Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1856-04-02

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g. map OF busy life, ita fluctuations, anA
1ts vast eoncerns.''-CowrER.
SOUND DULs.--A drummer's salary.
....A cultivated mind and good heart
will give an intellectual, and even beauti-
ful, expression to tho face.
Mathematics is the great Rosetta
stone which interprets for US the geometric
hieroplyphs Of earth and sky.
....A gentleman announcing his will
lingness to take wife, declares that A.
he is himself in clover, he has no objec-
ion to take a lady in weeds.
There are two things which ought
to teach US to think but meanly Of human
glory: the very best have had their Ca
lumniators the very worst their panegyrists.
....LrTEAruRE.-Critics are not tho
legislators, but the judges and police Of
literature. They do not make laws they
interpret and try to enforce them.
....Our language is made up of sixty
parts Of Anglo-Saxon to thirty Of Latin,
in an assumed hundred parts, leaving to
the Greek and all other languages but ten
parts. -.....-. .--t .. ...,.-
-. An ugly bachelor says that every
thing should be in character. For in
stance, search-warrants should be printed
on tracing paper" and wedding notices
on '.fooPs cap" Of course that bachelor
is very ugly indeed. ~ -~.el.sss
.... The best thing to give your enemy
is forgiveness; to your opponent, tolerance;
to a friend, your heart to your child,
good example to a farther, deference
to your mother, conduct that will make her
proud Of you; 10 yourself respect; to all
men, charity, NJ ..leaa fisa -
Between low cunning and astute
scrupulosity, as between the latter and
sterling wisdom, the difference is immense.
The former not unfrequently gains its OBJ
ject by reprehensible means, but quite -
often perils the possession Of It by tho
sheerest folly and recklessness. i4
| ....A Punch cut represents iishmon-
gers boy, with large cod on tray un-
der his arm, in q newspaper office, ad-
dressing the Publisher. Fishmongcr,s boy
-s Master says you may repeat his i'd
yertisement, il you'll take it out in oysters.
~ you did before" Psussher-"Very
well" ag fssx
! -. There can be no friendship
where there is no freedom. Friendship
loves 4 free air, and will not be penned in
straight and narrow enclosures. 1t will
speak freely, and net, 90, too and take
no i'll where NO i'll is meant nay; where
il 10, il will easily forgive, and forget, too,
upon small Acknowledgements. tz-
A DISTRESSED AeR1cuLruRIsT.-Land
lord. Well, Mr.. Springwheat, accor-
ding to tho papers, there seems to be
probability of cessation Of hostilities."-
Tenant (who strongly approves Of war
prices, -" Goodness gracious Why
you don't mean to say that there's any
danger Of peace!"
i .PRoFITs OF A CROSSING -swEEPER.
l-s Talk o'making three hundred pounds
a-year by . crossin' nowadays, why IT'S
limpossible !! Wot, with tho shoe-blacks
for the gents, and the ladies holdip' Up
their gownds so a. they can't git their ANS
in their pockets-why, it amt hardly
bread and cheese ~ p >s'e ss 9sss
/ Il siis es5zf
A D1eresce Of Opinion. Two preach
ers were recently in the same pulpit in
Georgia. While one was preaching. he
happened to say when Abraham builtthe
lari.' Tho one behind sirove to correct
his blunder by saying out aloud, Abraham
want thar. :, But the speaker pushed o.
heedlessly Of the interruption and, only
took occasion shortly to repeat, still moro,
decidedly, 4 say when Abraham built tho
iark,' ard say cried out tho other,
sAbraham warni thar The preacher was
too hard to beat down in this way, and ad-
dressing the people exclaimed, with great
Indignation, 4 say Abraham was thar, or
thar abonts.' ~ a
Or A good anecdote is told Of ono Of
ltho Chippewa Indians now in the north.
I He was asked why Indians did not copy
Tho dress Of our people. i He replied:
.ble thinks we started your fashions, your
men now wear blankets. - We do, and
your women paint their faces and wear
feathers"
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