The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-12
Items Of Interest.


with his step-mother.
The Inst Legislature Of Kansas organ
lied eleven new counties.
New York sawdust in boxes continues
to bring fabulous prices in the rural
districts.
The Maine Republican State Conyen-
ton is to be held in Bangor, Thursday,
June 10.
A Newport cat washes it's face in
basin as neatly and skiilfully rs Its
proud owner.
Fred. Douglass was refused the use
Of the opera-houso in Lexington, KY,
for lecture.
The announcement that "truth is
stranger than fiction" is said to depend
chiefly upon who tells 1t.
Nearly all the American girls study
ing for the operatic stage In Milan
lodge in the same house.
Proceedings have been instituted
against two papers in Toronto for pub
fishing gittenterprise advertisement.
With the spring weather suicides arc
taking place in vast numbers. The pa
pprs report a number OF cases every
day.
a Chicago druggist, whose clerks
" mistake cost woman her lif0, has
been sued for $4,000 damages by her
husband.
ALynn man has invented o substitute
| for sole leather, which, he claims, is
cheaper in price and superior in dura-
bility to that article.
Two candidates for local Office in
Illinois receiving an equal number OF
votes lately, tossed up to see which
should have the Office.
The Havana authorities have deliy.
cred to the English officers the Bank OF
England iorgers, and they will be taken
to England in man.of.war.
Small contributions to the United
States conscience fund are the order Of
the day. Sums ranging from 81 to 50
reach the Treasury every day.
Three boys in Evansville, Ind, tried
10 see which could hang longest by the
neck. When their sport was interrupted
one OF them was almost dead.
In Chicagotwo pounds ofcannedgree
corn are worth as much as sixty pounds
Of shelled field corn, the former being
most OF it brought from Maine.
The two love.sick Wisconsin girls,
who the other day unsuccessfully at
tempted to commit suicide together by
poison, have since drowned themselves.
A little lady in Schenectady recently
sent word to her aged P. in New York
that she must be excused from writing
longer letter. She had spent q very
restless night with sick doll.
A Rhode Island enthusiast at an auc-
ton bought lot Of furniture and then
asked the crowd to name "the poorest
woman in town" The name was given,
and the goods were sent to her.
A Massachusetts farmer recently nd
vertised his farm for sale, and now he
is asserting that he has fed out over q
hundred barrels Of oats to the horses OF
persons who have come to examine it.
Some practical jokers, in Worcester,
Mass, n month ago put some taeks In
chair for their friend Thomas McGee to
sit on, and they produced wounds on
his thigh which led to dangerous ab-
cesses.
Minister Washburne has sent .s25 to
gentleman in Illinois, to be used in
defending the suits instituted by the
Chicago and Alton Railroad Company
against the farmers who refused to pay
more than the legal fare.
The Older Of Patrons Of Husbandry
has extended its operations into the far
South. The farmers Of Mississippi,
Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia are
organizing into oranges, and eyince q
lively interest in the movement.
A telegram operator in Baltimore,
recently sued o friend for twenty-five
cents, the amount he paid fora telegram
sent at his request. He obtained
verdict for the amount and s,aggre-
eating 81. 90, but the defendantappealed,
and has finally given bond in the sum
of fifty cents.
Tho Attorney. General OF the United
States has given his opinion that indi-
gent persons who volunteered in the
Union army during tile rebellion, and
have since that time become insane, are
entitled to admission TO the Govern
ment Asylum for the Insane in the Dis
trict OF Columbia.
Corporal punishment is rarely inaict--
ed in the schools Of Russia and
Germany. In France Il is prohibited.
In Switzerland school.whippings are
left 10 the regulation OF the separate
cantons. In England there Is constant
and vigorous whipping, and in America
the custom is dying out.
It is stated that Mr.. stockwcll, who
has been lately 80 badly bled in Wall
street, tells this old joke as upon him
self "When 1 first came down in
Wall street was called Stockwell
then, when began to make money, l
was called Mr.. Stockxell. Then II was
Captain stockwell aud subsequently l
became known as Commodore Stock
well. Nov 1t Is thatred-headed cuss
from Cleveland
The employer Of large number OF
Chinese laborers in North Adams,
Mass, still expresses himself much
pleased with their achievements, and
says they live up TO their contract. He
regards many OF the stories relating 70
Chinamen as e1aggerations or mis-
representations by interested parties,
I and thinks, from his own experience
: that when they are properly treated they
: become excellent lGborers and me-
chanics.
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