The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1881-08-09
Sense and Nupsettse,

Sense and eNursense.
There are forty Protestant churches in
Paris.
Suspicious which may be unjust need
Iot be stated -
The greatest truths are the simplest:
so are the greatest men.
A good days work of what you can
best do Is tue hard pan to which all must
come.
John Onions is in English composure
His sad compositions make his eyes
leak. AZ
"When sorrow has left its straces, =
what has become Of the rest oflhe "har-
ness
About SIC, ,000, 900 worth OF writing
paper is manufactured in the United
States annually.
No man ever offended his own con.
science, but first or last it was revenged
upon him for it.
The amount OF common salt in the
sea is estimated to be about five times
the bulk of the Alps.
Adolphus: No; you can hardly accuse
an Englishmen Of using profane lam
guage just because he speaks of an L of
house.
There are in Great Britain and Ireland
p 1886 doctors. Of these there are in
England, a. 9S1, in Scotland, 3,454; in
Ireland, 1854.
Venture not into the company of those
that a;e infected with the plague; no,
though thou think thyself guarded with
an antidote.
When woman attains the age of IS
withou. accumulating a husband she en-
Joys attending one funeral more than q
dozen balls.
When young ladies learn how to stick
a pin 10 their apron strings so that i,
won't scratch fellows arm there will
be more marriages.
A Georgia farmer moved to Alabama
and took his COW With him; but the ami
NAL turned up at her old home, ninety
miles off, a few days afterward.
A Nebraska preacher stopped his SER
mon to give baby chance to cry, and
the young one spread himself with such
vigor that be burst q blood vessel.
Washington drew his last breath iu
the last hour of the last day of the last
week Of the last month of the last year
of the last century, December 81, 1899.
The latest sweet thing for the ladies
is ivory heels on wedding slippers.
When the first-born gets old enough to
get into mischief the ivory heels should
be removed.
A Syracuse girl broke of her engage
ment because her lover joined base
ball club. She thought he might get ex-
ercise enough saving wood for an Or
phan asylum.
A Colorado horse walked into a lake
and after wading in the shallow water q
hundred yards from the shore, lay down
and drowned himself in water but two
feet deep. A clear case OF suicide.
81 will thank you for that pie," said
fellow boarder. II was thinking who
was King Of England when this old pie
was baked, and it made me feel bad TO
think how long he had been dead"
An economical correspondent of Maine
consults US on the matter of making a
little money 60 good ways. Accord
ing to our ideas the best way would be
to put it into ao envelope and send it to
Us.
The beginning Of hardsbips is like the
FIRST taste of bitter food-it seems for q
moment unbearabIe; yet, if there is
nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we
take another bite ond fad it possible to
go on.
The errors of the great Parliament
House clock at Westminster last year
we're under second on 81 per cent. of
observation, between l and 2 seconds
ON Al per cent, and seconds on I8
per cent aul 8 aud 4 seconds on 4 pei
cent.
The surface of our bodies is covered
with scales like fish; single grain of
sand would cover $50 of these scales,
and yet scale covers 500 pores
Through these narrow openings the
Precipitation forces itself like water
through sieve.
There are people who claim that 9
husband that stays out late at night has
no respect for the feeling Of his wife
Evidently there are people who never
saw said husband climbing the stairs at
80 q. m. with his boots in his hand
and his heart in his throat.
The Holy Man OF Senoussi, in Tripoli
who is only awaiting his fortieth birth
day-which will be uext year-to reveal
himself as the "Mehedi," or Reformer
Of the Mohammedans, destined to drive
the Christians from Northern Africa, Is
visited by thousands Of pilgrims.
They tell US of very cultured divine
in Boston who, instead of saying "Tht
collection will now be taken up" i'm
pressively remarks, "the accumulation
of moneys will now ensue. But Phila
delphia clergyman, q great athlete anG
lover of sports forget himself and said
"Here endeth the first innings-let u,
pray.
A queer looking character went into
one OF our dry goods stores and inquired
the price OF a yard of ribbon. The
clerk informed him that the price was
six cents. "Sixteen2 I'll give you ff.
teen." II did not say sixteen, l said
six CENTS" said the clerk. "Oh! six
cents. Well, I'll give you five," was the
reply.
It was circus day, and he told bis
wife he was just going to L,ckport to
spurchase reaper" The wife followed
him, uubeknown, and at the proper time
when she met him going to the show
with a girl hanging to his arm, sh'
smashed an umbrella over his head, lee
tured the girl, shipped her Iiege lord and
took the circus AMI lemonade all by her