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Show ski.p:cted. ! Pepper Pod., by Joeh Billing.. If Tit huv tul a sjjiriU-d onl noble boy. apjieal to his gencroiiiy : ifyu hav got a heary and sullen one, appeal tew his buek. A great meiiny ov our jjeople vo abroad tew improve their minds who hadn't got anny minds when they war at home ; knowledge, like charity, chould bc.irin at home, then tpred. Afflickshuns are the compliments that heaven pays to the virtewous. Noboddy but a phool will spend his time trieing tew convince a phool. Time i like money, the less we Lev of it tew spare, the further we make it go. The tongue is really a very fast member mem-ber of the body politick; he duz all the talking aud two-thirds ov the thinking. . There is nieuny a person who kan set a moue trap tew perfeckshun, but not satL-tied with sich small game, undertake un-dertake to trap for bears, and nets ketched by the bears. Moral Study your genius, and stick tew'mice. "Let him go, mi son,' sed au ancient an-cient father tew his boy, who had caught a young rabbit, "and when he gets bigger, ketch hiui agin.'' The boy did as he was told, and has been looking for that rabbit ever since. The world owes all its energy and retirieiuent tew luxurys digging roots for breakfast and going naked f -r clothes, i the virtewous innocence of a lazy savage. Thare iz lots ov folks wbo eat well, and drink -well, and sleep well, and yet are sick all the time ; these are the folks who alwuz enjoy poor health. Jl A person with a little smattering' bv learning is a good deal lit? a hen's egg that has been sot on a sh rt time and then deserted by the hen it is spilt for hatching out ennything. . . Pride never forgets itself, nerer lias playspell or f Vol i k ; it iz stjff from morning morn-ing till night, from top tu bottom like a sled stake. "People of guod sen.-e" are those whose opinyuns agree with ours. ' Thare is a great deal of magnificent poverty in our big cities people who eat klam soup out ov a tin basin with a gold spoon. The place whar poverty, virtew and luv meet and worship together is the most sakred spot iu this universe. Experience duz not make a man so bold as it duz careful. There an't but very little genuine good sense in this world ennyhow, und what little thare is ain't in market it it is held for a dividend. Those who have made up their minds tew lead a life of enjoyment tvill iind the 'following recipe a graf? help to them: To one ounce of pleazure add a pound of repentance. Adversity iz a poultess which reduces redu-ces our vanity and strengthens our virtew vir-tew even a boy never feels half so good as when he haa been spanked and sot away to cool. Pedantry iz the science of inveuiin what little you know in one kind uv perfumery, and insisting upon sticking that under every man's knoze whom yu meet. Lieing iz like trieiug tew hide in a fog, if yu move about yure in danger of bumping yure bed agin tbe truth, and az soon az the fog blows oph yure gone ennyhow. Marrying an angel is the poetry of marriage, but living with her iz the proze, and that is all well enuff if the tasie of the poetry hain't spilte our relish for the proze. |