The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-07-27
Items OF Interest.

Second Adventists now say, Jan. 1,
Romantic school girls now spell
"jelly" with fnal "ie."
The New Hampshire Patriot thinks
the prospects OF the apple crop in that
State merit the appellatiSn Of magnii.
cent.
Roman Catholics in Wisconsin are
leaving the oranges, the bishop OF Mil
waukee having issued q pastoral against
them.
It is shrewdly observed that sawdust
pills would cure o great many diseases
il the patient would only make his own
sawdust.
It is easy enough for the st. Louis
papers to predict that the new bridge
will lart 200 years, and then say "wait
and see."
A Connecticut editor announces that
he has bought $500 dog, and can now
meet the most irascible caller with
smile Of calm content.
80, Lord" prayed a minister,
keep me humble and poorl" 80,
Lord, II Thou wilt keep him humble,"
said the deacon whs next prayed, tive
will keep him poor.
"Well, Dennis, how are you getting
on2 How do you like your new mas.
ter?" Faith, Miss, I dunno" Hes
very excellent man yen can't do too
much for him." can sure, Miss, l
don't name to-" l
An Allentown toad swallowed fire.
fly, and the Chronicle says: "While
the latter was exploring the interior OF
the toad, the light Of his lantern was
visibleto outsiders through the skin Of
the detested reptile"
"You ought TO acquire the faculty Of
being at home IN the best society" said
afashionable aunt to an honest nephew.
~ manage that easily enough, replied
the nephew, "by staying Ut home with
my wife and children. " 4
The Detroit Free Press says IL takes
three months TO prepare for fashions
able wedding in Baltimore. That's
nothing. A Young lady in Boston has
beon twenty.seven years about II, and
the cake amt ordered yet
Every well.supplied hotel or res.
taurant In the country has on it's wine
list Johannisberger, Yquem, and Veuyo
Cliquot; yet the vineyards Of these
three together would scarcely supply
single wine.drinking city.
A Cincinnati reporter says that there
is something grand in the sight OF o
pair Of runaway. horses, but the Detroit
Free Press believes that o good deal
depends on whether man is on q fence
or trying TO climb over the end board
Of the wagon. Al
A Vermont man experimental with
new wash for killing sheep.ticks. He
had twenty.seven sheep when he up.
piled the preparation, aud twenty.one
earcasses and six living ones when he
got through. He won't take any more
Of that patent wash in his'n.
A shocking accident has happened on
the Portsmouth ramparts. The sunset
gun was Just fred, when little fellow
named Scott, seven years Of age, ran
across the muszle, and received the
charge in his face, one side Of which
was Blown away. Death was, II need
scarcely be said, instantaneous.
The 81. Louis bridge is heavy with
masonry for the support OF two road
ways, one above the other, the lower
one being fitted for carrying large rail-
road trains on double tracks, while the
upper one Is laid with four tracks for
street cars. II is nearly mile in
length, fifty feet wide from balustrade
TO balustrade, and cost about eleven
million dollars, It was begun in the
early part Of 1868. ,
Dick Whitehead, q horse trainer,
is pressing peculiar claim upon the
Chicago Common Council. Ahorse was
bought for 5000 to haul the county am-
bulance. He strayed away, aud was
taken by man, who placed him in
Whitehead's 8 hands to train and develop
into tretter. Whitehead got the horse
no he could do mile in about $40.
Then the improved animal was replev-
ined by the county, and sold for $685..
Whitehead submits that he is entitled
to some portion OF the profit realized
bv the county on the horse dicker.