The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-10-12
THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY.
Tuesday, October IL, 1875.
Se,se and navsense,
A farmers crib is gnawful place for

A farmers crib is gnawful place for
rats.
II you wish to enjoy constitutional
liberty, don't wear a pulI-back dress.
Gambling in New York City is said
to be well nigh extinct, owing to the lia-
bility of any person entering gambling
house to be arrested.
Precise old party: Conductor, do
pray, get on. I've an appointment"
Conductor: "All right, sirl Now, look
alive, Bill, here's hold gent wants to
meet his young 'ooman."-Punch
A Balti more servant gill the other
morning tri ed that good oil time-hon
ored plan of lighting the kitchen fire
with kerosene Nothing has benzine of
her since.-N. Y. Commercial Adverti.
ser. Eia
The three wonders of the world at
present are: How fluff accumulates in
vest pockets, where The pins go to, and
why when man comes out of saloon
be looks one way and goes the other.
A town in New York has the singular
name Of Busti. And number of New
York banking firms have won a nearly
similar name within the past few weeks.
Some Busti and others sbust" low.
"My articles do not receive a very
warm reception of late" s'Our fair
correspondent is Mistaken" replied the
editor; "they meet with the warmest
reception possible. We burn them all. !"
An experienced farmer opines that the
man who can plow stumpy ground with
a'pair Of lively mules without swearing
is prepared to go through purgatory
with an overcoat on.-Easton Free
Press.
Benson, of sixth street, removed the
body of his mother-in- law from the old
cemetery the other day, and he says he
could find nothing but her jaw, which
was in state of perfect preservation
Fulton Times.
A London dentists circular says that,
as general thing, only men of culture
go into the tooth drawing profession
And yet it must be admitted that many
of them are not men OF gentle extrac-
ton.
"Ycu never saw my hands as dirty as
that" said mother reproachfully yes
terday to her little eight-year-old girl
"Cause ! never see you when you was a
little gill;" was the prompt answer
San Francisco Chronicle.
A pair of stairs that ordinarily are as
solid as rock will straddle in the joints
and creak and crack together with all
the fervor of thunder clap when one
is attempting to climb them noiselessly
late at night.--Fulton Times.
The stupidest boy that ever success
fully resisted the attempt to propel the
etymology of the word baker into his
intellectual system will display more in
genuity and knowledge of strategy in
robbing an apple orchard than the colo
nel-of militia regiment.
When man wants plug of tobacco
the grocery three fourths of mile off
is only step, but if bis wife wants y
drink of cool water from o neig hbors
well opposite, by some mysterious agen-
cy that well suddenly becomes removed
more than half mile away.
Said distinguished politician to his
son: "Look at me! l began as an al
derman, and here l am at the top of the
tree and what is my reward3 Why
when l die, my son will be the greatest
rascal in the city," To this the young
hopeful replied: eyes, dad, when you
debut not till then."-Danbury Neaos.
A man rushed breathlessly into a
lawyers Office in ST. Paul, and, ap-
preaching the legal luminary, excitedly
remarked: "a man has tied hoop to
my horses tail. Can l do anything ?"
"Yes," replied the attorney: ego and
unite it" This was good advice, and
only cost the man S5.-Furmiayton
Press. s}et.
A very genteel appearing young man,
wearing kid gloves and carrying 1.-THE
and flexible walking stick, thought he
would have joke with rusty and ven-
erable farmer on the Fair Grounds last
Tuesday afternoon. "Hallu0" said the
dandy, s'are you one of the judges on
hogsf p .Waal, yaas, walk right up
and let me look at yon," said the old
farmer. That youth was soon lost amid
the crowd, and no other judges on swine
saw him - Wooasocket Patriot.
Archd uke Macmillan, of Bavaria,
went rec emily to Vienna to visit his
daughter, the Empress of Austria. He
always travels quietly and was mista-
ken for business man by talkaiive
Austrian tradesman who occupied the
same compartment in the train, and who,
after telling all about his own affairs,
asked the Archduke where he was
going. "Going to Vienna "On bu-
siness3"' 'sNo; to visit my daughter,
who married an Austrian Is your
son-in-law in good business r swell,
tolerably good, but troublesome at
times" .sWhat is he2' "The Emper
or" The tradesman was covered with
confusion, and, Notwithstanding the
laughing protestations Of the Archduke,
he darted from the carriage at the very
first stopping place
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