The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-09-07
Tuesday, October 18th is election
day.

A little girl, noticing the elit'erine
gold filling in her aunt's front tooth, tx
claimed: "Auns Mary, ! wish bad
copper toed teeth like yours.
August Dehn was sen'encrd to six
months imprisonment in Bal imore for
drunkenness, on the complaint Of his
wife. Before his term was out she died
and left him by will $4,000
LYDIA E. PINKHAMs VEGETABLE Con-
POUND /, a remarkable remedy for all
those painful complaints and weaknesses
90 common to our best female popula-
tion. Send to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham,
233 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass, for
pamphlets.
: Velvet leaves and flowers without any
mounting are row prepared for embroi-
derry. They are stitched upon the ma
teiial to be decorated and the appropri-
ate stems and tendrils are embroidered
The effes, is better than that of satii'
applied work.
There is an infinite variety in the
trimmings Of dresses, quillings, scallop.
and plaiis, blouses, reverse shirr;ngs.
poufs, embroidered bands. pipiDgs and
cornings, vandycks aod pans-the lat
ter frt quently laced, hanging straight, OF
gracefully diaped as scarfs.
Neither hoops nor large hustlcs are
worn. Cllnging skirts are quite as FASH
ionable as the more bouffant styles.
The fullness abou, the sides of dresses
10 merely formed by folds and sbirrings
Of the dress material or some kind OF
trimming. This especially appears OIL
very dressy toilets.
Longstreet, whom Hancock whipped
at Gettysburg, has gone On a Lucrative
mission to foreign country and is s
fsvorite with the Republ can organs
Hancock, who saved the Union at tbs
memorable fight, is the target for all th.
calumny and SANDER that these sam,
journals can Gre at him.
About the time the Republican pres:
has got through abusing Hon. j. j
Burns, state school commissioners as al
ex.rebtl, some of them will remember
Mosby and Lppgstreet and by that tim,
they will also recollect that Mr.. Burn.
WAS elected three years ago by twenty
five thousand NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Times.
A promising youth of only seven
summers, who had heen accused of not
always telling the truth, cross-examined
his father: "Fatber, did you use to liz
when you were boy2" mo, my son, =
said the father, who evidently did not
recall the past with any distinctness.
"Nor mother, either ?" persisted the
young lawyer. "No; but why ?" "Oh,
because don't see how two people who
never told lie could have a boy that
ellis as many as do"
When young jeff 6rst came to town
his father told him that it would be po-
lite to say to his host when heing help
ed, to dinner, "Half that, il you please y
1t 90 happened that at the first dinner
to which be was invited q sucking pig
Was one OF the dishes. The host, point
ing with his knife to the young poiker,
asked, "Well. Mr.. JEFF, will you have
: this, our fayorite dish, or haunch Of
muttonl" Upon which recollectine
his first Lesson, ne replied, Half that,
il you please" TO the CONSERVATION oi
oil present,
A young man from Texas married q
girl in North Carolina, and then prop, :
sed tu leave her while he worked his
way back to his Texas home, in the hope
OF their earning money enough to send
for her. She said, however, that she
would rather accompany him afoot.-
They therefore made the journey Of l.
600 miles as tramps; bat their good APP
,naraEce gained for them considerable
help slong lbe way, and for the last Fifty
miles they rode tliumphantly in cal
riage, proxil.d by an enthusiastic ad-
mirei of their pluck.