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Show WHAT SHALL WE DRINK? Inordinate tea drinking must inevitably produce mental and nervous disease. Most men and women use tea to moderation, but great numbers use it immoderately; and in proportion to their excess they must suffer. Loss of appetite, incapacity to digest wholesome food, ????, irritability, and all the well-known features of a broken down nervous system are depicted as the general consequences of the prostration that follows regularly upon the stimulant effects of tea, and in this respect coffee is classed with it. People who are attentive to the various argument presented by various doctors and others as to the effects of their beverages will presently be troubled to know what they may take. Alcoholic drinks of all kinds a frightfully injurious; and here is an indictment against the paralyzing cup that cheers but not inebriates. Neither wine nor beer, nor tea nor coffee, and of course no whisky then. Will you take milk? All the typhoid fever, half the diphtheria and two-thirds of the consumption, say yet other doctors come to us in the mild fluid. Will you take water? ???? say all the doctors together marks the water-drinker for her own. What will you take? In other words, by what means will you poison yourself? JOSH BILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY. The grate herd of mankind are like oxen; they kno how to eat, and drink, and chaw the kud, and that iz about all they do kno. <br><br> I don't care how honest a man may be in his own estimashun, or the opinyun of others, if he iz a very grate talker he haz got to lie, more or less. <br><br> My youthful Joseph, would yu improve yure intelekts, read but little, listen, and reclekt mutch, and talk less. <br><br> The most fastidious people that I meet hav the least to be fastidious about. <br><br> There are certain qualifikashuns among mankind that would be just az proper to praze az the spred of a pekok's tale. <br><br> If yuk ant trust a man entirely let him skip; this triieng to get an average on honesty haz always been a failure. <br><br> I kno plenty of people who, if they should lay aside their dignity, would be az badly demoralized as a stiffly starched shirt collar in a thunderstorm. <br><br> Yu kant beat the slate; if the figures won't work, rub them out and make sum that will. <br><br> Thare iz only one kind ev person who kan keep a secret, and he iz the one who refuses to take it at copy price. <br><br> It iz better to be unknown than to have a pedigree that iz to much for us, just so it iz better for a pekok to be bobtailed, than to have one too big to spred. <br><br> When we visit an insane asylum we are filled with profound pitty and horror; but after all, there iz only about fifteen per cent difference between those who are confused thare and the rest ov the world outside. <br><br> Thare seems to be two kinds of wisdom; one a man gets from studying only the bad side ov human nature, the other from studying both the good and bad side and then striking a helthy average. <br><br> Musik iz not only a plezant power, but it iz one ov the cheapest ones, too; enny person who haz genius enuff to turn a grind-ston kan understand a fiddle. <br><br> Thare iz a good deal in a name; vinegar sounds sour to me, so duz honey sound sweet. <br><br> Too mutch larning and too little wisdom iz making the whoe world mad; the mistake iz az old az the farce enacted in the garden of Eden. <br><br> Thare may be people who never make enny blunders or mistakes (or who think they don't), the best we kan say for them iz painfully korrekt. <br><br> It seems rather tuff, and quite ridikilus that a man who has ???? growth of trees. <br><br> The legislation proposed in regard to mineral? lands is also to be commended. ???? it until after he is ded, and then haz to take it in second rate poetry on his tume stone. <br><br> Science iz a good thing uz far az it goes, but thare is no amount ov it kan beat the spots on ????. <br><br> The man who laffs and nods hiz hed, and sez, "Yes, jess so," to everything yu say, iz one ov the hardest men in the world to git onto the bak ov sixty-day paper. <br><br> Yung man, satisfy yureself, and the world in due time are sure to giv yu all the praze yu deserve. <br><br> A bizzy man iz a harder man for the devil to capture than even a pious one. <br><br> Opinyuns rule mankind, and yet two-thirds of all the opinyuns afloat are like foot balls; the man who kan kik them the highest iz the best fello. <br><br> Philosophy iz a self sakraficing virtew; most of it iz spent on our nabors, but little on ourselves. <br><br> Thare iz a great deal more virtew and happiness in the world than we are aware ov, menny ov us hav it in our possesshun without knowing it. |