The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-11-11

God.
A circular saw burst lately in Michigan
and one OF tho pieces split q mans head
open.
ed by eating sorghum that had stood in
zinc vat.
The floods In the South Of Franco have
subsidized. The damage done to farms and
vineyards is extensive.
Children playing with matches at
Vernon, Mich, burnt up a barn contain-
ing the whole seasons crop.
Men are born with two eyes, but with
one tongue, in order that they may SEQ
twice as much as they say.
1t Is not healthy and robust faith
that seeks refuge in authority, and flies
for shelter to IN antiquated creed.
Mistrust the man who finds everything
good, the man who fpds everything
evil, and tho man who is indifferent to
everything.
An easy way to get rid OF cockroaches
Is to spread sprigS Of tansy where they
arc troublesome, and they will leave. II
is also effective in driving away black
ants.
A widower, who had never quarclled
with his wife, said the last day OF his mar
riagc was as happy as tue first. Another
widowcr said the last day Of his marriage
was tho happicSt.
The U. S. Treasury balances are: In
currency, 81, ,440, ,433; coin, including S22,-
759 500, Of coin certificates, S77,005, 1886;
special deposits of legal tenders for re-
dcmptIon of certificates Of deposit, S22p-
10000.
It really requires moro delicacy Of
touch, n better acquaintance with the
inner emotions OF tho heart, and a
gnnder pathos OF sentiment to mako q
declaration of love than 1t does to put
up stove.
Massachusetts, Inns sensational case OF
two young mon who carelessly spit to-
bacco juice on lawyers coat tail, and
were fined twenty dollars and one-lalt
tho costs, with tho alternative OF thirty
days in prison. They have appealed.
There aro some smart men and animals
in Bath county, Ky. A calf leapcd one
hundred feet down cliff, escaping unhurt
and horse, buggy and minister tpn5lcd
down ledge fifty feet, landed on q stump
and damaging only that and tho vehicle.
One should not bo downcast at full
ures. They are often for better for tho
student than success. He who goes to
school to his mistakes will always have u
good schoolmaster, and will not be
likely 10 become either idle or conceited.
Threc.iourths OF the difficulties and
mseries OF mon come from the tact that
most want wealth without earning It,
fame without deserving II, popularity
without temperance, respect without
virtue, and happiness without holiness.
A correspondent asking o fashion
editor how should a lady going buggy
riding dress herself, was answered,
"eiticr by putting them over the head,
or stepping into them, whichever will
keep your sweetheart waiting tho short
est time"
3. Tho wife Of a professional gambler
Omaha, lately seeing needy woman
begging, went into her husbands gamb-
| linz den and raised o considerable sum
Of money from the blacklegs there rs.
scmbled, which sue presented to tho
poor stranger.
A proclamation has been prepared by
the Department Of State, but not yet Is
sued, charging discriminating duty oil 10
per cent. ad valorem upon all goods hero.
after imported into tho United States in
French vessels which came from any other
countries than France. fH
James D. Dismack, m engineer, attach
cd piece Of railroad iron, weighing sixty
pounds,to his body, and holding It in his
hands, walked to the end Of wharf, at
New London, and jumped overheard. lliI
body was recovered. Depression, conse-
quent upon i'll health, was the cause.
A very fatal hen disease has prevailed in
Massachusetts, the past year. Whole
docks have been swept OFT by 1t, some
farmers losing one or two hundred fowls
by 1t, including turkeys. Altogether there
must have been several thousand fowls
died from this disease.
A man brought friend TO o Troy doc
tor the other day, to laye wound in
Ills head dressed. The operation SO
affected the escort that he tainted and
fell on the curbstone, inlicting q similar
confusion on his own skull, and the two
walked away holding one another up.
Miss Nellie Ntargach, of Meadyille,
Pa, is, or rather was, "poor shot"
indeed. On last Thursday, while shoot
ing at mark with q pistol, she fred so
wildly that instead OF hitting the object
aimed at, she shot herself through tho
head, inflicting q wound that soon proved
fatal.
.I nm a seli.made man, said a native
OF Stonington tho other day to u New
York gentleman, with whom ho had
been driving sharp bargain. "Glad to
hear you say so,n responded tho New
Yorker, who had been worsted in the
trade, dfor it relieves the Lord OF q great
responsibility" .s
The Forthcoming report Of tho U. s.
Postmaster General will show that tic ex.
pen,es Of tho Department were increased
during the past year rs compared with tho
preceding year, by about two and a quar-:
ter million Of dollars, mainly for increased
transportation and other postal facilities,
foreign and domestic, and that the incrcas-
ed receipts have nearly kept pace with
the expenses, tho increase being a little
over S2,00O,O0O.
TnE EvdnlsH BoRG1A. = Mary Ann
Cotton, who has been committed for
trial on q charge of having poisoned Is. her e