Southern shield., 1857-01-17


 THREE TRINGs.-TLere are three things that never become rusty-the money of the benevolent, the shoes of a butchers horse, and slanderer's tongue.
 Three things not easily done-to ally thirst with fire, to dry wet with water, and to please in everything that is done. Three things that are as good as the best-brown bread in a famine, well water in thirst, and a great coat in very cold weather.
 Three things as good as their betters dirty water to extinguish fire, a homely wife to blind man, and a wooden sword to coward.
 Three warnings from the grave 'Thou knowest what 1 was, thou know est what am, remember what thou art to be-
 Three things of short continuation "a coquette's love, chip fire, a brook flood.
 Three things that ought never to be from home-a cat, the chimney, and house wife.
 Three things in a peacock-the garb of an angel, the walk of a thief, and the voice of a devil.
 Three things it is unwise to boast of --the flavor of thy ale, the beauty of thy wife, and the contents of thy purse.
 HORSE SAUsAGE.-D0g n c dts count.-A great breeze has been kick ed up in Detroit, in consequence of the discovery of horse-beef sausages, made by German in that city. Ac- cording to French authority, horse beef IS as good as any; and in Paris, at the present time, sorrel steaks, iron orgy chons and roon sausnsfee sssa -aa Ion Scecs2sorcGSss5 eS z. with great relish. Dog sausage, bro't in competition, is always at a discount. Some prefer the old Connecticut arti- cle, made of chopped turnips and red flannel, to either the equine or canine kind.
 e0~ Great are the mysteries of ocean postage. It costs more now to send an ounce of paper to Europe than it does to send a barrel of flour. A man may have State-room, eat, drink, sleep and lounge all over the ship, and yet quiet mailbag, that has stood all the time in dark corner, is charged seven times as much passage money as he is,
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 WoMAN's RIGHTS.-We know no rights of woman that are separated from the rights of man. There is no injury inflicted upon the one that does notrecoil upon the other. If the Turk keeps women in abject slavery, the Turk himself becomes a degenerate slave.-Lond0n Leader.
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 AN EXPLANATION DEMANDED "A Cleveland paper announces a recent wreck on Lake Erie in the following terms:
 The propeller Washington reports the wreck of the schooner Julia Among the lost was the captains wife When the Washington passed her sht was bottom up, nothing being visible but her keel. She belonged to Duran X Co.,, of Buffalo.
 In noticing this an exchange pape1 asks for an explanation as follows:
 Will our friend be good enough tC tell aohat belonged to Durant < Go. the schooner or the captains wife, From the way he has worded the par agraph, we cannot separate one iron the other.
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 EeD- Some people have an innate dread of associating with those they call the vulgar, lest they should in some way become contaminated. But this is mark of vulgarity in their owr minds, else there would be no danger The high-minded and the low minded it is wisely said, come in contact, lk, oil and water, without mixing.
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 Ie8s Erskine gave 8 very HUeLy il lustration of the text, "Union i strength" when he said of plac where he had slept very i'll, that if tn feas had been unGnimous, they woul have lifted him out of bed.
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 s~A pert lawyer in the North late ly insulted a Judge, who fined hir $50. He repeated the insult, and th judge doubled the fine; he tried again and he tribled 1t. Finally, h asked permission to gohome. "Wha for?" said the judge. ''To buy you honor's paper at len per cent. to pa my fne.''