The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-02-04
Sense and Mnrsense.


Some men, between two evils, choose
both.
He dimes sumptuously who dimes out
Of debt.
No man can be free unless be governs
himself.
Children are the strongest pillars OIL
the temple OF welded love,
The worst and most uncomfortable of
all our ills are the imaginary ones.
Study books to know how things
ought to be, study men to know how
things are,
To worship rightly IS to love each
other; each smile hymn, each kindly
deed prayer.
Our happiness does not consist in be.
ing without passions, but in having con
troll Of them.
Law is like prussic acid-a dangerous
and the smallest dose is gener-
ally sufficient.
1t is we'll to always bear in mind that
ga slip of ones foot may be recovered,
but Of the tongue, perhaps never"
A handsome woman pleases the eye,
but good woman pleases the heart
The one is jewel, the other treasure.
If our eyes were open, we should see
that this oval globe is but an egg: that
what we call time is but the incubation
of eternity.
Never retire at night without being
wiser than when you rose in the morn
ing, by having learned something useful
during the day.
An Irishman tells us Of fight in
which there was only one whole nose
left in the crowd, "snd that belonged to
the tea-kettle@
Spriggins says he ouce prevented a
severe case of hydrophcbia by getting
on high fence, and waiting there till the
dog had gone away.
Uniformity, cheapness and quality are
the three-essentials that every system of
text books for schools requires, and the
greatest of these is uniformity.
Nothing does doctor so much good
as to prescribe an ocean voyage for q
sick man who can't raise enough money
to pay his street car fare down town.
A good book and good woman are
excellent things for those who know how
justly to appreciate their value. There
are men, however, who judge Of both
from the beauty OF the covering.
They bounced him literally and figura.
lively, starting him down two flights OF
stairs. and he murmured. resisnedly,
'"Well, p'raps it's just as well. l was
goin' down any way"
The earth IL great factory wheel,
which, at every revolution on its axis,
receives fifty thousand raw souls, and
turns off nearly the same number work
ed up more or less completely. :.
Diogenes was q good temperance man.
When blamed for throwing goblet oil
wine on the ground and wasting 80 much
liquor, he answered. Had / drunk it,
there would have been double waste.
l as we'll as the wine would have been
lost"
At church where there was call for
minister, two candidates appeared
whose names were Adam and Low. The
latter preached an elegant discourse from
the text, "Adam, where art tbou7" In
the afternoon. Adam preached from
these words, "Lo, here am L"
"What is junction, nurse" asked q
seven-year old boy the other day, of ar
elderly lady who stood at her side on 9
railway platform. ga junction, my
dear Z" answered the nurse, with the all
of a very superior person indeed, why
it's place where two roads separates. v
"Ma," said little four. year old, 81
saw something run across the kitcher
floor, this morning, without any legs
What do you think it was1" The moth
er guessed various legless worms ani
things, and then gave it up, when th'
little fellow said, "Why, ma, it was wa
ter"
Lewis B. Hopkins, of Little Rock
Ark, has head that weighs thirty 81,
pounds and is thirty.six inches in cir
cumference The rest of his hodv weigh
only thirty four. pounds -Esehange- :
How in thunuer did they get that hea'
on again after they had weighed it ?--h
2. Commercial.
I The Troy Standard Gays: "a youn
Troy clergyman seems to have CON
pressed the whole body OF sermon o
deceit in the following: oh, my brett
rem, the snowiest shirt front may conce,
an aching bosom, and the stiffest OF CO
lars encircle throat that has many
bitter pill to swallow"
J, The longer live the more do bt
; come satisfied that nothing is good fo
/ people who are in deep trouble as rel
e hard woodwork that not only occupie
e the hands but the brain; work on whic
q one lavishes the best part of the hear
< -Elket Any one deep in trouble ca
e have buck saw and wood pile by al
e plying at this office.-S,. Louis Poss
James Murray has taken his famil
= from Gilbertsville. N Y, to his Sout
African farm of $500 acres, which
:. : stocked with 1000 ostriches, and thre
hundred mares of rare pedigree. Mul
a raw was q classmate Of the Prince
) Wales, at Oxford, and now finds ostrie
raising so profitable that he recently sol
e sixty birds at Cape Town for $500
y and a pound of feathers for $3.50, or
feather.
Never let lie go to seed in yov
" souls. II you should happen to
tempted into telling falsehood, let it
: plucked out by a prouder confession
;, your fault as quickly as possible. Plut
;. it out and cast it from you, for I do a
= sure you that of all the noxious weet
that find root in the garden OF the SOL
: none go to seed more quickly, or null
!; ply more rapidly, than does falsehoo
e First Small Boy-"Hullo, Jim! r
n got a two -bladed knife and book full
Ipicters" Second S B-"Pooh! That
nothing. I've got a four -blader and tv
u books and bully sled and pair
3 skates and First S B-"Look-
a here, YOU Jim Smikins, my pa can lii
@ your pa, and, duru We, can lick you
i. Yer'd better don't be blowin' round N