The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-06-08
SPARKS OF THOUGHT
That Occur to Writers
Who Think.
SOME IDEAS lERSLY EXPRESSED.

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j $40 bodies were so disposed OF IN
1910, compared with 855 in 1909.
A Jersey bull cost purchaser
the other day S15,00O but some
of the bulls of the Jersey Legls-
lature have cost the State-a good
deal more than that.
Could the celebration of the
Fourth OF July be made as safe
as the celebration of Memorial
Day all would be well. And why
not have It so!
The war correspondents re-
port that some OF the girls IN
Mexico are in arms Are the
war correspondents writing OF
!, military movement or ham
mock conquest
In China the rent Of a house is
from SIS to SD a month, house
servants cost only "a a month,
eggs are FIVE cents a dozen, and
you cannot spend more than $40
a month for food if you try your
best.
The story Of the painter who
painted Secretary Days portrait
for the state department and re-
ceived $3.50, instead of the 81, $50
recorded in the department
books, opens up new line Of
graft.
You never can tell how it will
affect en- A Denver man whose
wife eloped with gentleman
friend blew out his brains. a
New Yorker in similar clrcum-
stances gave a blow out for his
friends at his fiat.
A Missouri poultry fancier ex'
poets to produce breed Of roos'
ters that will not crow. He says
that he is pretty sure to succeed
as he has already succeeded ir
breeding chickens without wings
neighbors who like to sleep late
are hopeful.
A medical journal compare,
the moral effects Of whisky ant
morphine, and the advantage il
all on the side of whisky. Whisk,
may make one temporarily fool
ish, but morphine turns a truth
full person into a lara liar S
incorrigible that if be tells tn
truth it is by mistake.
New York charity expert est
mates the yearly collections Q
professional beggars in that me
tropolis at S5,000,OOO. "A skillfr
beggar can earn from S. to So
day if he is worth his salt, and i
New York he has as easy tim
as anywhere in the world, the e1
pert thinks.
Horses are less and less in e,
idence in rural Kansas. TIL
farmers are using touring car
instead of carriages; are handlin
grain and livestock in mote
trucks; are using gasoline trae
tors in blowing, cultivating, hal
vesting and threshing. And We
the market for good horses wa
never better.
Senator Lor!mer's nerve wi
now be put to the supreme test
He must be under great temp
tation to resign, but resignation
means confession. Sticking t
the place, on the other hand
probably means expulsion. 1t i
different Senate that now vote
to reopen his case from the on
that declared him entitled to hi,
seat.
A farm hand in Wilsonville
CT, bit of a village not far from
Putnam: which is some Is miles
east of Willimantic, which in turf
is some Is miles east of Hart
ford, thought he saw horsewhiI
lying beside the road the othe
evening. He picked it up at til,
tip, whereupon he realized tina
his fingers were clasping not tn,
tip of horsewhip, but of slen
der black snake. 1t nearly fright
ened the life out of him and h,
tainted, but this was excusable
according to the newspaper &C
counts, which avowed that thu
reptile wound itself around thu
mans right arm and darted /;
Kissing tongue at its victim
Snake stories have such way o
making themselves look import
ant.