The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-04-06

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A Missouri weman who applied for a.
situation !, q carsasiver, beilg asked if
she could manage mules, fscorpfnily re-
piled: aOfs course ] cans Eve had two
husbands s. sss = -
Two thirsty morials read 4 list. Of
names of.the most tempting old wines.
"Tbat's something to make a fellows
mouth water,p said the first "Water?'
said the other" well, count me OUT
A Sunday school boy had just got
his face fixed to sing, LET US love one
another" when snow ball hit him in
the mouth aud SO confused him that he
yelled, "Bill Sykes, just do that sgain'
and I'll chaw your ear off ssts
The Boston mercha1t 1he {orWar5ed
$500 as the balance upon bis 300 sub
scription in aid Of a theological sem
Finsry and received a request to remit
S19 80 as interest on the deferred gra-
tuity, calls for the singing of the Old
Hundred--per cent Chicago Times.
Some one has written Colonel Forney,
at Nice, asking if the vile stories about
his pocketing that S25, 600 have any
foundation in fact, and the Colonel in q
very gentlemanly manner replies that
sthe very air is heavy with the fragrance
of mimosa and orange blossoms"
A gentleman passing across the play
ground Of public school was afftonted
by the boys, and advised to complain
to the principal, which he did thus s.F.
have been abused by some rascals of
the place, and ! came to acquaint you
of it, as I understand you are the prin-
i cipal." " ~
A pleasant prospect: Traveller lin
Ireland) "Hi-pull her up,man. Doa't
you see the mare is running away 2"-
Paddy: "Hould tight, yer honor sFor
yer life don't touch the Teins--sure
they're as rotten as pears. III turn her
head into the river atlthe, bridge below
here Sure that'll stop her, the bIag,
yard 81 10 sha Txas s'sx
| = A youngsterns whilee warming bis
hands over, the kitchen fire, was remon.
strated with by his father, who said,
"Go way from the stove the weather
is not cold" The little fellow, looking
up at his stern parent demurely replied:
1"I amt heatin' the weather; Tn
warmin' my hands. .s''Ffer llfv E'aHe9
A Danbury ogirla received asporods
1plaster,in aigorgeouss envelope bearing
a monogram, At 10 O'Clock, that night,
the owner of the monogram, standing
disrobed before the fres preparatory to
Applying remedy to his, chest, tainted
dead away on, drawing from paper a
mass Of paper flowers and notices.
How long will locomotive last aud be-
serviceablei An engine on the Penn
sylvania Central Railroad has been on
duty since 1857, and has run in that time
l437 1888 miles, err an average of nearly
1900 miles per year for % years. Prob
ably there is very little Of the original
engine remaining, except the frame and
minor parts. -
| About this time the Coroner smiles
smile of bandness not wholly free from
suggestions of selfinterest as he. sees
little girls trying to see how many times
they can jump the rope, and the mail.
Ereader rabs his nose gloomily with bis
sheers as he turns over exchange after
lexchange in vain, search of an item
headed, "Strange Fatality-A Bow
Killed While Playing Base Ball.
| We predict that the approval by the
old condemned United States Senate of
the conduct of President Grant in Lou
isiana in sustaining the Kellogg usur.
patton will, by and by, be expunged
4 from the record, just as the resolution
of the Senate censuripg General Jack
son for removing the deposits from the
/ United States Bank in 1884 was. The
resolution il nullity, aud cant be per.
mitted to stand.-Cin. Enq.slif est
/ Somebody has been curious to count
the number of placards to let, now dis
'Iplayed in Broadway, New York, bs-
tween Bowling Green and Fourteenth
q street. He finds eight hundred and
fifty; and OF, these, two hundred and
eighty for single offices, many of them
law offices. 1t is supposed the lawyers
have moved over to Brooklyn, for the
season, to be near the Beecher trial, and
J on hand for any fresh scandal that may
break out in the City Of Churches.
4 Edgar A, Poe's memory is to be hon.
ored with q monument at last. The
sum desired, $500, has been raised
: through the efforts of the Public School
Teachers Association of Baltimore, and
the work will be begun at once. The
{ design is an .obelisk sof pure Italian
; marble, with q bas relief Of Poe ON one
of the panels, and appropriate inscrip.
tions and emblems on the other three.
1t is thought the monument will be
ready for dedication within q few
F months. as HcE9.;ahees
! On the wall over the bed OF a dying
| woman in Cohoes, New York, . cross
r appeared. It began with mere out.
line, deepened 10 color until the woman
died, and then faded. She saw 1t, and
superstitiously regarded it as a premon-
: ition of death, The neighborhood was
E intensely excited land hundreds went to
. see the cress. At length, matter-of-
fact newspaper reporter investigated, and
learned that q leak in the roof had lei
! water into the plastering, the discolofa
I 'ltien taking Che. significant shape by
: chance, and sthats,yhen the .rain-storn
= , was over the cross faded. It is proba
E BILE that fright aggravated the .woman's
; disease and killed her.
e Itis q singular fact that not Uni
e versalist Church remains. in Boston ir
e the hands Of it's founders fexcept one
: recently built The First Church. tha
!. founded by Murray, was sold out TO th'
). Baptists and the congregation dissolv
!. ed. The Second Church, built 70
5 Hosea Ballou, was pulled down 70
J, trade, the congregation building yer!
e expensive edifice on the Back Bay. Th
n Bulfinch Street Church, built for Pau
It Dean, Murray's colleague, passed int
d the hands of the Unitarians. The War