The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-04-20
Items Of Interest.

1ue tebb VI eulOymenI ID tub Eeuleu-
brance it leaves behind it.
He Is esteemed m awkward finAncier
whose operations arc ungainly.
"Belated sisters is tho tender man.
ner in which they allude to old maids
in Virginia.
Several young ladies in Wisconsin
lately jumped for silver medal. The
most boy.ant won.
A Utica man used q postage stamp
tho second time TO save three cents,
and II cost him S511.
The new King OF the Sandwich
Islands is unlike his predecessor. He
doesn't like whisky.
The miners Of Pennsylvania ask for
lien law to protect their rights to the
wages Of their labor.
The Government OF Newfoundland
has offered q bounty Of 50 o ton to en-
courage ship building.
A Mississippi paper proposes this
motto for the country:
Corn and Economy,
Hog and Hominy.
A postmistress in Mississippi dis.
charged her husband from a Glerkship
the other day for non-attendance to
duty.
Henry Hodges, OF Barre, Mass, re-
Gently fell in n ft into watering
trough, and was drowned before help
came.
There arc still some people living in
the mountains Of kentucky who have
never seen grain Of tea or coffee in
their lives.
Mrs. ormsby, Of Boston, entered n
store on tue North End, asked for o
glass Of water, and fell dead while
drinking it.
A iewler adyertises that ho has some
precious stones for disposal, adding
'that they sparkle like the tears Of q
young widow.
Six persons have been fined for
swearing in tho streets at Blackburn,
and other towns in England are about
to follow the example.
According TO writer in the London
| Times, the fifteen English marine in
surance companies lost s3,6l0,O0O in
1872, not one realizing profit.
The Rhode Island Legislature says
"No |" to tho proposed amendment to
the State constitution giving to men
and women equal political rights.
Inthe event Of Maryland and yir-
ginia not being able to agree upon their
new boundary line, 1t is proposed to
leave 1t to be decided by tho Hon.
Jeremiah s. Black.
AYankee real estate agency has been
established in Rome, and tho fellow
has created moro excitement in real
estate than has been known for five
hundred years before.
They were going to put man ont Of
q San Francisco theatre for creating q
disturbance, when voice cried: Hes
all right; he's killed q Chinaman !" and
they let the man alone.
The Golden Globe, OF Colorado, has
suspended on account OF the disappear
ance Of the editor. He was last seen
standing under tree, and some mon
were pulling on "a ropc.
In several Western cities associations
have been formed, the members Of
which pledge themselves not 10 pay for
any other mans drink and not to drink
at any other mans expense.
A New Orleans gentleman recontly
wrote to tho Mayor OF Cincinnati, sta
ting tliat he was engaged to be married
10 a lady in the latter city, and would
be glad for information concerning her.
A schoolmistress OF Felix, Ohio, re-
Gently attempted to punish IN unruly
boy. He made q savage rush OF her
with club, when she seized chair to
defend herself with, and struck him q
blow which proved fatal.
II you desire to enjoy life, avoid I'm
punctual persons. They impede busi-
ness and poison pleasure. Make 1t your
own rule not only to be punctual, but u
littlo beforehand. Such habit secures
composure which Is essential 10 hap
piness.
A Delaware man committed suicide
a day or two ago because some one left
a baby on bis doorstep. He was too
frail for this cold world II he couldn't
look his wife in the eye and deliberate
ly declare that 1t was put-up job to
make trouble.
The bones Of fiyo Indians, ina sitting
posture, witha succotash kettle in front
Of them, were recently found in Man
tic, o., by some mon who were digging
a cellar. Another Indian skeleton, in
q sitting posture, was unearthed by
laborers at Everett, Mass, lately.
The Scotsman, q prominent Scotch
newspaper, says TINT q Bible, bound In
calf, and bearing tho namo Of William
Sim,n q Dundee man, and the date
| 1880, had been discovered in the stomach
OF a goldfish recently. William Sim
went to sea in 1884, and has not since
been heard OF.
A lady ut Madison, Ohio, thinking
pleasantly to surprise one Of her board
ers, put q gold ring which he had lost
in q pancake and placed the production
on his plate at breakfast. But the
boarder bolted tho pancake in such
largo bites that the presence Of the ring
was not discovered, and now 1t is lost
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