The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1877-06-12
Sepst and Nupset,se.

In Great Britain there are 300,O ,O0O
maids who tend bar.
A Chicago man named Fitzgerald
kept on arguing until he had been stab
bed fve times. He must have been
pretty nearly correct.
The sewing machine agent, since the
patent run out, has to talk just as fast,
and just as much, and tell just as many
lies, for 1928 as he used to tell for $135
The Sultan says he has 29s,000 men
On the beautiful blue, Danube, and the
Gar has just sent down an impartial
commission of 100000 to see fair
count
A downtown man who went to church
last Sunday, remarked afterward that he
preferred the organ to the preacher
He said there seemed to be stop to the
organ. ra -,;.
'What is a bat 2" asks a contempora-
ry. AS far as our education extends, a
bat is thing to encourage cat to ge,
off back fence, and is composed oi
half brick. ls.5a "a cf,.ts sg
A season is just getting along far
enough to make man begin to wonder
if the soda water at the drug.stores this
summer will taste as much like whisky
as it did last year. Hs q jag
A Georgia negro twisted a mules tail
to urgeit over the fence. The small at.
tendance at the funeral next day showed
that the people didn't care if he did
twist the mules tail sh'at
A North Carolina paper speaks Of
baby which was born black and subse
quently turned to white. In this latitude
a baby is usually born white and turns
lively yeller-Nertcich Bulletin.
Ardui Kerim, the Turkish Comman
def.in Chief, eloped when twenty with q
pretty Moldavian, and lived with hel
for year before his place of conceal
ment in remote village was discover.
ed.
Ex.Treasurer Spinner is the mos
successful fisherman in Florida. The
secret of his success is said 10 lie in tht
fact that he uses his autograph for bait
and the fish imagine il is new kind o.
worm. 8
George Francis Train has discarded
the potato as an article OF diet. He die
| it for the purpose of flooding the mar
ket with potatoes, and just before h
stopped be bought 10000 futures" de
livery in July.
1t is interesting to sit in flour stor,
now as the proprietor receives a dis
patch, and yells, They're throwin' she'll
across Observation-Disclosures en-
anma one is goin, to get hurt. Turl
ont all hands and mark every DANCED
bar'l up half dollar" Rome Sentinel
AtQueen Victoria's last drawing.roon
lady attracted considerable attention
by the remarkable combination of col
ors in her dress. She had on skirt o
deep red silk trimmed with black lace
With this she wore train of brocadet
satin, OF striking vivid yellow, green
edged with broad ruching of velvet o
the same color.
The Emperor Alexander has thanket
the Holy Synod for finishing, after TWEEN
ty years Of incessant labor, the transla
ton of the Bible into the Russian yer
nacular. This is the first translation in
to Russian approved by the Gar ant
the Church. The British and Foreigl
Bible Soeiety's translation Is now pro
hibited in Russia. -
Boston Transcript: The slip Of pape
found at depot, from which the follow
ing is copied, reads much like the mem
orandums suburbans are in the habit o
taking with them from home mornings
"Inquire about Maria's teeth how mucl
for hens; netting; match carpet; Sc
Dr.. to vaccinate baby; piece of meat
price of tomato plants" DC.
A learned theologian in this city ha
a son, hopeful child of four years.
His father expects he will be minister
and the lad has talked encouragingl
until yesterday, when he gave signs Q
having fallen from grace, for the devo
ted child came in to his father and said
|"Papa, I'm not goin' to be minister.
I"What do you think of doing?' aske
his father. "Goin' to drive an ice.cart
l-Le,0iston Me Journal.
| Miss Hadlock, of Newport, Vt, me
in the street man who had circulate
derogatory stories about her She ha
prepared herself for the occasion. Firs
she took pepper from pocket an
, threw it in his eyes. Secondly, she too
. a rawhide from her hustle and struc
him several times with it. Thirdly, sh
took rotten egg from handbag an
smashed it in his face.
Erie Dispatch: The season for CAM
J meetings will soon be upon US, and I'll
calculating and far seeing mother wit
eight marriageable daughters who al
, on the high road to old maidenhoo
will pack her trunks and off to the shad
aisles of the forest with her eight bral
ches, and if at least five of those CIR
are not engaged before the leaves tul
yellow, we will set up the cigars for I'll
photographers of the American press
There, who will go this one better2
A Partisan and his wife quarreled.
~ shall drown myself" che finally erie
out, exaspersted $50, if 1 am all tn
deters you," he answered. Still, he fc
: lowed her, and when she threw herse
into the Seine, plunged in and broug
her to land, As he was climbing |
the bank, however, he slipped back in
Ithe river, and, being exhausted by
previous exertion, was unable to sa
himself. His wife seeing his situatio
plunged in after him, but as she cou
not swim, that was of no avail, al
both must have been drowned, had
:, not been for the timely arrival of sor
e policemen, who pulled them out. T
IT pair went home like two turtle doves.
d Hungary has mourned for twent
+ eight years the death of her natior
% poet, Petof, who was supposed to ha
ID been killed July 81, 1s49, at the bat
,e of Perjeregyhaza by Russian bullet
1T, A Hungarian named Bords, who "
lie made prisoner at that battle and &C
b demned to the mines Of Siberia, recel
" ly escaped, and reported that he
q Petoti prisoner there. Count Andr
le sy, a former friend of the poet, has