The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1876-10-17

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Serse and No,tsra,lg'el'.
Al Sioux motto White man big
smart--he furnish brains red mar. heap
knock 'em out" ...s ,..l.ss II,
Mark Twain says it .'is blessed
thing to live in landof plenty, if you
of land !" s6A = sar';7kkt
Itconseles the New Orleans Republi-
can that Charley Ross will, soon be big
enough to End himself
Call the next baby Elaine, after Ten
nyson's heroine Then when she is /
cross, call her the Mad elaine.
When young lady and gentleman
have controversy about kissing they
generally put iheiT hesi1a
1 An exchange asks as Sitting Bull d
West Poin,er2 p His name implies that
he is more of a "setter" than pointer. I"
"You want nothing do your" said
Pat. "Badad, an if its nothing yel
want, yell fud it in the jug, where the
whisky was -. ;,
A young poet of the realistic school
writes: Time marches on with the
slow. measured tread of man working
by the day" qe div eapsan,grg a.pa
Ornithologists tell us that the OWLS
q wise bird. He certainly is very sol.f
emu 'un.-N. Y. Commercial Aduerti.
SCR llfEi ttd nes.s u u b9ie i1atu
"I'm man Of very quiet tastes"
said he as be went quietly behind the
door andstasted something .-Ne,c York
Graphic. 2 'f'ia sR' r, ''s''l3 ''''l 20
1t is becoming q serious scientific pro-,
blem whether goats will eventually eat
up all the circus posters 10 the world -
New York Herald. -. -. al
The first thing Black Hills father
does in the morning after, prayers, is to
nail his boys hair on and start, him for
Custer Gulch school on a rnnv, ,.praaga
An exchange asks: "Who0 can con-
ceive a more painful task than that of
entertaining the hired girls beau while
she is getting supper? p
What we like to see in an illustrated
newspaper is six-foot man standing
alongside two.inch bridge which spans
athree-inch river --Neao York Herald.
Robert Browning calls the British re-
viewers "chimney,sweeps" in his new
poem. When they flue at him he had a
brush with them and they didn't SCOT
him. .;..I,t.-.,......
China sends some plates and dishes
to the centennial over thousand years
old. This paragraph is specially inten-
ded to catch the eye of the female CHI
ma smasher. d.gsa9 En-
A Reading man has written an essay
on "Bustlcs" And some bustles pro-
|ject sufficiently to enable man to write
an essay on 'em very easily.-Norris-
toacn II erald
A lawyer at the bar was held to be IN
contempt for simply making motion
in court 1t was ascertained, however,
that he made motion to throw an ink
stand at the head OF the Court. s
1t is not believed that there is an ar.
tist in the world who can catch the ex-
preston Of woman's face as she puts
her nose into the milk-jug and finds that
the thunder has soured the contents.
Every infant can say ''no" several
months before it can say Eyes" 1"-Sci-
entifc American 1t must be remem-
bered, though, that infants are not invi-
ted to take so'nething.-Cumden Post
A Ninth street man in laying in bis
coal, had a half-ton of the heaviest
chunks sent up to his bedroom His
window has full command of the neigh.
boring woodsheds Washington Ma
ton ,f' h1ad ''i'e @Si l3bi'ic GaEt
/ 1t is a refreshing thing, in these days
of political persifage and sophislry, to
over hear couple Of. women explaining
the presidential question to each other
through a key-hole in the back garden
fence. ''''3 ~ -
! The farmer who sent his son to New
! York to become clerk now writes ask
/ ing the merchant whether there is ''any
thing in The boy Eyes, replies the
merchant, '.just after he has been to 9
saloon y 49, .t,.-
An intermission of twenty-four hours
preceded the second part of the Wagne
musical festival at Bayreuth, in order
the Brooklyn Argus says, to give TIM
for the burial Of those who died from
exhaustion during the first part. - -
, The Woman's JournaLclaims that tn,
sexes are equal. A married man, how
ever, always has tie advantage of be
ing able to climb tree when the argu
ment assumes the form of rolling pin
Nortcich Bailetin. sff.z7as ai,i go
A Western lawyer, who was defend
ing a man on trial for wife murder
sought for some euphonious and limo
cent phrase with which to describe hi
clients crime, and finally said: "H
\ winnowed her into paradise with fenc
: rail-"
'sDo you want to kill the child ?" ex
claimed gentleman as he saw a navy
2 yard boy tip the baby out ofits carriag
on the walk. mo, not quite," reptile,
8 the boy; 'but il I can get him to bawl
{ ing mother will take care of him whii
: l 60 and wade in the ditch with Johnn
Bracere s'9i - 'l f2ii9
= b. "a a,t eva r. Hfy.. .ss,. ia
+ A naturalized citizen was taunted nc
n long since as being foreigner, ''Sir,
replied our friend, IL came, here wit
my pans on; you came here naked.
= came here by choice; you, because yo
could not help it. That is the only diff
erence between us. Otherwise / am a
: good an American as you are I've,
: Orleans Picayatne
. A farmer who had sent bale of CO
), ton to q warehouse instructed a sme
chant to have the same sold. The me
% chant complied with the, request an
a the staple was disposed of. The farme
II upon examining his statement, was hear
: muttering to himself, "Drayaee, whar
- age, mistakeage, storage, leakage, .weigl
W. age; well, Ill take the balance out
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