The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-01-26
Srrsf and cNousf,lse.

missus orders.
"You look as If you were. beside your
self,;' said wag to fellow who stood
by the side of an ass.
A letter in the New York Tribune
says: Papa has given US three cents
day for rot sucking our thumbs. We
send 81 for child in Kansas"
It. is breath thrown away to talk NOR
ality to young man who has to stay
home from the party on account OF Q
boil on his nose. l
Respectable Man-Dear me! Fm
sorry to see this, Muggles! / heard
you'd left off drinking!
Disrespectable Party-Sho fave, shir
-hic-jesh 'ish very minute!
Lady Teacher--You must rccollect
that all am telling YOU happened gone
thousand eight hundred and seventy
four years ago.
Sally-Lor' Miss! How the time do
slip away!
A Maryland man, whose wife dropped
down dead few days ago, had the fu-
neral put off one day longer to get the
balance of his corn husked. He said
| it wouldn't make any difference toher,
as she was always good-natured. iJsi
Douglas Jerrold says, in his Hedge
hog Letters" that Responsibility is all
very well for folks who can have it fo-
ready money; but to be obliged to run
in debt for it is enough to break the
heart of an angel"
s'Mercy Consolation Smith is Fort
Wayne's handsomest girl Mercy will
no doubt be Consolation to some fell
How" 1t seems to us that it will gbe
greater consolation to Mercy to get rid
of the name of Smith,
A little four.year-old created ripple
Of laughter by remarking to the teacher
of her Sunday-school class: "Qur dogs
dead. | bet the angels were scared
when they seen him coming up tie
walk. He's cross to strangers
A Factions fellow, having unEitting-
Fly offended a conceitcd puppy, the lat
ter told him he was .'no gentleman "
"Are. youa gentleman p asked the droll
one. "Yes, sir" bounced the fop. aThen
! am very glad | am not" replied the
other. AasA
II An old swindle has been revivediin
the South, "Agenls" are travelling
through Texas selling a compound
which is warranted to straighten the
kinky wool of the negroes. The CON
trabands buy eagerly the vile decoction,
which takes away their hair entirely.
! When old. Sam Crewder, down in
Pike was running for Justice Of the
Peace, his wife, in anticipation Of hon.
ors in store for her, said MY dear.
when you get to be Justice Of the
Y Peace, what will / bef' ssYou," saii
.. old Sam, swhy, you'll be the same old
fool you always was.'
| Mr.. Atwood. rich oh baclielorslied
recently near Chestnut, England. andit
now turns ont that he was the giver OF
all the anonymous Et,000 checks which
have caused so much speculation. He
gave about f350,000 away in this fash
ion, f45 900 within the last year..
+ An old cclorcd woman, formerly
3 I'slave, known as Aunt Clary, died iat
E Palmyra. North Carolina, on the 23d
alt. She did not know her exact age,
but there is pretty good evidence that
she was born in 175S, and was one hum
8 dred and sixteen Years of age at the
Il time of Her death. ss~ IN 'F1''s
i This is a little instonce Of wlist the
l New York Herald achieves whenit tries
to be serious: "There has been, no nare
q shameful fact" it says, 'in the whole
!. Beecher-Tilton history than thcparade
e in Court of the two women most. inter
estedsin the case. That sacrifice of two
souls for the sake of effect on the jury
is more cruel and terrible than oil that
went before" cost
20,604 is the officially ascertained
: number. of persons arrested for particle
Ipation il, fhe Paris Commune affair OF
9 1871. All have been sentenced, not
flew to death, more to hard labor, and
most to Imprisonment, Felix Pyat,es-
;, capped the National vengeance and still
u lives--in foreign parts. saTaa
A female Justice of Wyoming Was
: married last week, and, true TO her pro-
i. fessional training, she previously mott.
0 fed her friends to be present tv a prin-
ted form, as follows: II am about ITO
eI marry Mr.. j. D-1of this county, and
he will be qualified and sworn in at my
n office on Wednesday morning next at
J. 10o'clock You arc invitcdto attend"
r A stranger who was eating piece of
pie in Detroit restaurant struck bis
u teeth against something hard, and pres
emily held mp a two-cent piece and ex-
/ claimed, "Here, you-here's two cents
G which found in the pie!" "Well, I'm
r, sorry it isn't tifteen," replied the waiter !;
e ''but the fact is, times are so hard that
we can't do any better just now.h
"a man sent word to me last night"
said the Hon Sheridan Shook, yester-
), day, s'tbat he wanted to see me private
0 ly. came out of the theater and took
e him into my Office. You have lost
el your watch, said he. Yes, said =
! There it is, said he, handing it TO me.
Huf SApSuoSo odii 4. ANouSs butt
| he. Will you explsin?' said l. No.
Ii said he, you have the watch, and that's
i enough. ~. Y. Sun. iag
/ The prevalence of diphtheria in New
|; York has lately excited good deal OF
d attention and alarm. Although week
) before last the lowest point for several
/ months was touched, the deaths being
d forty-three from this disease, last week
there was an increase to ffty-six There
seems to be no doubt that this scourge,
y which is beginning 10 show itself in the
Ie fashionable parts of the city, originated
a in the badly drained and over crowded
o slum.
n AT a recent love.feast in the Mctho
le dist Church at Biddeford, Maine, two
le Old mugs which were used by John
=, Wesley in service in his church in Eng
e land were upon the table. When Wcs-
c ley's old church was torn down sister
o, of Mr. j. Goldsborough, of Biddefo, d,
d being in England at the time, procured
IS these mugs from among the ruins. They
A. are white, with blue landscape ornameu.
r taiion; and will hold about three halt