Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-04-17
Pierce Pungent's Proverbs.-An-,1 Foo1

Pierce Pungent's Proverbs Apr,I 80
Considering what a natural tendency man r.
folly, it was wise dispensation of popular 70
TO limit the privilege Of making fools Of our fao
creatures TO one day in the year II might bou ,oW
er, have sprung from lis being the only dav to noWeV
since men make fools OF themselves every da 'paFe'
When the poet said, dulce est desipere an }o,o
possibly might have been made fool, on SON. he
clent first of April by some little shaver Of tba sn
GUSTAV era, as he crawed in toga 10 his ROW rnu
school one DAY i" year 10 be made fool A1 al
is!certainly getting off very lightly, although o' o.
may commit enough folly in day 10 last him 81, man
life, live he as long as Methusaleh. Nav -. us
may do at much hanging marrying, or speculo Gan
in an hour as will ruin him forever! 'ng
We have thus always considered April Foo no-
an institution to be honored, as a debateable aa LAY
for the exercise of wisdom, aggressive and defn9e
Let US inquire what genuine April fool reallv !;
Our dismal nan defines him'to be one who halls
what is tod HIM on the day in question-sucb 40 =
your wife swears she loves you for your own vrn.a
ana not 1or the diamond rings and cashmere sbawIs
or that Mr.. Jones has just fallen down and b,aT,D
his promise, or his leg. any other little commnS
ty.
Our excellent friend Burkhardt was the v;c,;n -,
one of these inventions last Fool day, by bow ha, u
ly bigger than the Doctors boots, crying, "S-
you've dropt your tail ~ Now il hannaned b. en-
worthy editor had tale in his coat pocket heb me
which he had just finished for the New York Ma
patch, and instInclivey feeling behind, to see fho
package was safe, the boy naturally mistook Tho 49,
ton, and nearly laughed his buttons off. ~
man, however, may be too wide awake-tooin
creduous this celebrated day, as our frienI WIi
was, who got up one first of April determined NV ~
be made fool Of. He was reused from . y;t,., ' ~
ticle in the Daily News by the fair Kate eII;no b;
that gentleman from OHIO wds Waiting to nav hin,
some money at his store; giving KNOWN wink. he
sent his compliments to the homes, debtor and beg
Ged him to keep it till he came for it! Mex, mor5
ing he found the Ohioian had taken him at his Word
and left letter full of grateful thanks!
Not an hour after, our tall friend Shanghai, who
had made 81 nilar VOW of wisdom for this one ner,
ous day, was told that his coat tails were on fire
Let them burn !" he replied, chuckliug his fir
Mrs. AppIeiax under The chin In another minnie
the boarders had to roll him in the rug to put him
our, and The burnt remains of his tails bore sad
testimony to his wisdom
Our excellent City Clerk, who is one of the neat.
est, dapper little figures in the world, paraded the
Jersey shores with pacard announcing, " These
spacious premises to et," and Garry himself walked
about till dinner time with bill on his hat This
vacant lot for sale-apply Within"
When benevolent little boy went up to the CITY
Father 10 tell him 10 look behind his hat, he nearly
got kicked for his pains
There is a description Of April jokes which we
consider lllegitimate. One of this kind was PLAYED
upon the Doctor last year. Some very facetious
fellows sent him twelve tuns of Goals, in separate
carts, all of which were dumped down at his door
rendering the street impossible. When, however
Mace, the undertaken, went to measure him for
coffin, he considered the joke assuming far too grave
an aspect and he succeeded in convincing Mace
that ne was far too deadly lively a corpse for rose
wood yet.
we consider those as absurd hoaxes, not coming
within the scope OF the original intention of the
institution. We also object to making bogus offers
of marriage 10 n1ammsble widows, under cover Of
an April Joke We would rather play with cam.
phene lamp than widow not that we mean they
are both wicked things; but because we do not like
10 play with flames
The difficulty is to really discover what fool is
Nothing is more common than to hear one man call
another a fool which reans that he does not think
or acl as he considers wise. But what is rise in one
Jones to take Mrs. Jones to the theatre but it would
be very unwise for Smith to do it
Br Wn called Robinson fool for specializing in
the Potos lead mines, but himself went largely into
the Parker vein! The fact is, although man may
now and then, in the very arrogance Of wisdom saw
was a fool to do and SO 7" yet he never means
It, 1t is much safer to consider that every mans de-
hnltlon OF fool is, what everybody else u.s. but
which he never can be himself" In other words
erery man IS his oaon Solomon! But we must not
trench upon egotism, which is distant relation of
folly.
From our own experience we should say that fools,
whether April or the common year.day fools, were
happier than The philosophers, who, after ALL may
be the princes of folly. To sane eye, what fool
Adam was to cal apples or Alexander the Great to
cry for another world 10 devasate julius Cesar
wrote himself down ass when he would sign In
perator! Solomon. writing books, tells terribly
again his wisdom, and the Queen of Sheba settle
him Oliver Cromwell had much better have
stuck to the mashtub, instead of brewing storms Of
State. Horace Greedy had been happier had he re-
NAMED on exhibition at Barnum's as the white mig
ger, instead OF getting up bleeding Kansas
Dear reader cannot be too thankful, that we
are not, like the rest of our fellow creatures liable
to be made April fools of, at all events. for nearly
another year!