The Nevada journal., 1854-10-27
III S0rtS Of Paragraphs,

Pleading at the bar is trying to persuade the
barkeeper to trust you for nipper.
Those who wrong others generally slander
them to cover their own infamy.
Debt subjects man to more SANDER than
crime.
Contention docs not convince or benefit ci-
ther party.
Riches generally paralyze noble and goncr-
Gus eXcrtions.
Cold neglect Of friends, when poor, is more
severe than poverty Itself.
The man who pledged his word and honor,
has lost the ticket.
A country paper latelv got up an account Of
fire. headed, obstructive fre-cleven build
ings, ten horses and ono cow in ruinsr'
The higher man advances in the arts. scien-
ccs and true christianity, the nearer he ao-
proaches the subimity Of God
Mrs. Hollyhock was presented with q plate
the other day. There were beef and potatoes
Oh 1t. No speeches were made.
"Why does father call mother .honev?" ask
ed boy OF his eldest brother Cant think.
except its because she has a large comb in her
heard"
Three things only are well done in haste
iiceng from the plague, escaping qaarrcls and
catching Geas.
| Love is like cold bath It is never mega
tive, 1t seldom leaves us where it finds u.s. if
ever we plunge into it, it will either heighten
our virtues or inAamo our vices.
A divine once, praying, said 40 Lord, give
unto us neither poverty nor rches"- and pans
ing soemnly moment he added, ESPECIALLY
| poverty =
A clergyman, when the contribution box re-
turned with little silver in it., said he never be
fore understood the text, Alexander, the cop
nersmith, did me much evil"
"Shall [ help you to olght? ?" said young
gentleman to bouncing country girl, who was
about alighting from carriage. "Thank you
sir, don't smoke" she said swoetly.
| A college student being examined in Locke.
where he speaks of our relations with the Del
ty, was asked, "What relations do we most
neglect?' He answered with much simplicity,
''Poor relations, sir"
Because a man makes a mistake, it doesn't
follow that he's a fool The best Of men and
women have their weaknesses. Mrs. Brown
Inever has enough to eat on her table, and MI
Vcrbcna is always kissing the girls.
There is good story of an eccentric lady Of
unfortunately acquisitive habits, to the effect
that she was on one occasion so affected by
charity sermon as to borrow a sovereign of her
}ncighbor and put it in-her own pocket.
It is said that when the Turkish officer Amin
| Bey attended fashionable party at Washing
| ton, where the ladies were dressed very low in
the neck, he remarked, that in going into our
society he expected to sec as many American
ladies, but not as G3ucA F'
A very modest lady sent her very modest
daughter-a pretty yound damsel-out one
morning for some articles. Among the many,
she informed the clerk that her mother wanted
to get three yards Of cloth for primitive trian-
gular appendages for the baby
Mrs. Smith has company for dinner and
there are not strawberries enough. She looks
at Mr.. Smith with sweet smile and offers to
| help him, at the same time touching him gent
| y with her slipper under the table. He al
ways replies: mo, thank you, dear-thcy
don't agree with me-"
The people Of Indiana are called Hoosiers.
and it is said to be an abbreviation Of ''Whos
here? ?" e question which used to be shouted by
the traveller in that quarter when, amid the
tall grass Of the prairies, he heard voices or
saw the smoke of log cabin, but could see
nobody.
DR.. Ribra, the author of q new book Of trav-
els, says: sit is not till you get on board that
you see the captain of ship in all his unloye-
illness. Between q captain at sea and a cap
tain on shore before starting, there is the same
difference as between q bride and wife"
An aneclote is told of an old lady who en-
tertasncd travellers. Before her guests COM
v,oDoa1 y1,0o1 r. 1er rs -
sing. She always delivered herselfin this wise
80, Lord make US truly thankful for the food
before us--Nancy, hand round the corn bread
| first, and then the biscuits afterwards Amcn,''
Il ~ as'oa;shing how ''toddy" promotes in
Idependeoaa A philosophical old brick, who
was IyiAg u lew days since in q very spirited
tcondition, was advised in friendly way to
economise, as flour was getting up" let it
go up" said old Bot-lc-nose, Il kin git as high
as -four kin, any day.
! Bonevolencc and feeling ennobe the most tri-
| fling actions. Some ridicue these feminine
attributes, which are left ont Of many mems
natures but we have known the brave, the in
teIlectual the eloquent, to possess these quail
ties the braggart, the weak, never,
Just before going 10 bed, cat two pigs feet
and cold apple pie. In less than an hour YOU
will see snakes larger than haWGer devOurinp
eight blue children, who have Just escaped
| from monster with sorrel eyes and red hot
oTercoat.
The mother Of Snooks and old Mrs. Stubbs
were talking about little babies why said
Mrs. Snooks, when was a baby they put me
in quart pot, and then put the lid on And
did you live? p was the astonished inquiry Of
Mrs. Stubs. They tell me did was thcas-
tonishing reply Well, did you ever p and
Mrs. Stubbs fell to knitting like one possessed
"Well, john" said a man to his son on the
day he reached twenty one years Of age, ''you
have got a fool for master now" "Tr1e."
said John, "and have had for the last twenty