The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1878-04-09
Sepse and Nupsense.

Sense and WnuseiiSe.
The woman who contides to one man
her partiality for another seeks advice
less than an avowal.
Ittakes one less time to get over ones
own misfortune than to be reconciled to
neighbours good fortune.
The truth is hot to he spoken at all
times unless a man holds handsome
life insurance policy.
Louisville C C--Journal.-" Business be-
fore pleasure as the man said who kissed
his wife before going to see his sweet
heart"
How many of our writer's most in vogue
should bear in mind thatif talent supple.
ments everything it can dispense with
nothing!
tits funny to see an old lady Of sixty
with hyaway hat on the hack Of her
grey hair. tits funny and the foolish
old lady doesn't know it.
In church women think that they re
ceive because they observe, and that they
are meditating when they are only hold
ing their tongues.
Que should meet death as resolutelv as
a general would meet an inevitable con.
queror. This is the best way to obtain
easy conditions.
A witty man finds It difficult upon oc
casion to be dull like everybody else, and
80 usually contrives to be stupider thar
anybody else.
The highest mark of esteem a woman
can give to man is to ask his friendship
and the most signal proof of her indiffer
ence is to offer him hers.
Women attain perfection in but two do
partments of literature letters and mem
oirs. They only write we'll when they
imagine tina. they are talking.
In less than forty days from dat'
1000, 900 American women will be inqui
ring the price OF lime and hunting unde
the wood shed for old whitewash british
es.
General Comfy, our Minister to tn,
Sandwich Islands, says his principal oc
cupation is to call on the Secretary o
State for Foreign Affairs and take ,
drink.
The married ladies' of Western cit,
have formed "Come-home-husband
Club !" 1t is about four feet long, ant
has brush on the end ofit.-Ne,o Torl
Telegram. .H
London Fun.-Mrs. Stodger-"Hov
be your wife a.gettin' on, Mr.. Henpeck
in7" Mr. H ii be most mortal glad
Mr.. Stodger, to say she's a-recoyerin
very slowly"
"John,' said doting parent to her gor
mandizing son, "do you really think yol
can eat the whole of that pudding wit
impunity p II don't know, ma, replie
young hopeful: shut guess I can with
spoon
"What has Christianity ever done 70
man P asked Bob Ingersoll one day on
Western train "Well,' responded
quiet old lady, "it has prevented Mr. In
gersoll from being Governor of Illinois
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-lsd ..SnHn-Indidnapois Sentinel.
At one of the schools in Cornwall, En-
gland, the inspector asked the children
they could quote any text of Scriptur
which forbade man having two wives
One ofthe children sagely quoted in repl
the text, mo man can serve two mas
ters."
The reason given for girls not bein
able to throw anything with the accurac
of boy is that her collar bone is sewers
inches longer and several degrees lowe
down, and being long and crooked, in
terferes with the free action Of the shoul
ders.
When Anaxagoras was told of th
death of his son, he only said, 81 kne'
he was mortal" SO we, in all casua
i ties of life, should say, II knew that m
friend was but man." Such consider
ations would soon pacify us, because a
our troubles proceed from their being IN
expected.
/ A poet sings: "You may live withor
poetry, music and art: You may liv
without conscience, and live withor
heart" We take exceptions to this as
sertion. A man might live without mt
sic, art and heart--or fried liver, eithe
but we don't see how heis going t
worry along without poetry.
Since the office of Camerlengo was e
tablished, about 800 years ago, only thrs
, ofits occupants, have become Popes,
witt Honorius III. in 1906. Innocel
! VII in 1404, and the present Pontii
, Since the election of Innocent, the Gu
tom had prevailed that "he who hs
played Pope was virtually ineligible.
r A little boy who went to church WI
8 told to remember the text, which vi
"Why stand ye here all the day idler G
: into my vineyard and work, and whatsoe
er is right, that I wilfpay thee" Johnr
came home and was asked to repeat d
text. He thought it over for while,a
r then cried out, "What do you star
d round here, doing muffin for2 Go in'
' my barnyard and 60 to work, and I
J, make 1t all right with you"
A singular case Of somnambulism o
CURED in Carlisle, Wyoming county,
: few nights ago. Miss Mahala Rose,
maiden lady ofquite advanced age, deli
= : erately jumped from second story wi
: dow in her night.clothes and bare.foote
: struck on her feet "right side up wi,
care," and never awoke. She wake
about the yard, and finally stepped I'M
, some water, which was too cold for o1
Morpheus, and he let up The lady, upo
! ! finding herself in such plight, called f
. admission to the house.
e A little granddaughter of Prince Bi
: marck was sitting on the Princes kn
9 the other day. when he suddenly cri
v out, "Oh, uncle, hope shall he gre
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