The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1882-11-28
Sense and nn,lsenge.

Sense and Wnusefige.
1t is affirmed that New Jersey girls
wear newspaper leggins as a protection
against mosquitoes.
The Terrell (Tex.) Star says the
screw-worm is alarming stock men in
that vicinity. One man has over two
hundred sick cattle.
Hod Bey, Turk of former official
prominence, is greatly venersted in Con-
stsntinople on account of his age, which
is beliyed to be l2D years.
The Chicago Times thinks Carroll D.
Wrieht's plan to disfranchise common
drunkards until they furnish satisfactory
evidence of reform, hits upon the true
cure of the confirmed inehriate.
A fashionable dressmaker is reported
bv telegraph to have run away from In
dianapo.is. shaving swinded The people
out of $3.50" The men of Indianapo.
lis are evidently in luck this season,
An ocean steamer is ashore near Cape
Nav, and the owners of the craft are in
great terpidation lest some Of the pas
sengers should 90 ashore and stop at
one of the hotels few days at their ,ex-
pense, thereby rendering it OF no use to
save the ship. l.
Mariposa Gazette saws that the water
in the Merced river, California, has be-
come so hot that il has caused all the
salmon to die., Tons upon tons OF dead
fish are daily drifting down the river,
which are creating a terrible stencil, and
the like was never known before.
Mr.. Follett, Of New York, who has
Just failed for 100000, says that his
downfall was due to speculations on the
Chicago grain market If there are
any Greco Roman wrestlers who would
like to know how it feels TO fall sudden
", they should not forget the grain mar
ket
London dispatch Saturday night
statad that "there is rumor in town
tp-night. at the clubs, that the Queen
was again shot at in the stables in Bal
moral this afternoon. 1t has hereto4
fore been suppo ,ed in this country that
the Prince of Wales or one of the o:her
boys did the rnllking.
An old lady in Maine who cried at
her wedding because she was going TO
live on the hanks of the Konnebeck riv
er where her children would fall in and
he drowned, has lived there fifty years
now and never had a child. John Sher-
man should paste this item in his hat
the next time he thinks OF running for
President.
The "statisician" of the senior class
at Yale College places the average ex-
pense OF each member for the four years
course at S3,9O1. Brown University re-
ports the annual expense at $3.50, which
woull give 1880 for the tour years.
The difference depends, in great part,
upon whether a man goes to college for
"good time or to work.
DR.. Coples,one, Bishop of Colombo,
recently discharged a schoolmaster who
had engaged himself to marry the daugh
ter Of a Methodist. Il am deeply
moved" he wrote, "that you had n
Loyalty or courage enough to save you
from the wretched fall you contemplate.
1t is hardly necessary to etate that the
Bishop is not single man.
Millais's newest picture represents a
lovely damsel, holding q platter with
lemons, in rich purplish Greek robe,
with fine touches OF vivid color in ber
belt and ornaments, and with little cap.
The fact that she has prepared whole
platter OF lemmons for her husband
shows that some women know what o
late session Of the lodge really means.
The London Spectator Of recent date
has a long article on American million
aires, ia which it declares that it expects
to zee syndicate in New York control
ling all the railroads and the tslegraphs,
and which syndicate ''at the end of a
twelve month would smile at the Roths-
childs as persons who, in the petty busi.
ness OF Europe, were accounted very
rich. @ t
Professor PonGck, OF Breslau, has
been clearing up some of the popular
doubts concerning mushrooms. He
SAYS that all the common ones are poi
, sonous, but that cooking deprives then
OF much of their poison, though ths
water in which they are boiled shoulc
be carefully thrown away, and the es
| hoA in VI
Dried mushrooms are only safe afte
, four months keeping,
e sis this woman your wife I" asked th
, Justice of colored man, and pointing
, to woman. "Is what my wife 7" 81
b that woman your wife p IL don't Sc
l no oman. / sees lady, an de lady i
l., nv wife" SIS this man your husband ?
t asked the justice of the woman. H'Da
t gen 'leman is my husband" "Well ,ladie
n and gentlemen, I have investigated thi
Il case, and have decided to send this lad
e and gentleman to jail for six months
IT A story comes from Staunton, Vii
1t ginia, that one day last week a strange
a asked Chief of Police Waters II b
= knew of Mrs Elizabeth Bailey in tbs
8 city. explaining that he had, twenty-fs
years before, when boy eight yea
e old, run away from his home, in Staul
lr ton, and had not heard from his fam!l
20 since, Captain Waters knew the lad
and took the stranger to the house, an
ls there was Joyous meeting of moth
10 and son,