The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1883-04-17

The whipping post is the punishment
that has some snap 10 1t.
What is q house without baby ?
Well, comparatively qliet. @a
The meaiest slight girl can put
upon an adn.irer is. t, use postal card
in refusing an offer OF marriage 1t
proves that she doesn't actually care
two cents for him.
A small hoy OF four summers was
riding 6n a hobby horse With COM
panion. He was seated rather uncoD-
for'ably on be horses neck Alter
ref .ctive palse. he said: Il think il one
oi>us gets Of | could rifle better"
A man ,atr Srockton, Call who had
heen sent to the chain-gang for stealing
refused to work the other day. and Was
chained to p ,st with one arm elevated
at full length above his head, where he
was kept for over an hour and half
When q man is elected ter Office his
frien's cone aroun' an says: 'I'ae glai
dat yei's heat yer opponent, hut ain I
surprised" But eff be is heat, his frien's
90 to snme. man on de udier side sn ;
say :-s'I tole him not ter run, no how"
"Why do they cry 40 mnch. pa ?"
asked the Austin editors little boy q.
the theater, referring TO the actors on
the stage. "Because. they see SO manv
Head heads in the audience" replied the
editor, scowling at the rival editor in
the next row.
| Mre. Fogg visited secondhand auc.
tlon the other day and bought job
lot of kitchen furnishing goods. Fogg
says every article in the list has hole
in # excepting the pepper box cover
and that everything leaks but the celan-
der aud milk stIainer.
There is an undsrgrown lad in New
! York, who has been the faithful nurse OF
a feeble mother ever since he was Eve
wears OF age. and in the twelve years OF
This de, ,otion, be has never spent more
than half sn hour at a time outside oi
the darkened chamber.
There is pstbos in this from the Bos.
ton Transcript: "Here I've been talking
for half an hour!" oxclaimed an auc
tioEeer, "snd / haven't got an offer.
Halt an hour, indeed" murmured an
elderly maiden "what's half an houl
tu many long years, and still 30 hope o.
any cfferf"
II iron foapiries, instead OF shutting
Fup In times OF depression, would turr
their attention to making casi-iron toys
for children, they would soon have al
the spare cash in the country. Wha
parents are mourning for since Christ
mas are toys that won't break when yot
wink at them-
$50 your business is picking up, eh 2
ssid fact tious cohbler 20 rag pickel
who had just commenced Operations
, ON an ash barrel In front Of bis shoE
door. "Y,s, and see yours is mend
ing!" quickly replied the ragged urcbin
glancing a. the diIapidated boot in thu
eobbler's hand.
Il Mrs. Mausard is q practical woman
+. with no nonsense about her. When Mr
Mansard in an atfectionate moment tn,
1 other day exclaimed, my dear; hov
. can ever leave your" sue coolly re
. piled "Leave me in a. comfortable
q circumstances as You can, Mansv; ther
it now, don. make fool OF yoursel
y A Taunton, Mass. woman relates tha
e she recently sat beside another woman
II a stranger to her, in an Old Colony Ca
o As the train passed Qlincy the strange
e pointed 10 the eTowdt d burial place ne;
j. The track and remarken in cnmplscer
r tone: "l've got three Of the best hus
hands layin' there that ever woms
had
y Enthusiastic professor Of physics, dii
- :, cussing the organic and inorganic kin!
- dom: 'sNow, il should shut my eye
drop nv head-so-an
should not move, you would say ws
:, . clod. Bot move, leap, run ; the
- what do yon cal me2" Voice from u
81 81 rear: "a clodhopperl" Glass aisnis
~ ed - Tassar Miscellany
. A singular affair occurred in Ne
Haven Sunday evening. At she clio
re ing service OF the mission in st. Ps
al rick's Church one Of the mission fst
,i, ers asked all the men in the church. al
OF there were about 1900 OF them, to !
re peat after him pledge promising n
10 go into a saloon from twelve o'clo
on Saturday night until twelve O'clock Su
"a day night for one year. There were D
- half dozen men in the church but "
nh raised up their right hand and repeat
tue words after she priest.