The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-05-01
Items OF Interest

Let no single man escape is tne
leap year motto Of the ladies'.
Sunday boots squeak worse than every
day ones. So do Sunday Christians.
Over sls, ,OOO,0 900 are invested in var
ious enterprises OF tho grangers in tho
Uuited States.
Paris proposes to name ono Of her
streets "Feb. 90" in honor of the late
Republican victory Mt the polls.
A tract of 1000 acres Of land on
Maple river, Dakota, hns been piir-
chased by Eastern capitalists for great
wheat farm.
They tried to get rid OF the pastor OF
M Illinois church by reducing his salary
to $500 per year, but ho took tho motion
kindly aud replied: "Why, l lived
through last year on s75 i'll cash and a
bag Of meal !"
The mayor Of Fordwicll, England, i3
dead, after an uninterrupted tenure Of
Office for twenty.cight years. It is tho
rule in the borough, il any person re-
fused to accept the Office OF mayor, 10
pull down his house.
Tho price Of cattlo in Texas is about
rs follows: Yearlings, 81 and $50;
two-year olds, mixed, $3.50 and s.;
cows, 81 and 50; becves, s14 ind SlJ.
But large herds arc often gathered upat
figures much lower than these.
In Anoka, MIMI, recently, six.yoar.
old girl was overheard telling her play
mate that she had attended q church so
ciablo the evening before, and that lit
tie boy had kissed her while they were
engaged in a play, but she said: ''That's
no harm, cause it was our preachers
boy, you know"
An old Scotch laird, at an election
ball, had attired himself in spleNdnr for
the occasion. Tho candidate. who was
going round, of course, showing civili-
ties, said: az dinna ken ye, b., You're
80 braw." "Na," said tho old squire
"and l darcsay yell no ken NE f0r au-
other seven years" !"
"Toxophobia" is that peculiar state
OF mania which makes a person believe
that he is being poisoned. The number
Of persons affected with this curious de-
mentia is much larger than would be
supposed. In about sixty cases record
ed in m English medical journal, only
two werc obviously insane in other re-
spects. sf
Thus talks an old farmer about his
boys: From sixteen to twenty they
knew moro than I did; ut twenty-five
they knew rs much; at thirty they were
willing to hear what had to say; at
thirty-fvo they asked my advice; and l
think when they get to bc forty they
will acknowledge that tho old man does
know something" -0.a
Tho editor OF the st. Thomas Can }
Times says that he found two young fox
cubs that he placed under the care OF
cat, and that not only did the cat adopt
them, but tho old fox comes to tho door
every night to leave focd for them. One
night tho fond parent left seyGntcon
chickens that he had contradiction Gt
the residences Of neighbors. 20
at does not speak well for the intel.
ligcnce OF the public, says the London
Lancet, "that the stamp duty on patent
medicines during lass ycar yielded MI
increase Of Ella, $40 over the produce of
the previous year. 1t is fcarcely credi.
bio that the passion ior consuming uii.
known quantities Of unknown drugs
should be so strong rs the thriving trade
in nostrums indicates"
"You sec, some people has good luck,
and some people bad luck. Now, |
remember once 1 was walking along tho
street with Tom Jellicks, and he went
down one side Of it and went down tho
other. We hadn't got more'n half way
down when ho found pocketbook with
S216 in it, and l stepped on woman'H
dress and got acquainted with my present
wife. 1t was always So" he said, with II
sigh, "that Tom Jellicks was the luckl.
est man in the world, md 1 never had
no luck"
During recent performance at u
Paris thcater, man and his wife hal Il
quarrel on the stage-thc woman in
rage Of jealousy, the man trying to pnr'
suade her that shu was too suspicious
aud too passionate. Both were acting
with great spirit, when the wife moved
her arm too near candle, anu her mus
lin dress waS in flames in an instant.
Both motors Kept their presence Of mind,
however. Tho husband extinguishcd
the fire, and, proceeding with his Part
interpolated: "You soc, my deOr, was
right; you are ready to flare up for til"