The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-10-14
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Russia has l42 theatres.
A good wife is the greatest earthly
blessing.
Ireland has over quarter Of . mill
lion dogs.
They are making bricks out Of ochre
in Kansas.
Fashionable ladies have fan for.
every toilette.
Every genius is an impossibility Till
he appears.--Star King.
Southern Indiana never had such q
promising tobacco crop before. iI!s
The six chief officers of tile Erie
|raiIgpasi divide $50, 900 per annum. s
The pardoning power kSs been tdkehs
away from the Governor of Iowa.
A Kentucky man has married his
step-mother, and is to be indicted.
On tombstone at Stenday, Prussia,
is inscribed, "she died Of a corset !"
A. T. Stewart carries his own insur-
ance at an annual cost of about $4,000.
There is in Switzerland. on an aver,
age, one journal for CATO inhabitants.
Indiana clailhs the largest school
fund (SS, S,O00,000) Of any State in the
Union.
Oranges measuring sixteen inches id
circumference are raised in California
The wealthiest man in Russia, out
side of the nobility, is worth s50,006.
loco.
There il lots ov folks in this world
whom yu kan BLOW up like a bladder,
and then XIX them az high az yu pleze.!
The wealth of soul is measured by
how much it can tell, its poverty how
little.
The Providence. R. t., papers are
Boosting about woman there who kill
ed rat 4,lEs4 ~
1t is proposed to build a new Nor.
mon tabernacle at Logan, Utah, ID cost
$4,000.
A St. Louis lady is lectnring through
England. She is looked upon as great
curiosity. ,-,io as
/ One Wisconsin cheese factory. lately
shipped nineteen tons of cheese to Liv-
erpool. 'n80l 1fasel
Can al edifice that weighs two hun
dred and fifty tons be properly called
a lighthouse grt
In Ireland, with less than $4,000
inhabitants, the two shillings license
duty was paid on 2oQ,7O6 dogs.
A man in New York has watch
which he claims has gained time enough
to pay for itself in six months.
There will he made this year in the
United States about twenty-five hun
dred thousand tons Of pig iron.
Two pairs Of stairs are necessary I'd
every newspaper Office in North Caro-
lina-one for the editor to go down as
the caller comes up. the other.
! A western city thinks that it is be-
coming great intellectual center be.
cause one citizen was recently arrested
for stealing two encyclopedias.
eyer can't stuff that ere down this
chicken" from Young lady ID Indiana;
meant that she did not credit her teach
er's statement that the sun is larger
than the earth.
The Cinnamon working in the Mon
tana mines never labor after 4 o'clock
in the afternoon, having o firm belief
that at that hour the angels leave earth
for heaven. ad aiit yasuIkaoa ~
q The turtles and frogs Of an Indiana
pond having been left high and dry by
a drought, went in procession three
miles to another pond, where on arrival
they had a grand jolilicatiun.f ytauoo
The bulk of the tobacco crop in Con-
necticut has been harvested the last ten
days. The cropis good in qua,itr and
much greater in quantity than has been
expected during the season. ,x,.s.ft
4 In Black Hawk township, GrundS
county, Iowa, two -prepossessing girl
graduates, aged twenty, two and twenty,
are practicing medicine, and the NUM-
ber Of young men on the sick list Is
really astonishing: ''''t ''.' :"
| Tile new laws Of Nebraska IMPOSE
fines for ..profane swearing done by
Iany ssperson of the age of. fourteen
/ wears and upward" Children under
fourteen mag swear gratuitously as be-
fore. fE e tses7s - =! l. aGF.
! A Judge at Montgomery, Ala.,rcceht.
lily interrupted d Iery ,fowery young
orator with-sHold on, hold Oh. my
fdear sir! Don't go any iiigbsr !! You
are already out of the Jurisdiction OF
this COURT" L sit
He is true philanthropist who kicks
into the gutter the banana skins and
orange peels he finds on the sidewalk.
But he is q triier philanthropist who
also kicks into the gutter the wretch
who threw them there. ia's-'
Here is the latest description OF 4
kiss: :s'Twas night A real warm
couple stood in the pale, cold moon
beams. Their lips touched; and there
Twas sound like. a cow haiiling her hbof
out of the mud" .asa
The nearsighted hen that ate saw
dust, supposing it to be cornmeal, then
went and laid nest full of bureau
knobs, sat ON them three weeks, and
Matched out a complete set Of parlof
furniture, was pretty fair hen.
| A western man who had been sitting
on wasp, and the wasp had just no:
ticed it, arose partly to his feet and
with pathetic tenderness remarked
,"Ouch!" just at the time when the lec-
turer intended to have the people laugh.
| 1t is said that counterfeit iiickles ar e
in circulation down south. That man
, can have no desire for earthly power DR.
distinction who would counterfeit a
nickel We should as soon think 6f
counterfeiting paper collar or q brass
. button.
Over the shop door of pork butch
, er in village in the eastern counties of
England may be seen a signboard rep
resenting man in a black coat, BRAN
dishing Ratchet, with the inscription
-. John Smith kills pigs like his fa.
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5 An American gives this report Of his
: London travels: II asked the distance.
SIVoll, coid NV informant cit mini worry