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

that fire ladder.
The Danbury News says: Put peck
of Jersey mosquitoes under blue glass
and in two days you will have spring
chickens large enough for the New York
boarding houses
We thought spring would find il hard
work to get through this weather safely.
A large placard in a clothing store an
nounces "Spring pants" Something
ought to be done to relieve her.
A precocious boy of eight summers
attributes the death of pet gold fish
his sisters idol-to the fact that it
couldn't take joke. He used to catch
it occasionally with bent pin.
At the restaurant the guest called the
waiter to him and remarked, "The goose
with wine sauce would be most palats-
bic, but for slight mistake. The age
is in the goose and not in the wine."
"Bridget, told you to let me have
my hot water the first thing in the morn.
ing" "Shure, sir" said Bridget, "didn't
1 bring it up and lave it at the dure last
night, so as to have it in time ?"
Shocked and astonished old man
You bad and wicked boy, why don't you
take off your hat in the church, Bad
and wicked boy (overcome with guilt
If you please, sir, I'm little girl.
/ A gentleman had occasion to correct
his daughter, aged four, recently. AT.
ter it was over and she had sat awhile,
she went to her mother and inquired,
l'Don't you think it would do papa good
TO 60 out doorsy"
"A little girl went with her mother to
a Soldene concert. When that lady and
the full chorus appeared the little girl
ia the audience looked at them a mo-
ment, then said: "Mamma, are those
women ready for bed now?"
| A lawyer and minister, both impe.
cunious, boarded with certain widow
pay his M Board. The lawyer married iia fi15a fhe
lone woman, and the minister performed
the ceremony, thus squaring accounts
Boston Herald.
When the head of the family comes
home at shockingly late hour, depos'
its his weary self on the top of the
piano, and, while gently tickling The
keys with his major toe, murmurs some
thing about the annoyance of squeak.
ing bed, it is entirely safe to draw con
clusions.
The new Secretary of the Navy, hav
ing been informed that there were buoys
belonging to his department in Ne7
York harbor, Immediately issued an or
der commanding them to report to thei
ships without delay. discipline is dis
cipline," says the old salt, ''if have tt
skin every boy in the navy"
A Catskill woman recently knocked
down seven robbers. one after the other
!, Her husband watched her from the to]
, of the stairs, and felt so brimful of figh
that he couldn't cool off until he jerket
| his eight-year-old son ou: of bed ant
, whaled him soundly for not getting VI
and helping his mother.-Rondout Free
!, nda.
"Blue glass is all very well in its way,
says friend of ours, "but it is rathe
more than our friend Simpson, of Div
: street, expected He noticed windov
full of it in his neighbours house, an,
the following week his good wife pre-
sented him with twins. He didn't de
) lay q moment in going for the blue glas
window with all the cobble stones b
3 could lay his hands on"
A Brooklyn butcher has an intelligen
: German clerk who is trying to lear
English hy looking up in the dictionar,
every word he hears but does not ur
? derstand. A few days ago lady Gus
i toner, in her effort to explain what Gu
9 of meat she wanted and whv she wante
ttit, mentioned that she ate her beef cook
nled rare. sRare ?" he repeated. "Rare
iE6lz5s q 9QyesNa Y |. know. : R ar
zossd dhuEi} . bad hat and an ulster {
h1the vintage of '73s1"it's all very we'll
d isay, Let business revive; but what "
3 want, sir, is confidence, public conf
e dence, sir. Each of US must be willin