The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1882-05-02
Sause and Uupsense,

II is getting toward the season for
discovering turtles with &c. w., l77S,"
cut on their sfels.
81 am now convinced that it is wrong
to gamhle-especialv when you lose"
Charles Francis Adams.
Sleep may "knit up the raveled sleeve
of care" but it won't darn the torn
stocking of poverty worth cent.
The man who leaves dirty water in
the wssh-basin gets a much shorter pair
of wings than any of the other angels.
Two drinks a day, remarks an ex-
change, will supply family with sour
This, OF course, refers to the saloon
keepers family.
just as though this country had not
been punished enough already, later
inhic:ion, the banged hair young man,
is running at large.
Some men have a conscience verv
like rubber cord. A very little pull
will make it stretch out When The
pressure is removed it flies back into
place
/ A Howard avenue ten-year old SUBJ
mitted the following as a composition !:
"Salt Salt is that stuff which makes
potatoes taste bad when you don't put
any on"
A correspondent wants to know where
the expression "Let up comes from.
We believe it comes from the fellow
who isn't on top in the fight
Solon Chase's advice is "Stay Esst.
young man." So between him and
Horace Greeley the young man will he
likely tn locste somewhere 10 the vic;n-
ity OF OHIO.
The Louisville Courier Journal repre-
sents the ghost of Hamlet's father is
very much astouished at finding. when
he saw Anna Dickinson, that his boy
was a girl.
Barnum will fad it difficult to recon-
cile his temperance principles and bis
possession of jumbo. The beast drinks
whisky and bier by the pail full, and
chews plug tobacco
A Ford Odgen man has a contract to
deliver 5000 alligator hides to ST.
Louis firm bv May first Evidently 250
pairs of shoes are TO be made for ST.
Louis bells.
At New York restaurant frequented
bv Wall street men over thirty napkins
are pocketed and carried away daily nv
ahsent-minded guests. An extra charge
is made on all dishes to cover this loss
He knew it was April l, and didn't
propose to te fooled, and when they
told him his chimney was sfire and likely
TO burn tue house, he said: "Let her
burn" And they did,. No insurance.
- Four Milvaukee faro banks we're
bursted last week, and one could hardly
get a calm answer from any citizen in
the town. Everybody argued that it
was the beginning of another financial
crisis.
The London World is good enough
to call the attention Of it's readers to the
TACT that American girls do not join the
ranks of the polvgamists. but that the
demand is fed from the most ignorant
districts of England, Wales and Scan
dinavia.
An Indian chief, while in Washing
ton, was taken to see burlesque show.
After the performance he remarked,
through an interpreter, that the Great
Father was very kind to send the poor
Indians blankets when they were so
much needed at home.
A devoted wife in Arkansas pleaded
for months for the pardon OF her hus.
band, who was under a seven years.
sentence Wednesday of last week she
succeeded On Thursday word came
hack from the Penitentiary: "Henry
James died at Lewisburg last Decem.
Der F."
Word comes that one of Vernonl's
Congressional statesmen has strength
ened his family ties at public expense bv
sending six mail bags full OF Govern
ment seeds to his brother in-law, who
u D.
and that tour bushels of wheat contain
ed 10 the lot has been thriftily carried
to the miller and ground into -four.
Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm saws: "We
need a standing army about as much as
We need Ostrich feathers Ii Jane
was giddy Young thing of sweet II,
bar eho G W.
ostrich feathers ten times more than we
need standing army" Young women
can worry along without a standing
army, but thev must have ostrich feath-
ers.
Equal to the emergency: Mr. Ponson.
hv lie Tomkyns: "Thst lady was evil
IDENTIFY intended by nature for Chinese,
Sir Charles / wonder whom she can
be ?" Sir Charles: "She happens to be
nv sister, Lady Plantagenet de la Zouehe.
Nav ask why you think nature intend
ed her for Chinese p Mrs. Ponsoby
de Tomkvns: "She struck me as having
such exqni-itely small feet"
Together they were looking over the
paper Goa nv, how funny" she said
"Whatis it" he asked "Whv, here's
an advertisement that says: "No rea.
sonahle offer refused" >" whats so
odd about thatp" Nothing, nothing,"l
she replied, irving TO blush, "only those
are exactly my sentiments" If that
young man hadn't taken the hint and
proposed right then and there she would