The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-04-15
Suse and ennpsruse.

A courteous man often succeeded in
life when persons Of ability fail.
| When a man has 70 mind of his own,
his wife generally gives him piece Of
hers.
| One talent, well cultivated, deepened
aud enlarged, is worth hunlred shallow
faculties.
Bytheir 6ckleness women escape much
misery. Birdssayc themselves only with
| laeif wlngs. b.
You csnpot drean yourself into a
| character you must hammer aud forge
yourself one.
A piece of land for sale in LONDON is
advertised as ''equally suitable for a
church or tavern"
Allthe blows we strike should be for a
purpose every nail driven should be a
rivet in the machine of the universe.
"How greedy you are! said one little
girl to another. who had taken the best
apple in the dish; Il was going to take
that"
When is school boy like a postage
stamp2 When he gets himself licked,
and PIT 10 corner, to m IKE him stick 10
his letters.
There is gift that is almost blow,
and there is kind word that is munif
cent; so much is there in the mode OF do
ing things.
The wisest man we ever knew was a
Jew who remarked: 81 tell you vat it
isb, young man. buys my egsberience
vresh ef'ry day" aeGs
In trying to wake upa passenger, the
sleeping car conductor on Maine rail.
road d,tueged so hard that the sleepy man g
leg came of. 1t was of wood. ~
Jane" said be, 81 think If you lifted
your feet away from the fire, We might
have some heat in the room. And they
hadn't been married two years either.
Hearts have windows. They should
he kept open at all times, that the glad
isunshine;of all that is true and beautiful
in this life may enter and abide therein.
+ Tongue can not tell nor words express
the astonishment ofthe crippled soldier
in Connecticut who awoke to find his
wife using his wooden leg to pound beef
steak for breakfast.
Onions, eaten both cooked and raw, re-
lieve chronic rheumatism. They are rec
commended as preventive of worms in
| lchildrep, and for cold in adult "chests. F"
80 says the New York Tribune.
The Mayor ofShefipIl,, England states
that in one district in that town there are
900 persons destitute and four hundred
families actually starving. The relief
fund, sxcept fs0O, has been expended.
A Canadian couple, en- route to Dlko-
ia to settle, weigh ak hundred and four.
teen pounds-the man three hundred and
ten pounds and the wife three hundred
and tour pounds, Letus hope they will
be careful what they settle on.
is not poverty as much as pretence
that harasstd ruined man-the struggle
between and an empty purse-the keep
ing up of q hollow show that must soon
Come TO an end. Have the courage to
appear poor, and you disarm poverty of
its sharpest string.
A young clergyman seems to have
compressed the whole of his sermon on
deceit in the following "Oh, my breth-
ern, the nowiest shirt front may conceal
an aching bosom, and the stiffest Of all
FOUNDERS encircle throat that has many
bitter pill 10 swallow"
An old Dutchman, who some years
ago was elected member Of the Cana
dian Legislature, said, in his broken En-
glish style: '.Ven vent to the Legisla.
ture thought would find dem all Solo
mons dere, hut soon found der vas some
as pick fools dere as VS." fH
sinister, how do you sell 81 gar to-day !?
|"Olly twenty cents q pound" "Can I
give it. I'll drink my coffee without
sugar and kiss my wife for sweetening.
Good day, sir" Good day. When you
get tired of that kind of sweetening call
around" Il will" He called the next
day.
Are you engaged ?" said a gent eman
to a young lady from Marysville az the
ballthe other evening. 81 was, but il
that Pete johnson thinks I'm going to
sit here and see him squeeze that freekel
faced Wilkins girls hand all the evening,
he'll be mistaken, solitaire or no s Ill
taire.'
There is no doubt that the honeymoon
was so called because of its close resem.
hlance to the sweet product Of the bee.
l, may also be said to resemble the honey
comb, with thus slight difference, however,
that the honeycomb IS made up of little
cells, while the honeymoon is sometimes
regarded as one great sell.
Is your horse perfectly gentle, Mr..
Dabster Perfectly gentle. sir,-The
only fault he has got, If that be fault, Is
a playful extending his hinder hoofs
you dou't mean kicking l hope Some
people call it kicking, Mr.. Green, but il.
only slig reaction of the muscles
display rather than vice.
Stop up your ear with your finger
You hear roaring as of a miniature
Niagara Remove your finger aud pu,
in its place wad of cotton, or anything
else you choose. The roaring lie gone
Did you ever think OF the cause of this
The roaring which you hear is the sound
of the circulation of the blood in the tiE
ofyou: finger.
/ A short time ago little boy went with
his father to see colt. He patted th,
cults head and made quite fuss over it
until Fl ,ally the stable man told him t,
be careful that the colt did not turn round
and kick him. When the little chap wen
) home his mother asked him what be
thought about the colt. II like hin
I pretty WE'LL" was the reply "He'.
real tame in front, but he's awful wild be-
hind"
Pete, of Memphis, was great exhor
ter in camp meeting, and aiwa, conclud
ed his exhortation by saying that when
ever the Lord called for him he wa.
ready to go. So darkey Sam, TO prov,
Pete's sincerity, called one night ant
kicked at Pete's door. "Who dat ?
shouted Pete. "The Lord" responded
Sam. "What de Lord want2' asked