The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1850-02-09
Scraps for Everybody.
From grave to gay-from lively to.severe.,

Is ike eating bird Tor ITS singing.
~ALL is hollow whe,e the heart
bear not part, and all is peril where
principle is not the guide.
UPR,pE emaaates from weak
mind: YOU never see d man OF strong in
tellect proud and naughty.
Earth is in Wisconsin so kind, that
just tickle her with hoe, and she laughs
with a1harvest.
WAn eagle finding snail IN its eyri lie
asked the insect how he raised him.elt so
high. BY creeping, was the reply.
Iy-1s there any situation worse than
that of a lawyers clerk! Yes, that OF a
lawyers client.
G-The ancients were of opinion that
echo was a maiden who had pinned away
for love, till nothing but her voice was
| left.
G~THE most useful sign painters in
I the world are publishers OF newspaper S.
advertise your business in the papers, if
you would draw custom.
ry-A Lawyer, SAID Lord Brougham, in
a iacetious mood, ''ls learned gentleman
who rescues your estate from your enc
mics, and keeps it himself"
Education is better safeguard OF
| liberty than a standing army. If we re-
trench the wages of the schoolmaster, We
must raise those OF the recruiting sergeant.
jG@Our lives are for purposes Of rel-
gon, labor, love, charity and salvation
If these are DESTROYED, what i, not lost
if these are preserved, what is not pre-
served!
"Young man, I am rich. = made my
money by following the advice which my
master gave me, and which ! now give to
you. "Keep thy own affairs to tbyscli and
learn as much about other peoples bust
ness as you can"
NTho,e who can most easily dispense
with society are the most calculated 70
adorn II they only are dependent on it
who possess no mental resources; for
though they bring nothing 10 the general
matt, like beggar, they are too poor 10
stay at homs.
VA contemporary says When we
see neat, pretty girl, with free but in
nocent air with cheeks lik. roses and
heavenly blue eyes, which seem to repose
in serenity beneath their silken l.shes.
we always wish she was near mud-pud-
! i IL h. rs har
ny~Wcre we to ask a hundred men,
who from small beginnings have attained
condition Of responsibility and aihuence, to
what they imputed their success in life,
the general answer would be at was from
being early compelled TO think for and de-
pend on ourselves" chambers.
WThe strongest case OF love and de-
votion Of which we remember to have
heard says an exchange, is that Of KEN
lucky gallant, who got into hollow tree
where he lived whole week pcepins
through knct hole at his tru. love as she
sat sewing bear skin pettlcoats at her WIN
dow.
rBeautiful Is faithful heart, full of
faith in some other heart. More beautiful
Is the soul whose faith, although new
er even so much as grain Of mustard
seed, comtortingly teaches her how small
portion Of it il, by Infinite Goodness,
permitted to be sufficient to save her IRON
eternal death.
! N-Poverty is, except where there is
an actual want Of food and raimant, a
thing much more imaginary than real.
The shame Of poveriy,--the shame OF be-
ing thought poor-it is great and fatal
weakness, though arising in this county
from the fashion of the times Themselves.
.Cobbett.
UDr. Claiming says-"lhe greatest
man is he Who chooses the right with in
vincible resolution, who resists the sore
temptations from within and without, who
bears the heaviest burdens chterfully, who
is calmest in storms, and most fearless un-
der menace and flowns, whose reliance
on truth, on virtue, on Cod is most unf.l-
telinp.'
D-H.nrv Clay said, ain all the ;.fairs
OF human lite, social as we'll Is political,
he had remarked that courtc,ies OF small
and trivial character, are the one, which
strike deepest TO the grateful and appfr,i-
ating heart. 1t is the picayune compli-
ments which are appreciated far more
than the double-eagle ones which we some-
times yield
VA gentleman tells us good story Of
one Of his domestics. Having employed a
new female servant, he sat down in the
parlor, the evening after, to ga civil game
OF whist with his wife and couple Of
neighbors. The next morning my ladv,'
= 'the help observed that ':the card playing
must be put a stop to, or she should be