The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-12-20
Items Of Interest.

"Thc quality Of mcrcyis not strained"
but tls quantity is often squeezed re-
mnrkaliy snail.
1t is evident that spelling matches will
not be popular this winter. They spelled
spell and will now rest spell.
Jos Jeflerson's boy Harry, who re-
Gently died in LoHdon, was born in
Chicago on the night Of the great fire.
"Ho was ono OF our most energetic
trustees" says village paper IN mn
obituary notice, "and we trusteo's
happy"
A Warsaw Qnd.) brother got up i'll
meeting and opposed the purchase OF
chandelier for the church, because there
was no ono to play on it.
The symptoms Of first love arc too
diverse and innumerable to mention.
Perhaps the leading traits are n dissatis.
faction with your salary, and a contempt
for the way your mother irons your
shirts.
San Francisco has q whaling feet
OF eleven vessels, and the catch this
season yielded 16, 1000 barrels Of oil, 150,-
900 pounds Of bone, and 10000 pounds
OF ivory, the aggregate valuation being
100000.
Over the porch OF the Old South
church at Boston is chiseled BE
hold I havo set before you m open
door," and under, on tile door, is print.
ed in emphatic letters Positively no
admittance.
"our lives are albums, written through
With good OR Ill, with falso or truc !;
And "a the blessed angels turn
Tho pages OF our years,
God grant thOy road tho good with smiles
And blot tho Ill with tears !"
A Sacramento lady who sports an mr.
tificial tooth left it on the table Of the
restaurant where she had taken break
fast the other morning, and on returning
for it about m hour afterward found it
attached rs n charm to tho fob chain OF
the waiter.
The first piano ever taken west OF tho
Allcghenies was one owned by Miss
Sarah Sproat, the daughter Of Colonel
Ebenezer Sproat, m officer Of tho Revo-
luton, who immigrated to the North
western Territory in 179S, and located
ut Marietta, Ohio.
4 Quakertown man has solved Mrs.
Livermore's query: "What will We do
with our daughtersi' He has pur.
chased two washing machines and will
take in washing. His wife and soven
daughters are to do tho work and he
will superi4taud the business.
"Gingtbrcad germans" arc the
newest and most reasonable entertain
meuts in aud about Boston for young
ladies who have not como out" No
gentlemen are invited, gingerbread and
lemonade aro the viands. and the girls
go home to their mothers before mid
night.
AT IN entertainment q young man
with 4 downy mustache sang senti-
mental song. the closing line being ron
dercd: "My mother died when I was
very young" Between tho "y" and
the "g" n disguised auditor started for
the door, muttering: "Sensible woman
that mother OF yours.
An overgrown, lubberly schoolboy in
Ross county, Michigan, has succeeded
il that wonderful feat-" whipping the
teacher" In revenge fora slight punish
ment he quietly followed the pedagoguc,.
and struck the latter on the head with n
large stone, knocking him senseless, and
leaving him fatally injured, it is thought.
About two years ago q young man
from the country, while visiting our
town, lost his silver watch. Last week
he repeated his visit, and while walking
up Main street about dusk saw something
giittering along the curb, and hastily
picking it up was greatly surprised to
linda blacking box lid-instead Of his
long lost watch, US he had hoped.
II youare travelling on the cars and
some pleasant young man desires you to
stake n hand Just to make up the
game" don't you do it. Generally
speaking they are frauds, and would as
quick cut your throat, II opportunity
offered, as rob you Of your money, which
they will do il you get in with them: