The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-09-09
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Never bet your bottom dollar.
Impecunious aninals-Those who
haven't scent.
Women should study to be smart, but
never shrew ed,
New Orleans is the home of 10000
working girls.
If you want to make q woman very,
mad, pay no attention to her new hat.
Very nice scruples are sometimes the
efactcf q great mind but ottener q
little one. =
when the curious or iinperttnent
would pick the lock Of the heart, put
the key of reserve in the inside.
There are lying looks as well as ly-
ing words, assembling smiles, deceiv-
ing sighs, aud even lying silence.
A Michigan man has quit smoking.
He had been knocking the ashes cut ct
his pipe on a keg of blasting POWDER
& The restaurant keeper in the CRYSTAL
Palace, near London, pays $l25,000
year for the privilege.
A patient youth in Charleston has
written 20l4 words on the back OF 3
postal card and it is on exhibition.
Cigars are sinuggled into American
ports at the mastheads of West India
steamers, which accounts for their be.
ing so high. :,
A Denver paper says that q hundred
jurvmen could be selected there any
day in twenty minutes, for any case, at
any price.
There is no necessity to make the
tour Of the world in order to conyihcs
ones self that the sky is everywhere
blue.
Our minds are as different as our
faces; we are all travelling to one des-
tination-happiness; but none are go
ing by the same road.
Remembrance is the only paradise
out of which we cannot be driven away.
Indeed, our first parents we're not to be
deprived Of it.
A Cleveland man saw rats and snakes
in his pew at church, and they hustled
him home without waiting for him to
drop his nickel in the contribution box.
A correspondent says that "kissing
lady with an Elizabethan ruff on is
about as much fun as embracing cir.
cular saw in full motion"
The most unpopular man in Virginia
is the man who has made the accidental
discovery that kerosene is as efficacions
as whisky to cure rattlesnake bites,
Useful wells of grenadine, in square
meshes, made of sewing silk. are new
| this season. They are far more sub
stantial than the ordinary gauze grena-
dimes.
"Ariel," the champion carrier pigeon,
which is TO accompany the Graphic bal.
loon, in trial fight made the distance
of sixty-four miles in an hour and q
quarter.
A farmer, while being run away with
by pair of frightened horses, shout,
ed, "rll leare my wife $lO,0OO-no
time to make a will" He is still alive,
but badly bruised. A
MADAM said certain one to Mrs.
Brown the other day, "you are talking
simple rubbish" "Yes, sir" replied
the. ever crushing lady, "because wish
you 20 comprehend me. 81
Instead of the little barelegged Caesar
which was placed on the sum NIT Of the
Vendome column in 1864-5. Napoleon
will appear in the glory of gray redin-
cote, iack-boots and folded arms.
The hotel Keepers at Niagara are dis
cussing a plan to stop tourists five
miles from the falls and stuff their ears
with cotton, to prevent them from hear
ling the roar without first paying d fee
of SO.
The editor of the San Francisco
Chronicle, after stating that he has mo
desire to engage in personal contro.
versy," proceeds to characterize the
editor of rival newspaper as "a drum
ken and cowardly idiot. who disgraces
journalism" ad
Boys bathing in creek near Newbu
ryport, Mass, had a load Of duck sho'
fired at them ty man who; with par
lty of ladies occupied cottage half-a.
mile distant, because the ladies were
outraged at the indecency, they having
spy glasses.
if we would convey good to anothe,
we must put ourselves il his place, looh
at things from his standpoint, and
! whether we appeal TO his good sense oil
his emotions, his affections or his con
science, we must direct every effort t.
: developing what is in him
In this artificial life of ours, it is mo-
often we see a human face with all :
: hearts agony in it, uncontrolled by sci
consciousness; when we do see it, i
startles us as if we had suddenly waket
into the real world of which this every
day one is hut d puppet-show-copy.
,, Just as the black shadow of the dealt
angels wing was beginning to darker
the bed chamber, of Delaware woman
y she called her weeping husband to he
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. side and feebly mirfnured: ''Henry, i
you ever marry again, remember tina
il only takes cupful of sugar to sweet
!. en- quart of gooseberries."
The inmates of nsgr6 cabin tha
+ was recently struck By lightning il
i Jones county, Ca, are said by Ken
\ lucky paper to have ''retired throug
two doors and three windows. befor
9 the lightning got down the chimney
Y and though the head of the famil
stopped four miles off to ascertain til
i, damage, the others are still running"
4 Des Moines County farrner recen,
$ ly bought new-fangled harvesting m,
d chine. thinking he would make Quite
!, saving in the matter of wages durin
O the harvest. On the day following th
purchase he sent his eldest son out wit
d the machine to experiment upon tn
e wheat crop. In few hours afterwar
the old gent moved upon the scene {
conflict, and found his son upon tb
it top Of telegraph pole, over forty rod
: of stone fence cut, bound aud stacke
It in the most approved manner, willie i
Is the distance the horses and internal m:
II chine were seen making for grove
timber.