The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-04-12
Items Of Interest.

Always marry the girl you love best
that is, il she'll haye you.
There are two hundred and sixty
miles Of street railways in Pc nnsyl-
vania,
Ole Bull is sixty.Rvc years old, and
he has q collection OF twenty-four
fiddles.
Every husband thinks that ho can
tame n shrew except the poor fellow that
has her.
II man is insane upon the subject
of money, is his disease monomania, or
moneymanial
An entire family in Harrison, Ohio,
Inns been made insane by n stroke Of
lightning which hit their house.
An impudent adventurer having mar
ricd an heiress, wit remarke that tho
brilegroom's brass was outshone by tho
brides tin.
Mr.. Moody, the American revivalist,
who is now making so mnny converts in
London, was q colonel in the United
States army.
Mysterious Little Jobnny-"1 heard
somebody crying in here, and It wasn't
mn nor the doctor" Sissy" Maybe it
was the kitten"
A veteran shopkeeper says that, al-
though his clerks are very talkatiyo dur
ing tho day, they are always ready to
shut up at night.
When Detroiter was asked the other
day by traveller il he had ever been III
Brooklyn, he hastened to reply : DO /
look like one Of that sort Of men, sirf"
The vanceburg Rcntuckian remarks
A farmer lives on tho average sixty,.tlyo
years, printer thirty.three. Tho
former should pay tho Inter promptly.
New Zealand prohibits females from
attending public schools, holding TINT
woman does not need book learning
to enable her to split wood aud hoe
corn.
Tho paper makers say that the rags
they have received this year are moro
tllreadbarc than usual, which they Mt.
tribute to tho general prevalence of hard
times.
1t is estimated that G5,OOO, 900 bushels
Of wheat will bc marketed in the United
States within the next ninety days. AT
present prices here, this would bring
S7S, 100000.
A fvo hundred pound Parrott shell,
lately used for breaking iron in Peekskill,
was filed with water which fro2e solid
and burst the shell into three pieces, al
though tho iron was upwards Of three
inches thick.
The Lewiston Journal says that tho
word mosquito" vanquished social
gathering in TINT city, in which the
spelling mania had broken out. 1t was
too much for doctor Of divinity,
Judge, n professor Of language, to soy
nothing Of lcOs learned people.
"Jack in the Pulpit" in 81. Nicholas
for April, says: For five years past n
rich farmer in our neighborhood has
made standing offer Of $4,000 in gold
for double set Of cows teetli-tlat
il, the upper and lower rows complete.
Yet his oilor has never been taken up.
A captain in tho navy, on meeting n
friend as he landed, boosted that he had
left his whole ships company tho llappi;
est fellows in tito world. elbow sOl"
asked his friend. "Wly, l have just
logged seventeen, and they nrc happy it
is over; and all tile rest arc hnppy that
they have escaped"
Cowden Clark tells n story Of a gem
tleman who, lntely, in making u return
of his income to the tax commissioners,
wrote on the paper: For the Inst three
years my income has been somewhat
under Gl5O; in future it will be more
prccarious, as tho man is dead OF whom
l borrowed the money.
A Pittsburgh critic remarked that
"AIiss Soldenos mouth wns suggestive
Of tie Mammoth cave" md tho next
night, when he presented himself for nd
mittarce, the French business manager
told him: "Not at oil, eur; you no SEQ
geo Mammoth cave tonight oonder Amy
zoerkoomstanccs. We will zell you no
teekets."
Jekyll told Moore OF q man WHO had
said his eating cost almost nothing, for
/" on Sunday" said hc, " l always dino
with MI old iricnd, and then eat 80 much
that It lasts until Wednesday, when l
buy some tripe, which l hate like tho
old boy, and which accordingly makes
mo 10 sick tllat I cannot eat any moro
until Sunday again"
It takes Pittsburgh paper to grasp d
problem and wiring the Juice out Of it.
Says the Leader! II an ice bridge
thirty.tiyo miles in diameter were built
from tho earth to the moon and pro-
tccted from dissolving till everything
was ready, the heat Of tho sun turned
on suddenly would melt it, boil tho
water and dissipate the whole business
in yapor in ono second.
Tho contents OF the stomach Of q trout
weighing forty pounds lately sent from
Michigan TO Washington in this State,
were found to consist Of eight distinct
fishes, six OF which measured twelve
inches in length each, and the other two
eight inches each, making q total OF
seven feet and four inches OF fish in u
trout forty.thrce inches long. The eight
lay side by side, the heads and tails
being partly digested.
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