Des Arc citizen., 1859-09-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITE1ls.
 ---THE following is bit of sensible ad- vice to young men: Live temperate, go to church, attend to your affairs, love all the girls, marry one of them, live like man, and prepare to die Christian. -Mohamedans say that one hour of Jus- tice is worth it's seventy years of prayer. One act of charity is worth century of elo- quence. } The very last curiosity spoken of in. the papers is wheel that came off dog's tall when it was a waggin. The man who sent it in has retired to private life to live what | he owes
 No poultice has ever yet been discover ed, that draws out mans virtues 90 fully, as the green sod which covers his grave. GTT The Greek church, which isthe estab- lished church of Russia, differs from the Roman chiefly in not acknowledging the su- premacy of the Pope.
 0T When you have occasion to utter re- buke let your words be soft and your arguments hard. sla
 ENrA A business man of our acquaintance is so scrupulously exact in all his doings that whenever he pays visit he always will insist upon taking receipt.
 What is the difference between butch CT and young lady? The former kills to dress, while the latter dresses to kill.
 -"JoHN, did you ever bet on horse race ?'' "No, but l'ye seen my sister Bet on an old mare!" as&
 ---The best safety valve to boiler is sober engineer. Congress may, legislate till dooms day, but as long as the officers carry too much steam, the boats will follow their example.
 Woman has this great advantage over man-she proves her will in her lifetime, while man is obliged to wait till he is dead.
 PaAyER.-An old author says that prayer is the rope in the belfry-we pull it, and 1t rings the bell in heaven--and SO 1t is. Keep that bell moving. Pull it we'll, and though the bell is up so high that you cannot hear 1t ring, depend upon it. it can be heard in the tower of heaven, and is ringing before the tuIUuS ok UOu3 WuO VIII SCAu sdAbWOIS VI peace according to your faith. ~ The Boston Posts remarks on the rs- cent negro celebration induced one of tho brethren to send in lock of his hair. The Post man requests him to call and straighten | it.' M Es
 -"A MAN is in general better pleased" says Dr. Johnson, swhen he has good din- ner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek" sH - Lord Bacon beautifully said, ssR man be gracious to strangers, it shows he is citi- zen of the world, and that his heart is no island from the other lands, but continent that joins them."-
 - Did yon ever know person to believe you when you explained how you got black eye. g - The love of children appears to us like the love of fowers-holy and innocent; and the man who is fond of them cannot be pos- sessor of brutal or bad heart. The Scriptures give four names ot the the Christian, taken from the four cardinal Virtues so essential to mans salvation: Saints, for their holiness Believers, for their faith; Brethren, for ther love; Disciples, for their knowledge. ap9 s 2t ael 4 An Irishman engaged in fighting duel insisted as he was short-sighted, that he should stand six feet nearer to his antagonist than his antagonist did to him.
 s Got any ice at your end of tho table, Bill ?" sNo; but pve got the next thing to it." "What's that?r "A severe cold"
 An Irishman, making love toa lady of great fortune, told her she could not sleep for
 dreaming of her.
 l -Doesticks says he can always tell when new hired girl is employed at his boarding house, by the color of the hair in the biscuit.
 --Somebody says that physicians are the nut-crackers used by angels to get our souls out of the shells that surround them.
 Doctor Johnson told Mrs. Piozzi that he s.huffedn his wife so often about the din- ner not being well prepared, that at last she called to him wskca about to say grace, with May, MT. Johnson, do not make farce of thanking God for dinner which in atew
 moments yeu will pronounce not eatable."
 "A" busy man," says the Turkish pro verb, s:is troubled with but one devil, an idle man with thousand" 1 --Mr. Hewitt tells us somewhere of guest of his who, seeing goose and her four teen goslngs on acommon, thought 1t must be very exhaustirs to the bird to suckie so
 many young ones.
 | NARROW CHURcH.-A correspondent in- | forms us that he is about to establish new
 religious sect, to be called the "fou-and-l-
 tarians," consisting of himself aud next
 friend. Saturday Press.
 A ToucH OF SATIRE.-The Rome
 Sentinel relates that "a three-year old girl
 accompanied her father upon visit to her
 grand parent in the country, where bless ing is invoked by the white haired patriarch haft,re each meal. The custom was one