The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-08-09
Items of Interest.

A national odc-Thc public debt.
Being threadbarc is n terrible bear to
n proud man.
The great feature at seaside resorts
The big bill.owes.
Carlyle'srecommendation was: "Makc
yourself m honest man, and then You
may be sure that there is one rascal less
in the world"
A flock of hens in Fairhaven, Vt,
have been fed SO much on INV meat that
they kill and eat all the young chickens
that come among them.
A woman named Adelaide Robin,
fifty years of age, threw herself from M
attic window in Paris not long ago, being
victim of unrequitcd love.
William Sangborn, Of Medwny, Me-,
is under arrest for having killed his
wife, aged sixty.onc. He sets mp that
he "dreamt he was fighting bear"
It is proposed to have State law i'll
New Jersey prohibiting amy one from
selling n can of fruit which isn't full
weight. That's the right weigh to euro
tho wrong weigh.
The Oldest journalist on the staff Of
the Cleveland Plaindcater sums up his
experience rs follows: "No man can
keep habitunl company with cockroach
and be cheerful v
Who can sound the depths OF
womans lovct A "Smoky City po-
liceman shot n drunken husband while
beating his wife, and now she is prose-
cutting him who perhaps savcd her life.
A Frenchman has discovered amethod
OF making paper iucombustible, and it
will doubtless prove OF great value to
nation that has her public records burn-
ed so often rs the one in which he be-
longs.
Burglars are common III Atlanta-too
common. When family man goes
home at night he has to hide behind tho
cato post and bawl out, "lt'sme, mydcar'
est, at the top Of his voice, in order to
keep from being shot.
The superintendent Of a Sunday
school in Washington is an undertaken,
and there is some talk Of asking him to
resign because he makes the children
sing 81 would not live always" re-.
gllarly every Sunday.
Sixty miles north OF Duluth, Mimi,
an iron mountain has been discovered
which rivals its namesakc in Missouri.
1t is eight miles long, one and half
miles wide, and 1900 feet above the
! level Of Lake SuDCriOr,
A recent number of the Chicago Tri-
J,me serves up the murder and robbery
of ono day in several columns of ehbo-
ratcly headed matter, one OF the lines
reading Several plain, upassuming
murders committed out West"
A certain young gentleman of Evans
ton, Ind, recently accompanied ladyto
train to see her safely started on her
Journey. He carried her railroad ticket
in his pocket for safety, and found it
there, when lie reached home, some
hours after the train left.
Scientists have ut last found out what
tobacco smoke is-a mixture of cyanhy-
dric, sulphureted hydrogen, formic, ace.
tic, propionic, butyric, valcrianic and
carbolic acids, half adozcn kinds OF alkO-
lolds and creosote. We don't wondertho
huranitarians declare that it is killing
people.
A catannoyed Louis Vollman of Mount
Airy, Ohio, and he loaded heavily dou-
ble:barreled gun, intending to shoot tho
pest. He fired once, woundmg the cNt,
and then chased it, striking with the
stock of the gun. 4 blow hit tho floor
hard enough to explode the other charge,
and Vollmau was killed.
In the case OF King vs. Fenton, where
the prisoner was tried in 1872 for tho
murder OF Major Hillas in duel, old
Yudgc Keller thus capped his summing
up to tho Jury : Gentleman, it is my
business to lay down the law toyou, and
will. The law says the killing OF
man in duel is murder therefore, i'll
the discharge Of my duty tell you so
but tell you at the same time a fairer
duel than this I never heard OF in'the
whole " coorse" Of my life.