The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1870-05-10
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n SullolHia5 paper speaks vi Staik
of grass there one hundred and twenty
six inches long, which has grown aR
inch a day for four msnths
"a jury tof9fnsky patriots at st Louis
found 1.-THE defendant not guilty, bait-,
sentenced her to pay fine Of twenty
dollars"
Congress is spending money to venti-
late-the Capitol. The cheapest AID best
way to do it would be for that bodyto
adjourn.
Prince Pierre Bonaparte rides out dai-
ly now with three attendants, each of
whom are thoroughly armed, ane he OIL
ways carries three pistols under the car
riage seat Fessfasf
An enthusiastic Fcnian in CINCINNATI,
delighted with the color or the new.
three cent postage stamps. asserts that
the portrait they bear is that Of General
O'Neil. ~ -. t,.,, t.s-....
Owing to the eleciionasef Governor
English, the shad in the Connecticut
River are larger ard more numerous this
year than formerly. 15.sst go. $50,
A little California boy on being asked
how Adam and Eve left the Garden of
Eden, replied that they were stampctetf
off the ranch. -.
Ex.Surgeon General Hammond testi1
| fes in the Mcfarland case that eight.
hours sleep are necessary to a healthy
brain in the active man.
The estate of GottschaIk, the eminent
pianist, who died in Rio Janeiro recently,
is valued at 5,000,i and rercrts to his
brothers and sisters. .nFf1i55 4less sas
| One Of the Montreal regiments guar
ding the frontier against the bloody Fc-
mans, you know, numbers thirteen OH
GERS and eight priyatss.
Men who are compelled to sit on coal
scuttles and take their noon repast off
the head Of barrel, will understand
that it is house-cleaning time
The Treasury Department has caused
to be engraved an excellent copy of the
heads of the late Minister Burlinsame'
and Gen. Thomas, which are to be plac-.
ed on the next new issue of bonds
! A California paper gives sthe following
as regular bill of fare at a Chinese res
taurant in that city: Cat Outlet, ,z5 cents
Griddled Rats, 6 cents Dog Soup, IL
cents; Roast Dog, is cents; Dog Pie, s
cents.
| The world is safe from a collision for
a while longer, as the consoling intclli-
gence is afforded us that for the next
hundred years the distance between the
earth and the sun will gradually increase. .
Three of the wives of men employed
on the steamer City of Boston have con-
soled themselves by remarryings None
hut Boston people would have done suchi
thing.
A Michigan couple who had been mar
, ried nineteen years were divorced recent
| ly, but quickly repented and four hours.
later called on clergyman and were
made one again.
The relapsing fever is spreading in
Philadelphia, and the Inquirer says that
) not only have the slums of the city been
visited by it, but it has made an inroad
| into fashionable residences.
Ex-Queen Isabella has new lover in
the person of Russian nobleman. who
gambled his whole fortune away in
: Paris.
Adelina Patti cleared last year I10,0 900
francs. She is said'to live on very cold
terms with her husband, the Marquis de
Caux - 1870
An English farm laborer was recently
, welded in the Parish church, and his
bride dropped dead in few minutes af-
ter. He was single, married and widow
ed within an hour. slat,5e{4
: Bishop Simp; OIL says of President
e Lincoln's religious views, that whatever
: they might have been in his early years
r he experienced great change later in
life, and was doubtless an evangelical
man.
Two young ladies belonging to influ-
entail families in Hartford are undcrsar-
,, gical treatment for crampcd and distort-
! ed feetcaused by wearing the prevailing
: style of high-heeled boots.
! Brownlow, Ia Thad Stevens, has to
!, be brought to the Senate by attendants;
his voice is gone and he votes ty proxy,
. sending his vote to the Secretary by o
page. Yet he is in his seat every day
S Mr.. Greeley, who has been laboriny
!. to abolish capital punishment, now
c avows his readiness to contribute money
# to secure the conviction of man clarg-
y ed with crime punishable by hanging.
. There are over five thousand newspa-
!. pers in the United States But there arc
! 1persons living who have seen Benjamin
. .. Franklin, the founder of the fourth
: newspaper established in this country.
E Alexander Dumas, in recent work,
writes that women sscan no more be
i emancipated than she can be remade
!. that her duties have been established
!, from the beginning, as have mans"
i A Nashville editor is troubled by the
u names Mississippi and Cincinnati, zone
being all s and p, and the other all N and
j." and he asks despairingly, why would
{ not Misipi and Cinati do as well?
A Californian in Paris says of Napo.
leon that "these who are expecting him
!, !, to pass in his checks soon, can rest quiet
: he is good for score of years or more
: yet, unless he should chance to die With
: ! his boots on"
A young man was arrested in New
Jersey few days age on charge of de.
serting his wife. When he was brought
/ before the Judge. he said that she had
: nothing against his wife, except that he
c thought she spent too much money for
q candy and trash"
The colored people have demanded it,
and Gov. Alcorn, of Mississippi, has
d sent a message to the Legislature recon-
S mending separate schools for colored
I and white scholars. The niggers are
$ afraid of getting the itch from their
: Radical brethren
e The trustees of Washington College
are uneasy on account of Gen. Lee, but.