The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-09-01

caterpillar with Paris green.
The latest song has been translated
into Chinese. Isgoes this way;
y "lIsr chipgalong,
.a. .WeAr mar chlngalong,"
San Antonio has meat extract com.
pany which congresses twenty'elght
pounds OF beef into one pound oil ex-
tract. 90 nj.
The Georgia State Fair offers thou.
sand dollar prize for the best drilled
military company from the North or
South. @ .s-s
Blue linen is worn so universally that
the young Indies ut our summer resorts
suggest q charity school in their azure
uniforms. !f
Chicago is talking about celebrating
the second centennial anniversary ot
the discovery of the site on which she
is built, which occurs this month.
A Georgia "cracker" was offered 81
per day to labor, when he exclaimed,
hsir, dye suppose I'd work when I've
Jest discovered fresh coon trackT
Punch sarcasticallysays, Education
produces great results in the United
States. It is said to make good child
rem even out OF the Cincinnati boys"
AIedicis collOrettes are the latest in
lingerie. They are collars with rrtfs
attached. We don't like their name.
1t is suggestive Of o mild type Of cllol'
era. ''!. D
Postal cards arc now used for the do.
lection OF criminals. Photographs OF
tho person are pasted on the cards,
which arc sent broadcast in every dl-
rection. iar.l Cd i,.7Jl.g
Spanish proverbs :-"Ho who has
nothing to do, let him bny o ship or
marry.S wife," "From many children
and little bread, good Lord deliver u.s."
"a fool Is never great ono unless he
knows Latin"
The London Advcrtiser says the re.
port OF the Committee on Coal, may,
in unofficial language, bo summed upin
three lines "We do not know how
coal came to rise to its present price,
and we know still less how 1t can ever
be brought down again" s,iH..a
Pope Plus TX. is reported rs SO fully
restored to health as to be able to re-
sumo his usual food and exercise. he
retires little before midnight and
rises at hali.past five o'clock, attending
during the day TO ordinary ecclesiasei-
cal duties as before his illness. !
Indian corn for growing chickens, It
is asserted by experienced poulterers, IS
not profitable feed. Indian corn meal,
il Is asserted, does not make bone.
Ground oats, barley meal, meat scraps
and curd Of new milk, turned with rem
net, are recommended instead.
The Troy Times offers this seasonlblo
advice: "Look not upon the cucumber
when It is wiIted, nor green apples, nor
other unwholcsome truck, for though
pleasant 10 the eye and agreeable to the
taste, at tho last it bitetl like the stom.
ach-nChe, and stingeth like the cholera
morbus." .a4r ilsJ d. d.
A promising young strdent Of paturc
in New Orleans amusesi himself with
stuffed rat, which, from his place OF
concealment, lie draws across the si'l"
walk when people are passing. Women
shrek when they SEQ the rat, and
men violently attack it with sticks and
umbrellas. i- '.I ay."sl a's
The carpet worm is7S new pest Just
discovered. It is OF dark color, less
than half IN inch in.length, and covered
with tine hair. 1t makes havoc with
carpets In short time II is said that
fine salt and fine cedar chips sprinkled
on tho edges OF carpets will protect
them from It's rayages. ''' ''y-'
Comparative statement is made Of tho
value Of land in London, New York,
Chicago and San, Francisco. In tho
most central business locations lnnd in
London is worth s135 per square foot,
s119 per square foot in New York, s36..
OF per square foot in Chicago, aud 81
per square foot in San Fiancisco.
The San Diego World says that the
object OF the james expedition through
the Colorado desert is tic acquisition
OF largo bodies OF land for tritlc, irri.
eating them, and reselling them at q
handsome price. This Is certainly
more sensible and practicable than the
proposition to extend the Gull Of Cali
fornia to Utah. ,i7y
Professional men in ST. Louis know
better how to conduct their quarrels
than tin hlnodthirsty duelists OF tho
South. Colonel Bland lately received a
grossly insulting letter from DR.. Good
win, and instead Of blandly inviting him
10 como ont and be shot, the Colonel
took cowhide and belabcred him in
the public streets. 4v
The new act to prevent the adultera'
tion OF food does not seem to work alto
getller smoothly in England. Taking
the cream from milk is held not to be
an adnlteration, and as the case is moi
providedfor in the Act, though there arc
plenty OF penalties for adding TO milk
sellers Of skim milk,go unframed. Somt
Judges hold that water is harmless
adulteration, and fail to convict for tht
use Of "simpson,' the slang name fol
for water,
The Times Of India, published at
Calcutta, contains MI account Of tl.'
death Of huge boa constructor which
infested some grounds at the foot o
Puducottah Hills. Itappears that th'
creature was regarded as sacred by tht
natives, WHO would not molest 1t, al
though only on one morning when DR.
johnson and Mr.. Pennington, witt
great danger to Themselves, brayel.
hunted 1t up and shot 1t, it had swal
lowed q child. The animal is abou
twenty.iour feet long, and It's Stnifet
skin Is toDbe deposited in the Madra
Museum.