The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-11-13
News From Old World
Drifted Into New York
By Boat
SOFT FOR SCRIBES
Some Interesting Facts
Cleaned From Paper
Shown at Fair

"Well were it not a pleasant thing
To fall asleep with al one
friends,
To pass with all our social ties
TO silence from the haunts oil
men
And every hundred years 70 rise
And learn the world, and sleep
again!"
lust how desirable would be the
fruition of Tennyson's Day Dream
is shown by the contrast between
a news item in the West YTginian
Thursday afternoon and a number
of news stories taken from a copy
OF the Ulster County Gazette, print
ed In Kingston, N. Y, on Jan. 4,1S00.
now an heirlom in the posses
sion of Mrs. Fred F. Moore, OF Ices
Run. The newspaper was exhibited
by Mrs. Moore at the fair held in
Pine Grove school house yesterday.
one of the stories printed in the
Gazette under q Paris heading and
dated October IA, 1893, gives an ac,
count OF the landing or Napoleon
Bonaparte in France from Egypt.
Three months later It was run as
news in New ! ork. PUCK 8 boast,
''Tu put a girdle around the earth
in forty minutes" was almost du-
pIicated by the story OF q happen
ing in London at IL a. m. Novem-
ber IL, 1920, and printed In the
West Virginian the same after
noon. Several other bulletins In
the Gazette giving accounts OF for
eign affairs are dated as far back
as four months previously to the
time OF issue.
The paper contains an euIogy OF
General Washington, pronounced
by General Marshall in the House
Of Representatives on December 10,
five days after the death Of "Lhe
hero, the sage, and the patriot Of
America, the man on whom in times
OF danger every eye was turned and
all hopes were placed" ana who
Lives in the heart OF an affection
ate and afflicted people,"
A poem "On the Death Of Gen
eral Washington" (by young
Lady, written in the same strain,
speaks Of 1.-The august CHIEF, the
father and the rriend!"
Not the least interesting feature
Of the publication is the advertts.
ing end. One advertiser mounts
his Pegasus and gallops OF to the
following strains:
Luther Andres & Co. have this
day,
Been opening goods both fresh and
gay"
You may always find me by my
sign,
A few rods from the house divine!'
a card inserted by one Seth Mo
sier states that "a young heifer,
about one year old last spring,
marked with piece cut of the
right ear, a star on the forehead
and white under the belly" came
to the subscriber, and the owner
is requested to pay the charges and
take her away. On another page
Benjamin Demyer offers q hand.
some reward" for q red heifer,
three years old, with a small star
on her forehead, a piece cut on her
left ear and little white under her
belly" 1t Is to be hoped that the
two subscribers got together on the
questions Of the heifer's age and
which ear was intact. Matys Van
Steenbergh warns everybody
against harboring or keeping his
wife, Hannah, or "intrusting her
on his account" John Schoonmak-
er Jun, Rochester, N. Y, adver.
tises q saw mill for sale and also
"a stout, active, negro wench.
John Tremper has a quantity Of
Scholarly peas for sale, ''or will be
exchanged for wheat" Ten pieces
Of property are advertised for sale
by Peter Ten Brock, sheriff.
The paper is a four page, four
column sheet, each page 11xl5
inches, published by Samuel Freer
and Son. A peculiar feature OF the
typography is the use of the letter
I for 5, in many instances, where
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