The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-02-05
Items Of Interest.

. NAME has d., sos children between
the ages of four and twenty-onc years,
The address to the Grown has passed
both Houses Of the Austrian Reichsrath
EXTENSIVE strikes arc in progress in
Charleroi, Belgium, and Stuttgardt, Ger
many
The number Of Roman Catholics in
Europe is liS,0OO.OOO, Of Prntestants,
II, GOO. goo, and Of jews 4, 100000.
TnE Red Republicans are becoming
active in Lyons. The opposition to the
tax on raw materials is increasing.
A MONTREAL man offers to bet 81, 600
on George Brown, of Halifax, against
any single sculler who may compete with
him.
THERE are Eve thousand one hundre !
and nine postmastcrs in this country
whose salaries are at least two hundred
dollars each.
IT is said that in Paris alone there are
three hundred thousand children be-
tween the ages Of seven and thirtccn who
go to no school
The qnnlity Of the tobacco crop is
thought to be the best ever produced IN
the Connecticut Valley, and that is say
ing a good deal
In 1850 the Jesuit body through on
the world was little in excess Of four
thousand. At present there are nearly
[ ,lip. N1.pgupl t,nu,bara
The Dutch Reformed Church WINS the
first organized in the United States, an.
tednting the German Reformed fully .
century. The foundations Of the latter
we're laid about the year 1920.
A STRIKE occurred among the compost.
tors engaged in the printing office Of
Stuttgardt, Germany. Some 800 per-
SOUS left work, and the language used by
them leads to fears Of disturbances
THE ex.Emprcss Of the French has
sold her icwelry to q celebrated firm Of
jewellers in London for 100000. Curi.
osity is excited rs to her reason for
requiring so large sum Of money Just
now.
MRs. MERrN, wife of the man who
dled ~ oIeT t rom Itlc1 ii sPi'T nus
hoy, aged 6 years, is in u critical cOndi-
tipn, n1u tle s.II, nseu years " i
pelie'eu' VIII it'"'''
IT is pointed out by the Paris Temps
that there are from 1900 to 10000
COMMUNISTS prisoners at the hulks still
ma,.ing l" pI Thought "g'"le saI 'I I
liia' li,,,' "i'loSEn r'D,'.iis nav
n,t'h''! e'"l'S'" S''iee '''' '''ii VI 'ie So'"-
'"uh''
A c0RREsroSpfNrin liondohteiegraphs
that the Mordannt divorce case Is to be
rc'GPIeGed WIN the eohynlc'ce9t fflGce
OF wales as correspondent IS a'so
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US si"'e'Oi sun. .r
THERE - sun mouse sanding III
Greenland, NJ H. which w was bnllt N
IOJs' anu Is consequently ~ years oli'
~ Is a tWo-st3ry 6fick building, WIN
Ilish gable ends IL Is ~ ieei IN length
siory are eigbteep inches thick
A loI'Nd girl named Green seventeen
years old, made her why from Beliot' 10
clinton, WIS, where nv" thermometer and
sister. as soon as nor mother heard her
daughter was III town, she mnde com
plaint against her daughter Is u vaGlant,
and the girl was sent to Jail for ninety
days,
THE paper is to tho people what
sign-hoard is to the traveller. The paper
tells who is in business, and where to
trade, and the sign-boord tells the name
of the place and direction. Then, ifyou
want people to buy OF You, tell them
through the paper where yon stay, and
what You have,
A MEMORIAL was presented in the U.
S. House showing that the consumption