The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-28
Items OF Interest.

$50 to the ton oil ore.
Absense mikes the heart grow fonder
--of some one else.
In Michigan one peacock eau van
ouish M acre Of potato-buss'
ffIwere in the sun and you were out
of il, what would the sun become p
Sin.
Mem.his has n population of sixty
thousand inhabitants and 1000 liquor
saloons.
There is mn omnibus in Cincinnati
that has killed thirteen persons in its
eyentful career.
Monroe, Wis, boasts Of having fur
nished four Fourth Of July orators to
bore other towns.
The same mulc TINT killed man OF
Lexington. Ind, was permitted to maui
the widow to the funeral.
A religious sect at Laconia, N; a.,
has revived the practice oil psohcly
washing each others feet.
Raspberries are said to give rich
red color to those that eat them. 1t
maniieuts itself in the nose.
A swain at Salinas, CAL, had to leave
his bride waiting while he rode l2o
miles to get marriage license.
In Brazil they have n disagreeable9
species Of ants which attack horses anu
men and sometimes overcome them.
We read that there aro in Chicago's
new hotel, the Grand Pacific, tifty.nino
flights OF stairs, thirty.eight miles OF
wire, and 1,O7O doors.
A v,,tnE Californian who became in.
toxicatel 10! the first time recently, ieIt
90 kccnly his disgrace that no TOOK
strychine and died.
The projected tunnel through tho
Rocky Mountains is to be nearly fifteen
miles in length; larger than tho Noh'
Gents and Hoosac combined.
The Red Hook Gazette, Of Glyndon;
MINI, announces that 1t is published
nearer tho North Polo than any other
paper in the United States.
4 Buffalo girl attempted suicide on
account Of tho degraded character oil
her father and mother. Parents aro u
great trouble to young people nova
days.
Youpp men with disposition to
"burRle'" will be interested in know
ing that full set Of burglars TOOLS IN
Guiding reyolyers and slungshots, COSTS
about 81, ,00O
A bare.footed Ohio girl, who walked
ton miles to hire out to hoe corn, was
Hdm;red by n widower worth SGO,OOo,
nnd the two aro one now. Isn't there Il
lesson III ihiSP
"You sell watcfcd milk, I see" re-
marked a well.knowl dry.go,odS . mer.
chant to a restaurateur. wei, what "a.
VI that don't you sell watered siiKF
was tho prompt retort.
Norwegian girls who have been do.
ing kitchen work in Iowa ut s3.5O
week. are hiring out to work in the
hSrycst fields at $2or 80 per day. About
ten cents day was their figure Nv
home"
An Atlanta doctor advises PERSONS
afraid Of cholera TO stand on their heads
for one minute three times n dny., nc
argues that this arrests abdominal &c;
preston, and would be n healthtuI
gymnastic exercise ut any time.
The most thoroughly ventilated man
in Oswego, says Kansas paper, IS .
horse thief whom the boys followed
arounl for while. He Inns nineteen
bucksh.t holes in his left breast and
twenty.one in his left arm.
The New Albany und0 Ledger says
that within the past six years nineteen
men lave been lynched in that vicinity
oi within the limit of five counties.
Five Of them were hanged, at different
tines, upon the same beech tree.
An English newspaper mentions that
n husband and wife recently SET SAL
from Derby for Glasgow, Scotland, Oh
the way to Edinburgh, the wife having
on her knee her thirty.third baby.
Twenty.four OF the thirty.three' arc
still living.
A gentleman, lately resident IN
Tennessee, relates tho following; he
repaired to ucighboring farrier to get
his horse sliod, and was addressed! as
follows: "Sir, it's not the ard work as
'urts the 'oof OF the 'orse, but its tho
ammer, 'ammer, 'ammer OF the ara
'iph road" 1t is unnecessary TO add,
tlat farrier was born in England.
A horse thief named Howard, lately
hanged by n vigilance committee in
Missouri, was ascertuined to have been
a member of that committee. Tic
regulations Of the committee demand in
such cases that the offender shall be
dragged to tho place Of execution ,by
the tail Of horse, IN act Of cruelty
that was literally carried out in tho ease
OF Howard.
A father of fifty children is vouched
for by one Of the most trustworthy and
respected citizens Of Waco, Texas, ins
letter to the Adsance OF that place
which says TINT by his first wite he had
thirteen children by his second, eigh
teen ; by his third, ten T; by his fourth
six by his fiith and surviving wife
three and that thirty.hyo Of his MI
mprous progeny are still alive.