The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-10
Facts and Fancies.

IN some phTlS VI 1llluOlo oIa"pSAA4SS
have been in bloom all winter.
The twenty-fifth anniversary OF the
Pope's pontifcate will occur in June.
There are two rooms in Evansville
tenanted by twenty-One persons and ten
dogs. .a
Brigham Young is said to have lost
twenty-seven mothers-in-law IN hive
years.
The horse is a curious feeder BE
eats best when he hasn't bit in his
mouth.
The seventh translation OF the Bible
into Chinese is now in progress at
Picking.
Seventy-eight womena are now regular,
" ordained preachers in the United
States. ss
The British government in India ex-
poets the present year revenue OF SiO,-
100000 from opium.
Miss Phelps says there is no use guar.
reling with woman, the press, a railroad
company, or the telegraph.
The Congregationalists have about
3,l22 churches in the United States, and
about $685. members.
In Schuylkill County, Pa, there are
something over 200 collieries, with an
invested capital OF about Sl2, 100000
The "human hair exported from
Bohemia to the United States during
1870, represented the value of SS,545.
An exchange says that the reason
schoolboys delight to dig and explore
caves is because of the recesses there.
Massachusetts, proposes to pay the
members OF its Legislature $3.50 eachper
session, without reference to its length.
A young lady went into music store
and asked the clerk if he had Loving
eyes" He replied, I'm told SO by the
girls" -r.
Don't let your cattle stray ; they often
wander to the most mysterious places
we once saw a cowhide in shoemaker's
shop. r- -.
A San Francisco Judge has dismissed
complaint against a man accused OF
stealing one goose because the word was
spelled "goos."
Mr.. Horace Homes, of California, left
his widow $500 with the proviso if she
contested his will she would have moth
ing, of course she contests it.
A saloon in Kansas City displays the
following in large letters F.: Meet friend
ly =; drink moderately; pay on delivery;
part peaceably call again often"
Dr. Dio Lewis recommends young
girls who desire handsome and queenly
carriage, to carry large book on their
heads one or two hours every day.
The news comes from Europe that
bonnets are soon to be larger. 1t is
nearly time for the fashion to change,
and they cannot well be made smaller.
A California lion was lately killed near
Los Angeles, while gorging himself on
surreptitious veal. 1t took seven rifle
balls to destroy the monarch OF the
beasts.
An old lady of Wallingford, Ct, gave
to church fair, the other evening,
quilt made by herself, and containing
two thousand one hundred and forty-sl1
pieces.
An editor phintively says that he has
original poetry enough toshingle a meet
ing-house, but, as he has no meeting
house to single, the original poetry is
useless
Silk is said to be worth its weight in
silver the world over. The purchaser OF
a heavy silk for small sum OF money is
paying for dyestuff, and the dye soon
destroyes the silk.
Forty years ago, Simon Cameron pun
chased for 800 spur of the Broad
Mountain in Pennsylvania. 1t is now
worth 81, 900, 900, and he draws 500 a
day mineral royalty fromit.
THERE'S a Colonel Won Werdhem at the
head OF the Twenty-seventh Prussian
infantry regiment. He had six sons In
the army. All of them fell on the field
of battle in less than five weeks.
Madam" said pompous husband,
whose wife had stolen up behind him
and given him kiss madam l con-
slider such an actindecorous !" Excuse
me-" retorted the wife, 81 didn't know
it was you ~
A number of merchants in Havre
having pledged themselves not to EN-
ploy any more German clerks, their
former correspondents in Hamburg and
Brennan have notified them that they
will henceforth transfer their trade from
Havre to Antwerp.
A case of elephantiasis is trying the
skill of the medical faculty at Wateryille,
Ne. In this disease, which is very rare
in this country, the patients legs arc
swollen to an enormous size, the skin
becoming hard and rough, and sugges-
tive of the lower e1tremities of an
elephant. --ll
People who buy "No. l" mackerel
get those which when caught were
thirteen inches long from the tip Of the
snout to the snotch Of the caudal fin, and
fat; No. 2 are fat fish less than thirteen
inches IN length No. 8 comprise those
which are thirteen inches and poor /;
while No. are under thirteen inches
and ronr