The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-04

a Cleveland coroner has adopted as
badge a miniature kerosene can.
A man may have enough OF the world
to sink him, but can never have enough
to satisfy him.
The railroad men down East Gre quiz.
zing new station agent, who made q
requisition for "red oil" for signal lamps,
During the past season there was ship.
ped from Adrian, Michigan, l,273,O96
pounds Of butter, and 2lO,277 pounds OF
cheese.
A young lady Of Philadelphia went out
sleigh.riding wearing a fashionable bon.
act, and froze her forehead. Result
insanity.
A cynical lady, nther inclined to firt,
says most men are like n Gold-very
casily caught, but very difficult to get
rid Of
A gang Of burglars in Indiana worked
all night at u county trcasurer's safe, and
were reioiced to find Sl,10 in its roomy
recesses.
A man died suddenly from intemper.
ance, and Western jury found that
deceased came to his death by drinking
between drinks" !"
A tree which was cut down last week
in Kansas contained two bushels Of beets
and three hundred pounds Of beautiful
transparent honey.
An undertaker's office in Indianapolis
recently bore this cheering inscription
on the front door: "Gone for dead
mau-back soon"
Four ladies. and one gentleman we're
referees lately in Plymouth County
lawsuit-the first instance OF the kind
in Massachusetts.
New Hampshire has 769.39 miles Of
railroad, built ut an expense OF S2G, $780,
ST. Vermont has 7l1.35, built ut an
expense Of S3s, ,403,2l3.
California is going into the tree busi-
ness in earnest. She has hired State
tree-planter at cost Of fifteen thousand
dollars year and expenses.
A little boy in Minnesota, has
been scalded to death by m explosion
produced in hot mince.pio which threw
the contents over his face and neck.
A California statute, after passing
through the hands of revising com
mission, declares "all marriages ofwhite
persons and negroes or mulattoes void.
A child in Buffalo, the other day, tied
Grape on the door knob to sec II the
carriage would come to take them ont
riding, rs it did the family across the
street.
The editor Of tho Cntskill Examiner
has received the following: "You are
respectfully invited to a Sprise on Wed
nesday even, meet at -. Bring
some headcheese and candy"
A man in u Kansas City hotel n short
time ago blew out the gas on retiring,
and soon after he rushed down stairs
full OF indignation, to ascertain il there
was "glue factory next door"
An Iowa man hogged his wife unmer-
cifully because she took m old coat on
which dog was sleeping, to protect her
bare feet from the cold floor while she
stood by the stove to dress herself.
The Danbury Nttrs says: A Danbury
German is Observation-Disclosures.
How would you like to stand on back
stoop, with the Thermometer II degrees
below zero, and call that into breakfast 2"
At Bowerstown, Ohio, Il desperate
young man named George Clark, living
at that place, shot his sister with rifle
because she threw snowat him. The
ball passed through the girls right thigh
Just below the hip joint, thence nearly
through the left thigh. Clark was Ar.
rested.
A soldier was sentenced, for deserting,
To have his ear cut OF. After undergo
ing the brutal ordeal, he was ordered ont
of the court yard to the tune OF tue
RoUue's March" He then turned,
and, in mock dignity, thus addressed
the musicians: Gentlemen, l thank
you but have no ear for music"
A Southern paper adyertises as fol-
lows: Wanted, at this office, IN able
bodied, hard-ieatured, bad.temperel,
not-to.be.put.oh and and.to-be-backed-
down, freckle-faced youngman to collect
for this paper must furnish his own
horse, saddle bags, pistols, whisky,
bowie-knife and cowhide. We will fur.
nish the accounts. To such we promise
constant and laborious employment
The Albany Journal says tho New
York State Fish Commissioners have
made mistake in assuming trout to
have become scarce in the waters Of tho
Northern Wilderness, and so stocking
them with bass and pickerol, saying that
they have "by this single bit Of pls-
catOrial cannibalism done more harm
than they have done good by all their
other useful labors since their organi-
zation.
A man recently came to Ionia, Mich,
who claimed to have lain four days and
three nights apparently dead He was
! struck down In the snow by falling
! tree. His comndes found him after q
: long search, and although he was pro
nounced dead by physician, his broth
, or persisted in keeping him. The re-
suit was that on the fourth day he began
to revive.
9 Mr.. Nash, Of Plymouth, Ind, is the
!, most grateful being we ever heard Of,
r He extends his thanks to his noble fol
low.citizens "for their kindness in pitch
ing his household goods out of doors on
!. the occasion OF the burning OF . small
o barn near his house, on last Friday.
II The goods we're badly and unnecessarily
Is smashed, and were in no danger what
o ever in the house, but hS Is very thank
n full to the good people for their gensrouI
" assistance.