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Show IXKLI.VGS. Hate trips up its own heels. A fool's head never whitens. Boasters are eouins to liars. Idle hope is a waking dream. Little and often fiils the purse. Success makes foola seem wise. A safe robbery is often dangerous. Walking sticks promenading swells. A cure for dyspepsia stay-at-houieo-pathy. Follow love and it will flee; fl?e love and it will follow thee. A true religious instinct never deprived de-prived a man of a single joy- Jle that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Happiness is like the statue of lids, whose veil no mortal ever raised. Poor men seek meat for their stomachs; stom-achs; rich men seek stomachs for their mcaL A larpe mass of error is easily embalmed em-balmed and perpetuated by a little truth. What uution produces the most marriages mar-riages ? Fascination. It is very dangerous for any man to Gnd any spot that is sweeter to him than his home. The poorest education that teaches sell-control is better than the best that neglects it. Two Indianians Qred a salute from an old piece of rotten iron about twelve hours before their funeral. A schoolboy doGncd "appetite" by exclaiming that "when I'm eating I'm 'appy' and when I'm done I'm tight." Tho Danbury News says that the reason schoolboys delight to dig and explore oaves is because of the recesses there. A New Orleans paper thinks that Alexis should not be allowed to leave America without being shown tho Louisiana Lou-isiana legislature. "Pa, isn't that man in what they oall tho springtime of life?" "Why, my son ?" "Because he looks so very green." A woman applied to a lady for the position of mistress of her kitchen. Being asked her name, she replied Nasticook. An engagement was not made. An Irishman, who was recently run over by a whole train of cars, got up and asked for his cap, and said he "would not run another such risk as that for tin dollars." A New Orleans lady eloped recently, leaving a note bidding her husband good-by, and requesting him not to mourn for tho children, as none of them were his. The old joke is revived and put upon up-on Barnum, whero a man asked why he preferred one tailor to another, answered an-swered that the one measured his purse and tho other his person. A story is told of a person asking another whether he would adviso him to lend a certain friend money. "What, lend him money. You might give him an emetic and he would not return it." |