The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-07-06
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Can You tell me when it is that
blacksmith raises a row in the alphabet?
1t is when he makes q poke and shove
Why is newspaper like o tooth
brush Because every one should have
one of his own, and not be borrowing
his neighbours.
''Kill him! kill him!n shouted q
crowd in Virginia City as they gathered
around hotel "What for?'' Inquired
a stranger. "He's got on alligator boots
and velvet coat. Mash i'm"
swell, my boy,' asked genilsman |
of little eight year old boy, "what are
you crying for ?" 'sCause I can't find
my dad / told the oIdtfool if he weuts
off too far he'd lose me-" was the ilial
reply. 4raaet e.gop1
Big bull fight at Madrid the other day
for charitable purposes Three men
and several horses killed. "a little
more bull," roared the ladies and gen.
tlemen as they reluctantly left the, bull,
pit for home. -
A Cleveland woman recently married
a Chinese laundryman, and three days
thereafter the unhappy Celestial appear
ed at barbers chop and ordered his
|pigtail cut off, saying in explanation,
'sToo muchee dam yank."
A Minnesota paper made a young
|poetess say: "Oh, for heart full Of
sweet yearlings!r,'r The poetess wrote
to the editor, declaring that she wrote
|"yearnings" and that the. printer who
set it up "yearlings" was q calf.
| Mrs Rose, of Connecticut, said she
would hang herselfif Rose wasn't home
at eight O'clock When he came in at
night she was suspended to beam, cold
and dead. and he rubbed his hands and
whispered: There's . woman who
couldn't tell lie" sfk4
"We read in de good book" says
colored Baptist brother down South, ssof
John de Baptist-nebber of John do
Methodist" And that, says Charles
ton correspondent Of the New York
Observer, is the reason most Of the col
orei Southern people are Baptists.
| A newsboy, seated on the post Office
steps, counted his pennies over and re.
marked: Seventeen cents in all That's
five for the circus, three for peanuts,
four for sinking fund, foar i owe to
Jack, and there's one left to support a
widowed mother on until Saturday
night" gas4a,a ,
Said a colored Georgia preacher:
i''Dar's robbin' and stealin' all around.
Oars de Beecher business, de Wood
hull business, Sumner is dead, torna-
does come whoopin' around. de Freed
mans Bank has busted, and it pears as
| if de end was nigh, mighty clus at hand"
cit is not our fault;p says Milwau-
kee editor, shat we are red headed and
small, and the next time that one OF
lthose oyergrown rural rOosters in ball
room reaches down for our head and
suggests that some fellow has lost =
rose bud out of his button-hole, there
will be trouble" -tais Pc IA
| A yard stick is very useful in q store;'
a stick on the stage is of no use what
ever a stick in a tumbler is sometimes
in danger of making the sidewalk I'M
even to pedestrians; stick OF hus-
1 band or wife is apt to he much longer
than is desired, and stick full Of mat.
ter is the commonest thing readin news.
j papers. 81 eps gA BUS aian
4 A lady who had been teaching her
little four.year-old the elements of arith-
metic was astounded by his running and
propounding the following problem ~
'l"Mamma, if you had three butterflies.
and each butterfly had a bug in his ear,
how many butterflies would you haveS'.
! The mother is sull at work on the prob
ileu. 9ip9 lsged haa 9iia0laB I.ig6gs gaas.
whats this crowd around here for2r
demanded policeman. the other night
/ as lie came upon dozen boys grouped
J, near the gate of house on Second
street. Keep still" reIlied one of thA
lads, s.there comes old John, light as q
J brick, and we're waiting here 10 see bic
: wife pop him with the rolling pin - be
], opens the front door Enterprise
t Courier.
81 A new anecdote of tue rebellion is as
Il follows: "At the close Of the war, Sen.
Joe. Johnston met in Baltimore young
t man who bad enjoyed undisturbed the
social delights fof that rebellious city
! an who said to him, We'll. General, w
J are conquered, but not subdned.' sWer,
e you in the service, young manl' asked
! the General No, sir, had not tha
: honor Then, my FRIEND said John
ston, you may not be suhdaed, but
am gs 4, Is, = r..,ss,s,,
'No. I don't want none gof, youl
: lightning rods" said q Kentucky farmer
0 last week, to man who had stopped d
e his house to put up patent lightning
conductors. II amt afraid Of lightning
it's the thunder / believes going {,
J, knock Us all endwise, some day." Vol
don't seem to comprehend" said th'
}, ',lpedlar; "these ere silver tipped rods ar
q lightning rods. and the gold tipped one
q are thunder rods-just what yon want,
and he persuaded the old man in order
4 ing up the gold tipped rods. suo
h Sunday was delicious day. It Va
le natures grand overture. The sunshin
1t was balmy and Brilliant the air was Q
le elgentle as an angels touch, and the bird'
s melody thrilled earth and Heaven
walked forth into the countr,
er breathing in the delicious fragrance
he bathing bis soul in the blessed sunshin,
n and rejoicing in the glad music OF u
ne birds. The next morning he WAS yel
d, ing at the top Of his voice. "Where i
k thunder is that ar thick undershirt,' Ms
lria2-Charleston Ills. Plaindedtey.