The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1876-05-09
Seuse and nopsense.

Empress of India.
The Treasury is now issuing 20-cent
silver pieces.
1t is decided to close the Exposition
buildings on Sunday.
Mr.. Beechers lecture in New London,
Mass, cost the managers $3.50 above
receipts.
"John, you said Sally kissed YOU
did you kiss her back ?" mo, 1 kissed
her face
There are more dinners spoiled by
the bad temper of husbands than by
poor cooking Of wives.
"Big long-leggcd man don't always
sometimes get ahead of little boys" is
Chinese for 'sthe race is not always to
the swift"
The Portsmouth Tribune says that
the quotation, 'sThe evil that men do
lives after thcm,' has no application to
physicians.
Tom Allen has covered the five hun
dred dollars forfeit put up by Goss, the
English pugilist. and arrangements for
the Fl ylt will sooE be completed.
Violent exercise is always hurtfnl. II
is steady, persistent work which brings
roses to the cheek, soundness to the
sleep and an appetite to the stomach.
How happy he who.can still hope to
lift himself from the sea of error. What
we know not, that we are anxious to
possess, and can not use that we know.
Goethe
This solemn warning comes from the
Rockland { Maine) Courier: SIT is said
that whoever goes to sleep first on the
wedding night will die first, and we'd
advise married couples to sit up all night
and play checkers"
We sometimes learn more from the
sight of evil than from an example OF
good; and it is we'll to accustom our.
selves to profit by the evil which is Sc
common, while that which is good is 80
rare.-Pdscdl
A fast youth asked at a Frisco res
taurant: "What have you got9" GAL
most everything" was the reply. GAL
most cverythine2 Well, give me plate
of that" "Certainly. One plate hash ~
yelled the waiter.
Five year old, 70 his mo,her-"AIoth
er, can I have cooky ?" mo, my son. >
"Mother, can l have quarter Of Q
coofy ?" "No, my son." "Can l have
a crumb of a cooky?' "Nn!' "Well
then, can l smell of cooky2
Evasions are the common shelter o.
the rl-hearted, the false and impotent
when called upon to assist; the rea
great alone plan instantaneous help
even when their looks and words pres
age difficulties.-Ldrater:
Elderly agriculturist to season ticKe,
holder in the train:
"You don't have no ticket?''
"No, l travel on my good looks!''
Then after looking him over, prob
ably you amt g'in' very far'
A pious father entered saloon wit!
horse-whip one night last week, and
found his son playing euchre He tam
ed the young mans jacket and sent him
home, and then sat down and finished
the game himself
The r ,me Sentinel says, "Some wo
men won't be happy in heaven unless
they can scrub it out once year." And
some men will be wretched there unles!
they can scrape their muddy boots OF
the fender and bring the dog into th'
best room Hack Eye.
"'Taint no use in your cryin'," said
heartless maiden to her PROSTATE lover
II wouldn't marry you if you were the
last man on earth" "Wel, Mary" hs
replied, breathing through his nose will
great difficulty "you'll lend me you
pocket handkerchief won't you ?"
St. Louis Times: The Louisville Cour
ier Journal, published under the shadov
of the building that sprung from th
great Library Lottery swindle, make
this significant remark: "There are i'm
mense fortunes in lottery tickets-fo
the men who sell them" Is this com
plant, or is it q confession?
A Committee of the Mississippi Leg
slature has reported that the indebted
ness of the State on January 1st, thi
year, was S3,341, 1852, and the availabl
assets $709,558 The value of the tax
able property of the State is, real, $95,
S72, ,497, AMI personal, $35 .53S ,555, ma
king a total of SJ3l ,4l3,052.
The eye is the window of the SOU
the mouth, the door. The intellect, tn
will, are seen in the eye; the emotions
sensibilties, and affections, in the mouth
The animals look for mans intention
right into his eyes. Even rat, whe
you hunt him and bring him to bay
looks you in the eye.-Hiram Po,cer
A traveller overtaking an old Preshy
terian minister, whose nag was much Fl
tigned, qnizzed the old gentleman upo
his "turn out" ga nice horse your
doctor, very valuable beast that-br
what makes him wag his tail so, do,
tor?' "Why, as you have asked me
will tell you 1t is for the same reaso
that your tongue wags so-a sort of ma
ural weakness"
The bill admitting New Mexico as
State, after having passed the Senat
has been reported bv the Committee O
Territories to the House with recon
mendation for it's passage. The origin
bill has been modified by an amendmel
providing that the first election sha
take place in 1877, thus showing the ne
S ate over beyond the Presidential ele
, ton
A Boston man exhibits knife wi,ic
he says, belonged successivelv to Mil
Standish. Massasoit. King Philip ar
, Captain Winslow, and which was ca
ried through Philips war, the Revolt
, ton, ard the war of 1872 1t helpt
to make the cradle of Peregrine Whit
e the child born on the Maytlower. 1t
about eight inches long, and has buc
Q horn handle.
By allowing the Journal de Pari
their principal paper, to suspend its
o sues, the Orleanists confess the hor
e lessness of their cause. The expiril
t journal admits that there is nothing
be gained by discussing the form
government before 1880, when Pre-
v dent MacMahon's term expires. TIL
. amonnts to concediny that the Renuh