Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-01-07

and patriotic statesman, who has never devated
from the Constitution of the United States; who
was the able and successful defender of the great
cheftan, Gen. Andrew Jackson, and whose politi
cal course has had one tendency-equal rights to
all and the preservation of our glorious Union.
+ D-The charms that fashion lends to woman
would be considered positive defects, if nature had
given them =
u Those whose lot it is to ramble can seldom
write and those who know how to write, very
seldom rumble.
u Reputation would be of little worth were it
in the power of every concealed enemy to deprive
us of it.
I- All truths are not good to say, but they are
good to h,ar.-Mme. de Default
The love of gold, that meanest rage,
And latest folly of mans sinking age.
Which, rarely venturing in the van Of life,
While nobler passions wage their heated strife,
Comes skulking last with sefshness and fear,
And dies collecting lumber in the rear
Moore.
~ A wise man endeavors to shine in himself !;
fool to outshine others the first is humbled bv
the sense of his infirmities the last lifted up
by the discovery Of those which he observes in
others. The wise man is happy when he gains his
own appreciation and the fool, when he recon-
~ Mime. Geoffrier disagreeing once with a
literary gentleman, the dispute became very warm
and many high words were exchanged with grca,
acrimony. How now ~ said mutual friend,
stepping between them, can it be that you arc
clandestiney married -
u Says Sterne, "The grand error of life is, we
look too far, we scale the heavcns-we dig down
the centre of the earth for systems-and we forget
ourselves. Truth lies bcfOse us: it is i'm the high
way path, and the ploughman treads on it with
clouted Shoes
10" John, can you tell me the difference be-
tween attraction of gravitation and attraction of
cohesion ~ eyes, sir. Attraction of gravtation
pulls drunken man to the ground, and the attrac-
ton of cohesion prevents his getting up again."
IL Very true the remark of Camden that
though he would not say that the English Ian
guagc was sacred the Hebrew or as learned
as the Greek, yet it fluent as the Latin, as
courteous as the Spanish, as cOurtike as the
French, and as amorous the Italian.
An ancient town, a very ancient town,
With rotten wharves, and quiet, grassy streets,
And quaint old houses wrinkled in the sun
u 1t is a custom to bind a thread on ones
finger for the sake of remembering anyt ling. This
is very ancient practice, for we read Deuterono-
my, 6, :, "And thou shalt bind them for a sign
upon thine hands, and they shall be as frontets
between thine eyes"
When all sins are old in us.
And 90 upon crutches, covetousness
Does but then lie in ner cradle.
Decker
~ 1t is impossible to diminish poverty by the
multiplication of goods; for manage as we NAV.
misery and suffering will always cleave to the Dor
der of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
ia famous comic actor, named Scholz, has
just died at Vienna. He was very aged, having
been for an almost impossible number of wears on
the stage, and his last words were: "Oh what a
bitter thing it is to die without taking leave of the
STAGE
u The Turks have proverb that the devil
tempts industrious men, but idle tempt the
devil.
IT'S strange the miser should his cares employ
To gain those riches he can ne'er enioy
Is it less strange the prodgal should waste
His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste +?
Pope.
~ favorite mode of introduction in Brazil is
said to be, "This is my friend if he steals any,
thing from you am responsible for it,
u AT the concert lately given at the court Of
Vienna in honor of List, the great artist having
left his glove on the piano, there instanta-
'"''' w s'S VI ODtitln POSSESSION
of the relic. The struggle ar.ons the ladies was
tremendous, and in the bazurre the glove was torn
to pieces, but each ledy proclaimed rselfdeligbt
ed with the small remnant which fell to her share
One of the Processes, Waldeck, who captured the
top of the thumb, has had it set in the handle of
her eye-glass, where, surrounded by brflljants. il
excites perpetual envy amongst her unsuccessful
rivals.
u I'm a country graveyard, in New Jersey,
there is a plain stone erected over the grave of
young lady, with only this inscription upon it -
"JULA ADAMS, died of thin shoes. April H. 1889,
aged 49,
IL A letter from Rome says "T'he lamented
death of the great American sculptor, Crawford
having left many of his works incomplete, espec
ally the great National Monument to the memory
of Washington, the carrying ont of his designs
will he suspended until some understanding can be
come To between Mrs. Crawford and the American
government Meanwhile Mr.. Crawford's friend
AMI brother artist, Mr.. Terry. has undertaken the
superinte nence of his studio, and the late sculp-
tors head workman, a German, of the greatest
talent will finish such statutes as are in course of
execution fer private comm is.ion. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that poor Mr.. Crawford was prevented by
his painful and mortal milady from completing
his design tor his Was'lin2 ton monument. although
the chlcr part will he his conception. Of the seven
colossal statutes intended to surround the MOnu-
ment, he had only completed two. those of Jefer
son and Henry s