The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1883-02-27
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Infant industry-Baby farming.
When lovers quarrel the tahy trade
Teakens.
Why are women like blood2 Be-
cause they will tell.
Mapv Catholic priests In Italy receive
only $50 year.
IA cofiln," said the Irlsbuan, sis the
place where man lives when he is
dead"
An Erie woman, has robbed hair
store. Like pistol, she went of with
q bang.
The real glove fight occurs when q
woman tries TO put e No 6 gloyg ON q
No. Z hand.
Generous natures will hesitate about
licking a postage stamp when it gets
down to two cents.
1t i. said that fashionable ladies won't
go fishing this summer unless they can
get silk worms for bait. .z
Sidney Smith says, 1t is a vast deal
better for man to be an every day
Christian than a weak one.
When book-agent is taken sick the
first thing that is paralyzed is bis tongue,
but his cheek never blsnches
A rather cynical lady, somewhat of q
firt, says most men, like colds. are easily
caught out difficult to getrid Of.
A young lady. when presented with a
pair of opera glasses. asked, "How in
the world will keep them on ?"
Rubber has been found in Boliuia on
the Benz river, and the supply promises
to break the corner in Para rubber .i
A man may "turn over new leaf;'
that's very easily done. But the gall oil
it is, you cant tear ont the old one
A standard musical pitch is advo.
Gated by the musicians. Taey wan,
something which every ybody will stick to-
The one great fault OF this life is the
readiness with which man accepts the
circus bill for the show inside the can
vas.
A militia captain who jumped house
to escape paying back rent has been de-
graded by his old landlord to left len.
ant.
1t is weather-wise to borrow an um-
brela when it looks like q storm, but
otherwise to lend one il you expect to
see il again.
What is the difference hes ween seal
skin hat and vivid imagination Why,
one is fancy turtle, and the other is a
fertile fancy.
A Connecticut woman has invented a
machine for. counting money. Editors
have long felt the want Of. some such
labor saving machinery
A Philadelphia lover says that his girl
ia SO warm.hearted that whenever she
steps upon frozen river she immedi-
ately thaws hole in the ice.
Senator Adams, of Pennsylvania,
says: "t3od help any man whose guide
is the public press" He does, sir; he
does He makes him too honest to GO
into politics.
Toe blade of the sword of the gigan.
tic s'a'ue of "Germanie," 10 be placed
at Neiderwald. near the Rhine, weighs q
ton. Thetotal amount. of metal in the
statue is forty FIVE tons.
1t is related as a singular fact that fat
men never commit crime. It doesn't
seem so singular when you reflect that /,
is difficult for fat man 10 stoop to do
anything low.
Mr.. Nor, reading Virgil. "Three
times I strove to cast my arms about
her NECK, and" "Tha,'s as far as
got, Professor" swell, Mr.. Nor, /
thirk that was quite far enough"
The latest wrinkle of fashionable
architecture is sittine-room exclusively
for the daughters of the family A gin
mill, round the corner, is a good enough
sitting-room for the sons.
General Sherman kisses every girl to
whom he is introduced. Tecumseh al
ways was reckless man, much given
to cutting away from his base and dc,
pending on the country for his supplies
as be went along.
/. A man who has made a fortune in
California set about finding the only rela
tive he had, niece. After two years'
search he found her employed as a mill
hand in Burlington. Vermont.
The sessions OF State Legislatures all
over the country are opened with relig.
ious exercises, and many really devout
people are in consequence beginning TO
doubt the efficacy of prayer.
The story is told, 1t may or may not
he true, that during a free fight 10 a
Chicago saloon a man was shot in the
mouth, but escaped injury through the
ball fAttening itself against his breath
Human bones have been foun,l In the
debris OF the oil Postotf1ce In New
York. They are supposed TO be the re
mains OF people who we're reckless
enough to bother the stamp clerk while
he was reading the los. novel,
Il is sad that Disraeli used to learn
his hest speeches by heart, and then
would hesitate occasionally and "er-er-
err" as though deliberating a choice OF
words, Bu, ls, US not judge Dizzy loo
harshly. To "'er" is human.
A California man has invented a pat
ent stovepipe. having screw joints,
against which no living or inanimate
thing can possibly contend. To this
henefsctor of mankind all honor is ,iu,,
but what also 10 needed is cane seated
chair that wont floor man when be
stands on the edge of it.
Ordinarily nan has no trouble in
fnding ain excuse for staying away from
church: Fogg, however, says he hs.
kept away for the last ak months jus
10 see if hs could find reasonable ex
cuse, but hasn's discovered one yet. II,
proposes to stay away until he does 6n(
lone, If 1t takes q lifetin1es