Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-07-07

SCeHGSs we IlESl iSdNe cntluIOOu DGtllllu Us, |
then youth, then the years Of ripened man
hood, then the better and more pleasing
part Of old agc.-Seneca.
lie that visits the sick in hopes Of q le-
gacy, let him be ever so friendly ID all
other cases, look upon him IN this, 10
be no better than raven that watches
weak sheep only to pick out his eyes.
Cruelty 10 Childrea.-" jim, does your
mother ever scoId your"
No-something worse than that"
Docs she whip you!"
"No, never whips me, bit she srosAes
my face ecery nsorningi"
4 Smart PupH.-'' Josiah, how many
scrupIes are there in drachml"
:" DON'T know, zur."
Well, then, recoIIect there are two"
90, the IS, hay! wal, daddy takes his
dram every mornin without no Scrupies2"
Qaarre2s.-Two things we'll considered,
would prevent many qcarrels: first, TO have
it we'll asccrtaincd whether we are not dis
putting about terms rather than things; and
secondly, TO examine whether that OF
| which we differ is worth contending about.
A noble heart, like Tie sun, showeth lis
greatest countcnancc in its lowest estate
Sideeg.
Sredriag.-Proit or pleasure there is
| none in swearing, nor anything in mems
natural tcmpcrs to incitc them in it. For
though somc-mcn pour out oaths as freely
as if they came naturally from them, yet
surely no man is born OF swearing con-
stitution.- IEIiotSon.
Returning Homc.-Testerdav morning
about one hundred passengers, nearly all
Irish and English, left for Liverpool in the
packet snip Monongahela--P Pennsylvania
an.
AnarticIc in the London Magazine shows
that the British troops in India. during
long marches and excessively hard service
have been infnenly more eflicien: under
an abstinence Of spirits than under its sti-
mUlus.
4 long S1eep.-"Come Jim, say, get
up, Come, you went 10 bed at eleven
O'Clock last night, and il is seven now; Sc
ven and eleven are eighteen hours-prctty
good sleeping. Come. up with you.
" You don't say SO, Sam! Why il must
be almost noon!
Many shaft at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant.
And many word at random spoken,
May soothe, or wound a heart that's broken.
Sir Walter Scott
The mayor Of an English city, put forth
an advertisement previous to the races
4" that no gentleman will be allowed to ride
on the course, except tie hoY9cS that are to
run"
a man of wit once said, rightly enough
" He who finds a good son-in-law gains
son--hc who finds bad one loses daugh-
ter"
The Picayune says, fellow in this city,
drank SO many golfers the other evening
that he woke up in the night and found
himself mendjng his o1rn shoes.
Lawyers find their fees in the faults of
our nature, as woodpccker' get the worms
out Of the rotten parts Of trees,
A Mr.. Day in an Eastern paper, adver-
tiscs the loss of his dog. We wish he
may get han. Every dog has his day
and every Day ought TO have his dog,
Joe, what's the best maxim now upon
the Journals 81 li.e?' Why, sir, it's keep
all you've got, and get all you cam
4 rise SaWng.--Et was a wise saying of
Cicero, and should be rcs cmbercd by Young
men Of the present day, that az length Of
life is denied us, we should at least do
something that would show that we kGd
lived.
Appointments become debts, owe you
pnnctualty If / have made an appoint
mcnt with you, and have no right to throw
away your time if | do my own.
Look on slandcrcrs as direct enemies to
TO civil soc.cty--as persons without honor,
honesty, or humanity. Whoever enter
tains you with The faults of others, designs
to serve you in a similar manner.
Pretty IHich.-A friend wiring to US
from New Orleans, says fhc weather
here is cxcrutiatingIy hot. and the musqui- |
toes arc about t~cnfy TO the cubic jnch."
Scene IN the Hoods" Heb! Jim, what
you creeping so softly after that squirrel
for, when you gun got no lock on'cm?-
. Hush! hush! squirrel don't know dat you
Niger"
We have met at 7cacfh,' as giant Por-
ter saidto giant Bihin. at was Mohtime.n
answered Bihn. How lonc shall we be
t"gether?" asked Porter. "Just sixteen
feet" answered Bihn.
More ofhc Tornado. 1t is stated that
the steamboat Kinds, which was wrecked
during the tornado at Natchez, has been
picked up at Baton Rouge, having fifty-one
dp7A bO1ies on b0a RI - cCrt1- ~ Sc II