The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-06-21
Items Of Interest.

wispers Of mmer-The street sweep
ers.
: More people die from hate than from
love.
A defective memory overlooks q multi
tude Of sins.
There is no philosophy TINT can con-
vince man TO the contrary whom ho
knows he is hungry.
London market gardeners pay 5000
per aero yearly rent for lands they culti-
vate, and their average profits arc $500
per acre. ei5 -ai
/" Heavens Own" is the name ofanew
Nevada town where railroad passenger
saw woman pinning her husband to tho
fence with pitchfork.
"Aro these soaps all one scentP in
quired q Indy Of ajuvenile salesman.
dNo, ma'am, they're all ten cents" repli-
cd the innocentyoungster.
English publishing 6rmhas adopted
the singular device Of giving copiesof its
new books 10 the public libraries TO cre-
ate demand among readers. lie
The army worm in Alexandria, ILL.,, Is
destroying crops at fearful rate. Ono
farm Of 150 acres Of corn was destroyed
in % few hours, although forty men
fought them. NI
Tholargest lumber rait on record was
towed down tho Missouri river tho other
day. IL was fourteen strings wide, six
teen cribs long, and twenty inches deep,
containing over one million feet.
The petition against conyentual insti.
tntions, raised in England, issaid to hayo
borne liz, 900 signatures, and To measure
three quarters Of mile in length. For
ty thousand signatures were obtained In
London alone.
Mattrass, o Chippewn chief, was put
in his little bed in the ST. Croix valley,
Mimi, last week. He was one hundred
and one years old, and might have been
older II he had not smoked tobacco and
drank hre-water.
An encouraging sign Of growing pros,
perity among the italian people is found
In the increase Of deposits in the savings
banks from 94, 00O, 900 francs in 1866, TO
M. .OO0, 900 in 1874. The increase is in
the part Of the country north Of Rome.
A verdict has been rendered OF Auburn
N. Y, in favor Of n man who recently
sued the New York Central Railroad Co.,
asking damages for being elected from |.
drawing.room car, into which he had
gone beca1iso there no seats left in tho
ordinary cars.
A man in Nevada, shot by robbers, re-
covered consciousness in time TO hear
ono Of tho rascals soy, "Had We better
shoot him again I" 10 which another re.
piled, /" No; I guess the cuss Is dead"
He wisely kept quiet until they had de-
parted with their booty.
When q Denver husband misses tho
wife ofhis bosomat meal time nowadays,
he don't yell for orthepoliee, or rusharound
the neighborhood asking everybody IL
they have seen Mary Jane. He Just
wakes down 10 the auction room, puts
his head into the door and sings out !:
"M Mary Jane, them beans Is billed u
In the First Lodge Of Jerusalem, 1t Is
said. the master Is On American, hepast-
master IN Englishman. the senior war
den German, the junior warden 0 M
tive, the treasurer o Turk, tho secretary
n Frenohman, the seniordeacon Q Persian,
and The Junior deacon Turk There
are Christians, Mohammedans, and Jews
in tho lodge.
Thoyha . way Of doing things at
Pottsyille which may be fun for lockers
on, but IL "a death 10 the lawyers. a
party Of Germans had q suit nt court
which went against them. They be-
came 50 enraged at this that theychasod
their lawyer into tho SHERIFF. Z office, and
he only escaped from them by Jumping
out oil 70 window.
Tho chairman Of the vigilance com.
mittee, who was instructed 10 duck on
obnoxious citizen, thus reported to his
constituents 1--WE took tho thief down
10 the river, nude q hole in the ice,
and proceeded to duck him, but ho
siipped out Of our hands and hid under
the Ice. All our efforts TO cntice him 70
come out failed, md he has now bad hia
start some houkhP t,