The Nevada journal., 1852-12-03
NEVADA JOURNAL.
wit and Sentiment.

Young men soon give and forgive
affronts. Old age is slow to both.
A certain degree of self-respect is
one of the best securities against NOR
al degradation.
Make other mems shipwrecks the
marks to steer by.
Good company and good converse
tion are the very sinews OF virtue.
Wealth gained by loss of character,
self-respect and virtue, is dearly pur-
chased.
The world cannot make up the loss
Of happy conscience.
In the morning ask thyself what
thou hast to do; in the evening ask
thyself what thou hast done.
The intoxication of anger, like that
of the grape, shows us to others, but
hides us from ourselves.
He that is quick to brawl is slow
to his own happiness.
You may depend on it, that he is
good man whose intimate friends are
all good, and whose enemies are Of
character decidedly bad.
Mister, / say, l don't suppose
you don't know of nobody, what don't
want to hire nobody to do nothin' for
somebody no how-you don't,d you!"
Yes, I guess not"
The N. Y Dmchman AYERS that
the mosquitoes in California are SO
large, and they have such suckers,
that they look at distance like young
elephants. To guard against their
attacks, the same paper slanderously
says, people have to wear copper bot
toned trowsers, ard sheet iron under
clothes.
A western editor, in speaking of
military excursion that has just come
off down his way, says the Captain
took his wife, and the Lieutenant his
"baggage." Isn't that personal, as
Skilligen said when fellow wrung
his nose?
A boy in this city licked in eighteen
minutes, two deputy sherif1s, four con-
stables, and hogshead of molasses
Next week he is to have a set>to with
threshing machine. We shall a
wait the result with some anxiety, as
the fellow said when a three story
house was falling ON him.
Tickling, says Voltaire, is the her.
maphrodite of feeling-neither pain
nor pleasure.
Never waste arguments on people
who don't know logic from logwood,
which is the case with half of those
who love disputation.
A loquacious tailor having asked a
Quaker in what fashion he would be
measured-"In silence" was the re-
ply.
"John, did you ever bet on horse
race ?"
"No; but I've seen my sister BET
on an old mare"
The mind may be overburdened /;
like the body, it is strengthened more
by the warmth of exercise than clothes
The following advertisement ap-
peared in one of our city papers:
Wanted "a person to mind horse in
the country.
Sims says that if it wasn't for the
hole in The hoop, you couldn't put it
on the barrel.
A true friend is not born every day;
it is better to be courteous to all in
innate with few; for though perhaps
we may have less cause for Joy, l am
sure we shall have less occasion for
sorrow.
There are two requisites in the
choice of friend he must be both
sensible and honorable man for fools
and vicious men are incapable of
friendship.
Never lay stumbling block in the
way of a man who is trying to advance
himself in the world honestly and up
rightly; for he is likely to walk over
and laugh at you afterwards.
1T" said traveller, SIS one of
the finest fellows / know. He exhib
its real hospitality. He not only has
plate ever ready for his friends, but
he sends horse to your door when
ever you wish to ride" "That, in