The weekly Columbian. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne Co., Cal.) 1856-1???, 1857-01-10
Selected Pearls.

| There is no adhesive label like nickname!
| Waiting for dead mems shoes is, in most
measures, bootless affair!
| The number of poor poets is, II anything
! greater than the number Of poets who are poor!
| The spolt children of the present age rarely
| turn out the great men of the next
Say what you will, marriage by ad vertise-
| ment must, after all, be the union Of two cor
responding minds.
"Charity covers multitude of sins" So
does calico.
There is beauty enough on earth to make q
home for angels
Fortune is sometimes heaped up like tho
| snow, and like the snow melts and taaws to no.
thing again.
People become ill by drinking healths. He
who drinks the health of Others drinks away
his own.
Honesty is the best policy but he who is
honest only because honesty is expedient, is not
an honest man.
The pride of position in society causes more
anxiety, more heart-aches, and more severe
toll, than the necessaries of life.
1t is impossible to love one in whose truth
fulness we cannot confide not to slight one
whose words, and purposes and actions are
without assimilation.
Men are oftentimcs hunted by the dogs of
their own species, are foxes by the hounds
and they never give over their chase until they
have driven them into the last refuge-the
grave.
The shortest way to be rich is not by enlarg-
ing our estates, but by contracting our desires.
| Tying mackerel to your coat tail, and inn
| agfning yourself whale, is one of the first les
| sons in Goldfish arstocracy.
| IF you want to know how many of your neigh
bors wish "a little loan OF Sl0,o get nominated
| for Congress some day.
! Lost! Yesterday. somewhere between sun
set, two golden hours, set with sixty diamond
minutes. No reward is offered, for they are
gone forever.
! Even this will pass over!" was the proverb
which the wise Solomon gave to an Eastern
| friend who desired such a motto as would make
| the soul strong in misfortune, and humble in
prosperity.
| Infinite toll would not enable you to sweep
away mist but by ascending little you may
| often look over it altogether. SO it is with our
moral improvement; we wrestle fercely with o
vicious habit, which would have no hold upon
us if we assembled into higher moral atmos-
! phere.
The liar is the greatest fool but the next
|
prudent reticence is the highest practical wis.,
dom. Silence has made more fortunes, than the
most gifted eloquence.
! One Of the strongest rebukes upon the mean
ness of human nature ever conceived was in tho
| picture of the rich man refusing his poor neigh
Dor the crumbs, while the dog took pity on him
and licked his sores.
| Virtue like fire, turns all things into itself;
our actions and our friendships are tnctured
| with it. and whatever it touches becomes amia-
! BILE.
| Lazincss begins in cobwebs and ends in iron
chains 1t creeps over man SO slowly and i'm
| perceptibly that he is bound tight before he
| knows it.
| No one should ever make promise unless he
looks well into the circumstances beforehand,
and has every reason to believe that it will be
| in his power to fulfill his promise.
! What is an India-rubber conscience? Why
/ it is to be rogue among regues. and live hon
est among honest folks Transpose it in tho
| former case and you may as well shut up shop
at once.
Temperance puts wood on the fire, flour in
! the barrel meat in the larder, vigor in the body,
intelligence in the brain. and happiness in the
whole family. Remember this all We who drink
or would be tempted to do SO.
1t is rot what we earn but what we can save
that makes us rich. 1t is not what we eat, but
what we digest that makes us fat 1t is not
what we read but what we remember, that
makes us learned. All this is very simple and
worth remembering.
Reputation may be the reward of mediocrity
and fame of talent that panders to popular pas
sions; but immortal renown is the endless
chant of generations, singing the praises of God
like men, who have lifted their race toward
heaven.
! feeling of virtuous Indignation. It is the
handsome brother of anger and hatred.
! Spirit is now very fashionable word !; to act
with spirit, to speak with spirit. means only to
act rashly and to act indiscreetly. An able man
shows his spirit by gentle words and resoute