The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-06-22
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In what respect does Bishop resem-
ble fish? Both live in the sec!
Gratitude "A bachelor made will
leaving his property to the girls who
had refused him: s.For to them Love
all my earthly happiness. "
The Farragut prize money amounts
to eighty-seven and a half cents piece
to the common sailor claimants, after
ten years adjustment.
What luxurious dogs those signers
of the Declaration of Independence
were Their inkstand has been found :
and it cost, when new,a matter of $3.50.
The following legend is inscribed on
The front OF a butcher shop in an inlsnd !.
town of Pennsylvania: "Kasll pade FOR
littel HALVES nut mourn two daze old"
A correspondent of Western paper
having described the Ohio as "sickly
stream" the editor appended the re.
mark: ''That's so-it is confined to its
bed"
A boy vino is not strong enough TO
spade up small onion bed between
now and the Fourth of July, viii dig
over ten acre lot before breakfast
looking for bait.
Ole of the modest little farming
patches in Illinois is laid out in 10000
acres of corn, $500 acres of fax, l, 900
acres of oats, and enough grass to pro-
duce about eight thousand tons OF hay.
It's astonishing, says the New Or
leans Bulletin, to see how little there is
OF some ladies in these days of con.
tracted skirts. And it is equally aston
ishing to see how much there is of some
others.
A young man in music shop was
lately overpowered by fastidions young
lady, who wanted to purchase "Mr.
Hood's-a-- song of the "a = gentle
mans undergarment!' The young man.
is still alive.
The policy of paying IS per bushel
for grasshoppers in Minnesota, has de-
veloped much of the latent energy Of
the people of that State At Mankato-
$50 bushels were captured and burned
in one day recently.
During trial the Judge called wit.
ness. No one answered, an elderly man
arose and solemnly said, "He is gone"
'Where has he gone p asked the Judge,
in no tender tone. 81 don't know; but
he is dead" was the guarded answer.
Holmes remarks on the wonderful
provisions of nature. He says there is
not even left narrow crevice under a
fat rock without thin black bug pre-
pared by Providence to fill it. It is the
same way when vacancies occur in off,
cial positions.
If a young man sits up too late with
bis sweetheart out at Mulvern, the old
folks come into the parlor and with q
refinement of sarcasm, invite him to :
wait few moments longer and break
fast will be ready.-Burlington Hack
eye.
A Connecticut servant girl, named
Gum, has just inherited $4,000, and,
is, of course, getting ready to 80 off,
N. Y. Commercial AdUertiser. No,she'll
marry, and have son of Gum, you
know-a muzzle-loader, with patent
breeches Cincinnati Times. 80
"Please, sir" said a boy, with two
bottles, to grocer, "mother wants q
cents worth of your best yeast."--
swell, which bottle will you have it in 2"
please, sir, she wants it in both; and
won't you put corks in 'em, and send
'em home, as I'm going fother way;
and mother says she hain't got no cent
but you must charge it."
When a Vicksburg negro woman was
informed the other day by reporter Of
the Herald of that city that the price Of
sea lions had increased fifteen per cent.
during the present month, she elevated
her hands and exclaimed: DE Laud
only knows VI hat is to become of poor
folks! Seems zif de more we worked
de oftener de white folks go and rig do
price on de nessumsaries of life.n
A physician in country town In
Massachusetts, who had been annoyed
by numerous questions concerning the
condition of a patient, was stopped
while on his busy rounds by man with
the old question, "How's Mp
"Sick," replied the physician. .Does
he keep his bed p 'sOf course be does;
you don't suppose he's fool enough to
sell his bed because he's sick, do youw
The following verse was once inseri-
bed on church in Halifax, n. s., the
basement of which had been used as Q
wine saloon:
There's spirit above, and spirit below,
A spirit of Joy and spirit of woe;
The spirit above is the spirit divine,
The spirit below is the spirit of wine.
ssThey tell a tough story about anew
baggage man Oh one of our local
trains,' says the Los Angeles Star Ha
was told to pile up the trunks in bag
gage car, and be sure to hang the checks
on the outside. The literal.minded youth
piled up the trunks, and then took off
the checks, with the leather straps at
tached, and hung them upon the outside
of the car. The baggage master at the
depot was driven nearly frantic by the
passengers per the Orizaba attempting
to identify their boxes.
TRANSMISSION of blood is becoming
popular since the success attending the
experiments upon General Blair. Mr..
Edmund Pinero, of Pegue & Pinero,
one Of the leading law firms Of St.
Louis, was completely helpless with
rheumatic gout fortnight ago. Trans y
fusion was tried with him one day last
week, his partner, stout, healthy gen.
tleman, supplying the life current to the
extent of two ounces He improved
rapidly after the TRANSMISSION, and is now
able to sit up. He will receive another
contribution from bis obliging partner
soon. Fl
This is said to be the origin of the
"Printer's devil" Aldus Manutius was
a printer in Venice. He owned a negro
boy who helped him in his Office, and
some people were snperstitious enough
to believe him an emissary Of Satan :.
He was known over the city as the sslit.