Mariposa Democrat., 1857-07-09
Mmiposa 4emotrat.
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

FACTS AND FANCIES.
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Beware ofjudging hastily, it is better TO sus.
pend an opinion than to retract an assertion.
An old maid, speaking of marriage, says it is
like any other disease; while there is life there
is hope.
Some descendant of Soloman has wisely re-
marked that those who go to law for damages
are sure TO get them.
Why should potatoes grow better than any
other vegetable? Because they have got eyes
TO see what they arc doing.
"Wake up here and pay your lodging, said
the deacon, as he nudged a sleepy stranger
with the contribution-box.
Some of the fair sex have hearts as brittle
as glass; he that would engravc his name on
them must use diamonds.
"What does your husband deal in, ma am ?''
"He deals in cards, chieHyr-"Well, the
devil will be apt to get him when the last
trump is playedl"
tent is the true philosophers stone." Brown
says its very likely, for nobody has ever
found either one or the other.
The failures in the United States during the
year 1856, were 2700 their debts are estima.
ted to have been more than S5O,O00,0 900, and
the loss to the creditors $40, 100000.
He who is passionate and hasty, is generally
honest 1t is your old assembling hypocrite
of whom you should beware There's no de.
ccption to a bulldog, it is only the cur that
sneaks up and bites you when your back is
turned.
A young lady of sixteen, of distinguished
birth and fortune, is about to marry the hero
Of the Crimea, Marshal Pelisscr who is illus
triouS'y sixty years of age! 1t is said to be
an affair of the most romantic sentiment on the
part of the youthful fance.
A German paper at New Orleans says that
the eldest son Of Prince Alexander brother Of
the Empress of Russia, is Deputy Surveyor Of
the public lands at Donaldsonve, in that
State. He was formerly Captain in the Fourth
Light Artillery.
A Western poet witnessed pugilistic en-.
counter, which he thus immortalized:
And Isaac pitched into hym,
And lym pitched into he
The way they fyttc it was a SIM
And horybe to see
The French Academy of Science is assured
by Baron Thenard that boiling soap and water,
consisting of two parts of common soap and
one hundred parts of water by weight, infalli.
bly, destroys bugs and their eggs. Its enough
to wash walls, woodwork, &C., with the boiling
solution to be entirely relieved from this horrid
pest.
We have been gratiied (says the Warrcnton,
North Carolina, Neaos) with the sight of some
small nuggets of the real "smon-pure stuff"
from the mine Of A. II. Davis, Esq, at Ransoms
bridge, about twenty miles from Warrenton.
We understand that about 40 hands are en-
ployed in the mines at that place, averaging
from 81 to $3.50 each hand per day.
"What did the doctor say, JIM"
:" He told me to 60 home and put my arm
in sling or sling into me, and I'm blessed il
know which,.
"Whenevcr you doubt, always give your
self the benefit of it,"
Jim took the advice, and in few minutes
he was imbibing "a little something warm, "
with slice of lemon floating on it.
During the last war, Quaker was on board
an American ship engaged in close combat
with an enemy He preserved his peace prin-
ciples calmly, until he saw a stout Briton climb
ing up the vessel by rope which hung over
board. Selling Ratchet he looked over the
side Of the ship and remarked" Friend, If
thee wants that piece of rope thee may have
it." when, suiting the deed to the word, he cut
off the rope, and down went the poor fellow to
his long watery home.
GRAPE CUTTING. IF you have choice
grape cutting that you want to grow, says the
Ohio Farmer, then dig some roots of wild
grape vine, cut them into pieces of about six
inches long, cut your choice grape vine or cut
ting into pieces of only one or at most, two
buds; insert the lower end, by the common
cleft-grafting method, into the piece of wild
vine root; plant it in the earth, leaving the
bud of the cutting just level with the top of
the ground Every one so made will grow,
and in two years become bearing plants.
VOTE ON THE STATE DEBT.