The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-12-15
Smse and no'lsrpse,
London has $50 railway stations.

A friend indeed is one who is not in
need.
Better run in old clothes than run in
debt.
"Sezer" is llle way a Western paper
spells Ce ssr.
Those whom the people dislike live
to good old age
Every good sculptor ia bound to make
a statute or bust.
1t is said dthat Kerosene will produce
wild intex1atieii.
Taken as a whole a Pill is good
thing, but it is bitter to chew.
II any man leave door open now,
shoot him on the spot.
He who expects a fliend without
faults will never find one.
A man may be very sharp, and yet
never cut an acquaintance.
There is much pulling and hauling
for living in the dental professions.
The latest phase Of New York crime
is to pitch ones wife off the roof
A dull season-Boardng house pep
per.
The starving people in Nebraska are
living on baked squash and pumpkin.
Prof. Tyndall does not believe in
heaven neither does horse
Why are ladies like churches? Be-
cause there is no living with them.
The squirrels are emigrating from
Pennsylvania, which means hard win
ter.
A ShankIand made $4,000 out Of
his peach orchard in Bellevue, o., this
season. h
"What shall we do with the dead
leaves of this country?' Leave 'em
alone. ..-..
Marriage hath in it the labor of love,
the delicacies of friendship, the bless
ings of society, and the union Of heart
snd hands. ........ ~.
St. Louis has wonder on exhibition
known as the colossal young lady, who
weighs 400 pounds, and is only nine
teen years Of age. 3t
Nothing will sooner tempt bachelor
to abandon his resolution to marry
than to sleep in the adjoining room to
a young couple with q colicky baby.
! The formula of divorce used by a
negro justice in Desha county, Arkan-
sas: GAS / jined you, SO 1 bust you
'sunder. So go you niggers. You go"'
| 1t doesn't pay to try to raise poultry
F;;-zGaaroia. The owner r-of the fowls
has to purchase shot guns anG anlnunr-
ton, sit up nights, kill folks and attend
inquests, and, after time, lie is wor-
ried out.
A bashful young clergyman recently
rising to preach for the first time made
a terrible mix of it and announced his
text in this wise: "And Immediately
the cock wept and Peter went out and
crew bitterly"
Goodman, the Hog Creek putnam
County, Ohio murderer, will be hung
December 30th, at Ottawa, on the Day
ton and Michigan Road, the Governor
having decided not TO interfere with the
sentence.
An experienced teacher says that it is
impossible for Sunday school scholar,
with a boil,4to satisfactorily fasten his
mind down even upon the simplest ex-
position of the scheme of salvation.
| Macon, Miss, has a sensation in the
shape of train of misty looking cars.
with a skeleton peering out of each
window, which runs by the station at
midnight without sign or signal.
"Well, my friend,' said the pastor,
"what induced you to send for me ?"
The patient, who was rather deaf, ap
pealed to his wife what does he say 2"
"He says" shouted the woman, '.what
the deuce did you send for him for ?"
A fop once bothered one Of the
Rothschilds by boasting of set of
malachite studs he had just bought, and
asking the great banker if he did not
admire them. "Oh, yes" says Roth
schild, every pretty, indeed I've got a
mantelpiece like that at home.''
Dying the other day, Georgia man
took his wife's hand and said: "Susan,
you've been good wife! We've lived
together thirty two years, and / never
found button off my. shirt! I'll speak
good word for you as soon as l git
thar %
Young ladies who really like pickles
shouldn't be dissuaded from indulging
in them by the silly superstition that
they are bad for the complexion. A
colored lady in South Brooklyn certifies
that she has eaten them all her life with
out experiencing the least injury.
"Chicago is mad because she hasn't
had case like Detroit, where a man
was living with four wives" We can't
see why they should want Chicago
man to live with four wives, when it is
only now and then, and with the utmost
difficulty, they can get him to live with
one.
A lady in this city wears very hand
some solitaire diamond finger-ring
which has been in her family for one
hundred and fifty three years. She is
the seventh representative of the family
; into whose possession it has come in
it's descent from mother to eldest daugh-
ter.-Ie,Te Haute Gazette.
A young man who left Brooklyn
over three years ago, to 'go west and
grow up" has jnst been heard FROM
He writes home 10 his friends, from
Idaho, saying that the country is the
most beautiful the sun ever shone upon,
and the inhabitants the most sociable
he ever met. Also that he expects to
be hanged in about four days for steal
ing mule.
Here is poet who says: I'm sitting
sadly on the strand, That stretches to
the waters brink: And as the dav slips
slowly by, l idly fold my hands and
think" Whilst he is sitting on the
strand with idly folded hands, his fami-
ly at home may be suffering for the
necessaries of life. He should skirmish
around before the day slips slowly by,