The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-04-02
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During the past three months more
murders we're committed By females than
males.
The bill to appropriate 500, 600 fvE
the destitute of the South, has passed the
Mary land Legislature. -
Little Rhody threatens to punish any
person whoygets up a masked ball by q
fine of $500 ii eia8 +
The Louisiana Senate has passed Fes-
olution appropriating $50, 900 to test the
Econstitu.ionality of the Military Recon
struction Bill. - s EFsI
tHusband, must have little change
to-day "Well, stay at home and take
care Of the children. That will be rad
ical change" is hs3
Judge Duval, of Texas, has decided
that interest as we'll as principal must be
paid Of debts contracted before and -un. /.
ming through the war.
The tailors of st. Louis are trying to
prevent women from learning to sew
Those tailors should make the sgoose"
their patron saint.
%x"I say, friend, your horse is little
contrary, is he not?'' "No, sir. A"What
makes him stop, then?'' 'sOh, he's afraid
semebody'll say whoa, and he shan't hear
it." 20
A religious fancy party was the last
novelty In New York. All present as
sumed scriptural characters or those of
pious celebrities, and the exercises opened
with prayer. ifaa
Dickens income is seventy thousand
dollars year from his writings and lec-
lures; and he is estimated to be. worth
three hundred thousand or four hundred
thousand dollars.s
The Pontifcial army consists of H.
396 soldiers Of these the French Le-
gion numbers l,522 men, the Zouave l, :
917, the 0hasseurs 1922, and the Aux
lliaries-a sort Of Roman national guard
make up the balance,
A man came home drunk on cold
night and heaved in basket containing
goslings, which his wife had placed be-
fore the fire, upon seeing which, hee
"My God, wife, when did I swallow
them things?''
Mrs. Dinah Wick, aged one hundred
and two years, visited the United States
Revenue Office in Nashville, Tenn, last
week, and drew her pension as the widow
of. Joseph Wick, whu was q private sol-
der IN the first Revolutionary MAR IN
America. no;sg3jss
A man With large family was eem-
planning of the difficulty in supporting
all of them. "But," said true friend,
nyou have sons big enough toearn some
thing for you now" The difficulty il.
they are too Big to work. |" was ssthe an
swer.
The editor of one Of our exchanges
gives the following: 1--WE have found, by
experience, that the light is greatly i'm
proved by adding to the oil one-fourth its
weight of common salt. 1t makes the
| light more brilliant aud clear, keepspthe
wick clean, and prevents smoking
"A microscope has been manufactured
| in London which magnlfes three Thousand
diameters with its lowest eye-piece, and
fifteen thousand diameters with its high
est, so that an object is made to appear
one billion FIVE hundred and seventy mil.
lion times larger than it really ISL a5
There are in France upwards of tTc
thousand prisons and houses of correc-
ton, and the average number of people
of both sexes, confined in them is fifty
FIVE thousand. The cost of the mainte.
nance Of these establishments is fourteen
million four hundred thousand francs.
/ 1t is stated that New York city owes
a debt of thirty millions of dollars, or
which it pays interest at the average rate
Of six per cent 1t owns real estate t
the amount Of twelve millions of dollars,
on which it does not receives clear of all
Iexpenses, over three per cent. -
An amusing scene took place at ,
Frankfort theater, one night during yth,
present month. Shakspeare's .'Merchan
Of Venice" was being played, and .wher
in the trial scene the judge asked Shy
lock what he claimed from his dehtor, amt
the latter replied, "a pound of flesh, "
man in the gallery cried out, s.apd eigh
cigars" The Frankfort people applaud
led this allusion to the Pfussian bill .
flare during the war; the Prussians los
their temper; row ensued, aud the po
lice cleared the house. gsgs asi
I THE CouRsE OF TRUE LovE.--Th
Smithfeld Times tells STORY illustrativ
of the old saw that "the course of tru
love never did run SMOOTH A youn,
couple IN Smithfeld had laid a plan t
outwit the vigilance Of cruel parents an,
, elope. The sequel was thus: the youtl
dstood beneath the window--the lady at
tempted to climb out-when, oh, horror
some one detained her from the rearl-
"Mhy dost thou not come, gentle Ame
Ilia? She answered,in aniagitated voice
"I can't, Bill; mans gothold on my til
tersl" sa
/ CoNUNDRUMs.
| IF woman were to change her sex
what sort of being would she become
! A.-She would be he then (heathen.)
! Why is love like canal boat? A.
Because it is an internal transport,
i Why is a hetel ghost like policeman
-Rooauco ~ "a on inn sc A.,