Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-02-27
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

1880
The croak of the crocus will soon
be heard.
Any butcher should be able to make
both ends meat
Hearts are trumps and Cupid holds
all the high cards.
The grounding seems to be some
thing of humorist himself.
The latest slang phrase is: "You
are not the only tin can in the goat. I"
Connecticut has abolished all toll
gates from the pnblic highways in the
state.
Even the milk of human kindness
will curdle if it isn't properly attend
ed to.
The girl who curls up her nose
isn't half as pretty as the girl with
curls down her back.
A Kansas City dispatch announces
an unusually heavy snow storm
throughout the Missouri valley.
Young people in love make fools of
themselves Why of course they do,
Just as their parents did before them.
A mans will may be law while he
is alive, but just wait until he's dead
and the heirs begin to get in their
work.
Collector Shearer has seized the dis
tillery of Jacob +. Shaeffer, at Lancas-
ter, Pa, for the non payment of$45,-
1922 tax due.
The Iowa State Fair this year will
be open on Sunday. The machinery
will be idle and religious services will
be held.
Though it is we'll known that it
does babies good to cry few mothers
can make their hearts believe that it
is healthy.
Sylvester Scovel, the correspondent,
imprisoned in Havana, writes to his
parents, in Worcester, o., that he is
well treated.
"By their fruit we shall know
them, remarked Wigwag as he bow
ed to to the old man who has peach
of a daughter.
A Kansas City preacher wants
bachelors taxed, and says man who
is not married at 80, should be sent
to the peniteLtiary.
The man who Graves excitement
can get all he wants by simply be-
coming engaged to young lady who
has small brother.
In a deliberately planned duel
between Batiste Melleri and Joseph
Bernascerie, in Chicago, Melleri, the
challenger was shot dead.
A bill has been introduced in the
New York Legislature which absolute
ly prohibits the bounding and Jack
ing' of deer within that state.
Recent mortality returns from the
Southern States show that the death
rate of the colored people from tuber.
culosis is three times as high as that
of the whites.
Marriage is not failure because
some poor brute makes life miserable
for his wife, neither is the church a
failure because some poor member
falls from grace.
A woman in Dahlonega, Ca, whose
husband died year ago, leaving her
with nine children to support, is run
ming her farm at a profit, and is put
ting money in the bank.
The evangelical ministers of Allan
ia are about to take up arms against
two of the devils agencies, as they
are termed-punch- drinking and card
playing church members and loose
divorce laws. Sermons on these evils
were preached Sunday.
In speaking of the proposed changes
in the divorce laws of North Dakota
the Wahpeton IN. d. Globe says
"The law will probably remain as it
is, first, because no one is injured by
it, and second, because a great many
of our people profit by it,"
A bet was recently made in Paris
that an expert could not cut up 1000
sandwiches Within "a hours, the
amount of the wager, 1000 france, to
go to the expert, if successful, and the
sandwiches to be distributed among
the hospitals OF Paris. The person
selected was women employedin one
of the cafes. She completed the task