The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1877-07-31
THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY.
Tuesday, July 81, 1877.
Sense and eNause,lse.


Good character is above all things
else.
Never listen to idle or loose conver.
sation.
A very bad Judge-The man who
tries his friends.
When you speak to any person look
him in the face.
Gond company and good converse
ton are the sirews Of virtue.
Your character carnot he essentially
injured except by your own acts.
The badges of these men !-Beaux at
Saratoga are calle | "parasol- -holders"'
If any one speaks evil of you let your
life be so virtuous that no one will be-
lieve them.
"Graee before meat" as the young Ia
dy remarked when she laced herself so
tight she couldn't swallow.
A man child in Caswell county, North
Carolina, twelve years old, weighs 225
pounds, and ISIS feet 10 inches high
"Papa," asked boy, ''what is meant
by Paradise ?" paradise, my son." re.
piled the father, "is the latter part OF
the summer, when your mother goes on
visit to your grandfather
It doesn't do bit Of good to go to
picnic, and stond on the river bank and
admire the gorgeous sunset and talk
about.the tender beauties. of nature to
man who has just sat down on custard
pie.
A teacher, after reading to her schol
ars story Of q generous child, asked
them what generosity was, One little
hoy raised his hand and said; 81 know;
it's giving to others what you don't want
yourselG"
Arnold rail splitter in Indiana put the
quietus upon young man who chaffed
him uponshis bald head, in these words:
"Yonng man, when my head gets as soft
as yours can raise hair to SELL"
The young man who howled 1--WE
won't 90 home till morning" around the
street Saturday night, was correct
prophet. He did not get home until
nearly noon on Monday, and had to pay
a fine of IS TO get away then.-Rome
Scntiael
A Washington paper advocates the
use1 lager beer as temperance meas
uresd That is a capital suggestion, but
substitute whisky, and the "temperance
wave would sweep over Washington
with irresistible force, as usual-Nor-
ristoscn Herald.
And now the lie comes alongsthat
there's an old woman in New Bedford,
81 years old, that never used hair pin
in her life. That story might do for
some, but we'd like 10 know what she
holds in her mouth while she's combing
her hair, If she don't have hair pins
Bridgeport Standard
Young ladies who powder their faces
should carry clothes brush for the con-
venience OF admitting escorts. Other
wise the bashful lover may be compelled
to invent story about helping an old
woman carry home sack OF -four, and
even then cannot escape the suspicion Of
having embraced the flower Of the fami-
lys
aThere's some mind in this boy of
yours" said the new pastor stopping by
the roadside and stroking the curly pate
Of youngster whose father, one of the
parishioners, was plowing in the adjacent
field. Sand so there he, too," replied
the rustic, greatly tickled "and so there
be, sir; you'd just ought to see how he
can mind sheep"
Itis great misfortune 10 have fret
fui disposition. 1t takes the fragrance
out of ones life, and leaves only weeds
where cheerful disposition would cause
flowers to bloom. The habit of fretting
Is one that grows rapidly unless it be
sternly oppressed; and the best way to
overcome it is to try always to look on
the cteerful side OF things.
.Aaemus Martin of Erie, Pa, on
whom the degree OF A. M. was confer
red by Yale College at the last CON-
mencemcnt, is market gardener, who
sells vegetables in the streets of Erie
twice week He is regular contrib
utor to foreign and American education
al publications, and has mathematical
Library OF several hundred volumes. He
isself educated.
Isasc Frielander, who is described as
the Grsin King OF The Pacific, is resi-
dent Of San Francisco. He is Of He
brew parentage, gaunt, awkward, and
remarkably tall. He has been in busi-
ness. nearly twenty years, and has an
nualIy shipped three quarters of the
California wheat crops to England. He
failed few weeks ago, with liabilities
estimated at S2.000.000, but wheat ad.
vanced, and he was able to compromise
with his creditors at 25 cents on dol
lar.
JOSEPH Mishow, who was buried al
Williamsport, on July l, was the Oldest
man in Northern Pennsylvania, his age
being l93 years, 3months, and % days
He had French blood in his veins, but
was UOtu III i1ufiics WHCiO hC hfOU LhOiC
than ninety years. He enjoyed remar-
kable health for a hundred and one
years. Then his flesh began fairly to
dry on his bones until he was reduced
to a skeleton Daring his last month
on earth he resembleo mummy more
than he did living being
II you have something to attend to,
go about it coolly and thoughtfully. and
do il just as well as you can. Do it as
though it were the only thing you had
ever to do in your life, and as if every
thing depended upon it. Then your
work will be well done, and it will afford
you genuine satisfaction. Often much
more does depenaupon the manner in
which things, seemingly trivial, ale per
formed than one would suppose, or than
it Is possible to foresee. Do everything
We'll. and yon will find It conducive to
your happiness, and that of those with
whom you come in contact.
Dani.l Webster is credited with hav
irg said: eff I had as many sons as
old Priam, | would have them all learn