The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-23
Items d Interest.

boarding schools.
A good man is kinder to his enemy
than bad men are to their friends.
A wag says that machinery wheels
arc go modest that they generally travel
in cog"
Watch for. little opportunities for
serving or pleasing, and put little an
noyances out Of the way.
Some yocalists take pride in exhibit.
ing o fine falsetto voice; Others in dis
playing fine false Of teeth.
The Cincinnati Enquirer offers to bet
$500 that no fashionable lady ever goes
to bed without first looking in her glass.
"The one .thing," says Jean Paul,
(" which maiden most easily forgets is
how she looks-hence mirrors were in.
vented.
fers from Chicago in that prolonged
courtship is not tolerated in the French
capital.
In Carthage, Ill.,, boys under the age
OF sixteen are, by q city ordinance re-
Gently passed, prohibited from chewing
tobacco.
The drunkard appears to hayeno par.
ticular mission in Life. He seems to
think he Is put in this world iustto
"all up"
Acolored boy was asked what he had
such short nose for. "I spect so II
won't poke itself into other peoples
business"
A "fiirtatious " young lady in Wash.
ington says she knows a great many
young gentlemen who belong TO the
Signal Service.
No wonder that man who drinks
rum and fools aroundo q muddy night
should appear rumpled and muddled in
the morning. s
What is the difference between the
entrance TO o barn and q loafer in a
printing Officer One is o barn door and
the other is darn bore.
The cause Of woman suffrage, IN ex.
change remarks, is the scarcity Of hus.
bands but " strikes US that the cause
is the scarcity Of wives.
Sioux City has had funeralproces.
sion three miles long, and II proudly
asks some town to beat It. There's RI.
yalry in everything out West.
The most shocking evidence Of hard :
times We have yet seen Is produced by
Hartford, Conn, which can not raise
half money enough to hire o baseball
club.
A Wisconsin minister has been found
guilty by church council Of "not
always handling the truth with sufficient
careiulness TO meet the demands Of
yoracity."
Some European humanitariaus have
devised an iron mask for cattle doomed
to slaughter, with socket over the
centre OF tho forehead, into which fits o
death-dealing nail.
The people Of Montana called II "the
natural park Of the Yellowstone until
Congress accepted IT, and now they
want one hundred thousand dollars for
improvements"
An applicant for q pair Of boots at
one Of our shoe shops was. asked what
number he wore, and replied, as soon
as he could recover from his surprise,
"Why, two, Of course"
Weekly payments by Government arc
urged upon the ground that the in
creased trouble and expense would be
triaing compared with the benefits that
would accrue to all parties concerned.
Aliltle boy carrying home some eggs
from the grocery, dropped them. odd
You break anyi" asked his mother,
when he told her Of IT. "No," said the
little fellow, "but the shells came Of
OF some Of EN-"
II costs as much TO take care Of an
acre Of Ice as II does IN acre Of corn.
There Is scarcely square foot Of ice in
the Kennebec, Me-, suitable for hoist.
ing, that has not been carefully and
patiently cultivated.
Ayoung lady in Gloucesteris charged
with keeping her Light burning in the
porlor until very late on Sunday night,
In order to harrow the sensitive feel
ings Of an envious neighbor into the
belief that she has really got q beau.
How doth the little busy pig improve
each shining hour, and gather saugages
all day from every opening flower? And
when the shades Of twilight fall he
plumbers in his Bty, or sings his pref
ty evening him-"Root, little pig, or
dol"
The Dieppe police, warned by sew
eral recent calamities, have issued
notice to persons, requesting them,
when lady Is in danger Of drowning,
10 seize her by the dress and not by the
hair, which oftentlmes remains in their
grasp.
Ohio has some accommodating men
within her limits. For instance, Mrs.
John Lane said TO John. the other day,
"rd hang myself II I didn't know
more about business than that" and
John accordingly went out and sus-
pended himself.
II there be class Of human beings
on earth who may properly be denomi.
mated low II Is that class who spend
without earning, who consume without
producing, who dissipate the earnings
of their fathers or relatives, without
being anything in and Of themselves.