The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1876-06-13
DlIsCELLANEOUs ITEMS.

iuhuo3 WuO SSto uoit-oCaS-OSCt oA
three schooners Of beer, calls himself an
amateur yachtsman.- -Dan6ary Nsos.
Crusty Gays that the list OF marriages
In the newspapers ought TO be put under
the head Of Ring Frauds !"
Tie New Jersey potato crop will be a
total fsilure this year. The Colorado
bugs have ruined the young plants 4
The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky is
offered for sale, together with the hotel.
and other property.
Mrs. Ira Mead, OF Greenwich, who il
one hundred and six years old says;---
Few people die after they get 10 be a
hundred"
What is the difference between one
who walks and one who looks up a
flight OF stairs ?-One steps up stairs,
and the other stares up steps.
The wool crop OF Darke county won't
materially increase until there are more
dogs going around on three legs with .
broken back.-Greenuille 20 Cosrier
A woman in western city recently
iell out Of q second story window and
struck on her head. She said she didn't
know when anything had made her SO
mad before.
Another conscientious man is oppos-
ed to opening the Centennial Exhibition
on Sunday He says Sunday is the only
day be gets time to go fishing.-Nor.
risto.on Herald.
When man goes into one saloon af-
ter another and asks for drink on tick,
and the bar tender in each place says
Il don't know you," he begins to think
that he is the great unknown.
They are so terribly. slow with the
work on the Temperance Fountain at the
Centennial that it is thought the assem-
bled world will have time to get royalty
drunk before the fountain can come to
she rescue at the present rate of prog
ress.
As the dew falls noiselessly upon the
tender herbage, as the present passes si-
lently into the past, as the perfume Of
kindly act rises heavenward unseen, so
the hired girl slips out the back way
nights with little tea and sugar for
her relatives es-Nortrich Bulletin.
An exchange says: "New York ladies
wear nothing but gypsy hats" And un-i
less the brim Of the hat is at least four
feet deep, and turns down all around, we
should think modest man would want
to leave that Norristotcn Herald
A country editor is responsible for
the suggestion that in this degenerate
age it would be we'll to have church.
Wardens and deacons each provided
with bell punch when they pass around
the contribution boxes.
The superiority of man to nature is
continually illustrated in literature and
in life. Nature needs an immense guam
tity of quills to make goose with; but
man can make . goose of himself in FIVE
minutes with one quill.
One Of the attractions of the Paris
Exposition of 1873 is to be the largest
balloon ever made. 1t will contain
eighteen thousand cubic metres of gas,
and is to be twenty three to thirty. four
metres in diameter. The car will hold
City persona.
A draper's shop at Paris, one Of
whose clerks swallowed table fork two
years ago, now includes the history Of
It's successful extraction in its large post
ing advertisements. Purchasers can
view the fork and the clerk, and on de.
parting are presented with boquet of
yiolets.
Art received rather an awkward criti-
oism from Q free-and- easy young man
who recently met sculptor in q social
circle, and addressed him thus 1Er-er
$50 you are the man--er-that makes
-er-mud heads p' And this was the
artists reply: aEr-er-not all Of 'em !;
didn't make yours"
An ingeniors Frenchman on Long Is.
land claims to have discovered sure
means of destroying the potato bugs
Mix one gallon of prussic acid with
three ounces Of rend rock, stir we'll, and
administer tablespoonful every hour
and half till the bug shows signs of
weakening. Then stamp on him.
in the chronological Journal of this
month is question from some one who
says he has q red nose, and describes
himself as one who never used coffee, to-
bacco or alcoholic liquors The editor
OF the chronological Journal says that
the real cause of red noses is cold feet.
That is the reason why men say, "Give
me glass of cold feet. ."-Nes0 York
Herald.
That our girls have fine ear for mu.
sic cannot be gainsayed.-MilUaukee
paper. Right you are, neighbor. When
Milwaukee girl is requested to play the
piano (like) forte, she does not, like her
Chicago sister, ask him, with smile
that meets at the back Of her neck, to
"Just flop over that ere music" but sits
right down and turns the leaves with her
of ear-Ddnbury Netcs.
He was very young man. A few
stray hairs upon his lip attested the fact
that he was engaged in deadly struggle
with mustnche. He went into vari
ETY. store on Main s,reet, and said to the
proprietor: "Haye you Charles Reade's
Lost Heir ?' mo, haven't replied
the storekeeper. But" he continued
looking into the young mans face, ''rve
got something that will make that mus
tache Of yours start out like boils ir
tpring time.
Five boys took all Of Friday to catel
nsh. They tramped about fifteen miles
Embedded hook in most undesirable
part for hooks in one OF the party, had
fight in which one boy lost three teeth
and another two. lost their lines, also ,
straw hat. They were gone eight hours
Net result OF the trip: One fish, three
black eyes, five stone bruises, and small
assortment of blisters. This is part o
the bUssted civilization Of the nineteenth
Donbufy Netrs
EFA certain Count Tscbitschagov
has brought his extraordinary name in
TO notice in Europe bv losing 10000,
francs in two days at Monaco. WheI
The last piece of lis fortune was gon