The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-15

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81. ''Reproach is heavier than barrel of
salt"
SO. "When you eat with the devil hold your
spoon long way off"
36. ''The man that helps you to buy horse with
dry season.
!. 81 "a pig that has got two owners is sure to
die OF hunger
die tied up'' e' Nv" soy IN
80. ,'lf the child is not your own, wash it only on
one side--leave the other to its mother"
4O. "lhe bird may forget; the trap never"
Al. An empty sack can't stand upright"
AZ. "To-day does not kill tomorrow"
45. Every day the spoon goes to the bowls
house, but the bowl never goes to the spoons
house."
"A. The back part of the house has become the
'front.' This phrase probably originated in the
early days of National Independence when the an
clent white rulers either banished or killed their
domestics held their lands occupied their houses,
and sat in their places of ofauthority.
40. "Take care Your tongue is longer than
your arm You are a braggart, that is or prom
lse more than you perform, or are undertaking
greater enterprises than you can carry out
40. "The good God tells you to shear the sheep
but not to scratch his skin" This, probably, is a
slave proverbs very good advice to the STAKEHOLDER
isfed." -
48. "Having does not hinder lacking"
II
mouth of good dog"
80. every bad is not DEATH
o. 81 Asking Pardon does not heal the wound"
52. "Ihe cock wears spurs, but he is no horse
man for all that"
50. Hate the dog, but do not say that his teeth
are black" lGive the devil his due; or, don't
paint the devil too back.)
~ 'sY ou can't make calabash out of pump
kin; lou can't make siken purse out of a sow's
ear).
55. "An OK at the block can't say he is afraid"
That is, when you are in great danger, don't cry
about it. What can't be cured must be endured.l
56 ga promise is a debit
81. "The wild hog knows what tree he rubs
against"
SO. Credit never paid for its own head"
81. Gas long as your head is not cut off you
may wear hat" | think this is the Havtian equiv
aent to our "While there's life theirs hope % or
IN the language of DR.. Watts, the Cavinistic bal
lad singer:
AS long as life its term extends
80 Hopes bless'd dominion never ends
oo; -Four eyes are better than two" 1.-TWO
heads are better than one)
6l. "Littleby little, the bird makes its nest
g. "The day that the little chicken is pleased ia
the very day that the hawk takes hold of him"
63; ',When the OK dies he leaves trouble about
his skin"
GA. ga crab has got ten feet, but he can't walk
in ten roads,
65: "If your mother is dead, go to your grand
mother to be nursed." The Creole is more laconic
than this translation, and the English might be: but
IN Difference to the modestv which talks of piano
limbs and bushes when chicken legs are mentioned
refrain from giving the proverb more literal
translation. 1t is the common form of expressing
the advice, When you can't do as well as you wish
do as well as you caH"
&c; 'Ifthe sea were to boil all the little fishes
would be cooked Qfthe sky falls we shall catch
iarks.)
67. "TfI had known is always behindhand."
90. "Y ou can't make pancakes without eggs"
"G ou can't make Sir Isaac Newton's head out of q
BARRIERS block" is the North ofEngland equivalent
So ga day for the sportsman and day for the
bird" Every dog has his day. &c.
90. "Need aids love-"
H. "a ghost that has tasted salt no LONGER lives
in the grave yard
r. 81 am not going to take my eyes out to walk
with a cane" This is rather more graceful ex-
preston than Young Americas "Catch me going it
73. "Your mother is dead; but nv mother died
the same day: I'm not going to leave my mothers
funeral to see your mother buried" This is a prov
er6 frequently employed in refusing to attend to
other peoples business when ones own affairs need
immediate care.
"a. 81 gave You my hall, but did not give you
my bed-chamber"
%. ''They don't sell legs in the market-place"
7G. "Run out Of the river and fall into the sea-"
This surely, is more elegant than 'ump out of the
tryng-pan into the fire." The native African prov
erD, however, Is even more beautiful in expression
than the Creole "Leap from the sword into the
sheath"
H. ga monkey is sure of what is in his belly;
but what's only in his mouth he's not sure of''-
Cihere,s many slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.)
78 'Where the laughing comes from, there fhe
crying comes from, too" True Mirth and sadness
twins
that his own back may rest %
80 "1our eyes may be red, but they are not fire
to burn up the savannas; :; or, 'Bloodshot eyes are
not torches" Applied, probably, to impotent rage;
but am not certain of it.
