The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1881-05-17
Sepse and Nouserse.

Serse and qMnusense.
We all like to have full justice done
to every other rogue in the world except
ourselves.
People care great deal more for
keeping up appearances than for keep.
lping up realities.
Ex-Chief of Police Wapenstein, OF
Cincinnati, was publicly cowhided Sun
day by woman, who claims she was
wrongfully sent to the Lunatic Asylum
Bancroft, the historian, says: "The
secret of my health is this: three or -four
.thours daily in the open air, regardless
Of weather, light meals and plenty o.
Sleep"
| It's possible to get your wealth bacl
ii you have lost it; barely possible tc
get back at least part of your los
health; but lost time once gone is gon,
forever.
Mrs. Thos. Ryan, OF Columbus CAV,
birth to triplets on last Thursday. One
hoy and two girls. The combined
weight being thirty pounds and eigh
ounces.
| Foxhall, one of the horses sent K
England by James R. Keene, has bea!
ed every thing except the Derby winner
and has aroused high expectations among
the turfmen.
| Hon. Washington Mclean crushes /,
boom for him as an Ohio gubernatoria
candidate by telegraphing from Wash
ington: "There isn't an Office on eartl
that 1 would have"
The house of James Pearson, nea
Charlotte, Mich, was burned Thursday
might. The family slept till the roo
fell in. Mrs. Pearson and child are
probably fatally burned.
The Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio rail
way was formally transferred yesterday
to the purchasers, ,and reorganized as tht
Norfold and Western railway with Geo
F. Taylor as President.
When a man begins to tumble ur
stairs every one helps him to get to thu
top, and when he begins to tumble dcwr
STAIRS all the world seems anxious te
have him resch the bottom.
There is run on the Franklin Sav.
ings bank of New York, and S105, 5,0O(
have been withdrawn since Friday last
The directors have taken measures to Sc
cure funds to meet all demands.
1t will never do to give up because
there are difficulties in the way. Shakes.
peare says:
He is not worthy of the honeyoomb,
That shuns the hive because the bees have
stings.
Man is so wisely constituted thai
when one sense fails another supplies
its place. Though your friend may en-.
tirely fail to see the point-while stand
ting-nevertheless when he takes bis seat
if the tack knows it's duty, he feels the
point at once.
Every one who has studied London
signs has noticed the appropriateness
OF name and business which is visible
everywhere. For instance: Rumfit 4
Cutwell, tailors; Alfred Pinch, shoema.
maker; Tugwell, the dentist; Going &
Come, auctioneers.
Philip, the alleged author ofthe Morey
letter has been discharged from custody
and the accusation again st him dismissed
"Gath" says that the authorship of the
letter has been traced to Gen. Garfield s
Private Secretary. THIS is getting rath
er close to President Garfield himself.
When man Is in the habit of using
the words ''but'' and "if" don't trusl
him.. He says "Certalnly l will, butt
II shall be most happy to come, but
-"I will assuredly pay you, if"-anj
all the while he means that he will do il
if he iuds it entirely convenient to, and
not otherwise.
A man who has been thoroughly con-
verted can step on bit Of orange pee
and sweetly smile at the troops OF stars
which suddenly come into view, while
the man of the world grows red in the
face, speaks forcibly in one of the dead
languages, aud expresses a decided
opinion about the utility of tropica
fruits. -.
How doth the busy little wife
Improve springs shining hours,
And chuck the carpet out o doors
As round the house she scouts.
How skillfully she sets the tack
Upon its head so neat,
And wonders whether "hub" will run
The darned thing in his feet.
Taylor Strauder, who, in 1872 was In
dicted for murder of his wife in Whee
ling, and was tried twice and convicted
each time and sentenced to be hanged
and who has spent almost ten years il
prison, was discharged last week by th,
u. S. Court at Parkersburg, and rear
rested and taken back to Wheeling, wa
taken before Justice of the Peace OF
Tuesday and was discharged. 1t is like
Iy that this is the end of one of tn
most remarkable Of criminal cases.
Talleyrand could answer bold ant
intrusive creditor as sharply as thougl
he were a courtier or diplomat. Llk
many a man of smaller ability he hat
peculiar faculty for running into debt an,
an equally peculiar disincliuation to pa,
what he owed. When some one t
whom he was indebted for small sun
remarked that he would like to know
when the great man would pay him ant
suggested that even two or three year
hence would do if only the exact dat
could be fixed. Talleyrand simply looke'
at the poor fellow with contemptou
smile, and saying, "Monsieur, vous etc
, bien curieux," passed on.
. EWe have great sympathy with th
} man who does as little as he can an
{ does it as slowly as possible. Our hear
goes out to that precocious youth who
+, on being asked by the corner grocer |
whose employ he was, what branch c
the business he liked hest, promptly re
piled, as though he had thought th
matter over very carefully, "Shuttin' III
: sir" James T. Fields used to tell of
t youth in New Hampshire, who was 6
t peculiar.that in haying time he wante
q to sing "Lord dismiss u.s." after worl
9 ing about two hours. For ourselves v