The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1859-10-28
VOLUME VII.---N0. 2G
Ex CE II p TB

No house is big enough for two wits to
live in together.
A broken engagement may be termed
misstearous dispensation.
CoMMux conversation is the best mirror
Of persons mind and heart.
liz is first-rate collector who can. upon
all occasions, collect his wits.
Mosr people seen to think that advice,
like physic, 10 do good must be disagree~
bic.
WnY does sailor know there is man
in the moon 7-Because he has been 10
sea.
1.ovE.MArcHEs arc often formed Ivy pco.
pie who pay for month of honey with a
life Of vinegar.
THERE is Il mnn in Oxford who lives 80
fast, that he is now absolutely older than
his father.
"TnAr, sir, is the Spirit of the Press"
said lady, as she handed glass Of cider
to gentleman.
A young lady, when told to exercise for
her health, said she wonld jump at an offer,
and run her own risk
| A HINT FOR BUSY Y-BoDfEs.-1ndiscretio
lays you open 10 be read by everybody, just
| like an unsealed letter.
THERE is thought to be very little use In
a mans meaning well, il he cannot express
his meaning by his acts.
a HOME TRUTu.-Conviviality is not con.
vivialily when it becomes the foundation
for midnight orgies over the bottle.
EXTREMES meet. Civilization and bar
barism came together. Savage Indiana
and fashionable ladies paint their faces.
| Three things that never agree-two cats
over one mouse, two wives in one house,
and two lovers after ono young lady.
A negro's Instructions for putting on =.
coat we're: "Fust de right arm, den de lef
and den glib one general conwulshun."
AsEcREr ABOUT sECKETs.-A secret is
my slave as long rs keep it under; a secret
is my master the moment it escapes from
Inc.
The meanest man in tho world lives iu
| London. lie buttons his shirt with waters,
and looks at lis money though magnif-
ying glass.
The human heart, like feather. bed must
| be roughly handled, we'll shaken, and ex-
posed to variety of turns, to prevent its
becoming hard.
MoDEsrY.-At an evening party, gen.
tleman carving chicken, asked lady
what part she preferred. II will take foot .
handle," she said.
81 really believe, husband, that you and
your fellows we'll eat up everything we have
got."-"Oh no, we sl,an't wife; we mean TO.
drink n part of it," 20 .-.r" "'.@
ANY paper cnu pu!aish The appointments
after the comingin of anew administration
but what paper in the world is large enough
to psblisb half the disappointmen.s?
One Gay Jerrold was asking about the
talent of yonng painter, when his COM
pnuion declared that the youth was mediocre
The very worst ochre an artist can set 10
work, was the quiet reply.
A friend Of ours placed an egg plant uadsr
goose the other day, and batched ont
r4welye shanghais and a top.knot. Whether
this viii leadto any revolution in the pou,-.
try market Is yet to be SEEN. ~ 's s ~ ~
'Hoy comes it that people WHO writsa
prize odes" are never heard of afterwardsi.
WhS ~ilf answerG We insert the above for
Two reasons-- assts becaussnit is psrtinsnt;
aia.ssseond, i.s betause r Il is ,inpertiners % :,
| "A book about England ,baass' Just been
published in Germany, in whic|Tt're author
mentions, among ethfr equally interesting
facts, that thieves are SO scarce ip That eouL-
tty, that a. reward isioften, ofersd for tina.
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