Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-03-31

Ten million pounds of candy are annu-
ely manufactured in the United States.
Amaple tree near Concord, n. f., has
been tapped for sugar log years.
Who is the largest manP The lover-he
is man of tremendous sighs.
Two cousins in Indiana, married several
years ago, and have six idiot children.
Rev. II. ". Beecher's wife makes s5, 900
year pin money" by editing Mother af
Home.
One of the men employed on the Sandy
Hook ight-ship has not been on shore for
ten years,
Mrs Lydia Beecher. mother of Henry
Ward Beecher, died IL Brooklyn on the
18th aged so years.
In one window of Trinity Church, in
New Haven, there are 10, 900 pieces of stain
ed glass; each hprepared and cut separately.
A man ill South Paris, Maine, has invent
ed o shingle machine which, he says will saw
and plain 40, 600 shingles in ten hours,
Secretary Seward has served 20 years
continuously at Washington-15 as Sena-
tor and as Secretary of State.
A Mississippi paper says the crops that
have not failed in that State this year, are
pumpkins and boy babies"
About a hundred thousand bushels of
peanuts have been exported from North
Carolina this year,
A street car driver and his son in New
Orleans, were killed recently by a negro,
for demanding his fare.
One actress in Paris wears $50, 900 worth
of diamonds. Another has just bought
house worth $500, 600.
Six hundred men are working at Provi
dence, R. l., on locomotives for the Pacific
R, r.
A son of the celebrated Davy Crockett
died last week in Kentucky. Hewas rebel
officer during the war.
a Vermont paper says that the annual
product of maple sugar in the United States
is 100000 pounds.
Most kinds of roots and bark are now
used as medicines, except the cube root and
Iue DdTk Vi IL uOS.
Why does the bride groom always put on
the ring at a wedding? Because bell (e)s
cannot ring themselves.
To CURE CoRSs. Hold your feet near
a hot fire till the corns pop. This Is said
to be sure cure, but very painful one.
A cat snatchedat and demolished an ar
tfcial bird in the bonnet of "a lady in New
Britain, Connecticut Results sick feline,
spoiled bonnet and weeping female.
The largest man in Maryland died on
Sunday, He used to weigh 500 pounds
but has lately grown thin, weighing only
400 when he died.
Norfolk has remarkable class of thieves
They recently stole an iron safe and two
large steam engines. They are evidently
champions of heavy weight
Mrs. Kelly, of Black Crook, New York,
is thirty-eight years old, has been married
twenty-one years, and is now the mother
of nineteen children.
4 correspondent SAYS he has friend who
is growing weaker and weaker every day,
and that he has already arrived at that point
where it is with the greatest difficulty he
can raise five dollars
Chas. Dickens and Chas. Reade receive
larger compensation than any other Eng
hsh authors. Ticknor Il Fields paid the
latter writer 800 page of printed matter
for his Griffith Gaunt."
An insane woman near Bowmansville,
Canada, on Tuesday drowned her twofchil-
dren in barrel of water, and when discov-
ered was herself getting Into the barrel
head foremost.
The grave of John Harris, the founder Of
Harrisburg is at the foot of the tree to
which he was once tied by Indians, and o
fire kindled about him to burn him alive
A simple iron fence surrounds the gravei
Three bachelors in an Iowa town played
novel game of cards the other day. y The
loser was to marry during the year, or sup
port the other two bachelors for the follow.
ing year.
A New Orleans swell, the .e4her night,
at the close of the play, was horrifed to
find that q couple of hoosiers, who sat in
the seat behind, had successfully impro-
vised his new, nobby beaver hat spit
toon,
A young man named Robert Fleming
has been sent to the Insane Asylum from
San Francisco. Ills insanity takes the
form of distressful anxiety concerning the
attempts of the woman of San Francisco to
capture him.
A seedy looking individual recently made
$40, ,0OO'by purchasing all the coal for sale at
New York auction; the buyers present,
supposing he only wanted few bushels,
did not compete They were somewhat
chagrined to hear him order the entire lot.
Singapore has boa constructor that has
swallowed young lady, who wore mt the
time a Is, 900 diamond necklace The young
lady is of no value now, but the necklace is
so about thirty thousand natives are dill
igently searching for the snake.
The Kentucky Court Of Appeals has deci-
ded that money lost at faro can berecovered
ut Law by the loser or his creditors within
six months after the money was lost, and
after six months by anV one who NAV