The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-02-04
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e. Honest loss is preferable to dis
honorable gain.
e. Among the base, merit begets
envy among the noble, emulation.
* The small pox is said to be pre-
v%ailing to a considerable extent in Green
briar County, Va.
EA We should not be hasty in form
ing new friendships, nor in terminating
those of long standing.
E Let thy mildness excuse thy
power dread to be feared. "Why
may the mean not fear, nor great des-
pise."
Il 1 am pleased with the abode
which exhibits nothing s~uperfuous, and
where I find everything that is necessa-
ry.
EA In order to live justly, and be
respected, we must abstain from doing
that we blame in others.
E Whatever we know to be right,
that we should do, even though our con-
duct should meet with reproach and rid
icule.
e Heard of an economical man
who always takes his meals in front of
a mirror; he does this to double the
dishes. If that isn't philosophy, We
wonder what is
~Carlysle says that each man car
ries under his hat a "Private Theater, "
whereupon a greater drama than is ever
performed on the mimic stage, is acted,
beginning and ending in Eternity.
e A Snowman exhibiting a picture
said Ladies and gentlemen, there is
Daniel in the den of lions. These are
the lions and this is Daniel, whom you
will easily distinguish from the lions by
his having a blue cotton umbrella I'm
der his arm"
BEEs.-A consignment of so hives OF
bees was received in New York on
Thursday, by the Erie Railroad, for ship
ment to California. The bees came
rom Sullivan county, and the owner
goes out with them in the George Law,
on the 30th.
tx Old bachelors have been styled
un%produetive consumers, scissors with
one blade, bows without fddles, irregu-
lar substantives, always in the singular
number and in the objective case, unruly
scholars who being told to coDjugate al
ways decline.
AN UNFORTUNATE MAN.-Sherif An
sci Wright, of Northampton, Mass, is
something of a wag. A few days ago,
a scurvy-looking stranger presented him
with a paper, earnestly begging for mon
ey. Believing him an impostor, Mr..
Wright handed back the paper, saying !:
CT presume you wouldn't have asked
me if you had known my situation; for
whether you believe it or not, every bit
of property L have in the world ism the
hands Of the sheriff." The %astonished
stare of the fellows eyes at that moment
was a sight to see.
PAT AND THE THERMoMETER.-In Au-
burn, last winter, an 1rishman, walking
along one Of the streets, saw a thermom-
eter hanging at the side of the door on
the front of the house. Stopping a mo-
ment, he looked at it, then approaching
it, raised his shelaleh, and exclaimed:
I" And faith, and you're the little crether
what keeps the weather SO cold are vel"
and with a terrible blow, accompanied
with the usual Irish oath, brought it
in a thousand pieces to the ground.
e. When an Arabian m in
tends to marry again, after the death
of her first husband, she comes, in the
night before her second marriage, to
the grave of her dead husband. Here
she kneels to him, prays to him, and
entreats him "not to be offended-not
to be jealous" AS, however, she fears
he will be jealous, and angry, the widow
brings with her a donkey, laden with
two goat-skins of water. Her prayers
and entreaties being done, she proceeds
to pour on the grave the water, to keep
the first husband cool under the irritating
circumstances about to take place-and
having well saturated him, she departs.