The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-12-08
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All That sIn or hope to be. I owe
20 mr. motiier Abrdhum Lincoln.
Don't thfoE dust into your teachers
eyes Il nI enly injnre the pupil.
Laughter sfoulil be refined by good
Lta end tempered by good feeling.
s1ay be fatteging, but it can do no
as55Sod VI sn ass to call him lion.
,A(Seorafa eaitor has been indicted
| for playing peker, two cents ante.
A new town III the California quick
silver region hss been named Mercury
A man in Ottawa, Canada, recently
Esold his wife for consideration of SO
New silver coins are proposed of the
value Of eighth and a fifth of dollar.
IiSs s.sa anrsn say III kick yos.
He says III give ycu kick with my
foot.
Life is said to be a tragedy to him
who feels and a comedy to him who
| thinks.
Simply ceasing to live together prac.
tically divorces man and wife. So leg
islates the Oregon Senate.
A Nashville life insurance company
has within little over year paid out
$4,000 for deaths by assassination.
Those hats which tern up at the sides
are jaunty. but partsof the natural ef-
feet is lost when Il wearer hasn't ci-
gar in her teeth.
1t is proposed to convert the tomb of
| Augustus, at Rome, into theatre
What do the friends of Gus think Of
thatp
1t has been discovered that an Iowa
man who was chairman of a grasshop-
per relief committee has sixty-Qne new
bedquilts in his house.
A wicked man iE Davenport, being
on his death-bed, wished to consult
some proper person regarding his future
state,and his friend sent fire insurance
agent to him.
There is still another point in favor
of narrow gauge railroads. When the
locomotive runs over man, two-thirds
of the body is. left in good condition
for Identification.
An old woman at Liverpool, Ohio,
s'didn't want 'em to take any trouble
after she was dead, but if it was just
the same she'd like to be buried with
her spectacies on
The highest prize in Chinese lottery
is twenty nine cents, but the swearing
is just as loud and deep as at Havana
A New Bedford man found long
lost brother recently, by reading over
the cases of cures in patent medicine
almanac. s..
Discontinue the practice of hickman
ing cats Of the masculine gender Tom
they are sensitive on that point. Call
4thesp Thomas. - = 4.
Proofreaders are the worst abused
and most forgiying of all people; but
they err most when they overlook the
! errors of others
A Troy man worth $4,000 hung
himself recently If. they must do it,
that's the kind of men to go about it,
as it loosens the currency.
Careful estimates put the yield of the
precious metals this year in Utah at
Sl0.000,0O0 This is against S5,000,-
600 last year.
There are 12,700,000 Christians in
i Turkey and 100000 Jews. The Chris
tians are not allowed to vote in political
matters. 3i
A child, being asked what were the
three great feasts of the Jews promptly
and not unnaturally replied, Breakfast,
dinner and supper"
Antl-evil speaking societies are being
organized in some cities. These are
much preferable to evil aunty speaking
societies.
The hest time. to mulch strawberry
beds is just after the ground is frozen.
Place the litter three or four inches
deep between the rows, and one inch
over the crowns Of the plants,
The will of resident of Middlescx,
! Del, recently deceased, contains the
following clause: "And l bequeath to
nv beloved son John the sum OF one
dollar, with which to buy a rope long
and strong enough to hang that Irish
wife Of his.
"So Won take lessons in drawing, Sal
lie Pv s.Yes. and the teacher says I'm
an apt pupil, as draw more inlerences,
1 insinuations, admirers. and allowance
than any other girl in the academy"
An inebriated man, walking along the
street, regarded the moon with sover-
eign contempt: "You needn't feel so
proud, he said, ''you are full only once
a month, and l am every night"
Il Nicely cured clover, cut short, mixed
| with corn meal and cooked, is one Of
the best kinds of winter food for pigs.
On this, when in warm pen, they gain
!, about as fast as upon meal and clover
in the summer. 2
: a gentleman having horse that ran
away and broke his wifes neck,a neigh
Dor sought to buy the animal as a
means of divorce "No, no." said his
owner; r;."I intend to marry again myself
before long"
Green Bay husbands will stand a
great deal of pecking at, and will even
submit to be struck with stove leg,
but when their wives ask 'em to get up
at midnight and bring in the clothes off
the line, that's too much, and fight
ensues.
Thoughtfulncss for others, generosity,
modesty and self-respect are the quail
ties which make a real gentleman or
lady, as distinguished from the vencered
article which commonly goes by that
name.
! Maria is a very popular name in Hi
nois. When q cat climbs back fence
in well populated neighborhood and
plainly calls out 'Mariar!' twenty or
thirty windows arc hastily thrown up,
from which protrude twenty or thirty
female heads wildly answering "What 2"
Let the eagle scream! That impu.
dent preacher" Of the St. Louis Jour
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