Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-04-30
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Therolling stone gathers no moss.
Death comes to the young. but the aged
go to death.
Interest is the king who rules the world.
There is many a good wife who can
neither dance nor sing well.
EF Keep your temper in dispute. The
cool hammers fashion the red hot iron.
Good looking girls in male attire are
dangerous counterfeits.
Fortune sometimes is heape1 up like the
snow, and like snow melts and thaws to
nothing.
A false friend and shallow attend only
when the sun shines.
When prosperity was well mounted. she
let 60 the briile. and soon came tumbling
out OF the saddle.
The happiest man in the world is the
man with Just wealth enough to keep him
in spirits, and just children enough to
make him Industrious.
Hurry and Cunning are two apprentices
of Dispatch and Skill, but neither Of them
ever learned their masters trade.
The improving man may start in life
with great stock OF conceit, but it grows
less and less as his knowledge increases.
You may gain knowledge by reading,
but You must separate the wheat from the
chat by thinking.
Insults, says modern philosopher, are
like counterfeit money; we can't hinder
their being offered, but we are not COM
PEELED to take them.
Time is the most precious, aai yet the
most brittle jewel we have. 1t is what
every man bids largely for when hs wants
1t but squandc.s it away when he gets it.
The newspaper is a sermon Tor tn,
thoughtful, library Tor the poor, and
blessing to everybody. Lord Brougham
calls it the best public instructor.
Eliza Cook very truly SAYS; ITO ap-
preciate the value of newspapers, we have
only to suppose they were to be totally
discontinued for a month";
A wealthy doctor who can help poor
man and viii not, without a fee, has less
sense of humanity than poor rufiian, who
Hills rich man to supply his necessities.
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"Marriags resembles a pair Of shears"
says Sidney Smith, $50 joined that they
cannot be separated, often moving in OPP
posite directions. yet always punislling any
one who comes between them
It may be that happiness is not possible
here below, but on the condition of living
like the child, giving ourselves up to the
ing in the goodness Of our heavenly Faith
er for oil beside.
THE VALUE OF JoKEs.-As gold be-
comes refined by passing through the ordeal
of-6re, SO truth is the purer for being tested
by the furnace of fun; for jokes are to
facts what melting pots are to metal The
utterer of good joke is q useful member
Of society.
Johnny, one bright evening. was stand
ing by the window gazing at the moon |
and stars AMI after looking at them some
time very intently, he turned and said to
his mother, who was sitting By him
Mamma, what are those bright little /
things in the sky? Are they the moons
ltte 6abiesg'
~ Abernethy was sent for by an inn
keeper. Who had quarrel with his wife,
who had scored his face with her nails, so
that the poor man was bleeding and much
disigussa. - DIR. Absrnethy, admonishing
tho offsnder, said: madam, are you not |
ashamed of yourself to treat your husband
thus-the husband, who is the head of all;
your heed. masiam. In fact?" s.Well
Doctdt, iercely returned the virago, ''ani /
mU ! not scratch my own head?"
E A woman viii cling to the chosen
object OF h,r affections like possum to
gup tree, AMI you cannot separate her /
wicI0ut snapping strings no art can mend,
and leaving portion of her soul upon the /
6ppe<-leather Of her affections. She will I
sometimes SEQ something to love where 9TH
ers see nothing even to Admire; and when
hsr fondness is once fastened on fellow, it /
sticks lik, glus and molassos TO nigger's
wooley. ssonse. The dimity is curious
institution
OK LAxD."--A correspondent of the /
Boston Post aids to the vast collection of /
"Lambs, as the Jokes of Ella are called |
by the London wits, who steal them, the
following
Lamb was at the opera one night in /
company with the Duchess of Gordon,
(whd liA not enjoy the immaculate fame
which Casar exacted from Mrs. Caesar,
AMI her grace's daughter, dashing young /
lady. in her teens. Her graee's carriage
not arriving at the close Of the perform
anee, she proposed to Lamb that he I
should escort herself and daughter home on I
foot, to which he rather reluctantly assent
ed. fsd3hd night was stormy one AS +
they trudgsd along together through the
rain and mud the Duchess said to Lamb I
after long .silence-'' w hat do you anp-
pose plople who's us, will take us for?'
II suppose" said Lamb, ":hey will take (
your grace for what you are, and your
daughter for what she seemsv,
"a Chef Justice Marshall used to mar