The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-08-11
Items OF Interest.

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The way to forget all common
miseries-wear tight boots.
Geometry promises to be popular
study in the colleges next year.
"Home-sweet, sweet home" as the
bee said when he entered his hive.
Why is n nice young lady like hinge?
because she is something to adore.
Tho Tippecanoe battle ground has
been fenced at an expense OF $4,000.
Why are handcuffs like guide-books9
Because they are made for two wrists.
A boy with head 2s inches in cir
cumierence bothers the matters Of San
Francisco.
A Lockport girl, whose father isworth
$4,000, Is cooking OH canal boat to
be romantic.
A bad marriage is like an electric
machine it makes you dance, and you
cant let &C.
The Mayor OF Rock Island, Ill.,, is
tho richest man in tho city and won't
pay histaxes.
New Hampshire farmers arc said to
he organizing oranges Of Patrons OF
Husbandry in some localities.
We never knew man to he elected
to mn office of trust who carried horse'
cheBlnuts in his pocket US n preventive
Of rheumatism.
A. T. Stewart is said to be worth
500, ,OOO,OOO and thinks he>would be
rich Il lie Ind gone early into the real
estate business.
Tho sunshine which warns and
cheers our hearts, exposes the weak
spots on our Sunday suits. That's tho
only objection We hayc to sunshine
A writer in long ago COPY Of the
brooklyn Monthly, says: "The Judi
cious mixture Of printers ink with the
4rterial system tends to longevity and
content"
Notwithstanding the popularity Of Tho
postal cards not mn instance Inns yet
como to light where they have been used
in arranging the preliminaries OF an
elopement.
Mr.. Bailey, Of the Danbury Ncio',
saws the females he saw on tho Plains
looked like MI Eastern woman who had
large family, small wages, some debt,
and cold on her lungs.
Since the cutting down OF tho ex'
change lists, there has beeri much use
less hnndling Of useless newspapers
avoided, and the exchange fend nus 10
some extent discontinued his visits.
They have very fine mocking bird
Mt Tho Nashville Post Office now, who:
does the wllistling for the whole estab-
lishment, thus relieving the clerks from
that duty and enabling them to devote
ali their time aud energies to asserting
and distributing the mails.
Colonel T. W. Higginson Oormer'ya q
clergyman says, in tho Woman = ;!r- JInr-
nall: When lawyer says foolish
thing in mn argument he is pretty stlrc
10 iiHl it out; but clergyman may go
on repeating his foolish things for fifty
years without finding 1t out for want oi
an opponent"
Lexington, KY, hns incareerated
james turner, WhO 10 S"u' ~"
thirteen murders. he ran at large dur
inc the war, singing whom hc might,
and has been in the same limo Of busi-
ness since. He 10 worth quite fortune,
but has kept on murtlering from
naturally cruel disposition.
A convention of all the Shaw family
scattered through the New England
states is shortly TO be held. for the pur-
pose OF determining whether they nre
descended from tho Shahs Of PerSia,
md, II so, whether they cannot take up
a claim to proprietorship in the pearl
fisheries Of the Persian Gulf.
A coroner's jury impanelled to as
certain the cause Of the death OF q
notorious drunkard, brought in ver-
dict of "Death by hanging-round q
rum shop" In California corOners
Jury, under similar circumstances,
rendered n more courteous verdict
"Accidental death while unpacking
glass."
An observing woman says she was
never 30 much inclined to laugh at
church as Sunday, when, walking down
the broad aisle after service, she saw
TINT every woman ahead Of her wns
using her left hand in arranging that
portion Of her dress ndoning her back,
and before she was nwnre Of 1t found
herself similarly employed.
A stone merchant Of New London
took it into his head to perform dan
gerous feat last week. Having cut the
stone intended for the top piece Of the
new spire Of the Second Congregational
Church, he straddled it and was pulled
nm on II to the top OF the spire, where
he aided to adjust it in its plAce. The
spire is the tallest in the town.
whea you sec man who Is hasten-
, ing across the street to avoid a team,
step on piece Of mud, and lose his
balance, aud come to the earth, and
tear the skin from both his wrists, and
smash his head against q post, You
want TO shout as quickly as possible:
"The more haste the less speed" Then
you want TO pick up your feet, and get
/ out Of that neighborhood.
West Chester, Pa, merchant set o
! steel trap in the cellar to catch rats,
, md the next morning IL was missing.
/ A few days thereafter aboy saw q strange
! cat enter the celler carrying piece OF
3 meat in her mouth. She went behind a
lot Of empty barrels, and presently re-
l turned without the meat. The barrels
Q were removed, and there was a cat eat
I ing the meat, with one leg fast in the
: missing trap.
A man named Clark, who was pnt in
the Massachusetts, State Prison for life,