The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1850-05-11
Scraps for Everybody.
From sraveto gay-from lively to severe.

UWe should treat fu'ur,tv as an
aged friend, from whom we expect rich
legacy.
| G-Cheerfulness-the best hymn 10
the Divinity. He to whom God Is pleas
ant, is pleasant to God.
| DHe that enlarges his curiostyia lter
the works OF nature, demonstrably multi
plies the inIets to happiness.
Whether you work or play, do it
in earnest, but never be unemployed an
instant.
DFavorites-persons undervalued
by the many because they are overall
ed by one.
Horace Greedy says, this is free
country and man lsht obliged to use
common sense unless he has it.
ryOne kind act does more towards
soiten:ng mans stubborn nature than all
sour looks and harsh language ever used.
TThe doctor who operates Tor cata-
racts, il going up TO Buffalo to see if he
can't do something for Niagara.
ia person who und ertakes to raise
himself by scandalizing others, might as
we'll sit down on whe-lbarrow and I'm
dertake TO wheel himself.
Misery has many bitter moments;
but believe, the first awakening after
any great sorrow, is one OF the most utter
agony.
~The last case OF modesty is that of
lady who discarded her lover, sea
captain, because he said he had "hugged
the shore.''
UThe editrrss of the Lancaster Lit
erary Gazette, has some queer IDEAS
she says she 'woud as soon snestle h,r
nose in rats nest Of swinggle tow as
allow man with whiskers to kiss her.
ga gentleman who has occasion TO
walk with two ladies', with one umbrella,
should always 60 in the middle-that Sc
cures dry coat to himself, and is show
Ing no Partially to either of the LADIES'.
OIL sprin. come but once in CEN
tnry instead Of once year; or burst forth
with the sound Of an earthquake, and not
in silence, what wondtr and expectation
would there be in hearts to behold the
miraculous change?
~Beware o. people Of much ceremo-
ny. The mere man fawns upon you,
the more you should fear HIM. FIattereis
are like Anaconda. they only lick their
victims that they may swallow them the
easier.
gtDemosthenes, the OR can Philoso-
pher, says "the man who yields to every
passing cloud of adversely, is unfit to re-
sist the storm Of ruin" Remember this,
young man. and in the hour of tempta-
ton. be firm, and yield not.
Mr.. John B Cough recently made this
torcibIe declaration, that every moderate
drinker could abandon the Intoxicating
cup, If he would-every inebriate would:
il he could.'
In all waters there are fish that love to
swim against the stream; and in every
community persons are to be found who
delight in being opposed to everybody
else.
An old bachelor editor says:-"When
you are asked to hold the baby, trot it
hard, pinch it, and make faces at it
when the mother is not looking. You
will soon be relieved OF this precious
charge"
N-Mrs. Par'ington on hearing that
in California gold was found in quartz,
wanted TO know if any had ever been
been discover ID in gallons. She thought
when they came to finding it by the
hogshcad, she would 60 out there her
self.
"a man in Toronto, Canada, has
been declared insane because he scatter
ed severe gns about and spen. them fool
ishIy. The people of Europe in lS4S
must have also been insane, for they
scattered their sovereigns abou,'' the
country, and "made them 'rapidIy.
~That is pretty thought Of one Of
our poets:
"Woman is the heart OF the family,
If mar is the head"
| When the heart is tight the head sell
dom goes astray.
U-"Mrs. H do you like milk in your
tean'
"No, ] thank you: the superhuity Of
the milk. added TO the havority OF heat
render, the coglomera,ion unexpectedly
obnoxious to my diabolical appetite"
"Du tell'
rWhat is thought' A fountain
from which flows all good and evil inter
lions, mental fluid electrical in the
; force and rapdty OF its movements, and
silently flowing unseen within rs own
5 secret avenues; yet it is fhe controlling
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