The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-27
NO. 80.
Items of Interest.

Baltimore exports annually$s, ,OOO,O ,OO)
worth OF canned oysters.
SeYenty-fye coal mines are now work
ed in Mclean County, Ill.
Three young men slated ono hundred
and twenty-five miles on the upper Mis-
sissippi. u
An Atlanta woman lately aOggcd her
| inebriated husband and the man who
sold him the liquor. glI
A man who takes to drink because hn
is crossed in love always has the SYM
pathy Of the women. ssT
A grave digger at Table Mound, Iowa,
lately froze to death in the pit hc was
digging for another. "''i
A Trenton, ILL.,, man went on tor
rife spree and afterwards got 500 for it
from the liquor seller. .i'f
Another woman in Springfield, ILL.,,
has committed suicide by kindling the
fire with tho kerosene can.
Whoever has new article to dispose
Of must advertise it in some way, If hc
wishes to obtain ready sale.
The laws OF Iowa no longer make any
distinction between husband and wifo
in their control over theirown property.
The firmest friendships have been
formed in mutual adversely, MS iron is
most strongly united by the ficrccSt
flame.
Young married men at Rockland,
Me-, have devised plan Of co.opera.
tive house building, in order to obtain
homes. ' Tft a
A man died, recently, at Pottstown,
Penn, whose liver, stomach, aud other
internal organs had turned to about
eight gallons Of liquid. ae4
"To get horses out Of . burning
building" !" says MI exchange, harness
them MS II for their usual work, md
they will follow rs If nothing were the
matter" ' W. ~ ''
The Maine State College Of Agricul-
ture has seventy.one students, OF whom
thirty-two are freshmen. Female stll-
dents are admitted on the same terms
as males. t .aHl.i
II is far easier to detect error than To
discover truth. The ono lies OH tho
surface, and can easily DO discerned:
the other lies deeply hidden, and few
are able 10 find it.
Among the most formidableifon clads
in tho British navy arc the Warrior md
AIinotaur. The former cost 81 ,S05, 900;
the latter, which is the finest war ship
in the world, $1,000, 900. w
It Is reported that deposits OF hema-
tite iron ore have been found on tho
Pennsylvania and New Ysrk sides OF
the Delaware, in tho neighborhood OF
Calicoon, and adjacent to the line OF tho
Erie Railway. ra.. .'r
A ST. Paul newspaper thus rings out
the epizootic: Welcome once more tho
reign OF the rein, tile return to duty OF
our equine friends, and tho era of gay-
ETY. and sprightly runaways for which
we have pined. ~ ~
A man in Kentucky placed three
perch in we'll two years ago, and oil
cleaning out the well recently he rccoy-
cred one Of them, but singular to say,
stone blind, and its dark natural color
bleaclled to almost transparency.
The fur product of Siberia ishot sur
passed by that Of any country in tho
world. In 1871 there were exported to
San Francisco, among other VI 1lblc
furs, nearly 1000 sable skins and ever
43, 900 dried and salted fur seal skins.
The income Of young Mr.. Bennett, of
the New York HeraM, u said to bc
about 100000 per annum; apronos Of
which cynical swell remarks, "This
will do, OF course; but We had supposed
that the old gentleman was really
wealthy"
When Lee met Meade on Palm.su.
day, 1855, near Appomattox Court
House, he said, in, q light, airy way,
"Why, Meade, what arc you doing
with all that grny in your hear1?" "You
have had good deal TO do with y" re-
torted his conqueror, with ashortlaugh.
Here is O sad case Of retributiye JUS
tice as set down by the Minneapolis
Tribune. "a man, said to DO wealthy,
named McCue, residing at GAINESVILLE,
Waseca county, was severely beaten by
his wife n few days ago. He was fined
$50 and costs. His wife still lives with
him." a' .-E v "a
The Boston Bullctin says: "A new
" married couple started on tlleir we'd
ding trip yesterday noon. The train
proceeded less than half q mile, when
It stuck in snow bank. But while tho
wind howled yociierously outside, there
was snugness and comfort in one seat
within-you bet !"
Ladies' who are in tho habit Of smok-
ing pipes when they go out sleigh
riding should take warning by the OK
ample of Vermont dame and her
daughter, who narrowly escaped being
burned to death last week at Whitehall,
spark from the elder lady's pipe hay
ing set their vehicle on fire.
Tho Illinois Liquor law is likely to
make tile business OF dispensing intoxi'
eating fluids very Improbable. A man
was murdered lately at the town OF
Edwardsyille, and his widow md three
children have each brought suit against
lhe man WHO sold him his liquor, and
also against the man who sold liquor to
the murderer. aHtoil gL.
The wife murderer awaiting his exc
cution at Indianapolis, in IN appeal to
the public, in which he conicsses his
crime, inquiries Of the community at
large II he could have boon. in "llis
sane senses" OF course not; tho net
OF killing Is, in these days, always q
sure symptom OF insanity. But Ill
closing his address ho exhibits q glcam
OF reason, and protests against being