The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-03-11
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70 -- Self-love often makes us mistal
ar our theories for our principles.
d. --.None but great and noble min
is capable of genuine humanity.
n ..A great change in life is like col
7 path IN Winter-we all hesitate at the frs
l. plunge.
IS -. The world makes us takers. bu
solitude makes us thinkers.
- ,IIcdeelares himselfguilty who dc
lends himself before accusation.
3 Whoever is courteous, honest
frank sincere, truly honorable, generous
ana candid, is true gentleman, whethe,
rich, learned, or laborer.
-..-.n 1856, man was prosecuted in
London for selling coffee, lust then in
troduced, as a nuisance and preiudice
to the neighborhood."
- Eccentricity, for the most mart
consists in nothing more than following
ones own taste, and not submitting it TO
'ie government OF others.
The pebbles in our path weary rs
and make us sorefoot, more than the rocks
mat only require bold effort to surmount
them. '''o''''
There are some lessons which adj
Vefslty Will be sure to teach us, and
among others this-that goodness in
woman is more admirable than beauty.
;, There are few things in which adj |
dress and Judgment are more necessary |
than in the giving of advice, which is
showing man that you either know more
or are better than himself.
-. Men who complain of the niseries
OF this life, are, for the most part, such as
are unwilling to practice self.denial or
submit to those rules of their animal and i
moral economy upon which salutary and
Uniform happiness is founded.
IA little girl nine years old, bav. 5
ng attended a s0iree, being asked bv her q
mother on returning how she enioved her y
ell answered, 8" am full of happiness f
ooui.'h DE any happier unless | could 81
row." ''''
IA Boston correspondent states al
nat man thereabout has invented a e 90
care-crow so utterly terrific and hideous. ef
TAT the crows are all busily engaged in g;
ringing back the corn which they stole ST.
yo years ago. u,
"A new reading of an old couplet
mus rendered by savage hater of ne ne
oops and that style of dress which leaves e eI
o little OF woman's beauty to imaei- TIT
Ition: wi
10 on narrow neck of land, A.,
IWlxt two mbounded she's stand" III,
Sir Walter Scott once gave an inn
shman shilling when sixpence uni IN
'nld have done. Remember. said s shs
baronet, you owe me sixpence." sub
" May your honor live till | paw vou" obt
S the reply. q mn
The other day Mrs. snipkins, be- roll
unwell, sent for medical man, and Sn'
Jared that she was poisoned and that
: snlpklns did it. II didn't do it.n I
uted Snipkins "It'sal CANNON she e a1r
t poisoned. Prove it, doctor; open ers
on the spot am willinp,, butt
ser,
. Handsome features alone are inca hum
Ne OF expressing beauty, as speech from
ne Is Incapable of expressing wit. S S5 !
=. Socrates termed philosophy the fro
pafatlon for death; but should it not IAN 4,
Ter be styled the patient endurance of /,
? 81 VI Yol
- The cloak of religion NAV he WA WA,
wn by the fine map it has during ser col
time. - Gel
+. Many persons utter an offensive i''
lclsm in reply to friend, for no bet
'eason than the boy gave for knock. and
down his father" He stood So fair Thou
d not help itr' nn
"a man had rather have a hun 's.
lies told of him, than one truth which
oes not wish be told. NJ,
@ ing Il
''e'e.D 4HoHHS FfthOAt Food one b
M.-We learn from tha Alhor,, BERN
g that Mrs. lays, ofthe town of Day Ai Sea
toga county, N. Y, whose case was com
led some time since, and who had olio,
nineteen months without food or and
7. died n wnalr or w., Gu 60 vi of its
ed msensible for fifteen months of the wear "'
d. and up to few days of her death. tratio
she seemed to revive, and spoke oc. fists
nally. After her death her BODY was ,., roa
I'd, and snake five feet long and a that ats 5,
an inch thick was taken from the perb e
tch! 1t was alive when removed Ft
led soon afterwards The case is a ths IN. o
remarkable one, and it is to be re- that Il
% That 1t was not subjected to a sci Not
, examination. ducen
jects O
p Union frbo oo,,o,,aT-eu. ~ yet til
sb",na a. no o9ueu ' VI ehe United the We;
half Of farmers, one hundred tbou.
merchants, sixty-four thousand ma ~ fo
and nearly two hundred thousand Offices.