Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-10-05
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GElf three feet make yard, how
many will it take to make a garden ?
Servants are more likely to Be praised
into good conduct than scolded out OF
bad.
EE Can you say "boots without spurs''
three times in succession 3? Yes, | kin
boots, boots, boots.
EEA glutton continually adds fuel to
the lire, and all the physic in the world
cannot extinguish it.
E4-Query-Whether a man suffering
from extreme weakness could be cured by
power of attorney ?
TT Happiness does not lie in events,
but in states es-not in what we do, but in
what we really are.
EE-If thy friend hath been true to thee
IN money matters, thou mayst trust him
in other important matters.
~When does a man sill down to a
melancholy dessert? When be sits down
to wine (whine) and pine.
EeWny is lady bathing in the sea
like one in very unpleasant predicament?
Because she 10 in a great pickle.
EE Accustom not thysef to find fault
with other mems actions-thou ant not
bound 10 weed their gardens.
Ey Socrates, when asked what was the
best mode of gaining n high reputation,
rcplied-"To be what YOU appear to be-"
EFAll men who do anything, must
endure depreciation of their efforts. 1t
is the dirt which their chariot wheels
throw up
ES-"There is 10 worse DEATH" says
an old author, ethan the ignorance of the
truth" Wonder how this author esli-
mated truth?
EE"What is the difference between a
young girl and an old womaa? One is
careless and happy, the other is hairless
and cappy.
EF-An Indian out west was heard to
make the following exclamation, on seeing
one of our fashionable hooped ladies, =
"tgh much wigwau y
Gg-Ask woman to tea-party in the
garden Of Eden. and she wruld be sure to
draw up her eyelids and scream, 81 can't
10 without a new dress %
@-lf you happen to know an author,
don't own it; for one half of the worlo
won't believe you, and the other half won't
think much Of it il they do.
EF"IL is odd" said Jerrold, chow
fnlks will force disagreeable knowledge
upon us-crab-apples that We must eat
and defy the stomach-ache.'
EH Eudeavor To have as little 10 do
with thy affections and passions as thou
canst and labor to thy power to make thy
body content to go of thy SOULS errands.
@-A Quaker's admonition to a man
who was pouring fourth volley Of i'll Ian
guage to him
Have a care, frien1-tl0M eoayest run
thy nose against my fist p
EFIn the last century they hung a
man in bonnie Scotland aud afterwards
tried him for the offense-verdict brought
in, "Not guilty p Ridicued to this day
III Scotland rs "Jedbalgh justice!' -
EF Which is the greatest tyrant in a
country-and most to be feared, mob or
one-man power? The former, because
one blow can strike off the head Of tyrant,
while mob is not SO easy got quit Of.
Modern Christianity is like a river
in which metals and solid substances are
sunk, while chat and straw swim upon
the surface The cause Mooney y
Lush Don't tell the "heatisen."
re- Assist the afflicted, If thou well
canst as for tears, they are but drops OF
waler--What good can they do?
ETMick. what kind Of potatoes are
those you are planting ?"
'.Itaw ones, "a be sure. Be the hOuly
poker! an does yer honor think | would
u afller planting bilsd ones % .e
GYAn old negro. crossing riser from
dancing froic. lost his oars, and came
n-ar being swaMped. In terror. lac down
Oh his kneee. AID exclsimed-
"Oh massa Lor. if ebher gwine To
l.elp old a, .mow's de time % =. p y.
ES-"Sir," said irascible man To his
opponent, 81 believe you are either u dei.t
uI All atheist" .e... . !
"wrng. sir. 4" replied the other. 81 am
Onlg n ist."
EV-"She is all my fancy painted her,"
q. the young Indian said Of his favorite
A.,aa~, whnse face | Q had just bedaubed
With ,ermlIion aud yellow ochre.
EFA Nesi~rn editor having published
J. ader nn "iIogs." rival paper IN the
eame lage upbraids him fnr ohdu"iig