The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-10-25
Items OF Interest.

4 new style OF kid gloves IL striped
from tho ends OF the fingers to thewrist.
80 lark, and yet so light, rs the
man said when he looked ut his ton OF
coal.
Size was overheard to say to him:
HOur parlor stove is mp now; do call
aud see what little spark it takes to
kiudc flame
Tho Milwaukee, Sentinel remarks that
" times will continue hard as long as tho
s. 900 q year man strives to appear rs u
1000 year man,
Is the millennium approaching! The
conductor and engineer of train that
recently killed man in Chicago have
been held for trial for murder.
For many years every table OF State
areas has set California down rs covering
SS,9A square miles The lines, rs es-
tablished by recent United States sur
veys, show that tho area IL in reality
only 1856. 100.
An old sailor, passing through 4 grave
ward, saw on one OF the tombstones:
Still lire." 1t was too much for Jack,
and shifting his quid, he calculated
"Well, I've heard say that there are
cases in which man man lie; but il
was dead I'd own it."
Mr.. Walker, n Cincinnati scientist, has
allowed himself to be stung once n day
for three weeks by bees to ascertain the
effect. He says that after about the
tenth time tho pain and swelling were
slight, the body seeming to become i'll
oclllated with the poison.
A man in the last stages Of consump-
tion wns recently found in the New York
aud New England railroad station Mt
Boston. He had been sent away from
Now Milford, Conn. (wherehe livCd), by
the selectmen, who feared he would die
on their hands, and had but ninety cents
in his pocket.
A citizen OF Springfield, Mass, last
spring planted sweet potato in hill OF
sand, with liberal supply OF compost.
This autumn ho found the hill well filled
with potato weighing three pounds
and half, from which radiatcd roots to
which six pounds Of potatoes OF ordinary
size were attached.
Feeling makes lively man thought
makes q strong man action makes Il
useful man-and all these together make
perfect man. Now, abide these three:
Feeling, thought, action, and the great
est OF these is action. Some men think
much, feel little, and act less. They are
universally unsafe men.
John Chinaman's method Of warfare is
slow, il not sure. The troops who
started from Pekin for their western
frontier three years ago to rcpress ia.
koob Khan, happening TO get out of
provisions en- route, stopped to supply
themselves by planting grain, and Nre
now awaiting the harvest.
Since the first issue OF postal cards
two years ago, 255, 900 have been is-
sued, for which the government has
paid the contractors 1851, ,349,S5, and
has collected 81, 554, $50 from the people.
The entire shipments Of the cards
weighed nine hundred and six tons, and
would Hll freight train of ninety cars.
The French court OF cessation has
Just given n decision OF interest to
cleaners, and they have III this genera
tion driven the cleaners ont Of their
fields as thieves. 1t is now decided as
contrary to law for n farmer to turn
sheep into his fields for two days after
harvest or to CLEAN the fields himself, or
to sell the right, because "the poor
would thus DO deprived OF the benefit
which humanity and law have reserved
to the indigcnt." Is there any other
county where tho pitiful thrift of Il
cleaner could become subject OF htiga-
toni
The young wife OF merchant III
GAINESVILLE, Ga, during his absence in
New York to buy goods, gave evidence
OF alteration OF mind, and when friends
in her presence proposed to telegraph
him, she said: "You need not telegraph
him. The good Lord has enabled mo
to apprise him Of my condition" But
they telegraphed him mud in very short
time he was home, and says that tho
night during which she screamed out he
dreamed that she was in the condition
he found her in and when the telegram
come he was fnlly aware OF her cond'
tion.