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Show INKLINGS. ' j Envy none who know more than j joursell but pity them that know ! less. Who fights with passions and overcomes over-comes them, is endued with the best virtue. The purest joy that we can experience experi-ence in one we love, is to see that person per-son a source of happiness to others. It is easier to give counsel than to receive it. Wise men think they do not need it, and fools will not take it. Never resent a supposed injury till you know the views and motives of the .author of it, and on no occasion relate it. The more a mau knows the less he is apt to talk discretion allays iiis heat and makes him coolly deliberate what and where to speak. When our desires are fulfilled to the very letter, we always find some mistake mis-take which renders them anything but what he expected. We must not always speak all that we know that were mere folly ; but what a man says should be what he thinks ; otherwise it is knavery. "Keep your dog away from uie !" said a dandy to a butcher boy. "Darn the dog, he's always after puppies," said the boy. An East Tennessee woman stopped a railroad train by waving a red llag, and wanted to know of the outraged conductor if Sairy Malviny Thompson was aboard which the same was her sister. The last case of indolence is related in one of our exchanges; it is that of a man named John Hole, who was so lazy, that in writing his name, he simply sim-ply used the letter J., and then punched punch-ed a hole through the paper. . A runaway thief having applied to a blacksmith for work, the latter showed him some handcuffs, and desired to know if he made such kind of work. "Why, yes, sir," answered the fellow, scratching his head, "guess I've had a hand in 'em." In a Philadelphia paper, an advertisement adver-tisement of patent medicine says, "one bottle will act on any complaint whatever, what-ever, if the patient is reconciled to ;' fate." Thir is giving fair warning; and anybody who takes the mixtures after this recommendation, must be "reconciled to his fate." The Bowling Green (Ky. ) Democrat says: "During the fair at this place a live crocodile from the river Nile was on exhibition in connection with a side show. While the tent underneath which this creature was being exhibited exhibit-ed was pretty well crowded with ladies and gentlemen, a dandily-dressed negro, ne-gro, with his "Betsy Jane" swinging on his arm, came stalking in with an air of supremo indifference, which was really amusing. In reply to his companion com-panion as to '"What's dat scaly thing in do water ?'' the colored gentleman, straightening himself up, and raising his voice to an unusual pitch, doubtless with a view of impressim; the by-stand-era with his great knowledge of the animal kingdom, said: "Dat! Don't you know what dat is? Why, dat's a concubino from de Nile." |