The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-12-04

beautiful old saying, that when tn
baby smiles in his sleep it is becaus,
the angels are whispering TO him
Very pretty, but :" too thin" Laugh
l,teE Simply wind on the stomach
my friends |! Ih the baby proposed te
take walk at his usual hour-half.
past two in the morning-didh't you
rise up promptly and remark, with a
mental addition which wouldn't i'm
prove Sunday school book much,
that that was the very thing you were
about to propose yOurself2 [Roars. !
Oh, you were under good discipline
And, as you went fluttering up and
down the room in your undress uni
FORM" you not only prattled undigni-
fled baby-talk, but you tuned up your
martial voice and tried 10 sing, "Rock-
ably, baby, in a tree. top" for instance
What spectacle for an army of the
Tennessee! [Roars of laughter.I And
what an affiiction for the neighbors,
too; for it isn't every body within a
mile around that likes military music
at three in the morning. And when
you had been keeping this sort of
thing up two or three hours, and your
little yelvet-head intimated that moth
ing suited him like exercise and noise
-" 60 on what did you do2
YcU SIMPLY WENT ON
till you dropped in the last ditch.
lGreat laughter.l The idea that ba-
by doesn't amount to anything! Why
one baby is just house and front yard
full by itself; one baby can furnish
more business than you and your
whele interior department can attend
to; he is enterprising, irrepressible,
brim full of lawless activities; do
what you please, you can't make him
stay on the reservation. Prolonged
laughter.] Sufficient unto the day is
one baby. AS long as you are in your
right mind, don't you ever pray for
twins. Roars of laughter and bushes
by Gen. Sheridan,1 Twins amount to
permanent riot, and there amt any
real difference between triplets and
an insurrection. Laughter. Yes, it
was high time for toastmaster to
recognize the importance of the "Ba-
bies.". Think what is in store for
- THE PRESENT CROP.
Fifty years hence we shall all be
dead trust-and then this flag, if it
still survives and let us hope it may
will be floating over republic num-
bering two hundred million souls, &C.
cording to the settled laws of our in
crease; our present Schooner of state |
will have grown into a political levia-
than-a Great Eastern-and the Grad
led babies of to-day will be on deck.
Let them be we'll trained, for we are
going to leave big contract on their
hands. tAppiause.1 Among the three
or four million of cradles now rock
ing in the land, are some which this |
nation would preserve for ages as
sacred things if we could know which I
ones they are. In one of these cradles !
the unconscious Farragut of the fu.1
tnre is at this moment teething-think
of it land putting ina world of dead
inarticulated, but perfectly
justifiable profanity over it, too,
in another, the future re-
astromer is blinking at the
shining milky way with but langnid
interest, poor little chap, and wonder
ing what has become of that other one
hey call the wet-nurse [laughter1; in
another the future great historian is
ying-and doubtless he will continue
o "lie " till his earthly mission is end.
I'd [laughterl; in another the future
President is busying himself with no
problem of state than what
he mischief has become of his hair 80
'arly, and in
MIGHTY ARRAY OF OTHER CRADLES
here are now some sixty thousand
uture office-seekers getting ready to
urnish him occasion to grapple with
hat same old problem second time;
md in still one more cradle, some-
where under the flag, the future illus
rious commander-in. chief of the
American armies is so little burdened
With his approaching grandeurs and
as to be giving his
Whole strategic mind at this moment
o trying to find out some way to get
lis own big toe into his mouth
laughter AN achievement which
meaning no disrespect-thei ilIustrious
,uest of this evening also turned his
attention to some fifty-six years ago.
And if the child is but the prophecy
If the man, there are mighty few who
will doubt but that he succeeded.
Prolonged and uproarious laughter.]
TWO GRAVES.
The quarrel of the two widows of