The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-07
Facts md Fanclcs.

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Irish potatoes arc SO cheap in Kansas
as not to be worth digging,
Presbyterian property in Philadelphia
Is worth over $4,000
j. Ross Browne has contracted to pay
$500, 900 for 10000 acres Of California
salt marsh.
From 1868 to 1871 in the United States
526 steamboat casualties took place,
with loss Of 1473 lives.
Immense belt buckles are coming in
fashion. They are OF gold and silver,
and are worn at tho side in q rosettc.
Balances in the Treasury Of the United
States, coin, $40, 6,113,s10 coin certitl.
Gates, 500, ,447O0O currency, S4'G9O, ,Vd'
In Iowa, women hold offices as notary
public, four are county superintendents
Of public schools, and one is State
Librarian.
A French soldier at Lyons blow out
his brains because his comrades Jeered
at him for spelling their dinner, which
he had cooked.
A japanese student ut New Haven
sent polite note to his professor, re-
questing permission to kill student
who had insulted him.
The subscriptions to the italian Opera
in Now York. amounted to 100000 for n
season OF thirty nights before n single
advertisement appeared.
Tho crops in England have but n
poor prospect this season. Intelligence
Is brought from time TO time OF great
damage done to them by wind and rain
aud continued wet weather.
The high price OF coal has increased
tho expenses OF running the Lancashire
cotton mills that 1t has been decided to
reduce the number OF hours OF labor in
them while the present high prices arc
maintained.
The French authorities and General
NIantouiIel commander Of tho German
troops in France, agreed that the cyatu-
alton OF the Departments OF the Marne
aud Haute Marne commence on tho
10Th October.
Speaking of theoretical farming, Josh
Billings says that he ence knew man
who wouldn't even set gate post with
out having the ground analyzed to sec II
it possessed tho proper ingredients for
post.holes.
g. II. Goolspcede, who wns aeeced
out Of 5000 by gamblcrs Mt Chicago,
turns out to be Henry Stone, the conf
dental clerk OF n Hartford, Conn, bank,
who robbed the bank Of $1,000 and
started for California.
The best. definition OF scandal ever
given. according 10 Arthur Helps, was
That Of the little girl who described it
thus =" Nobody does nothing, aud
everybody goes on telling it everywhere.
That is better than dictionary.
A few weeks ago the creek undcr tho
great Natural Bridge in Virginia suddcn-
ly disappeared, and subsequent investi-
cation demonstrated tho fact that tho
steam emptcs itself into the earth
through u number OF newly-formcd
assures Of unknown depth.
The Fourth Auditor Of tho United
States Treasury is now busily engaged
in making preparation to pay tho navy
employees tic amount due them for tho
reduction Of their wages under tho
Oight.hour law. About 10000 persons
will como in for m allowance under tho
law Of May Is Inst.
Forty thousand eight hundred and
oighty-one men lost by death, OF Which
7,527 died in battle, 10,740 died from
wounds received in the engagements,
$40 persisted by accidents, 80 by suicide,
and tho rest OF the number by disease.
This is what 1t cost the Germans for tho
conquest Of France.
1t is said that tho first willow treo
over planted in this country wns set out
on the line Of Third avenue, New York,
ono hundred and eight years ago. 1t
was n willow twig which camc in q
, package OF figs from Babylon was stuck
J into the ground, and in two years be-
Camo quite large tree.
Nathaniel Niles, ex.speaker Of tho
) New Jersey Assembly, has been prose-
cuted by tho Now Jersey Railway Com
: pany, and suit for libel was begun
In the Supreme Court, the damages
being laid ut S5,0OO,0OO. The alleged
libel is m article which appeared in tho
Nation over the signature OF Jersey"
, The Moridcn Republican is responsible
for this: "a man ina ncighboring town
q ties his cat up by the tail in tho back
yard every night; in the morning hc goes
out and collects tho pieces Of soap,
!, shaving pots, soap dishes, old brushes
aud various other things thrown into
the yard by disturbed and angry board.
ers III tile adjoining houses" "
0 "Wllat nuisance |" exclaimed o
Q gentleman at concert, as n young fop
5 In front Of him kept talking in loul
| voice to lady at his side. "Did you
refer to me, sir ?" threntingly demanded
Q the fop. "Oh, no meant the musi-
] Cans there, who keep up such noise
: with their instruments that can't hear
Q your conversation" was the stinging
!. reply.
, There is Russian at Old Orchard
E Beach, Me-, whose fondness for tho sea
!. and everything connected with II Il
: eccentric, to the verge Of mania. liz
. drinks two or three gallons, 1t Is said, oil
! sea water daily, eats sea.weed by The
I handful, and bathes four or five times o
8 day. He is very healthy and robust, ial
y as n seal, and has round, red ioyia,
face.
Goldsmith Maid, the famous trottinE
i mare, Is said to be stolen property, and
: u lawsuit for her recovery Is impending
!. 1t is said TINT about five years ago tht
I I stables Of great Kentucky stock raise
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