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

Simpkins has found that the pleasant
est way to take cod.liver oil is to fatten
pigeons with II, and then cat the pigeons
This is not from Daniel Deronda: /:
.She was plump and beautiful. and he
was wildly fond Of her. She hated him,
but womanlike, she strove to catch him
What was he? A flea.
George Sand always preserved her
love letters and never ate boiled cab
bage with anything Int wooden fork
The lives oil these great women do
much to teach US how we can make our
lives sublime. - Brooklyn Argus
Chicago gas rates have been reduced
10 sl so. Courtships, however,sr still
conducted with very exaggerated idea
Of economy, as the young people pu,
out the lights and sit in the dark every
chance they get. Brooklyn Argus
A young scapegrace noted for his
practical jokes, arrived at the age of 81
at midnight, whereupon he raised the
family and oil The neighbors by shouting
at the top of his lungs, There's man
In the house" aaes la s,sss ~
It is said that in 1859 George Wash
ington sent to England for niue pounds
Of mixed candies, and this was at q
time. too, when q girl would desert
home, parents and kindred and cling to
. manfor four pounds and a half
Brooklyn Argus tila
1t is impossible for the, red man to
struggle successfully against the infu
ence OF high civilization, which is pen.
etrating farther and farther into the
depth Of his native wilderness A wo
mans bustle was recently found in a de-
serted Sioux camp, ST Joseph Herald
= Everybody knows that Daniel Web.
sster died in 1924 years ago-and
everybody knows there was d Mrs. Dan
.iel Webster but few know, though, that
Mrs. Webster, now IS years old, is still
alive, and is living with Mrs Edgar, q
relative Of hers, in the city Of New York
chicago Times.
The golden orifamme OF day peeped
out just before sunset yesterday, read
the Signal Bureau predictions of cleal
weather, and then went hack again and
put up job on "Old Probabilities
(which must make that eminent savan
feel as if science were dreary delu
sion.--Bsooklyn Argus. 93.
An old colored- preacher in Columbu.
yvas lecturing youth of his fold abou
the sin of dancing, when the latter pro
tested that the Bible plainly said, .Ther,
is time to dance "Yes, dar am a tim,
to dance said The dark divine, ..and it'l
wheU Q boy gifts whippin' for gwine t
q ball. .'-Savanaah NetUs.
Gen. Crook returns without Sitting
Bulls scalp dangling from his saddle
bow. This illustrates the difference be
tween the civilized and savage modes O
warfare If Sitting Bull had started on
after Gen Crook, he might have spare,
bis lie, but he would have left plac
sSfor q skating link on the top of hi
head --Brooklyn Argus.
The general depression in business
being felt by temperance hotel men, an
In al parts Of the State they are putin
scllesper whisky behind the wash roor
door and compelling their patrons t
gauge their drinks in glass. The oil
Asioned way Of sliding behind the doc
after towel and drinking directly fror
the bottle, was terribly dtmoralizng t
the liquor Fulton Times
Cuba wants to borrow forty million
dollars" We have only thirty-nin
millions in cash, and we don't want t
mortgage our printing office to make u
the l,aiance, hence Cuba will have I
seek relief from some other source
Reynolds Herald
tas The season 2for straw berry and il
cream festiv,ls is rapidly vanishing. bl
the strides only take US nearer to thos
exhilarauhg entertainments that affor
. man the giddy excitement of fishin
around in two quarts of water with
pewter spoon after consumptive oyste
-Fulton Times
The frst thing San Francisco ma
does when he comes TO New York is I
get his boots BACKED; the first thing
Boston man does is to get something
eat; the first thing Chiea.o man do,
Is 20 ask a pol ceman where is the nea
est barroom to buy postage stamps