Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-11-02
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GyKeep good company and always
speak the truth. '''A.t
EH-Wanted-a short club broken off
the square root ,r.. ...-. .t.r
GwOne hundred hours of vexation,
will not pay one farthing of debt.
EH-A head that listens to folly in youth,
will hardly be honored in old age.
WA Cockney lunch-a slice of am,
six heggs, and quart Of hale.
EEThere comes forever something be-
tween us and what we deem our happiness
MEBe not the fourth friend of him who
has had three before and lost them. .t
~When you speak to person, look
him in the face. t gtts.F
nE-Satire should not be like saw, but
like sword--it should cut, not mangle.
Eg-Your character cannot be injured
except by your own acts. ...
~Keep your own secrets-there is
much need You will find it so.
HYou had better be poisoned in your
blood than your principles.
ETA knowledge Of our duties is the
most useful part of philosophy.
@Time is flterer, through which
events and things are continually strained!
wThe marriage of loved child seems
to a fond parent kind of DEATH o
w wOur greatest glory is. not in never
falling, but in rising every time we tall.
EEWhen you retire, think what you
have done during the day.
EEMake few promises. but live up to
your engagements. All bankers please
notice.
~A noble heart, like the sun, shows
its greatest countenauce IN It's lowest es-
tate.
nEThe Turks have a proverb, that
"the devil tempts other men, but that the
idle men tempt the devil" ... o.;
EEWhat is mine, even to my lie, is
hers love; but the secret Of my friend is
not mine. .-er .e,...
EEWomen have more power in their
looks than men have in their laws, and
more power in their tears than men have
in their judgments.
~"Do you follow the hydropathic
system?''-"Ahem! No. That is, not
'xactly; but I'm sure our milkman does
the pump is right opposite his door" =
H1-There is Rabbinical tradition that
the throne of Godis surrounded with the
purest snow. out of which the angels fash
ion themselves the pure and ETHEREAL hodies
in which they are clothed when they visit
the lower world.
oEYMen's faults will always be better
known than their virtues. because theiI
defects will find more persons capable ol
forming Judgment of them than their
noble qualities can find persons fit to com
prehend and appreciate them. -r
EEIf, as Franklin says, every able
bodied man and woman would labor only
four hours a day, there would be supera-
bundance for all. Nobody, of course,
would then talk of the world lowing them
a liying"-they would take it. 'ai
H-"The earth is the Lords, and the
fulness thereof Ofcourseit isn't mans
he never created an inch of it. What
then, is every individuals interest in IT.
We answer, "Life, liberty, and the pursui
OF happiness at his own cost only, and no
tothe spoliation of his fellow man i'll any
way whatsoever. WIZ.
EEOn the death of a friend. Fganklir
writes,-"Our friend who has Just lef
US, and we, are going on a party Of pleas
ure. His carriage was ready tilst; our
will draw up to The door in good time, ant
we shall be sure to overtake him. -
Spoken like a philosopher. 't
ET-A beautiful thought is suggested il
the Koran, SO Angels, IN the grave, vii
not question thee as TO the amount o
wealth thou hast left behind thee; bu
what good deeds thou hast done, while il
the world, to entitle thee 20 a seat among
the blest!" SO q ...,l.
EyAn old lady was praising, inrathe
enthusiastic terms, the sermon of Scotcl
minister. who had acquired great nam'
for depth Of eloquence and. sublimity, thi
suspicious Of her auditor were a lttI.
reused, aud he veutursd to propose ques
tion to her. -. efi
well. Jenny. do YOU understand him?
Understand him" quotb Jenny. hold
;ny up both hands in sstouishment at Tn
question me understand himl wad ha
she presumption 20 understand bim?'