Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-05-15

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Of society.
Most men are afraid Of bad name
but few fear their conscience.
There arc many blanks in the lot
terry of the world.
"A newspaper is the life-preserrer
that rescues those who would otherwise
sink into-oblivion.
He whom God hath gifted with g
love of retirement, possesses, as 1t were
sn extra sense Bulwer.
The sensations of JOY felt on ap-
preaching the home Of beloved one,are
like the twilight of morning, before the
sun has become visible.
TO divert at any time troublesome
fancy, run to thy books they promptly
fix thee TO them, and drive the other out
of thy thoughts. They always receive
thee with the same kindness Fuller.
Whenever man undergoes con-
siderable change, in consequence of be-
ing observed by others, whenever he as
sumes another gait, another language,
than what he had before he thought him.
self observed, be advised TO guard your
self against him.
al resolve" says Bishop Beveridge,
"never to speak of a mans virtue before
his face, nor of his faults behind
his back" A golden rule, the observa-
ton of which would, at one stroke, BAN
ish flattery and defamation from the
earth.
Man, when secluded from society,
is not more solitary being than the wo-
man who leaves the duties of her own
sex to invade the privileges of others.
She seems, in such circumstances, like
one in Punishment she appears like
neutral being between the sexes: and
though she may have the admiration of
both, she finds true happiness from nei
ther.- DIR. Goldsmith.
1t should be a point in the every day
affairs of life as we'll as in iurispru-
dence, to presume every man innocent
and to be honest, unless proved other
wise.
Always put the most charitable con-
struction on the acts of thy friend and
neighbor that the circumstances of the
case will admit of, and thou shalt be sa-
we'd the horrors of many an hour of sus-
picion or jealousy.
1T was a remark of Cuvier, that
"mankinG is composed of the hammers
and the anvils, and that it is much better
TO be a hammer than an anvil"
--Wretched is the man who has 20
employment but to watch his own diges-
lion. To such a one respiration is toll,
existence continual disease.
The New York Central Railroad
Co. has prohibited the selling of spirit
uous liquors at the refreshment saloons
along the route of that road.
House rent is said to be higher in
Chicago than in New York.
Birds are the poor mans music, and
flowers the poor mans poetry.
We are never so proud and so hum
BILE, as when we are praised.
The Venetian remedy for hydro
phobia is vinegar. 1t is said that pint
taken morning, noon and night, will cure
it entirely.
a lawyer is needed at Sparta, the Coun-
ty seat of Monroe Co. This is the first
time we ever heard of an opening for
oneof that enterprising class of community
that was not filled before there was time
70 make the fact known Madison
State Jour.
Great place for fun is Mexico
The girls and boys do nothing but play
till they are twenty-one. They then
marry and spend the rest of their days
visiting country cousins, smoking and
eating soup and going to mass. For a
free and easy stile of folks, you may
put the Mixicans in the front seat.
There are few men that do not love
One takes to pretty calico, another to
bad gin, another to long mines, fourth
to dogs and horses, and so on. A mar
must have something on which TO plant
his affections, or collapse right down.
--Whenin America the proportion O,
persons who go to schools of some kline
is one in five, in Russia it is one in tw,
hundred and twenty!
That young man to whom The world
COWS living" has been turned out o
docrs-his landlady not being willing Il
take the Indebtedness Of the whole worlt
on her shoulders.
Jonah thinks that it is rather ironi.
cal to build prison with free-stone.
mir. Times, how do You keep YOU,
books ?'.'
ooh, by double entry"
Double entry-how's that 20
"Oh, easy enough. make one entry
and father makes another"
--''What monsters these cotton fac.
tors must be-" said Mrs. Darlington
I'm told sold some Of en- has NOR,