelia DeForest, former star OF
the vaudeville stage. is now pauper
patient in the insane asylum on
Wards Island, New York.
The banana is the most prolific of
all the fruits of the earth, being al
times more productive than potatoes
and 1871 times more than wheat.
The United States cruiser Montgom-
cry has sailed from New York for KEY
West to relieve the battleship Maine,
which will join the North Atlantic
squadron.
Edward B. Winslow, Democratic
candidate for governor of Maine, has
withdrawn because of the Chicago
platform. His decision was made late
Saturday afternoon.
Efforts are being made to establish
cooperative window glass factories to
afford employment to the 5000 men
thrown out of employment by the
shutting down of the trust factories.
1t is simply demonstrating the
way the bicycle is displacing the
horse
ut is, indeed. Yesterday found
a piece of rubber tire in my sausage.
The derelict bark Janet Court, val
ued, with its cargo OF nitrate of soda,
at sos, 900, was towed into New York
to be sold as prize, having been re-
covered by the steamship Innerly.
Her crew had abandoned her.
Geo. w. Jackson, a colored man liv
ing near Carlisle, Pa, hanged himself
from the limb of cherry tree in his
front yard, Monday. The rope was
too long, and when he jumped off the
chair his feet touched the ground, but
he bent his knees, and succeeded in
strangling himself to death.
Plow the wheat land, spread the
manure, harrow it in and let the
weeds start. When the weeds are an
inch high harrow the land fine and
let more weeds start, and again har-
row. BY the time the wheat is to be
seeded the soil will be in fine condi-
ton and the weeds completely de-
stroyed.
The National Association of Man
ufacturers has organized party of
about twenty-five or thirty from rep
resentative business men who will
make visit to the large cities of
South America to establish more init
mate trade relations between the Unit
ed States and the most important
South Ame rican nations.
AI6-year-old boy of Ansonia, Conn,
died the other day from the effects of
excessive bicycle riding. The exer-
else induced appendicitis and an oper-
alton showed that the intestines had
been SO knotted together, owing to
the bicycle pose, that they could
not be Strengthened. A short time
ago a similar case occurred.
1t has been stated that since trees
have been extensively planted in
southern California the rainfall of the
region has become much more uni
form and favorable to agriculture
But there are other parts of the State
in which the sawmills are wiping out
the forests and planting the desert in
the midst of natures bounties.
Leander Hartman, awealthv Du-
buque widower, who has eleven lively
boys, has adopted the nine little
daughters of his brothers widow for
1.-THE subduing influence upon his own
youngsters; but il is possible that
sympathy for the widow, if not a ten
derer sentiment, may have had some
thing to do with the case. AT anv.
Irate, Mr. Hartman is man with I
big heart. Phila. Record.