The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-12-16
Sense and Nopse,,se,

20 CNrr
Boss Tweed isn't SO much of 1e-
proach to the republican form of gov
ernment as be Vas.
Mr.. Russell, of the Fnnd du Lao
Journal, is laid up with broken arm.
With Cuban editorials did it:
Jenkins told his son, who proposed
to buy COW in partnership. TO he sure
and buy the hinder half, as 1t eats moth,
ing and gives all the milk.
The New York Herald evidently bs-
lieves In annihilatioh, tor IN speaking
of the Cuban massacre it says: Nearly
two hundred souls put to death"
A Boston club is said to have expell-
ed q member recently for admittipg,fot
the sake of argafnent only, thst@ Lake
Superior might be larger than Jamaica
Pond.
An ari,hmetical Queetion-if d spoon.
full of Yeast will iaise fifty ,cpnts worth
of four, how much yeast will d take to
raise money enough to buy another
barrel withs
A white boy met q cplored lad tln
other day. and asked him what be hsd'
such short nose for2 81. 'speet % il
won't poke itself into other peoples
business"
The editor of daily paper recentls
started pensiyely remarks: When your
pocket.book gets empty, and every body
knows it, You can pat all your friends
in it, and it won't bulge out worth
cent"
A photographers advertisement ur.
ges persons aboutato travel BY rail ID
come and sit for their ,portrs|,s, which
may be highly valued by their families
Tin certain event which shall be name.
less"
Twelve Miles from Lemon Is the
title of Gail Hanilton's new volume or
social and domestic sketches, soon ID
be issued. We should like to knO&
Calls customary distance IA from tho
other ingredients.
Women are said to have stroDgnrs At
tachments than men &. It is erincsd in
little things. A man, is often attached
to an old hat but did you ever know OF
a woman having an attachment for al
Old bonnetY Tbf s't'e9 soti isl9 -
In Black Hawk to6nslin Grundy
county, Iowa, two prepossessing girl
graduates, aged twenty two and twentyi
are practicing medicine, and the num-
ber of young men on the sick list is
really astonishing ,t....,,s.l,,,
A Wisconsin granger lately came
very near making tat Of himself by
getting run over hyp Aell-reller.-
Strange to say,he had go bones broken,
but be remarked to his physician that il
made him feel droller than he ever felt
before @ etl 40 gsa3 ~ steg1
young man, do you know what re-
lations you sustain In this world 7" said
a minister of our acquaintance to q
young man Of his church. AYES str;''
said the hopeful convert. stwo cousins
and grandmother; hutl don't ucan
to sustain them much longer"
"Pat," said traveller. sswty did ynn
make ,he stone wall around your shanY
SO thickr' Why, pIess yer honors I
hear they have extrornery high winds
10 Ameriky, so thought II buil. Is
about as thick as 1t was high, If Is
should blow over it would be Just 10
high as it wss afore. yer honor.
Everything has its use'' said pbilD.
sophical professor to his class .uf
what use is a drunkaid'se Aery red
nosew asked one ofithe pupils. "lt'6
lighthouse" answered the professor,
ito warn rs of the little water that
passes underneath It, and reminds us Of
the shoals OF appetite, on ~hitl We
might otherwise be wrecked
| "A little boy in Utica MO was III.
about Sunday school time last Sunday.
went off in convulsions when he heard
two dogs fghting in the alley, He vent
of from the back steps and did not 70.
turn until dark. After his mother got
through demonstrating . with ilth, hA
ctmtorted himself with the reflection
that he did not get shipped 90 bad ,ss
the yellow dog did, anyhow.
A good old elder ora, church, ~hx
was given in extraYagant exaggeratiop:
was at last called to account for his
ofense in that respect, and admonished
not to give way to the besetting sin In
future. The good old fnan received the
\ admonition meekly, and said: II know
how prone ! am to the fault, my breth.-.
rem, and 1t has given me tortures OF
pain; and night after night ! have shed
barrels If tears over it," The meeting
adjourned in silence. - s =
"Here we are now, within quartet
of mile Of iand,' was the joyful an
nonncement made by the captain Of an
ocean steamer to his grumbling passen!
gers. "Where,y Which way Ia 1t 2"
were the eager EXPLANATIONS which fol.
lowed. "Anywhere down below there
said the captain, pointing toward the
bottom of the sea "thc lead gives us
just two Hundred and twenty iathoms
of water; and the land comes slap up
against the brine" 5ei,-r.a
Tie oldest known rosebush in the
world cUvers one Of the walls of the
Hildesheim cathedral It is over 1000
yeafs old. The main stem is one foot
thick in diameter, and separates into
six large branches, fifteen feet from the
ground. Some 700, years ago it was
put uader cover to guard il against the
ravages Of the weather It sill sends
forth every year an immense crop .!
roses. a g @ ~
',Lame!" Sighed Mrs. Partingtoh.S-
'Here ] have been sufferin' the biga.
mics Of death for three mortal weeks
, First, l was seized with a bleeding
} phrenologv in the hampshire Of che
. brain, which was exceeded by the stop
) page Of the left ventla,or Uf the heart
This gave me inflammation Of the lief
} borax, and now ] am sick with tie chic
; reform morhus. There is no blessn
like that of health, particularly wher
you're i'll"
' Washington Irving once, when pick
] ing up an apple under tree in his owl
l orchard, was accosted by an urchin o
, the neighborhooi, who, pot recognizing
!, him as the proprietor, offered to sii1v
1 him a treh where he cOuId oef ktfr