The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-02-08
Items Of Interest.

Items Of Interest.
changing isn't played out in New
York" No, but the art Of hanging has,
Judging from the last exhibition.
The Maysville Butlctia sagely remarks:
The season for Staying hogs and sleigh.
ing girls is at hand. The difference II,
the girls like it, and the hogs don't.
The New York Tribune has sent
$500 to Kansas and Nebraska, the re.
suit Of its dollar subscriptions, and
claims tint 1t will increase this amount
to $4,000.
Only a military despot will be ablo
TO govern Spain, and II Is d new illustra-
tion Of the poverty Of that wretched
country that IL does not possess, so far
as Is known, even good despot.
II will my son shouldlearn thegerman
Just 80 good as english then q man who
know two Languages know more as
another who knows only one, wrote
fond Burlington father to his sons
school teacher.
Baggs got up too early one morning,
and began TO scold the servant girl. His
little six.year- r-old, who had been listen
ing attentively during the conversation,
broke in with: "Father, stop scolding;
you needn't think that James your
wife. +" fip A5rs
A little child Of James Doran, Of
Bridgeport, died suddenly o few days
since, and his mother, while viewing the
remains lying in the coffin, was 30 over
come with grief that she dropped dead,
and both mother and child wero buried
in the same grave. pdi
sharplittle Katie Doyle, Of Pittsburgh,
got out Of patience with her baahful
lovers baclwnrdnegs, and so brought
matters to favorable climax by saying
to him: 81 really believe you are afraid
to ask me TO marry you, for you know1
would say yes"
An editor bemoans the calamities Of
The present year in the following touch
ing strain: First that Beecher business,
then tile grasshoppers, then the Demo-
critic victories, and now IN increased tax
onwtislyl My goodness, what is this
country coming tot sli
A scotchman, so years old, and nearly
deaf, was naturalized recently in kays-
vile, Utah, the Judge descending 20
shout his Undergraduates into the old
mans ear. When asked Il he intended
to obey the law, he answered, IN his
native Scotch dialect, that "it wasna
worth while for him the dae otherwise
moo" .a5l. -,
The most extraordinary instance Of the
application Of the proceeds OF theft Is re-
ported from Montreal, where o letter.
carrier on probation stole aregistered
letter containingsix dollars, and used the
contents to insure himself In one OF the
companies that guarantee the honesty Of
their poliey-holders in responsible posi-
tiois. .ga
Lady Dudley, whose jewels, estimated
at $3.50, 900 in value, were recently stolen
at a railway station, is q sister Of Lady
Motdaunt, defendant in q famous divorce
case. Lord Dudley was made an earl by
the wings for satisfactory votes. His In
come averages 81, 800, 900; but last year,
owing 10 tho great increase in the price
Of coal, was s5, 100000.
All who handle money must occasion
ally get hold Of counterfeit bills, for the
Note Printing Bureau at Washington
makes the startling admission that seven
ont Of the nine denominations Of the
national bank notes have been counter
feited. Nor Ia this the worst yet. 1t Ia
further asserted that the makers OF
spurious notes are getting more expert
every year.
A little fye-year.old boy in Indiana
said TO d Judge who had called at his
fathers: dAre you going 10 your storefp
81 haven't got any store.p Are you
going 10 your millin 81 haven't got
any mill,y Are you going to your
shopIp "I haven't got any shop,
" Well, then, how do you make money T.
81 make II by my brains.p "Wen my
papa makes money and he hasn't got any
brains" i.s'
The British Postmaster General Is
charged with m act Of petty tyranny.
A number Of the lower rated emloyees
signed q memorial (which, under the re-
galations, they had o right TO do o)ashing
for an increase ofpay. Lord John Man
ners replied that they must withdraw
their request, which is done. He charges
them with insubortlination. and then
dismissed those who signed. For this
oct he Is being severely criticised.
One of the boys, iust.beiore. returning
to Cornell the other day, sent q young
lady friend Of his o cake Of Lubin's
finest variety of toilet soap, with the re-
quest that abe would draw no inferenees
IN receiving such gift The young
man was somewhat astonished the next
div when he received q letter from the
young Indy containing the present Of Q
iina tooth comb, with the request that