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MaRh FRANCES lSLEE
Ex Q f r p T s.
A QUESTION FOR SuRvEY.-Is crazy
senement matlhouse ?
One of the very best Of all earthly posses
sons is selfpossession.
Every anniversary Of birthday is the
dispeing of dream.-Zsehokhe.
WANTED TO PArENT-The filter of
misfortune, to separate true friends from de
scum.
Health constitutes the happiness of the
body; virtue that Of the mind.
They that laugh at everything, and they
that fret at everything, arc fools alike.
We may owe it to our enemies to for
give; we owe it to ourselves not to forget
man in the finest suit of clothes is Of
ten shabbicr fellow than another dressed
in rags.
The miser lives poor to die rich, and is
the mere jailor of his house, and the Turn
key Of his wealth.
Many writers profess great cxactness in
punctuation, who yet never make point.
If seconds were not much fonder Of ducls
than their principals, dueIliug would very
soon be obsolete.
Don't expect to be called a good fellow
moment longer than you consent to do pre-
cisely what other people wish you to do.
Commentators are folks that too often
write on books as men with diamonds write
on glass, obscuring light with scratches.
Half the secrets in the world are disclos-
ed IN order that those who possess them
may let their friends know that they hold
them.
There are few who know how to be idle
and innocent, and the very first step out of
business is usually into vice and folly.
Dome GooD.-We must expect menato
be nngrateful, but not on that account cease
TO do them good.-Fenclon.
A PARRY SIMILE.-ScandaI, like the
Nile, is fed by innumerable streams but il
is extremely difficult to trace it to its source.
REFLECTION by LovER-It is great
pleasure to be alone, especially when you
have yonr sweetheart with you.
Why should marriage be spoken of as
tender tie, when it is so confounded tough
that nothing but death can cut it?
Nothing prevents person from being
natural and easy, so much as ah extreme
anxiety to appear SO.
What would our day he without its
morning and evenings twilight A fierce
and burning eye without lid.
Why does no man confess his viccs2 1t
is because lie is yet in them. It is for a
aoaking man TO tell his dreams.
A mind might ponder its thoughts for
ages and not gain as much self:knowledge
as the passion of love shall teach it in ono
DAY.
There are truths which some men despise
because they have not examined them, and
which they will not examine because they
despise them.
Wounds healed when the body is il
health, sometimes bssek out afresl' in sick
ness; but evil passions and propensities
that seem cured in sickness. often break ou
afresh in health.
Iu literature and i1Siove we generally be
gin in bad taste. BY experience and oh
servation We become sensible to the charm
OF the simple and the unaffected, both ir
bellies and in belles.leltres.
De QUINcEY being asked why there wer
more women than men replied, IL is il
conformity with the arrangements ofnatur
we always see more of heaven than earth
ia dancing master was taken up i,
Natchez recently for robbibg a fellow
border. He said be commenced by clIea
ing printer, and that after that ever,
thing rascally seemed to come easy t,
Him