The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-24
Items Of Interest.

The best time for bread baking Is the
hour Of need.
According to the estimate Of the
Street Commissioners, the cost to Bos'
ton OF widening and improving streets
in the district swept by the great fire Is
s5,O700Oo.
Tho manner Of advertising for hus.
band in Java is by placing m empty
fower.pot on the portico roof, which is
as much as TO say: Young lady here
Husband wanted.
"Where shall I put this paper SO as
to be sure Of finding Il tomorrow
inquired Mary Jane Of her brother
Charles. "on the looking.glass" was
her brothers reply.
Potatoes on many farms are still in
the ground. Make an effort TO get them
out al once. Nothing is to be gined
by delay. The days are getting shorter
and the weather colder and more un'
certain.
Over four hundred acres Of land have
been bought in the town OF Brighton,
N. Y, for colony Of Dutch people ex'
pected there soon. The land cost ono
hundred thousand dollars, and will DO
sold to them by auction.
AT q meeting held by several Of the
leading merchant tailors Of Boston, 1t
was resolved TO publish in two OF the
daily papers list giving the nnmesand
residences Of such customers as are dil.
atory in paying for the goods furnished
them.
The work on the Hoosac tunnel has
been carried SO far thatthe workmen on
each face can hear the blows oi tho
drills on the other side Of the thin in.
teryening barrier, and in few days o
passage will be opened through the
mountain.
A bright.eyed Italian boy stopped
with his organ before dairy window,
and, after playing for o while, examined
the rotary shurn which was there n
operation. "My churn Is the best,
he said, at last. " II makes bread and
bHter yours only makes butter"
A new item in tho fashion of ladieS'
dress was accidentally introduced in one
OF the churches Sunday. A lady wear
ing IN elaborate Elizabeth rufE-black
silk, lined with sky.bluo satin-wore
directly under the chin small paper
on which was marked the price-sl 20.
At Bannavie, tho parish schoolnas.
ter, out OF curiosity, put tho question
10 the scholars, tWhat is nothingY
A pause ensued, until IN urchin, whose
proclirities for earning penny were
we'll known amsng his school fellows,
got up and replied, TITS when o man
asks You to hold his horse and just says
thank ye."
The farmers OF Martin county, Mimi,
denounce "the practice Of paying
county officers extrayagant salaries to
enable them TO put On style and play
croauet OF the expense OF the county"
II county officials would confne them
selves TO the harmless pastine Of GRO
quet, there would be less need for the
extrayagnnt salaries.
An English paper relates the follow.
ing curious incident: at is new
eleven years since live bee got into
| the ear Of Mr.. Reed, the baker OF tho
Woburn work. k.house. Afew days since,
when his car was syringed, e1traordi.
nary TO relate, forth came . bee in as
perfect state as when alive, even to
the wings, tho wax OF the ear having
preserved II from decay"
A Justice Of Guthrie county, Iowa,
decided in tho case Of o citizen who
brought suit against his daughters
lover for eiecting him from his own
parlor one Sunday night, that eourting
isa necessity, and must not be inter.
rupted, therefore the laws Of Iowa will
hold that parent has no legal right in
room where courting Is afoot aad so
the defendant was discharged and the
plaintiff had to pay the costs.
The new Trinity College buildings at
Hartford are to consist Of four quad.
raneles, and they will contain within
them nearly fonr acres Of ground. The
plans contemplate furnishing accommo-
dation for three hundred students,
though at first dormitories for only ono
hundred and fifty will be erected. The
plans have been prepared by London
architect, and the architecture is 10 be
the early English which hourished in
the thirteenth century.
A gentleman cab driver, Mr.. Sack
Vile Gwynne, has recently died in
Liverpool. He was the son Of Col.
Gwynne, and was connected with an
old Carmathensliire family. Owing 10
family quarrels he voluntarily eIiled
| himself soma time since and became q
regular cab driver. He was liked by
his associates, but treated strangers
with reserve. he died at tho age oi
seyenty.three, but almost 10 the last
was to be seen on the cab box.
A suit is about to be brought in Inii.
. ana to test the question whether the
, statute fotbiding persons with visible
mixture Of negro bleod 70 marry white
! Is or Is not IN conflict with the Civil
/ Rights law and recent constitutional
/ amendments. The suit Is IA behalf oil
I Edward Brown Of Indianapolis, con-
yicted last spring Of marrying . white
woman, and sentenced to five years IN
A the penilehtiaHy. Tho result viii bs
I looked for with interest, ns there nre
a saynraI nthar Staten In which similar