The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-07-15
NUMBER 2l
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Another new asteroid Heavens
The navy bean ripens n-six weeks.
Dix's land is Saratoga foe the Season.
The New York live stock isn't lively:
Fresh rolls are kneadeG for breakfast.
The roads Of Yosemite are now Open:
The Mexican overture. is all fiddle
sticks.
The Tigress win try the Arctic clis
mate.
cod ash;is always sure d be paia
for.
A chin that is never shaved-An ur-
chin.
The Shah isn't a lady's man. He has
several % s3sf
In Oregon brass bands are called
"wind jammers." seeA
1t is thought, from his name, that
Chaucer was TOBACCO -beggar, -.
After Capt. Jack the next sensation
is Yellow Jack. So it goes g9hss,fi
The ocean is white with the neckties
of outward-bouBd clergymen.
PANNiER-A "waist basket for back
numbers of old newspapers.
Admiral Porter is going to Europe,
hoping to come back "stout."
What we think stumbling blocks per.
haps are mere stepping stones.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol.
lars have already been expended to
keep Stokes from the gsllows.
LlBERAL-A7 Philadelphia paper is
willing that nature should take its
course.
A Varick street saloon keeper an.
nounces by sign-board: ."Irish Lager
Bier 1910 tT4t fYf3
Sonora threatens to. become sonorous
with the whoop of troop Of Apaches.
Western politicians are blistering
their hands moving to get in with tho
farmers. = g@ElE.
; "A Wilmington hotel had "haggaee
coolness' with stroiting minstrel
troupe,
What is that from which, if you take
the whole, some will remain? Whole
some.
The Geneva award weighs twenty
three tons. That's the weigh Of the
transgressor. is9 aisii q 3Ief
A Liverpool paper speaks ofs'Arte-
mus Ward Beecher, the great American
humorist." 'af 81 ns
Titusville thieves stole a frame house
between Saturday night and Sunday
morning.
A photographar-rea anested that@his
sign, "Taken from life," should be. his
epitaph,
From bis cavalry experience, McNa-
hon is relied on for stable govern.
ment in France. .1ssi
The Boston Globe defines blushing as
ga practice least used by those who
have most occasion for it." pk taiss ~
A Western editor recently rode sixty
miles Oh a cow-catcher,. and failed to
catch the COW after all,
When may man be said to be liters
ally immersed in his business? When
giving swimming lesson. laslS gi'sa
aDriver are yon running on time TO-
dayf" mo, sir" was the keen reply;
1--WE are running for cash." 3 .,.s.s
IA statement OF the appropriations
made by the last Congress for the fiscal
years ending 1873 and 1874. has been pre-;
pared By the Treasury Department.
Secret marriages are so popular at
Peoria that fathers and mothers dare
not scold their daughters for fear they
are addressing some ones wife.
A Cairo man warns people noe to
trust his wife. and she retorts by say
ing that he'll go without clothes oil
summer before she'll go washing to rig
him out again. ~. 40 feS..s,-s-.s
No USE FOR EM.-The city editor Of
the Jacksonville Journal offered to send
bis girl the paper regularly, but she re-
piled with sweet innocence, that her
.ma didn't allow her to wear EN- Thu
1poor girl only knew one use for a pa
lper. % 9sf.s ele ~
John Bright IS said TO value the gold
headed cane bequeathed to him by Abss-
ham Lincoln for his active defense OF tho
United States during the rebellion, be-
yond any of the presents and testimoni-
ais hehas received from his numerous
admirers and friends lid asi
Texas is large and sparsely populs.
ted State, but the people appear to BE do.
| ing their best to fill itup. There is man
in Waco who is the father of City chill.
|dren, thirteen by his frst wife, eighteen
oy his second, ten by his third, six hyb;s
fourth, and three by his fifth wife, who at
last accounts was still living. 10 y,s
Miss Alta NJ. Hulett, admitted to the
Ipractice Of the law in Chicago a few days
ago, has won her first case-and the first
case ever conducted by a woman in the
Estate of illinois, Miss Hulett's client
was washerwoman, and the defendant
butcher, represented by ainale lawyer
| About three months ago Mr.. Allen
|Coy, of GAINESVILLE, l.. l., married his
Ibrother's widow The brother hanged
himself about thirteen years ago, and
lshe preserved the rope with which he
hanged himself East Monday morn
ling while her husband vas busy at his
out door work, she went into an unoc-
I cupied chamber and hanged herself with
| the rope she had kept so long. y j
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i Ina lawsuit between two members
of the same church, the counsel for one
of the parties suggested that the breth-
, rem ought to refer their differences to
4 the high court above; to which the eli
lent responded that "the same idea had
occurred to him, but there seemed to be
ar insuperable obstacle in the way-he
couldn't contrive any way to get his
lawyer there" u.
A Yankee in Paris, who was listen
ing to the boasts of a lot of English
and French artists about the wonderful
genius of their respective countrymen,
at last "broke out" and said; "Oh,
Ipshaw Yeou git eoutl Why, there's
] Bill Devine, Of our village, who kin
paint piece of cork SO 'xactly like mar
al, t1o+ Tho v,,;,,,fa won 4br~x~, ,otA