The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-09-22
Facts and FancIes.

OF was tne young Mul mAv pA"S'
when she was asked il she had not been
counting sleep.
The London Morning Post says that
during the last ten years 2,302, 2S4 per:
sons emigrated from Great Britain; OF
these, 76S, 165 were English.
The new forts around Paris have been
begun. There will be twenty-five OF
them. II is said that when erected the
siege Of Paris will be impossible.
Daniel Drew, Thurlow Weed, and
Governor Dix, Of New York, draw s8
ner month from the United States Gov:
ernment as pensioners OF tho war Oh
1917.
The Norwe sian papers publish an &c:
count Of the discovery Of the bodies OF
eighteen sailors, who were surprised by
the ice to the north Of Switsbergen and
frozen to death.
The steamer Jay Cooke, plying be-
tween Cleveland and Putin Bay, nm
down a yawl boat containing nine meris
-Four were drowned and one had his
shoulder broken. 80.
One Of the best puns ever made py
the late Phoebe Gary was this; WY
was Robinson Crusoe's man Friday Ike
q rooster2 Because he scratched ior
himself and Ciusoc,"
While compositor on tho Montreal
Witness was setting up IN adTefIise'
ment for lost canary, the bird hew IN
al the Office window, (Which shows the
value OF advertising"
An impressive Temperance sermon
was preached at Hampton, New Bruns-
wick. A crowd OF roughs went there
on n picnic. James s. Campbell sold
them liquor. They got drunk and ugly,
a row followed and they killed him.
This sad and serious obituary is from
n Philadelphia paper: Samuel was q
coed child his temper sweet, his u.s.
pect mild, and when he breathed tho
Tital air lie often soothed his parents
' a few evenings since coarse upstart
having nj n party exhibited his lack OF
qentlemanliness in the presence Of .
witty Young lady, she remarked, "Hes
almost o perfect brute; all he iacSs is ih-
stinot.
Briuapdage still aourishes in some
parts Of Italy. News from Salerno ati-
nonnees the dispersion Of band near
tltat eity. its chief Mqnzi, notorious
br;gand. with six OF his compatriots,
being killed.
A gentleman was romplimenting. a
pretty lady in the presehre Of ms wlie'
lit Is lucky did not meet Miss Hop,
kins beforeI married you, my dear
"Well, yes, It is extremely luckJ-lor
her." was the dry reioinder." q
A country exchange notes that tho
foliage Of many apple trees is disap-
pearing. On searching for the cause q
rreeti worm about four inches long,
with n single sharp horn, is found. A
little caro- In exterminating these worms
will aaYe the trees.
A recent railway traveller in Kansas
ceports that hundreds OF tons OF buffalo
bones have been gathered by the settlers
and piled up Of the stations awaiting
shipment East where they will be used
for making bone-black for the sugar
refinery, or ground for manure.
Under the new Judicial system Of
Ohio tho Supreme Court judges arc TO
hold office for ten years instead OF hye,
as at present Circuit Judges for eignt
wears Common Pleas Judges for six
years and Probate Judges and JUS
tices Of the Peace for four years.
The frat libel suit in Fiji has result
ed in victory for tour side" The
ernment for stating that the Officials
were endeayoring TO incite the natives
. against the whites. The Jury acquitted
the editor, and audaciously added that
J the charge was true.
During tho late war DR.. -, entering
the hospital surgery, met Paddy Doyle,
the orderly, and asked him which ne
considered the most dangerous Of the
many cases then in the hospital. "Ihat,
III, y said Paddy, as, with on indicative
Jerk OF the thumb, he pointed to where,
, on the table, lay q new case Of surgical
instruments.
, Asa a fashionable young lady, fresh
from the boarding.sehool, came 70 her
! honest old fathers breakfast table, IN
. stead OF speaking English and saying,
j "Good morning." she spoke French
and said, .Bcn Jour" "of course the
, bones yours, II you say SO, !" responded
/; the practical old gentleman, as he hand
. ed her the ossified portion Of beef
: steak.
: "O," gaspod fat Mrs. weighty, Q
= she assembled the stairs OF her new real
. dence, ~ really cannot run up, az
a more stairs" "of course not" ar
! swered her husband; "bSt il the sta
= were made OF dressmakers bills, v
could run them up very easily ~
letOst puns, exclaimed Mrs. Weigh. 4.
the next day, recounting the conyersE
!. tion 10 q friend. n,...l
. The leprosy in the Sandwich Island
. have been suppressed by the vigoroul
!. measures Of the Hawaiian Government
n The pest island Of Molokai, TO which
n all the diseased have been banisb I'd
i contains now over eight hundred le6yIf
n and probably from fifty to q huffd
q more will be- added. What o hoif
: place 1t must be-almost equal to
- Of the hideous dreams Of fiction. H
q Mr.. Fitziames Stephens, one ofls
n editors Of the Pail Mall GdEette, was
N candidate for Parliament from Dunde
Z and this was the way in which hef
Il dressed the voters "H you don'tv
me, don't have me leave me TO retu
to London to my ordinary business D
,r stand here before you ns 10 candiske
/. not to spend money, bse9use ! NJ