The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-02-28
Items Of Interest.

I There are nearly ou,UUu Europeans i'll
Egypt.
Practiced coastersin Nevada are using
O sled with but one runner.
Two hundred and fifty thousand gnl-
Ions Of beer are sold in London daily.
There are now moro French workmen
in Berlin than there were before tho war.
A Pittsburgh man Inns sued dentist
for s2,5OO for pulling out the wrong
tooth.
A wife Mt Xenia, Ohio, offered her
husband n divorce if he would buy her
sealskin cloak.
The Swiss federal council has decided
that the civil marriage law does not for
bid marriage with n deceased wifo's
sister.
A Boston journal, in announcing that
m actress would play "Ncll" in tho
drama OF " Nell Gwynnc," put an Fl in
the wrong place.
II you have any friends or relatives in
Philadelphia, now is the time to drop
them n line, saying you'll be on to see
EN- next summer.
A great revival has been in pro gres
in Fairfax, Vt. It suddenly collapsed,
however, when the minister forbade the
boys going home with the girls.
." Hard Times-Forty-eight Hearts
that Beat as Twenty-four !" That's the
way the Lancaster (Pa.) Gazette heads
list OF two dozen marriage licenses.
A report of IN Illinois hanging says
The sheriff did not wish TO conduct the
execution, as he was Grains cousin, but
Grain insisted that no one else should
hang him.
Some unknown parties placed piece
OF poisoned meat in tho yard OF nearly
every dog owner in Fort Valley, Ga,
and thirty-seveu dogs were afterward
found dead.
It is related that two young ladies in
Marysvile, California, presented their
clergyman with turkey stuffed with
dollars. His wife will take the stuffipg
out of that turkey.
According to tho niuth semi.annual
report Of the Massachusetts Catholic
Total Abstinence Union, Just issued,
thero arc now seventy-four societies,
with 6, $50 members, in tho State.
4 New Bedford woman cheated Il junk
dealer recently by putting about thirty
pounds OF lead pip0 in bag OF rags,
not knowing that tho lead was worth
three times the value OF the rags.
"Young man" said the judge, "did
you steal that piece OF hardware 2
% No sir, replied the prisoner, "a don't
steal hardware. Tint isn't iii my line OF
business; chickens aud coal is my liue."
The Eric car shops ut Elmila, N. Y,
are crowded to their utmost capacity, in
turning out passenger cars TO meet tho
cxtrn demand during the centennial
year. The men are working pine hours
Il day.
Don't wax your walnut staircase when
you give party. Too many people
forget the waxing process and come down
via the back Of their neck aud spinal
column, and they don't like such whacks
as that.
Turkey has fifteen immense ships OF
var. which cost nearly s., ,OCO
apiece. They lie idle in the BosphoruS
all summer, their only use being TO tire
salutes every Friday when tho sultan
goes to mosque.
Prof. Edward 4. freeman WIS told
when at Ragusa that "every pretty girl
is carried of rs matter OF course" aud
asserts that it was specially foul out
rage of this kind which led to tho Hcrze-
govinian insurrection.
A Frenchman, who has lived in Amcri-
ca for some years, says: "When they
build railroad, the first thing they do
is to break ground. This Is done with
great ceremony. Then they break the
stockholders. This is done without
CEREMONY"
The bill introduced into the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature, making it penal
ofFense to point gun Mt person in fun
is all right; bnt we would prefer to see
law enacted making the crime OF whis-
tling in au editors sanctum punishable
with. dcath-some pleasant, easy death.
A young printer having OCCASION tho
other day to set up tho well known line:
"SIavO, l have SGT my life upon q cast"
astonished the proof reader with the fol
lowing version:
"slAve, have cot my wife upon cask!"
An old detective SAYS that il he do.
sired to train his son for detective ho
would first make him newspaper re-
porter. That beyond any auy other
business, says this detective, IL tho
business that makes stupid men smart,
ordinary men able, and capuhly men
brilliant; and, ho adds, that what m
experienced reporter cannot detect is
not worth detecting.
The Chinese watch the pearl mussel
closely, and when it opens its shell in.
scrt picces OF wood, bard earth, or little
images OF their gods. These irritatc the
fish and cause it to cover the substance
with pearly deposit, which hardens
md forms an artificial pearl. This sort
of pearl making is carrieL on to n great
extent at Niug.po, aud tho articles thus
obtained are considered very little i'll.
fcrior in value to the real.
4 school Of whales recently entered
The Dowry Voc OF Shetland in pursuit of
herring they were numerous And
large, and caused great commotion
among tho fishermen, number of whom
set ont in boats 10 try aud capture ono
or more. But the whales showed fight,