The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-07
Facts and Fancies.
A tit-bit-A horses bit, of course.

A tit-bit-A horses bit, Of course.
"Things not generally known"-Poor
people!
Maxim.-Give n child bat and most
likely it'll bawl.
Call spade, spade. You may call
stockings, hoes.
A dentist can stop q woman's tooth,
but not her jaw
Most lovers like to be alone-with their
sweethearts of course.
Some husbands, though anything but
sharp, are awfully shrewd.
Homemade sewing.silk is one Of the
products Of Harris county, Ga.
II is said that the bachelor looks out
for No. 1; the married man for No. 2.
If thou hast n lettering servant, send
him on thine errand Just before his din
ner.
Despair gives tho same fatal ease to
tho mind that modification does to tho
body.
What is the difference between coat
and n baby? The one I wear, tho othor
| was
When does nin become too familiar
with lady9 When it begins to patter
on the back.
The reason why the ancient Britons
were so formidable in battle is that they
were Pict men.
Madness in and about Paris has been
very much on the increase OF late. Who
can doubt it?
The latest style OF silverware is. satin
finish, oxydized, and ornamented with
purest gliding.
Somebody says that snail has II per-
feet set Of 1920 teeth-110 rows, with
Ill teeth in each row.
Soldiers in battle are not all wed to
whistle to keep their courage up. That
must be left to the bullets.
The best gunrdinn of woman's happi-
ness is her husbands love-; and for her
honor her own affection.
An eleven year old boy has walked
from Kansas City to Houston, Texas-a
little trump of one thousand miles.
Some critics are like the valiant flies
mentioned by Shakespeare, who dare to
eat their breakfast on the lip OF a lion.
Iowa bears of tho palm in originality
of town names. A new place there has
been courageously christened Seven
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A one-legped man amused crowl in
Lancaster, Mass, the other day, by
hopping a mile in six and quarter min
utes.
Fragments OF human beings, blown
into the mir by steamboat explosions, are
spoken Of in Arkansas MS atmospheric
phenomena"
It is reported that seventeen street.
car horses In New Haven, Conn, have
been attacked with the disease prevalent
in New York.
An eastern express transported day
or two ago us freight from Maine to
Massachusetts, Frenehman who cannot
speak English.
The reason why American girls are so
delicate is that they are very energetic,
and dance, ride, walk, and skate too
much and too often.
A Western paper positively declines to
publish amy more Anonymous publica-
tons unless they are accompanied by the
name of the author.
A woman ut Sturgis, Mich, is reported
to have died in twenty minutes after
inhaling some steam arising from tho
potato bugs, which she was boiling to
death. ..
A blind OK, recently sold in Mime.
sofa, broke from the inclosure of its
purchaser, swan n river and walked twen-
ty miles to its old home, guided by Gin
stinct."
An Elmira editor, speaking OF the
marriage of brother quill, says: "It's
sad, however, this parting with old
friends. One by one they drop of and
double up"
"You must fatter or frighten," said
NJ. "the interest or the self-love OF
men. Men are asses or monkeys, who
only jump for nuts, or skip about in fear
VI WV NihP ...
Less than one hundred years ago the
Pennsylvania Legislature ordained that
Z" no member thereof should come to the
House barefoot, or eat his bread and
cheese on the steps"
A Portland (Me.) woman having swal-
lowed dose OF corrosive sublimate, was
saved by her husband, who administered
to her the whites Of fifteen eggs, which
neutralized the effects Of the poison.
L'Eclurc used to relatc, that when
quite young man, and without fortune,
arriving ut Luneville, he obtained the
plnce Of dentist to King stAnislaus on
the very day on which the king lost his
ast tooth.
A newspaper, which spoke OF "butter-
ed thunder and was asked by a contem.
porury II that had nny affinity TO "greased
lightning manifested some anger in
explaining that muttered thunder was
what was intended.
Tie losses by hre in the United States
during 1870 aro estimated 10 have been
500, 100000 the marine losses, 500, ,000,.
900 and the death claims nstually paid
BY the life insuranes eompaaiei w1sa
\ SEQ, 600, 900,