Des Arc citizen., 1858-11-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

ing as a maxim for the government of his life: Do all the good you can in the world and make as little noise as possible. N CAREruLSEss or SrEEcH.--Ws should walk through life as through the Swiss mountains, where hasty word may bring down an avalanche.
 GT Some writer has compared friendship to our shadows, and a better comparison was never made; for while we walk in the sum shine of prosperity.it sticks to us, but the moment we enter the shades of diversity it deserts us.
 tTT No man knows when, where, or whom he'll marry. It is all nonsense planning and Tspecnlatihg aboutit. You might as well look |oat for soft place to fall in steeple-chasc. You come smash down in the middle of your spcculations. ae. s. Be - I GV A new stove has been invented for the comfort of travellers; 1t Is to be put under their feet, with mustard plaster on the head, which draws the heat through the whole body. 8fsf,a1 e8 G1- An attorney, about to furnish bill of costs, was requested by his client baker, to make it as light as he could. "Ahp' replied Ithe attorney, "that's what you say to your foreman, but it's not the way make my breads s N ass,s9
 l GT It is said that bleeding partly blind horse at the nose will restore him to sight, so much for the horse. To open man's eyes |yor must bleed him at the pocket.
 GT- chaplain was once preaching to class of collegians about the formation of habits. .Gentlemen," said lie ssclose your ears against bad discourses.o The students immediately cIapped their hands to their ears. m 48di6dH 4 9te8s Ggy- Roughness and honesty arc, indeed, sometimes found together in the same; but he is poor judge of human nature who takes i'll manners to besa guaranty of prohity of char acter, or suspects . stranger to be rascal De. cause he has the manners of gentleman. AN EpITon IN LucK.--The proprietor of the Troy (Alabama) Independent American congratulates himself upon having new pair of fbreeches--the cloth cost him four ssbits" l yard. His wife thinks they are go handsome that she wears them herself. Y8 l Gsy- -Demosthenes, that poor stuttering son of cutter, became the most famous orator of ancient times Virgil, the son of baker, was the most celebrated of the Latin poets. Esop. the son of slave, slave himself, managed to acquire imperishable fame. l GgT Asmall negro boy injudiciously leaned np against the sunny side of the house, yester- day, and fell asleep. In few minutes, he be- gan to soften, and in three quarters of an hour he run all over the yard. His mother dipped him up in a wash-tub. That's sscorchsr.s
 CT- A French writer has said that sto dream gloriously," you must act gloriously while you are awake, and to bring angels down to converse with you in your sleep you must labor in the cause of virtue during the day. .ae
 GT When women say of another of the sex "She Is we'll formed" 1t means that she is ugly and pock-marked. When they say, ssEhe is good creature.v 1t Is the last degree of inc suit, it signifies she is hideous, hump-backed and silly. A #jo l GT The fellow who attempted to 'scloak his sins" found that he couldn't begin to get . garment large enough.
 GT Why is the Star Spangled Banner like the Atlantic Oceanp Because 1t will never cease to wave. M 5aa lsffia l CARD PLAYrSc.--"To dribble away lifs," says Sir Walter Scott, Gin exchanging bits of painted pasteboard round green table, for the paltry concern of few shillings, can only bs excused in folly or superannuation. It is like riding on arocking- where your utter most exertion never carries you foot for- ward; it is a kind of mental tread mill, where you are perpetually climbing, but can never rise an inch.v 9i'9p Ht | Gy- Kindness is slowed away in the heart like rose-leaves in drawer, to swecten every object around them.
 GY-Itis now fully ascertained that the man who ate the apple of discord; and picked the bone of contention, is the identical individual who was passenger on board the train of cir cumstances.
 l 0TA Yankee has invented plague which kills off all who do not pay the printer. It has played sad havoc in New England.
 0T Astonishing creatures, the girls are. Ask any of them what they are making, and it is invariably the hem of handkerchief, or "only collar.o The dear institution will no more own-np to piIIow-cases, sheets, and other domestic realities than confess they care anything about young Spruce, the hand- some dry goods clerk, or Greenbag, the good- looking lawyer. Girls are queer things.
 Gy- Mrs. Burlington asks, "What is the use of killing hogs, if you go and cure them l afterwards ?''
 GY-A friend wants to know when the man who stopped up all night is going to take the plug out.
 0yY The heaviest blow the militia system of Virginia has yet received is recorded by . country paper, which states that traveller go- ing through town mistook the militia, drawn up in a line, for the chain-gangl
 GD- They have got county judge in Texas who is said to have three hands. How can such an odd-handed judge be expected to ad- minister even handed justice
 ~A paragraph has been goinsthe rounds about young lady who has moustaehe on her lip It is not uncommon for young ladies to have moustaches on their lips, but they usually grow on the lips of some one else