The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1877-05-26
Items Of Interest.


Arkansas has cool winters and Hot
Springs. ..H.a.,.....
A wedding trip-stumbling over tho
brides train. ....-
Six hundred thousand acres OF tho best
land in India arc devoted to the cultiva.
tion OF opium. .,
The Detroit Free Press wants some
one to invent machine to pronounce
those Turco- Russian names. T.
England has annexed the Transvaal
republic in South Africa, despite the
protests OF the president and some OF the
people. g.
A young lady being asked, upon her
return from church, what the text was,
uuhesitatingly replied: BLESSED arc the
drcssmakers !" ... ...
The largest alligator ever seen in that
portion Of Georgia about Macon was
killed in q small lake, and measured
eight feet in length.
Students of Russian history state that
for several hundred years no quarter OF
century has passed without the annex
alton OF moro or less territory to Russian
dominions.
The editor Of the st. Louis Republi-
can recently insisted that poets must be
brief. The next day he received the
following, entitled "The ballad OF the
Merchant Trlst-Bust ...
A Tennessee paper that prints coffin
over its death notices has cast gloom
over its marriage notices, III the same
column, by inadvertently putting the
picture over the list Of hymen's victims.
An Iowa paper tells Of n smart wife
who helped her husband to raise seventy
acres Of wheat. The way she helped
him was to stand in the door and shake
broom at him when he sat down to
rest.
"Do you think your father is going to
move ont soon?" inquired the owncr OF
rented house Of the son OF his tenant.
Reckon so,' was the reply, "we'ye
begun using the winder frames for fire.
wood"
Two church members in Atlanta, Ga,
duarreled over the question OF the con-
troll OF money raised to convert the
heathen, and came to blows in front OF
the church while the congregation was
dispensing.
Brigham Young takes all tho New
York dailies. He reads the articles
headed: "The Doom OF Mormonism,
(about seven each day. and then be tele:
graphs to the New York elder: f" Send
me three more wives. y
An old woman who is crossing tho
street has n narrow escape from being
run over by hearse-" I am not at all
superstitious, she says to her rescuer,
"but it had seemed to me that it would
be unlucky to be killed by a hearse."
4 school law recently adopted in Mis-
souri, requires school boards to give the
preference to col0red teachers for colored
schools, md prohibits the employment
OF white teacher for colored school
when a competent colored one can be
had.
Interesting triangular struggle in the
Western Statcs-A Congressional COM
mission arc gathering grasshopper data,
the farmers are gathering grasshoppers,
and the grasshoppers are gathering the
crops. The odds are three to one on the
grasshoppers.
A youth went to q printer to ask the
price OF wedding cards, and said that ho
had been introduced to handsome girl
the night before who was worth some
money, md thought he woull look
around to see how much the wedding
fixings would cost before proposing.
When the first newspaper wis started
in Japan the editor asked Japanese
gentleman il he wished to have tile paper
sent regularly. "So, thank you, he
replied, al have copy" The gentle
man Of the old school had no idea that q
newspaper contained fresh matter every
issue. 90
A blacksmith met with singu-
lar accident. He WINS engaged in shoe
ing colt which had mover been Shod,
and in driving nail, while holding the
foot against the right knee, drove the
mil through the houf fully three.fourths
of an inch, the point entering his knee
pan some distance into the bone.
A Kentucky dentist undertook to plug
one OF the back teeth Of favorite mule.
He bored and bored until tho drill struck
something that seemed to lift the ami
mails soul right of its hinges. That's
the way the coroner explained it, and
since then wild mule has been galop-
ing up md down the country, seeking
for fresh worlds to conquer.
There is said to be paper church
actually existing near Berlin, which can
contain nearly 1000 persons. II ia cir
cular within, octagonal without. The
reliefs outside and statues within, the
roof, ceiling, the Corinthian capitals are
papier.nache, rendered waterproof by
saturating in vitrol, lime water, whey
and white Of eggs.
Owls are Of immense service US vermin
Glestroyers. An English gamekeOper
found IN owls nest with one young bird
in it He visited it for thirty conSecu-
tive mornings, and in that time removed
from it 105 rats, iorty-nine mice, eleven
shrew mice, two robbins and one spar
row. This was, and well 1t might have
been, over and above what the owls con-
sumption demanded.
A COW stealer iu Pike county, Miss,
who had been captured by party Of
men, wns recently punished in novel
manner. They Killed the COW, removed
the viscern, placed the thief inside, with
only his head out, and then sewed him
In securely with rope. He remained
there four days, and was then taken out