The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-09-04
Items Of Interest. !


The hypocrite can be anything but IN
1t nest man.
The English West African squadron
Inns blockaded tho ports OF the king OF
Dahomey.
Question for debating societies
Which is the most dangerous, to have
man shot at ball, or a ball shot az o
mAu .--
Tho emperor OF China has forbidden
the immigration OF his subjects TO Span
ish colonies, Lecause the coolies in Cuba
are treated no better than slaves.
Connecticut produced 706 new inven-
tions last year, or one TO 764 inhabitants
Massachusetts stood next in the number
Of patents. Afkansas is at the foot OF
the list.
A hoyin Tennessee committed suicide
the other day because his mother sent
him to the woods for O hickory stick,
with which he was to be punished for
"taking sugar opt of the sugar bowl"
SOME one who has been searching in
colonial history announces that up to
the Revolution no American had ever
exercised the office Of general The
highest rank ever permitted to colonist
was colonel. ,....
The heroic act Of William Roberts. OF
st. Louis, was to dive into clstern
through q hole so small that it scraped
skin from his body, and keep n boy
above wnter until the woodwork could
be removed for their rescue.
A few years since, at the celebration
Of an anniversary, poor peddler who
was present, being called upon for
toast, offered the following: "Here Is
health to poverty-it sticks to man
when all his friends foreake him" 80
Lieut.. Rudio, whose remarkable es'
cape from the Sioux has been described,
is said to be tho same Rudio who, in
1858, participated with Orsini, Gomez,
und Peri in the attempt to kill Napoleon
III. by throwing hand bombsheus in
his carriage in Paris.
Speaking OF the eastward, flow OF
Chinese immigrants tho Philadelphia
North american says: Remote as Phila-
dclphia is from San Francisco We have
steadily increasing Chinese influx, and
the element may now be fairly said to be
permanently established here.
Colorado potato bugs have been
washed ashore nj Milestone and other
places in Connecticut in such numbers
OF late as to poison the air. The captain
OF a New London vessel snys that they
came on board in such swnrms while OF
sea that they had to close the matches.
Said l 10 little brother Howard:
"There !! your toes are out OF your
stockings again; seems to me they wear
out in a hurry" Giving comical leer,
lie said: "Do you know why stockings
wear out first Of the toes J" " No..
Because toes wiggle and heels don't"
Miss Collins, the conductor Of Bofin's
Bower, q Boston charitable institution,
says that out OF every hundred shop
girls in that city, Gity live at home and
tho rest in boarding houses. She thinks
there are 80, 900 girls employed in Bos-
ton shops in seventy different oceupa-
tions.
"I1l bet a sheep, said oil Meredith
to his better half, "tbat our boy otho IS
going crazy; fur he's GRIMM a. the
plow, he's GRIMM ut tho barn. and he's
erinnin' TO himself wherever he goes. I
"pshawl old man" said his vile, lyon
don't know nothin'. Tho critters got o,
love letteri"
Brougham, in speaking Of the salary
attached to the rumored appointment Of
new judgeship, said it was NIL moon
shine. Lyndhurst, in his dry and wag-
pish way, remarked: at may bo so;
but havo a strong notion that, moon
shine though it be, you would Ike to
zee the first quarter OF it" . 2..-l
A quaint writer says: I have seen
women 80 delicate that they were afraid
to ride, for fear OF the horse running
AWAY afraid TO sail, for fear the boat
might be upset afraid TO walk, for fear
they might fall; but never saw one
afraid to be married, which is iar more
riskful than all tho others put together.
"Thero is a boarding house,
Not far away,
Where they have ham and eggs
Three times day."
"oh, how the boartlers yell, :.
When they hoar tho dinner bell
Oh, how the eggs do smell!
Three times ndAy."
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Professor Rhode gives as the result OF
his experiments in feeding cows to as-
certain tho proportion OF food con-
Sumed tn tho milk produced as follows:
The Hollander eats five. pounds OF hay
for every quart Of milk; the Breitenber-
ger, six aud one.fourth pounds; the
Tondern, seven pounds, and the Ayr
shire, nine pounds. i
A lady OF great beauty and attractive:
ness. who wns an ardent admirer Of
Ireland, once crowned her praises Of it
at party, by saying I think l was
meant for an Irishwoman. Gross tue
chanuel, madam" remarked Samuel
Lover, tho novelist, who happened to be
present; "millions. will say you were
meant for au Irishman."
A woman in Barnstead, N. H, found
the egg Of night hawk the other day.
She took it home and put II under IN
inverted bowl in q cupboard near the
cooking stove. A few days after she
heard noise under the bowl, and found
that the egg had hatchOd, and that she
had . lively young hawk. But the little
bird would not eat and soon died.
Salmon, which few years ago sold in
tho Nav, Ynrl, market nt one dollar Q