Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-02-04

Ito every old maid who gets married.
Throughout the whole course Of the year,
whenever the moon wanes toe night win
grow dark.
Those who have debts TO pay, and no cash,
will lose their credit
II is prohaole that if there Is no business
doing, people will complain Of hard times,
but itls certain that those who hang Them
selves viii escape starving to death. Any
man who spend, faster than he earns viii not
be richer Mt the end of The year than he was
At the beginning which is moro certain still
He that bite, Of his own nose or turns polti-
clan, will scthse fool, aad thatis the most
certain ef all
Jf bishop sleeves ge oat Of fashion there
will be more elbow room among the ladies.
y toques fellow, We may perhaps see over
their head,. Ifeifher OF them should ',etalx-
ed OF, there will be much ado about nothing
Many maa viii grow rich this year-iR a
drssm.
The session 81 Congress viii be one Of IN.
common interest and importance. This can
not fad or proving true, because 1t has been
said every yeavrs gaiariv, aver sinee we have
had remembrance.
If handles wear their boards there viii be
less work for the BARRIERS. He who wcars
mustachios, will have so,Detssing TO snceze at
He who does either viii hook Ike riihn, sud
we pray all such to keep cut of eur sight.
If dc inc unbent Of fat Office should die,
there viii be scorc OF feet ready to step into
one pair Of his shoes
n sn old naiscr dies, it viii occasion the
shedding Of many tears-that Give in an O.
MON"
There will BIZ more books published this
year than will find purchasers; more rhymes
written than will find readers; and more bills
made than will find payers.
Whoever IL in love this year will .hiak his
mistress an angel. Whoever gets married.
will find out whether it be true.
Ifany young lady should happen 70 blush,
or haste. a turkey this year, she will look red
in the face. RI she dream of young man
something. If she dream Of HIM four tines,
or have the toothache, II is ten TO one that
she rs long tins getting either of them oat
of her head.
If a man build q house this year without
counting the cost, he win know more at the
end of his under taking than at Ne beginning.
III any one pumps overheard without know
ing how to swim, tbs twetto one that he gets
drowned. II any one lends an umbrella It is
ten to enc tiat he is obliged to 20 home III
the rain for his pains
There viii be great noise about the cour-
try-whenever il thunders; and a great dust
win be kicked up-sby coach -horses-unless
the ro,ds are r,acadarai,eo..
Whoever runs in debt this year VIII be
dunned--Whoever hires money out Of the
bank viii be 10 20 hurry TO zee the last day
Of grace. sFhoevsr is out at the elbows will
think Of taller. Whoever~is high upon the
score and low in the pocket, will think OF the
Deputy Sheriff.
Whoever makes the discovery that the
world is given to lying, viii do what Jack
Fslstaff has done before him.
Many an Old sinner wiircsolys 70 turn over
q new leaf this year, but the new leaf Will
turn out blank Many q ford fool viii unp
into a honey pot. aud find 1t mustard, with
out being able tn say withs.hc fly, "I'm OFF,
Many thing. will be wondered at this year,
and tern out not to bs miracles Many
greatma Will tell fine story'to winch MIR.
fBurchell would have said 'sFudgel'
Finally. we are of opinion that this will be
wonderful year--iust like all that have gone
before it--Politicians viii make fool. of them
selves. pett,foggers will make fools Of Others,
and women with pretty faces viii make fools
of both themselves and Others. The world
will go round and come hack to the place
from which it set ont, and this VIII be the
course of many man who should be up and
doing. There will be q grestc,y and little
wool, as at shearine of pigs, or a session of
Congress. ---
WEST INDIA LADIES
When the young ladies in the West Indies
fancy themselves teo much tanned by the
scorching rays Of the sun, they gently scrape
off the tbIn outside OF the stone belonging to
the cashiew.. tree, and then rub their faces oil
over with 1t. Their faces immediately swell
and grow black; and the skin, being poisoned
by the csustic oil ofthe nat, viii, in the space
Iof five or six days, come. entirely off in large
9lakss,s so thattheycannot appear in public in
/ less than a fortnight by which time the new
skin looks as fair as that Of anew child
The hum bic current of little lkindnesses
which, though but a creeping streamlet, in
icessantly flows. although II gaides in silent
secrecy within the domestic walls. and along
tire walks of private life, anu makes neither
appearance nor noise in The world; pours, in
the end, a more copions tribute into the store
of human comfort aud felicity, ,han any sud
den and trsnscient food Of detached bounty,
however ample, that may resh into it with a
mighty sound.
There Is world where no storm intrusis.
a haYon of safety against the tempests of life.
A Iittse world of JOY and love, Of innocence
ana Tranquility. Suspicisns are not there,
nor JeaiousIes, nor Fs!sehood with her doa-
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