The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-06-24
Sepse and unuse,lse.
If mans aim in this world be good,
be will miss fire in the next.

For a red striped vest California
youth StlansferIed his betrothed TO q
rival, and all are happy.
The school hours in the Albany IN.
Y public schools have been reduced
to five-and half hours daily.
/. When we read we fancy we could be
ishss4slps, when sEe come to act we can
not bear provoking word.
Because man had checkered ca-
reer, it does not necessarily follow he
had always acted on the square.
q Car loads of old hens from Iowa are
shipped to Chicago, where they re ap-
pear in society as spring chickens.
Foote expressed the opinion that
certain miser would take the beam out
of his own eyes if he could sell the TIM.
Der.
Pittsburg gents hang their boots ont
of the window at night, and they are
blackened by atmospheric action in the
morning.
Ben Butler recommends Senator Car
penter as "a man with mouth" High
Ter praise is, that he knows when to keep
it shut.
A Minnesota mother gave man who
bad saved her boys life ten cents, and
cordially invited him to call at her house
and hear her play on thepiano.
Ven some mans slaps me on der
shoulder und says, 81 vas glad to hear
You vas so veil, und den sticks behind
my back his fingers to his nose, l haf
my opinion of dot weller.
The Boston Sunday Courier says
some members of the City Council re.
fuse to be vaccinated at the citys ex-
pense, as they are opposed to taking
anything out of the public pus.
A poet asks: Where are the dead,
the vanished dead. that trod The earth
that we now tread ?" II we were to
make random guess, we should say
the most of 'em are buried.
A man in Kansas accidentally fell into
a vat of boiling water and was killed
His bereaved children erected tomb.
stone to his memory, with the brief but
touching inscription, sPar boiled"
A constable in Ohio lately testified in
court as follows: II know nothing Of
her but what hear the neiobbors say,
and in my opinion. what one woman
says of another is not worthy of belief"
The following conundrum is by re-
tired Clergyman, whose sands of Life
have nearly run OUTLET us hope: ''If q
man gets red When ne m Tuad all o~Ssy =
does dyer get redder when he is all
over madder2"
Lard in the burnt district of Boston
is worth more now than before the fire.
There is no test like the cruelble. Gold
is made better by it. We have no doubt
it could be tried upon The Modocs with
profitable results. "a
The Louisianians used to say when
the yellow fever disappeared from New
Orleans, that it was because Providence
would not allow any city to be visited
by two such calamities as Ben Butler
and the fever, at the same time.
A little girl, who had great kindness
of heart for all the animal creation, saw
a hen preparing to gather her chickens
under her sheltering wings, and shouted
earnestly: 80! don't sit down on those
beautiful little birds, you great ugiya old
rooster''
| 1t is just now the thoughtful mother
M ~ ~ op oac fn rapnxuta tho n liua bro rnh-
es with such Spring delicacies as bone
set, hoarhound and castor OIL This is
done by squeezing the youth into his
aunt's lap, and sitting on his legs, while
one hand holds his nose and the other
guides the spoon which is generally up
set, and spills its contents on the aunt's
best alpaca.
! A Nelson street woman threw her
boys pants up over clothes-horse,
Saturday night. to dry, and was very
much surprised to find herself pelted on
the head with half-pound top, dozen
ounce marbles, two lead sinkers, fish
line, a glass agate, a broken cork screw,
three slate pencils, a hone handled jack
knife, and handful of shot. She now
dries his pants on him.
| One of the wise men of Boston { Pro-
fessor John), and two or three Others,
propose to start from the Common Gen.
tire Of the universe in that city, on the
Fourth of July, and let the earth swing
around at the rate of 100 miles an hour,
It'll England is underneath, and then
drop. If they should drop before, it
would put damper on all such airv
schemes, and probably bar others from
taking an ocean that way.
As some lady visitors were recently
! going through a penitentiary, under the
escort of the superintendent, they came
to room in which three women were
sewing. s.Dear mel" one of the visit
ors whispered, "what vicious looking
creatures Pray, what are they here
for?' Because they have no other
home. This is our sitting-room, and
they are my vile and two daughters"
blandly answered the superintendent.
A fashionable lady being asked how
she liked the dinner given at poets
house, her reply was; "rhe dinner was
ey spended but my seat was so pro-
mote from the nick nacks that could
not gra,ify my appetite, and the picked
cherries bad such defect on my heat
that had a notion to leave the table,
but Mr. gave me some hearts
horn resolved in water which bereaved
me-"
The Postofiice Department has ruled
that postal cards may be registered up
on prepayment of the regular fee OF
fifteen cents. 1t must not, however, be
put into an envelope, but merely into
the registered package envelope, accom-
panied by the regular bills. 1t is hard
lv to be presumed that any persons de-
! sire to register postal card. but such
is the fact, applications having been
made to the postmasters for that pur-
pose, who have sent to the Department
for Instructions, which are given as
above.