The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-07-10
Fncts and FnncIes.

The best wood for making Cradles--
Rock Maple.
Police judicial Wisdom-Let us speak
Of man rs we fined him.
A good gauge by which to measure u
mans character is his Language.
Sailors arc not necessarily milking
plum duff when they are 'ien'mi'lg ae
currents.
A Michigan man thinks that eternal
vigilance will be the price OF potatoes
this year.
ATexas paper reports marriage in
which the lady was fifteen years old and
widow.
"My fall in the Back Yard" by the
author Of "My Summer in q Garden, is
announced.
A married man in Lansingburg, N. Y,
has been sued by young lady for de-
famation Of character.
A man who has repeatedly tried them,
says that all the short cuts to fortuneare.
horribly overcrowded. r
It has been contended in m English
court TINT man who says "howsom-
dever" cannot be gentleman.
Five hundred and twenty-five thou
sand ak hundred railroad trains leave
London in the course Of year.
It will probably give rise to o difference
OF opinion, il we ask il an individual who
hns married q shrew can be considered o
shrelrd man.
A Western lady, to aid o feeble church,
recently painted on the inside work of
the meeting-house twenty-three days.
True womanly zeal this.
Appleton's Journal thinks that preach-
ers whospeak Of the simplicity Of dress"
of our grandmothers are not well read in
the history Of % hundred years ago.
Aneryous person states that he hated
being called upon to make n speech at a
public dinner, because "getting on his
legs always sent him off his head.'
The Danbury (ct) Jail is complained
Of by the prisoners as being too airy
and leaky. They don't proposelto stay
there, uiiiess the Legislature will mend
the holes. ,l
Two irate clpks Of New Orleans threw
eggs Mt 4 policeman who endeayored TO
separate them, until he strongly roseni-
lbled nm omelet. and appeared diseusted
IN the egg.stream.
A citizen Of Connecticut recently in
troduced 10 newly-married man, con-
graduated him warmly gand said "Ah,
these Litchfeld County Eirls make clever
wives; I've had three oflemln
Tue Hon. John Prentis, of Keene,
New Hampshire, aged nintg-three, il
said TO be the oldest Mason living IN ,;>Iess
United States, having travelled the rug
ged road and received his degrees in
1907.
Leayenvorth, Kansas, is said TO boast
Sof o man who is so tall that his likeness
cannot be got into one picture. A local
artist has painted his bend and shoulders,
and announces thnthe will be CONTINUED
next week. atil4
A young man Of previous good charac-
ter, named Albert Doud, who was to
have been married in twenty-iour hours,
was arrested ut Warren, ILL., the other
day, by m officer from Nebraska, on q
charge Of horse.stealing.
Six Ward Politician I who has been
splaahed )-"Yo bloody Snoozerl III
mako you rastlc your Hash in Hill!
Poetic Young Lady" o, 0lara There's
the Author Of the new Poensl Let's
stop and listen. How sweetl"l
In Vermont all of the wife's property
of every description, and whether in
possession or in action, is exempted
from the husbands debts; and II he
absconds she may, by petition, take and
sell property US single woman.
This ditty has resulted from o nuptial
contract recently entered into by Mr..
Ebenezer Sweet and Miss jane Lemon
"How happily extremes do meet
In Jane and Ebonczer;
She's from sour turned 10 sweet,
And he's lemon-sqleezcr."
Artificial ice has the reputation Of be-
ing far more endurable than the natural
article, the crystals being more solid,
and exhibiting less tendency to split into
flakes. The estimate hns been made
that thirty per cent less Of artificial ice
will secure the same preservatiye effect.
A physician of Springfield, Mass, was
lhurriedly called away from the dinner
table recently by n messenger who made
the following request: "There Is q
child fallen into drain and got drown
ed we've got the water out Of him, and
now wewant you to get the mud out Of
him." =,
A Connecticut man has found suro
cure for the deyastations Of the currant
worm. Ho sprinkles his bushes with
whisky the worm becomes drunk, gets
TO fooiing around, and finally falls on,
md either breaks It's neck outright, or
cripplcs itself so TINT life becomes a
burden. s.I -
The Oldest native boiE Iowan Is be,
ing looked up As yet Burlington u
ahead, in John Latty, who Is thirty-six
years old. But Just to think Of IL Here
is State OF n million md n quarter Of
people standing foremost in all that
makes people great, and has but one
natiye-born citizen three dozen years
old. d I'D fesi s-HefIf
Aclereyman, who owneda farm, ioui d
his plownnn sitting on his plow reating
his horses. Quoth the clereyrnan5
"John, wouldn't II no q good plan for
you to- have good stub acytlie here
and be cutting q few buAhes tlong thf
fences while tho horses nse tas''"-'
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