The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1877-04-10

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Pittsburgh are working on full time and
with the usual number of men.
The best way to discourage a boil is
to seek right slippery place on the
pavement, and then, when the boil amt
looking, come down on it-nop.
Somebody asserts that "blue glass
chimney on the parlor lamp will bring a
young man up to the point Of propo-
sing to a cross.eyed maiden with store
teeth in three Sunday evenings"
The Vienna correspondent Of the
Standard reports that, according to ad-
vices from St. Petersburg, Russia has
ordered the squadrons in the Mediterra-
mean and American waters to return to
the Baltic.
The rude force of men like Morton
amounts, in certain political exigencies,
to genius, which weak men like Hayes
tremblingly recognize and timidly sue
cumb to. The man from Ohio was not
made 20 battle with Boanerges.
A queer bequest is that OF Miss Max
well Graham of Williamswood, England,
who has left 100000 to four charita-
BILE societies, wherewith to relieve poor
Protestants who are named Hutchinson
or Maxwell, and to educate their chill
dren.
A starving Chinaman, who was taken
into the Cincinnati hospital for resusci
tation, few days ago, attributed his
woful plight to the fact that he had star
ted q laundry in Louisville He sums
up bis experience in single line:--
sKentuckee-two weekee-one shirtee.' >
The settled expression of determine
ton that mantles the face of a man who
is just starting out to have tooth pull
ed is only equaled by the subdued look
that creeps over his features as he paus-
es with bis hand on the knob of the
dental-room door, turns quietly around
and tiptoes back through the hallway
out doors again.
The Springfield Republican says
Those Watermelon fellows are trying
their hand at running sewing-machines.
A motor with six-inch wheel, propell.
ed by stream of water the size Of q
large needle, has been tested on a ma
chine at Superintendent Hancock's house
with very satisfactory results. The ma.
chine was driven with, great rapidly,
md aa1theexpease Of .Ipnpipg1j szepll
two or three cents an hour, the mo{ol
bids fairto be immensely popular with
women.
DR.. j. C. Buckhill, an eminent Lon.
don physician, who has made the study
of the brain speciality, remarks thai
sNo one brain is like any other brain
Either through the force Of Inheritance
from the parent organism. or through
the influence of education or other mod
/ flying circumstances, every mind pos
sesses such popularity Of individual
q ity in the relative susceptibility ant
strength Of its organs, that the same
disturbing influence never produces in
two brains exactly the same patholog
ical effects"
= Itis better to yield a little than te
quarrel great deal. The habit of stan
ding up, as people call it, for their (lit
tle) rights, is one of the most disagree
able and undignified in the world. Life
is too short for the perpetual bickering'
which attend such disposition; and
except in a very momentous affair
where other peoples claims and inter
ests are involved, it is a question if it il
not wiser, happier and more prudent tc
yield somewhat Of precious rights thar
squabble to maintain them. True wis
dom is first pure, then peaceable ant
gentle,
d .Toe many ministers" is the complain
made at the Newark Methodist Episco
pal Conference now in session. Bishol
Peck thought that there should be
committee appointed to dismiss from th'
service old and sick preachers actually
j. ircapacitated for service, and to proven
incompetent young men from entering
it. The supply, the Bishop said, mus
he diminished, or else two or three mer
must be appointed to each charge 90
else there must be more churches,
might have been rejoined.