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

There is a great deal of religion that
is like morning cloud, as soon as the
sun gets hot it disappears,
Modesty is priceless virtue; but If,
like the paint on wortian's cheek, it is
only put on, it loses its value.
1t is well enough to give the devil his
due, but be careful that he doesn't claim
your own soul in part payment.
One of the western papers hits the nail
on the head when it speaks OF Col. In.
gersoll as "peddler Of paganism."
No matter if a man does say he wants
to be an angel, it is always safe to have
the name Of good indorser on the back
of his note
"What constitutes the chief happiness
of your life" asked serious Sunday
School teacher She blushed and then
replied, "Itis that John has at last fixed
the day."
How many expressions one meets with
which come mauifestly from tender
heart; and how many, alas come from
tender head.
Mr. Darwin, whose worship sis mostly
of the silent Sort" says that the greatest
boon that Heaven ever granted to man is
the bsboon.
"There are people who live behind the
hill," is an old German proverb, which
means that there are other folks in the
world besides yourself, although you may
not see them.
81 am afraid you will come to want"
said an old lady to an English gentleman
Il have come to that already" was the
reply, Il want your daughter" The old
lady opened her eyes.
A subscriber asks us, "What is good
for warts on horses ?" We don't know
We never owned but one pair Of horses
"a wood horse and a clothes horse-and
they were never troubled with warts.
The Germans test the purity of milk
by dipping we'll polished knitting nee
die into the fluid II the milk Is pure
some of it will adhere to the needle, but
lif water has been added it will not.
i A lady on the West side was joked the
other day about her nose, which has an in
clination to turn up. "Ah, do not say
anything about my nose. Ihad nothing
to do in shaping it. 1t was birthday pres
ent.
! Friendships is more firmly secured by
lsnity toward failings, than by attach
ment to excellence. One is valued as q
kindness that cannot be explained, the
other exacted as payment of debt to
merit.
) Ohio would be more merciful if she Or
dained crucifxtion as legal penalty in
place of the slow torture which she now
inflicts on the inmates OF her Peniten.
tiary Polygamy is not the only relic oi
, barbarism among us.-N r. Herald.
Poor young thing! She tainted away al
} the washtub, and her nose went kerslol
, into the soapsuds Some said it was
overwork; others, however, whispered
that her beau had peeped over the back
3 fence and called out: "Hello, there,
Bridget. Is Miss Alice homer"
Two card sharpers unwittingly pick
9 ed each other up in train from Bath to
London and played ecarte, "It's very sin
gular," observed one, .'that I haven
q seen king yet" "Not at all replied tht
other. "you have one in your sleeve, ant
: l have the other in my bont.''
People make great mistake about
: heaven. They think it begins up yon
i der, but it really begins down here /
, you can be happy in the basement story
: you are fitted to enjoy the happiness o
: the other stories. But il you whine ant
!. moan here, heaven itself cannot chang,
your mood.
: A young man at church fair whel
p asked by one of the "sisters" to take
. '.chance" in drawing Tor pound cake
r said he turned over new leaf on tn
first Of the year, but he wouldn't min,
chipping in dollar and playing gam
n Of seven up for the "pot" The siste
= didn't urge him any more after that.
v Everyday absurdities: To make your
# self generally disagreeable, and the
wonder that nobody will visit you. No
y to go to bed when you are tired an
i. sleepy because it is not bed time. T
k make your servants tell lies for you, an
3, afterward be angry because they tell lie
'e for themselves To tell your own Sc
s crets and believe other people will kee
them.
d A very little boy had one day don
'e wrong, and he was sent, after patterns
Z. correction, to ask in secret the forgive
y ness of his Heavenly Father. His d
Il fense was passion. Anxious to hea
what he would say, his mother followe
m to the door OF the room. In lisping az
D cents she heard him ask to be made be-
ter; and then, with childlke simplicity
he added: "Lord, make mas tempe
"a better, too"
: Tyndall has copscientious scruplt
= against using the word 'soul" He dot
not want to mislead any one into the in
. preston that they have such an appel
- dage. He says that whenever he is con
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70 70 poetic rendering of phenomenon th,
'e refuses the yoke of ordinary physics
:. laws" 1fhe would only look in on Col
~ Sregation when the contribution box
being passed he would find strong test
Nv mony in favor of his no soul theory
In the intervals Of dancing the Me,
r ican women retire to the dressing.roo
a. and refresh themselves with wine or bee
and cigarettes. Even the youngest CIR
smoke. The dancing is similar to our
rt except it is much slower. They on
| have one national dance, which is cale
~ the '.danaa" This is dance in the slo,
i'd est possible manner, and is we'll adaptt
he for warm climates A young lady ga
or sit was the easiest thing in the world
ne learn-you only had to stand still and
Rugged"
v An English clergymen relates tn
I'D two English sisters had an audience wi
to the late Pope Plus TX and as they we
a withdrawing one Of them fingered. Fl
,e, Pope asked her what she wished, al
ty she, being convert to the Roman Cat
olic faith, answered: "The prayers
n your Holiness that my sister may
ee converted from Professionalism, so tn