The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-09-01
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Afrultful spot ids Soplksrp po.ities
IS black-burying,
Miss Anthony says che IS net 1kold
as the falls named alter her.
The Chicago Tribune offers .Thars
me that's coughing as = substitute for
1.You hear me"
The New York Herald feels issthird :
term chill coming on again.
There IS a man In Oshkosh Who got
. reputation for genius by having dirty
hands
Twice ten Is the same as twice eleven.
because twice ten is twenty, and
twice eleven is twenty two.
The Postmaster General estimsted
that 130,0O0,000 postal cards will bs
wanted the first yesr.
A gormandizing Pennsylvanlan passed
away while yet in the midst of his fOf-
tieth quart of peanuts. heogg
The only Duke at Saratoga this year
is knock kneed old chap eighty two
years old, and the girls can't love him.
A Duluth woman had managed to
crowd eighteen rings on. her fingers
when stroke of lightning took her of.
The new grain crop is moving to
Chicago three weeks earlier than usual.
Fifty pounds of tallow were lately
taken from one sheep in Grayson coun-
ty, Texas. 50 sbt
A bee. cave has been discovered In
Los Angeles county, CAL, containing =
ton of honey.
A man in Marshaltown, Iowa, har-.
vested over 100 bushels of cherries
from his trees this year.
The Lonisvillian pulls his shirt on
the same as he does his trousers. He
can't get it on over his ears.
An eccentric turfman has named his
favorite horse ..Pot.o-o-o-o-o-o-o-os"
When he's in hurry he writes it
PotSos. ~
"A Detroit husband is in trouble for
whipping his wife because the baby did
not take frst-class prize at a baby
show.
Susan B. Anothony has lived fifty
five years, and is proud of it; but peo-
pie don't know yet whether she tells the
truth or not.
A heartless wretch says that the only
timid animal at the Hippodrome is the
rhinoceros, which has marked tend.
ency to hide. 6
A Memphis coroner won't 90 out to
hold an inquest without putting on d
clean shirt, and they are going to i'm
peach him.
Some of the odors smellable in Mil.
waukee can be cut up into chuucks,
properly labelled and used to kuock
strangers down with.
Stephens and Toombs have buried the
hatchet. They in Toombs, no. doubt
to Do their fighting hereafter with the
meat-axe.
"My notion Of a wife at forty" said
Douglas Jerold, ''is that man should
be able to change her, like bank note.
for two twenties." iafH 3na
A New York cook says he defles the
world to tell quails' legs from frogs
legs after they are cooked-and now
let's have another civil war. Hs9iBiDqs
What is wanted in Kansas is more
telegraph poles, or stronger ones. The
average pole holds only about four
horse thieves comfortably. ,
What sublime courage was that dis
played by the Nevada woman, who.
when the stealthy savage approached
her, just pulled off her hair and gave "
to him. 5i1
Murat Halstead mentioned to the
Golden Club that he came from the
largest of the interior cities of Amer.
lea. And yet we don't find bis name Ia
the Chicago Directory. m f 10
Since he wrote "Bothwell," Mr.
Swinburne, the poet, has suffered from
severe illness. The same thing has hap
pened to everybody who has waded
through it,
Boss Tweed spends the time not ae-,
quired by his duties as nurse in reading
his Bible. II he had commenced ear.
lier in life he might not have beeA
where he now Is. ga aa.g
Now We begin to see why Don Caflns,
exchequer is always low. 1t takes all
the money he can raise by indemnities
aud captures to pay his wife's travelling
expenses.
An up shore man wishes this paper
to give him remedy for ''kurkuln,s
the insect which destroy plums. but thn
only astronomer on the staff hls gone
off hHakleherrying.
The people Of Delaware want to bove
q big race for Governor, but We cans
see how they possibly can, unless they
get permission to run it in some other
State.
A Chicagoan stood two hours on
street corner last night waiting for the
red lighs over the ditch at the next cor
aer to come along. He supposed it
was street car.
The death is recorded of the man
who named Mauch Chunk, Pa. 1t brings
gush of tears to tho eyes immediaselv
to reflect upon the present and deselv,
ing condition of that man.
They say that the people in Omaha
don't care about prize fighting as long
as they are permitted to visit the Conn.
Gil chamber frequently. The ights
there are never interrupted by the pc.
lice.
"Pleasc gimme a postage stamp"
says Mrs. Wriggle to the clerk of the
Hotel, Cape May. "Thunders,
Madame, do you imagine this an apoth-
ecary shop2' screams the wretched
clerk. -
New Jersey is little disappointed
that thirty million gallons of water
should have been lost all at once, but,
then, as Trenton paper remarks,
"S'posen it had been good whisky?"
A watering place hotel clerk at Rye
Beach has been shot by a boy who was
carelessly handling gun. That is the
only excusable case Of accidental shoot.
ing which has occurred this season.
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