The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1877-12-25
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4 aMoral force is never lost, observes
10 contemporary. The same can be said
Eof q broken-bladed pocket knife Nor
ristowa Herald s. 49,. ..s.-:sss
i A little girl'yesterasy, while watching
THE rain, turned to her mother and said
issMa, / guess the weather's so warn it's
Imelting The clouds ,s, !. 3 3 Z
i "A New Jersey. clergyman, q rigid
jeeonomist, has reduced expenses BY
4Emarrying 4 second ssife, and giving lsis
firstwife's three children away.
Mrs, Shoddy puckered up her mouth
]genteelly and told a gentleman that one
]of her lovely daughters was q sbunet,' =
land the other "bronze, .
Surely, the eight young women Of
Newman, Ga, who made their gradua.
ltion dresses and set the type for theil
own essays, honored their alma mater
4 "Every failure is step to success
]. says the proverb; and the oftener you
take advantage Of the bankrupt law the
Longer becomes your Rife's bank &c
count. - 8
The rattle season is now on when .
man spends So so on q turkey frame
and goes home with a head full OF cell
/ to tell his wife how the other fellow
Threw forty three and won it. =
/ Woman consumes thirty.six buttons
on her kid. gloves, whereas man buttons
bis suspenders with shingle nail. And
yet folks win ask, Button, button
who's got the button3'' 7esss
/ Many people; are fond Of the compa.
ny of their physician, because he is the
lnnly person with whom they dare talk
CONTINUALLY Of themselves without inter-
Eruption, contradiction, or censure.
The New York Herald ungallantly
says that at three hundred dollars q
house, the paint used BY the ladies' OF
this country for their faces would cover
nearly twenty-seven Thousand houses.
For centuries hydrophobia has been
an almost chronic subject of discussion
among medical men, and they don't
seem to know much more now than
! when the subject was first discussed.
j The fashionable style OF hair dress.
ling is very low in. the neck. The rows
Iof puffs worn outside the front Of the
bonnet, and resembling false teeth in
their stiff regularity, Gre no longer in
vogue. .ssFsss ssfsssi..e
/ 1t is said chat the age of superstition
is passed, but there are yet great many
women who wouldn't have a dress cul
on Friday for the world.-Ex What
the dear creatures most banker after is
Ia Weddin's-day dress. = s.
A ST. Louis widow has had three hus
bands. She has on hand a. lawsuit tc
break the will of the first, another te
recover the insurance money on the life
lof the second, and third to obtain ali
mony from the last. a.s
| 1t has been decided by a Massachu-
sets court that q mechanic cannot have
a lien on building for labor performed
in moving it, Now, when we take q
lien on building we have no disposi
tion to move it. House that for atti
tude2
i 1t is said that, Mr.. Charles Nordhof
receives from the Herald salary. oil
| $40, 900 year, and writer in the Den
yer News adds to this statement that be
used to "hold copy" for Mr., Nordhof
"when the Indianapolis Sentinel only
lpaid him $l2 week, and grumbled a,
that" q 80
! Farmer latter anxiously inspecting
strangers)-" be they gentlemen
doing, master 2" Misunderstanding
Iyour house; they are artists. and maybe
they will paint it." Farmer-.Well, ]
lam sure they be quite welcome; it wants
lit, and whitewashing, too, mortal bad
i-Fan. s.. r.,.g 60 i.
/ II you dream of.a Patagonian with
the chills and fever, paying assiduous
courtto rheumatic lion with q pink
polonaise draped gracefully over point.
aiguille tunic, cut bias in q dark night
it is sign that you'd better wake up,
flor you are dreaming like a threeply
Ijackass. ,......... gsrigs
An Irishman who had been sick a long
time was met blythe parish priest, when
the following conversation took place
"Well, Patrick, I am glad you have re-
covered. Were you not afraid to meet
your God 2" "Oh, no, your reverence !;
1t was meetin' the other party that was
lafeared Nv" replied Pat.
| A temperance man being told to take
hot whiskey and water for gout obtain.
ed the hot water by telling his servants
| that it was shaving water. The doctor
calling after q few weeks, was informed
| by the house-keeper that her master was
staring mad sWhy," said she, e"hs
shaves himself twenty times every day.
i A negro was sentenced in Floyd, Ga.
to be hanged in September, and he ask.
ed the Judgelto appoint an earlier day
His Honor remarked that propriety pre-
vented aschange. "Never mind the rro.
Iprietys Judge" said the prisoner 'apn
the man that's going to be hanged, and
ought to have something to say abou,
fit." 81 ea'1
There is a place in California where
i oysters grow on trees, and the woods
are made musical by the clatter of the
shells as they are shut together to keep
the sun out. This California story is
repeated from memory, and we are not
sure but we have slightly enlarged upon
lit 80 - ,,.s@. ..'.ss
A gentleman once asked deaf and
dumb boy, "What is truth p He re.
piled by taking piece of chalk, and
drawing on the blackboard straight
line between twopoints. Then he asked
him, "What is lie p The boy rubbed
out the straight line, and drew zigzag
or crooked line between the same two
points. Remember this.
The Arizona Miner tells laughable
story of two friends who were recently
attacked by Indians in that State. They
were both on mules and the arrows were
whistIing by them in clouds. The mules
were of unequal powers of speed, and
the foremost man sang out, "Joe, why
don't you come along7" Joe, whose
arms and legs were flying in the air like
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