Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-05-14

@When is charity like top! When
It begins 20 hum
rIt is very easy to look down on others;
to look down on curse Ives is the difficulty.
@Do fish ever sleep!-and if not, what
was the use Of making bed in the sea!
Why is vine like soldier! Kaze it is
trained--has tendrils--and it shouts.
Gran English paper thinks it is the first
duty OF teetotalers TO ge, the DUTY off from
tea totally.
ntrKindness in ourselves is the honey
that blunts the sting of unkindness in an
other.
ftAbstenance from low pleasures is the
only means of meriting or oil obtaining the
higher.
fSrThat which moveth the heart most is
the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God
the source Of all power.
@Capable of thoughts so exalted, SO far
above the earth we dwell Tn, why suffer any
to depress and anguish you!
HAlwavs laugh while you can't is a
cheap medicine. MuthfuIness is phlos o
ply not well understood. 1t is the sunny
side OF existence.
6JWhat is The difference between filling
a pitcher with water and throwing a woman
overboardl One is "water in the pitcher
and the other, "pitch her into the water"
OrWhat is companionship,w where nothing
that improves the intellect is communicated.
and where the larger heart contracts itsel
to the model and dimenson OF the smaller!
@What madness is it for man to s,arve
himselfto enrich his heir, and So turn friend
into an enemy. for his Joy at your own death
will be propor,ioned to what you leave him.
-Senecd.
@There il gravity which is not aus
tere nor captious which belongs not to
melancholy, nor dwells in contraction of
heart, but arises from tenderness, and hangs
upon reflection.
FIn youth the appetite for fame is
strongest: 1t is cruel and innuman to with
hold the sustenance, which is necessary to
the growth, if not the existence, of genius;
sympathy, encouragement, commentator
0TNever take into your confide nee, or
admit often into your company. any man
who does not know, on some important SUBJ
ject, more than you do. Be his rank, be
his virtues what they may, he will be hin.
dtsnce to your pursuits, and an obstruction
TO your greatness.
OJHow many, adorned with all the
rarities Of intellect, have stumbled on the
entrance into life, and have maoe WRONG
choice on the very thing which was to deter.
mine their course forever! This Is among
the seasons, and, perhaps is the principa
one, why the wise and The happy are two
distinct classes of men.
@Friendship is a vase, which, when i
is fawed by heat or violence, or accident,
may as well be broken at once; it never car
be trusted after. The more graceful an,
ornamental it was, the more clearly do VIZ
), discern the hope elessness OF restoring it I,
its former state. Coars- stones, if they ar,
fractured, may be cemeted again; precious
ones, never.
ANGELS IN PETTIcoATs.-A funny cores
, poudent of the Portland Transcript saws:
81 have recently gin up all idea of wo
men folks, and come back to perltlkal lite
I am more at hume in this line than il
, huntin' the fair sects. AiDglIs in petticu,s
! an kiss me quicks," is pretty to lock at,
gin in, but bless 'em, they are as slippery 4,
eels, and when you fish Tor 'em and get
bite, you some hrw or other find yourself IA
the wrong end Of the line, they've cotchet
T you! An when you've stuffed 'em will
peanuts, candy, and doggertypes, they viii
throw you away as they would cold tater
Leastwise, that's bin my experience. Blu
I've done with 'em now The Queen o
Sheber, the sleepin' beauty, Kleopatry'
, needle, Pompey's piiler, an Lots wife
with steam engine to help 'em, couldn'
tempt me. The very sight of bonnet rie,
me all over"