The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-21

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famine.
Vermont makes 100000 of slate
pencils yearly.
Cashmere goats do better in oaliiOr-
min than India. ia
A civil marriage law is to intro
duced into Germany,
Z The fruit Of Kansas this year is estl.
mated to DO worth s2,soO,0O0.
.Calumny will soon starye and die Of
itself II no one takes It into lodge.
Praise the sea, said wise old George
Herbert, but keep upon the dry land.
Tho Danish women pride themselves
on being tho best laundresses in tho
world.
London bakers and operatives agree
upon 12hour system, from "A. M. to
4P.M.
When Kansas Indian dies, his friends
choke pony to death and bury IL with
the deceased,
A horse in Barlow county, Ga, knocked
over bee hive tho other day and was
Stuug to death by the bees.
The Louisville Exposition contains
lock OF hair six feet long cut from the
head Of Swiss peasant girl.
A San francisco journal states that
wealthy miner has fallen in love with
Mrs. Fair, and will marry her.
Tho white elephant captured in Siam
takes rank after the Queen, the heir ap.
parent ranking after the elephant.
This is Western: "Kemps brewery,
with $4,000 Of prospective lager, went
up in fiery chariot at Dubuque last
week"
A Michigan man Of sixty lately cele.
bratei his wedding and dropped dead
from heart disease o few minutes after
the ceremony.
A man in Michigan got off rail road
train lately without waiting for II TO
stop, and Immediately Joined the 'fn'
Vulnerable caravan" tl
A determined onslaughtiis being made
upon the gambling houses Of Germany,
Ave noted saloons in well.known water.
ing.places baying recently been closed.
! An exchange notes that, "In North.
western Kansas there are four men TO
one woman.' InNew England factories
there are often foremen to 100 women.
There arc over ono thousand old dis.
used mining shafts within the city limits
OF Dubuque which require securely COW
ering up. Pleasant place to drop In,
Dubuque.
One limo Of the celebrated tapestry at
Plymouth, worked by Miles Standish's
daughter, reads: "Incline my 'hart' TO
doc thy will" What "deer" girl she
must have been.
A one.urmed man in Salem, lately ap.
piled for q divorce on tue grounds that
tho hand he had given his wife in mar
riage, was lost, and that the contract
was therefore void.
In South Bend, Ind, they use small
packages Of 1uinine for change. As
everybody takes It, they look upon 1t
the same as legal tender, and 1t passes
of without diilicalty.
"A lady about to marry, was warned
that her intended, although good man,
was very eccentric. Well, sho said, II
he is very unlike other mon, he is more
likely to be good husband.
Economy is wealth. A wcll-regulated
Newark family ate hash for breakfast in
3G5 different styles last year. aud tho
mother Is, in consequence, enabled 10
display a 800 lace handkerchief.
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II Is reported that Worth, tho Parisian
milliner, Is bankrupt. It is profoundly
hoped so. Bankruptcy would be poeti-
cal Justice upon the man who has been
tho means OF bankrupting 30 many un-
fortunate husbands. u,''t
A strange death occurred near 81.
0mer, Ill. Ayoung man named Roberts
began bleeding ut the nose, then at / he
lungs, and finally tho blood oozed out u
the pores Of the skin. In this condition
he fingered three or four days, when he
died. ''r
An awful accident occurred at Atlanta,
Ga. While Samuel Carley, Of Dekalb
County, was driving his wife and three
children to church, u tree fell across tho
wagon and killed the lady aud one child,
and wounded, probably fatally, the other
two children.
An English gentleman who has just
returned to the city from q fashionable
watering-place, where he passed the
summer, states that he lost f115 there,
Thusly: Five hundred dollars (Gl00 in
gambling, and fifteen pounds in tiesh,
from dissipation.
Governor Randolph, Of New Jersey,
received the first telegraphio despatch
that was sent over the wires in his State.
II was despatch TO make the head and
heart Of young romantic manhood swim.
II was from Indy, and consisted Of but
one word-"Yes."
In the shoe shops OF Lynn, Mass, are
! some venerable relics OF tho past. For
instance there Is q lap stone that has
been used in the same shop for 127 years,
and lap which has been used on the
D same bench for go years. The latter
] belongs to John Chase.
Tho q. s. Treasury Department do.
cides that yellow sheathing for the con.
! struction and repair Of ships can be
I entered FREQ. II had been held 10 tho
contrary; but II was found that II could
not be manufactured here, because the
! proportion Of copper and Spelter cannot
il be asceitained.
The Greenbush Gazette is responsible
for tho following: A prominent citizen
, Of this village went home q few nights
since at late hour, and gently tapped