The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-12-21
There is something true, flnciful and
sweet in the following epigram on Slumber
from the Italian:
''Swest is slumber-i. IS life
"itoutits sorrow. sin or sighing-
Dsaih without The fearful strife,
The mortal agony Of dying"

"swest is slumber--i. IS life
"iitoatits sorrow. sin sshing-
Dsath without the fearful strife,
The mortal agony Of dying"
A man will be what his most cherished
feelings are. If he encourage noble gen
crosby, every feeling will be enriched by
it; if he nurse bitter and evenomed thoughts
his own spirit will absorb the poison; and
he will crawl among men as FURNISHED
adder, whose life is mischief and whose
errand is death.
A country Schoolmaster happening to
be reading of the curious skin Of an ele-
phant,-"Did you ever see an elephants
skim" he asked. 81 haye." shouted lit
tie "six-year old" at the foot of the class.
"Where?" he asked quito amused at the
boys earnestness "On The elephant"
said he, with most provoking grin.
Hoosier is said to be an abreviation of
who's here,' question which used to be
shouted by travellers in Indiana when a.
mid the grass of the prairies he heard voic-
es or saw the smoke of cabin but could
see nobody.
Man is but a little thing in the midst of
objects of nature, yet by the moral quail
ty radiating from his countenance he may
abolish allconsiderations of magnitude, and
in his manners equal to the majesty of
the worid.-EmerSon.
The briefest charge to jury in an ac-
ton trial, was given by one of the courts.
1t was as follows: Gentlemen, if you be-
lieve all the testimony in the case, your
verdict should be for the plaintiff"
Withlove, the heart becomes fair and
fertile garden, glowing with sunshine and
warm hues, and exhaling sweet odors;but
without it, it is black desert covered with
ashes.
If you are disquieted at anything, you
should consider with yourself, is the
thing of that worth, that for it l should so
disturb myself and lose my peace and
tranquility.
1t is law which God himself has made
that the arrow which is shot from the per-
secutor's bow, shall rebound and pierce
the prosecutors heart.
Atruth which one has never heard caus-
es the soul surprise at first which touches.
it keenly; but when it is accustomed to it
becomes insensible thereto.
Some slanderers assert that paper ma
kers are the greatest magiciahs of the age,
inasmucb as they transfer beggars' rags
into sheets for political editors to leon.
Boosting seldom or never accompanies
sense of real power. When men feel that
they can express themselves by deeds tLey
do not often care to Go SO by words.
Be always frank and true; sputn every
sort ofaffectation and disguise. Have the
courage to confess yourignorance and awk
wardncss, Confde your faults tobut few.
Something must be left as test of the
loyalty of the heait-in Paradise Tree:
in Israel, a Canaanite; in US, Temptation.
Cecil.
Why is man with a bad memory
covetous? Because he is continually for
getting.
A HIT AT LONG DRESSES. Long words,
like long dresses, frequently hide some
thing wrong about the understanding.
The man who "lives on Sther peoples
failings, appears to be rapidly going into
a decline.
Always watch the individual that is ex-
ceedingly polite to you without some appa-
rent cause.
DR.. Franklin used to say that rich wid4
ows were the only piece of second hand
goods that sold atprime cost.
EwBe calm and steady; nothing will
grow under moving harrow.
The man who was within hailing dis
tance got out last evening.