The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1855-01-10
VARIETY

in quack medicines, but think it always brs
when sick to apply to a regular physician
there are, however, some simple remedies
for certain disorders, we can recommend n
infalible:
For rsea-siekHess-staya ut home.
or drunkeness-drink cold water.
For accident-kcep out of danger.
For fear of sheriff 's-pay your debts.
To be hnppy-be honest.
To please all-mind your own business
To make mOney-advertise.
To have good conscience-keep the
commandments.
To do right--takc the Ledger.
To prevent acknowledgement nothing
but the truth.
To sleep wel--be Industrious.
To have your memory blesscd-poy III,
Printer.
lille that listens after what people says
of him shall never have any peace.
Robert Chambers remarks that per-
son accustomed to visit among the middle
classes in Great Britain, is astonshcd at the
profusion at table in all quarters of Amcri,
ca.
"There is," he says, "no stinting rs to food
ltwas often pressed to my notice in the U.
nted States, that the hired laborcrs in the
field are provided with better fair than falls
to the lot of thousands of the gentee elias.
ses of England"
IAN Agent soliciting subscribers for
a book, showed the prospectus to man
who, after reading 'one dollar in boards and
one dollar and twenty-five cents in sheep,
declined subscribing, rs he might rot have
boards or sheep on hand when he called for
payment
1.-THE young ladies say that the times
are so hard that the young men can't man.
age to pay their addresses.
49,. AS John Randolph was walking one
day, he met man, who walked straight on,
remarking "that he did not turn out for a
rascal"
81 do," quickly rejoined Randolph, imme-
diately stepping aside, and letting the ruff.
fan pass.
-. Men of the noblest disposition think
themselves happiest when others share their
happiness with him.
With an apostrophe after it, o signifies
son, in Irish, as ONcnl, the son Of Neal
like the prefix Mac.
IA coxcomb, talking of the transmit
grafton of souls, said
'ln the time of Moses, have no doubt
was the golden calf"
"Very likely" replied lady, "time hss
robbed you Of nothing but the gliding"
....How to get good wife-Take n
good girl and go to the parson.
....SHoRr SERMoN.-Many persons have
become great through having first become
little. You seldom see man jump to any
!. height without STOPPING when he takes the
spring.
The following adv rtisemcnt appear
ed in nm Irish paper
"Whereas John Hall has fraudnlently ta-
ken away several articles Of wearing apparel
without my knowledge, this is therefore TO
inform him that II he does not return t,e
sane, MS name will be made public"
....To prevent the second glass from
intoxicating person--Never take the first.
...A specuIator who buys largely of
the producers, remarked to us, that the first
thing he looked for when he went into n
mans house to purchase, was a newspaper.
he saw none, he was sure of good bar.
gain. -
....Not to honor old age, is like tearing
down in the morning, the house in which
We wish to take refuge for the night.
..,.A piece of most excellent left.hand-
el adyice.--'mur 70 eraweB.'
-. They have come to soling shoes
with cedar shinglcs--yenecrng the wood
with a piece of shcepskin.
For purifying the heart, there is no.
thing like tears. A man is never nearer
heaven than the day he buries his only little
boy
,...An old pcnsioner got tipsy and noisy,
when apeAson jocularly disposed asked him
what he did for a living. He replied that
he sucked a bottle part Of the time, and the
United States treasury the rest.
....it is with narrow souled people as
with narrow-necked bottIes--the less they
have In them, the more noise they make in,
pouring it out