The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-03-22
Items Of Interest.

Cllolf are TO be married soon, Ihey Meg
by chants, tho usual why.
In Contra Costa county, California,
tho squirrels destroy million dollars
worth Of property every year.
A man OF lArge experience said his nc
QuRintanco would fill cathedral, but IL
pulpit would hold all his friends.
Tho spelling schools TINT are spread
ing all over Ohio are said to have demon
stratcd tho fact that a woman Gun spell
four times better than man.
The Mount Gents tunnel cost about
| 1915 yard, and at the same rate tho
proposed tunnel under tho Englishchan-
! nCl would cost about SSG, ,035, 600.
Mrs. Walworth is working in right
good earnest ut Washington for sigma.
tures that will influence Gov. Tillen, Of
New York, to pardon her poor Frank.
The Mayor OF New Orleans Inns adyer.
tised for proposals for planting around
TINT city u great number Of tho ENcd-
LHptus gloJuIus, or Australian fever
tres.
In jubilee in IT'S, two boys who nc
companied the cross asacolytesquaIreled
and fought ono another with the golden
candlesticlss. One Of them became
Pope Leo NIL, the other Plus VIII.
Joshua Bailey, of oohoes Falls, n.
Y, promised tho bulk Of his fortune to
whichever of his nephows raised tho
largest family of boys. W. W. Bailey,
Of Wayerley, Town, raised five boys, and
got 81, 100000 at tho death of his uncle.
Alexander Dumas, it is said, never
sketches u scheme for any Of his pieces.
He takes for n four.act piecc seventy.
seven big sheets of blue paper. He de-
votes twenty pages each to tho first,
second and third nets, and seventeen to
tho last.
Tho contractors who have undertaken
to furnish 100000 hcadstones for tho
national cemeteries cut tho names in their
works at Rutland, Vt, by means OF tho
sand blast. This cuts name in four
minutes, and they complete five hundred
stones daily.
An outbreak occurred among tho
Chinese prisoners in tho criminal jail in
Singapore, in which Superintendent
Digby Dent was mortally wounded. Six'
teen wnrders were also wounded. Fiji.
teen prisoners were killed and thirty
iyc wounded in the repression OF tho
outbreak.
The following notice is conspicuously
posted in small hotel lt country town
IN Kansas: "At proper hour at night
the house will be closed for retirement,
by which time each bOarder is expected
to be in his room by that time rs near rs
practicable"
Toa pastor who had been condoling
with female parishioner in poor health,
tho good woman made reply: All,
yes, Mr.. Cribbs, Two had the cholery
pretty bal, but what's cliolery to q
woman with sicl q man as my John
hoyerin' around her."
We learn from tho New York Tmcs
Tint "AIiclael Sandford, the receiver OF
tito suspended Union Bank, in Jersey
CITY, has announced that hc is now pro-
pared to pay fifty cents on tho dollar to
nil editors who arc not themselves debt.
ors OF the institution" Mr.. Sandiorl
will find our card inclosed.
Phonia Epps, Of Hamilton, Ohio,
asked her mother to tako Il uoto for licr
to friend of the family living in near
street. The noto when opened was
found to read: "This is little rusO'of
mine TO get mother out OF the house.
Before sllo can get back / will be on tho
cars with dear Lorenzo, and before night
will bc married"
Cremation appears to layo been prac'
ticed in this country i'll ages anterior to
its occupancy by our present race. In
tho region Of North Carolina the Gus
tom was to cover the body with clay
and build fire upon it, which not
only consumed the body, but converted
tho clay into hardened mass or sar'
cophagus. .I.
A clergyman in Fond du Lac, Wis,
publicly prayed: "Oh, Lord, Thou
knowest that my hatcd wife is ono great
obstacle in the way Of q revival in my
church. Wit Thou, in Thy goodness,
remove lleri" The next day tho wife re:
moved herself to her fathers house, and
row tho petitioner is likely to be re-
moved by his congregation.
A cannibal Inns boen arrested in Hayh
with his dinner in basket. A black
man was brought into Jacnel tho other
day from the interior to answer charge
Of cannibalism. Unfortunately for tho
accused, when taken into custody he had
in basket the head Of victim, who
seemed to have been only recently killed.
Ho was sentenced to DO executed.
According to tho lust census in Eng
Fland and Wales the females OF the popu-
lation outnumbered tho males byupward
Of half million; but above tho nge Of
twenty five the males exceeded tho
females in number. While there arc
400, 600 widowers, there were $4,000
widows, Above the agc of ninety,
females numbered two to every male.
A benevolent gentleman from n West,
ern State applied to q gentleman TO. aid
in sending missionary to Turkey.
Tho reply was MS follows: ~ have iii-
vested much in Minnesota securities,
and lost many thousands by the acts q
your railroad men, sustained by the peo4
ple and tho courts. / have also lived in
Turloy, mud had much intercourse with
her people. would far nther give my
money to send Turks rs missionaries to
Minnesota. o,
iThe late Hon. Sam Galloway, Of Col
unbus, Ohio, was remarkably homely
mnn. On ono occasion, while dining
with personal and political friend n
Chillicothe, the six or seycn.yPar'oold