Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-06-12
Miscellaneous.
le Inne bug has arrived.

The most welcome hotel beat is the
dinner gong.
Most people can tell lies more read
lily than they can tell bad eggs.
Many women seem to imagine that
a man in a crowded street is stand
ing joke.
When it comes to question OF
horses the best thing is to straddle
the question.
A women will get everything two
or three sizes too small for her until 1t
comes to buying strawberries.
A woman never acquires perfect
society manners until she learns to
cut an old friend who is less fortunate
than herself
Some men, says the Manayunk
Philosopher, "build their regulations
with the crumbling material from
other mems failures.
Famous old Libby prison building,
which was transferred from Richmond,
Va, to Chicago. ILL.,, is to be moved
to another site.
1t seems peculiar thing, says our
town philosopher, that man who
will forget almost everything else
in the world, will remember your last
summer suit of clothes.
1t is said that the highest single
6untain Jet in the world is in Ben
nington, VT, on the estate given by
the late Trenton w. Park as home
for destitute women and children.
Melvin Stroue, aged 10 years, OF
Crown Point, Ind, is violently in
sane as the result of continued indul
gence in the cigarette habit. He has
smoked Eve years, and it is estimated
that he has used over $4,000.
Some Connecticut fishermen report
a peculiar freak of lightning while
they had their net in the river recent
ly. A bolt struck the east end of the
pole and passed along some distance
on the cork line. When they took up
the net all the shad on that end of it
had turned red.
"The man who brought this in, !"
remarked the editors assistant, "told
me confidentially that he needed the
money for it. "Yes, - was the mel
ancholy answer; tits strange fact
that the longest poems seem almost
invariably to be written by the short
est poets ~ Washington STAR
The state agent of the Tennessee
Centennial Exposition recently sent
to investigate the ACCESSIBILITY of cut
ting down and removing to the ex-
position the noted Boone tree, at
Bristol, Tenn, has advised against it
expressing the belief that the tree is
good to stand a century longer.
The most remarkable horse yet re-
ported in Maine this spring, a season
so prolific of stories OF equine intelli-
gence, comes from Mapleton, where a
man says his horse always stops at a
certain point in the road for him to
get switch, after which the beast
starts oft for town at rapid gait.
The acreage of corn planted in this
country this year will probably exceed
last years record, although an exact
estimate cannot yet be made. Last
year there were over SO, ooo. 900 acres
of corn, an area more than double the
total land surface of Turkey in Eu-
rope, and two-thirds the total land
area of France.
Old Lady-"I'm afraid your story
of your wife's death a fortnight ago
and your children's illness is not
quite the truth" Tramp--"Nottruel
Look e ere lady; I've been in this
unfort nate persition for more nor
FIVE year, and ave said the same
thing 'undreds OF times, and you're
the fust as ever doubted my word
re!"-London Fun.
Statistics do not bear out the as
sertion that machinery is detrimental
to labor, says the New York Tribune.
In no industry, perhaps, has machin-
cry been so largely introduced as in
the making of shoes. Yet, according
to the figures of the census, SIS, 900
people were employed in this indus
try in New England in 1890, against
3I3, 900 in 1860. while the average
wages per capita have risen from $246
a year to $500.