The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1850-02-16
Scraps for Everybody.
'from grave to gay-trom lively to severe

my your own.
:, UJ~He is richest who is contented :.
content Is the riches of nature.
i Nothing IS more noble than fidelity
l-ialthfulness and truth are the best en-
dowments OF the mind.
! Stay but until tomorrow, and vour
present sorrow will be weary, and will lie
down to rest. Jeremy Taylor.
u5An freshman who lived in an attic
beng asked what part of the house he
occupied answered: 'If the house were
turned top y-turVy, I'd be liyin' on the
| u What's the matter, Bill 10
"Niammy has fell up stairs and stuck a
Knot hole in her hand, and John won't 90
for a boot jack to pull it out. Where's the
potccary's
| G~FThe Detroit Free Press states that,
few Sabbaths since, IA family in that CITY
went to church, leaving child in charge
OF small boy. The boy wanted to 20
out to play, put the child on the table, and
naI!ed Its clothes to the dinner board. In
Italy they hang them up against the wall.
05@Dean Swift says, that we ought in
humanity no more to despise man for his
mslortuncs OF the mind than those of the
body, when they are such as they cannot
help. Were this thoroughly considered,
we should no more laugh at one for having
his brains cracked than for having his
head broken.
C@Teach your child to be diligent.
The habit of being always employed is a
great safeguard through life, as well as
essential to the culture OF almost every
virtue Nothing csn be more foolish than
the idea which parents have that it is not
respectable to set their children to work.
Play Is good thing, innocent recreation
Is an employment, and child NAV learn
to be diligent in that as other things.
But let them learn early to be useful.
"SoAETlINc NEw.o -Under this head
Connecticut genius, advertlses patent
"BCd-clasp, for the purpose of preventing
children or adults while in bed from un-
intentionally nncovering Themselves
AS a DISTINGUISHED stateman observed
touching different sort Of "annexation:,
we shall be clad to see r.n .Kickino
tn" k'v"r off, avs the Boston Post, has
long been crying evil in the best regu-
! lated families, and has had much to do
with those domestic disquitndcs which
nave la'trrly been so prolific Of divorces.
ia writer beautifully remarks that a
man S mother is the representative of his
Maker. Misfortune, and even crime. SET
up no barriers between her and her son,
While his mother lives, he will have one
'ri'nd on the earth who will not listen
when ne is sland"ret, who will not desert
HIM when he suffers, who will sooth him
IN his sorrows, and speak to him of hope
when ne is ready to despair. Her alcc-
ton knows no ebbing tide. It flows en-
from pure fountain, and speaks happ,-
ness through the vale of tears, and ceases
only al the ocean of eternity.
R5-Bcn Jonson, going through church
in Surrey, and seeing poor people Weep
ing over grave, asked one OF the women
why they wept9
"Ch - said she, we have lost our pre-
clo1s lawyer, Justice Randall he kept us
all in peace, and always was so good as to
keep us from going to law; the best man
that ever lived"
"Well," said Ben Jonson, al will serd
you an cpltaPh to write upon his tomb"
which was -
"God works wonders now and then;
Here lies a lawyer, an honest man."
4 T5~Flowers are indeed but emblems of
OF his countless blessings swho openeth
HIS hand and fllcth all things living with
righteousness" Flowers are, in the lam
guase of the poets, "Nature's jewels;'' in
elements to poetry and to fine sentiment.
They are emblems of the lovely, the inno-
cent, and the most dear, gentle and deli
cious memories do they breathe of the alb
sent and the dead, whilst they enhance
the beauty, gayety, and rapture of the
living. On, man, cultivate a taste and
love for flowers--thosc ovcrlowings of
His bounty who created the first Eden.
and IRON whom we expect 10 receive the
second.
| D~Love Geography --"Bob, where is
the state of ma.rimony 2"
at is one Of the United States. 1t is
bounded by hugging and kissing on one
side, and cradles and babies on the other.
Its chief products are population, broom
sticks, and staying out o nights 1t was
discovered by Adam and Eve, while try
5 ing to find northwest passage ont of
Paradise. The climate is rather suItrv,
till you pass the tropics of housekeeping,
: when squally weather commonly sets in
with sufficient power to keep all hands as
cool as c'cumbers.-For the principal
roads leading to this interesting state, cln-