The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1878-03-26

When thou my love for thee hadst 6rst OWNED;
Thy proud. shy tenierness-too proud I, feign
That willful blindness which is yet not blind.
Then toward the sun thy lily-life turned
With sudden splendor flushed it, chalice burn
III. H. BoYsEN, in Scribaer.
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What this country needs as much as
anything about these times is an Execu-
tive who executes.
Next to English sparrows there is
nothing that increases faster than potar o
bugs, ,unl, IS it is the interest on an unpaid
note.
Justice has not been done to Mr..
Hayes capacity 1t really must require
q great deal Of ability to make SO COM
plete failure as be has male in one
short year.
The statement comes from Washing
son that Senator Conkling is going ic
review the Presidents policy. First he
will have to lind out where the Presi.
dent keeps he policy hidden,
When a certain minister referred, In
the midst of an eloquent discourse, to
the nave in the church three gentlemen
offered their pews for sale, ,on the ground
that be was becoming too personal.
.Wtl!, swan, Billy," said an old far
mer TO an understood nephew who was
visiting him, "when you lake ofthat ere
plug hat and spit two or three times there
amt much left Of you, is til ?"
A great deal of logic is like that CT
the small bov who declared that large
number OF people have saved their lives
by not swallowing pins, who would Ger.
tainly have died il they had swallowed
them.
The revival of the big fight over the
Toledo Post Office will give the Presi-
dent something to occupy bis mind,
which has for considerable time been
needing something with which it could
cope.
A good character ish bretty much der
-ssme to man ash good umbrella. Ven
dark CLOUDS dhrea,en over his head, all
he is got TO, do vas to hold him ub, und
der storm BASES over, and lie ish none
der worse
IN other. does God see everything
that's done?' asked little one Yes,
my dear, everything" was the reply; 'but
WHY do yon ask r' "Because," said the
artiess child, .I think, to say the very
least of it, it is very inconvenient."
Triplets, sons of Leonard Haskins,
horn May "a, 1861, and named by Pres
iient Lincoln, are at present residing in
South Starksboro, VT. They have let
ter from Mr.. Lincoln announcing the
names--Abraham Lincoln, Gideon W elles
and Simon Cameron.
II you know man who Is willing to
kiss your boots because you are rich,you
may he sure there is some one whom ht
eompels 10 kiss his boots in turn. He
who will cringe before one wbois higher
than himself will play the tyrant over all
smaller than himself.
It Is argued, and with great plausihili-
~, that Columbus did not deserve the
credit he received for discovering Amer
lea. All he had to do was to keep going
right ahead and he was sure to strike it
somewhere. The wonder would have
been il be had missed il.
The Cincinnati Enquirer wants Hayes
to coax John Sherman to resign, but il
Hayes has got any energy left he had
better try and persuade Returning BoaId
Anderson to resign frst After that, il
he is not too tired, he may labor some
with Sherman for all anybody will care
A Californian was once taking & teen
cent dinner at the Min,r'e Res aurant in
San Francisco, when he called loudly TO
the waiter, .,Doyou consider this good
heef7 Certainly; cattle came all the
way.from Texas. II they hadn't been
good beef, they couldn't have stood The
trip"
That Georgia majorsays that Morris
o y has .'the face Of Mephistopheles y
John wishes to reply thr' ugh the Graph
ic,.' as follows: Il don't know 'xactly
VIA, that meal 8, but / remember that
hit him with Me phist cptelssy." Tia,
is diabo.ical pun, by the way Graph.
&c. =
JUDY-Lady (calling on intimate friend
who is unmarried. and only has one ser.
vant)-"Is your mistress at home, Sa
rahf Sarah-"No num- Lady
Then you will kindly say that I called
to see il she would come and spend the
evening with us?" Sarah-"Oh, no,
mum! An sure sue can't, cause its my
turn OUT
us he good horse to. CO." "Thee
would be pleased to see him CO." said
the conscientious Quaker. A bargain
was struck and balky horse changed
owners His purchaser, in high dudg
eon. went back upon the @ iaker He
defined HE position: 81 have not lied to
thee friend. | told thee, thee would be
pleased to see him 60. Now wouldn'
thee be pleased to see him go?'
Sirandin is wag as well as confec
toner in Paris, and is as bald as a stone
The other day he met friend whom he
had not seen for twenty years. "Ano
has'everything gone we'll with You ?" he
sske,l. Yes answered the friend
"only have lost all my hair swell,
said Sirandin, taking off his hat, and
showing his own shining poll, "you sure
ly went accuse me Of having found it.
On the death of George Grote, the
sGrecian historian, Summer teiegraphed
to his widow: "When the electric cable
flashed across the Atlantic the news o
This great loss. the whole Of tais vas,
continent vibrated with sympathy fol
you." On the other hand. the son of a
very distinguished Duke heing at the
tim" In large company Of fashionable
New Yorkers,. took up the paper, and
reading the telegram announcing the
death. exclaimed, "Why. Grose's dead 81
Not one in the company, be found, knew
who Groie was. s.ea Ff,,
: The case of Miss Margaret Thomson
wlio.h her pet horse shod with golden
shoes and distributed showers of gold
among the poor of various European
towns, was heard before Lord Adam.
In Edinburgh, on the 23d ult. The hear.
ing vas had on the petition of George