The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1884-01-01
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A bill in Congress- has been favorably
acted upon in Committee allowing re-
tired army officers 10 hold offices in the
territories to which they may be elected
by the people.
Sandusky is the heaviest taxed city In
Ohio Portsmouth comes next, and
then Lima AMI Youngstown Columbus
and Springfield pay the lightest taxes,
their rate being 90 Cincinnati ranks
next in the ascending scale, her-tsa rate
being 20.50.
Ia Armenia girls are married at
twelve and thirteen. II they afe left
unmarried 4. six'een they are likely to
eumain old maids, hut there is hope for
them till the nineteenth birthday. After
that they are called "Lor," meaning a
weed or useless plant"
81 don't take much stock In proverbs" !"
said Brown to Jones. "For instance,
look at the oit-quoted one, "A friend 10
need is friend indeed.' Now, most OF
nv experience with friends in need has
bsen that they wanted to borrow. Give
me The friend that is not 10 need"
$50 you really think the young man
who occupied the seat with yon stole
your watch 2" "Yes, sir" "Why do
you think sol" .'Because he sat 30
close and pressed up to me-" "And
why did you allow itl' Because be-
cause-I thought he was making love to
me-"
Fifty surgeons probed Intellectually for
the bullet that entered the hip of George
H. Hendricks, of Fort Wayne, Indiana,
10 the battle OF Oxolona, Miss, twenty
one. years ago. The other day he felt a
sharp pain just above the right knee
joint. He worked the flesh with his
finger and out came the ball.
President Arthur's Cabinet is thus
described by writer in the Troy Times
"Brewster is the most punctilious men,
her, FreIinghuysen the most ar::stocratic,
Lincoln the quietest, Gresham the ablest,
Folger the most judicial. Teller and
Chandler are the two who keep track OF
things generally and the hardest work.
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An old colored preacher 10 Atlanta,
Ga, was lecturing youth OF his fold
about the sin Of dancing, when the latter
protested that the Bible plainly So d /:
There is time to dance" "Yes, dar
am time to Dance" said the dark dl-
vine "and it's when boy gifts whip.
pin for goin to ball"
A number Of Boston capitalists have
acquired lease OF the gutta percha
forests OF Dutch Guinea 70, "a term of
thlrty.three years, and have already be.
gun operations there upon an extensive
scale. Their. lease covers 1000 600
ceres, and the quality OF the gun is said
to be equal to that of the best East In
ais product.
Jenny Lind still wears her hair as she
used to do, her eyes are as blue as ever,
and she has the old trick of resting her
clasped hsnds on her knees; no likeness
has ever given any idea OF the scraphic
sweetness and elevation of her counte-
nance. She is great favorite with the
English royal family, and the Princess
Helena passes much time with her.
The horses belonging to the Dwyer
Brothers have won forty.eight races this
season and S132.300. OF their horses
Miss Woodford has won S52,0S5, Geo.
Kinney s3S,015, Barius s17,942. Boot
jack s96l0, Burton $777. Wandering
S23SO, E;uaior 1880, and Charley B.
S175. 1t is said that only few tears
ago they we're running butcher shop in
Brooklyn.
People are not generally aware that
the egg product of the United States
stands second in value only to corn snd
wheat, and often snrpasses the latter
Daring the last fiscal year, for instance,
the corn crop was worth $3.50, ,643, 900,
the wheat crop s4s4 675, ,779. and the
egg crop s475.6s2,Ss9. The, hen, in
her relation to our domestic economy
10 tuuo EublttCu w uuOl q tCopSSv tudu Aoo
commonly been paid to her.
"Where were you engaged last p
asked lady of the new colored cook.
"Yer oughten'ter ax me dat, lady 81
just want to know as it may tend to give
you character. wall, lady, de las
time I was engaged was down in de bot
toms. I was engaged ter Bob Phillips
lie trifinest yaller man / eber seed
Why, lady, dat man stole my year-ripgs
and runned away. How many times
vas yerself engaged, lady
The Mississippi carries annually to
the sea s12,500,000 rounds of mud
All the habitable land of the globe il
being continually ground and washed
away. The deposit OF. foraminitera
shells alone-nnt inclu'ling other re.
mains-is sufficient, as Huxley has cal
culated, to create he'd OF limestone ir
the bottom of the Atlantic aud Pacific
oceans 800 feet thick. supposing these
oceans to have existsd for only 100, 0,0O(
years.
| The San Francisco Chronicle says o.
the Flood mansion TO be erected in tina
city: What the cost OF this establish
ment will be cannot bs ascertainei. Blu,
when it is considered that all tbs stone
has to be shipped from the Eat, that il
will require from wv, to three years to
construct the building and perhaps an
other year to tresco its extensive walls
| i. may he safely assumed that it will re.
qulre the expsnditnr, OF considerable
portion o. j. c. Flool's accumulated
millions.
One of the largest cattle sales on re
cord was cousummated at Dsnver. D
H and w. Snyder Il Co OF Denver
bought of Sayier Bros, of Georgeto wn
Texas, over IS 0)0 haal ii csttle an1
400 horses. Consideration S90o, 900
cash. The former firm now own nearly
81, 600 cattle and 1000 horses. During
the present year about $4,000 calves
were branded in b1th herds.
Why Drivers Turn to the Right.
Henry Grady saws in the Atlanta Con
stitution: Major W. H Smyth gives m
the following origin OF the America
custom of turning to the right on th
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