The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1882-04-18
wooDsF1EID MONROE COUNTY OHIO TUESDAY, APRIL 49, 1882
Sense and Nouse,tse.

SenSe ana cWnnSe1tSe.
A company has been formed at VIM
nipeg, Manitoba, 60 supply eastern cities
with canned frogs legs.
The Treasury Department does not
redeem revenue stamps any more when
10 denominations above two cents. g.
When o mans chestnut curls hegin to
turn grsy, it means that be is so years
old Bot when thev begin 10 turn black
THAT means be is 60. a 4
PHYSICIANS are at loss how to relieve
q New York man who has swallowed q
tack. Strange they did not think to put
q claw-hammer coat on him.
"And phat wud We want sich 3 man
as Patrick for" said Mrs McGlone
l"Ye niver cud thrust him out of yeI
sight. onless ye was wid him" ~
The number OF postcards dispatched
in GERMANY during the. year 1850 wa:
123. 900, 900 In the postofiice museum
at Berlin, there are exhibited 4l8 differ
ent kinds of postcards.
Three years ago irm in Texas in
vested S33, 600 in cattle; a few week.
ago his stock and its increase was SOLD
at S15 per head, and the sale amounted
to more than $4,000.
Gen Rial Niles, who fought gallantll
at Laurel Hill, Winchester, Pittsbur,
Landing and Chickamauga. was founr
recenlly 10 8 wretched room 10 Philadel
phia dying Of starvation.
Girls should be careful how they ar
vaccinated with virus taken from a low
ers's arm. One at St. Paul has takei
to swearing. sitting cross-legged ant
smoking brier-root pipe.
The average lite OF an English golt
sovereign is about eighteen years-ths
is, the coin loses about three-four,bs O
grsin in weight in that time. 1t ther
ceases to be legal tender.
During the last four years Oregon ha.
/ exported to the eastern states not les.
than 400, 900 head of beef cattle. Mos
Of these cattle were produced in tb,
counties east OF the cascades.
The daily price paid for intoxicatin.
drinks in New York is estimated o
s27O, 900. or s6s,550.co0 every year
There is said 10 be an alarming increase
Of drunkenness among the women.
A Wisconsin woman who was lost il
the woods for three days says she didn'
suffer so very much, but was greatly an
noyed by her absence OF miod in no
bringing along small looking-glass.
Last summer the people OF GreNnvilIo
! Miss, bad to haul water from the rive
at cost of 25 cents barrel Now ths
Inhabitants are compelled to crawl ou
on the bousetops in order to keep dry
the fastest passage ever made under
sail from Hong kong to San Francisco
has heen accomplished by the Wander
ing Jew, a Maine built vessel, whict
-coxered the distance 10 thirty-four days
The discovery of coal in Winston Co.
Mississippi, is creating some excitement
A correspondent of Tue Macon Sun
SAYS he knows it extends twenty miles
in one direction, and is fifteen miles il
width.
twenty-five dollars will purchase al
the materials needed for young lady to
go into plaque painting. AMI If she hat
auy talent at all some of the plaques
can be warranted TO scare cat TO dealt
on sight.
A New York dancing master sayl
that in dancing there should be no NOR
contract OF persons than there is il
walking Oh, pshaw! dancing in tina
manner would te like getting drunk OF
cold water. H
The wife of Colonel R G Ingersol
is described as strikingly handsome, will
clea' cut. strone-face, a quick smile
q .shing eyes. and smooth black hai,
She is one of the finest looking womel
in Washington. p,
The St. Paul Pioneer Press calls Fari
tault the '.Eton of Minnesota. 1t i
the seat OF three or four schools, unde
the patronage OF the Episcopal Church
which stand very high 10 ability ant
scholarship.
Wooden shoes are worn in the North
west and enough of them are sold Il
keep large mandatory going at Gree
Bay. They are cut out of green bass
wood, smoked and dried like hams, an'
sold q, 80 cents pair. "a.
II tell ',ou," continued Pingrey
Brown isn't fit for the place. 10 fact
l don't know of place that he is calcu
iated to Oil !" "Dou't he Incorporate i
your remarks, Pingrey," said Fogg
"vou forget his stomach ''
The largest orange grove in Florid
is that of Maj II. Norris, who wen
from Chicago to Spring Garden, Fla
in 1872. He now has a grove OF IL 90
thrifty orange trees which bear abou
500 900 oranges 10 a year.
A tipsy Bostonisn who was ARRESTED
while making vain efforts to clutch
barber's pole, exclaimed, as the police
man drlfted him in the direction Of th
sta,ion.bo /! tStranch, / never saw
'rora b6fealish's near before :"
. Prof Packard, of Bovdoin College
v ,uches for the story that sralleyran
delested Aaron Burr, and that when tn
latter sent his card, requesting an inter
view, the French diplomat said: 9TH
minister of foreign affairs will see Co
Burr at such an hour, bat q miniature c
Gen. Hamilton always hangs over hi
mantel Col. Burr did not call.
Rev. Dr.. Washington GLADDEN., c
Sp ingfeld. makes this interesting state
ment: Il wish to record nv own cor
viction, drawn from pretty extenslv
kno owledge of journalists and OF clerg,
men, that the average editor is lit
more fair and Christian in his dcaliog
. with truth, and in his treatment of thot
who differ from him, than the averas
parish minister"
Every man, SAYS Persian legend, h,
I two angels-one upon his right sh"u
I der, the other upon his left. Wher
+ does anything good, the angel on Il
j. right shoulder writes 1t down, and sea
4 it, because what is once well done
, done forever When he does an e,
n act the angel on the left shoulder writ
/. il down but does not seal il. waitil