The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1877-07-07
Little Of Everything.


der.
- Silence never shows itself to so
great an advantage as when it is made
tLc reply to culumuy aud defamation.
Tic Bashi.Bazouks ride with
such short s,irrups they can wipe their
noses on their knees without bending
over.
- Whatever be your outward lot in
life, your condition is truly pi'Iablc IT
you arc guilty Of ucglcc1iug moments
Ono should bo careful net to car
~ any Of the follics Of youth into old
agc for old ago has fOllics enough OF
its own.
How doth the sweet potato bug.
Unrunlcd aud serene,
Smile as no nips tho tender plant.
And leaves tho Paris green.
- Four hundred and ono thousand
men died or wcrc killed in tho Crirnca
during tho war which was named trom
that place.
- Ladies', the best way to bcautity
tho hand is to put quarter in it and
then shake hands with some suffering
fellow creature.
- Tho coal fields Of tho world, iti
said, will bc exhausted in about two
thousand years. Prudent people will
lay in their supply at once. -
- Earthquakes, or volcanic crup'
tons, occur on an average nearly three
times week, in greater or less intcn'
sity in some parts Of tho globe.
Perhaps, remarks Baltimore paper
Gen. Grant will improve his opportu-
nity. to tell the British that California
is not the capital Of Boston.
1t is no longer proper 10 takO OF
tho hat as matter Of courtesy, A
how is sufficient. The fashion was
started by a bald.hOadel French
man.
"A Texas paper offers a.years' sub
scriptiOu free to any member Of the
Legislature who will state correctly The
number of counties in the State,
= Little Importance is now attached
| ut Oxford to Latin vcrsilication whici
} Sidney Smith, rcdiculCd some fit.
years ago in the Edind"y ReVteW'
-Uuclc Sam is monarch Of million
Of uusurvcycd acres, and is that muc'
i better of than Alexander Sclkirk, VII
! was only monarch Of what 10 survey
cd,
Some ono said 10 Hugo once upo
. a timo at must bc very difficult t
writc good poetry" "No sir" replI
> cd tho poet; "it is either very easy o
utterly impossible"
~ "A livcrv qtaf'.crcs Of land on Steer
u. -ui!mcr county, dated the 18th day
1'NoTcmb:r, isjii aud also if necessary
TO enforce said jGdgmevt r"p
lands oE' I-J'.L-Jl1 horse fell dead in
baltimore wailc going to funeral.
1t is supposed tho driver over cxcrted
the animal in trying to keep up with
the hearsc.
Perseverance is one Of tho prim-
tive impulses oftho human heart; ono
Of tho iudivisiblc primary faculties or
sentiments which gives direction TO tho
character Of man.
Tho United States Is now send
ing England frosher and better butter
than eau be mado in homo dairies,
and John Bull growls out: "NYhat
'orril dream is this Z"
- The cook Of tho Carleton Club,
London, has recovered ono hundred
and twenty-five dollars damages froma
which intimatcd that his
dinners spoiled digestion.
"A whirlwiud in Battle Mountain,
Nevada, raised Judge Scotts ball from
the ground and carried it two feet,
while not breath Of wind touched
another house in the town.
In tho carly ago Of mankind tho
only kinship recognized was. tho kin
ship between mother and child, says
Herbert Spencer. ThcrO isl grain
Of truth at tho bottom Of this which
lawmakers might ponder with profit.
Tho engineers who make tho 60!
illogical survey and surroundings for
tho submarine tunnel between Franco
and England report that . tunnslis