The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1882-02-21
Se'lse and No,lse,lse.
Chinamen don't rock the cradle; they

(a0 ~..,'.''si~'l 0S$G NSsS~N
Chinamen don't rock the cradle; they
make the sky rocket.
The sun is no invalid but it always
goes South to spend the winter.
Bronson Alcott says s'the blonde type
is nearest to the divine likeness"
Out Of 225 saints canonized by the
Romish church, only one was lawye
Nihilist organs predictthat the coro-
nation of the Gar will never take place.
A little Maine girl said it was "awfu!
cold" one day last week, ''ten feet below
Zion."'
/ A St. Paul man not only stole warm
stove out Of lawyers offic, but he took
along enough coal to burn for a week.
"Money makes my ma 60" said little
Skeesicks when bis mother, armed with
la $20 greenback, left for downtown
shopping tour.
A S.. Louis lawyer objects to knee
breeches "because he does not care to
appear before the court in the shape of
marks Of parenthesis
"Wbat is the worst thing about rich
es ?" asked the Sunday school superin-
tendent. And the new boy said "Not
having any"
M. PAbbe Laborde is said to have
devised an arrangement by which s, 10,
and perhaps II dispatches may be for
warded at once over single wire
A Connecticut jury set aside will
which had been made by Spirtulist.
The ground of this verdict was that q
person who is n SpiIi,ualist is necessa-
.ily insane.
General Butler says one of the two
things he regrets is that he never hanged
an editor Aud this after all the free
advertising the newspapers have done
for him
AS the average salary of Government
clerks in France is only about $500
year, ambitious young men in that coun
try are seldom paraly zed with craze
for office.
The weekly story papers are dying
out. Some Of them had calculations as
| high as 100000 copies. The canse of
their decay was the issue of novels in
cheap pamphlet form.
A little girl, seeing two love birds
billing and cocing, was told that they
we're making love "Why don't they
marry" she asked; "then they would
not make love any more"
Nellie Grant Sartoris, who has been
visiting the danghter of Surgeon Gener-
al Barnes (who was one Of her. brides
maids), in Washington, retains the
charms of her glrlhood days.
MAKE Somebody Glsd," urges a re-
cent poem. Hundreds OF young men
can comply with this request by simply
bidding her good night two or three
hours earlier on Sunday night.
1t was the wife of President Madison
who gave young woman the excellent
advice Give your appearance careful
and srrious thought in yonr dressing
room anu forget it elsewhere
The musket of Private Taylor, who
was killed in the Baltimore mob of
April 10, 1861, is placed in the room OF
the Governor of Massachusetts, and
over it bang the colors Of The Sixth regi-I
ment.
The late DR.. Leonard Bacon was mol
horn in Detroit. as it is generally said,
but at Elyria, Ohio, where, in addresses
delivered about 1874, before the societies
of the Western Reserve College, be To-
Gated the site of his birth.
"The bees are swarming, and there's
no end to them," said Farmer Jones,
coming into the house. His little boy
George came in a second afterward and
said there was ap end to one of 'em.
any how, and it was red hot, too.
At "a young ladies' seminary recently,
during an examination in history, one
of the pupils were interrogaled thus
"Mary, did Martin Luther die natural
death 9'' 'No," was the reply; she
was excommunicated by bull"
One of philadelphia's bright girls
was interrupted while writing note
"regretting" that she could not accept
certain undesirable invitation. Look
ing up she remarked: "Wait one mo-
ment. l have almost flushed this life.
"Man and wife are all one, are they p
said she ''Yes; what of it?" said he
suspciouslv. "Why. in that case, said
his wife, II came home awfully tipsy last
night and felt terribly ashamed of mvself
this morning" He never said word
L. was left for Colorado drover to
interpret the heiroglyphics upon Cleo !
patra's Needle at New York. He stud
led them carefully Tor some time, and
then remarked that the Egyptians used
the same kind of cattle brands that are
employed in Colorado.
Last week at Los Angeles married
woman eloped with her coachman, in
consequence of which her husband shot
himself. The next day his daughter,
who was also in love with the coachman,
went insane, while the servant girl, who
was in turn gone on the deiunc husband,
tried TO drown herself three times.
Seventeen thousand three hundred and
forty-one persons were evicted in Ireland
in 1881, of whom 1,062 we're readmitted
as tenants and care.takers One thousand
seven hundred and twenty-four DEGREES
were granted for nor-payment Of rent
representing arrears amounting to f47,
600.
A remarkable case Of fasting is now
occurring at Canton. Mrs. Isaac Vogle-
song, lady of mature age, confued to
her bed for several months past, has not
eaten for forty days. Although it is
thought that the disease will cause death
eventualy, it is said that the sufferer
does not seem to have especial pain be-
cause of her fasting. In fact her cheer