Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1855-02-21
VOL. 55.-NO. 10.
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Never play at any game Of chance.
Drink no kind Of intoxicating liquors.
Good character is above all things elsc
| Never borrow If You can possibly avoid IT,
kaD your own secrets, il you have any.
Make no haste to be rich, ii you would
prosper.
Keep yourself innocent If you would be
happy.
Never run in debt, unless you see way
to get out again.
! Avoid temptation, through fear you may
not withstand it.
Save when you arc young, to spend whom
you are old
| Good company and good conversation ara
the very sinews of virtue.
Small and steady gains give competency
with tranquility Of mind.
| Your character cannot be essentially IN
jared except by your own acts.
| When you retire TO bed, think over what
you have been doing during the day.
Ii any one speaks evil of you, let your lifs
be so that none will believe him.
Ifyour hands cannot be usefully employed
attend to the cultivation of your mind.
The evergreen is d sfned as the man who
does not grow wiser by experience"
Reckon nothing worthless before you know
its use aud the virtues thereof.
Nine-tenths of the enlistsments in the ar
my, it is said, are caused By lcyo aud whis-
key.
There are 5,4s3 travelling preachers in
the several Methodist Conferences in the U.
States.
! n rale ,rithom an exception. new
or yet lived that young lady, who did not
like to be told she was pretty.
Why is four cent sugar like man that
never surrendcrs1 Because it's clear grit,
and nothing else.
1t is reported that the Car is disposed
to treat" We ar, glad to hea- it. Won
der what the allies will take--besides Sebas-
topol
''Gently the dcws are DER me stealing"
as the man said when he had i've duo bills
presented to him at once.
Mary Russell Milford, the gifted author
ess Of stories of rural life, died in England
on the 10th of January.
The first locomotive ever constructed 10
Italy left TIE factory at Sampler d'Arena,
(Piodmont,) on the Goth December last.
The Know Nothiugs Of New Humpshirs
have nominated Ralph Metcalf, of Newport.
as their candidate for Governor of that State.
Mayor Wood is ''down' upon fortune tel
lers in New York He has instructed the
police to hunt them out aud report them to
him.
The London Times says that the condi-
ton of the British army at the Crinea is
truly dcplorable, and that disease and death
is rapidly reducing its numbers.
To the Girls-Mrs. swisshelm says
"The secret you dare not tell your mother .
dangerous secret, one that will be likely
to bring you sorrow.
Young men should bear in mind that coat.
tails, cigars, profanity. tail shirt-collars and
buster do not make MEN.
Young woman, that feathers, fars, dress,
sosa-loliilg, scandal making, wearing kids,
talking nonsense aud Safeguarding, do not
make the true WOMAN.
They that govern most make the least
noise. You see when they row barge, they
that do the drudgery work, slash, and puff,
and sweat but lie that governs sits qrietly
at The stem, and scarce is seen to move.
7heaumBer Of Languages and Religions.
The number Of languages spoken in tina
world, amounts to three thousand and six
ty-four. The inhabitants If the globe pro-
fess more than one thousand different rci-
gions.
.E'vn JcireHed - An old bachelor says
that the young ladies who rejoice in amul,i-
plieity Of rings, Chains. lockcts, &c, to tho
unparalleled extent now fashionable, sh, ul
be labelled, like watches in windows, sswar-
ranted, full jeweled
Cigars rs Common Schools Nobody
would suppose. on first thought, thar more
money is annually expended il the United
States for cigars than for all the common
schools in the Union; and yet is found to
\ be fact.
The question is oAen asked, what is the
proper age to be married ? Adam took Eve
/ to bis bosom before hc was year old, aad
Old Phar married at the age ofl20, we con-
clude, therefore that anywhere between these
Two points win answer.
Nemes Emma is from the German, ani
signifies nurse Caroline, noble-,n'aded
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