The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-12-01
Items Of Interest.

The Cardiff giant was lately sold in
New Orleans for sS sf.
A Boston dry goods dealer adyertises
Financial crash towels"
Ten counties in Iowa have elected ie-
male school superintendent.
Half the women who appear on tho
streets OF Nashville wear mourning.
II is proposed TO abolish the Office Of
Railroad Commissioner In Vermont.
Philadelphia's real estate assessment
this year exceeds that Of last year by
$40, ,6O0,0 900.
The Swiss are said TO beating both
the French and English manufacturers
in the silk ribbon trade.
An old fogy in Rutland thinks some
OF the church singing is done on the
high.drawlic principle.
The Vermont, Ill., Chronicle an
nounces that II will exchange few
tender.lines for spare.ribs or sausage.
Ten cents q line."
Somebody has found time to count up
the number Of churches in New York
city. There are $50 in all, valued at
something over s46,00o,0N.
A lady having married Mr.. Wheat
in Virginia, IL Is hoped that her path
may be fioury, and that she may never
be thrashed by her husband.
A girl al Lawrence, Mass, who lost
her speech some time ago, has been
frightened into the recovery Of II by
the explosion Of a kerosene lamp.
Anew England paper complains Of
pistols being sold to boys not tall
enough TO look over the counters Of
which the dangerous toysare purchased.
Mrs. Livermore Is our authority for
saying that thousands Of women are
married to men for whom they don't
care copper, that they may get a
home.
Michael sullivant, the great Illinois
farmer, lost 10000 acres Of corn by
frost, and has only half crop on II, 900
acres. He has discharged 100 farm Ia
borers.
AT Portland, Me-, recently, q black
smith, while pairing horses hoof pre-.
paratory 10 shoeing him, found cent
imbedded in the hoof and covered by
the frog.
"James Magin," said n Kansas JUS
tice, rs he closed case, "you have
been convicted Of hollering murder
when there was no murder, and l fine
you $40"
The reputation OF q man is like his
shadow; It Sometimes follows and some
times precedes him; 1t Is sometimes
longer and sometimes shorter than his
natural size. lsf
The Clay county, Ohio, Register says
that "yesterday the cold wind went
whistling up the trousers Of many a
loafer, asking what he had been doing
all summer"
Mr.. Davis, Of California, found q box
containing $4,000 in gold, and he be-
came SO excited over IL that he dropped
dead. People should beware how they
find $4,000.
The Milwaukee papers are talking
about an unsuccessful merchant who
went from Wisconsin to Illinois. They
say the last State Of that man was worse
than the first.
The squirrels Of Contra Costa county,
California, destroy, on IN average, ono
dollars worth Of grain per acre. The
losses OF nineteen farmers this year
aggregate s9,672.
A little boy has been fairly driven
from Danbury school by the disgrace
ful persecution Of the other scholars,
who taunted him with the fact That his
father had been q New York jury
man.
Speaking Of hard times the Dayton
(Ohio) Journal undertakes 10 show that
in that city OF $1,000 inhabitants, s2,-
800, 900 is spent in whisky, malt liquors
and tobacco, OF which 81 ,000, 900 goes
for whisky, while only si62, 600 is
spent for bread.
A Missouri girl, on her wedding day,
sold her piano and bought q sewing ma
chine and material enough for 0 suit
: for her husband and herself and OF once
set 10 work making them up. Her hus-
band told OF II. In two weeks her four
] sisters were all married.
Malone, Of the Jackson Cash Book,
! has now tried his hand at improving on
J the old couplet, "In Adams fall, ," &c.
,, Malone says:
an II hadn't been for the sins Of Adam,
We poor creatures wouldn't had 'emi
! Owing to Adams very sinful manner,
I All suffer, and that's what the matter with
HAnnAhln
Up TO the 1st Of October the receipts
; Of grain at Buffalo footed up 49, SOC, 600
! bushels, or about 100000 bushels
! ! greater than last year at the same date;
! but since that time they have fallen OIL
0 largely, and many vessels In Chicago,
9 as well as canal boats in Buffalo, are
already laying up for the winter for
q lack OF freight at living prices.
j It Is said that in one Of the early
2 regiments that went out in the late
war, the father Of one Of the staff of
/ flcers called upon the Colonel Just be.
fore the regiment left, and requested
that his son might be allowed to keep q
! COW during his term Of service, as he
had been accustomed, from his boy
A hood, to drink a great deal Of milk.
The hard.hearted Colonel, however,
!. said he would undertake to, wean the
calf.
|, and created q sensation while promen-
ading the avenue in Washington, with
his military cape, large Texan braid
, hat, long cafling hair, &c. He always
carried q heavy cane, and was generally
aocornnAIied by an unusually large