The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-07-20
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Thirteen at table is unlucky when
there is dinner enough for only ten.
A faint heart never won q fair lady,
but faint whisper often catches her.
A cruel husband calls his wife "green
fruit" because she never agrees with
him.
Talk about q bull in q china shop,
Why, we've seen cowhide in a school
room.
The fashionable society wedding is de-
scribed as being sitter than a printing
Office towel.
The song, Il Will Stand by You Un-
til Morning, Is peculiarly adapted for
lamp-post serenading.
The New Haven Register speaks OF q
woman who enjoyed good health. Once
in while you find person who enjoys
bad health, but hardly ever.
Two OF the nImblest lamp lighters in
Indianapolis turn out 10 be girls in boys
clothes. Their father had compelled
them to disguise their sex in order to
obtain the job.
The mule has met his match. 1t was
IN Delaware He kicked over bee.
hive. He died the next day. The lit
tleIhee 10 never too busy to, decline an
invitation to fight.
Hayes said in 1864 that any man who
would leave the army to run for Con-
gress ought to be scalped. This is what
Garfield did; will Mr.. Hayes advise
scalping the Republican candidate for
Presidcnt7
A New Beecherism: "If a man has a
big bucket and only pint OF water, be
won't spill it; but II the bucket is even
full. can he help stopping over2 honor
the man who slops over. He is a man
OF measures and magnitudes."
Thousands of ladies to-day cherish
grateful remembrances OF the help de-
rived from the use of LYDIA e. PINK
HANS VEGETABLE COMPOUND. 1t posi-
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Avenue, Lynn, Mass, for pamphlets.
Excursions are now made at night by
the new railway to the top Of Mount
VeSuvivus in order to witness the cele
brsied volcano illuminated by electric
light The spectacle so viewed is un-
animously agreed to be wonderful
helping out OF the picturesqueness OF
nature.
A New York stone cutter received the
following epitaph from German, to be
cut upon the tombstone of bis wife
"Mine wife Snsan is dead If she had
lived till mex Friday she'd been dead
shust two weeks. As tree falls so
must 1t stan"
The ladies of Italy have adopted this
summer the fashion Of dressing only in
white robes adorned with natural flowers,
jewtlry, being put. strictly under ban
For doing mp white dress with its in
iricate trimmings 90 ars asked, and the
aowers cost "a day. Economy is OBJ
served in linen underwear.
The republic Of Chilli has been vic.o.
rious on land and water uniformly, and
it tlooks now as if she could eat up Peru
and Bolivia, II she were OF mind TO-
Certainly there is nothing to prevent heI
annexation of these two now powerless
sister republics, and eventually this may
be their end.
Col. Forney turns the tables on those
Republicans who chide him for quitting
the party by reminding them of the cor
duet of many Of his critics, "who 80 Of.
fensively declared that they would never
vote for Grant il he was nominated. y
While reserving 10 themselves the right
10 bolt the ticket, these patriots do not
propose to extend the privilege 10 any
body else. -