The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-12
Facts and FancieS.

Round hats are much trimmed with
scarfs Of light silk.
May turkey be said to be a ghost
when it's a-gobblin
Laugh at no man for his pug nose
you can't tell what may turn up.
Before you give way to anger, Try to
find a reason for not being angry.
Happiness is less valued when we
possess it than when We have lost it.
1t has been said that pantaloons OBJ
tanned on credit are breeches Of trust.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor !;
an e1trayagant man grows poor byseem-
ing rich.
Deliberate before you promise, for a
rash promise sets inclination at variance
with justice.
The Fourth of July will be celebrated
at Niagara by the sending OF an old ship
over the Falls.
All the Summer dresses are trimmed
with bows of silk or satin on the founces
and to loop up the overskirt.
A new style OF sleeve-buttons are made
to open, thus forming locket large
enough to contain likeness.
Great wants proceed from great wealth;
but they are undutiful children, for they
sink wealth down to poverty.
A Pottsville Justice has sent man to
iail for eight months for soiling lady's
dress by splitting tobacco juice on it
Black cashmere sacks, trimmed with
gold and silver braid, or silver and blue
or red, are very much used for riding.
It is with narrow-souled people as
with narrow-necked bottles the less
they have in them, the more noise they
make in pouring it out.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays
and ruins the walls it embraces; but
true friendship gives new life and ami
nation to the object it supports.
A physician writes asking renewal OF
a note which he owes, giving as a reason
therefor "We are in horrible crisis ;
there is not sick man in the district"
A country newspaper says house clean
ing, papering and painting are now the
order of the day. No sensible man trusts
himself much at his house about these
times. ......-
A young gentleman who had Just
married little beauty, says, "She
would have been taller, but she is made
of such precious materials that Nature
couldn't afford it.
Kansas will probably have larger and
finer fruit crop this year than ever be-
fore. That is the opinion OF the best
Judges, and an examination Of the trees
fully iustifes the prediction.
An old bachelor having been laughed
at by bevy of pretty girls, told them
that they were small potatoes. Owe
may be small potatoes, replied one Of
the maidens, "but we are sweet ones"
A project has been broached out at
Moscow for celebrating next year the
two hundredth anniversary Of Peter the
Greats birth by q grand national musical
festival, to be divided into two principal
parts.
A Rochester woman, indignant at
man who was beating his wife, her sister,
threw a lighted kerosene oil lamp at him.
There was an explosion, fire, and a
very narrow escape from death to him
and destruction to his house.
A Boston clergyman on Sunday acci-
dentally disturbed gas-fxture with his
foot, and the escaping gas drove his
congregation out of the house pale and
sick, and wondering, for the moment,
what could possibly be the cause.
Gov. Tod R. Caldwell, of North Caro-
lima, has published a card apologizing
to the editor of the Raleigh Sentinel for
so far forgetting the dignity of his posi-
ton and the courtesy due political
opponent as to publicly brand him as
liar.
The young ladies' OF an Oswego Coun-
ty town have met and formally declared
that they Will not accept the company
of any young man who uses tobacco in
any form, unless the night is very dark
and the road muddy, for the space OF
sixty days from date.
The way to wealth is Us plain as the
way to market. 1t depends chiefly on
two words-industry and frugaity that
is, waste neither time nor money, but
make the best use OF both. Without
industry and frugality, nothing will do,
and with them everything.
There was q double golden wedding
in Joliet, Wis, one day last week. The
brides were sisters, who were married
on the same day fifty years ago. In the
house OF their mother, now venerable
lady of eighty years, they celebrated
the half-century anniversary.
A patient complained to his physician
that he was pursued by ghost the night
before, as he was going home from the
tavern. "What shape was it ?" asked
the doctor. "In the shape Of iackass,
said the man. $50 home," replied the
physician, "and keep sober. You we're
drunk last night, and frightened by your
own shadow y