The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-08-19

SHORTS Every man must be alone
in the world. No heart was ever cast
in the same mold rs that which we bear
within us.
1t is said dark-haired people marry
earliest. Isn't it the lisht-headed?
Our exchanges are reporting various
swindling operations among the farm
ets, by peddlers.
If you love, love more. If you hate,
hate less. Life is too short to spend in
hating any one.
Thought means life, since those who
do not think do not live in any high or
real sense. Thinking makes the man.
The overseers of the poor in Yer
mont town set down in an annual re-
port a charge of IS for "taking paupers
to the menagerie."
"Oh, Ma" said little girl who had
been to the show, I've seen the ele-
phant and he walks backwards and eats
with his tail"
The young ladies have resolved to
discountenance dow men, who swear
and chew tobacco. They only care for
Hymen.
The man who said flies would be
scarce this year was not like little
George Washington, for he could, and
George couldn't.
When a man has trouble he takes to
drink, but when woman meets with a
misfortune she merely goes over to her
mothers and takes tea.
House-fies now tickle the nose of
him who tries to sleep late Sunday
morning, and practice landscape gar
dening on the scalp of the bald head.
One profession, says Punch, is safe
from the invasion of woman. She may
enter the army, but it is impossible that
she can man the navy. aT
They have, as yet, had no cholera in
ST. Louis, but number of people, old
and young, have died from cholera in
fantum Sucker State.
The selfshness of the human race is
never more Enthusiastically made manifest
than it is in the location of public roads,
bridges, and draining bitches.
a young man being asked to "bring
out the old lyre," brought out his
mother-in-law. She had come on two
weeks visit about eighteen months be
fore.
Don't imagine the Lord will call a
first class preacher to church paying
a second class salary. He doesn't treat
his children so shabbily
The exquisite pleasure of rusti eating
on the outside of splendid watermel-
on will soon be here. Put waterproof
coat on your stomach.
Now put your bait on the treacher-
Gus hook, and cast it in the shady
brook, for when the sunfsh sees it
squirm, he'll surely go for that angle
worm.
The latest instance afforded by fond
mother of her sons cleverness. is said
sons correcting her for saying he was
all over dirt. He said the dirt was all
over him. Hee .ae,e s.
A Detroit hotel-keeper was so angry
with man who sent him a circular ad-
vertising bed-bug exterminator that
he knocked him down and bit off a por-
tion Of his ear.
The editor of the Kankakee Gazette
thinks fishing, as general rule, don't
pay. "We stood it all day in the river
last week." he says, "but caught moth
ing-until we got home"
II you would revenge yourself on
those who have sighted you, be sue
cessful; it is bitter satire on their
want Of Judgment to show that you can
do without them.
! People should bear in mind that the
|imprudent use of new vegetables is
simply an invitation to cholera. This
is the time for great prudence in eating
and drinking.
/ People who have been sending after
the "queer," or counterfeit money, will
no doubt be pleased to learn that full
lists of names are being made for pub.
lication.
j Alice.-"Do you know, uncle, that
that horrid Mr.. Binks declares that you
have taken to hard drinkingI' Uncle
George.-"Not true, my dear-no :
Never drank easier in my life"
! Harvey discovered the circulation of
the blood before he was thirty four
Yet some editors get to be over hun
dred before they can discover the exact
circulation of their own newspapers