The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-04-27

~ Men often lose opportunities by
wait of self confidence. Doubts and
fears in the minds of some rise up over
every event, and they fear to attempt
what will most probably be successful,
through mere timorousness, while q
brave, active man will, with perhaps
half the ability, carry the enterprise to a
prosperous termination.
Why is her5-soup the best of all soup?
Ans,--It is soup-herb (superb. s..esrs
Why is flower out of season like an
old coat? Ans.-1t is seedy.
Whenis an apple like fish? Ans
When it's crab.
Why is a swimming bath like cheap
poultry market? Ans-You can have
twenty ducks for threepence.
When George ". went angling, what
bird was he like ? Ans-A kingfsher
The new York World says that the ad-
ministration intends to secure Cuba by
recognizing its belligerent rights, and
then annexing it after Independence is
secured.
Any business is more respectable than
what is termed loafing A young man
had better sell clans by the pailful than
hang around public resorts, numbering
time and his own reputation.
Depleeh, the woman of Marseilles who
boil twenty children to death, has been
sentence to the galleys for life, having
been found equity with extenuating cir
cumstances" The "extenuating circum-
stances possibly was that she boiled
them in water, and not in OIL.
The New York Sun appears to consid-
er the condition Of the party rather DIES
iperate, and says: at must be admitted
that any prudent. life insurance company
would have to regard the risk on the
Republican party as extra hazardous at
the present time
The dilor,in.chief Of the Crawfords-
vile (Indiana) Review is disconsolate.
and threatens to suspend publication be.
cause some one burglarized the Office a
/ few nights ago of barrel Of lager that
had been consecrated TO the rcfreshment
of the editorial mind. .--.
A person who was recently called into
court for the purpose of proving the
correctness of q doctors bill, was asked
whether ''the doctor did not make sew,
eral visits after the patient was out OF
danger?" "No," replied the witness,
II considered the patient in danger as
long as the doctor continued his visits
| An eight hour day man. in gong
home one evening for his supper, found
his wife sitting in her best clothes, read
ing volume Of travels. "How is this p
he exclaimed. "Where's my supper p
III don't know" rejoined his wife; II be-
gan to get breakfast at six o'clock this
morning, and my eight hours ended at
9 2. NJ" @ -G
Prim made, in 1867, bet with the
Duke of Hamilton that Queen Isabella
would no longerbe or the Spanish throne
in the year 1869. The Duke of Hamil-
ton paid the bet on the 1st of January
In making it he had counted on the
friendship of his august relative, the
Empress Engenie, for the daughter Of
| Ferdinand the Seventh. " pas
Natchez, Mississippi, is without an of:
fcer Of any kind-no Mayor, no Select
men, no Assessor or Collector, 10 City
Clerk, Marshal or policeman Every
officer is disqualified The new Sheriff
of the county has appointed the eight
former policemen Deputy Sherids to
preserve the peace and make the neces,
sary arrests until the city government is
re-establisbed.
There is a girl in Linn County, Iowa
only sixteen years old, of whom the fol
lowing is narrated: For six weeks OF
the coolest weather Of last winter, during
the sickness of her father and mother she
attended, carefully and well. forty-eigh
sheep, seven head of horses, twelve heat
i of cattle and two calves. besides milking
three cows, driving the cattle quarter
of mile every day to water, cleaning
the horse-stable, doing the honse-work
and taking care Of her sick parents.
The latest fashion in hats for young
I men takes the form Ct sort of skull
!, cap, with brim. to it made Of skvsblut
. cloth. If colored hats are to he il
vogue, why not adopt green as the ia
vorite color? tits agreeable to the eye
. and would in many instances correspond
with the mental bearings of the wearer
Miss Braddon appears to have man.
legal difficulties. She has now sued
French translator of one other novels ant
the.latter warns her that il she persists il
carrying the case into court he viii prov'
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