The Oxford signal. (Oxford, Miss.) 1856-18??, 1856-10-09
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to the devil or get into Congress"
EA learned writer says that
books are masters who instruct Us
without rods or ferules. without words
or anger, without bread or money, IL
yau aBproac4 them, they are uot as"
ieep, il you seek them, they do not hide
| if you blunder they DO not scold, if you
are ignorant they do not laugh al you.
TA great crowd having gathered
about poor cobbler, who had Just
died in the street man asked another
what was to be seen?-"Only q cob
bler's end" was the reply
An editor out west has married
a gIrl of the name of Church. He
says he has enjoyed more happiness
since he joined the Church than he
ever knew in his life before.
TA little ragged child was heard
to call from the window Of a mean
looking house to her opposite neigh
boI-"Please, Mrs. Miller, mothers
compliments, and if it is fine day,
will you go begging with her to-
morrow?'
HA wise lady has said, "IGa wo.
man would have the world respect her
husband, she must sci the example"
~ He who forgets the fountain
ouI Ol which he drank, aud the trees
under whose shade he gamboled in the
days of his youth, is a stranger 10 the
sweetest impressions Ell human
heart.
UA negro hunting coon In a
tree, heard something drop Oh the
ground. "Oh golly! massa," he cried
4 looked up AN found ii was dis dar'
key"
HA little boy, while writhine
under the ague, was told 10 rise W
and take a powder which had beer
prepared for him. Powder! powder
said he, raising himself on, one elbow
end .Pe,ii'ss ." a Ar.siAN, "..'f.-..e',I = ~i'.'
} gun"
D = n
dy as a cabman knows iown: he i,
acquainted with all the great thoro
ughfAres and small lurnings-hs is in
innate with all the principal edihccs
. bul he connot tell what is going OF
inside any one of them.
! ~ Every man has just az mucl
vanity as he wants understanding.
TEThc best certificate OF a man
character is, "He keeps his promises.
, ~ Selfishness j. lis own curse :
| il is starving vice. The man VIII
{ does no good reaps none.
TSone one twiiled Randolp
r on Ills want of education, "The gen
: ileman himSell," replied Randolph
D "reuninds me of the Montegomer
: lands which are poor by nature, an
cultivation entirely ruins them"
!" Elt was sail OF a certain mus
y cal dancing master. that the whoI
= sIenor" OF his life had been "base."
!; ~ An officer being seen with
= brick in his hat, an old soldier Obser'
a ed ''lhat he suspected there was som
i. thing very wrong al head quarters"
= IVA physician advertised that /
. had removed near the churca-yaTd,
~ the request Of his friends, and iruste
: that his removal would accOmmoda
= = many of his patients.
K TMr. Smith told neighbor III
ID he had purchased sci of jewels
I'd his dear wife, which cost $2,0t
NJ "Guess she is rather "dear' wife,
piled The other.
'g TAn Irish boy having been !
cl' marked for his quickness Of reply,
<, gentleman, on looking al him, ObseI
od ed, "that when children are so keen
Gu their youth, they are generally stup
%, when they advance in years" SWt
OF very sensible boy you must ha
let been yourself, sir % said the youngest
lie This being enough for one dose,
VI gentleman slid.
nd GILBERT SruART-This celehra,
oh potrait.painler once meta lady in
AT street in boston who saluted b
,et with HA aee 4 so
ss "Ah, Mr.. Stuart. I have seen yc
miniature, and kissed it, because
was so much like yoh
el- G @And did ii kiss you in return j"
ter Ter "Why, no.' 49,.
ate "Then, madam replied Stuart
was no. atallliks msgl