Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-08-17
Don't think that all gossips are fe-

lie II&nt SAtAc u x ACttA IL otENNs -
always the inside.
In horse racing it Is generally case
of prophet and loss.
No man ever enjoys kissing girl
who owns a pug dog.
Some people don't get religion until
they lose everything else.
Just now the night is the loveIlest
part of the day, so to speak.
The yeast manufacturer doesn't al
ways rise in the social scale.
Men have been telling fish stories
ever since the days of Jonah.
Crab apples are here, another as
pirant for the preserving kettle.
The City Board of Education will
meet in regular session tonight.
A learned blockhead is greater
blockhead than an ignorant one.
The genius, wit and spirit of a ma
tion are discovered IN its proverbs.
A company has been formed at Par
ons, w. Va. to put in water works.
Miss Mary Burr has returned from
a visit to friends at Harper's Ferry.
Alaska has the smallet population of
any possession of the United States.
Daylight shortens at both ends daily
though it its scarcely perceptible yet.
The hand that rocks the cradle is
seldom the hand that wins the jack
pot.
Beauty is only skin deep and a lot
of people are pretty thin skinned at
that.
Miss Mary Butler Derr, Hagerstown,
is visiting Miss Nettie Show, this
city.
Mrs. Carrie Nation wept when told
that her husband had sued for di-
vorce.
Some Judges indulge in epigrams
while others are fond OF long sem
fences.
Time is monev, they say, and ye
many man syends his time in saving
money.
Stephen and Wayne, children Of Mr.
and Mrs. Jas. f. Thompson, have the
mumps.
The girl who is cultivating her
voice can't epxect to cultivate many
friends.
No matter how bad music may be it
never comes out at the small end of
the horn.
Mrs. Mamie Lefferts and Miss
Mable Williams are visiting in Hag-
erstown.
Mr.. M l.. Schindel of Hagerstown,
was in this city on business Monday
afternoon.
No rain is too hard or too long if it
will only drown out old General
Humidity.
There are people in this world
whose stomachs are where their hearts
ought to be.
Circumstances alter cases. The last
wind that we hated in March we love
in August.
Bob Fitzsimmon has taken tc the
lecture platform. Next it will be to
the woods.
MIR. Frank Geyer has returned
from visit TO Warrenton, Va, and
other places.
There is proposition to leave
Chamberhsurg electric light plant
to foreigners.
The crop of weather predictions for
the summer of190l may be pronounced
total failure.
Besides carrying malaria germs the
MOSQUITO carries bill-which he al
ways collects.
Ex- Senator and Mrs. @. ]. Faulkner,
of Martinsburg, are among the Allan
tic City guests.
The horses sun bonnet is not be-
coming but it often saves the price
of new horse.
Mr.. S. r. Osbourne, of Jefferson
county, is the guest of DIR. w. Link
at the Berkeley.
A man may own a watch that is o
good timekeeper and yet he may not
have good time.
The difference between esteem and
conceit is the difference between you
and your neighbor.
Even the political bee has sting.
Ply steal culture is only another
name for hard work.
A magnetic telephone system TO
operate in West Virginia has been
organized at Grafton.