81. "Attention is not cOwardice"
do mo SbN,,- h;e+ ~
laugh for all that" Applied to smirking, viudic-
tive folks, who laugh, as CARLYLE SAYS somewhere
'trom the teeth outward"
49, ''The crab says Play is play, but hot water
is no play" (Fun to you, but death to us.)
81. Cotton says be is not heavy, but take care
you don't make big bale" The Haytians, unfor-
tunately, take this advice.
IS. "Asking is not thieving."
So. ''lt's only the shoe that knows whether the
stockings got holes"
81. "Teeth are not the heart" man NAV
laugh with you and appear friendly; but YOU do not
see his heart-was the Interpretation given of this
proverb. We must Judge men not BY their profeS-
sions but by their acts
8S. "Very happy is not Paradise"
Thus far, am indebted to Mr.. Webley, whose
kindness in this and other matters | shall not soon
cease to remember with gratitude.
81 Shaking the head does not break the neck"
80. eff my heart were snuf-box you would
know what was in it,"
81. "Hot dogs get beaten" Applied to quar-
relsome persons
90. Eggs ought not to dance with stones
Sometimes threat applied by the Blacks to the
Mulattoes.
SO. ''You are the candle | am the butterfly"
"a. ''Man proposes, God disposes"
95. "When a snake comes out of the water and
tells you that the alligator has got sore eyes-be-
Heve him"
SO. "The skin is not enough to cover the tam
BOURNE; the white man asks for bit to cook"
81. whenever the Mulatto has got an old horse,
he says the negro is not his mother"
9S. GGid6v-Uid1v (nOisa of tbn to,r a\ doo,
not fill the house." | think this proverb means
that ideness leads to poverty but this interpreta
tion is purely coujectura.
50. "The rat has eaten up the sugar cane, and
the poor lizard dies innocent" This is verv COM
mon and popular saying common, because so fire.
quentiY applicable when poor persons suffer for
the crimes of others; and popular because it has
darky shadowed forth the grievances of the peopIe
Lastly-one hundredthly-I copy from the notes
of a conversation with Mr.. Webley this humorous
and sascastic Haytian parable:
100. "The little pig said to his mother one day
Mother, what makes your mouth so large?
"'Wait little, said she, for yours is growing,
too
"When the little pig got big, his own mouth
turned out to be larger than his mother'sp'
One hundred choice specimens of Haytan wit
and wisdom surely sufficient for a single letter;
and thereore-and that all the negro wisdom in
my notebook garnered may not prematurey die
with the present article reserve the rest for
other communication. JAMES REDPATH.
n DREADFUL ACCIDENT-Ill MS forenoon, between
10 and ii o'clock, while the gunner's crew at the
Washington Navy Yard were engaged in their
usual battery practice, a sixty-four pouuder-an
army gun-which had been fired once only there
Though it had evidently been often fred befors)
burst, killing James Wilson and William Nokes
The former was a seataring man, married, with one
child. The latter married man, and was pre-
pairing to become gunner in the service. He leaves
no children.
The accident also wounded ten men-eight Sc
verely and two slightly-as follows Richard CORN
ley, (cut about the head:) Charles Stuart, (badly
cut about the head;) RodericS Mcmillan, (collar-
bone broken;) P. Ludwig, (splinter in the side;)
Andrew Wilson, (cut about the face and head;) J.
Roach, (ditto;) Elijah Beacham, BADLY hurt y
Dennis Leary, John Conner and John IIolland
Slightly hurt.)
Mr.. Wils n was killed instantly, half his head ba-
ing blown off and MIR. Nokes lived but FIVE or ten
minutes after the accident; the lower part of his
face and head was blown of. The force of the ac-
cident threw Mr.. Wilson's body a distance of thir-
ty feet and Mr.. Nokes and Mr.. Beacham ten or
twelve feet. All who were injured were on the gun
platform, which is elevated ten feet from the ground
Some Of the fragments of the gun were cast more
than two hundred yards to the great danger of the
workmen around.
At p. m. the presence of the coroner to hold an
inquest over the remains of Messrs. Wilson and
Nokes, (Who were most estimabe and valuable men
in all their relations in life momentarily ex-
pected. Indeed all the gunner's crew are necessa-
rily picked men.
Hopes of the recovery of all the wounded are en-
tertained bv DR.. A. w. Miller and the medical Off
GERS of the Yard in attendance.
Everything possible, to relieve the condition of
al.