The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-05-15
Facts and Fancies.

Facts and Fancies.
One who knows, says that in the coun-
try they blow n horn before dinner, but
in town they take one.
The best burial cases are made Of
wrought, galvanized iron-and cost from
twenty to one thousand dollars.
An Albany domestic adviser" left her
mistress because she was not allowed to
receive her company in the library.
It is said that the fibre of the bamboo
is likely to be extensively used as o sub
stitute for shoddy in the manufacture Of
cloths.
Two tug-boats at New Orleans, while
racing, ran into the harbor police-boat,
knocking it to pieces, and killing officer
Douglass.
Quebec has now on the stocks eleven
ships, averaging about 700 tons each,
nine barges four schooners, and six
steamers.
A Connecticut schoolboy has written
composition on the horse, in which
he says it is an animal having four legs,
lone at each corner"
Several Frenchmen exiled by order of
Louis Napoleon in 1851, and now living
in England, are said to intend suing the
ex-Emperor for heavy damages.
The discovery has been made in Bos-
ton that the chief cook Of hotel there
receives a much larger salary than the
President OF Harvard University.
The strongest propensity in q woman's
nature, says n careful student Of the
sex, is to want to know what is going on,
and the next strong est is to boss the job.
A gorgeous garment which will be
popular on watering place piazzas is the
Oriental jacket, in purple, scarlet, and
black velvet, sleeveless, and embroidered
in gold and silver.
Showers of good things are falling on
Bismarck. Agrateful country gives him
$3.50, 900, and the king of Bavaria has
sent him the order of ST. Hubert, with
its decorations in diamonds.
The failures in the United States dur
ing 1870, it is reported, amounted to
2,351, involving liabilities of SSS, 242, 900,
against failures during 1853 amounting
to 2,799, involving liabilities Of S75,O54,-
900.
One blacksmith out in Western New
York has taken from horses feet over
two hundred nails that have been trodden
upon and buried in the feet of the ami
NAL, by being carelessly thrown into the
street.
An old bachelor says that giving the
ballot to women would not amount to
ANYTHING practically, because they would
insist that they were too young to vote
until they got too old to take any inter
est in politics.
"Why don't you give us little Greek
and Latin occasionally ?" asked q country
deacon of new minister. "Why, do
you understand those languages ?" was
asked. ''No; but we pay for the best
and ought to have it. J"
A lady at Bath (Me. swept up revol-
yer cartridge the other day, and, with
other "dirt," carelessly threw it into the
stove. Pretty soon something event
off" So did the cover Of the stove, and
the coal and ashes were strewed about
the floor.
MANY Of the retail milk dealers of New
York have reduced their prices from
ten to eight cents per quart, delivered to
families. Condensed milk has also been
reduced from so to Sc cents per quart.
Goshen butter is retailed at So to 40
cents pound.
A Paris letter says that one OF the first
things n citizen asks his neighbor now.a-
days, on meeting him out Of doors, Is,
"Can you tell me, Monsieur, the name
Of our street this morning ?" And the
reply is, ~ could have done so half an
hour ago, but since then the name has
been changed three times"
Two lads aged about fourteen years,
while looking after Mayfowers, got lost
lately in the woods in the vicinity OF
Howe's Lake, near St. John, N. B., and
darkness coming in before they found
their way out were compelled to take up
their abode in the woods for the night.
They therefore climbed up sheltering
evergreen, and kept up lively conver-
sation until daybreak, lest they should
fall asleep. When daylight came on they
found no difficulty in reaching the road,
and arrived home cold and hungry.
A new and fearful warning is held up
to tea-drinkers. A savan has discovered
with the microscope that when we pouI
milk into cup OF ten, the albumen oi
the milk and the tannin OF the tea in.
stantly uEite, and form leather, or min
ute flakes of the very same compound
which is produced in the texture Of tn,
tanned hides, and which makes itleathel
as dlstinguishable from the original skin
I He consequently estimates that in tn,
: course OF year tea-drinker Of averag,
, capacity imbibes enough leather to max
o pair Of shoes.