The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-09-08

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cause it begins to hum.
When does the moon take ride! p
When she's on the wane.
When viii the laundress most likely
strike when the irun's hot.
What would bird do when deprived
of his beak ?-Call for his bill.
When was Desdemona like q ship in
port :-When she was Moored.
We have friend who is so feeling
that he cannot bear to hurn his coal.
What are fancy goods ?-O:ten things
that people don't fancy.
Why isH dog like tree because
both lose their bark when dead
What bankers were hardest or du.
ling the late panic? Those who couldn's
even pay one little attention,
What animal could have dispensed
with the Ark why, the dog, to be-
sure, might have set up bark.
"Wel!, if ha hatch hand ha ho hand
ha har hand ha hess don't spell 'orse,
then my name hain't 'Enry Ill"
The preacher Who married old Ben.
der, forty-one Years ago, has been found
By the detectives. That's encouraging;
but We must be permitted to caution the
detectives not to let old Bender him
self step on them,
Say no more about Eurbpe She is
taking care Of Joaquin Miller, Josie
Mansfield, Genet and two American
base ball clubs, and II that isn't kind.
ness what is?
They said of Mr. Blake of Cairo.
when he died the other day: aHe1 has
departed for summer resort, and it
will take six men to wipe the sweat off
his shoulders /"
Governor Moses, if renominatcd will
| have q pretty large party in his support
| consisting mainly of men he has par
doned ont of the peni,entiary.
1t was ''darling George when bri-.
dal couple left Omaha; it was "dear
George" at Chicago at Detroit it was
George and when they reached Nj
agara Falls it was, "Ssy9 you.
Let us hear no more about broken
hearts. A New York physician posi-
lively asserts that no woman ever died
from such M afliction, 1t is liver COM
plant they mistake for severed heart,
A correspondent explains that mar
ried men have their hair cut short du-
ring the vacation because they do not,
in the absence of their wives, need it to
deaden the blows Of the rolling-pin.
There's ten thousand dollar South
Jersey heiress who has so many lovers
sitting on the fence, waiting for her to
come out nights, that she has given her
entire fortune to endow lunatic asY.
lun.
When Tennessee husband will
horsewhip his wife for washing potatoes
in his Sunday plug-hat, it is time to in
quire whether this generation Of men
isn't getting to be too eonfounded high
toned for the age of the country ,Ig
A scribe writes that the finest looking
women at the seashore, this season, are
the Baltimore ladies. This verdict may
depend somewhat upon the clrcumstan.
ices Of the situation. 1t Is Just posi-.
BILE that the Baltimore girls ore too
shrcwd to go in bathing while "scrihes"
ara around
The flrst organ built in this country
was made by Mr., Edward Stamiela,fof
Boston, who died August 49,, l756.--
The fact is stated on his tombstone in
Kings Chapel burial ground.
TRANSACTIONS in lead' appear spe-
cial,y heavy in Texas Just now. "A mar-
der day is considered poor busineas.
What grand commercial destiny that
State has. i9 v
Ga the fifty-eighth anniversary of the
battle of Waterloos which occurred on
June 18th, there were living fsty-nine
men who were commissioned officers
under Wellington In that battle.
In the longevity of its inhabitants,
Wiliiston, Vt, claims to be the banner
town Of the State. 1t has population
of l,44l, of whom two hundred and
one are 60 years of ago and over: ono
hundred and foriy-dye, G5 and over;
ninety, 70 and over; sixty-one, "a and
over; twenty nine, so and over; six.
S. and over; and three, 90 and over.
The other day an aged couple drove
into Indiana City, Ind Just as an I'M
aertakiDg firm was moving into an old
church, which had been purchased Tor q
shop. The old gentleman stood up in
his wason,his mouth and eyes d s.endati,
as the men silently carried ccfIin after
coffin into the church. At last he turn-
ed to his awe,stricken half and gasped
"Sary, by golly, its cholera! Let's git!"
! A firm dealing largely in coal in one
Of our Western cities had in their ser.
vice an lishman named Barney. One
: day the head of the firm, irIitated, be.
yona endurance at one Of Darney's
blunders, told him to go to the Office
and get bis pay, aud added: You are
: so thick-headed can't teach you any,
thing" "Begorra," says Barney, Il
larn wan thing since I've been wild We ~
"Whats that?" asked bis employer
That sivinteen hundred make a ton"
, An instant of astonishing coolness
: considering the season) occurred on a
street car in Detroit the other day. A
confiding woman handed two-dollar
bill 10 q man near her that he might
: pass it to the driver, pay her fare and
: receive the change. He calmly folded
a up the bill, put it in his vest pocket, land
S walked out of the vehicle. The poor
S lady was so astonished as to lose the
y power Of speech until /, was too late
+. to raise an alarm Such is the presence
o Of mind in a man and the want OIL. tr
q woman.