The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-10-18
Items Of Interest.

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your families.
Evening gray and morning red
Sends the farmer wet to bed;
Evening red and morning gray
Is the suro sisn Of very fine day.
1t is now proposed to enlist men in
the army rs cooks, and ut each recruit
ing depot to establish school for their
trimming.
Aman was sonccaskedif hehad eyerseen
n red blackberry. "To be sure have"
said lie "all blackbcrries are red when
they're green"
The time honored crush at Yale
College between the sophomorcs and
freshmen did not come of this year.
The faculty forbade it.
A Miss Hergent, OF Kansas, bus fullen
heir to au estate valued ut Sl0O, 900, and
scores of impccunious young fellows arc
urgent to become her gent.
There are several roads to the divorce
courts, but there is none more travelled
than the one win tho fashionable dress
and bonnet making establishments.
When you've nothing to do but tIutter abous,
Gossiping as you fllt,
Just take our ADVICE "step down and out"
Give mp the ghost and "gt."
Governor Kirkwood, Of Iowa, recently
said he honestly hoped to see the day
when in going to the polls we shall take
our wives, daughters, and sisters with
us"
A gentleman in Nueces county, Texas,
has field of sixty thousand acres with
in one fence. He recently filled MI or
der by telegraph for twenty-sixthousand
beeves.
"Have you caught any fish, bubf
asked gentleman Of q small urchln tnat
was fishing "Yes, sur, n good eel,
said he, exhibiting one about eighteen
inches long.
The expressing Of dead Chinese from
California to China has become thrifty
freight business. Each one, when hv-
ing, keeps constantly on hand his coffin,
duly labeled and directed to destina-
ton.
There is man in Iowa who never had
any eyes. Tho skin grows over tho
place usually occupied by them the samo
us over the rest OF the face. It is per-
haps unnecessary to add TINT he is stone
blind.
An old gentleman, with kind but de-
termined look on his face, said -" Tho
next time TINT boy refuses to go on M
errand / will 60 for him." Tho boy
heard OF the kind offer, and concluded
to go rs told.
A cubic inch Of gold is worth S146;
cubic foot, S252, ,2SS. Tho quantity of
gold now in existence is estimated TO bo
81, 900, 100000, which, welded in ono
mass, could be contained in cube Of
twcnty-three feet.
A Mormon in Provo, OF whom Captain
Goldman tells in the GALAXY, is ninety
two years old, and the father OF sixty
children, the eldest Of whom is seventy
years old, and the youngest sixty-sevcn
years his brothers junior.
An Edinburgh lover received tho
following note, accompanied by bou.
quet of flowers: "Dear - l send
you bi tho boy bucket OF ilours. They
Is lik my love for II. The nightshadc
menes kepc dark. The dog fenel menes
nm your slave. Rosis red and posts
pail, my love for you shall never fale.'
Now, young man, listen while we tell
you how to pop the question. Get the
young lady well cornercd where no one
can 0verhear you, and then poke this
conundrum Mt her: "When will there
be only twenty-five letters in the alpha
bet p Answer When you and I are
made one." After that it is plain sail
ing.
When you meet small youth playing
the drum, ut the head Of n lot OF two
foot soldiers, with stick and brass ket-
tie, you may know That his mother has
the preserving fever, and has sat down
to wiring her hands and wonder " what
on earth has become Of that boy" she
sent after Mrs. Jones' kettle two hours
ago.
A reporter for the Philadelphia Press
has learned from Mr.. Ross that Mosher
and Douglass approached patrolman,
some time before Charley Ross abduc-
ton, with proposition to assist them in
the abduction OF little grandsonof Com
modore Vanderbilt, whom they intend.
cd TO hold for ransom for the sum Of
$50, 900.
It is the earnest opinion Of the Detroit
Free Press that when one sees little
ragged, homeless waits shivering on tho
streets, and realizes that they may grow
up to become Philadelphia detectives
and hunt for Charley Ross, it makes one
feel that they might better bc hid away
now and have bushy'tailed lamb carved
ON their headstones.
A lady asked her little boy "Havc
you called your grandma to ten :" "Ies.
When went to call her she was asleep,
and | didn't wish to halloo at grand
mn, nor shake her; SO kissed her cheek.
and that awoke her very softly. Then l
run into the hall, and mid pretty loud:
Gmndma, tea is ready And she
never knew what woke her up"
He started hair.coloring establish
ment and got rich in two years. He ut
tributes his fortune to persistent adver-
tising. This is one OF his advertise
ments Generation after generation
passeth away, the fires Of the armament
arc extingiished and rehindled, the
hopes that color the dreams OF Caesar
fado like streaks Of the morning cloud
into the infinite azure Of the past. but
hair dyc-blessed, magical hair dye