The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-05-11
Sense and noqse,ise,


stakes life" cheerfully.
A joint affair with but a single party
to it-rheumatism.
If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each,
of his children drum.
A Judge, pointing with his cane at a
prisoner before him, remarked, There
is a great rogue at the end Of this
stick" The man replied, a"At' which
end, my lord 2" @ ~
!''You oughttc lay up something for
a rainy day. said an anxious father to
lhis prof sete1eoRs And 50 + have,
replied the son. ~ hat tInIL
brella"
President Grant receives S158 a.day
salary, and it is reported to be quite
affecting to see him go up to the table
and lay down 80 plated butter-knife
as a present to the bride.-BrooElyn
Argus.
A writer in the London Globe says:
"There are only three Nations who use
slang to any great extent, viz France,
England and America. Of these
French is by far the wittiest, American
the most appropriate, and English the
most forcible and obscure" 80.
A simple every day costume of gray
serge has the underskirt trimmed with
two knife plaitings, a quarter of a yard
deep, headed with bias folds piped with
silk the same shade. The overskirt
with puffed back, and basque with turn.
over collar, is plainly finished with the
piped fold t'aev
A Detroit citizen who met an old nc!
quaintance on the street, asked why he
wore weed on his hat. aFor my poor
wife, who has passed over the rivers
was the melancholy reply. "Well, can't
she come back--aren't the ferry boats
running2" was the surprised query.T
The man had to explain.
A child's hat is of white Leghorn,
turned up in sfront and caught to the
crown with bow of white ribbon, and
q small bunch of forget-me-nots., A
white tip with loops of ribbon are on
the front of the crown, from which the
ribbon is carried back and falls In loops
behind. stiross
"Goodness gracious, James, Whist are
you doing with that child ?" she shrek
ed at her husband, who was lifting the
infant out of its crib by the ear. But
he never said a word, while she danced
around wildly, crying, "Oh, it only
serves me right; ought to have known
better than to marry Milwaukee man"
-Brooklyn Argus. z
When a man sails out of bed in the
dark at midaighs for drink of waters
the chances are three to one. that he
l won't bring up within ten feet of the
water pail, but he skins his shin on the
edge of the oven door with q certainty
that restores his confidence in the uner.
ring DEGREES OF fate Rome Sentinel.
A lady who herself has fortune of q
million says ,"When / was girl we
never dreamt Of habitually wearing silk
dresses. If girl went out to pay 8
visit in her best dress, often the only
silk she had, she would exchange it on
reaching home for less costly attire Z
| But nowadays the most expensive ma
telials seem reckoned none too good
for young girls everyday wear. !"
j A Flushing man fell ont Of second
story back window, and striking a bar
rel of -four in the garden below, made
it look as if it had been showing hard
for about twenty feet. around him.
Then he arose with the air Of victor
and said: swell, just as l supposed, If
ever hit anything, Id knock thunder
out of it,
/ Forty one years ago a fair bride in
Fulton County, New York, received as
wedding present large and delicious
cheese. Since then the bride and oil
who attended the wedding except the
groom have died, and Yesterday, on the
forty. first anniversary of his marriage,
the lonely old man, his banquet hall de-
serted, for the first time cut and tasted
the lonely old cheese.
) The fair young Sergeant Bates is
turning his eye toward Canada now
He is about to carry our country's ban.
ner all the way from Windsor to Tor.
onto, to show how the Canadians arc
; fond of us. After that he willcross the
bounding deep and bear Che banner
from Calais to St. Petersburg, where
frantic popular demonstrations will
doub.less-not await him.
. A charming summer hat is made ol
white chip, trimmed with white gros-
grain ribbon The ribbon is quite wide,
and made into loops in front, TO hold
the stem of white ostrich plume, which
droops over the top and back of the
> hat; it is then twisted around the crown,
and falls in loops and ends from under
the feather The straw turning up in
front is covered with small flowers and
leaves.
A party in Merrilrs grocery wer.
talking about Germany the other even
ing, when an old gentleman said:
81 was going to Germany last spring
myself" ~
"Why didn't you go?" asked some
body. af,s..g.
! "Well, it looked so much like rair
that / thought / wouldn't" was the
careful reply.-Danbury News.
A Rockland clerk, becoming cheeret
by the promise of warm weather, ibor
!. rowed an accordion and went forth tt
: serenade his. girl. He opened will
2 "When the spring-time comes, gentl
5 Annie" which SO exasperated the ole
0 man, that he came out and gentl,
s waved the love-sick young man owe
J, the fence With his boot -Rocklaa,
s Courier.
Newspapers are business establish
l. ments Each is more or less necessa,
IT ly the rival of the others Each is dc
IS pendent upon the good viii and sur
e port of the public for an existence. A
n it says is in public and not in secret.
n lives ard performs all its functions in
,e glass house, visible TO everybody.
,e| cannot defend wrong without an il
i. jury to ITSELF 1t cannot hire itself ou
o as the lawyers do, to defend the guilt
or prospcute the innocent -CbicnD