The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-12-04
Facts and FancIes.

Hub-bub-A Boston boy.
Autumn leaves-when winter comes
in.
Protested bills-Posters on forbidden
walls.
Northern Iowa claims gigantic corn
crop.
Fee simple Money given to quack
doctor.
A bushel of wheat contains 100000
grains.
A Cincinnati cook makes frst.clOss
acorn soup.
Eyergreens-Merchants who expect to
make money without advertising.
Two humps of ice placed in her nest
will "break up" a setting hen.
When is n small fsh-pond like bird.
cage ?-When there is perch in it.
A notice over the sleeping car office in
Atlanta reads, "Births can be secured
here"
Fifty cents is imposed on each nlder-
man who nbsents himself from regular
meetings ut Key West,
A batcheloris generally described ms a
man who has neglected his opportunity
of making some poor woman miserable
"a millstone and tho human heart
Are driven ever round;
II they have nothing else to grind,
They must themselves be groand."
The fish trade of New England amounts
to $4,000, 900 n year, and the fish trade
in Boston amounts to about 20,000,00O
n year.
There may be (rnreJ occasions when
it is proper to use slang for instance, to
say that "going" is " from the wortl
go"
The persistence with which Mr.. Ash.
bury came in behind the New York
yachts, suggests that he thought he had
stern duty to perform.
A Pittsburg man slept soundly with
dead bed.fellow, the other night, being
unaware that tho latter had blown his
brains out early in the evening.
A man who eats half n pint of chest
nuts Just before going to bed, and won.
ders why he has the headache the next
day, is not good at guessing conm-
drums.
The Williams College Reric~ opposes
the admission Of girls into the institu-
ton, but says il they insist upon com.
ing, the students will receive them with
open arms.
Every cat in Paris is to be taxed three
francs a year. From which it may bo
surmised that there will be fewer cats
in the houses and moro mbbits in the
restaurants.
A provincial seeing lady driver, and
her groom with folded arms behind,
thought "thnt fellow must pay TINT
nice-looking girl pile to drive his car
riage for him.
A German porter and French girl
were married in Hartford last week Rf.
ter forty.eight hours acquaintance.
Neither Of them understands tho Ian.
guage Of the other.
A mean Norwich man has met with
severe but Just punishment. He refused
to give anything for the Chicago Mf-
ferers, and within two hours heard that
his mothcr-in.law had come to stays
month with him.
A boy in Iowa has n silver quarter
stuck in his throat, where il has been
for the last three months. He has tried
every wny to get it ont, but he can't do
it, and the only hope is that circuG
will go that way soon.
A little son of John Curran, in Iowa,
met with frightful death the other day.
He was herding cattle, and tied the hal.
ter Of his horse around his body. When
found his brains had been dashed out
and his body horribly mangled.
The Cincinnati insurance companies
lose in the aggregate S1,500,000 by the
Chicago fire, and all propose to pay in
full. This is creditable to Cincinnati,
whose citizens subscribed $500, 600 to
enable one of the companies to pay its
losses, without impairing its capital
The ration furnished each day in Chi.
cago by the Relief Committee for three
persons, consists Of peck Of potatoes,
three pounds of pork, one pound of m.
gnr, one pound OF cheese, three loaves
OF bread, one pound of crackers, one
bar OF soap, one cabbage, and two quarts
of onions.
Somebody asked Mrs. Stanton the
other day how the candidates for Gov.
ernor Of Massachusetts stood on the wo.
man question. Mrs. s., who had good
reason to believe that the result OF tho
election would prove adverse to her
cause, replied: "Oh, I don't know.
They are Just hopperty lopperty.'
Those who have within them.
selves, who can dare to live alone, want
friends the least, but, at the same time,
best know how to prize them the most.
But no company is far preferable TO bad,
because we are more apt to catch tho
vices OF others than their virtues, MS tho
disease is far moro contagious than
death.
A young man named Stricken commit.
ted suicide Mt Leavcnworth. His father
was kindly demonstrating against his
dissipation, and remarked that he would
rather follow his son to the grave than
see him drunkard, when the young
man replied "Here goes, father, and
instantly put a pistol to his own head
aud Iignharupl H.