Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1855-03-10
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Keep good COMPANY or none.
Never speak evil Of any one.
Earn money before you spend it.
Be Just before you aIe generous.
Never play al any game Of chance.
Drink no kind of intoxicating liquors.
Never borrow if you can possibly avoid
it.
Keep your own secrets, if you have
any.
Make no haste to be rich, you would
prosper.
Keep yourselfinnocent if you would be
happy
Never run in debt, unless you see a
way to get out again.
Avoid temptation, through fear You
may not wiihshnd it.
Save when you are young, to spend
when you are Old.
Good company and good conversation
are the very sinews of virtue.
Small and steady gains give compe-
,ency with tranquility of mind.
Your character cannot be essentially in
jured except by your own acts.
When you relI-e to bed, think over
what you have been doing during the day,
Ifany one speaks evil Of You, let yoar
life be so that none will believe him.
If YOU. hands cannot be usefUIly en-
ployed attend u The cultivation ot your
mind.
The evergreen is defined as 'the man
who does not grew wiser by experience.
Reckon nothing worthless before you
know its use and the virtues thereof.
Niue-l -lenlhs OF the enlisunen's in the
army, it is said, are caused by love and
whiskey.
There are 5,483 travelling preachers
in the several Methodist Conferences IN
the u. States.
# ruie uiihom an ercePtion.-There
never yet lived that young lady, who did
not like TO be told she was pretty.
Why is four cent sugar like man thai
never surrcnders? Because it's clear grit
and nothing else.
1t is reported that the Gar Is disposed
to treat We are glad to hear it. Won,
der what the allies will takc-5csides
Sebastopo!
"Genty the dews are DER me stealing,
as the man said when he had five due bills
presented to him at once.
Mary Russell Milford, the gifted au-
thorcss Of stories Of rural life, died IN Eng
land on the 10Th of January.
The first locomotive ever constructed
in Italy lefl the factory at Sampler d arena
(Piedmont,) on the Goth December last.
The Know Nothings of New HamP-
shire have nominated Ralph Me!calf, Of
Newport, as their candidate fox Governor
OF that State.
Mayor Wood is down npon fortune
tellers in New York. He has instructed
the police TO hunt them Out and report
them TO him.
The London Times says that the con
dition Of the British army at the Crimea
is truly GepIorabIe, and that disease and
death is rapidly reducing its numbers.
TO the Girls Mrs. Swisshelm says ::
The secret you dare not tell your mother
is a dangerous secret, one that will be
likely to bring You sorrow.
Young men should bear in mind that
coat-taiLs, cigars, profanity, tall shIFt-col-
lars and buster DO not make MEN.
Young woman, that feathers, :urs, dress
sOfa-lolhng, scandal making, wearing kids,
talking nonsense and street-yearnIng, DO
not make the true WOMAN.
They hat govern most make the least
noise. You sec when they row barge,
they that do the drudgery, work, slash,
and puff, and sweat; but he that governs
sits quietly at lhe stern, and scarce IS seen
to move.
THc nunIsf Of languages and Rcli-
gi0ns.-The number Of languages spo-
ken in the world, amounts 10 three thous-
and and sixtv-four. The inhabitants of
the globe profess more than one thousand
different religions.
"FuH J,CeHed. An old bachelor
says that the young ladies who rejoice in
a multiplicity of rings, chains, Iockets,
&c, to the unparalleled extent now fash
ionabe, should be labelled, like watches
in windows, warranted, full jewelied."
Cigars as. Common SchOols.-No-
body would suppose, on first thought,
that more money is annually expended
in the United States for cigars than for all
the common schools in the Union; and
yet it's found to be fact.
The question IS often asked, what Is
the proper age 10 be married! Adam took
Eve TO his bosom before he was year
old, and Old Phar married at the age OF
l2O, We concIude, therefore, that any
where between these two points WI!
answer.
.Names.-Enma is from the German,
and signifies a nurse; Caroline, noble