The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-03-09
NUMBER 3.
Sa,se and noqsr,lse.

Sfuse and Wnusrlise.
California aspircs to he great cotton
manufacturing State, an hopes to sup
ply Caina with cotton goods more
cheaply than England can,
A Chicago man tlased his testimony
in his action for divorce from his wife
as follows: II don't want 10 say any.
thing again the woman, Judge, but I
wish you could live with, her q little
WHILE"
Where is the hoe, sambo r. -aWid
de rake, Massa" "WelL where is the
rake " avid de hoe.' .Buti where
are hoth?, ..Wby hof .togeder; you
'pearsto be berry 'sicuiar this mornil,g.'
"Sunthin's wrong mused a Tennes3
see farmer when he visited his smoke
house the other morning after setting
spring gun and failing TO find d dead
negro in front of it,
"Mr. Speakah, Mr.. Speakah, | rise to
a pint of o'dah. Dar's de man what
done t." calculated member of the
Arkansas Legislature, as he shook one
hand lranlically at the gallery and mop.
ped his head with the other dat dar
cussed white man jes done spit down on
de'topo o my head" Z ifeds s.q-
A dry goods clclk lately dropped
senseless behind the counter while, wait.
ing on customers The female custom.
er for whom he had pulled down every
bolt of calico on the shelves quietlyre.
quesled the proprietor to renove the
incumbrance and send ON another clerk.
An eminent foreign physician assert,
that the drinking of coffee invigorates
and improves the sight, aud renders
unnecessary the use Of spectaples, while
he considers. the use of chocolate inju,
rious to the vision. vi 80
A newly made constable in Connecti-
cut celebrated his election by farming
his overcoat inside out, exposing gthe
red lining. Thenane started for home
across q field, and didn't have to climb
the fence because certain enraged bull
lifted him over. s
Quicksilver is so scarce and dear in
! Mexico that the Mexican Congress has
offered reward of $4,000 to the first
mine producing 500 dasks of that min
eral. 1t is commended by q Mexican
metallurgist chat it may be procured at
80 places i. proper steps are taken to
do so.
The copper industry promises TO be
prosperous this. year. The price is re-
munerative, and the stock on hand no
greater than last year, when it was TO-:
100000 pounds. All that is not needed
at home can be exported to Europe,
which received most of the 5000, 600
pounds exported last year.
A Danbury gill received a porous
plaster in a gorgeous envelope bearing
monogram About ten o'clock that
night the owner of the monogram stan
ding disrobed before his fire, prepara.
tory to applying remedy to his chest,
tainted dead away on drawing from a
paper a mass of paper flowers and mot
toes. There was no fire in the parlor
Sunday evening.
The construction of canal from
Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River
is advocated in Iowa on the ground
that it would reduce considerably the
cost of carry ing agricultural products,
to the sea board One half the cost of
conveying the prodnce of the. upper
Mississippi Valley to the seaboard is
said to be incurred in sending it by rail
across the narrow belt Of land between
the river and Lake Michigan ,7ag 70
At Scheme ctady a spiritual medium
and her husband were both quite sick.
The woman died, and just before her
death she asked that her body be kept
six days, predicting that her husband
would then be dead. and they could be
buried together. The remains we're
kept seven days, and as at the end of
that time the stubborn man was conva-
lescent the disgusted believers in Spir-
itualism delayed the funeral no longer:
Having attempted to hang himself, but
having been prematurely cut down;
young gentleman OF Paris has survived
to give this account OF his, sensations:
"As knocked away the chair and fell
!. | had the sensation of receiving blow
from hammer on the top of my head.
did not feel the rope, and the only de:
I fined sensation succeeding that of the
blow was sensation of weight in my
head. My head seemed heavier and
bigger than the, great bell Of Notre
Dame. 1t was night all about me, and
then there came terrible cold in the
lower part of my body,and then sharp
pain where the rope was tearing my
neck, and then-nothing."
After these uncertain times. when the
hard pan is settled down on, fewer SER
wants, horses, aounces,fuss and feathers,
but higher culture. More sweat of the
brow, slower fortunes, but healthier
souls and sounder characters. Less of
the crowd and rush for trade, the fac;
tory and The city, and more scattered
abroad over Coos acres to till the soil,
and get their snstenance from mother
earth Less of Credit Mohilier and Pa
lcfc Mail, and more of hard work and
sweet content-Sp,inafeld RepuJlicaa.
Another Alaska article of export, viz
Mummies! A schooner of the Alaskan
Commercial Company lately arrived at
San Francisco bringing an assorted
cargo, including the well preserved
bodies of an old chief, his wife, and his
children-eleven diie,l heads in all.-
His Honor, while in the flesh, bore the
resoundipg name of Karkhayalouchack,
All the remains were wrapped in sea-
grass matlings, skins and furs, bound
together royalty with the sinews of sea.
lions. We do not know the exact com.
mercial value Of mummies: but Mf.
Barnum, we suppose, could tell US what
he could give for AR, and Mrs. Kark.
ihayaiouchack and the nine little Kslk.
hayalouchackses.- Y. Tribune.
Russia spends her annua. revenue OF
1851, 100000 in this way: Interest of
debt, SOS 100000; ecclesiastical, S6,s
100000; Imperial family, $4,000, 600;
{! fOreicn affairs. 81 500. 900. war. 800.