The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-01-31
IttlnS of Interest.

| S"clnp Is NOT believing. INeTu VIH
many meu you can sec. and yet cann"t
believe.
4 beautiful seven inch cGrtipcdo will
be ono Of Texas contributions to tie
centennial.
"Bpt few men can handle hot lamp
chimney, and say there is no place ike
home, at the same time.
Louisa Alcott used to feel that it was
n mistake TINT she was born girl, he
cause she did not like girls aud did like
boys.
The wonderful man in Detroit who
puzzles tho doctors by being Ablo 20
make his heart shift sides can rest as.
sured that ho will bo beautifully cut up
rs soon as he dies.
Mr.. Meagher, tho present owner, hN3
offered to tho Centennial commissioners
portion Of tho gnllOws on which the
thirty. eight Sioux Indians were exccu-
ted in Mankato in 1862.
"Why," asks an exchange, edo they
bury Japanese with his head down.
ward when he diosl" We really don't
knoS, unless it is because they think
that's the only proper time to do it.
A pauper inmate OF Horshnm work
house, England, died on Christmas day
from the effects Of gluttony. He attack
cd his Christmas dinner so ravGnously
that in few Minutes he was choked.
SnowfalIs under cloudless sky ara
common in Virginia City, puz2ling
strangers. The snow is blown from
Mount Davidson, which is close by tho
town, and is whirlcd through tho streets
by the wind.
A Richmond paper says that in that
vicinity they no longer say "sinco tho
wa" or "bcf0' the wa" but use the
earthquake Ms tho marking stone for
dates, rs: "That happened bcfo' tho
earthquake"
An exchange says Tho other day,
when they stopped the Columbus con
victs from making counterfeit nIctois,
tho said convicts rolled up their eyes
and sighed: How very wirtuous they
expect iailbirl to bc!"
The United States ships st. Lawrence
and Macedonian wcrc sold ut auction ut
Norfolk recently. The former brought
1890, and tho latter $l4,07l. TIIrac
arn among the oldest ships III the navy,
md have been famous in their dNy.
4 San francisco saloon keeper, g,atc.
full for business prosperity, gave to each
patron n bottle Of whisky. LOWS LrScc
finished his botjlc, went homo drunk,
and whipped his wife to death, intlictinG
nearly two hundred great md small
wounds.
1t is said TINT since his release from
confinement, Brigham Young acts us
changed man. 1t is only necessary Tor
one OF his wives to Eint that the fire il
getting low, and he will trot out to tho
woodshcd rs il he was thankful for tha
exercise.
Commodore Stephen Decatur who died
lNtely ut Boston, when three Of his II, Ugh.
bors were attacked by ship fever, and
no ono dared to nurse them, tended them
through heirillncss, aud when they died
he dug the graves md buried their
bodies himself, reuding tho funeral ser
vices over them.
You Just imagine five big loaiCrs
working NIL Saturday night and Sunday
to pound n safe to pieces md divide up
three cents and n bundle Of Letters, aud
you have faint idea Of what took
place in Iowa few days ago. That
much hard work on wOOdpilC would
have returned so in cash.
A rhyme for "month is now in de-.
mand. Hero is ono that is very old, hut
the best we know of
"rvo tried hundred tlrccs guess
To find 4 rhyme for month;
I've failed hundred times, know,
Eut succeeded the llundrcdth aud Hnc-th,"
Willie service was being conducted in
the parish church Of Cherry Burton, m
English village, the other morning, The
clock weight came crushing through tho
belfry roof and alishted on youn6girl,
housemaid Mt the rectory, who was Ill
iured beyond hope Of recovery. A young
nun sitting by her WIS also hurt severe
". Tho rope OH which tho weight wns
hung was renewed only the week before.
The two injured wcrc to have been mar
ried tho next day.
Mrs. Burlington was missed by hey
family, in Lausingburgh, N. Y, and,
aiter an absence OF three days, was
found in n room OF IN otherwise uuoccu-
pied house. She was standing i'll cor.
uer, and she begged to bc allowed TO
stay there, declaring TINT the Lord and
tho devil Ind commanded her to stand
imnoyable until she died. Sho had
nearly obeyed the imaginary injunction,
for hunger, cold, and tho fatigue Of the