The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-14
Items Of Interest.

Patti receives $1,000 per nlght IN
London.
Oxy.hydrogen gas is used to light the
street lamps Of Buffalo.
1t is safe to eat sausages whenever pig
is cheaper than dog.
st, Louis has 81 -four mills that use
10000 bushels Of grain per day.
The Oregon Senate Committee hav o
reported gross frauds in the State print
ing.
There are 579 lighthouses along tho
coast of the United States, and twenty
two lightships.
The Republicans OF Algiers have nom
mated Victor Hugo for member OF the
French Assembly.
Mary Butler, OF Jerseyyille, ILL.,,
offers to plough a match with any man
in the country for 500.
The character in conversation which
commonly passes for agreeable is made
up OF ciyility and falshood.
1t is computed that s75,ooO,OOo worth
of fuel Is burned yearly in the United
States, and that SlOO,0O0,00o worth of
lumber is used annually in building aud
in manufactures.
The smallpox Is reported as raging
furiously in many places on the Pacific
coast of South America. The disease Is
said to be unusually vlrulent; and at santi-
ago, Chile, also.
A lady in Portland owned dog that
gave birth to a litter of twelve pups. After
their birth tho dog arranged seven on
one side and five on the other, and then
strungled the seven.
A Lowell girl claims that she won her
husband by stratagem. He fell in the
river, she grabbed him, and when he came
to the surface he was very much excited,
and proposed marriage.
Cafe keepers say that the use of alb
sinthe Is steadily increasing among the
younger society men, the set Just coming
In.
Baxter, Kansas, assures immigrants in
search of q good place to stop, that no
ono has been murdered there for three
days.
We cannot gather grapes Of thorns, SO
We must not expect kind attachments
from persons wholly folded up in selfish
schemes.
A wife wrote to her husband, absent
In California, that tho longer he stayed
away the better she liked him. Rather
eQuivocal, that.
A colony Of communists 1900 strong Is
established in Iowa on tract OF land com.
plising 10000 acres, which they very ap'
pfoptiatCly call "Amonia."
Raw beef chopped up fine with onions
Is a new "feed which Germans consider
cure or preventive of dyspepsia US well
as of lung diseases.
English boots and shoes arc now in
great demand in the American market.
They arc not handsome, but broad, CON-
Portable, and well made.
Henry Clay, after lie lost the Presi-
lency by mn iniudicious letter, said that
Il was better to ride fiity miles to see
man tlan to write hima word.
The postal treaty between tho United
States and tho German Empire for tho
exchange Of postal orders Is now in op-
Grafton. Sevcnty.ono cents, gold, has
been fixed as the value Of the German
thaler.
A model bill, made out by an old farmer
against his neighbor, reads rs follows:
"Neighbor A, DR.. to b to horse and wagon
goin' to mill once since and twice before,
one dollar" us
1t Is reported that tho cupola Of st.
Peters, at Rome, shows unnistakable
signs Of decay. A Commission Of Papal
architects and engineers has been appoint
ed to examine 1t.
Nothing is more indicative Of the earn
estness OF life than the sight Of well
developed male creature spending eight
hours day in trying to wear out dry
goods boz with the seat Of his pants.
One Of the amusements at a Chicago
picnic was to place silver dollar In u
dish containing about an inch OF mOlasscs
and let o squad Of boys compete In trying
to take out the piece with their teeth.
President McCosh, of Princeton Col
lege, says ho has never asked for a dollar
for the college, and does not wish that
when he dies the text shall be: "Apd 1t
came to pass that the beggar died and he
was buried" ....
It's aid-us have not tried the cxperi-
mcnt-that by setting glass fruit jar on
folded towel, thoroughly soaked in cold
water, the fruit can be poured in boiling
hot, with no moro danger Of breaking than
with a tin can.
In one of his recent discourses the Rev.
George @. Harding says: John Wesley
preached forty.two thousand sermons, at
the rate Of fifteen a week. Mr.. Wesley
never had clergyman's sore throat, or
years leave Of absence, with all expenses
paid.n
A couple who we're divorced twenty
three years ago, the wife meanwhile
having married another husband, were re-
married In Colorado. On hearing ol the
death OF his successor the first husband
renewed his suit and the lady returned To
her earliestlo
That was sly old sCotohman, who on
marrying n very young wife, was rallied
by his friends on the inequality of their
ages. "She will DO near me" he replied,
'to close my con-" "Weel remarked an.
other of the party, "l've had twa wives,
and they opened my GEN."
A oarlinvills Qll.) wife becoming angry
because she coull not have the last word
in n dispute, recently put her sick hus'
band out Of doors at midnight and in a
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