The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-04-02
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A stylish Minnesota funeral is called
being implanted with pomp.
DR., James, Of Clay county, Ind has
been Gned $500 for salvation.
In Santa Cruz lady counted IL dis
tinct rainhows in 4 few hours.
Mrs Sarah Newcomb, of ILL.,, brain
Cd her husband against bed-post.
The sawdust from a dol, thrown in a
burglars eyes, win restrain him.
Mr.. Tromper of Los Angeles is jail
ed for washing his wife in soap suds.
Msson City, III , is 50 healthy that it
offers its cemetery for sale.
Missouri will pat tons of iron ore in
the market this year.
The large-Ggured Spanish lace is to
be used this season for bridal wells.
Cincinnati University has, it is said
an initial endowment fund of $4,000
900.
Five new English war vessels have
bech launched during the past two
weeks.
sThe word impossible is the mother
tongue Of little souls," said Lord
Brougham.
Three thousand acres of fax will be
grown in one county in Minnesota this
year.
According to the papers over one
Hundred ladies are now studying law in
this country.
A ship may be said to resemble d
scarf pin when it is on the abreast of
heavy swell"
Asparagus and green peas have made
their appearance in the Savannah mar
kets.
a returned traveller talks about eat
ing monkey outlets and parrot pies in
/ South America.
There is a glatton at Hartford, Conn.,,
who drinks nearly seven gallons of lager
beer daily.
A witty French writer says that kiss
is at once the cheapest and dearest thing
in the world.
An Illinois jury has concluded that
/
road, was worth just SS46
A gold or silver initial letter on tinted
or white paper, is the very latest style
for note and letter paper.
The Court train seems to retain its
popularity, and the handsomest bali
dresses a.e made in this style.
The latest fashionable color for even.
ing gloves is called 'incardinatc,' and
is very light flesh color.
In New York recently burglar was
caught refreshing himself in the bath.
tub of the house he was robbing,
Toads sell freely in the English mar.
ket for twenty-five cents each They
are used in gardens to catch flies and
clean the shrubs of insects.
Mr. Beecher declares Wall street,
. New York, to be the dunghill of mush-
f rooms, and says all the business men
there are trying to get rich in uueanny
ways.
: High French heeed ladies' boots are
inducing among the wearers very dan
=, gerous weakness OF the spine, by caus-
!, ing an unnatural strain. So the Boston
= physicians have discovered
A Wisconsin woman has done all the
Z family sewing for twenty years with a
paper of needles which was presented
;. to her on her wedding day. Though
, her family is large, the needles are not
all used up yet.
=. "Putty-eyed monster" is what appear
ed in the paper of a Tennessee editor,
who wrote with respect, "pretty aged
= minister" The sons of the minister
J 'interviewed'' the editor next morning
with shotgun.
. A Connecticut boy swallowed three
, marbles and four bullets recently, and
g being somewhat of 4 bony structure, is
now utilized by the neighbors, who bor-
row him as a rattle box to amuse their
babes and sucklings.
1t is pleasant to hear from old friends
4 occasionally, if only in an incidental
: way we are therefore gratified to hear
n from good old Ben. Wade. Somebody
u interviewed him the other day upon the
e political situation He answered briefly,
e beautiful, pertinently and conclusively,
. "H-l is to pay all round. "-Net0 Or
: leans Times.
r That was a hit between the eyes that
| Trum5ull administered to Conkling-.
+ Quoth Ccnklin in his late speech against
e Trumbnll. ale is fighting windmill"
: Certainly am quoth Trumbull, ''the
l gentlemen from New York" Roars
in the gallery"
The New York Sun places the amount
= stolen from the government by Secreta-
ry Robson at 81 100000, Which asser-
: ton leads an exchange to say that if
that is all, the enemies of the Secretary
are making entirely too much fuss
They do not seem willing to give him
: any credit for the money he hasn't sto,
: len.
Some theological inquisitor put the
, Calyanistic screw to Beecher, 10 which
be replied: Whatever else you do,
;. don't slam the door of possibility in
J. any mans face = Build up
= such spiritual superstructurc that ev,
4 cry little child shall feel it to be easier
To i've ChIlSllan lie than an nngOdly
!, life"
The Count Murat, who has recently
y been ordered to leave Francois grand
/ son of the celebrated Joachim Murat,
+ the famous Marshal of the first Empire.
y He was for fifteen years in the Corps
;. Legislatif during the reign of the ex.
:. Emperor Napoleon, and was for several
) years engaged in diplomatic duties in
f that mOnarcl'S service
: The latest personal description of
S Tennysoh declares him to be a most in
. veterate smoker, aud one who loves
idleness above all things-dreaming
away his existence. But it must be con-
fessed that for an idle ''dreamer" the
: subject Of this critism has done those
n things which city full of Industrious
D and wide-awake individuals could never