The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-11-25
Items Of interest.

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Dubuque is said to be tho best.draiped
city in the United states. h
Bill Shanks says that courtship Is
bliss, but matrimony is Mister.
The tools are to be removed from tho
bridges over the Thames at London.
Elk City, Kan., offers $40, 600 in bonds
to the first railroad that reaches the
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Railroads have now three eaugcs-a
broad gauge, q narrow gauge and q
mortgage. "!.'
Khcdive OF Egypt, who has finished his
Oxford career, will soon depart on q
three years tour around the world.
Tie silded gambling saloons at Ems
arc closed, to the great Indignation ot
many old habitues. Tho royal degree
forbidding further gambling was read
on the 20th Of September. dagssi
Strange to say, Louis Napoleon desires
to takolup his abode in Germany, and
has asked tho German Government II
he might do 80. Hewas answered that
his presence there would DO pnweleome.
Tie Duke Of Bedford has given Mr..
Boehm an order for . statue OF John
BunySn, to DO presented, to tue town
in whose Jail tho " Pilgrims Progress
was written during its authors thirteen
years imprisonment.
"Poor Carlotta," the cx.Empress Of
Mexico, is reported to possess a fortune
OF 81, 900, 900, which will beinherited by
her brothers, the King Of Belgium md
the Count OF Flanders. Her fortune
wes inherited from Leopold ]. OF Bel
GUM. ID. .a. o..
Patti and Nilsson are now singing in
opera at st. Petersburg, and the friendly
rivalry between tho two stars creates o
pleasant excitement. They do not come
into immediate collision, although vyiug
with each other in fayorite roles on alter
nate nights. b ''i- '.9g
BY IN agreement between the two
governments, tho thalera OF Germany
will be considered pRs equivalent to
scyenty-fye cents in United States coin
Of gold value. A remembrance Of this
will be useful in the interchange OF
money orders between the United
States and tho German empire.
Colonel Titus 9. Rice, recluse who
had been living on m old bargeat For.
trcss Monroe since the war, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
head. Some twenty years ago he was o
prominent citizen Of Richmond, Va, and
colonel Of the famous /" Black Horse
Cavalry"
The father OF boy whose veraclty is
not SO marked ns his buck, asked tho
teacher why IL was his son didn't have .
better acquaintance with figures, and
was considerably electrified when tho
teacher tenderly observed, 81 really
don't know, unless II is because figures
won't lic." dlN.
Mr.. Cornell continues to lavish money
upon his university. He has commenced
the building OF an extra workshop for
tho purpose Of supplying tho manual:
labor. students with increased means Of
earning support. twill be provided
with machinery and an expert foreman
rs teacher. '.. "
A smart lad IN San Antonia, Texas,
recently took his stand by tue side OF o
blind organ.grinder, and, hat in hand.
solicited aims. When his hat was nearly
filed by tho sympathetic passesS-by, he
walked of, leaving tho orglnlst grinding
away, utterly Ignorant OF the. whole
transaction. XII .f stsil
The Prussian Government has decided
that the danes au Sacrc Cplr de Dleu,
an Order imploycd chiefly in the relig.
ious instruction Of Catholic girls aud
children, Is to DO considered as akin to
the Jesuit Order under the late act, and
the members arc consequently to DO
expelled forthwith.
When man thinks that nobody cares
for him, and TINT he Is alone in cold
and selfish world, he would do well TO
ask himself what he has done to make
anybody caro- for and love him, and to
warm the world with faith and generosi-
| ty. Generally those who complain tho
most have donc tue least. sJ,
lis said that the Mikado Of japan is
going to England to look for wife. The
young emperor Is tall for an Asiatic,
about five feet ten inches high, Of digni-
fed bearing, slightly built, OF darker
complexion than the minority OF higher.
class japanese, with thin, composed
nra snmawhat Moupolinn in, cast, full
ups, anu aatA eyes
The rapid increase in value OF real
estate in New York, IS shown IN Tue
fact that Fifth avenue lots, near Central
Park that sold for s2eouS Od aye years Es 1g0' n0