The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1877-07-17

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The current coin of life is plain sound
sense. We drive a more substantial and
thriving trade with that than aught else.
National prosperity can not be restor-
ed BY enforcing idleness on large por-
ton Of the people.
Tom Thumb got mad because star.
ing crowd followed him into q Carson
bsrber.shop, and he offered to .fght any
one of them.
'sMother, may 60 play base ball9'
"Yss, my yalorous pitcher,
Put your wire mask ever your mug,
And don't let that league ball hit yerp
--Erchange.
The American giantess Is dead, but
the recollection Of how she kicked a
Michigan photographer over the cage of
hyenas will never be entirely effaced.
A small boy, who no harm apprehended
To the tree-top serenely ascended,
For an immature peach
That hung out Of reach.
The funeral was largely attended.
1t rather pleases one, in taking up a
Texas paper and reading an account OF
. "Rafie for q double-barreled shot
gum" to find that the Rev Mr. was
che winner.
The young man who cannot afford to
keep his girl stuffed full Of ice-cream
and strawberries can invite her into the
garden and show her how 10 Gull the
sportive potato. bug.
"There is place for everything and
everything in Its place." runs the prov.
erb, but We defy any person to find a
place for the feet Of long-legged man
ct crowded dinner party.
George F. Train would rather shake
the hand Of Ben Franklin In hell than
that of John Smith in heaven. Seems
TO US there ought to be compromise of
some kind --Rochester Democrat
"How to tell mad dog" is the title
OF an article that is going the rounds
We haven't anything to tell q mad dog
that We couldn't send to him on a pos
tal card.-CsacinHati Sat. Night.
There are many followers Of the cynic
Who wrote: "Our curate's eyes my
daughters praise. / can not tell il they're
divine; for when he prays he closes
them, and when he breaches, shut
mine"
A facetious boy asked one Of bis
playmates how hardware dealer differ
ed from bootmaker7 The latter, some
shat puzzled, gave il up why" said
the other, obecauae the one sold the
nails, and the other nailed the soles"
1t is an accepted theory that woman''
perceptions are quicker than man.
and yet the experience OF Thousand
years would fail to teach her that it re
Quires more delicacy OF touch to shar
pen lead pencil than to point a bear
pole.
II shall not discuss woman in tn,
columns Of my paper" said George ,
Prentice, "while considering the maiI
points involved in the campaign, be
cause every one who is informed on th
subject Of her creation knows that wo
man was side ISSUE"
John G SAKE, when writing, usual.
sits with his chair tipped hack, his fee
brscsd against some object, and hi
knees propped up 80 as 10 afford sup
port for his portfolio. He says this at
titude rests bis body, and seems to Civ
his mental faculties greater ease and
freedom Of action
The Rochester Express vouches 70
che truth OF the statement that the bru
tal father Of a young lady in that vicir
ity recently said to her In the presenc
OF q company for whom she had de
clined to play Come, play that 81
600 piece of yours, daughter; it's th
only piece you can play. I know, but
has cost me just $1,000 to have yo
learn 1t. and by Jemima, now you've 60
10 play It,"
William Henry Hurlburt, the preser
editor and responsible director Of III
New York World, is described as col
genial bachelor Of forty-eight or ther'
abouts. No longer handsome-epic'
Yisnism has told on him-he is tall an
we'll made, has an intelligent, mockir
face, and with his warm color and ey
glasses. he resembles jovial Germs
professor. He is q veritable man Of til
world.
Oil City Cell: 1t happened the 9th
day that our wife got hold OF W
map, representing the Black Sea al
Russian and Turkish armies, and whe
we got home she had cut two new dres
es and neat basque by 1t, and was b
ginning on a new fashioned coat f
ourselves She thought it was fas
ion cut-and she believes SO yet.
When there is not breath Of air st
ring, and you are in danger of s;ifin
attempt to light cigar out doors al
you will be surprised at the breeze th
will start up. We have seen a man
this experiment in dead calm, and
The time he had scratched his thirteen
match, it was really so windy as to
uncomfortable.
Generally, nature hangs out a sign
simplicity in the face of fool, and the
is enough in his countenance for b
and cry to take him on suspicion;
else it ia stamped in the figure of
body; their heads sometimes so lit
that there is no room for wit; sou
times so long, that there is no wit
80 much room Thomas Fuller.
The late General Admiral Ward
China, who was native Of Salem, Mas
bcaueathed his fortune of SIC, ,O00.(
to his Salem relatives, but as he was
Chinese subject, the money went b'
10 the source whence it c,me, althou
his father spent eleven months in CHI
in yain effort TO bring The officials
terms.
QIeen victoria's seclusion partly
ses from the fact that she suffers IT
nausea In hot rooms The wearing c
diamond crown, which was particula
becoming, and had to be donned
state occasions, used to cost the (
press Eagenie forty-eight hours OF he
ache she was act tree agen' Ike
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