The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-11-13
VARIETY.


THREE GALLONS OF whiskey per week
are said to be the allowance Of Briga-
dier General.
In AUSTRALIA the heat comes from
the north, the cold from the south, and
it is hottest on the mountain tops.
TIE administration is shooting de-
serters from the army. What shall be
done with deserterS from the Constitu.
tion?
The "MoRAL CLUB" uses playing
cards With hymn printed on the back
Of each card-blending morality with.
amusement.
SALUBRIoUs. Us.-Marion TIP. Mercer
County, o., gave Vallandigham, three
hundred and ffay-nine votes, and John
Brough none.
A DWARF is more popular show than
giant; for the dwarf makes the spec-
tators giants, while the giant makes the
spectators dwarfs.
The SKULL Of Ohristy, late negro sing
er, has been brought into New York
Court to prove that he was insane when
be made his will.
They TELL ofa ditch on a recent battle
field where one would have walked two
hundred yards on dead bodies, without
ever touching the ground.
THE crew of the Florida have made
$40, 900 each. A contemporary there.
upon thinks piracy almost as good as
being an army contractor.
A GENTLEMAN of Boston, who has
been bitterly denounced as copperhead,
contributed one thousand dollars to the
fund to pay for volunteers.
The Boston Post wants to know why
credit should not be given to physicians
in notices ot deaths as well as clergy
men in notices of marriages.
A DEMOCRATIC contemporary says that
he has given up trying to nail all the
Republican lies' We suppose the rea-
son is that the nails gave out.
The late elections have gone the
darky way. Gresnbacks, etc., have
set the niger again ahead. The John
Brown cause is marching on"
GEN. jim LANE talks about his plat.
form. Probably beneath the gallows
bis last platform will he erected, and he
will not be likely to stick to it long,
AN OK RACE took place at Conuec-
ticut cattle show recently, and pair of
blacks took the fret premium, going the
mile in ten and three.quarters minutes.
The Constitution and the Union!
place them together If they stand,
they must stand together; if they fall,
they must fall together Daniel Web.
Ster.
The field Of the first Bull Run battle
is thickly strewn with flowers which
spring up from the midst of the mould.
ering and rusting medley Of that days
! horror.
JONES complained Of bad smell a.
bout the post office, and asked Brown
what it could be? Brown didn't know.
but suggested that it might be caused
by "the dead letters"
SOME "disloyal" exchange says:-
Chase mouths most, but Seward noses
most. 1t might be added that Stanton
blows most, and Lincoln jokes most
Queer government"
Some OF THE EFFECTS OF THE WAR.
Loss of life 100000 SO far. National
debt, two billions of dollars. Taxation
of twenty cents per day on every white
. mans labor for one hundred years.
D THE FRENCH ARMY.-An official re.
5 turn shows that the French army, on o
t peace footing, numbers $4,000 men
F. and $4,000 horses. By calling on the
4. reserves it can be swelled to 100000.
> A NEGRO deserter who was dragged
through the streets Of Boston the other
day, held up his manacled hands, ex-
claiming, Dis am Massa Lincum's proc.
lamashum-dis am de liberty of de coll
3 ored pusson.'
. A New York paper says, ''if anything
. can ever induce us to pronounce 10 favor
a of a military despotism, it will be the in.
creasing richer, the increasing insolenee,
! and the increasing rowdyism Of our shod.
= dy aristocrats,"
! ! A CHAP down in Connecticut, after
!. the passage Of the conscription act, got
married to evade the draft. He now
says, ifhe can get a divorce he will en-
: list, as, if he must fight, he Would rather
a do so for his country.
{ The Boston Post perpetrates the fol~
j. lowing: ut is said Of Eugene Sue that,
r though proiesse6 socialist, be lived
g. like prince In the same way, some
r of our people, though professed Chris.
!, tianS, live like the devil"
A WISCONSIN soldier in Mississippi
writes to his friends in Milwaukee:
: "Let the abOlitionists call you what
g they will, stick to the old democratic
). principles. They only can save the
/ Union"
The Bible says, BLESSED are the
J. peacemakers, for they shall be called the
I children of God" The transverse read
' ing of the same inspired sentiment is,
"Cursed are the war>makers, for they
+. shall be called the children ofthe devil,n
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