West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-04-14

Mock Moons And Sun Doxs.-where
Snowlakes Fly Crisis And
Calamlties.

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Calamities.
F.. Special Correspondence OF The Argus.
New York is the place. to-day. where
y genuine blizzard, like unto that OF
.SsS is being served on the half-shell.
with growls aud expressions of disgust
galore, as entrees to the feast ca at
mospheric Now, We Thought we had
done with this sort OF thing until next
winter; but wonders will; never cease.
and the unexpected always happens.
The terrible agi.ations aud crisis up-
pernost at this time appear TO have
been reflected in the heavens last even.
ing. Great excitement was caused by
tho appearances of three mock moons.
"A rainbow. and To distinct circles.
The superstitious ones declared tina,
they were positive signs fwar. There
Is lot OF talk going around just now,
relative 10 "paraselena," halos, coro.
mas and c.rro-stratus clouds; among
FOLKS who endeavor to explain every
thing. however unusual or pheuominal.
upon scientific principles But /
suppose Farmer Dunn could have told
us last night, that they formed a
storm signal; aud in proof thereof,
here is fn'l-tledged war OF clements
TO substantiate the superstition. So,
the old men who dreamed dreams and
the young men who saw visions are
not in IL, after all.
While the Presidents alleged mes
sage TO Congress is in pickle. SO to
speak land therc are those who would
be glad for him to be In the same boat y
a great many festive aud inspirit.ng
little things are happening to impart
lightness and cheerfulnoss to the
scene. servant girl is found par
boiled In u bath-tub; an aged lady es-
capes from the rurgeon's scalpel and
takes nice little header OF three
stories down to death The ptomainc
question comes In for share OF med
icil consideration and public credencs.
Ministers OF the Gospel are respect
ively scoring Mckinley and patting
him on the back. While they are
warming mp TO the war subject, why
don't they contrive TO everlastingly
freeze out Mark IIannai oh, tell
yon. New York is fine place to live
in--so many things going on, don't
you know And, no matter whether
Casey would waltz with a strawberry
blonde or not, the band Just naturally
pays on-and the Alpha and Omega of
It's refrain, every night at the various
theatres, Is the glorious old Star-spang-
led Banner.
do not think Spanish styles OF dress
will prevail this season. III the dainty
little Bolero jacket was not so firmly
fixed In our affections, we would surely
discard IL; it is Spanish. you know |
expect we will have to drop Spanish
nacSerel and Spanish onions from our
menus ere long
An exquisite robe shown at Lord s.
Tsyior's is of white batiste with n
white embroidered border and stripes.
Some delightful poplins are displayed
by this same firm, tho favored pattern
showing cord clusters broken by a
cross stripe. Grenadine grounds fire.
quently show weaves OF lace bayadere
stripes; and special blaclx-and. blue
popiin Is diversified by blue broche
cross stripe.
Plaid effects appear in bar9es, and
one extremely Parisiaa design sinl-
! ulates tucks.
Already, despite the storm raging
without. ladies are buying tho lovely
new negl;gee r. & q. corset. IL Is
just the thing for warm weather, as
it gives all the style and support req
uisite, and is SO much more comfor-
table than regular stay.
Blue, white and black grounds pre-
vail in the new foulards.
Plain taffeta silks FOR short waists
come in cream, pink, turquoise green.
tan, lavender and red.
EVELYN CABLE.