The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-10-14
Seuse and enuusense.

robust.
Hereafter no recruit is to be enlisted
10 the United States army who cannot
see well, at 600 yards distance, black
center three feet in diameter en- white
ground.
A priest asked of condemned crimi-
nal in Paris jail: "What kind of a
conscience have your" ut is as good
as new," replied the prisoner, "for 1
have never used it."
Twenty minutes in the smoke Of wool
will take the pain out of the worst
wound, and repeated once or twice, it
will allay the worst case Of Inflammation
arising from wound we ever saw.
The gentle mind is like calm and
peaceful stream that reflects every OF
ject in its just proportion. The violent
spirit, like troubled waters, renders back
images of things distorted and broken.
A book canvasser in Indianapolis was
told by lawyer that she had better be
mending her stockings, and it took him
over half an hour to realize that he had
been knocked down by stone ink bot
tie.
A Norristown man who was advised
to go to the Hot Springs for the benefit
of his health, said blamed if he was GO
ing to do it, as it was about as much as
he could do to worry through the hot
summers.
A prime condition of health in a
house depend upon cleanliness, pure air
and unpolluted water, the prompt and
thorough removal of all refuse, aud the
perfect exclusion of all foul matters
arising outside the house.
Scribner q Co. recently received the
following bona tide order from a coun-
try Sunday School chorister: "Sirs:
II you have anything new in the line Of
Sacred Songs, comic or sentimental, will
please send me some sample sheets"
The old saying that lightning does
not strike twice in the same place will
not always hold good, for on the farm
of Alexander Loucks, of York, Pa. is
walnut tree that has been struck no less
than five times during single season.
One had better sail boldly in almost
any direction than drift without any d.
rection at all. One had better sail in
the maddest storm that ever troubled
the sea Of life than lie on the sea and
drift with any chance wind that chooses
to blow.
The genius who, in an uneuarded mo-
ment, wrote NV oman is Gods best gift
to man." never had to match three shades
of worsted for his wife, who had sent
down from her summer retreat for a few
skeins "to finish a smoking cap for a
friend"
Happiness is frail plant which sel.
dom lives long on earth. 1t springs up
when it will; often in quiet, shady
hooks and corners, but seldom in culti-
waited gardens. 1t often blooms where
one would least expect it and then sud-
denly and Unexpectedly dies.
A young Japanese recently played a
game of billiards against three of the
best players united at Moscow. The
game was 5000 points at carrom for
IS 900 roubles. The Jap's first run was
l 1858 points. The game lasted fourteen
hours and he won by three points.
The blind PAGER, Sleepy Tom, slack
ems his speed toward the end of each
heat as soon as he hears the crowd yell,
for he thinks he has finished. This ten
dency has to be met by talking and with
the whip,iand even then counts seriously
against his success, although he has
made the best time. on record.
Let face be backed by blood and
meltle, let the soul be narrowed by ex-
perience and made mellow as plowed
field by burrows that have torn it up; let
it be made charitable by tue sins of 9TH
ers, by sense of its own SINS, and yol
have a face that will wear rs many
changes of expression as the wind and
weather. es@ 4l, .,
At recent wedding the bridegroom,
being an officer, wore his side arms at the
nuptials. A little wideawake brother of
the bride was attracted by the display of
weapons. and as he had another sister,
whose true love was a carpenter, he
boldly inquired: "May, when Jenkins
comes to marry Milly, will he wear his
saw by his sidep" i5 al-ga ta 4
"When young man has learned to
wait, says writer on the Boston Jour.
nal, "he has mastered the hardest les
son." Indeed he has, and this truth is
particularly applicable when the young
man has called to take his girl riding,
and she keeps him waiting two solid
hours while she "fixes up" Keeps him
in the stable with team that costs him
3 dollar an hour.
The latest returns from California
give the following results in round mum.
bers on Governor: Republican. $1,000;
Democratic 44,000; Workingmen, A.
BOO. 1t will be seen that the Republi-
cans are in a minority of $4,000. Sup
pose the Democratic and Workingmen'
parties combine next year on the Presi-
lency, each having three candidates on
he same Electoral ticket, where would
;he Republican Electoral candidates be !?
It is sad to think. -.
"Can it be possible my Algernon no
onger loves his little brown eyesi Can
It be that her caresses have become irk-
some to him at last ?" said heartbroken
young pullback of our local Nobility
- her "steddy combany" the other eve
hing, as the latter seemed inclined 10 re-
move her clinging from his breast
Your Algernon is all right" said the
youth with an uneasy squirm. "but if
vou don't let up minute, Tilder, the
spiral Of my stud will come out through
my backbone, sure"
Ex-Gov. Throckmorton was defend.
ng a murderer, the other day at Gaines
vile, Texas. He desired to convince
he jury that the man whom his client kil-
led although in his shirt sleeves and
without pistol pocket in his trousers,
might still have been armed. The law
yer had prepared himself to illustrate
MS agreement Taking off his coat, and
before the jurors, he said, "Csn
you see any sign of arms about me-"
They shook their heads. Then he drew