The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-07-26
Items Of Interest.

ing pllcc'
4 large turtle was recently caught in
Lake Saratoga with the date "lS22
engraved on its back.
You occasionally meet u man in this
world whose word is MS good us isbond,
and both are worthless.
Iowa has n law which forbids man to
marry his stop.daughtor, yet allows him
to marry his mothcr-in-law.
A "Bonauza of Health" is what they
call new sulphur spring reached by III
artcsian boring Mt llopidnsvillc, Ky.
Men who never have five dollars read
descriptions OF dangerous countcricits OF
that denomination with great interest.
A single association for fish culture
has since May distributed 320, 900 young
salmon through the streams Of Con
uccticut.
4 paper in Pittsburgh, Pa, says thNt
tho West is every year becoming moro
independent OF the East in tools and
hardware.
"Chcap labor" comes up in new
form in San Francisco, where Il Chinese
young lady is an applicant for vacancy
in q public school.
4 Boston mans second wife has had
him arrested for using her money to
buy his first wife n tombstone with
poetry on it.
1t takes many years to make young
politician know how to be useful, and it
takes MS many more to mako M old ono
understand when he has outliycd his
usefulness.
A Washington man writes to tho Re.
publican of that city complaining of
"thc water VIC drinks" Tho editor i'll
lignantly asks who he means by two
and, ,"w what watcrl"
The best rules to form n young man
are To talk little, to hear much, to re-
fleet alone on what has passed III COM
pany, to distrrst ones own opinions and
value others that deserve it.
4 London medical journal informs ua
that the action of pewter and hydro
chloric acid and nitrobromGcetanilido
produces hydrochloridc Of ethGnylbro
mophenylcnedtamits. Much obliged.
The largest Cardiff giant story comes
from Sandusky, Ohio, near which, it is
said, q pctriticd mun Of gigantic siz1
has been found in n ncwly-discoyered
cave four hundred feetbclow the surface.
A countryman fell of fcrryboat at
Vicksburg, and his wife, waiting coolly
until his head showed above tho water,
shouted: "Thcre, durn yer, | know'd
you'd do it Bet yer never get out,
either |"
There was gold mine in Cherokee,
Ga, few days ago. After n little OF
the excitement subsidized, somebody dis.
covered that the deposit consisted Of
gold foil stuck around on the rocks with
mucilagc.
A New Orleans paper says that the
coming cotton crop will number . $780,
OIL bales. When M editor can figure It
crop down as fine rs that ho'l! soon be
ready to carefully estimate tho sands Oh
the sea shore.
A millionaire of Granville, Wisconsin,
hns recently made "a will, i'll which he
leaves $4,000 TO any incorporated town
or villngc in Wisconsin that will not
tolerate brass band. Now that's sonlo.
thing like philanthroply.
The newspapers state that we'll
known banker i'll Paris has abscondcd,
leaving largo deficit behind. Mrs.
Partington thinks it WIS very good OF
the poor old man to leave it, when 10
| might have got Off clear with every
thing.
4 common practice among tho British
soldiers is to commit some small theft i'll
order to get their release from the army
Mt the cost of Il short imprisonment.
The magistrates see the dodge now and
give soldiers full sentences for such Of
fenscs.
A lady correspondent who assumes to
know how boys ought to be trained,
writes to an exchange as follows: "Oh,
mother! hunt ont the soft, tender,
genial side Of your boys nature"
Mothers often do-with NJ old shoc-to
the boys benefit.
Acensus enumeratOrin Liberty, n. Y,
has found German girl, fifteen years OF
age, who speaks German and English,
and accurately writes both languageslcft
handed. She has made fifteen thoncand
shingles since the snow left, besides
/" dragging in" many OF the crops in her
section.
If those dresses were twice rs tight
they would wear thom. II it were the
! fashion to carry barrel Of flour on the
back Of the neck they would 10 it, or die
trying. You couldn't devise n fashion
the women wouldn't mCckly follow, from
no clothes in winter, to bcarskin over
coats in summer.
There is lad who for five or six ycara
has been selling fruit, ctc., on the Milne
Central railroad, whose pluci; and bust
hess tact arc quite remarkable. lie is
now, perhaps, seventeen years oil agc,
and owns several small houses and other
buildings in Bath, and is said to be
worth $1,000 to $1,000.
Mr.. Duane Thought it would be n
good joke to have his only son learn the
alphabet early, and no he named him
Aaron Burr Concord Duane, making hii
initials 4. u. G. d. When the boy
married Ellen Francis Garroway llurd
(E. +. Il. H., ho began to think how
tlM balance Of the alphabet would como
in as applied to tho children.
The Hartford Times reports that there
We're seen on wharf i'll that city, re-
Gently, no fewer than sixteen children,
between the ages OF four aud eight yenra,
NIL drunk. They had obtained access to