The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-10-13
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dust from the road Of life"
The average Kentucky boy can shoe
q revolver before he can say his A |
Cs..
',Susie," the favorite Westfield trotter
has taken S5,1 so premiums since Au
gust llth.
A paint mine, producing eight differ
ent shades Of color, is Michiga ans lates
discovery. Efs@
f. Florida feeds her prisoners on han
and eggs, and everybody is trying tt
Eget iuto Jail.
Rochester has Convent House o
Industry, in which young girls arr
taught shoemaking.
The project to construct tunnel be
tween France and England is assuming
tpractical phase.
| Dakota means 'cut-throats The IA
tive born of that Territory must there
fore accept the name.
A society in New York city furnishe!
working girls breakfastof fresh brea(
and hot coffee for five cents.
1t is reported that an order will soor
be issued expeling from Prussia all for
eign priests, monks and nuns.
Portland has sign reading: "Johr
& Henry Clute's father-grocel." Thi
beat Boston by fully rod and half.
A young lady of Clarendon was re
Gently cured of severe structure III th,
shoulder by being prostrated by light
ming. IL
A Mr.. Squires, of Ryegate, Vt, ha.
Ijust vomited up lizard, which, hi
thinks, has been in his stomach for fiv,
years.
A breastpin was found under house
recently demolished in Logan county
Ky, where it had lain seventy six years
An Oregon town is described rs nest
ling meath the ever restless and shifting
shadows Of blue and brown and bro.
ken mountain
/ Mrs. Marshay, of Brooklyn, tried thu
lexperiment of kindling fire with ker
osene. There is coffin hut no oil car
in the house.
During q game of base ball at Dayton
Ohio, the other day, the leg of a negro
boy was struck with such force by The
ball as to break it. a-'
When the worlds gold is denied to 6
man, and he owns but little of the sill.
vcr, what wonder that he should seek Q
solace out of-the pewter.
English juries in several recent cases
have awarded large damages against
railways whose patrons have been in
jured by accidents.
A steamer has been fitted up at Mon
treal with stalls and all the necessary
conveniences for carrying livestock
aepoestle Atlantic. sssse i4sseffsas ~.
In Sicily, if one wants to get fellow
out of the way, all he has to do is te
drop 50 into the hand of a brigand ant
point out the victim.
Thomas Ogden, OF Manchester, tool
pity on little abandoned puppy, and
now the coroner says that Thomas
trouble was hydrophobia.
The Paris papers wonder why it is
cheapeper to get to Paris from Phila
delphia or New York or Boston, thar
from San Francisco in the same coun
try.
A vein of coal has been discovered
in Colorado which resembles the trunks
and limbs Of trees resembling red ce
dar, transformed into bright hard Goa
resembling jet. ae'' Aa
A little boy in La Crosse threw thu
shears at his father, hit the old woman
in the head. and in the family fight thai
ensued roll of greenbacks was jostlec
down from a crevice.
The Secretary of the Interior won't
even let an American citizen 90 West
and get scalped. Day by day this gov
ernment seems to drift toward mon
archy.
After the aequittal Of man in Gin
cinnati recently, one of the jurymer
rose and suggested that the acquitted
be now recommended to the mercifu
consideration of the court.
There is Chicago medium who car
pour blazing coal oil over her face with
out harming herself, because she i:
possessed by the spirit of an Indiar
girl who was frozen to death.
A man went into the Postofliee a
Springfield, Ohio, and asked, ais there 6
letter here for Mike How?' s'No," an
grily replied the clerk, "there isn't a let
ter here for anybody's cow"
A special from Rome says that the
French Ambassador has presented to the
Pope letter from President McMahon
announcing the withdrawal Of the man
of war, Orivaque, from Civita Vicehia.
A Madison, Wis, special says the Su
preme Court granted motion to includ,
the Milwaukee & Pacific Division of th,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, in the re
cent injunction issued by tbeCourt tt
that road to comply with the provisions
of the Potter law.
Geo Brown has sent another challeng,
to JOS H Sadler, the champion of En-
gland, to row five mile race for $2,50'
to $4,000 side, at Springfield, Mass,
Halifax or St. Johns, the last week in DC
tober or the first week in November.
A man who was about to be hanged il
Alabama sang joyfully, as he stood wit
the moose about his neck "Oh! tn
bright angels are waiting for me-
Whereupon the local editor fendishl
wrote: "And then the angels Stirred u
the fire and looked brighter than ever"
Husband-"Swear! 1 guess you'
swear, if you had razor as dull Q
this!'
Wife of his bosom-"Why, it ws
sharp enough when cut my corns wit
it last night"
A popular preacher enriched his Sc
mons occasionally with this jewel: "R
' member, beseech you, that we are sal
j ing down the stream of time, and mu
t inevitably land in the oceen of etern
+ ty."
t 4 suffering broker in New York lat
t ly asked another, who had bald pat