The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1882-08-15
Sepse and Napse'ase.

SenSe ana c5JnQSeilSe.
A soft ant. sir, turneth away pic
nicker from the custard pie.
Victor Hugo says: ITO reform man
you must begin with his grandmother"
A German paper calls the toy pistol
"the nursing bottle of inclpient Cult
eaus."
Another Irish outrage. A Canadian
paper says that Arabi Bey's real name
Is Pat Foley. 't7HE7S f'esa1
The man who is jealous of his reputa-
ton would be doing much better were
be to try to live up 10 it
Boston should have law against the
practice of carrying baked beans 'toi
church for Sundayiunch.
Now that the Star Routes have been
''expeiite,l," lie! US see the conviction OF
the Star Reuters expedited. ~
The New York Clipper mourns be-
cause Eve did not tell the serpent, ''Not
this Eve, some other Eve"
A new book is called "Our Set. It.
is not, as might be inferred, work ON
hatching chickens: 1t is a novel.
Fifty years is long wait for the gold
en- wedding, hut it is an eighteen-carrat
argument in favor of early marriages.
Olive Logan says Bernhardl's hus-
band is highly kissable Mr.. Berhhardt's 8
opinion Of Olive has not been made pub
lic
Mr.. Beecher says there is no sin in
playing cards 1t is very evident that
HenIy has been holding the best hands
lately. $50 Aqr -. ~.
A mooley cow has no horns. It is
different from man in this respect. The
more "horns" he has the muller he be-
comes. ts II
"Out, brief canale." was the midnight
ejaculstion of an attic lawyer, when he
and a half prepared writ were surrounds
ed with aloom. ss@ 4lsi !As
The latest intelligence from Port Said
is "the natives are very insolen:." The
natives have evidently ben looking al
an American man-of-war.
Theodore Tilton attended the Sulli-
van Wilson fight in New York last week
Mr.. Beecher should have snow plow
made for his nose at once. ,.ss,.ss >, =.
Josh Billings says: IA reputashun
once broken may possibly be repaired,
but the world will always keep their eyes
on the spot where the krack was"
A little ,five-year.old, hearing his fa-
ther say that certain man was unable
to keep the wolf from the door" /"
wanted to know why the MN d:dn t
shoot it,
Miss Hope Glenn, the contralto who
is to accompany Nilsson on her Ameri-
can tour, is an lava girl, formerly of
Iowa City. She has been abroad sew
eral years,
The little hoy who never PLAYS mar
bles, flies kites. spins tops, or INDUCES
in any hoyish sports, generally becomes
a wbite-necktied reporter on some re-
ligious paper.
"You are as full OF airs as a mu,ic-
box, is what young man said to a
/ girl who refused 10 let him see her home.
"Thst may be-" was the reply, shut ]
don's 60 With crank - 81
There is only one butcher to every
fifteen hundred people 10 London. This
gives woman q chance to keep tour
teen huadred and ninety nine people
waiting twenty-nine minutes while she
buys beef bone.
"It resembles walk in the open air
on Sunday morning" is the tribute OF
a Berlin critic to L ing 'ellow's poetry,
Why Mr.. Longfellow'st best efforts are
like going to get shaved is not so plain
in this country. 4s3yse. .,5 s.i..aa.
The new National bank note to he is
sued to hanks getting charters under the
act recently passed, will have brown
backs instead of green. There now, we
shall soon have another political party
"a Brownback party. haia
The Modern Argo mentions q Quincy
blonde who entertains four beaux at once
when she is riding In hsmmock. The
man who marries a wom,n who can talk
at that rate will soon be wishing that she
had fallen from her hammock with dull
thud.
"Lpok here" said an indignant Aus
tin tenant to bis landlord, "thefe is q
cat in the cistern OF that house yousrent
ed to me-" ais it dead p at looks
like It," "Then it Will not disturb you
any at night, so will have to raise your
rent five dollars on that account j" a
Mrs. Eleanor P. Long. Of Philadel-
phia, has left S200,000 to establish q
home for orphan girls in. that citv. es-
pecially the orphan daughters OF Union
soldiers and firemen, in compliance with
the wish of her mother, from whom
most nf her property was received.
There was in the State of ohiah
! n A maiden named Helen Maria,
Who ever would sail
| D0Wn tne OannlSter faR a-=-.s
When she thought there was nobody nigh her.
Now her brother, whose name was Josiah,
Fixed the rail with piece Of barbed wiar;
But it wouldn't be best .i
To tell you the rest,
For we're blushing already like far.
A man out West bought bedstead.
the wood of which was so green that
one warm spring day it broke out all
over with buds, and in week was Gov
cred all over with little groves of wav-
ing branches In the autumn the chill
dren picked the chestnuts from the side
pieces, and next spring tapped the head
board for maple syrup.
Seated one balnv afternoon on the
veranda of Mrs. Howe's residence in
Newport, Oscar Wilde was heard 10 re-
mark to q lady who was present: Strange
that a pair OF silk stockings should SO
upset nation, whereupon q well.known