The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-25
Facts aud FancIes.

Spare moments are the gold dust of
time.
A bitter Jest is the poison Of friend
ship.
An Illinois church was carried bodily
six miles on II freight car
Many delight more in giving presents
than in paying their debts.
A belle ut Saratoga boasts OF having
had twelve offers this season.
Every person should cultivate nice
sense of honor and self respect.
There urc twenty thousand acres plant
ed to grapes in western New York.
Young folks grow most when in love.
1t increases their sighs wonderfully.
Who pays the highest price for a
house ? The woman who marries for
one.
The leading fashion establishments in
Paris are again open, and hurried with
orders from abroad.
In Philadelphia 1850 persons nre
employed in not less than 5000 manu-
! luCluIlnB tatuullAlultHtS'
BE not too concise in your communi-
cations lest you be not understood, nor
too diiluse lest you be wearisomc.
Two water snakes have been picked
up in California, dead from asphyxia,
each having swallowed the others tail.
Some very pretty styles of Fall sacks
,r, nf 1;,rI,I ontnr,1 otnthu nrno IA onta1
with feather trimming shade darker
than the material.
Honiton lace collars have come in
fashion again, worn very deep, reaching
nearly to the shoulders, and pointed
ends back aud front.
The sixty-sccond annual meeting Of
the American Board of Missions will be
held at Mechanic Hall, Salem, Mas,
commencing Tuesday, October 8, 1871,
at p. NJ
In onc-half column the San Francsco
Alta quotes from the Devil Gully klyoS-
hor, the Ynnkcc Flat AdrcrtiSer, the
New Jerusalem Courier, and the Murder
burg Bulletin.
The Nebraska State immigration ngent
for Denmark, Norway and Sweden, re-
ports that there will be M emigration
from these countries to Nebraska of over
10000 this year.
The great novelty in trnvcling-drcsses
arc the Baden. Baden towel costumes,
that are literally made of the rough
brown bath toweling, which we know
better as Turkish.
A prisoner in Georgia ingeniously
remarked to the iailer. "Oh, look at
dat snake dar'-a nd ran like the bright
eyed gazellc. Neither snake nor pris.
oncr has been seen since.
In n dog fight in Lcaycnworth, the
owners Of the dogs got into quarrel
about the probable result, and went to
fighting themselves. Seeing this the
dogs became disgustel and quit.
The Dutch have no commiseration
for men who get into debt They con-
slider that every man in debt lives, il he
be poor Ut the expense OF his fellow
citizens, and OF his heirs il he be rich.
The meancst railroad in the country is
thus described "It bnllnsts its bed
with sand, it starts with jerk and stops
with Il jam, and hires the smallest con-
ductors it can find to save carrying
weight" )"
A horse.car conductor in Brooklyn has
been aned fifty dollars for throwing 4
passenger on his car The offence OF
the passenger consisted in offering q five
dollar bill, having no other change, in
payment Of his fare,
Astrauger meeting man in the streets
of Boston few DAYS since roughly ac-
costcd hlm with Here, l waut to go
to the fremont House" The deliberate
reply was, "Wcll, you can go, il you
won't be gone long"
at is the type of eternal truth" says
John Rusllin, " that the souls nrmor is
never well set to the holrt unless n wo-
mans hand has brnccd it, and it is only
when she bnccs it loosely that tho
honor Of manhood fails. "
A Boston woman, who has been read.
ing in the papers that Sunday marriages
are illegal, writes to the papers to know
how il is with a baby born on n Sun.
day I? II so, which should he punished,
the father, the mother, or the bNby2