The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1881-04-19
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Being 10 the piIlory is not the thing
to regret and be ashamed of, but rather
the fact that you deserve to be there.
Persons who have paid attention to
the matter say that we have had over
sixty distinct snow storms the past win
| ter.
II Adam could have had q telephone
in the Garden Of Eden, it would have
been "Hallo, Eve!'s the most of the
time
The bee can deliver stinging retort
and yet keeps its mouth shnt. This is
where it has the advantage over the
campaign orator.
Sidney Smith said of prosy sermons
that "they are written as if sin were to
be taken out of man like Eve out of
Adam-by putting him to Sleep"
General Sterling Price. the Confeder-
ate leader, said once during the war,
I'D rather capture the eagle old Abe,
than whole brigade of cavalry"
Mrs. Elizabeth Givens, who was the
first girl baby horn in Louisville, Ken
tuckv, died on Sunday. aged l03 years.
She had never ridden in steam car.
Headache, Dyspepsia, Biliousness,
and Consti alton cured at once by DR..
METrAUR'S HEADACHE AND
DYSPEPSIA PILLS. Price 25 cents.
During the past ten years the colored
population Of Indiana increased IA 438.
During the same period Ohio gained
1880; Pennsylvania 20,04S, and ILL.,
nois 17,486
A man has been found with a mag
netic right hand He went into store
the other day and four. yards of costly
lace clung to him until it was taken away
by the police
Ladies, and all who lead sedentary
lives, should use DIR. METTAUR'S
HEADACHE AND DYSP SPEPSIA
PILLS, Price 25 cents. For sale at
all Drug Stores.
When a distressed looking person
rings your door bell late at night and
says he only wants one word with you
you may be pretty sure that that one
word is money.
There are undoubtedly great many
things which are better than riches; but
riches are good enough for those of us
who feel humble and wish TO leave some.
thing for other people.
When you have tried to hit a nail with
Q hammer and only succeeded in hitting
your thumb il you can hold your lips
tight and not say anything naughty you
are better Christian than the average
church member.
Dyspepsia in its worst forms will yield
to the use Of Carter's Little Nerve Pills
aided by Carter's Little Liver Pills
They not only relieve present distress
but strengthen the stomach and diges-
tive apparatus.
A Santa Cruz (Cal J man set trap
by his hen-rooss and caught his neigh
bor. About midnight the owner of the
trap heard the chickens futtering and
fred in the direction of the trap. He
killed the ne'ghbor and has been held to
answer for murder.
We come to you with no uncertainty,
but can say positively, that Denig's
Cough Balsam is the best thing ever
offered for coughs, colds, whooping
cough, soreness of the chest, and all
throat or lung troubles 1t cures when
other remedies fai.
Here is the latest compensation OF the
society idiot: do you dawnce the lawn
GERS ?" ssNo; | don't dawnce the lawn
GERS, but my sister Frawnces dawnces
the lawncers and several fawncy dawn
ces." The management o. this sentence
assures entrance into the highest circles.
A little moral coursge would help US
out of great many difficult places. A
confirmed dirt said to gentleman. Next
" ednesday afternoon | shsll be at home,
and alone." 1t was great temptation,
but the hero quietly saved himself by
"Ah, indeed; why. so shall
II"
LYDIA E PINKHAM's VEGETABLE Con-
POUND, the great medicine for the cure
Of all female complaints, is the greatest |
Of the back, stomach,
nerves, kidneys, urinary and genital or
gans of man and women ever Known
Send for circulars to Lydia E. Pinkham,
Lynn, Mass.
II it were possible to run locomo.
tive twelve miles minute its approach,
no matter how great its noise, would be
absolutely noiseless; to ring bell or
sound whistle of warning would he alb
solutely useless, for the reason that the
engine would he travelling as fast as the
sound which it produced.
Joseph Burger. of the Minnesota Leg
lslature, is one OF the seventeen men in
the United States who hold gold medal
for bravery or Austrian birth, be en-
tered our army at IA, was shot seven
times, lost bis left arm aud most of
his right hand, and was Captain at
l8. He was sept to the Legislature at
80. He draws $500 year pension.
Why is it that men 80 often prefer
the low pleasures OF appetite and pas
sion when the higher range OF pleasures
can be had for the asking? We have
pondered long on this problem, and al
most gave it up when we recalled CO.
nundrum OF our youth: "Why does al
donkey prefer thistles to hay ?" Well,
il the truth must be told, 1t is hecause
he is donkey.
Conversation is very serious thing
with some people. They talk all day,
and the fast that they say nothing does
not in the slightest degree interfere with
the steady flow of words. One OF this
ilk on board the train was asked very
simple question BY fellow passenger.
She made deprecating gesture and re.
plieds Excuse me, sir, but l am only
going to the next station, and it's not
worth while to begin conversation"
The difficulty about a secret is that it
takes so many men to keep it. II it has
been poured into your ear you wrestle
with it for awhile, but it is too much
for you. The man to whom you tell i,
wrestles with it, and it is too much for
him also. He tells it, and the man to
whom be tells it, tells It to some one
else, always in the atrictest confidence,
until at last 1t ceases to be- secret
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