The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-11-02
Sense and Noqsense.

Steel. He was no politician either.
The water is so low in some of the
Western rivers that the catfish have to
stand on their heals to breathe.
The difference between perseverance
and obstinacy is that one of ten comes
from a strong will, and the other from q
strong won't.
The hest paper now issued is the
greenhacks signed by Treasurer New.
1t is not on our exchange list, however.
Whitehall Times
Poi,eness Is tie mother of peace
She keeps familiarity and impudence
from bting knocked to death, and often
saves h,rSelf broken head.
A Vincennes, Ind man and his wife
after stand up fight of an hour con-
cluded to call it ga draw" She drew
about six handfuls OF hair out OF his
head
Touching conclusion of an obituary
notice in an Indiana newspaper: "He
was an elder in the Methodist church
and the leader of the brass band in the
village"
IAN old edition of Morse's geography
says: .sAlbany has four hundred dwell.
ing houses and twenty-four hundred in
habitants, all standing with their gable
ends to the street"
Customer Ito map seller of Paris y
"Ah, there is Russia-but-Id do not see
Moscow" Shopkeeper (running his
finger over the map) Monsieur
forge:s that Moscow was burned"
"Poor fellow-he had good deal in
him." was the sorrowing remark of a
Mississippi editor over the body of q
subscriber shot In gin mill. The Cor
oner's inquest subsequently verified the
assertion.
"A lady, whose family was very much
i6sthe habit Of proposing conundrums,
WAS one evening asked by her husband,
in an excited tone: 'Why are all these
doors left open ?'' II give it up" in
stantly answered the lady. I.3se4{
Having Him on the 'ip-Old party
(who stammers, comes in for some
ipecacuanha): 'sOh, If you p-please,
young man, L w-want some ip-ip-ip-
Festive Assistant fired by recent rem
iniscence}: eHurrah "-London Fun.
The London Advertiser says that a
Sarnia man bet ten dollars that he could
ride the fy-wheel of ssaw-mill, and as
his widow paid the bet, she remarked :
s.William was kind husband, but he
did not know much about fly wheels"
In what vehicle did the man ride who
was driven frantic? When a man re.
wolves much in his mind, does it make
him dizzy2 If oil things are for the
best, where do the rations for the sec.
'ond best come from? What is the ex
act width of broad grin
A Chicago organist returned from q
Journey she other day and found an ex
Quisite Tyre suspended above the key
board of his instrument. Pondering on
this story, the Detroit Post wants to
know when the editor of the Chicago
Times committed suicide. *
Pshsw! It's easy enough 70 put up
stove-pipel All you have got to do is
TO put on your kid gloves, take up your
eane. and leave word at the timers, and
when he gets ready, and can't think ol
any other job, and doesn't want to 60
fishing, he will put your stove up.
A young man employed on Commerce
street is six feet eight inches high, and
weighs trife over hundred pounds
They judge by his appetite that he is
hollow clear down, and think of ampu.
tating one foot and using him for 9
stove pipe, NorsOich Bulletin.
California is quick to profit by expe
rience. The failure of her great bank
ing Institution has been needed as {
warning, and under its new manage
ment the bank will have nothing what
ever to do with mining stocks, the
shrinking of which. proved so disastrous
to the ambitious Ralston. Ha-
Mr.. R.-"Good morning. sir; com,
to ture your piano. Deaf old gent OF
the porch--"Eh didn't understand wha
you said" i come to tune your piano.
nYou will have to speak louder; can
hear what you say" 81 come to tun,
syo1r piano. eOh! you come from
Louisiana, do your Well, that's good
sit down and tell US all about it, t,"-Bos
ton Journal.
A doctor went out West to practic
his profession. An old friend met hin
on the street one day. and asked hin
how he was succeeding in his business
"First rate" he replied. i've had on
case.n "Well-and what was that 2"'r
s.lt was birthr' sai6 the doctor. ''Hov
did you succeed with that ?" sWell, tn
old woman died, and the child died.
But think I'll'save the old man yet! !!
A jail chaplain, finding q prisoner ez
hibiting, as be thought, signs of tru
religious conviction, gave him Bible
-and afterward exerted himself to pro
cure a commutation of his sentence
Succeeding in the latter effort, he in
formed the man Of his approaching lit
erty. His gratitude knew no bounds :
He called him his deliverer, and grasp
ing his hand At parting, added Her
SIS your Bible. ! may as well return
to You, for hope l shall never want
again" sas sgt
- Time is tife's tree, from which som
gather precious fruit while others Ii
down under its shadow and perish wit
hunger. Time is life's ladder whereof
some raise themselves up to honor, an
fenown and glory, and some let then
selves down into the depths of sham
degradation, and ignomony. Time wi
be to Us what, by our use of the trea
ury, we make it; a good or evil, hlessin
or curse.
An unlucky Frenchman was walkin
ID the country with friend who po
.sessed magnificent Newfoundland do!
and incautiously questioned the truth I
the animals sagacity. The<dog's ma
ter, vexed at the slur cast on his favo
ite, gave his friend push and knocke
him into shallow river. "Turk" in
mediatelv sprar G in, and seizing one
the tails of the immersed mans Goa
commenced to swim for land Unfo
Al. a.,