The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-07-10

Bad manners are apt to be striking.
Wounds made by words are hard to
heal
II Won intend TO do O mean thing put
il OF till tomorrow.
The wife makes the home, and the
home makes the man.
In some OF the Sierra Nevada ranges
the snow is fifty feet deep.
The summer packing at Chicago is
estimated ut 455, GOO to ago, COO hogs.
Mr.. Observation-Disclosures, Of
Wisconsin, has n nice name to tele-
graph. ..I
An American girl declared that she
liked fellow citizens better than any
other kind.
The thing that an active mind most
needs is q purpose and direction worthy
its activity.
Pennsylvania produced 80, ,347. 615 OF
the so, 507, ,175 tons OF coal min ID in the
United States last year.
It was stated at the brewers congress
that about 1000. 900 barrels Of beer were
made in tho United States last year.
Prussia has II, 900 miles Of railways,
which cost 81, ,050, 900, 900; and now the
government talks Of buying them oil.
There are $4,000 British subjects en-
gagged in the Newfoundland fisheries,
who are operating on a capital OF
Gl 500, 900.
A man having been told that the price
Of bread had been lowered, exclaimed
"That is the first time I ever reioiced at
the fall OF my best friend!
The meanest man in Observation-Disclosures
at New Bedford. Ho borrowed dog to
go shooting with, and kept him four
dnys without anything to eat.
Half the SORROWS OF women would be
averted if they could repress the speech
they know to be useless-nay, the speech
they have resolved not to utter.
A bill requiring every original article
or letter published in California news
paper to be signed with the writer's
name has passed the senate OF that
State. .,...
A Swede who went to Salt Lake City
several years ago TO live has become in.
sane because his four daughters, one
after another, married the same
Mormon.
A man got mad because waiter hand.
ed him napkin the other day. He said
he "reckoned he know'd when to use
han 'kercher without hayin' no hints
thrown out
Running Antelope, Sioux chief, says
that when he learned thatthe white men
had killed their Savior he was aston
ished, but he changed his mind when he
got better acquainted with them.
Mr.. Bramwell, the well known Eng
lish engineer, asserted recently, before
the society Of arts, that railway acci
dents are frequently aggravated by ap-
plying the brake power too sharply.
The surplus ei wheat in California
this season is about 750, 900 short tons,
being 200, 900 tons more than thesurplus
OF the crop Of 1875. In quality the
grain this year is the best ever harvested
iu the State.
The man that halls you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How be esteemH your merit,
Is such friend that one had need
De very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear It.
-Co,rI-r.
A Georgia COW coughed up grape
shot and no one cali tell whether she
was wounded during the war or swal-
lowed the ball while grazing. Be TINT
as it may, she acts like different COW
since resigniug from the ordnance bu-
reau. ..f
A certain dentist has IN exceedingly
happy way Of making his juvenile pa
tients langh during the operation Of
tooth pulling. He simply says: "Onc,
tooth.ree, ont goes be-" and in another
Instant the offending molar is trlum-
phantly displayed before the eyes OF the
| delighted youngster.
In arswcr to tue reflection that the
quarrel. between st. Paul and Mime
apolis as to which has the largest popu-
lntion looks like a dog running around
after his own tail, the local paper with a
couyoluted name remarks: Yes. and
wLat the boys are anxious to determine
now is-which is the dog, and which is
tile tail.
She was very foolish maiden. Her
name is Louisa Earcine, and with heJ
tho course OF true love did not run
smooth. Thereupon she attempted to
hang herself, but was rescued by hel
mother; then she plunged into the els.
tern, but her mother 6shed her out; and
now the young woman thinks she'll live
a while longer.
Sir James Hall had been making some
experiments on eggs by artifcialT heat.
and on one occasion observed in ono OF
his boxes chicken in the act ol break
ing from its confinement. 1t happened
that Just as the creature was getting ont
Of the shell, spider began to run along
the box, and the chicken darted for
ward, seized and swallowed it.
Judge Davenport, OF Dapdera, Texas.
gives these figures to show the profits Of
sheep raising there: May %, 1871
bought l, ,449 sheep for $2,S9S; heiding
cost $2l6; sailing, S47.50; total expense,
IS. .16l. Have on hand $3.50 sheep,
worth s6,260; sold wool last year for
s720. 25; this year for $l,362. Total
profits, IS, ,342.25; net profit, 50. $780, 70.
The headquarters Of the Missouri
State lottery, 515 and SIT Walnut street,
st. Louis, were raided upon by the
police. Everything pertaining to the
lottery business was confscated, and
. Ave large furniture wagon were re-