The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-06-07
Items Of Interest.

@Ntf' tA AHhNhNS'
A patent medicine agent recently
stuck handbills on Rll the grayestoncs in
the cemetery at Melrose, Mass.
In Holyoke, Mass, tramps arc made
to pay for lodging and breakfast with
three hours work on new sewer.
II Is reported that eight hundred per-
sons, chiefly children, have died OF mea-
sIes and malignant sore throatat Bogota,
New Grenada.
A French critic says that American
bellies display many times day toilets
"suflicient 10 ruin twenty husbands"
They get them from France, though.
A tornado which swept through Geor-
gia on May / Is shown by full reports
from all the countries TO have killed
fity-four persons and wounded sixty
three.
A boy is q blessing until he puts on
"pants." From the period Of the first
rent In his trowsers dates feeling in
tho maternal breast that is not wholly
aifectionate.
"I don't care much about the bugs"
said Warmley to the head Of q genteol
board;ng.house, Hbut the iactis, madam,
! haven't tho blood to spare you SEQ
that yourself"
A Cuban woman at Pinar del Rio, who
was under the hallucination that the
spirits ordered her to do so, tore out tho
eyes OF her son, and then tried to tear
out her own.
George Cary Eggleston argues that IL
does not pay as . business venture to
marry rich wife. His observation
leads him TO believe that the expenses
Of maintaining sucha wife is usually
greater than tho income which her prop
erty can be made to yield. n
So famous Is the town Of Concord,
Massachusetts,, with its twenty.three hun
dred people, that Senator Boutwell, once
told friend, who asked him what was
the chief mercantile staple Of the town,
that the people Of Concord supported
themselves by writing for tho Atlantic
Monthly m
It Is officially announced in Paris that.
the yexed question OF how the restored
yendome column shall be crowned has
been settled. The statue OF Napoleon,
as 1t was before the Commune, will bc
replaced, and the complete restoration
Of tho whole monument will soon be ac-
complished.
William Z. Kisselbugh describes in
tho Troy Times the strange sight OF an
telopes keeping company with Pacific
railroad train. There werea hundred or
more Of the fleet, graceful animals, and
for two miles they ran parallel with the
cars, as though Interested in the rnce.
Then one Of tho passengers fired at
them with q revolver, soaring them
away. i9
Philadelphia is called the "City Of
Homes" IL contains 90, 900 more dwell
ing houses than New York, and 94, 900
more than Boston. Many Of these resi-
dences haye been erected by building
associations. There are in Philadelphia
about rs, 900 dwellings owned by men
who without the aid Of organizationsthat
furnish the means for building, could
never have emerged from the condition
Of tenancy to that Of proprietorship. I
Samuel White, a farmer Of Ludlow,
Mass, went into o large hog pen TO feed
number OF the beasts confined there.
A large and very savage boar attacked
him without warning, and o desperate
encounter ensued, the man striking with
a heavy club, with which he had armed
himself before entering, aud the boar
biting with glastly effect. At length a
deep bite in Whites thigh severed the
femoral artery and he bled to death.
One day last week smiling infant
toddled away from its home near Viola,
Iowa, on tho Dubuque Southwestern
railroad, and lay down between the rails
70 sleep. Afew moments later o train
came along, and the engineer, seeing he
could not Stop in time, pulled her wide
open wide and banged the whole traiu
over the sleeping cherub before it woke,
and never touched o hair Of II. Had
the little one attempted to rise 1t would
have been instantly killed. .,
The London Lancet, discussing Of
Captain iBoynton's recent paddle
across the Bitish channel, says that he
could have borne easily much greater
fatigue, and that the padding does not
weary him half as much as would be
supposed, the only fatigue being in the
wrist. After he was aaleep in bed at
Boulogne he was observed to paddle o
little in his dreams, but there was no
sign Of exhaustion, and the next morn
ing he wns out early smoking his cigar