The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-08-10
Items OF Interest.

A Green county, Ind, farmer got
1850 kernels from one grain Of wheat.
The high price OF oil has given quite
stimulus to the whale fishery this
summer.
A competing hotel out West says,
generously, Of another, that it stands
without arrival.
III sees Maolis Sloan sees l." is
tho last line that backward or forward
Is always the same.
A lady OF Kansas, aged sixty-eight,
has astonished her husband by present.
Ing him with baby.
"Tom, what in the world put matri.
mony in your head ?" Well, the fact
is, 1 was getting short OF shirts"
In Turkey q man with red hair is
patted on the back by all tho high OIL
cials, and bad boys dare not even wink
at him.
Uncle Jake Mobiles, aged one hun:
dred aud ten years, recently married
sarah Peoples, aged eighty'fye, at Hot
Springs, Ark.
A Stark County (Tll.) woman COM
mitted suicide the other day because
no circus company had visited her vi
cinity for two years.
In portions OF Maine the caterplllars
travel in IN army, forming battallions
about eight feet wide, 70 thick that the
ground Is black with them.
"Lenny, you're q pig" said father
to his flye.year.old boy. "Now, do you
know what q pig is, LennyT "Yes,
pa q pigs n hogs little boy"
Harvest hands get as high as $500 q
day and their board in some parts OF
tho country. And yet hundreds of fel-
lows prefer to dead beat it along in
cities.
"Lost Child" was announced at
Pennington, Me-, and the town turned
ont TO search. After time the frantic
mother remembered that she had put
him in his little bed.
Chicago paper, jolly as ever, boasts
that that city has "the finest assort-
ment OF ruins in tho world" On o for
mer occasion, there was large nssort-
ment on hand OF ready.ma3e chimneys,
offered low to cash customers.
Afew days ago young farmer living
near ST. Louis went down an abandoned
well 10 recover his sweethearts bonnet,
which had blown there. He was taken
out dead, with the thing OF frillB and
flowers clasped tightly TO his face.
Some twenty Thomaston, Maine, sea
captains tclegaphed for dinner OF the
Bay View. Their wives heard OF tho
parLy's intention, and also telegraphed
ior dinner. The women came IN hour
later, in time for dinner.
Some men are born to misfortune.
AT picnic Covington chap got hisey0
punched for speaking 10 anotherfcllow's
girl, and when he teGrfully explained
that he'd "knowed her these thirty.
Eve years." he got oil his hair pulled
The stupidity OF the average criminal
Ia illustrated In the curious story Of
German. He had eluded all pursuit
after securing in his own country q
hundred thousand thalerB by forgery
only to be captured in the commission
Of petty burglary.
"Neyer marry for wealth. says q
contemporary, "but remember that IL
is Just as easy to love a girl who has o
brick house, with Mansard roof and
silver plated door bell, as one who
hasn't anything but IN auburn head
and an amiable disposition"
Tho sugar crop in Louisiana is but
about one.flith what it was before tho
war. But the rice crop has been in.
creased from 10000 TO 100, 900 barrels.
One man can attend to twelve acres OF
rice, yielding 81 200, and only seven OF
sugar, yielding $3.50 as tho average.
Hence less Of the one and more OF tho
other is now grown.
It Is said by some physician that the
poison OF hydrophobia differs from that
Of a nttlesnako in remaining in the i'm
mediate vicinity OF the wound for q con-
siderable length OF time. Suction, how
ever, may not always be etlectual in
drawing out oil the virus, and little
remaining might be as fatal as large
quantity. Thorough cauterization with
nitrate Of silver Is believed to be elect
ull II done within q few hours after the
wound Is inflicted.