The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-04-13
Items of Interest.


The finest emeralds come from ysina
Of clay slate in the valley Of New Gren'
ada.
Why is kiss like some sermons2
Because there are two heads and IN ap-
plication.
An observant old lady says that "no
other living thing can go as slow as
boy on an errand."
The highest spire in the United
States is that OF Trinity church, New
York, which is 2s4 feet.
Flguratiyely speaking, the whisky
war in Ohio is damaging the trade IN
Cincinnati about $40, 900 per day.
Scandal is fed by as many streams as
the Nile, and there is often as much
difficulty in tracing il to It's source.
He who reforms himself has done
more towards reforming the public than
crowd OF noisy, impotent patriots.
A Washington letter says Mrs. Gen.
Sherman is deyout Catholic, as well
as her daughters, Minnie and Lizzie.
"Byrom and Drinkwater," was a
sign which was TO be seen on o store In
North Yarmouth, Me-, sixty years ago.
The conoreoationalist explains what
IL means by "lightning.bug piety
bright while II lasts, but cold and soon
out.
Wide bands Of black velvet about tie
throat are again in fashion, with long
ends hanging down the back below tho
waist.
A Wisconsin brute has been sent TO
iail for holding his wiie's face and
hands on a hot stove until they were
blistered.
King Koffee keeps his 9,333 wives
under the same roof with his magazine
for military munitions. They do about
as he says.
Only nine families out Of It's former
population OF $1,000 remain OF Pithole
City, Pa. When they ceased to strike
oil" the "struck out"
Oh, bother cremation says the Pitts
burgR Commercial. We have to earn
our liying-and we don't want to be
compelled TO urn our dead.
The compositors on the Atlanta Con-
stitution want to charge for pictures the
same as reading matter. They call 1t o
fat take, but the proprietors say it's too
thin.
There is a minister near Boonville,
Ind who has been marded three times,
his first two wives being sisters, and
! his third wife stepmother TO first two
wives. le
A boy ten years old pointed q gun at
his sister, aged 1s, at Arkdale, Wis,
i lately, not knowing IL was loaded, and
shot her through tho neck, killing her
instantly.
"I wish I could mind God as my little
dog minds me-" said n little boy, look
ing thoughtfuily on his shaggy friend.
/" He always looks SO pleasedto TO mind,
and / DON'T" 'illa
Cellars lined with four or FIVE thick
nesses Of newspapers are said to be
irost.proof II Is an undoubted fact
that some papers do make things warm
wherever theygo.
Minnesota has appropriated $50, 600
10 be expended in tho purchase OF seed
wheat for settlers iu tho southwestern
counties whose crops were destroyed
last year by grasshoppers.
The story is told Of q deacon, who,
when at the house OF devoted woman,
was asked TO offer prayer, and excused
himself by saying TINT he was not the
spiritual but the financial deacon.
New Yorkers having estimated the
tons Of shipping built in Maine this
wear at twelve thousand, the Bangor
Commercial, tells them they are only
hundred thousand short Of the mark.
There are young men who cannot
hold a skein Of yarn for their Bcthers
without wincing, but will hold 125
pounds CT neighboring family for the
best part Of pight, with patience
and docility that are certainly yphenome.
nal.
DeodoriSing night soil, and render
ing II portable by the use Of dry earth
Is every year growing 10 be moro gen
; orally adopted among the farmers VINO
have learned TO value this important
fertilizer in farm economy as they
ought.
K man in Dubuque put his finger In
TO the mouth OF a nearly empty powder
horn. Being unable to remove 1t, he
picked hole in the side Of the horn
and applied match. The result was
satisfactory, but the finger was released
minus considerable cuticle.
Aman in mill In Plumes, California,
felt a tug at his coat tail. He looked
around mud saw that il was being drawn
in by cog wheels. he grabbed q post
and held on with all his might while
the coat was slowly torn from him.
The struggle was q hard one, but the
man won.
Lovers will be glad to learn that a
big brother has come to grief IN
Albany. A young man that he didn't
Y like took his sister to the theatre. He
followed, and when they came out he
tried to take the girl away from her
escort. II was q very lively fight, and
thS result has been limited at.