The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1877-04-24
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How to make q good impression
Use new type and clean ink.
A new telegraph cable is to; be laid
between France and Algeria. ! .sssi.
Partisan bellies enjoy champagne
baths American swells champagne cock
tails. ~ ,'Ssa
The Partisan Figaro declared q ,divi-
dend Of $3.50, 900 last year. Sensations
pay there,
Never help married woman to take
care Of her baby in the absence Of her
husband.
The Moravia. Register asks, "Are
American girls delicate ?" 1t depends
very much whether you offer them CO.
coanut cake and ice cream, or bar Of
soap and washboard. .1
The "Big Bonanza" yielded S20,10S,-
05S gold and S25, ,700,6S2 silver from its
discovery to September 80, 1876. In
this deposit the usual preponderance Of
gold over silver is reversed. zemaj
In most places ga stones throw
"five minutes walk" etc, are used as
measures for short distances. In Dubu-
que, however, they speak of a place as
being "within the bawl of mule "eaB
"Did you think of me while you were
gone 2'' tenderly asked woman Of her
husband, who had just come back from
Florida. He said he did-once. 1t was
when be saw an allegator's jaw.
The latest in letters, with the ladies,
is the use of white ink on very dark
paper, such as cardinal, mandarin, deep
purple, green, DC. This, we suppose.
is the kind Of ink that makes people
believe white is black. I-fit s8s@
The Rome Sentinel man remarks that
children are sent into the world to teach
US how lovely angels are; but when a
man finds himself pasted to the seat of
chair by piece of spruce gum he
never thinks of this. era
A crusty old fellow once asked =
"What is the reason that griff1ns, drag
ons and devils are ladies' favorite SUBJ
jects for embroidered designs ?" ''Ah,
because they are continually thinking of
their husbands" vas lady's quick re-
tort. q .+l a#
Previously to the invention Of hats,
both men and women generally wore
close-knit wooden caps; the mans hat
was invented at Paris,l by q Swiss, l404,
first worn in England in Henry VII s
time, and first manufactured in London,
1920. ''tsi
A st. Louis Sunday School boy gave
his teacher this illustrative definition OF
"responsibility': "Boys has two but
tons for their s'penders SOS to keep
their pants up, When one button comes
off, why there's good deal of respon.
sibility on the other button"
The ground is bare in spots, and cats
may be planted to advantage. You can
not plant cats any too early, nor is it
possible to get too many Of them in a
hill. You may not raise anything where
the cat is planted, but the cat will not
raise anything either, and that is where
the enormous profit comes in. z.
Mrs Partington says that just before
the late war circumstances were seen
round the moon nightly, shooting stars
perambulated the earth, the desk of the
sun was covered with black spots of
ink, and comics swept the horizon with
their operate tales. Every body said
that it profigated war, and sure enough
war did come.
An old gentleman, being reproached
by his prospective mother in law that lie
was much too oldfor her daughter, and
that he was even bald headed, replied /:
"Madame, my badness is no indication
of age-it runs in the family. In fact,
madame, said he, in sudden gush OF
confidence, 81 was born bald headed
"A man who, from his youth upward,
had been leading most irregular life
suddenly ended his bachelor career by
marrying widow worth E40,000--
"Don't imagine" said he to one of his
friends, "that l am simply marrying for
money. If she had had only 100000,
/ should have married her just the
same" "-Once Week. -sii13K eli
During the review Of the Sunday
School lesson last Sunday. the question
was asked, "What became of Elijah p
and the entire congregation was electri
i fed by small .shrill voice that piped
out with extreme unction, "He went to
heaven like house a.tire, you bet."-
! All bets were declared off, and the con-
| gregation sung a hymn.
That bed is not long enough for me,
said very tall, gruff old Englishman,
upon being ushered into his bedroom
by an Irish waiter at one of our hotels
Faith an you'll find it is plenty long
Sir. when you get into it," was the re-
ply, "for then there'll be two feet more
added to it." gl.aer I'D ~
Exit Pat, with q boot fetching up th'
rear. leJ ,sireH gri& ia oL
That the people of the late Southern
Hotel in st. Louis, and the people o
st. Louis, were painstaking in conceal
ing the loss Of life from that fatal fir
there can be no question. Of course
, very few, if any, OF the servants in tn,
sixth story were killed; but, somehow
sixty of the employees of the hotel ar
absent or unaccounted for And inhu
man men will only say--they were onl,
, servants. a r39i c5 8f
Here's news item from abroad whic
e shows how closely we don't resembl
: the English. The wealthy who kee
8 their balances at Cbutts', says the Lon
r don World, are somewhat nervous. Th
senior partner, aged eighty-five, died tn
s other day, and the management of :h
bank is intrusted to the junior partner
a raw boy of eighty-two, with not NOR
than sixty years experience in tn
o. house. "'f ~ BE- a'h
P 1t was at q trial for poisoning tbs
Orfila, the celebrated French chemis
" was asked by the President of the Coul
g how much arsenic was requisite to, po
g son or kill fly. Orfila was not to h
# outdone, and he replied to NJ. lie Pres
d dent that the information desired woul
II be given provided M. le President woul
e state the age Of the fly, its sex, its ten
O perament. its condition and habits {