The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1877-08-21
Sense and Nopsense.

o The best government is that whic
It governs least.
My life is blank, as the cartridg
: said to the mob.
d Buff colored stockings are embroidel
ed with violets.
/ An Albany man lived on ten cents
p day, and had the satisfaction of dyin,
:, rich. -
The French press is going through
period Of severe suffering, just now, a
! the hanas of the Government.
Apples are big enough now to keep
ten year old boy aud both his parents
+, and the nearest druggist up all night
A good dryer for paints is made b,
| grinding or dissolving a small quantity
, of sugar Of lead in linseed oil.
The Gar wages war in the name O
Christianity, while his Cossacks and Bull
garians murder innocent women anc
children.
whats fellow to do, Doctor, wher
he's IN company and has nothing tc
say ~ "He should say it quietly" re-
piled the doctor
A good whitewash for walls is made
5y adding to fresh Stacked lime and wa
ter, a solution of starch, little salt, anG
few drops of dissolved indigo or blu.
ing,
tits very, very sad when an absent
minded young man is asked at a church
festival what he'll have, and answers
Beer" But it's just as bad when he
tries to suck up his ice cream with o
straw.
AIMichigan father writes to the facul.
ty Of Yale: "What are your terms for 8
YEAR, And does it cost anything extra
If my son wants to learn to read and
write as we'll as to row a boat2"
| A woman pushing. a baby cab with
one hand, holding up her skirts with the
other, and carrying her .parasol in her
teeth, is a sight which can only be seen
since the new fashion broke out
"Doyou think your father is going to
move out soon ?" inquired the owner of
rented house of the son of his tenant
Reckon So" was the reply. "We've
begun asin' winder frames for firewood."
"Pavme that Sands pence YOU owe
IRE, Mr. Malrooney," said village at.
tornev. "For wbat2" "For the opin.
ion you had of me-" "Faith never
had any opinion of you in all my life."
AnsIrish friend, who. never reads the
papers, says he hears that the Turks are
bombarsiing Kalafat from Widin, and he
cant understand it, for be thought they
always pombarded city from swidout.'
TsssSsEects % tue policy Of JOHN
Sherman are now becoming very clear.
The whole country is PROSTATE. Rich
corporations are closing in order to
avoid failure, and most men wish them.
selves out of business
A spinster lady Of fifty remarked the
other day that she could go alone at six
mouths. "Yes," said her hateful young
half brother, "and you've been going it
alone ever since, and never euchred
anybody"
1t is idle to talk of the vigor of our
great-grandmothers and the physical
degeneracy of the women of our own
times Hasn't Jenny Lind just had a
baby at fifty-six, and hasn't Jane Swiss.
helm just blushed for Pittsburg.
"What are you doing-kicking the
old clock all to piecesp' exclaimed the
wife. BLAMED if I'm going to have
anything around me that strikes p"
yelled the man as he gave it fual lift
into the street.-Chicaqo Tribune.
Galveston News: The oldest old maid
in the world is Rebecca Anderson, of
Seneca Falls, aged liz years She is so
old that it IS upward of twenty five years
since census:taker has had the pluck
to ask her how old she was.
Macon, Ga has an ice factory that
makes 10000 pounds of ice daily, at a
cost to consumers of one cent per pound.
This is about the rate paid in Savannah,
where there are two ice companies who
get their supplies from the natural man.
ufactory.
Not long ago, in an English court, a
female witness, on the oath being admin
istered, repeatedly kissed the clerk in
stead of the book. 1t was sometime be.
fore she was made to understand the
proper-or at least the legal-thing to
do.
At the conclusion of tragic account
of how tourist lost his life by falling
into crevice in one of the glaciers al
Etancon a French newspaper manages
to say: "His two Swiss guides, not
speaking French, were unable to extri-
cate him."
A Portland Chinaman became the ia.
ther of an American-5orn son, and as
he danced around, swinging his pigtail
and knocking over the opium jars, he
exclaimed :"Me Mellican man ALI samee
Me heap Washington! Ne sewing ma
chine agent! Go way! Whoopee!"
Adolphus, dear, what shall / do2-I
Bridget has struck, and there she stands
at the kitchen door with poker in one
hand and saucepan in the other, threat
ening to break the head of the new help
if she dares to lay her hand to a dish
rag. It's just awful, so it is, too.
A St Louis journal tells story of
disconsolate widower, who, on seeing
the body Of his late wife lowered in the
grave, exclaimed, with tears in his eyes
"Well I've lost gloves, I've lost umbrel.
las-yes even cows and horses; but
never-no, never-had anything to cut
me like this"
How beautiful is the sea. One can
stand upon the rocks of the coast and
watch the incoming waves and listen de-
lighted to their low music for hours at
time, and yet it is the sea that causes
thousands Of strong men to swear, chew
plug. drink rum, 60 without suspenders,
and smell Of tar
The London World says that "noth
ing more important has ever happened
in the history of English trade than the
threatening displacement of our cotton
manufactures by those Of America =
Piece goods from the Lonsdale Mills, of
New York State. are now sold in every
town in England at lower price and Of
better quality than English goods OF