Des Arc citizen., 1858-12-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. aosibsa GT Men arc frequently like tea--their real {, strength and goodness not being properly |drawn ont, until they have been a short timef { infiot water. .sie isEe 06i AG .-mss era G1-Alie always srisssfrom fear or from. interest and consequently from meannsss., ls. cd GT The lady who made. a. dash, has since brought her husband to . full stepl ve ssr&ssr GV To kill bedbugs, take cotrosiye spbli-k.f mate and daub it all over the bedstead; then
 burn your bedstead and bed clothing, and move
 into another house. aRl 9i'' Sbssissf aAss
 GYrTherc ismore truth than poetry iniths q assertion that there are two periods when n Congress does no business--one is before the .,a holidays and the other, after. | SrcNirIcAHr.-Thc same voices that cried as | "Hosan '' when the Son of David entered 1 Jerusalem, cried "Crucify him P when the popular current turned. There is great deal of meaning in this fact, and we may often sec sa 1t illustrated in the lives of men of our own sd time. fias.g, itss srgt@2 NM 4.A~@'r | SENSIBLE TO THE LAsr.--Some- musical teacher oncewrote 'sthat the ars of playingo
 the violinrequired the incest perception and ,a the most delicate sensibiIty of any art in the z, known world.c Some country editor in com- menting the same, says: "The aft Of pub fishing a newspaper and making it pay, beats the art of Gddling higher thsna kit~nlv aslw l GT The Buffalo Advertiser, speaking of ;ss the liquor sold in that town, says M .a.. ....,
 "The brandy is poison--thc whisky is that !, variety known as hardware, ,,-- strychnine wouldimprove it--and the ginis keptin glass ds bottles simply because it would eat throdgh 6 the slaves of a barrel in fifteen miastesy' ss 8a | GT Lalandc, the French astronomer, when the revolution broke out, only raid the more attention to the revolution of the heavenly bo- dies; and when he found, at the end, that hesb had escaped the fury of Robespierrs and hispi lfellow ruiians, he gratefully remarked, ,tsska lmay thank my stars for it." N. ..k, a. | r55y,- An honest son of Erin, green from his lpcregrinations, put his head into a lawyers office, and asked the inmate-~An what doA lyon sell hcrc?" ssBnckheads," repied the
 limb of the law. SOch, thin to be sure ;, said
 Pat, it must be q goodtraae, for see there isA but one of them left" a;..aa..su s..vss F.at | YANKEE ALL OvER.--Bayard Taylor says. that Yankee in walking in St. Petersburgh, one muddy day, met the Grand Duke Constan- tine. The sidewalk was not wide enough for two to pass, and the street was very deep In lfilth-whereupon the American took a silver rouble from his pocket, shook it in his clossd hand, and cried out: Grown or Taill, Crown,,.t guessed the Grand Duke. sYour Highnsss has won," cried the American, looking at the. rouble and stepping into the mud. The next day the Yankee was invited by the Grand Duke to dinner. f4A gT wseryed," said Jefferson, "with Gen. Washington in the Legislature of virginia, ,be- fore the Revolution, and during 1t with Dr. Franklinin Congress. never heard either. of them speak ten minutes at time, nor to- any but the main point, which was to. decide, the question. They laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones
 would follow ofthcmseives.
 USEFUL MAxIMs.-Begin life with the least show and the least expense possible; you may, at pleasure increase both; you cannot easily di-a minish them. Do not think your estate your own while any man can call upon you for money and you cannot pay; therefore begin with timorous parsimony. Let 1t be your first care not be in any mans debt. Resolve not to be poor whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; | it certainly destroys liberty, and makes some virtues impIacticable and others extremely difficult.
 | Gy- It was done when it was begun, it was done when it was half done, and yet wasn't done when it was finished. Now what was it2
 Timothy Johnson courted Susanna Dunn. It
 was done when it was begun, it was done when
 it was half done, and yet it wasn't Dunn
 when it was fnished--for it was Johnson.
 GT A good story is told of Michigan
 man who recently went down into Indiana to
 buy drove of horses. He vas longer absent
 than he intended, and failed to meet busi-
 ness engagement. On being rather reproach-
 ed for not being home, he made due apology.
 "I tell you how it is, squire" said he, "at ey-
 cry little alarmed town they wanted me to stop
 and be president of bank" ss sas aasA0H Gr A bet was once made on a slow rail-
 road, that the engine couldn't pull manss
 boots off. The trial come of and so didt
 boots; but there were loud complaints of foul play. It was said that they chained the en- zine to stake and then set big dog on the
 man, causing him to jump backwards. out of
 his cowhides. lea sq44 saiafaaa
 TIE FUN or A MuLE RAcE.-At
 the County Fair, at New Albany Indiana,
 the people had a most hearty laugh over
 mule race, after the fashion of an Irish
 donkey race, where each man rides his
 neighbor's beast, and the last one in wins.
 It is no. bad way of closing up catlIs
 show, It is decidedly better than "fema.e
 equestriauism." At New A lbany, seven
 entries were made, and when the drum tapped they all started, but were in 2 few
 moments strung along the track for haIf
 a miIe.., Persons were stationed at proper
 intervals, for the purpose of keeping the | Al. did al