The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-24
Facts and Fancies.

Memphis bellies lead pet goats by blue
ribbons.
1t is good to have enemies, if it is only
to hear of our faults.
The Augusta Journal speaks OF raising
pigs as " hogriculture.
Speak plainly; act decisively out OF
doubt, out of controversy.
An American Peace Society has per-
manent fund of over S25, 900.
The Methodists of Canada are divided
into five separate ecclesiastical bodies.
People in Palatka, Fla, are daily
wakened by the cheerful chirp OF huge
alligators.
A lady advertises for a laundrcss who
will be willing to take her pcy in lessons
on the guitar.
A German physician declares that
unmarried women live much longer than
married women.
In Switzerland law is proposed max
ing it unlawful for any one under II
years of age to smoke tobacco.
A man who gives his children habit
of industry, provides for them better
than by giving them stock of money.
He is happy whose circumstances suit
his temper but he is more excellent who
can suit his temper to any circumstances.
An Iowa school teacher, a woman, has
been discharged for forcinga boy to show
her how he kissed the girls in the wood
house.
1t is said that there are already one
million bushels of grain on board vessels,
at Chicago, ready for the opening OF
navigation.
It-is with narrow-souled people as with
narrow-necked bottles ; the less they have
in them, the more noise they make in
pouring 1t out.
A young physician asking permission
of lady to kiss her, she replied :a"No,
sir; never like to have doctors bill
thrust in my face"
-Four things are previously empty a
head without brains, wit without iudg-
ment, heart without honesty, and a
purse without money.
A western lover says of his parting
from his adored one Her last words
fell, like great rocks, into the sea of my
sorrows, and splashed the briny water
into my eyes"
Iowa must be q good tree-growing
State. A man there grew from the seed,
in seven years. naples large enough to
make three ten feet rails each, with
4, 900 trees to the acre
Kansas City reports a lady as passing
along the main street of that town COM
posedly putting cigar, whilst her hus-
band, meek-looking parsonage, walked
behind, carrying the baby.
A young lady in button factory at
Waterbury, Conn, while STOPPING to pick
up some buttons the other day, had her
hair caught in the machinery, and her
scalp completely torn from her head.
A Lockport dog got a needle fast in
his tongue, and the animal was chloro-
formed in order that the needle might
be extracted. The surgical operation
was success, but the chloroform killed
the dog.
Excuse my left hand, said Wiggins,
as he shook hands with friend. Seer
tainly, certainly, I never take umbrage
at nature" was the reply, referring to
Ecclesiastes x, 2. The consequence is
that they have not spoken since.
A curious and imposing ceremony
took place in Lexington, Ky, q few days
since. During the funeral services of a
lady in that city, her infant, only few
weeks old, was brought to the chancel
of the church, and there, in the presence
of its dead mother, was solemnly ded-
icated in baptism to God.
There was deacon in New Hampshire
by the name of Day, by trade cooper.
One Sunday he heard number of boys
playing in front Of his house, and went to
stop their Sabbath-breaking. Assuming
grave countenance, he said to them;
" Boys, do you know what day is this ?"
''Yes, SIR" Immediately replied one of
the boys. deacon Day, the cooper"
Great results often spring from small
CAUSES y Llhu OlJ LII lllluOlS NuS WHICH,
ing his wife while she madea necktie,
and suddenly conceived the idea that
there was fortune to be made by the
inventor OF certain improvement in the
manufacture OF that article of wear, the
principle of which was to be a steel bow.
He never made the fortune, though, for
he worked at the idea until he became
raving lunatic.
The distribution of seeds by the Agri-
cultural Department at Washington, is
much larger than is generally supposed.
Last year, for instance, half bushel of
two new kinds of French white and red
wheat OF great repute were sent by the
Commissioner into every Congressional
district in the Union, from Maine to
Oregon. In this way, last year, nearly
100000 packages of miscellaneous seeds
we're distributed over the length and
breadth of the land, and 81, 80 plants
from the experimental garden.
A Milwaukee paper tells of remarka-
BILE case of suspended animation. Last
week one of the children of Mr.. Bien,
after short illness, died, to all appear
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