The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1859-09-15
NO.. 4.
AND WISDOM.
na~ Wit is the soul of Wisdom.

BSsAs III IHe uoctorS Oruer Dark, mas not
the patient right to growl
am-A writer on school discipline says:
Without liberal use of the rod, it is i'm
possible to make boys smart
n@- The horses coat is the gift of Ma
ture, but the tailor very often makes
coat for an ass.
AN Irish lover remarked that it was
great pleasure to be alone, especially when
you have your sweetheart with YOU
commentators are folks that too
often write on books as men with dia-
monds write on glass, obscnring light
with scrathes
R@g@ Gratitude is thes fairest blossom
which springs from the soul, and the
heart of man knoweth none more fra
grant.
re- Fashionable circles were never so
numerous as they are now. Almost eve
ry lady that appears in the streets is the
centre of one.
''WoMAN-the lover of union, and the
friend of annexation. Like our country,
her manifest destiny is to spread her
skirts"
Bss~ To ascertain whether your wife is
jealous, lace up another lady's shoes, and
let her catch you at it F! If that don't
make her round shouldered, nothing will.
re-, a German write observes that in
the United States there is such scarcity
of thieves, they are obliged to offer re-
ward for their discovery.
R1g~ 4 chaplain at State Prison was
asked by a friend how his parishoners
were. "All under conviction" was the
reply.
psa- You win woman by appealing to
her impulses; you win man by appeal
ing to his interests 1t is all the differ
nsa- A newspaper, desirous of paying
compliment to a minister who lately Of
fciated in one of the fashionable chapels,
says, his prayers were the best ever ad-
dressed to an audience.
Rsy- A dancing-mast was taken up
In Natchez recently for robbing a fellow
boarder. He said he commenced by cheat
ing printer, and that after that every
thing rascally seemed to come easy to him.
nas~ The progress of knowledge is slow.
Like the sun, We cannot perceive it mo-
wing; but, after while, we perceive that
it has moved-nay, that it has moved
onward.
aSs@ 1t is beautiful custom in some
Oriental countries, to leave untouched the
fruits that are shaken from the trees by
the wind these being regarded as sacred
to the poor and the stranger.
naa- One day Jerrold was asking about
the talent of a young painter, when his
companion declared that the youth was
mediocre. ''The very worst oclre he can
set to work WITH was the quiet reply.
pg~ "Father,' said a cobbler's lad, as
he was pegging away at an old shoe, ''they
say that trout bite good now" "Well,
WE'LL" replied the old gentleman, "you
stick to your work and they won't bite
you!'
p1p IF men judged their neighbors by
themselves, they would imagine there were
more fiends on earth than in Tartarus
but, as they judge themselves by their
neighbors, they think there are more an
gels on earth than in heaven.
gSy~ A stranger meeting an editor in
the street at Boston, few days since,
roughly accosted him with, "Here, | want
to go to the fremont House." The de-
liberate reply was, well, you can go, if
won't be gone long!'
aA- 'What shall we name our little
boy 2" said young wife to her husband.
"Call him Peter" ''Oh. no! l never
knew anybody named Peter that could
earn his salt" "Well, then, call him
Saltpetre."
aa- A clergyman who was reading to
his congregation a chapter in Genesis,
found the last sentence to be: "And the
Lord gave unto Adam wife" Turning
| over two leaves together, he found writ
ten and read: 'And she was pitched
without and within" He had unhappily
got into description of Noah's Ark.
Ba~ The Springfield American says -
"a young domestic in a family in the
city complained a few nights since of hav-
ing spraned her ancle, and said the in
jury had struck to her stomach. Later
in the evening the appearance of two lit
tie aneles solved the mystery, to the aston
ished gaze Of the family with whom she
lived"