Smyrna times., 1859-10-20
LITTLE.OR. .NOTHIMGS.
"a MAP OF BUSY LIFE, ITS FLUCTUATIONS, AND
ITS VAST CONCERNs.-COwper.

" A MAP OF BUSY LIFE, ITS FLUCTUATIONS, AND
ITS VAST coNCERNs.-CoWper.
SLANG.-The witless mans wit.-Punch.
Suns are the sunhowers of higher light.
FLY in all haste from the friend who will
suffer you 10 teach him nothing.
Passion has its foundation in nature; virtue
is acquired by the improvement of our reason.
LIES pleasures, if not abused, will be new
every morning and fresh every evening.
The founders of large fortunes are generally
themselves too mean to enjoy them.
REMEMBER that recreation must not be your
business, but preparation for it.
WHAT mechanical apparatus do the fair
bathers at Newport resemble Diving bell(e)s
To TRAvELLERs.-Th best adhesive label
you can put on luggage is to stick to It your
self
MATRIMONIAL history is a narrative of many
tsOrds, but the story of love may be told In
few letters.
The line which divides some Christians from
the world is truly a mathematical line-with-
out breadth or thickness.
CONTEMPORARIES appreciate the man rather
than the merit; posterity will regard the merit
rather than the man.
MoHAMMEDANs say that one hour of justice
is worth seventy years of prayer. One act OF
charity is worth a century of eloquence.
"CAUGHr in her own net,' as the man said
when he saw one Of the fair sex hltched III her
crinoline.
MOUTH AN instrument TO some people of
rendering ideas audible; and of rendering VIC
tuals invisible.
A GENTLEMAN having musical sister, being
asked what branch she excelled in, declared
that the piano was her forte.
MRs. PARTINGToN wants to know, If it were
not intended that women should drive their
husbands, why are they put through the bride
ceremony?
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay q
higher respect to wealth than to worth; for
wealth, though a far less efficient source o
power than worth, is far more inlelligIbIe
one.
MORAL ADVICE TO THOSE WHO WISH TO LIvL
wELL.-A good dinner, gentlemen, is pleasure
you may enjoy but once, whereas a good actor
is pleasure, mind you, that you enjoy all you
life.
"WEIGH your Words" said man TO fellow
who was clustering away in towering passion
at another. "They won't weigh much if b.
does," said the antagonist coolly.
"IDo not think, madam, that any MAJ of tn
least sense would approve your conduct" sal
an indignant husband. "Slr," retorted b.
better half, "how can you judge what any ma
' of the least sense would do :"
A woMAN's tongue is a sharp weapon tbs
she should never draw except in her self-d'
? fence, and then only after the strongest prov,
d cation That weapon, sharp as it is, is nevt
IS SO effective as when tempered with mercy.
}, IT is an old and true saying that man shou
q not marry unless he can support wife an
N from some examples that we have seen, we a.
beginning to doubt seriously whether womu
can prudenily marry unless she can support
husband.
y BLAcK.EYED ladies are most apt to be pa
siopate end jealous. Blue-eyed, soulful, trut
full, affectionate and con6ding. Grey-eye
!. philosophical, literary, resolute, cold-hearte
y Hazel-eyed, quick-tempered and 6ckle.
e. WHEE does COW become real estate :
When turned into field.