The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1885-07-21

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ket do not contain opium. TIE drug is
too costly to use in this way.
Horned toads are selling at fi.ty cents
apiece in California, and large numbers
are sent East as curiosities They art
harmless, and can be handled with i'm
puniiy. They are cheap to keep, living
six months on two house flies.
The Massachusetts State Board OF
Health, from recent investig igations, find
that there is very little pure honey in the
Slate. That sold in little glass jars is
! not honey at all, but simply glucose,
with just little of the honeycomb pu,
| in.
A recent prize man in one Of the lead
ing New England colleges is said to have
paid his way through college by buying
old clocks and other hric-a brac in back
country towns. and selling them at fancy
prices to New York and New Haven COL
lectors.
A FIRE originating curiously occurred
at night in Charlottesville, Ga. A clock
cord broke, letting the weight fall upon
and ignite box of matches lying on
! The bottom Of the clock case The fam
| ilv we're all asleep at the time. and the
house was nearly burned.
A man never hegins to find out how
little he knows about domestic matters
until his wife asks him to keep bis eve
upon the haby and see that a pan OF
melted butter is kept stirred, while she
goes into the attic to look through her
rag-bag.
"That actress" said young Hyson,
"bas been playing dancing parts ever
since was hoy, ard she isn't year
older on the bills than she was twenty
years ago" mo-" said old Tin,ag.
"tb-t's because she has reDude her youth
every season"
"How," Inquired the ST. Louis Rapub
lican, "are we Missourians to rid our
selves of those features to which the
rest OF the country seems to object ?"
"Please pardon the implication" says
the Chicago Herald, "but you might
start in with fne-tooth comb"
Call girl chick, snd she smiles ;
call woman hen, and she howls. Call
Young woman a witch and she is
pleased; call an old woman q witch and
she is indignant. Call q girl kitten
and she rather likes it; call q woman o
cat, and she will hate you. Qleer sex
"What do you think of Mr.. Thomp.
son ma ?" "He seems to be verv nice,
hut ! would not encourage him If | were
you." "Why not ma2' "He has red
hair, and red-headed men are always de
ceitful." "But pa has red hair" "WeIl,
not quite red. child It's quite red
enough, though
"How old man is the Marquis Of
Salisbury ?" asked an American of an
Englishman on the cars this morning
| sOh. be is not an old man by any means
only sbout 6fty-6ve." was the prompt
reply. "Ah. then, Salisbury is not az
elder-berry!" remarked the American,
to the great disgust of the son OF John
Bull.
"Gentlemen," said Colonel Jones,
"do you know that / was born on the
very day that Thomas Jefferson died p
"This is wonderful country" remarked
Gabe Case. "There is na limit to its
recuperative powers. Just think of il
surviving two such disasters. and how
true it lie misfortune never comes singly."
Then they all s'smiled."
For quick filter the Druggists Cir
cular recommends the employment OF
chamois skin, freed from thin pieces, cut
10 the desired size, washed in a weak
solution of sal soda or any alkali to re-
move any grease, and thoroughly rinsed
in cold water. By means Of it tine, ures.
elixirs, syrups, and even muc!lages are
said 10 be filtered rspidy. If tits washed
we'll after each time it lie used this filter
will last for long time.
Mothers should understand that the
excessive habit OF handling and kissing
pet cats aud dogs 10 often dangerous,
Pampered animals are very liable to
diseases of mouth, throat or stomach
Their exhalations breathed by the chill
dren who fondle them frequently create
sickness, and sometimes death, the canse
not being even suspected. A medical
writer saws: ut is source OF danger
that should be widely known and pre-.
vented"
She bad hut recently arrived from the
"owld country" and being sent out in
front OF the house to water large he'd
of crimson petunIas. the following con-
versation took place between herself and
the youngest son and heir: 81 say.
Bridget, what's the name Of those flow.
ers2" "Shure, now, don't like to tell
We. 'Tisn't noice name they have at
all dear; for twas up at the hou,e !
heard Your own mother calling them
spitunias."
A farmer of Orange county, N Y,
accustomed to carrying small quantity
of money in the bottom Of his tobacco
hox, lately placed atwo-dollar bill in the
box aud filed the remaining space With
tobacco. A day or two afterward he
noticed that bis quid did not yield to the
grinding process as readily as usual, and.
removing II from his mouth and exam.
ining it, saw that, instead of chewing to-
bacco, be had been trying to masticste
bis two-dollar bill, In which be had so
far succeeded as to render it valueless
Experienced lumbermen have always
held that timber cut in the spring was
not durable for building purposes. Re-
cent scientific Investigations, 1t is stated,
sustain this belief. 1t is shown that the
richer the wood is in sulphuric acid and
potassium the more likely it is to rot
and mou.d. Wood cut IN the spring
contains eight times as much of the for
mer and Eve times as much Of the latter
as wood cu' in the winter.