The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-04-21
Seqlse and noqsense,

The widow who mourned for week.
failed to get it. l5,i @ 4I
Why Is the hen like the sun? Be.
cause she sets.
Why is negro like a letter of the
old English a!phabct2 Because he is
dark-e. ~ $50 s
Why ia an inebriate never afraid of
ghosts? Because be Is generally In the
presence Of spirits. 7e q t.stls slo
II it takes four pecks to make n bush
cl, ia bush I'D how many will it take TO
make it well againP fiE! lai ei5
Spell murder backward, and yon have
its cause. Spell its cause in the same
manner. and you have lis effect.
The longest word in the English lam
guage is smiles, because there is mile
between the first and last letters. I'd
A lady hearing that tunnel cost sl5.
600 yard, importuned her husband to
buy her a dress of that material. gt
Three hundred years ago ladies used
to comb their hair on their heads--now
they hang it over the back Of chair to
comb it. -.
Another remedy has been discovered
for rheumatism in London. II is hot
sand BATH This makes 1884 remedies
all infallibe. Es2 ita
There are over ten million women in
America, and yet Tom Hutton, of Geor-
gia, hung himself On account Of a girl
fifteen years old.
A Wisconsin paper says Of Sumner;
"He was a great statesman, and il. he
borrowed dollar he didn't forget to
return it." Nt. ~
A fashion critic tells US that the new
bonnets are the old ones sat down on
for half an hour or so The critic needs
sitting on. e,H ~
That was sensible old chap In Dcla.
ware, who, dyirg the other day, said.--
Don't write any poetry about me and
don't fool around about monument
It's about,time now that parties who
mediate going to Saratoga should be
gin borrowing and laying away small
sums of money.
Married men all over the country
will turn sympathetic eyes toward Plain
field, N. J, There is a youth in that
town in Jail for beating his mother-in.
law.
A St Paul locomotive threw a man
one hundred and eighty feet through q
tressle-work bridge and didn't hurt lin,
which is another recommendation for
Western climate.
They were going to put man out of
q San Francisco theater for creating a
disturbance, when voice cried, "He's
all right, he's killed Chinaman!' and
they let the man alone. sass ~ ,,
An exchange says that q Michigan
man dreamed recently that his aunt was
dead. The dream proved true. lie
tried the same dream on his mother.in-
Law, but It didn't work. als9 .IRss
A new style Of boys trousers has
been invented in Boston, with d copper.
seat, sheet iron knees, riveted down the
seams, and water proof pockets to hold
broken eggs. ga,
An Indiana paper having recently
changed hands, the editors valedictory
was simply, I've quit" and the ssloto-
ry Of the new manager was, We've
commenced" s34l ta i9a1ii,iss.i'
A Boston man rather snappishly re-
marked to his wife one Sunday, that a
man cant always be thinking OF hts i'm.
mortal sout-he must have time to eat
bis meals. s5 - z
A Nevada paper says: There was
no regular trial in the case of John
Flanders yesterday. He had an inter-
view in the woods with few friends,
however, and it is perfectly certain that
John won't burgle any more" ;tes
A correspondent, writing upon tho
subject of the women's crusade. asks !:
"If the dead could speak to US from
their graves, what would they saw"
We rather guess they would say, "Let
US out" gs sls
Honorable mention is made OF q
Maine servant girl who Is now serving
her eighty second winter under the same
roof. She has washed dishes S9.790
times, and comes yet gaily TO her task.
Blessed old girl!
What viii not woman do, says a
Brooklyn paper, for the man she loves
"Her hand was the Arst to reach and draS
The bottle from the shelf
It is your curse dear John she said,
And drank it up herscH.p
An extra glass Of wine overthrow the
Orleans dynasty, confscated their prop
erty of 800, 900, ,0OO,and sent the whole
family into exile, The Duke of Orleans.
eldest son of Louis Philippe, in con,
vivial hour, drank little too much wine
and fell from his carriage, striking on
his head. Senseless and bleeding, he
was taken into beer shop near by and
died.
In reply to the question. rs it wick
ed to dance?" Henry Ward Beecher
says: ut is wicked when it Is wicked,
and not wicked when it is not wicked
In itself it has no more moral character
than @alking,wrestling or rowing Bad
COMPANY, untimeIy hours, evil dances
may make the exercises evil; good com,
pany, wholesome hours and home In
fuences may make it very great bene
fit" ae
Bees are geometricians; the moles i.
q meieorologist; the torpedo, the ra,
and the electric ell are electricians
whole Tribes of birds are musicians the
beaver is architect, builder and wood
cutter the marmot is civil engineer
the ant Is soldier; wasps are paper
manufacturers; caterpillers ! are silk
spiuners; the squirrel is a ferryman
dogs, wolves, jsckals and many others