Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1855-08-07

OI COHsuilnb
THE game Of fashionable life is to
play hearts against diamonds.
o HOW good was nature, that placed
great rivers near great towns.
Why are green peas like Sebastopol
Because they must be shelled before
taken.
Why is loaf of bread like the sun
Because it is light when it raises. |.
ENDLESS compilations burden @sSSi:
braries without enriching US with III
thought.
A BEAUTIFUL face is the finest Of
spectacles, and the sweetest Of all har.
monies is the voice Of her we love.
LET us speak the truth there ore
some of US who fear more the discredit
of q wi(e's vices than our own.
A WOMAN with one lover thinks she is
not a coquettc ; she who has several
thinks she is only coquettc.
In women there is but one step be-
tween great pity and great love.
New wheat was ground into -four in
GAINESVILLE, on the 4th inst.
Iraman makes me keep my distance,
the comfort is, he keeps his at the same
time.
MopEsrY is moro becoming, and al.
ways esteemed more valuable than beau.
ty. Beauty perishes, but modesty never
decays.
USE not evasions when called upon
to do good actions nor excuses when
you are reproached for doing bad one.
COULD never dsepise any body fol
what they have not, and l am only pro
voked when they make not the right use
Of what they have.
IT is a good thing to laugh, at any
rate and if a straw can tickle man
it is an instrument Of happiness.
IT is impossible that an iIl.nature'
man can have public spirit for ho'
should he love ten thousand men, VIII
n never loved one.
g WHEN true genius appears in tn
n world you may know him by this sign
d that the ounces are all in conlederac
IT against him.
a q Trust him little who praises all
!" him less who censures all, and hlr
least who is in different about all.
!. He whose first emotion, on the vie
at of an excellent work. is to undervalr
g it, will never have one Of his own
te show.
" " The little, and the short sayings
10 wise and excellent men are OF gre
~ ~ value. like the dust Of gold, or the lea
v ~, sparks Of diamonds.
he Liking is not always the child
lat beauty but whatever is liked, TO the
en- ker is beautiful.
ur lNeulslT1vE people are the tunnels
conversation they do not take al
op thing for their own, use but merely
ie' pass it to another.
,ed The commonest mind is full
afr thoughts some worthy Of the rare
me and could it see them fairly, wit wo
in wonder at its wealth.
iPt DEATH is a day that puts all on
uc' level; for distinctions drop in des
ne. and rank and precedence enter not
the world Of spirits.
~. Nv GENIUS is the gold in the m inc (; tai
;es' is the miner who works and bring
oS' out.
not By the fall Of three story build
,f a in Iowa city, a printer was killed.
mot several others injured.
- The man who made a handle {
al. a" subj ect is getting up blade.
IAN. Locusrs are said to be very plen
OF in Hillsborough, Ohio, and also in B
tie don, Mississippi.
and Mas. PARrINGroN's Ike has bo
like horse that is SO spirituous that he
Gnu ways goes off in decanter.
. The PRAISE never gives US much ples
e,; unless it concurs with our own opir
and extol Us for those qualities in "
we chilly excel.
rts." DuRrNo the May anniversarie
, art New York. the following dialogue
and overheard between two boys-"I
un. Jim, what is the meaning Of so I
antly ministers being here all together
ife.- Why answered Jim scorntu'iy the
more ways met once year TO exchange
e." mons with each other.
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