Des Arc citizen., 1859-10-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


 be ''the servant of the lender y but the rela- tions of the two seem to be reversed in these days.
 - Old mems lives are heightened shadows; their evening sun falls coldly on the earth, but the shadows all point to the morning. -" While we live let us live,v is an old maxim much admired by fast liyers, men who live month per week and die of their three score and ten, attwenty-fve.
 We read of one virtuous Joseph but there are a good many silly ones-feilow> who when warmly wooed by fortune, flee from her embrace half-naked, and live so for ever afterwards.
 - There are some persons in the world who never permit us to love them except when they are absent; as, when present, they chill our affection by showing want of appreeia- tion of it.
 -" Why, Bridget,v said her mistress, who wished to rally the girl for the amuse- ment of her company, upon the fantastic or namenting of huge pie--" Why, Bridget, did you do this you're quite an astist how did you do it2' 'sIndade, mum, it was myself that did it." replied Bridget. ssIsn't it pnrty, mum? Idid it with your false teeth, mum"
 - A great good, and right mind is Kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of slave as well as a prince; it came from heaven and to heaven 1t must re- turn; and it is kind of heavenly felicity, which pure and virtuous mind enjoys in some degree, evon upon earth.--[ Seneca.
 --"Mother here's Zeke fretting the baby. Make il cry again, Zeke, then mother will give him some sugar and Pll take it away from him, then he'll squall and mother will give him some more, and you can take that, and we'll both of us have some.v
 -Physicians in India raise blisters with red hot irons and dress them with cayenne pepper. If such treatment does not make people sssmart,' we don't know anything that would
 - The earth is a tender and kind mother to the husbandman; and yet at one season he always harrows her bosom, and at another he pIucks her ears.
 - Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker after.
 We notice in one of our New York ex- changes, the arrival of great big ship load seven hundred tons burthen-of hoops of Pa risan manufacture. Let the girls prepare to spread themselves.
 --"Married people," says Dean Swift. s'for being so closely united, are but the apter to cease loving, as knots, the harder they are pulled break the sooner"
 -Men's lives should be like the days, more beautiful in the evening or like the seasons, aglow with promise, and the autumn rich with golden sheaves, where good words and deeds have ripened on the field.
 "A sanctified heart is better than silver tongue heart full of grace is better than head full of notions; man may be great scholar, and yet be great sinner.
 HAppINEss.-There are two things which will make us happy in this life, if we attend them. The first is, never to vex ourselves about what we cannot help and the second, never to vex ourselves about what we can help.
 - A iittie Stfi. dItef returning rom cuuTcl. were she saw collection taken up for the first time, related what took place, and among other things she said, with all her childish inno- cence, that man passed round plate that had some money on it, but she didn't take any.
 ike came home from school very much agitated because he coutd not understand the principles of allegation, as laid down in t.yees- leaf. 'There, dear," said Mrs Partings0a, "don't fret about it you must tell the tael.sF that you ain't no alligator, and know b. T relinquish you" The lad was comforted aa- cordngly.
 The question was addressed to a lanc- lady by an eccentric genius. Stepping into the door, he observed: 'sWill yol, ma'am give me drink of water, for I am so hungry dorrt know where to stay to-night.o We donbt whether more meaning could be em- bodied in so few words.
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