The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-02-03
Items Of Interest.

warts lmullleut DetWeeh VNp'AA4 ".4"
the coreans.
Whole herds Of cattle were caught ii.
the storm in Minnesota, and were frozen
to death.
Tho ship Chillinghnm Castle, on her
way from Shields 10 Malta has been
wrecked with twenty-six persons on
board. .--
The National Educational Society IS
To hold lis thirteenth annual meeting at
Elmira, on the fifth, sixth, and seventh
days Of August next.
A youth at Fall River skated into an-
other the other day with SO much yigor
that lie burst blood vessel in his head
and died the next day. - ...-
Ast. Louis paper faments because Of
the prevalence Of the idea that it is
more genteel to sell shoes torSlO aweek
than to make tllcm for $25.
Tho boiler of the steamer Julia ex-
ploded near Eufala, Ala., scalding thir-
teen persons. Two of them were killed,
one mortally injured, and another has
not been found.
Ossin Z. Dodge is the defendant in
suit for divorce, in ST. Paul, Mimi. Ho
Is fiity-two, and his wife twenty.eight;
and She alleges brutal treatment and
marital infdclity. 'f .f
Tho ST. Louis Democrat says that
"the actual cost OF n sewing machine
that retails for $50 will not exceed SS..
the rest goes to pAy Tor patents anu
close corporations"
A Chinaman who had become snow
blind whilC working on the Central l'a-
cific Railway applied at a San francisco
police station for official permission to
hayo himself shot.
A country paper in Minnesota wants
to know who swindlel the Indians out
of GsticIl an internal cold country as
Minnesota is, and who dcluded tho
white people into it,
The Empcrorof China is reported aa
highly, inconsed against foreigners,
owing to tho dastarlly attempt Of somo
unknown parties to Gssnssinatc him by
means Of explosive candles.
It Is announced in France on high
medical authority that the milk Of COWS
affected with the foot and mouth dis
case " commonly proves fatal to infants,
avon when mixed with nino parts Of
healthy milk ~
- ~ r,,,,o, ,,os amin oppcared in
London. 1t Is now probably contin-
Sav;nt, lisanpeared from the kingdom
for ,' Thirteen wears, IL suddenly revived
and insted through the two following
yeSrs. diving out in 1871.
M. 30, f.on, a wreckod brip in
III ileI 1;,,Us r.H n n warn drowned in
Apple, nStd; n.Std;. ,s;ti;n NJ cables length, Of
thS tVI iiyht.Sonso n few, weeks ago in tho
absence Of any life.saying apparatus,
the Government having refused even to
supply the light-keepcr with boat. =.
nno ~ tho pcrIin papers lately COLI
,a;DnI :" on sri;clo m EnGland. II con-
siIers tic invasion Of Kllivn, certain
nSSotiotions ,%1 between Prussia and Por-
tnsSl. I and the threatened annexation Of
the Sandwich Islands by tho United
States as so many direct attacks on En-
gland
tn ,ho Catholic churches of tho towns
and VILLAGES Of Poland IL is an everyday
occnrronee. especially during Lent, to
scc women living fat on their facesin the
miiIJIs of tbe church with their arms
stretched ont SO as to form n cross dur
ing the whole service, q long sermon
included.
Tn L,utterworth, England, two days
before Christmas. three clergymen, sit
t;ng Ss mapistrntes, sent woman- 10
yeSps old Ia prison for seven days for
ibe crime Of having "broken a stick
from a farmers hedge, thereby infict-
ing damages to the amount Oh ono
penny"
A young couple in Wisconsin wero
so thoroughly bent on lnGtrimony that
thoy rode twenty-three miles IN MI open
wagon when the mercury stood. seven
teen degrees below zero to obtain q cet,
tificate. They iroze ears l,I hliTs ss.ao'. a..
feet, Still they 1oineu 'leif itVN'A
hands.
A farm Of 1000 acres, in connectlon
with Danzig, in Prussia, has been irri-
gated by tho sewerage OF the town,
which llas 1000 inhabitants, inc re-
suit being fine crops OF rye-grass, pola-
toes and beet-root OF enormous size;
The land before was partly ioreS' "n1
partly sandy desert
A Boston gentleman who could NOT
waltz sfIcred q young lady siOO II she
would allow him tohngher stas mllcli
us the man did who had lust walt2e1i
with her; It was good ollsr, l,,E.,t aIa ~