The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-04-10


experimenting burial.
Mantillas OF lace and cream tulle are
much worn ut evening amusements.
A Chicagoan was arrested while fol.
lowing his wife to the grave for pass.
ing counterfeit bill.
A single vessel left Mobile few days
ago en- route to Liverpool with G,237
bales Of cotton worth Stll, ,405.
General Sheridan's arms arc said to be
so long and his legs SO short that he eau
gather catuip without getting red in the
face.
A Bostau Journal says that New York
spends S2,000,000 n year for flowers
alone, aud for plants and fruits s3,0O0,-
900 more.
The now church of st. Nicholas, at
Hamburg, Just completed, is tho highest
in Europe, 472 feet. Tho next is the
Strasbourg cathedral, 46l feet.
"Cau you SEQ me-" said a Chicago
man to his sick wife. "Tell me, can
you see me ?" "No," she family whis.
pered, "but can smell your breath. p"
Most OF the men in town prefer to go
to church i'll the evening. They say tho
preaching is better then. The collection,
however, is always taken III the morning.
Petrarch, the tavorite for the Two
Thousand Guineas and the Derby, has
been purchased from Mr.. Spencer, his
breeder and owner, for s52, 900, by Lord
Duppin.
Columbus, Ga, claims the position Of
tho Lowell OF the South. She is now
running 50, 900 spindIcs and l 900 looms.
besides many iron aud other industrial
enterprises.
A boiling lake, two miles in circum-
ference, has been found in tho island OF
Dominica. 1t is on the top OF wooded
mountain, and is $500 feet above the
Lowell of the sea.
1t is said that the old Romans also
loved office, but they never had the
feeling which an American constable has
never felt their shoulders carried half
the burden of government.
The Danbury NetUS says: They had
such q shower OF flesh us that recently
occurring in Kentucky in Great Britain
two hundred years ago. There's no use
in trying to compete with monarchcal
form Of government.
A South Carolina boys gun would not
go of, and he heated an iron rod,
dropped it into tho barrel, and ran.
The gun fell with the muzzlo toward
him, and tho hot iron was driven into
his body, killing him.
Icelandcrs and MGnnonites from
southern Russia are cultivating farms in
Alanitoba; French Canadians, half
breeds, and Scotch servants OF the
Hudson Bay company congregate round
the old trading post; while at kootenay
pass, in the Rocky mountains, Chinese
settlement claims protection from tho
Canadian authorities.
A scholar in a school was asked:
"How do you parse Mary milks tho
COW p" The last word was disposed OF
rs follows "Cow, noun, feminine
gender, third person and stands for
Mary" Islands for Mary How do
you make that out I" Because" add
I'd the intelligent pupil, If she didn't
stand for Mary, how could she milk
her I"
A threadbare tatterlemaliou applied
at low inn in Paris for n nights lodg
ing. When asked to register his name
he wrote: "Thc King Of Spain" The
police were at onco notified, and when
they came they asked him "Do you
pretend to bo king Of Spain !" Not l."
"Why, then, did you so register your
uamei" "Becauso l wish to travel
incognito."
Brussels has the largest loo house IN
the world. The roof covers IN area ot
is, 900 square fpst; the walls are double,
and Bllel with moss and sawdust.
Thoro arc nine separate ice chambers,
each Of 10000 cubic feet capacity.
There aro galleries for storing meat in
hot weather, capable OF holding 2,OOO
quarters. A million tons OF ice have
been stored in the building ut one time.
An old colored woman in jackson,
Tenn, 80 firmly beloved herself to be
tho victim OF iCtichism TINT, although
suffering from no ailment except dis-
ordered iu agination, she pined away,
and seemed likely to die. The physician
nut ball OF crimson yarn, smoared with
bitch, in a place where she would find it,
and suppose it had been hidden. She
was convinced that this was the nyste.
rious agency employed by her unknown
enemy, and, after burning the ball,
began to mend in health.