The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-05-15

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Liverpool is to be supplied with water
from Lake Windermere, at M estimated
cost Of $4,000, 900 for daily supply OF
100000 gallons.
There is m establishment at Passau
on the Danube, where eggs arc dried.
They are said to equal fresh eggs for
omelettes and for making pastry.
An old edition Of Morse's geography
says: "Albauy has four hundred dwell
ing houses, Q, 400 inhabitants, all stand
ing with their gable ends to the street"
A shrewd old Yankee said he didn't
believe that there was any downright
cure for lazincss in man. "But," he
added, "I've known second wife to
hurry it some."
A New York doctor says that three
bottles OF stomach bitters ought to kill
tho strongest man. II they fail to do 20
tho consumer may know tie bitters are
not worth anything.
Michigan has got him ! The man who
haan't written to a newspaper to offer
his services as Centennial correspondent
lives in Michigan and can be seen for
fifty cents per head.
"Brother, why don't you ask the
stranger to prayl" because" re-
proyingly observed deacon, "this
amt no place for practical jokes. That
man s the president Of a gas company"
How on earth one hundred oyster
cans, two hundred bottles, sixteen old
baskets, ten barrels and box full OF old
boots and shoes ever got into back
yard is more than any one man can
cipher out.
A youth OF Lafayette, Ark, recently
undertook to frightcn doctor by the
namo OF Wostbrook by presenting
plug Of twist tobacco Mt his head. The
doctor, thinking that it was pistol,
drew his revolver and shot theboy dead.
A Franklin (Ky.) man lately took n
live bee into his month along with some
honey. Hc then reflected" Chew bee
or not chew bee, that is tho question -
here his tongue happened to touch tho
hot end Of the aggressive insect, and he
decided negatively.
Two tramps in Westchestcr county
stopped at the house Of lone widow
and one went in TO beg. Very soon he
came out with bloody nose and first
class black eye. "Wcll, did you get
anything, Jackl" eyes" growled the
sufferer, "I'vo got the widows might"
Here's an argument in favor OF cheese.
Prof. Peck says that in this country,
where cheese is least used, ono physi.
cian to every five hundred persons is re.
quired. In Switzerland and countries
where it is most used, only ono physician
il needed for every ten thousand per.
sons.
At Leipzig there is school reader
printed, now in its eighth stercotyped
edition, which describes Niagara falls in
one chapter. 1t says OF the cataract that
it might be supposed that it was not
navigable, but that some Indians do i'll
their canoes venture over the falls in
safety.
"You cannot keep me down, shouted
somewhat windy orator at public
meeting "though I may be pressed
below tho waves, rise again you will
find that come to the surface, geutle.
men," "Yes," said an old greaser in
tho audience, "you come to the surface
to blow"
A certain servant maid was left-hand.
cd. Placing the knives and forks upon
the dinner table in the same awkward
fashion, her master observed TINT she
had placed them all left.handed. "Ah,
true indeed, sir, and so have-would
you be pleased to help me turn the
table?"
A witness on tho stand said that he
did not believe that any man ever got so
drunk that he didn't know what he was
doing. To prove whit he said, "if a
drunken man bothers you give him
sound licking, and no matter how many
times after that he got drunk he never.
would bother you again"
Annie Besant, the English radical
heroine, has started a petition to Par.
lament praying that NO further grants
Of money to or for the royal family or
any member Of it shall be given under
any circumstances whatever. The sig
naturSs have run up into the neighbor.
hood Of $4,000, and, when presented, it
will be the largest petition ever sent to
that body.
Hens eggs hatch in from nineteen to
twenty. ono days; turkeys in from TWEEN
ty.six to twenty-nine days; ducks in
twenty.elght days; Guinea fowls in
twenty-five to twenty-seven days pea
fowls in from twenty.eight to thirty
days geese in from thirty to thirty-two
days. Ffesh eggs will hatch from one
or two days sooner than those two or
three weeks old.
Says the Nautical Gazette: Mares
tails leave scanty sails red in the east
l like the least red in the west I like
tho best; when the clouds spread like n
feather, mariners look for fair, good
weather when the lofty hills the mist
doth bear, let the mariner then for
storms prepare; lead, log, lookout, and
be steady, keep an oye on tho glass and
for changes be ready.
The iron prov OF the old steamer Now
Jersey is lying at the Pennsylvania rail
road companys yard ut Perth AmbOy.
n. j., and is to be sent to the Centennial
exhibition in few days. When she
first came from England she was known
as the r. II. Stevens, but was recharter-
cd rs the New Jersey. She was the first
steam vessel that crossed the Atlantic,
and no smaller steam vessel has crossed
it mp to this day.
A Georgian owns place eighteen
miles south Of st, Augustine, Florida,
| where he raises q big crop OF strawber-