The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-02
Various EteEhs.

Mediocrity is always disgusting, except per-
haps, mediocrity Of stature in woman.
Honor il unstable and seldom the same; for
she feeds upon opinion and is as tickle as the
food.
Laugh at no man for his pug nose; you can
never tell what may turn up.
There is not mite but what thinks himself
"the cheese"
He that aspires to be the head of party
must see some appearances that do not exist,
and be blind to some that do.
People often say of man that he is cum
ming fellow. This can never be true, for, if he
were, nobody could find it out.
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by
rules, while common sense ID content to be
| right without them.
Sincerely to aspire after virtue is to gain her,
and zealously to labor after her wages is to re-
| ceive them.
Prayers may not make the Deity more will
ing to give, but they make the supplicant more
worthy to receive.
fool admires likeness to himself; but, ex-
cept in the case of fools, people are apt to fall
in love with something unlike thems elves.
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did
children, and like Priam, survives the whole
of them.
The population of st. Louis is 100, 900, as
shown by census just completed. This is a
gain of 30, 900 in two years. fsss.s .
The population of the city and suburbs Of
Nashville is near $4,000 There are 800
bounds Of the city.
A western editor tells the public that they
can take his paper cheaper than they can any
othpr IF thpv taka II for nil
take it for exactly what it is.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of
little minds. With consistency great soul
has simply nothing to do. He may as well
concern himself with his shadow on the wall
"What papers off my writing desk are you
burning there?" cried an author to the servant
| girl. "Oh, only the paper what's all written
over, sir; haint touched the clean" ..
When specimens of police stupidity are
being so constantly brought before the public
we can not see why the newspaper reports
should be headed "Police Intelligence" '
Ovid relates that Daphne, when flying from
| Apollo, was changed into q laurel. How
subtle is the allegory that all girls who avoid
their lovers must be green.
In former times patriots prided themselves
on their own poverty and the riches of the
State. In modern times it would be easier t.
find patriot rich enough to buy king thar
king not rich enough to buy patriot.
"Mother," said little boy the other day
"why are orphans the happiest children OF
earth?" "They are not, my child. Why dc
you ask that question:" "Because they hav,
no mothers to spank EN-"
A gentleman having horse that ran away
and broke his wife's neck, was told by a neigh
Dor that he wished to purchase it for his wifi
to ride upon. "NO," said the wretch, al in
tend to marry again myself"
Folly Sir Joshua Reynolds being asked
how he would personate folly in painting
replied that he would represent mai
climbing over wall at the risk of breaking
his neck, with an open gate close by, through
which he might walk with ease and safety
The TRUTH.-Shelton, in one of his sermons
says: "An upright is always an easier than I
STOPPING posture, because it is more natural
aud one part is better supported than another
SO il is better to be an honest man than knave
1t is also more graceful.
| A traveller who has just returned from tn,
extreme North, says that in Spitzbergen las
winter 1t was SO cold that in crowded hut tn,
breath of the inmates would fall to the floor II
flakes, and he burnt the stockings off his fee
one terrible night without hardly feeling th'
heat.
AT Chinese eating house in San Francisco
some guests thinking that the bread wa
poisoned, called the landlords attention to tn,
fact, when he coolly tried it on his own son,
boy nine years Of age. lie made him eat
large piece Of the bread, and after Watching
the effect for some time he remarked, wihou
the slightest trace Of feeling! Boy no die, breaC
secure.