The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-10-27
NUMBER Sc,
satse and eNoqse'.se.


TOOK, one drink. took another;
Took some of this and some Of itother;
Drank some gin, then brandy and water,
And Of whisky more'n he oughfer.",
When the Arkansas csnsns taker next
,oes around lie viii fnd Peter Dayton
Missing from earth The old man foyed
package and threw 1t on the fire ~
'ee il it was powder or sand. It wasn't
sand - Ff' sSf&ss' -
This dreaming. this somnambulism. is
what we on earth call life; whercipsshes
most indeed undoubtingly wander, rs II
they knew right aand from left. Yet
.hey are wise who know shat they know.
nothing. 5a! xot3'J s.1r.
The love-letters of the Duo de Richie.
lieu are offered for sale In Paris In
none Of them, however, does 1t appear
that he and his sweetheart. ever stimuli
taneously sacked at the same stick Of
candy. r,u - a..4..s
ATenhessean shot poor fellow jnst
because his name was Moses Bogaidus
Smith. What atrocity will this baib
rian not be guilty of if he once hears
that there is such man as Junius Henri
Browne ?-Conrisr Josraal.
General Sherman says there need be
no dispute about his religious faith, for
it can he given in q few words. Says
he: 81 believe that if people. only. act
half rs well as they know how, God
will forgive the balance" ''5i-'2
"Alas!' said the nurse WHO attended
the witty divine, Sidney Smith, in his
last illness, II have made mistake and
given you a bottle Of ink /" .'Thcn,''
said the dying wit, "fctch me oil the
blotting paper there is in thu honse.'"
A Milwaukee man has spp,ied for
patent on fountain pen, which. bv the
pressure of the thumb on small rub
ber ball.. projects ~ stream ss6 ink
through the holder and Into the, facofof
the fellow who lis looking over yesr
shoulder while you are writing. ,,44
To prevent CALLING in persons CON.
fined to their beds, take the white OF an
egg, beat it to strong froth, and drop
in gradually while you are heating two
teaspoonfuls Of spirits Of wine; put the
mixture into bottle Of vine and ap-
ply occasionally With feather.
In Australia you can hire n man team
to draw you around all day for twenty
cents. But it will hardly pay to jgo 10
Australia to indulge linothis pleasure.i
unless you had thought of going 10
Niagara to be drawn around. Tho dif-
ference in the charges at the two places
would more than pay your fare to Aus
lralia and back.
A bright lad who commenced 70 go
to school for the first time on Srptem-
Der 1st, is progressing wonderfully with
his studies. He can mash flies betwef n
the covers of his books and place
crooked'pins on the boys seats with d
proficiency seldom acquired in SO short
"a period. a..es
A lady sitting in her parlor mud en-
gagged in the dreamy contemplation OF
the moustache OF the gentleman Who
was to escort her and her sister TO a
musical festival, was suddenly awaken
ed by an ominous whisper in a juvenile
voice at the door, you've got AIMS
teeth and she wants EN- H-s1
Give d man the necessaries aofilifs
and he wants tho iconyeniences. Give
him the eonveniences and be Graves for
the luxuries. Grant him the luxusies
and he sighs for tho elegances. Let
| him have tie elegances and he yearns
| for the follies. Give him all together
and lhe complains that he hasi9 been
cheated both in price and quality Of the
afticles...1. as9a -sn7el,g yi,sti-rsa
4 1.-The Brooklyn imbroglio hogan with
| epistles and came very near ending with
pistols. This sort OF prayer book We
trust is peculiar to the Plymouth con-
( gregationG. Years ago Mr.. Beecher
raised a contribution in his church I"
buy Sharpe's rifles for bleeding Kansas,
land the recent pistol scene at his prayer
meeting is legitimate enough.
In San Francisco it is q common
|sight to see a Chinaman enter crowd
ed street car with dirty sack contain.
ing the bones of dead relative, which
he has just gathered in Lone Mountain
4 Cemetery, with the intention, aof ship.
ping them to China. According to
Chinese notion. this may be exhibiting
lproper respect for the dead, but iii
pretty hard on the noses Of the living
i Sidney Smith was once visiting III,
conservatory of young lady who wal
proud of her aowers, and used (no
very accurately a profusion Of hotan
ical names. "Aladame," p said -tcs "hav
I you the Septennis psoriasis r. "Eo,'
she said, very iDnocently, Il had it las
winter, and l gave it to the Archbishop
J of Canterbury, and it came out beauti
lffu'ly in the srling." Septennis rsor
r1iasis is the medical name for the seven
] years itch. 70 Aetaagyy.
One of the wittiest as weli as one o
1.-THE most brilliant men Pennsylvania ha
[preduced. was the late George ", Bar
ton, of Philadelphia, who once ocou
pied seat on the bench. Trying
case before judge who was chiefly re
markable for obtuseness he took Iocca
: sion to say that be had often seen
:, great ass in judicial robes. ."You spcal
$ from experience, suppose was tn
angry retort mot at oil" reptile,
: Judge Barton. II am, speaking direell,
from observation"
Il "A young lady in note to Che We
;. mans Journal says: Il have read wit
J.. Interest all you have TO say on dress N
i form, and now wish to give.up skirts O
!. opcep Warm full trousers buttoned I
!. a shirt waist, with a band below tn
!. knee, full plated skirt reaching to tn
: knee, with handsome boots, woul
(. make graceful costume, which woul
il he admired by all so soon as the icy
4 became accustomed to it."
, Millions of insects injurious to tree
, may be destroyed by keeping up nun
/ bers of small fires from twilight I
a midnight and surrounding them vi,
IS circles Of twenty to thirty tarrcd stake
c not more than. six inches apart. A
though few insects will be found bur,
q ed To death. since thew soon secnn