The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-07-03
Gbe 4enrnerat.
Items of Interest.

Managing mammns ut watering places
are managing daughters.
Au original poem is never too long.
4 considerable income in some news
paper offices is derived from the sale Of
waste paper.
The grave OF -" Captain Moll Pitcher"
who figured SO conspicuously in the bat.
tie of Monmouth, June %, IT'S, is at
Carlisle, Pa., unmarked. e
A married man, of Grcenville, N. j.,
forced n quid Of tobacco into his sixty
year-old WHO'S mouth the other day md
kept II there till slic became i'll.
There uo many recipes for. getting
rid Of the currant worm, bnt tbero is
nothing 80 sure in its results rs to
blirdiold him and back him under pile
driver. - !. ..s'-r-g-
Two Chicago girls, who took a solemn
vow lately never to be separated, have
played their first galne Of croquot for
the season, and are not now dnspeakinG
terms.
Tho Chinese are the merchants in
Java, and where they numE0r 800, 600,
rink higher than the natives; and arc
generally wealthierJ than the Dutch
colonistS. -
A Christian, seeing o painter painting
death, as skeleton with n scythe,
beautifully remarked:4 " For my part,
1 should paint death as an angel with
goldon key"
The laws delay. A casc was recently
decided in England which first COM
menced in the year 1882. The amount
originally in dispute was S4OO, 900.
Nothing is left.
A little girl hearing it said that Sue
was born on the kings birthday took nc
notice OF it nt the time, but day or two
after asked her father il she and til.
king were twins.
Holland (Vt.) brags. abopt;a woman
thirty-six years old. the mother of nine
living children. who works every day in
sawmill with her husband, and wfo
can handle crosscut saw MS well rs hc
can.
Alady in Luxembug is now prose.
cutting a man who killed her son in MI
affilir OF honor; not for killing him, but
for taking away his character by saying
that he fought in an tndersliirt OF Chain
arnor.
"It is strange, !" muttercd n young
man, n he staggered homerom supper
party, show evil communications cor
rnpt good manners. i haveibeen sur-
rounded by tumblers oil evening, and
now am tumbler myself"
Durham, N. H., has n pork barrel
which was,flrst filed with pork in 1865,
and from well authenticated tradition
has been filed every year since. 1t
will hold more than 500 pounds, and Inns
therefore been the receptacle Of ut lcast
$4,000 pounds Of =" country pork" OF
the first class.
A shocking crime Inns been detected
in the neighborhood of Gerrdanes, III
tho Vosgcs, France. A child three years
old was taken to an inaccessible part of
tho mountains in midwinter by her
uncle, with tho consent Of its own un-
natural mother, to perish there from
hunger and cold. ~ rv5fr7ga
A butcher boy, coming up,tho street
from market the other day, carrying n
large tray on his shoulder, accidentally
struck against q lady's bead. and dis
composed her bonnet. "Tho deuce
tako that tray!' cried the lady, in a
towering passion. MADAME" replied
tho youngstcr, g tho deuce cannot take
the tray" .Esggz .ssis'PS
"And you think, darling, you could
be content to share my humble lot, and
live in q quiet way with love and moi"
queried tic hlisstul lover, as he looked
fonlly into her translucent blue eyes.
"Wly, yes, precious; you have no idea
how economical I nm. Pa gave mo one
hundred dollars Inst week to jbuya new
silk, md 1 saved enough out OF 1t to
purchase four pairs Of six'buttoned
kids" i7.'2'-iEl-lR