The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-11-20
Items OF Interest.

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Tho wnlruses in the Acelimation gar
den Of Paris lave been taught to say
"papA" and "mamma.
Henry Ward Boccher advises Young
men not to run in debt. adding: "But
il YOU feel that you must run in debt,
let it DO for little home"
A man in Louisiana, who lost his arm
by the premature explosion Of cannon,
offers $50 reward for tho recovery OF
diamond sleeve button attached to tho
missing shirt cuff. I-
The latest instance Of "marTied in
haste" was that OF couple united IN
matrimony on m express train while it
was humming along at the rate OF forty
miles an hour.
Jouesy was trying to explain to Julia's
father TINT Sublime Porte meant big
gate. "Now," said the old man, "iest
YOU take tho sublimest kind Of port
ont OF this, will your
When three good little boys get to-
gethcr OF m afternoon the chances aro
that there will either be fight. q win
dow broken, or some stray dog will have
q pan tied to his tail. ...
Nevada never held G0,000 people. It
contains one desert which alone covers
80, 900 square miles. None Of the noun
tain Territories will average one acre in
twenty ct for cultivation.
Cider plays a great part in Norman
wedding. 4 Young girl is seated upon
full cask, and she must drink both the
first and the last glass it contains in
order to be married within year.
We can't understand why it is that q
married man can't 60 into store to buy
new rolling pin without blushing to
the tips OF his ears il anybody happens
to giggle when he prefers his request.
The man who asbeen sitting all sum-
mer in a public square looking for o job
Of work lately transierredhis observation
to warm barroom, where he can SEQ
Just rs much and be more comfortable.
al meant to have told you Of that
hole," said q gentlemen to his friend,
who, while walking in his garden,
stumbled into pit Of water. "No mat.
ter, )" said the friend, ~ have found it"
The Scotch people arc Mortified to
find that the whisky sold in the little
villages OF that country is adulterated
with vitriolic acid, and committees Of
investigation are everywhere appointed.
The territories OF Russia in TurkistAn
cover 100000 English square miles, or q
space MS large as the Austrian empire,
Germany and Belgium combined. But
tho population is only 2, 500, 900, or less
than that OF Switzerland.
A man was hung at Tanna.Fort, near
Bombay, India, for a horrible murder,
and made rather 4 notable observation
in Guierati. Standing under the drop,
he whispered to the e1ecutioner SIN
one minute what q lot 1 shall know"
Amnn lust returned from prolonged
stay in the Black Hills doesn't give any
very encouraging account OF the amount
Of gold to be found there, but says it is
one of tho grnndest fields for a young
mems Christian association or temper
ance society to. open business in he ever
saw.
The total number Of Irish proprietors
is 1928, representing a valuation Of
G10, 49,, ,6sl. Ono hundred and ten per-
sons hold one-tiftl, Of tho soil Ulster
has 5.767 prnprictors; Leinster, $3.50; ;
Munster. 5,691 Conraughs, 2,4SO.
Only Lib proprietors Gre returned As
rarely or never resident in Ireland.
Silver ia Nevada was first discovered
very strangely. A woman picked up a
stone to throw at her husband. It was
30 heavy that she examined it, and it
proved TO be q lump Of silver; $780,
900, 900 was the result Of this to-the
country. The women mrst remember
that there is no silver in this State, 80
no experiments.
The life Of m Australian sqnatter is
struggle 'twixt drought md food. lie
is now terrible distressed by the former.
The rivers are choked mp by the car
casses OF sheep and oxen which have
died OF thirst, and tEey are obliged to
kill the lambs to save the sheep. On
one station 1000 head OF cattle havc
perished, and on another 10000 sheep.
The number OF convictions for mur-
der in England has been greater in 1875
than in any preceding year. the exact
figures being, since 1870, respectively,
torty.iour, hfty.six, sixty and sixty
three. Shooting, wounding and stab:
bipg havo also increased, the number OF
convictions last year having been s07.
Crimes against property, and pauper-
ism, are, however, steadily decreasing.
Tho buildings OF the Paris exhibition
OF 1873 will cover space OF 1850, 600
square yards. They arc to be Of iron
| tilled in with brick work, and will havo
the form OF Pythagorean table: /. G.,
il passed through in ono direction the
similar productions OF different countries
may be inspected, while il crossed in
the other direction tho various products
OF any one country may be passed in re-
view.