The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-05-13
SENSE AND NONsENsE

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Lo, don't care about peace.
Ours at home-The baby.
A great cornposer--Sleep.
L is all write with Tennysoa.
Away down East--'rhe railway.
4 sound 3ddge-A musical critic.
Lip service--Teacups and saucers.
Handy book-markers-Dlrty fingers.
They say that Froude is coming over
again.
Georgia Is eating fresh peas and po--
ltatoes.
The most useful thing in the long
run-Breath.
A very striking actor is pretty certain
10 make great hit.
Satin umbrellas are the 'ireigning"
fashion in New York.
Illinois proposes public castigation as
IA penalty for wife-beating. 7sa
More Americans visit Shakspeares
birthplace than English. 'iya
The only food that is always cheap
and abundant, Is food for laughter.
Young folks grow IN ost when in love,
1t increases their sighs wonderfully.
Now you. have it. Captain Jack IS
troubled with fits Of emotional insanity.
Why, is blind mans buff like sympat
thyi Because it Is fsller feeling forA
feller crittur!
Ridiculous enough! A two hundred
pound poetess is writing about what she
would do "if she we're sunbeam"
The St. Louis Republican recon-.
1ends an ambitious debating society in
Kansas to take as its next subject.
(Which is the butt end of goatr"
1t is sad to see so many Idle boys
about the streets. Boys who grow up
without schooling will never amount 10
anything In theit lives, and finally die
petit Jurors.
First Boy-aYour father dropped
dead ON Main street this morning."~,
Second boy THUS made an orphanE4
"Let him drop" That was the LIST Of
April, dear reader.
Oil City, Pa, has started its nineteer-
th daily paper; the other eighteen didn't
hold out to burn. ..s5
What is the difference between . slgna
and beaten child2 One pouFs &ith
rain, and the other roars with pain.
One Of the hardest trials Of life is I'd
shed tears at the news that your wife's
great uncle had died and left her S50,i
600.
A man living In California is said to
beso bow-legged that his tailor is obli.:
ged to cut out his trousers with cir.
cular saw.
| An irate, man who, was disappointed
in his boots, threatened to cot up his
shoemaker, but compromised by drinks
ing cobbler ;.
A woman oa marrying needs TO prsy
for one of two things in her husbard-
the love which blinds, or the good na-
ture which EXCUSES
You do not need to black your boots
in Pttsburg. You hang them out Of
the window at night, aud ttiey are blabk
enough in the morning. .sgs,
Josh Billings gives the following cd
vice to young men Don't be ,discour.
aged if yer mustach don't grow. Il
sometimes happens where a mustach
duz the best nothing else duz SO $ell.,"n
A passenger on an Ohio railroaas
aoused from serene slumber by the
footing of a whistle, exclaimed pe:ulant-
ly: The train has caushl up with those
cattle again" ,u -
! A morning paper is Of the opinion
that nothing was too low for the Forty.
second congrtss This is mistake, for
their salary was too low; so the mem.
bers raised it, by lowering themselves.
| Douglas Jerr6ld, for q long time one
Of the editors of Punch, said that the
man never lived who could make 965
good jokes year-or even half the
nuihbet: One week he thought very
good allowance. -va..
i There was desire on the part Of the
teacher to make scholar understand
eAC OohSClChSC io ouC oatQi
"What makes you feel bad after you
have done wronsp' AMy pop" said
+ the youth feelingly.
| The Blackfcet Indians ara on tho val
rlpath, Reports from Fort Garry, Mahii
Itoba, are that Americans nd Indians
fought recently in the interior, and
large numbers Of the former were kill.
led. .sa,.t
p A selfish California minister recently
refused to perform the marriage services
for couple where the bride was his
, own absconded wife. And that aggtk.
waiting woman said that he was 'just as
mean as he always used TO be-"
i, A green hand with horse hired out
snd was set to cart gravel. Filling the
cant was simple matter. hut Eow To-
dump it puzzled him At last the idea
=. struck him, and striking the horse for.
cibly under the belly lie shouted "Rars
; up. ye devilt'
A eountryman stopped at telegraph
window where young lady was re!
cciving dispatches, and after looking 8
, moment, called to his companion, "Say,
Bill just come and see 'tp making pa
per collars! Don't she know her biz;
5 eh, Bill 7"