The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-01-04
OBJ aerlrufrat.
Items Of Interest.


A Chicago plumbing firm adyertises
lead sinks" As il everybody didn't
know that,
Turkeys who survived the holidays
appointed January I'd, 1875, rs 10 day OF
Thanksgiving.
In London houses are numbered con.
secutively, up one side Of the street and
down the other.
The eatingof horseaesli by men seems
retributive when we consider how many
men have been consumed by horseaeah.
They do say that the entire crop Of
mustard this year wouldn't make the
Kentucky Library draw when it agreed
to, a.Htat
A young Indy says she longs for fingers
like the prongs OF q pitchfork, with dia-
mond rings enough to fill them to the
ends.
A Richmond paper has o plan for keep
ing party in power. The party is to
give every girl in the land sewing mn
chine and feller
A New Haven man, while dredging in
the harbor at that city, raised human
skull which was thickly covered with
mussels and oysters.
A strong effort to have the next college
regatta ut New London, Conn.,, will be
inatle ut the meeting Of the College Boat
ing Association in Hartford.
II there is one thing moro than an
other TINT will thoroughly exasperate
man, it is breaking o straw off when
cleaning out dirty pipe-stem.
An impertinent fellow wants to know
IL you ever sit down to tea where
skinned milk was Oh the table without
being asked "Do You take the cream"
IT is the thing to import indoor
men" md people who come back from
Europe bring, with the rest of their
"iixings," a German or Italian Major
domo."
It is stated TINT OF the a5O, 100000 tons
Of coal annually dug from the bowels Of
the earth, Great Britain produces ono
hall. Germany and the United State
One.sixth each.
or course, u woman doesn't wnnt her
plants to freeze, but still one can't
blame man for r.ising row when
he hops out OF bed in the morning and
finds geranium plant in each trousers
leg.
It's truly astonishing how the papers,
while they persist in charging a man
dolIaran inch for advertising when living.
cheerfully give up whole column OF
space for nothing, when his obituary
comes along.
Mrs. Eshelman, Of Shillington, pa.,
will arrest the fellow who poured coal oil
in her we'll Il she can find him out. Tho
trick made her think she Ind really
" struck oil, " and the disappointment is
aggrayating.
"AIatlame take this hundred. pound
bill. Use 1t freely and never soy that |
suffer your purse TO he empty of pocket
money!" said IN attentive spouse III
public, but added, soto tocs, "if you
spend a penny Of ii I'll kill YOU"
President Lincoln, sitting ut the foun-
tain.head Of official patronage, used to
ray That it sometimes seemed 70 his dis
csurnged mind that seven.eighths OF the
people Of the United Suites were trying
TO live at tile expense Of the other eighth.
The sheriff Of Cuyahoga county, Ohio,
lntely had the disagreeAble duty to per-
form Of conveying to the penitenttary on
three years sentence q repeater,
whose offsnse consisted in having voted
three times for the very official who was
conducting him to prison.
Building in Italy would seem to bc n
peculiarly dangerous occupation. A new
office Is being erected in Rome for the
Ministry Of Finance. The other day u
workman fell from the scaifolding and
was killed, making the linndredth victim
Of accidents upon the same building.
A correspondent .of Cincinnati
paper writes from Circleville, Ohio: al
have read with some degree Of interest {!
Circleville telegram in the Cincinnati
press OF today, reporting me in n dying
condition Inst evening. Judging solely
| from my own knowledge of the matter,
| 1 hereby certify TINT 1 do not believe tlic
report to be true"
Tie Denver Meps records this Incl
dent: A man was about dying in this
city, and an acquaintance sent the iol-
lowing telegram to his wife, WHO was in
Chicago: @Your husband is dying.
Come quick" She coolly replied:
\" Can't 20 now. II he dies, hnnd linn
over 10 the Masons, he's one Of them"
The man died. The wife hasn't bsen
heard from since.
A farmer, famous for his hogs, was
nsked what was the secret Of his success.
Ia answered /: "I always choose good
naturcd pig. Those that when they eat
arc constantly running from ono trough
to another, and knocking their snouts
aguinst the next pig, 1 sell to my neigh
bors, who don't know better tl!an to buy
such troublesome animals, while my con-
tented pigs get fat."
The Troy Times relates this: "a
younR lady in neighborilg yillnge &C
cepted an invitation from u young gen
tleman to ride, and when tho gentleman
came with his horse aud buggy, the lady
found il impossible to get in, 20 closely
had she adhered to the prevailing fash.
ion OF drawing her dress tightly about
her. She asked to be excused, and go
ing into the house, lot out two or three
reefs In her dress, when she WIS enabled
to get into the buggy"
An accident has occurred OH the Great
ST, Bernard in Switzerland. Eight
\ Italian worlrinen were crossing the molitl-
tain. and two monks and n servant, fol-
lowed by d dog, went out to meet them.
Tho whole party was oyertaken by q
snowstorm and buried in the drift. One
Of the monks succeeded il oxtricatine
himself, but was only able to walk q