West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-05-16
Briefly Penned.

Idle talk Is always getting its
work In.
It Is better to marry crying
woman than hair pulling one.
No man admires doctors gen.
crosby In prescribing large doses.
Less than I per cent of the land
of Norway Is In use for grain fields.
People who never worry are en-
titled to lot OF credit they never
get.
Kansas has 60 more miles OF
railroad than the state of New
York.
1t Is easy for any body to get
married, but 1t Is hard tor lots of
them to stay married.
The crocodile, the chicken and
the ostrich take pebble with their
food to aid In grinding 1t.
There Is Aow made an opera glas S
which folds to the thickness of half
an inch and needs 40 case.
There are many women who can
deceive their own husbands, but
few who can deceive their friends.
When you come to think how
some people will elope 1t Is easy to
understand how some people will
cut their threats.
DR.. Fontan, surgeon of Toulou,
reports that he has recently pre-
served the life of a soldier who was
stabbed through the heart.
Dwarf oak trees are cultivated by
the Chinese. They average from
six inches to a foot In height, and
are perfect In every respect.
The multitude of sins that Is
covered by charity Is not to be
mentioned In the same breath VII b
the multitude that Is uncovered by
| 1t.
Vaccination Is now obligatory In
France within the first year from
birth, and must be followed by re-
vaccination at the ages OF II a1d
FL.
The wholesale price of pair of
shoes represents about 22 per cent
In wages, IS per cent material and
10 per cent minor expenses and
profits.
Genuine diamonds varying In
weight from one half carat to a
carat have been found In placer
deposits on tributaries of Golovin
bay, 40 miles east of Cape Nome.
Miners found the diamonds while
washing out gold.
The United States Department OF
Agriculture now has well equipped
laboratories for the investigation OF
the diseases O. plants In Washing
ton City, Florida and California.
There are also 50 experiment sta
tons where plant diseases are stud
led, and In perhaps half that num-
Der of colleges practical courses on
plant life are given.
Surgeon General Strenberg's re
port will show that of GIG men
Shot during the war In Cuba and
the Philippines $50 were killed and
333 wounded. The mortality oI
those struck was II 9 per cent, OF
In man killed for every "a
wounded. During the Civil War
of 5o7 gro there were III,28t
killed, or killed to a So wounded
Nations are much like indivld
uals. When a town Is visited by
some disaster Its residents are unit
ed In a common bond of sympathy
. and a desire to be Of help to ths
aft cted. Today, when the world Il
aghast at the terrible calamity Ii
the West Indies, Its different coun
tries and rulers are making haste t
offer words of sympathy and sub
stantial prof RS of material aid. 1
Is such touches of kindness ant
pity as these which make who'll
world kin.
The fish and game law Is bein,
constantly aud regularly violated
dynamitlne "c'oE tie most seriou
offense. The last legislature mad
this a felony and violators of tn
law probably do not realize that
! conviction for this offense mean
a term In the penitentiary. Hun
! dreds of pounds of fish have beer
killed In Middle Island creek Ii
this manner this spring and most O