Southern shield., 1858-03-13


 We shall reach what endeavor
 If on now we more reply;
 But into the realms of Never,
 Leads the Pilot By-and-By.
 Efss In private we must watch our thoughts :; in the family our tempers :; and in company our tongues.
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 gsg@" Lost--a brindle pup, belong ing to Pat O'Neil with his ears slit .'' How Pat got his ears slit the adver- tisement saith not.
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 SeBFThe value of things is not in their size but quality; and so of req son which, wrapped in few words, has the greater weight.
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 When Marshal Saxe was dying, he perceived that his physician shed tears. ''Do not weep for me,'' said the Marshal, "I had fine dream" Life is only 8 dream, truly.
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 gs&F One of the prominent physi- clans of New York received, the oth- CT morning, the following note:
 Sir-Please call at No. 241 - street, this morning, and oblige me, as my wife is very sick.
 Yours, PATRICK B.. P. S.-My wife having got well, you need not come.
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 A CoNJUGAL INCIDENT. Lola Mon tez tells the following anecdote of Dumas:
 He married brokers daughter, without wit, good sense, beauty, or even spotless character, merely to pay large debt he owed her father. Entering his room suddenly one day, he caught man in the very act of kissing his wife. "Good heavens," was his only remark, "and without being obliged to-
 D@A frst-rate joke took place quite lately, in our courtroom. A woman was testifying in behalf of her son, and swore "that he had worked on farm ever since he was born" The lawyer who cross examined her said, "You assert that your son has worked on farm ever since he was born"
 "I do.''
 "What did he do the first year ?" "He naaLkedp'
 The lawyer eyaporated.
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 WEATHER WISDOM. oM.--Dutchman- Goot morgeK, Patrick, how you tug 1? Irishman-Good mornin' t'ye, J ohn, think ye will we get iny rain?
 Dutchman-I thinks not; we never has much rain in ferry try times. Irishman-An'ye're right there; and thin, whenever it gets in the way of rainin,' not bit O dhry weather will we get as long as the wet spell howlds on.
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 TRUTH FITLY SPOKEN. Rich mond Dispatch says: "There is no aristocracy in the world so pretentious and exclusive as bran new aristoc- racy, one which has just had the ple- belan mud washed from its face, and sits above salt for the first time.
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 Nor DOUBTED The intelligence by the late foreign arrival that Prince Frederick William, of Prussia, who lately married Queen Victoria's daugh- CT, had been invested with the order of the "Garter" is not doubted in the least. We hope he got pair.
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 A child beginning to read becomes delighted with newspaper because he reads the names of things familiar, and will make progress accordingly.- A newspapers in one year is worth quarters schooling to a child.
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 fa5~ A bill preventing the marriage of first cousins has passed the Ken lucky Legislature. Very proper.- Hope other States will follow suit.- Physiology is only but beginning to be understood. Man knows more about himself. Where are the ten thousand pulpits of our land? What have they been doing for centuries past? These, and g. few others, are the questions now up. Who so bold as answer then ? Dodging won't do any longer.
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 The object of the Mississippi code in making druggists mlx soot or indigo with arsenic before selling 1t, is, that it may color whatever it may be put into, and lead to it's detection. gW The man with a drum to his ear, wants fife as an accompaniment.