The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-03-19
NUMBER 5.
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Chlcago at the news otNfatess signing
the pledge.
According to the official census Of
Alabama, taken last year, the population
of that State is about $4,000 less than it
was in 1860.
The medical students in dissecting the
corpse of a pauper at the New York
Medical College lately found that she
had died of trichinw spiralis.
A church ia Baltimore has the motto
upon the outer walls: "To the poor the
gospel is preached" One morning these
words were found painted under it: "Not
here, though"
The New York papers express the ex-
pectation that 100, 600 emigrants will ar
rive at that port in the month of March.
The Agricultural Departments at Wash
|ington has received supply of veget-
able seeds and cereals from Europe, and
is rapidly preparing them for distribu-
Itiou.
A woman in Wisconsin buried as her
husband coffin filed with log of wood
and then attempted to collect $4,000 in
surance money, but the bogus "cerpse"
was discovered.
The Navajo Indians, about 1000 in
number, are held as prisoners of war.
and have hitherto, been under the care
of the War Department, and have cost
the government over $1,000, 900 a year.
Bolts has just recovered horse that
was stolen from him early in the war
His loss is the beasts gain. If Bolts
was disconsolate without the horse, how
happy was the horse to be free from Bolts.
IN. Y. World. :,
There are 100000 proprietors Of
vineyards in France, 1000 varieties Of
wine cultivated, 5,435 600 acres of land
devoted to vineyards, and crop in 1864
of 1.320,000,000 gallons Of wine; worth
S10o, 600, 900.
The wife Of an Ethiopian minstrel in
this city is said to have 500, goo OF divi-
dends.-N. Y. Gazette. ~
The London Spectator says that Reu-
ters telegraph agent in America is
goose. a
Send her to Washington to save the
Capitol.
! By the new military system offAus-
tria, the reerganized army will number
1900, 900 men--800, 600 of whom will be
on the active list. $50.
"Sam, why am senators like fshes?'-
II don't meddle wild de subjec, Pomp."
"Why, don't ye see nigger-because dey
am fond OBJ debate"
/ A drunken fellow had wondered into q
Sunday school, and taken seat among
the primer scholars, when the teacher
accos.ed him with: "Why, James, do you
know what condition you are I'M" eYes,.
! MN in the gall Of bin ness, n the bonds
'niquity. Ask me some hard quesh' h'ns.p
A distinguished female writer says
that "the men are FAST" Well, they
must be exceedingly SO to catch the wo-
men. ssR
II A fellow being awakened by the clerk
of steamer was told that he must not,
occupy the berth with his boots. He
very considerably replied, ,-sOh, the
bugs won't hurt EN-, I guess, they are
an old pair
| A pert little girl boasted to one Of
her friends that her 'father kept a car
riage."
aAh, but" was the triumphant reply,
s'my father drives a stage"
Why is q minister like locomotiye7
We have to look cut when the behring's.
A French journal says: "a remarkable
and perhaps almost unriyalled coinci-
dence is recorded in the civil registry Of
Bar sure -Aube. In 1865 there were in.
scribed there LOG births, 106 deaths, and
LOG marriages.
II A Boston editor thinks it very hard to
sit up all night for kilograms, and then
receive dispatch announ cling the burn
ing of barn somewhere in Minnesota.
A Philadelphia clergyman in the
course of sermon, recently remarked:
"You need not clasp your hands so fer
vently in prayer that you cant get them
open when the contribution box comes
J around"
E The grape crop on the Ohio lake shore
r has failed only four times in forty years,
r Success in life is very apt to make us
f forget the time when we wasn't much. Il
is just SO with frog on jump, he can 4
remember when he was tadpole--but
other folks can.
"Don't stretch your mouth any wider,
! said dentist to7a man who was exten d
: ing his jaw alarmilgly 81 intend Il
f stand outside to draw your TOOTH"
:. A good story is told Of Glasgow
: merchant, who, on his death bed, sent
!, for a clergyman of the Scotch Free
! Church. Having some fears regarding
: his future prospects. he asked the reyer.
Q end gentleman ''Do you think if l were
2 to leave 100000 to the /, Free Kirk, my
!, lsoul%ould be saved?" "Well," answered
q the cautious minter. 81 couldn't just
u Ipromise you that. but / think its on ex.
: pertinent we'll worth trying.
!. A little girl, showing her little cousin
y about four years old, star, said
e THAT star up there is bigger than thi
,e world"
a "No it amt" said he.
!. "Yes, it is"
i. "Then why don't it keep the rain ofG
y To cure felon-Suspend by the necl
about an hour.